>>108939120
There are no pros. They are one of the worst offenders when it comes to spying on you. If you're a normal cattle NPC, however, and you don't mind both google and Samsung tracking your... Literally tracking your every move, then Samsung is for you

>>108939120
>pros
-great displays
>cons
-no unlockable bootloader
-no volte with custom roms

>>108939120
>pros
You can use it to buy an iPhone
>cons
You are using a Samsung

it has no pros. You are paying iPhone prices for the disprivilege of android

+cheap
+takes calls sms is pain
+did i mention cheap

-not take call at flip open
-no usb-c
-never need corded earbugg

>>108939120
Pro: You won't have to waste your breath telling people you are retarded

Con: You could spend your shekels on more useful goyslop

>>108939120
they have even more Samsung crap on top of the Google crap, like samsung store, samsung AI, samsung camera, etc.
for what its worth the samsung raw camera app gives you a lot more control than the default one, closer to professional cameras. and I like their message app better than the google one, a shame they recently stopped developing it.

biggest issue I have is that they stopped including headphone jacks and that their file transfer speed is sorta garbage and sometimes even cuts transmission but that's apparently true for all phones and is made worse by all USB-C cables being utter fucking jokes.

>>108939169
/thread

>>108939120
Galaxy S8

they don't make phones like that anymore

>>108939120
Samsung Galaxy A07 is pretty nice, I don't know about other phones

>>108939671
their design peaked with S8/S9

>>108939683
yeah they really fell off after the S9 / S10

No headphone jack

uglier / boring design

Confusing name system (wtf is an S20?)


I was going to replace my S8 with newer Samsung but ended up going for a Pixel (also shit) and then moved to iPhone

The only phone that I've seen since that looks even remotely interesting is a Nothing phone

>>108939120
>Pros
None
>Cons
Android

>>108939120
Pros
- good features for the price, a midrange is quite close to their flagship, just without the cherry on top
- a big ecosystem that can play with a lot of connected gadgets
- ok design, nothing too ugly like those buttfuck ugly camera islands from Oppo or Huagay
- their flavour of android is mostly decent, but you can only do so much to make an OS made by poos
- quite reliable if you treat them right
- they have an app for everything if you need one
- decent battery, among the best offerings in the android world
- decent performance too for the price
- eSIM support
- device location through their servers is actually practically useful even if that implies data-mining, you might get in a shitty situation that needs that, and you can do it with some else's phone too by giving them a ping through the servers

Cons
- a fuckton of bloat that you need to remove and disable
- bland conservative design, blandest colors, but some people might prefer that to flashy or ugly
- they're starting to remove SD card support like others
- camera is unimpressive on non-flagship models, but today most phone pics are heavily in-camera processed
- they're pushing AI into everything but you can disable most of that
- android is boring as fuck and I don't understand why Samsung doesn't pull a Huawei move, they can afford it and they could escape the pooOS limitations

posted from my iphone

>>108939770
*you can only do so much to make an OS made by poos not stink

>>108939120
>Pros
zero
>Cons
full plastic shit

>>108939120
>Samsung Phones
Absolute dogshit 4 years old camera on a flagship S25.

>>108939951
>full plastic shit
the S25 is full aluminum, stop posting

>>108939770
>I don't understand why Samsung doesn't pull a Huawei move
Look at Tizen and tell me again with a straight face that you want Samsung to make its own OS.

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>>108939968
>the S25 is full aluminum
the website says something different

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>>108940024
>the website says something different
>the website actually says aluminum

>>108939120
>Pros
Best overall package in the Android world when it comes to hardware, software and longterm support
>Cons
The best of Android is still bad when compared to an iPhone while costing the same or more

>>108940040
but between "full" what you said and "frame" is a big difference

>>108940054
yeah duh, the screen and the internal parts are not made of aluminum
we're talking about the frame

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>>108940067
>we're talking about the frame
exactly, now let me teach you something

>>108940071
you're right, I've just realized it's plastic, it always felt like cold alu

>>108939120
It's just another spyware computer you have no control over and is hostile against replacing preinstalled software. The only pro is that I don't have one.

>>108940093
yep, I hate companies for doing this like "WHOOOAAA FULL ALUMINIUUUMM MOBILE.." when it's only a small part that is Alu.

>pros
Only somewhat lightweight phone that supports bands 12/13
Not a POS Pixel
>cons
You need a super expensive international model if you want it OEM unlocked
Even if you replace the ROM, it will be forever tagged as such which will block banking apps

>>108940071
The frame is metal. The back and front side are glass. Like a lot of phones today. I don't see what's so controversial. Where's the plastic in the shell exactly?

