Samsung designer talking about the new GALAXY S6

[DesiPower]

https://youtu.be/SLMTC_sb1L4

Pretty insightful

 

[slag]

yawn.. this is really geting old and, as a lifer, you should know better.

 

[DesiPower]

in all seriousness though, you cannot take off the back cover and no support for mSD card? I think Samsung just signed its death warrant

 

[SlitheryDee]

Someone in mobile devices recently asked how much longer companies would include sd card slots and removable batteries. I replied with something like "I don't see samsung stopping any time soon. Seems like it's one of their key features".

Very next samsung phone after that thread will apparently not have any of that shit.

Conclusion: Samsung is actively trying to make me look stupid.

 

[tortillasoup]

Soon as I read about the Galaxy S6, I knew that Samsung is going to have a tough time. Samsung never understood its customer base which is why they had such trouble growing their phone sales. Their S5 sold well but it didn't sell as well as they wanted to. The direction they went with their S6 was completely in the wrong direction.

 

[dougp]

https://youtu.be/SLMTC_sb1L4

Pretty insightful

Anand teaches people how to post in the correct forum.

Well worth the watch, especially for a lifer.

 

[KillerBee]

Thankfully they finally learned an easily replaceable battery someone can just snap in is the last thing people want

 

[NutBucket]

Or they realize that it's really not as important as some people think? I like the capability but it's not a deal breaker.

For the record I have a Note4 which replaced a GS3.

 

[olds]

Watched about 10 seconds but it was hard to concentrate as the word "lame" popped into my head over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over ...

 

[Rakehellion]

That guy is an engineer at a lot of companies.

 

[88keys]

The problem is that what "techies" want and want the rest of buying public wants are two different things.

People are more technologically literate these days, but I swear the average person is still pretty clueless and is scared to death of popping the back off of their phone.

Alot of people still come to me asking about which batter should I buy when all you need to do is look up the part number. Another one is having SD card issues when they didn't bother to check for compatibility and such.

I'm sure problems like this tie up alot of tech support time which in the end costs them money. And given the fact that the lack SD card expansion and interchangeable batteries doesn't seem to have stifled sales of iPhones or the HTC one it seems logical to just go with the flow.

A bad product well advertised is superior to a good product.

 

[disappoint]

A bad product well advertised is superior to a good product.

It's not superior, it just sells better because of the ignorance of the majority of the buying public. Example: CutCo Knives.

 

[Number1]

We recently got rid of our home line and got 2 Samsung S3, one for me, one for my wife, hoping to save a little bit of money with the older phone version.

Well, what a mistake. My wife hated the phone from day one. The phone would lose the connection in the middle of a call, go dark as soon as she had it to her ear and it was beyond her understanding how to light up the screen again. So when she broke the charging port after 2 months of use and the warranty would not cover it, it gave me a good excuse to get her a decent phone.

IPhone 6, no less and she loves it, especially how easy it is to switch a call to facetime and chat with our granddaughter. What a difference.

No more Samsung for us and I don't care how many curves it has.

I just can't wait for mine to breakdown. (I got rid of the protective case so it shouldn't take too long). Hopefully the next IPhone version will be out by then.

 

[waggy]

I was thinking of upgrading my GS4 to a 6. but after reading no mSD card? naa.

 

[tortillasoup]

We recently got rid of our home line and got 2 Samsung S3, one for me, one for my wife, hoping to save a little bit of money with the older phone version.

Well, what a mistake. My wife hated the phone from day one. The phone would lose the connection in the middle of a call, go dark as soon as she had it to her ear and it was beyond her understanding how to light up the screen again. So when she broke the charging port after 2 months of use and the warranty would not cover it, it gave me a good excuse to get her a decent phone.

IPhone 6, no less and she loves it, especially how easy it is to switch a call to facetime and chat with our granddaughter. What a difference.

No more Samsung for us and I don't care how many curves it has.

I just can't wait for mine to breakdown. (I got rid of the protective case so it shouldn't take too long). Hopefully the next IPhone version will be out by then.

