Samsung's ecosystem

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Who else has adopted the full Samsung ecosystem?
In this I mean the phone and wearables are all Samsung.

I ordered my Galaxy Buds2 Pro yesterday from Takelot (should have then by Monday). They join my S22 Ultra and my Watch 4 44mm. The Buds replace my JBL Reflex earbuds which now go to the GF as a major upgrade over her cheapies.
I even have a Smart Tag in the draw for when I need it.
 
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I'm going to keep an eye on this thread. My OnePlus 7 will probably make way for a Samsung Galaxy smartphone soon.
 
killerbyte said:
Who else has adopted the full Samsung ecosystem?
In this I mean the phone and wearables are all Samsung.

I ordered my Galaxy Buds2 Pro yesterday from Takelot (should have then by Monday). They join my S22 Ultra and my Watch 4 44mm. The Buds replace my JBL Reflex earbuds which now go to the GF as a major upgrade over her cheapies.
I even have a Smart Tag in the draw for when I need it.
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Samsung QLED, sound bar, S22, Tab S6 Lite and buds pro here
 
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Crowley said:
I've had Samsung phones from the Galaxy S2 and no leaked dick picks yet.

At the moment I have the Fold 4, Watch 5, Buds Pro, TV's, washing machine and probably some things that I've forgotten about.
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I still buy other hardware, but whenever a security audits done on the top phone, Samsung always comes out with worth score, having flaws that have already been patched and even a few unique extras of their own so I’ll never buy their phones.

While I’ve had them and never had any personal issues, it’s simple risk aversions, when there are equal, and even superior phones for the same or even less, why buy the least secure variant.
 
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killerbyte said:
Who else has adopted the full Samsung ecosystem?
In this I mean the phone and wearables are all Samsung.

I ordered my Galaxy Buds2 Pro yesterday from Takelot (should have then by Monday). They join my S22 Ultra and my Watch 4 44mm. The Buds replace my JBL Reflex earbuds which now go to the GF as a major upgrade over her cheapies.
I even have a Smart Tag in the draw for when I need it.
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JBL and Harmon Kardon belong to Samsung anyway


You no longer get Samsung notebooks in SA, so you cannot claim to have the whole ecosystem like an Apple owner who has the iPencil, Apple TV, Macbook, Apple Watch, iPhone and iPad.
 
S22, S6 Lite, Samsung Watch 4, Buds Pro, Buds Live, Samsung QLED, Samsung Level Pro, Samsung Bluetooth speaker.
 
I have an S22, OG Buds and a couple of Tags.

Had a Galaxy Watch Active 2 but the stupid thing died while swimming. Moved on to a Garmin Venu. I feel the GWA2 was better though.

Looking at getting a tab and really want to try out an iPad (never owned an Apple device before).

In terms of ecosystem, I saw a really cool video recently:


That bit at 08:30 about being able to share a Bluetooth speaker between devices, even if it's not multipoint, is amazing. That put some doubt into my wanting an iPad. Might spring for a Tab S7.
 
killerbyte said:
Who else has adopted the full Samsung ecosystem?
In this I mean the phone and wearables are all Samsung.

I ordered my Galaxy Buds2 Pro yesterday from Takelot (should have then by Monday). They join my S22 Ultra and my Watch 4 44mm. The Buds replace my JBL Reflex earbuds which now go to the GF as a major upgrade over her cheapies.
I even have a Smart Tag in the draw for when I need it.
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I have a galaxy gear s3 frontier (bought for a bargain couple of years ago) , buds pro (that I got with my phone) , s22 u and a couple of galaxy tags that I bought for R100 each last year.

But I have way more xiaomi smart things that I use via the Mi Home app.

I don't like to be locked into ecosystems though. I like value for money items.
 
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Xiaomi Ecosystem for me. Samsung is overpriced and over hyped. Rather switch to Apple then.
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All of my Samsung items were way less expensive than the equivalent Apple products.

I also love Xiaomi though and have way more Xiaomi products than Samsung.
 
Samsung TV and soundbar. The sound bar is still amazing for me but the TV has burn in after 6 years.
Edit: Also have a Samsung 23 inch LED monitor I got on the Dion Wired special in 2013. Use it on my Raspberry Pi and it's been one of my best purchases ever. Manufactured in SA as well. No burn in or anything.
 
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Dylan_G said:
Both the Buds Pro and Buds Live? Any reason why?
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As someone contemplating getting the pros/equivalent in-ear, because the live sits in front of the ear canal without going in, so can swap around between over-ear (PXC 550) when at home or work, in-ear (but not canal) galaxy buds live for when traveling since if turn off noise cancelling I can hear traffic etc. fine but can turn noise cancelling back on for subway/main road when not crossing, and then galaxy buds pro when e.g. at work and want to give over ear a rest while still cancelling out ambient noise better than the buds live (the noise cancelling on them is great though, but noise isolation is also important).

Haven't done it yet, since want a pair that supports LC3, at that point might swap out my entire audio set-up (hoping it will finally have actually decent microphone audio with the limited bandwidth). Hope there will be a galaxy buds live successor then.

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Original topic, haven't gone full ecosystem, just watch and earbuds, and that's because the earbuds were on special making them very good for the price, and watch side there's no real alternative if you want a rotating bezel (which they now threw away with the watch5, might be forced to find something with a rotating crown instead), plus Samsung's Exynos is still the best wearable SoC outside of the Apple ecosystem, QC really dropped the ball there, they're slowly fixing that and it shows with how much the Fossil line has improved. The lack of repairability make me hesitant to treat any of their products as more than throwaway.

Phone side, keep contemplating, but in Europe OnePlus with the Nord was quite a bit better at the price range, can't really justify a flagship to myself, though that's changing as I spend more time making photos with my phone, and OnePlus is now going ColorOS Oppo merge, which I hate, so good chance I might adopt going full Samsung for phone/outdoor audio, over ear they don't compete.

Nokia's line completely fails with Galaxy Watch integration, Spotify and stuff randomly stopping, no notifications, etc., Samsung does a good job of "it just works" in the Android side of things since they moved to their newer OS variants (around S10 release time I think it was).
 
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