The I Hate Samsung Thread

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Love the S2

Especially when it's running Lollipop

 

[ahoudet]

Especially when it's running Lollipop

Haven't done that... It moved from me to the sister-in-law and it was such a hassle to add her data to it that I'm worried to restart

 

[CranialBlaze]

Overusing SwiftKey predictions? Or MyScript on your galaxy note not interpreting your beer infused handwriting?

I'm confused

 

[kingrob]

And priced as if made of gold !

Most awful is that Samsung is a company that thrives of theft of others ideas.

My gold S5 has got nothing to do with this!

Oops...it says SAMSUNG on the front and on the back.

 

[kingrob]

I hate my Samsung fridge. It stores leftovers for the times when my SO is too lazy to cook. It's also the surface where she puts reminders of schit she wants me to do when I am meant to be veging out in front of my LG TV

 

[Vulk]

Advantages of Samsung:

- Fantastic displays
- Great specs on paper
- Availability on every SA carrier within days of international launch

The last point in particular is important, especially compared to Sony / HTC (takes three months for new flagships to arrive in SA) and Motorola / Google Nexus (no SA distribution at all).

Unfortunately, these are outweighed by the disadvantages of Samsung, namely:

- Laggy performance due to lack of software optimisation; they never feel as fast the specs suggest they should
- Ugly system software that doesn't properly use the Android design guidelines, so there's no consistency between first-party and third-party apps
- Tons of bloatware; they come with two versions of every type of app
- You end up waiting 6 months to a year for new Android versions, if you ever get them at all
- Hundreds of useless gimmicks and "S-features" that you'll never use, water droplet sounds when you touch the screen, etc.
- Cheap glossy plastic used on "premium" flagships handsets

 

[faniebraai]

Advantages of Samsung:

- Fantastic displays
- Great specs on paper
- Availability on every SA carrier within days of international launch

The last point in particular is important, especially compared to Sony / HTC (takes three months for new flagships to arrive in SA) and Motorola / Google Nexus (no SA distribution at all). Unfortunately, these are outweighed by the disadvantages of Samsung, namely:

- Laggy performance due to lack of software optimisation; they never feel as fast the specs suggest they should
- Ugly system software that doesn't properly use the Android design guidelines, so there's no consistency between first-party and third-party apps
- Tons of bloatware; they come with two versions of every type of app
- You end up waiting 6 months to a year for new Android versions, if you ever get them at all
- Hundreds of useless gimmicks and "S-features" that you'll never use, water droplet sounds when you touch the screen, etc.
- Cheap glossy plastic used on "premium" flagships handsets

- Note 4 is nothing laggy. At all. Even the S5 was buttery. S4 was terrible, Note 3 not much better.
- Ugly system software. TouchWiz sucks balls, I agree. They are redoing it apparently for the S6. So here's hoping
- Since the S5 the bloatware has been down to a minimum. Some of the apps you have there is crutial, like the Samsung camera. The google one just doesn't produce the same quality photos. The email app is much more functional than the gmail app. The calendar is quite good, but Google's recent calendar is much better if I'm honest, and better looking. HERE does offline maps right.
- Lollipop is rolling out faster than ever. So they are getting there. Hopefully simplifying Touchwiz will also help.
- Almost no S-features left in the Note 4. Lots of Samsung fans complaining about that. That stupid water drop sound can be disabled. Almost the first thing I always do.
- Note 4 is metal. The A-series of phones released recently is metal unibody, and the S6 is going to follow that same design principle.