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ggrobot
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 Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 1:41 am Post subject: Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra vs iPhone 13 Pro Max [54694] |
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Mini Review of the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra after using it for a few days! Regardless of whether you call it a Galaxy Note 22 there's a lot to like here and Note fans will be happy! It's not perfect though and some might be better off with the S21 Ultra. The second video compares cameras of the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| it's like if you compared Nokia E72 to blackberry 20 years ago... You either wanted a blackberry or you didn't want one under any circumstances. |
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heretic
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| gx-x wrote: | | it's like if you compared Nokia E72 to blackberry 20 years ago... You either wanted a blackberry or you didn't want one under any circumstances. |
Okay, so it's not a problem to buy an iPhone. However, a habit is a habit. I'm a bit put off by the fact that I would then become part of the Apple community. And I don't like Apple as a company, super overpriced hardware, often not very well designed (meaning what's inside). As far as software goes, OSX is completely unusable to me. I have a Macbook, but I have Linux on it, otherwise I couldn't use it.
Just an Apple experience, it's for rich people who don't work much, business owners for occasional mail, showing photos and watching movies bought at the Apple store, athletes, artists, lawyers, doctors. Just for non-technical people. It has its users, but I'm not one of them. The iPhone has the advantage of a functional cloud (reliable backup) and security but the user pays a price for that if you understand. Android annoys me, but I don't really like iOS either, I'd rather have something in between. It's perhaps quite a shame that Microsoft has abandoned this market.
Just for info, I've never been a Nokia and Blackberry user  |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| heretic wrote: | | gx-x wrote: | | it's like if you compared Nokia E72 to blackberry 20 years ago... You either wanted a blackberry or you didn't want one under any circumstances. |
It's perhaps quite a shame that Microsoft has abandoned this market.
Just for info, I've never been a Nokia and Blackberry user |
well, my post was about giving a reference of sorts. iPhone users usually say Android is trash, and Android users don't even care about what they have to say 
as for microsoft, their phone sucked mostly because they had a terrible ecosystem and they took their sweet time to fix bugs, also no backup. Android has a good backup (could be a lot better but it is reliable) but has a terrible battery management and by now (I am still on 8.1) they have more services running in background than Windows does
edit: you basically get pushed into getting a new phone because your current phone suddenly doesn't have enough system RAM to use what you used for years. Now you now need a better phone for the same stuff (and better vanity features that people think are essential. Like 500000 MPX to take photos of your cat) |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 12:46 am Post subject: |
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Going with Apple also implies you support slavery and child labour.
I got a Xiaomi Note 8 (with 128GB memory) a few years back for a fraction of the price of Sammy and Apple.
It does everything it needs to: can make calls, does alarms, email, good camera and it does Viber.
The rest I don't need, it's just sitting on a desk for most of the time.
99GB of the 128GB memory is still unused and I have not removed anything from it yet.
No backups, no Google shite except contacts and email.
As for the brand, I would not buy Apple or Sammy. Ever. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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There are other choices than Apple or Samsung.
Asus, for instance, is kicking butt with their phones. The Zenfone 8 is small and handy and has flagship specs, and doesn't cost a gazillion (even though it too is expensive). For example. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Csimbi wrote: | Going with Apple also implies you support slavery and child labour.
I got a Xiaomi Note 8 (with 128GB memory) a few years back for a fraction of the price of Sammy and Apple.
It does everything it needs to: can make calls, does alarms, email, good camera and it does Viber.
The rest I don't need, it's just sitting on a desk for most of the time.
99GB of the 128GB memory is still unused and I have not removed anything from it yet.
No backups, no Google shite except contacts and email.
As for the brand, I would not buy Apple or Sammy. Ever. |
Xiaomi is literally a Chinese brand; China is literally performing genocide as we speak, and chances are your phone calls home - to China - and sends them anything China wants to see... |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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| lorcro2000 wrote: | | Csimbi wrote: | Going with Apple also implies you support slavery and child labour.
I got a Xiaomi Note 8 (with 128GB memory) a few years back for a fraction of the price of Sammy and Apple.
It does everything it needs to: can make calls, does alarms, email, good camera and it does Viber.
The rest I don't need, it's just sitting on a desk for most of the time.
99GB of the 128GB memory is still unused and I have not removed anything from it yet.
No backups, no Google shite except contacts and email.
As for the brand, I would not buy Apple or Sammy. Ever. |
Xiaomi is literally a Chinese brand; China is literally performing genocide as we speak, and chances are your phone calls home - to China - and sends them anything China wants to see... |
What does that have to do with anything? Also, provide factual proof of that genocide. That's a hard claim. I can see MSNBC and CNN making it, but they lie as soon as they speak. |
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Csimbi
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| lorcro2000 wrote: |
Xiaomi is literally a Chinese brand; China is literally performing genocide as we speak, and chances are your phone calls home - to China - and sends them anything China wants to see... |
UK is doing very well on slaughtering innocent civilians with the vaccines, I hear. You could call that a systematic genocide, too.