>>108939120
>pros
It's not apple
>cons
It's samsung

>>108939963
Seriously, I just got an S26 free with an att $900 credit and the camera is the same shit as my S22.

>>108940329
>Seriously, I just got an S26 free with an att $900 credit and now I enjoy allowing both Google and Samsung to track every movement and every aspect of my life, the same shit as my S22.

>>108939120
pros: they make phone calls
the rest is terrible unintuitive design- 5 clicks to do what could be done with 2.

>>108939120
pro: you get apple hardware features a year or two before apple releases them to the public
pro: you aremt treated like a fucking moron at every turn
con: spyware, spyware, and more spyware
con: samsung integration with google apps. you cant turn off their retardation, like the giant "HURR DURR THIS IS YOUR TEXT MESSAGES" heading at the top of the messages app

>>108939120
All I know is that Samsung Phones and iPhones are used the most amongst Indians and those "pretend to be rich" people.
The only pro I can think of is a decent screen I guess.

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>>108939770
>a fuckton of bloat that you need to remove and disable
This is exactly what used to make them appealing in the first place. You wanted miracast? heartrate sensor? hdmi? wireless charging? microsd? pen? You had it. Is used to be the only option to have them all at once. Until they started to remove the "bloat" and now it's just a worse iPhone without the iPhone benefits.
>>108939683
you mean Note9

>>108939120
>pros
Not stuck in the apple software + hardware ecosystem, freedom, integrated AI to modify all your pics on the fly in a matter of seconds, UI is better and you don't have a fag-mobile.

>cons
Doesn't have a radiation beam weapon to automatically destroy all apple products on sight and make their users impotent

>>108940493
It's a good ass fuckin phone tho

>>108939120
Israeli spyware

>>108941020
replacing Apple software with both Google AND Samsung software is not exactly the pro you think it is.

>>108941090
kek stockholm syndrome

>>108939120
cons:
no headphone jack
5 trillion bloatwares
globohomo art in UI
Sell out to Israel
Can't flash custom ROM
pros:
Every phone carrier under the sun offers great installment deal for a flagship phone

>>108941117
>Every phone carrier under the sun offers great installment deal for a flagship phone
Yet, Samsung expects you to pay up 80% up front for $20 a month thereafter.

>>108939120
They entirely blocked bootloader unlocking, so I have no business with them.
Used an S8 and first oneUI releases where fucking dogshit. Me unlocking and flashing that device made it breath a new life. It went snappy as fuck and never lagged like SE or OneUI.

>>108941090
The Apple ecosystem is garbage, you have to pay for every mundane function you need to add, i can just plug my phone to my PC and use it like an external drive without software required unlike the heap of garbage that is Itunes.
And samsung phone just refuse to die, i haven't changed anything including the battery on my old Galaxy M31 (6 years of service btw), meanwhile my relatives always have to change their batteries because it dies all the time, same for their shitty charging cables that break all the time (and they were forced to change the cable type recently LOL).
Oh and samsung phones exists in all the price brackets and are generally cheaper, i bought my S25+ on sales for only 749 euros (without reselling my old phone) instead of 1136 euros.
Soon apple fags will need a chip inside their head to unlock their phones lmao.

>typical Samsung experience
>>108909635
>>108910418
>>108910764
>>108925530
The smartphone general on this board was hijacked by a dalit Samsung fan who lives outside of reality

>>108941340
They used to make versions that ran stock android, I think they were called the Play Edition if I remember right. It would be awesome if they still did that, since it would basically be a Pixel with the GS26 hardware.

>>108941370
what functions do you need pay to add? Why are you talking about itunes? when is the last time you used an iPhone, that hasnt been necessary for years. Yea, iPhone doesnt have a general mass storage mode...but its a phone so that isnt exactly a necessary feature.

>>108939120
>pros
None. Legit this galaxy a54 is the worst phone I've ever owned by a mile. The discount shitphone I normally get are 100x better.
>cons
Everything. Forces updates and AI down your throat, spies on you, same chink shit spy accounts as the chink phones on top of the scroogle spyware, no easy root unlike old motorola or some chinkphones today, shit hardware, garbage price.

