So let’s do that summary again: Samsung disappointed stylus fans in Europe and wasn’t upfront about it; it frustrated power users who look to the Note series to push into ever-higher specs; and it introduced a second Edge device before it could come up with a solid reason to have even one. All of this, along with the erroneous web listings, muddled the launch and anticipation for a pair of technically impressive devices that give everyone more choice and not less.
At this point, I have no idea what Samsung is thinking. Not releasing the Note 5 in Europe, opting to only offer the Edge Plus, is pure insanity.
Not only that, but they eliminated two of the biggest draws to this phone – microSD and removable battery, in exchange for a breakable glass back.
That being said, I don’t think this is as egregious as what Motorola did with the Moto X Style/Pure Edition – they made the back removable so you could customize the colors, but they won’t let you remove the battery. I expect the box for the phone will have a picture of a middle finger with the caption ‘Power Users’ on it
And to top it off, the phone they’re releasing with great battery life isn’t even coming to the US.
f–k Motorola AND Samsung.
Edited 2015-08-19 01:13 UTC
Also smaller battery. Don’t forget smaller battery. Also not available in Europe.
It’s insane, and if I wasn’t one of those weirdos who needed pen functionality (and seriously, pen signature capture holds enough unreplicable nuance they they’re actually a more reliable security measure that fingerprint scanning), I’d ditch it for literally any other device.
I wish I could say I’m looking forward to the new Windows Phones, but I’m just prepping myself for further disappointment.
Yeah. At this point, all Apple’d have to do to put every Android OEM out is to release a $300-$400 iPhone (priced accordingly for world regions of course). I’m saying this as an Android user. The OEM situation really just needs to be purged.
Of course, Apple wouldn’t ever do something like that, so I guess these bastards are safe.
It would probably reduce Apple’s market share rather than increase it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
When Apple massively reduced prices back in the late 90s they didn’t see a large increase in sales.
Yeah, well the computers back then sucked donkey eggs. You really couldn’t give them away. Even the imacs were avoided by fellow college students. They didn’t know the OS, none of their software worked on it. It might as well have been a slow as hell chromebook that crashed all the time and had a pain inducing puck mouse.
But Apple already has a “cheap” iphone the iphone C. Its $450. I’m not sure an extra $50 would make much of a difference.
in other samsung-related news:
http://www.fosspatents.com/2015/08/us-patent-office-considers-apple…
Just be a bit careful about anything you read on that site.
Florian Müller is a known patent shill. He was exposed during the SCO vs IBM saga.
He may have changed tune since then…
Guess power users will have to buy a LG phone (G4) or oneplus phone.or Asus zenfone 2. Or stick with the note 4
Or an Xperia Z3 Compact. OK, the battery is not removable, but there is an SD card slot + an open boot loader.
I love my LG G4, and cannot understand why people are paying more for the OnePlus 2 than the G4 right now.
I would love to try out the Xperia Z3 Compact. I really miss the iPhone 5s sized phones, but cannot stand iOS. Unfortunately, I’ve heard a lot of negative feedback regarding poor build quality, self-breaking glass, and poor customer support.
The story Apple. From a true perspective that nobody would ever believe.
1. Wozniak designs Apple I for Steve Jobs, on a computer club, demanding that Jobs do LSD, “to know him”. Jobs gets fucked over by Wozniaks suggestion, resulting in a lifelong derangement and trauma symbolized by the Apple on top of the Apple Building. Jobs in confusion thinks it has something to do with Buddhism, and even suggests the drug to Bill Gates, saying “He would been a broader guy if he dropped acid and went to an ashram”. Where Gates indeed had done the drug without becoming “broader”, only indeed fucked over, badtripping thinking a table would implode into his eye. Which is now the trauma symbol of “windows”.
2. Lesser actors gets in on the business, and Atari makes phallic “joysticks”, representing penis and ballsack, to be connected to indeed similar computers. Very popular among irrational critics and gays alike, and a serious factor contributing to the success of modest computers and consoles.
