Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died
Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died
One of Samsung's CEOs, Jong-hee Han, has died due to a heart attack.
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I don't have an opinion on the man personally, but I won't buy a Samsung TV as they are ad riddled, terrible to use and are pretty fragile.
They have commercial tvs for kiosks, hotels, etc though a bit more expensive don’t have any of that junk.
Phones are the same. Haven't touched them since the S6.
My Samsung monitor (which was very expensive) also has hardware deficiencies, leading to broken images and flickering.
The phones are absolutely not the same, you just have a shitty carrier that installed extra stuff on your phone
I bought my Samsung phone directly from Samsung and my carrier is a BYOB Mobile Virtual Network Operator. Before I ever connected my new phone to the carrier network it was riddled with bloatware that I can't uninstall. Yes carriers are guilty of installing crap, but Samsung is just as guilty.
I've bought several Samsung phones over the years and this is the second factory direct phone I've received that was like this, they didn't used to do this crap. Since this seems to be the norm now this will probably be the last Samsung I buy and when it's time to replace I'll just get a pixel and flash grapheneos on it, been curious about trying that anyway.
I had a Samsung phone (A20E) which was by some margin the most terrible piece of technology I've ever used. Barely functional a couple weeks from buying. This is anecdotal, of course, but since those are mass-produced and supposedly identical from unit to unit...
Samsung is not a carrier.
That's literally my point
...what? Samsung is the one installing bloatware. The carrier may add their own but you can avoid that by simply not buying those locked models. You can't avoid the Samsung bloatware.
I dunno, dawg. I've been buying unlocked Samsung phones for like 10 years and I'm not sure what kind of bloatware or ads you're talking about
So you have zero Samsung apps on any Samsung phones you've ever purchased? Lies.
What, are you talking about the calculator, camera, and note apps that come installed on the phone? That's not bloatware, that's like basic functionality 😂
- Samsung Internet
- Samsung Health
- Samsung Cloud
- PENUP
- Samsung Notes
- Microsoft Outlook
- Samsung Keyboard
- Samsung Email
- Samsung Pay
- Samsung Members
- Samsung Galaxy Store
- Samsung SmartThings
- Samsung Health
- Samsung Kids
- Samsung Pay
- Samsung Pass
- Samsung Flow
- Samsung Music
- Samsung Bixby
- Samsung Maps
- Samsung Galaxy Wearable
You're gonna sit there and tell me that none of this is on your phone?
It doesn't matter if they're "basic" or not. The point is I don't want them, they're not necessary, I cannot remove them, and I don't find it acceptable that someone else gets to charge me hundreds of dollars and then turn around and control what software is allowed to be on my phone. If you're fine with having bloatware on your phone, that's fine, you can just say that. It's ok.
I think they mean Bixby and OneUI and similar, but I have been using Google phones for a while so I could be very out of touch
My 16 year old Samsung TV would like to argue otherwise! It's a beast and 1080p is plenty good for me! But my Samsung kitchen? Holy crap it's all so terrible...
You bought before all the SmartTV nonsense then. So did I, and my Samsung TV is still doing well. I bought it >10 years ago to watch the Olympics or something with my in-laws, and now it's still trucking along just fine in my bedroom (eventually got a bigger LG for the main room). No issues whatsoever.
And their oversaturated, over sharpened pictures just look nasty to me.