*** The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Thread ***

brendy said:
But but but...no hardware home button. below the screen looks big and bare, does it do anything? no card slot so you'd need to pay the extra for the 128gb version. It really seems just like a generic android device compared to the likes of the Galaxy range etc.
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Thing is, nothing else is available that comes close to the Note 7.

For me, S7 is a no no, nothing in the LG or HTC range interests me, came from the iPhone and don't fancy going back there.

That leaves me with what?

OnePlus 3 is a great jack of all trades but a master of none and I would have gone for this if the Pixel hadn't of been announced. Love the price however!

Nexus 6p has been out for a while now and to me, doesn't provide the 'new, wow' factor.

The Pixel XL has a screen that's similar to the note 7, same screen size, 128GB is the same level of storage as my note 7 (64GB + 64GB SD card), it's new, it's bare bones android which appeals to me, performance is very quick, camera appears to be very good judging my the reddit thread and so, to me, is more of a side grade rather than signing into another 24 month contract with a phone I won't be happy with.
 
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brendy said:
But but but...no hardware home button. below the screen looks big and bare, does it do anything? no card slot so you'd need to pay the extra for the 128gb version. It really seems just like a generic android device compared to the likes of the Galaxy range etc.
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Why do you need an SD card slot these days? With photos and music residing in the cloud what's the point of them? So many of the apps can't be moved there in any event as many OEMs aren't supporting this.
 
Billies Bangers said:
They do know the cause but thought I third relaunch would do more harm than good so they intend to start with a clean slate at some point.

How much long term damage this will do to the brand is anyone's guess.
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3rd time lucky?
I wonder if this will have any sway at all on removable battery models coming back. They would have made this problem almost non existent as you simply call into a store, swap batteries and be gone.
 
brendy said:
3rd time lucky?
I wonder if this will have any sway at all on removable battery models coming back. They would have made this problem almost non existent as you simply call into a store, swap batteries and be gone.
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I suppose it's the conundrum of removable battery, water resistance and aesthetics. Seems currently, we consumers can only pick two out of the three.
 
I think I might end up getting an iphone 7+. At least if I decide I don't like it I can sell it on at a decent price and get something else. I just hope reversing my upgrade doesn't take as long as it did last time when they were doing my replacement.
 
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codec said:
more rumours about a feb launch date for s8
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I would not be rushing out any new phones until a full account of the Note 7 disaster has been transparently revealed. Samsung needs to build consumer confidence. Samsung's handling of the recall, return and then ultimate end of the Note 7 raises many questions about the company. That handling could impact all of Samsung's product lines in the home. That is what the market is screaming today with a multi-billion dollar loss to Samsung Electronics' share price.

No need to panic just yet at Samsung. Toyota (faulty pedals), Takata (air bags), Merck (Vioxx), Johnson & Johnson (Tylenol) and many other companies have all had massive product recalls and recovered. The fact that the Galaxy Note 7's product cycle went a bit more than 7 weeks indicates that the damage could be limited.

So for the rational person, the damage can and should be able to be contained. But consumers buy things for all sorts of irrational reasons. And they avoid buying things for equally crazy reasons. Expect jokes to abound about Samsung batteries in future.

Samsung's reputation as an engineering and device innovator is hit. Samsung rushed the Note 7 out too quickly. Rushing out the S8 to try to wipe the slate clean could also have negative consequences. Samsung needs to publish a full account of what went wrong and how they plan to fix it.

Meanwhile Google will become a high end device hardware company. The Pixel is a safe, high end choice with plenty of innovation, esp in software.

Rushing out the S8, perhaps even a foldable device, might have seemed a great idea last month. Today not so much.
 
jonneymendoza said:
You can download and store amazon prime videos and spotify music on your sd card
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Yeah similar use to me in that I copy films/music etc onto my phone so I can watch/listen on the plane which for me is almost every other week. Its really useful to be able to have a huge memory card in the phone or be able to swap them out if I need to.
 
Billies Bangers said:
Why do you need an SD card slot these days? With photos and music residing in the cloud what's the point of them? So many of the apps can't be moved there in any event as many OEMs aren't supporting this.
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jonneymendoza said:
You can download and store amazon prime videos and spotify music on your sd card
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Not just this, but especially for music for people like me who have a well organised and curated music library with everything rated. Music player apps like GoneMad support smart playlists, and support the embedded tag ratings, something no cloud based music service supports yet. I also prefer tailoring the look and feel of the music player. To date, I have not found a single cloud music service that has a player UI that gives the exact information and controls I want in the look that I want.

I also can be confident that if something happens to a cloud based music service in years to come, that my music collection remains untouched, because it is stored and rated locally.

With scrobbling enabled, I can then find new artists similar to those I listen to most when I want to expand my local music collection.

Plus, you cannot cache the entire library (for the above reasons) with any cloud service. Only a certain portion. So offline listening isn't "complete" for when you're not on a stable data connection.

So yeah, there are many reasons why an SD card is still important.
 
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