>>108941403
actually when you plug in iPhones now you can use the storage as a hard drive

>>108941403
having to pay to play flac and block ads
also anki costs like $25 while it's free on android and more featureful to boot

>>108941377
Interesting, I didn't know they did. Unfortunate they stopped making those, though that'd be one problem solved, but I still use a headphone jack and they'd prefer me buying wireless garbage than making phones with them.
No, fuck dongles the day my poco x6 with lineageOS dies I'd have to reconsider my stance, but for now I'll enjoy my snappy OS without google aids and a headphone jack.

>>108941432
>flac
you can just transcode flac to alac and play them in the stock music player. Though there is a argument to made that worrying about lossless on a mobile phone is sorta silly and a waste of effort.

>>108941377
it was just the s4 gpe afaik and it stopped because updates were a mess and always came late
it'd technically be easier to do it now than ever before since a lot of android got modularized with project mainline etc. but they're trying to play it off as oneui being the "premium" os experience you'd have to pay for

>>108941454
i don't do that since it destroys metadata. many of my tracks have lyrics added to them which gets removed upon conversion to other formats

>>108941458
From Samsung it was just the GS4, but there were others that did it too. It would be fucking awesome if they manufacturers still did stock android versions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_Play_edition_devices

>>108941468
FLAC to ALAC is 1:1 why would anything get removed?

>>108939181
Typical itard.
>look at the flashy marketing so kewl the all white style durrrrr!!! Its better because the marketing say so ahyuck!
Iphones are the best at showing everyone else who is a retarded sheep that prefers fisher price level convention in their phone. I love how they throttle the efficiency of their phones with a "harmless" update every time a new model is released. Oh well if4gs, time to get a new one.

>>108941612
I buy a new phone every year, and would regardless of iphone or android.

>>108941432
Blocking ads on iOS is very easy. You can use a DNS, you can use siri with ublock origin built in, or use brave browser too and it's free. Keep lying to make iOS look bad kid.

>>108941612
>>108941676
Just say iPhones are too expensive instead of lying

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>>108941371
>be Samsung
>Open world largest smartphone factory in ind*a in 2019
>factory is responsible for 80%+ of smartphones (low end, mid range and flagships), washing machines, drying machines, fridges etc.
>steady year over year decline in quality control

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>>108939120
This phone had the perfect width. 68mm. They don't make them like this anymore.

I'm using the same one as displayed on the picture, it's a phone that I use just to call or send messages and I can watch YouTube on it too if I feel like doing so it also has decent photo quality. I only paired it to my home WiFi or Mobile Data, it fulfills the basic needs of a phone before I'm buying an iPhone/Moto/Pixel.

>>108942294
>doesn’t have the funds to upgrade to a REAL brand new flagship

>>108939315
Holy kek lmao
Samsunjeets are in shambles

>>108939154
Literally every phone tracks your every move

>>108942083
LMAOOOOOOO HAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHA

>>108942363
I've been using it since release and it hasn't failed me yet, I'm not a heavy phone user, what phone are you using anon?

>>108942508
trump phone. a real mans device.

>>108939120
Pros: OneUI is the best Android interface by far.
Cons: It's filled with bloatware and other useless and privacy-invading normalfagware.

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>>108941064
But enough about iPhones

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>>108942652
Fake news dalit boy

>>108939120
>pros
They are the only quirkless "just works" Android devices. At least the S line.
>cons
Bloated to hell and back.
Turbo spyware.
Hardware is okish at best.
Customer service is abysmal.
Locked down like a cuck's cage.
Any chink device from the last 3 years is at least equal in quality.
Batteries are absolutely average at the very best.

>>108942394
>She's never heard of Graphene and Linage
Wew Lassy

>>108942691
Good goy

>>108939120
That was my first Samsung phone (had Windows Phone before) and it was a great experience. The right size, looked good, good performance...
The only dumb decision was the curved screen.

Phones have not really advanced since then.

>>108942845
>cant spell Lineage
>thinks spying agencies are locked out of looking into devices because of some silly ROM
>Snowden literally told us in 2012 they work with cellular networks and many other various backdoors
but but muh rom will save me!

>>108942845
It doesn't matter. A phone is always pinging off the cell towers & satellites every ~2ms. How do you think apps like Google Maps work and know exactly where you are, how fast your car is going, etc.?

>>108942876
>>108942888
I thoughr this board was supposed to be the go to for people who understand technology. Now it's full of NPC retards to get their tech education from X and 30 second tiktoks.

>>108942924
cope harder I never posted anything from x or tiktok.

>>108942924
>thoughr
kek

>>108941002
that’s not bloat. those are useful features. they meant shit like Samsung Free app Samsung wallet basically their shit candy store looking suite knock off of iOS it’s pathetic really. I don’t know why google is so retarded with their hardware when the whole point of pixel was to hedge against Samsung

Their cameras are still worse than the shittiest iPhone.