3. Richard Stallman drops Acid and becomes basis the basis of “hacker living underneath MIT feeding off campus” myths, based on his MIT credentials, and founds the hippie anti-establishment GPL licence. Stating not to hoard code, but only hoarding code, and with complains that it never establishes itself, despite being non-establishment, and promising a truly good fucking over, and a return to totemic jungle for the OS business.
4. Gay boss enters Apple HQ as a natural sequence of events.
I will grant you that you have a unique style.
Unfortunately it seems that your style might be coming from dropping a bit too much acid
PS: https://soundcloud.com/sinfour_underworld_lover
BTFW, I can send f–kgoat the demon on you, for some real OSNEWS gimp sex. Dude is around, he might seem retarded particulary the drugusing ones, but MAN WTF what a f–kmachine.
Year in year out, till your lights go out.
Edited 2015-08-19 13:28 UTC
I suspect that reacted badly with repressed homosexuality, yielding rampant homophobia too.
No no no – https://soundcloud.com/sinfour_underworld_lover/the-hallucinogenic-m…
Should we ask Thom for a ban, or are we going to see an article like this in the future? http://www.osnews.com/story/28617/A_constructive_look_at_TempleOS
And I was just thinking to myself “what it be like if Orson Scott Card & David Eicke had a lovechild together & he grew up to become a tech pundit?” Now I know!
Battery life should be last you should complain about.
Gsmarena did a benchmark on the edge, it was in the top.
Source needed, because most reviews complain enormously about the batterylife of the S6 and the edge is even worse.
August 13: Of course, detailed battery tests are in order, and we won’t be passing judgement until those are out.
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note5_galaxy_edge_s6_plus_ha…
It seems that the edge is no longer worse, but equal to the normal one, but the battery has gotten smaller compared to before.
These things CHARGE really quickly, but I see no mention of good batterylife at all
Does anyone really care about battery life anymore? I thought plugin’ it in every night was routine by now for everyone, regardless of actual percentage left.
My house isn’t filled up with charging cables next to the bed and I prefer charging it for an hour instead of all night long.
Also, wouldn’t you want to be able to stay the night at a lovely girl you just met AND be able to send her a “that was awesome, see you again” message the next morning
Or are you just presumptious and you bring your charger with you on all your dates
I’m beginning to think suppliers are driving the new design choices. I chose HTC One M9 due to the regressions and lateral improvements of so many of the newer phones. I wish it had a removable battery, but otherwise it’s been fine. I couldn’t see the difference in the higher dpi screens, which was people complain about on M9. Love the speakers.
Too bad Nintendo couldn’t have put their spin on a phone. The Gameboy may be a brick, but it could have been refined. And it would be cool to see swap out attachments. Maybe I feel like old school gaming so off goes the 20-megapixel camera for the game controllers. Battery getting low, detach the fastpack as its small integrated battery keeps the device in ultra battery savings mode until a new one gets swapped in. Want a faster phone, swap cases. Move your data across phones on the secure microSD memory card backed up on your PC and online.
I have this argument with a co-worker all the time (he’s an Apple user) about non-removable batteries and lack of SD cards on iPhones. ‘why would you need them’ he says. ‘I like to have my options open’ I say in response.
With the new move of Samsung to not include these things, he said ‘they are just following Apple, and obviously people don’t care about SD cards and removable batteries’ I say ‘it’s not even about that, it’s because they are now complete throw away devices and are cheaper to build because you can integrate the battery into the system easier and trimming off an sdcard port also saves some money’.
Of course neither of us will back down on this. Guess I’ll just stick with my Note 4, there isn’t much extra that the Note 5 brings anyhow, though knowing Samsung they’ll try to include something software wise that they won’t release for the Note 4, even though it’s perfectly capable of running it. Also there is the whole Rom modding community that will backport said features (I’ve seen it many times, with running note 4 software on my note 3 when I had that).
So I’m sure there will be a lot of people that just skip the Note 5 for missing these two things. These are some of the reasons I stay away from Apple devices (that and lack of awesome S-Pen).