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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #20 on: July 09, 2015, 05:23:19 AM »

Phone arena measured color temperature at 10k kelvin while the standard is 6.5k

Phonearena needs to learn how to do measurements properly. I assure you the the temp is not 10k. 10k is really fricking blue. ~6.5K is my eyeball guess. Cool indoors, just right outdoors.
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #21 on: July 09, 2015, 05:33:37 AM »

Gotta market full retard so you can sell the next slightly less full retard thing. Was perfectly fine with my 5 year old Nokia N8 (and Symbian) until I launched it into a drink hard braking at 78mph on Ortega hwy. All it needed was 1GB more RAM. Symbian still does some things better than Android which is kind of embarrassing.

My last experience with Symbian was S60 V3 I think on my old E90. I don't remember it too fondly. Definitely the worst part was dealing with apps, which were locked to IMEI numbers, hard to find, and would sometimes just fail to install for no apparent reason. I replaced that phone with a Dell Streak, which was one of the greatest marketing blunders in history. Dell wasn't quite sure what it was, and so they marketed it as a tiny tablet that happened to make phone calls. It shipped with Android 1.6 Donut and was locked into landscape mode because they thought that was how people used tablets.

When Dell released the 2.2 Froyo update, and I saw how you could use ADW Launcher to flip the orientation between portrait and landscape at will, I snapped it up. There was just nothing like it then. A 5" screen in 2010 was unheard of, and you could just get so much done on it so easily. I never missed my E90 after that for a minute, and that was with Froyo. Compared to that, the early versions of Symbian S60 Touch looked like complete trash, and I never gave another thought to Nokia.
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #22 on: July 09, 2015, 05:39:37 AM »

So sounds like you never used Belle then as the E90 was 8 years ago. That was basically my intro to Symbian as an actual user. Sometimes Google and Android just try to be too cute and minimalistic to the point it makes basic functions either too difficult or impossible to perform efficiently. a few of the basic additions in Lollipop prove my point as they are things Symbian was doing years ago already. Kind of silly. I'm still not too heavy on 3rd party apps even on lollipop. I see my friends Droid do crazy shit with all the stuff he's got on that thing.
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #23 on: July 09, 2015, 06:23:04 AM »

Anyone knows how to change icon size without using another launcher?
Recent update on my Z Ultra resulted in ugly large icons. Do not want to use another launcher as the stock is plenty polished.
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #24 on: July 09, 2015, 06:39:57 AM »

So sounds like you never used Belle then as the E90 was 8 years ago. That was basically my intro to Symbian as an actual user. Sometimes Google and Android just try to be too cute and minimalistic to the point it makes basic functions either too difficult or impossible to perform efficiently. a few of the basic additions in Lollipop prove my point as they are things Symbian was doing years ago already. Kind of silly. I'm still not too heavy on 3rd party apps even on lollipop. I see my friends Droid do crazy shit with all the stuff he's got on that thing.

No, I've never tried a Belle phone. The last time I paid attention to Nokia was when they first responded to the iPhone and Android with this, which was the de facto replacement for the E90, since there wasn't going to be another communicator style clamshell phone. It's hard to overstate what an absolute piece of dog shit it was. Given the choice between this and the Streak, it was a no brainer.

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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #25 on: July 09, 2015, 06:47:02 AM »

There seems to be something very very wrong with sites like CNET, Engadget, etc. I wonder how much Samsung pays these professional review fookers?

cnet used to be sponsored by Samsung and LG. I don't know if they still are because I stopped reading them years ago.

GS6 eliminated the only reasons why someone would consider buying a Samsung: removable SD card and battery.
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #26 on: July 09, 2015, 08:37:03 PM »

cnet used to be sponsored by Samsung and LG. I don't know if they still are because I stopped reading them years ago.

GS6 eliminated the only reasons why someone would consider buying a Samsung: removable SD card and battery.

IMO there are a few others. The GS6 has the only workable touch ID setup on Android. A few other phones have finger print readers, but they are all as bad or worse than the one in the GS5. It's also one of very few phones to still have capacitive touch buttons, which for me are an absolute must have. On screen buttons simply cannot replicate "always on" AND "always hidden" at the same time, making them infinitely less practical.
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #27 on: July 09, 2015, 09:44:03 PM »

Apple under Jobs did not tolerate Full Retard.
This. This is the biggest change since Steve. That said, how many years of iTunes have we had under Steve? What was their last good year? Oh wait, never.
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #28 on: July 09, 2015, 11:34:19 PM »

IMO there are a few others. The GS6 has the only workable touch ID setup on Android.

You've obviously never tried to use it on the GS6.
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #29 on: July 10, 2015, 12:06:53 AM »

This. This is the biggest change since Steve. That said, how many years of iTunes have we had under Steve? What was their last good year? Oh wait, never.

Good point. The coding of the Windows version especially is appalling, it makes you think that they purposefully sabotage iTunes for Windows as a way to push people towards OSX, which wouldn't shock me at all if that were really the case.

Aside from iTunes though, there just seems to be a lot of launch failures with Apple as of late, which definitely wasn't the case under Jobs from what I recall. Things like the Apple Maps rollout for example. If that happened under SJ, heads would've ROLLED.   
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