>>108939120
>Pros
's alright
>Cons
If you live in the US you get laughed at for not owning an iPhone

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Updating your Samsung gives you a green line...

>>108943051
>incoherent gibberish

>>108942924
>never said I was wrong
Thanks for admitting I was right. I accept your concession.

>>108943124
you made that up though and the first persons from Texas.

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>>108943049
they have explosive performance

>>108939120
only pro is it's not made in china

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>>108943158
Famous green line happens to every model regardless where the Samsung was made. You lied again.

>>108943196
>Can't prove the information as being incorrect and posts some angry opinionated reply with no factual evidence

>>108940093
>I've just realized it's plastic
Wrong, S25 has a frosted glass back

>>108941377
Galaxy Nexus was peak vanilla Android

>>108940071
based knower

>>108939671
Fucker lasted me over 4 years before the battery shit out completely.

>>108939120
>What are the pros and cons of Samsung Phones?
Yes and yes.

>>108941612
You might genuinely be retarded if you think android updates don’t inevitably slow down the hundreds of older Samsung phones that you happen to own one of.

>>108939120
>pros
-makes money for shareholders
>cons
-samsung
-phone

>>108942083
>>108943049
>>108943143
>>108943179
Omg.

Bump

>>108939195
>-no usb-c
what kind of crack are you smoking.
the S8 in OPs pic has usb-c

What should I buy instead that isn't an iPhone or chink brands (banned in the US)?

>>108946586
If you're in the US you don't have much options other than an iPhone, really. Maybe Motorola? Although they're chink too. Everything is either chink or iPhone (indian).

>>108939120
The biggest pro is OneUI, I have used a lot of android phones and only the Google phones come close but they suck ass performance wise, chink UI is hot garbage, it's not iOS tier but it's the closest to it you cam get on android

>>108946479
I think he means it uses the usbc format that nobody supports that's not apfail compatible (it's bigger).
>>108947032
More like the biggest con by fair is oneui. Literally the least UI I've ever seen. Until about 2 years ago it was at least somewhat usable, if pretty garbo. Now it's literally unusably broken.

>>108943049
>>108943143
why are the hands all brown?

>>108940308
>The back and front side are glass
the back is not glass

>>108946586
Google Pixel

>>108941719
I would pay a significant premium for android solely for newpipe

>>108946771
Samsung is the MOST ind*an >>108942083

>>108942083
>>108943049
>>108943143
Lmaoooooooooooooo

>>108942083
Top KEK!

Pros:
>More polished software
>Extra customizability with Good Lock, no other OEM comes close
>7 years software support
>Anti-reflective coating that increases perceivable brightness under direct sunlight (only on Ultra line)

Cons:
>Software hitches and drops frames, even on flagship hardware
>Relatively weak cameras with shitty processing
>Relatively small batteries

Had an S23U as my first Smasnug phone and this was pretty much how it was. My biggest issue with it was the software. Every year people claim OneUI gets "smoother" but I never experienced this. I ended up switching to a OnePlus 13 and, while the software is a blatant iOS ripoff and lacks the amount of features OneUI has, shit absolutely flies no matter what I do and I don't really notice the lack of features. OneUI is feature packed almost to a fault.

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>easy to find good refurbished last-year's flagship for reasonable prices
>good cameras that don't rely on the AI crutch as much as Pixels
>use Google apps, use MS apps, use all Samsung, sideload open source apps, do whatever you want
>Samsung apps typically have more features then Google
>OneUI also has a lot more customization options vs PixelOS.

>>108949904
>incoherent first sentence followed by opinionated misinformation
Disregarded post.

>>108949915
>"easy to find refurbished high-end models" is incoherent
Maybe that misspelled poster complaining about /g/ being full of retards was onto something.

>>108949919
you did NOT quote the original gibberish sentence on purpose though. why do they always lie on here?

the thirdie ESL brain can't parse casual text with omitted words, simplified grammar, cultural references or memes effortlessly like the native English speaker can. Please understand and only speak in formal textbook English from this point on.

