Bit like most apple upgrades really isn't it, I had a s8+ but couldn't get away with the finger print sensor position with the size of my hands, got a s8 which i can deal with but want a bigger screen, almost almost went iPhone x after buying the wife one for xmas but I'm hoping the s9+ will be ok, besides if its not ive got 28 days to return and its not costing me a penny either way so cant really loose
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I'm curious what people would consider a major upgrade. Compared to the s8 plus I returned last year your getting 2gb more ram.Stereo speakers. Pretty huge camera upgrade with 4k 60 and 960 slow motion. Huge single core speed upgrade on the exynos version. 64gb more base storage on the plus. It seems like they have just tryed to perfect the s8 which is no bad thing.
Yeah, phones have all but plateaued really. In the early years every new phone that came out was radically different from each other. From bricks, to much smaller with telescopic aerials, to stubby aerials, to no aerials, to fliphones, clam phones, slider phones, etc. Each new phone that came out actually did make the previous phone seem really dated. Not anymore though.
A standard of technology and form factor was reached a few years ago and remains today where every phone is a basically a flat rectangular pocket computer, all able to perform the same functions, and do them really well. Nothing wrong with that, it's evolved to something we all love to use. But it's now just a case of diminishing returns isn't it? For every new iteration of a Samsung or iPhone, it's a case of "we've added half a dozen new features, one or two of which might be useful to you because the others are gimmicks so we can persuade you to keep spending money, improved the battery life a bit but it'll still die sooner than you want, improved the screen resolution but you won't really notice the difference from our last phone, and added slow motion video and humorous face animations that you'll use once, maybe twice. That'll be £800 please. kthnxbai."
I've got a beautiful platinum gold S6 in almost perfect condition in my drawer doing nothing much and I'm using my metallic blue S7 Edge for everyday use. If I lost the S7 and went back to the S6, I would hardly miss the S7 because to me the S6 is nowhere near dated and still a pleasure to use. I can even make phone calls on it which is a real bonus. Next year at the renewal of my contract, I think I'm going SIM only and will no doubt continue to use my S7.
For the first time ever I've gone SIM only for the reasons you gave in your post. Had an iPhone 6S Plus on a 2 year contract. Came close to ordering the X but then figured what for? Going SIM only is saving me £50 a month. Looking at it a different way, I could choose to pay £50 a month to include animated emojis in my messages or take endless studio-quality selfies to remind myself of how beautiful I'm not!
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I like the look of this. Glad they've added stereo speakers.
Just annoyed the standard S9 only has 4GB of RAM compared to the S9+. Will this make a lot of difference in practice?
Just annoyed the standard S9 only has 4GB of RAM compared to the S9+. Will this make a lot of difference in practice?
I think you can still use an sd card instead of a second sim - though I've not checked out the S9 dual sim so could be wrong. There was even a mod for some dual sim phones where by you could use both sims and an sd card though involved a scalpel
I bought my S8 sim free nearly a year ago. I've wished I'd bought the bigger screened S8+ really. Will I buy an S9+, probably not at £869.
It doesn't appear that the hybrid SIM version prohibits the use of MicroSD. Am I missing something?
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Speaking of the Exynos.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12478/exynos-9810-handson-awkward-first-results
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Want to pre order but don't want to be paying £60+ per month for contract.
go to the samsung website then?
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I'm going to pre-order today from Three I think. Going for the Plus in black.
Ordered direct from Samsung so nothing for me (not suprising tbh on a brand new handset) I did however get 3% back on quidco so around £26 I think it was
I was hoping to get the free wireless charging pad. I'll keep on searching.
My upgrade is coming up soon, however I'm tempted to give apple a go for a year since I can upgrade every year, but only if my contract doesn't go up!
I would have thought they'd have brought CPU power up to that of the iPhone or better.
I would have thought they'd have brought CPU power up to that of the iPhone or better.
I've yet to see where all that extra CPU power on the iPhone X has become so blatantly obvious