Xiaomi is Chinese, yes, but it is not government-owned - which is an important differentiator.
You should also know that Xiaomi passed the recent annual GDPR compliance review.
Unlike some US vendors  |
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Xiaomi (now making Huawei Flagship products) is Huawei so is Redmi (low end Huawei products) and some others. It's all to circumvent the Huawei ban from Google (imposed by Free Trade champion - USA )
Still, there is no evidence of tens of thousands of people being killed en masse by anyone. Last to do so were OPEC members that kill people in Qatar and Yemen in war against Iran. And US is gladly selling them weapons to do so (under "it's for defense" ). Before that, it was USA in Iraq, twice. Yet here we are, not even a satellite photo of bodies of victims of this alleged genocide by China.
And Russia is the problem, of course. Those pesky imperialist Russians, putting bases around the world...Attacking everyone and imposing sanctions.
The West is new Nazi Germany, led by USA. It's rearing it's ugly face more every day.
PS. I forgot about genocide in Libya done by France and UK to steal oil and gas.
edit: here is your savior, wanting to physically destroy pipelines to EU so he can sell US LNG for 10X the price.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yz92XW2T2A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMBUhF4u4JU
let me remind you: Nord Stream 2 is co-owned by Germany. So he will kill this pipeline because he wants more war. He doesn't care about anything that is not AMERICAN (and by that it is implied that the whole continent belongs to the USA)
Nazi USA I tell you. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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| gx-x wrote: | | Xiaomi (now making Huawei Flagship products) is Huawei so is Redmi (low end Huawei products) and some others. |
I'd like to tell you you are wrong, but I don't have any proof to give.
Why would not US ban Xiaomi if it were Huawei?
One thing you should know no matter which Chinese piece of shit you buy is: remove any and all vendor-provided software and disable what you can't remove.
Then, install the shit you want from the Google Play store.
The only Google app that does not work so far is the 'Clock' - it does go off but its audio alarm cannot be heard.
The rest were all fine from the Google Play store.
If Xiaomi can make abuse my alarm clock schedule, they are welcome to it. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Csimbi wrote: | | gx-x wrote: | | Xiaomi (now making Huawei Flagship products) is Huawei so is Redmi (low end Huawei products) and some others. |
I'd like to tell you you are wrong, but I don't have any proof to give.
Why would not US ban Xiaomi if it were Huawei?
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You'll have to explain that to every phone reviewer and follower out there...I don't really care. I am Samsung all the way because I get ~150 euros of preinstalled software that I would have to pay for otherwise + best android battery management in the industry.
You do you.
PS. They wouldn't ban those because original owners are not Huawei. This all happened after the Huawei ban. Huawei is basically out of phone market now, under that name. So yea, the US would have to come up with a new lie to sell if they were to ban everyone and just keep apple and google.
edit: this is all I can prove, for now:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/29/honor-the-smartphone-brand-huawei-sold-off-regains-share-in-china.html |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | You'll have to explain that to every phone reviewer and follower out there...I don't really care. I am Samsung all the way because I get ~150 euros of preinstalled software that I would have to pay for otherwise + best android battery management in the industry.
You do you. |
Sure, everyone has a choice. You can be spied on by the Americans (NSA, CIA, FBI...), the Chinese or the Koreans. I'm not sure what they do with the data, maybe they give it to both China and America.
There's a good chance I'll stay with Samsung this year. And the main reason is the stylus. Someone here wrote that it's because of the low memory. Not at all. It's because there are no security patches anymore. I guess it could be solved with some custom ROM. Does anyone have experience with this, specifically with the Samsung Note 9? |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2022 12:06 am Post subject: |
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| heretic wrote: | | Quote: | You'll have to explain that to every phone reviewer and follower out there...I don't really care. I am Samsung all the way because I get ~150 euros of preinstalled software that I would have to pay for otherwise + best android battery management in the industry.
You do you. |
Sure, everyone has a choice. You can be spied on by the Americans (NSA, CIA, FBI...), the Chinese or the Koreans. I'm not sure what they do with the data, maybe they give it to both China and America.
There's a good chance I'll stay with Samsung this year. And the main reason is the stylus. Someone here wrote that it's because of the low memory. Not at all. It's because there are no security patches anymore. I guess it could be solved with some custom ROM. Does anyone have experience with this, specifically with the Samsung Note 9? |
They sell data for money. They sell it to advertising companies so they can do what google and facebook do - sell ads. Your ISP does this too. everyone does this. Hell you can pick every single aspect of life when you place ads on facebook. Not just age and gender and those basic things, you can go down to hobbies and interests. It's scary sh*t how much data they gather from people without people knowing it. Metadata is the gold of 21st century. Bitcoin is just silver. |
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That actually proves my point that Xiaomi is a different entity from Huawei.
But, like you said, you are a sammy guy so it makes no difference to you either way. |
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