From a former iToddler:
Pros:
>Easy to load apps I develop onto the phone for testing
>No battery warning popup that I have to close (notification instead)
>Bright flashlight

Cons:
>Default apps are terrible (samsung internet, messages, phone app). Replacements like google messages are also terrible
>Holding to copy images is nonexistent as a feature in most apps. Have to take a screenshot instead
>Doesn't play audio if set to less than 6% audio, and 6% is too loud
>Can't configure the screen blank to kick in later than after 10 minutes
>Forced updates
>UI constantly changing from unwanted forced updates
>Holding my finger in the wrong spot on the lock screen while trying to use my fingerprint brings up the homescreen configuration menu, which takes 10-15 seconds to close
>Worse privacy
>Settings UI is extremely frustrating and unintuitive
>No calculator button for easy access when you pull downwards from the top corner of the screen
>Somehow the worst configuration option is chosen by default for what feels like everything in settings. Need to spend hours configuring options and looking up how to configure certain things because the settings app sucks
>SO MANY NOTIFICATIONS
>Annoying popup about adaptive brightness every time I drag brightness to 100%
>Gallery app shows most recent photos on the top left. We read left to right and top to bottom, the most recent should be in the bottom right. No configuration option to change this
I could keep going, but this is getting long. This is the worst phone I've ever had. Migrating to grapheneOS

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>>108939120

>>108939120
Gemini works incorrect

bumpity

>>108939770
>I don't understand why Samsung doesn't pull a Huawei move
Because there's only enough oxygen for two phone ecosystems worldwide. It's not the first-party apps that the problem is in, it's the third-party ones where there's just no point; those devs don't want to support your shitty alternate marketplace that doesn't pull in enough revenue, and network effects keep it that way.
Huawei just about gets away with it in China due to the relatively closed online culture, but that stuff has no traction elsewhere.

since 5 months i am searching for a phone and cant find anything i like
my current ishit is literally tearing apart and is holded together by ducktape
no i dont want another ishit
no i dont want your samshit
no i didnt like chinkaomi
no i wont buy shit hardware google
no i dont want your ugly motorolla shit
no i wont pay +1000 for oppo
no i will never ever buy a snoychink shit

>>108951526
construct one from ducktape

>>108939770
>I don't understand why Samsung doesn't pull a Huawei move
My Galaxy S3 comes with Samsung appstore that uses korean moonrune. It's definitely not due to lack of attempt.

>>108939120
I love the stylus.
In particular that it acts like a mouse cursor so you can see tooltips by hovering over a button and easily select/copy/paste text by pressing.

Really wished other brands copied it.
I cannot copy-paste text with my big manly manfingers.

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>Flagship snapdragon SOC
>6000mah in a foldable
>80watt charging
>No Crease
>Waterproof rating
>Bluetooth stylus included
Impressive work by the Oppo team on the Find N6.

>>108943049
That would be annoying but clearly falls under warranty.

>>108939120
I have an S10 that has lineageos on it, so completely foss, changed battery so that its brand new, top display and build quality, plus smartphone jack!

Besides factoring the battery replacements cost in, there are no cons, except some stuff not working without google play services, which you can install if you want to get everything working, but i prefer to stay 100% foss. there is microg you can use for basic functionality and a foss implementation, thats what i chose

bumpski

>>108939120
pro: not iPhone
con: not iPhone

>>108939120
It just works and you don't need to be homosexual to use it. The latter is a con for (you), OP.

>>108939120
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/budget-samsung-phones-shipped-with-unremovable-spyware-say-researchers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)

And the concept of a phone is just a clusterfuck of cons.

Pro: You can play angry birds with snowden confirmed NSA backdoors while you poo.

Bumparoo

>>108939315
w-what's wrong with his hand?

>>108939120
pros:
phone calls
text messages
web browser
camera
calculator
calendar
alarm clock
music
videos
audiobooks
podcasts
alarm clock

cons:
not free (usually)

i know you meant compared to other phones but i wanted to give perspective how spoiled you are and that this thread is textbook first world problems. call me brown, i call you soft like a woman. i remember being happy to have snake and a choice of multiple ringtones.

I'm considering getting a samsung Awhatever with plenty of storage for my mom so she can keep hoarding photos
Meanwhile I'm considering if I should upgrade my s23 ultra to s26, I'm not sure how much of a downgrade that will be

>>108943049
>>108947054
samsung uses cheaper components for indian models

>>108957083
false! >>108943179

>>108957094
>>108943179
Did you seriously use an AI summary as source?

>>108957104
>cant debunk the evidence and facts from multiple legit sources
>posts made up opinions because they/them can NOT handle reality
do me a favor and please do not YOU me with some uneducated misinformation

pleasing be stopping Samsung hate sirs. :(
why posting all shortcomings? only posting good news please! No bad facts ever!!!!