So you start off by buying a used phone that is from 2012, complain it doesn't work, then go off and buy a brand new phone for $600? iPhone6 is the least durable phone they've or anybody has ever made. My parents both bought Galaxy S4 phones when the phone came out, they're still happy with their phones. Meanwhile, all I hear from neighbors is complaints about how buggy and annoying their iPhones have become, what with all the updates Apple has forced upon them. iOS8 has been an especially sore point with them.

 

[tortillasoup]

I'm sure problems like this tie up alot of tech support time which in the end costs them money. And given the fact that the lack SD card expansion and interchangeable batteries doesn't seem to have stifled sales of iPhones or the HTC one it seems logical to just go with the flow.

iPhone sales aren't going to be affected by lack of features, I've yet to see that happen since the typical iPhone user doesn't care about features, value or anything really. As for lack of SD expansion and removable battery not affecting HTC, I'd disagree. HTC was doing a lot better before they came out with their current line of phones with unibody design.

 

[amicold]

We recently got rid of our home line and got 2 Samsung S3, one for me, one for my wife, hoping to save a little bit of money with the older phone version.

Well, what a mistake. My wife hated the phone from day one. The phone would lose the connection in the middle of a call, go dark as soon as she had it to her ear and it was beyond her understanding how to light up the screen again. So when she broke the charging port after 2 months of use and the warranty would not cover it, it gave me a good excuse to get her a decent phone.

IPhone 6, no less and she loves it, especially how easy it is to switch a call to facetime and chat with our granddaughter. What a difference.

No more Samsung for us and I don't care how many curves it has.

I just can't wait for mine to breakdown. (I got rid of the protective case so it shouldn't take too long). Hopefully the next IPhone version will be out by then.

PEBKAC. The screen shuts off when it detects a face so that no buttons are accidentally pressed. Funny thing is when you take the phone away from your face it turns back on. Not to mention that phone is old by smartphone standards

 

[Brian Stirling]

The Android world is rapidly losing its reason to exist in the first place. Samsung had been a stalwart provider of high end phones with removable battery and uSD slot, but with that going away what's left to differentiate Android from iOS.

Look like my Note 4 will have to last a while...


Brian

 

[lxskllr]

Someone in mobile devises speculated the S series will become the frivolous consumer line, while the Notes will be the pro line, and keep useful features. That makes perfect sense, and I hope it's what ends up happening.

I won't need a new phone for a few years, so it doesn't matter much atm, but I've been keeping an eye on what's around. I'm hoping a real "pro" phone will get released that gives full control to the user. I'm happy enough with my S5, but it's still more gimped than I'd like. I resent having to "exploit" my computer to get the control I should have OOTB, and having to block updates so I don't get screwed out of root.

 

[tortillasoup]

Someone in mobile devises speculated the S series will become the frivolous consumer line, while the Notes will be the pro line, and keep useful features. That makes perfect sense, and I hope it's what ends up happening.

I won't need a new phone for a few years, so it doesn't matter much atm, but I've been keeping an eye on what's around. I'm hoping a real "pro" phone will get released that gives full control to the user. I'm happy enough with my S5, but it's still more gimped than I'd like. I resent having to "exploit" my computer to get the control I should have OOTB, and having to block updates so I don't get screwed out of root.

I fully agree. A phone should be much more like a laptop computer rather than a carrier branded, locked down device. You don't go into the AT&T store to buy a tablet or a laptop computer, why should you have to do the same for a phone? Sure they can offer to sell phones but the whole being locked down to a specific carrier just to utilize a phone is stupid. When all the carriers are moved to LTE and the get rid of their legacy network, maybe this will happen. I have to give kudos to Apple for using their muscle to force change in the wireless industry.

 

[teong]

Not looking like much of a improvement

 

[olds]

I was thinking of upgrading my GS4 to a 6. but after reading no mSD card? naa.

No replaceable battery either.

 

[DesiPower]

The Android world is rapidly losing its reason to exist in the first place. Samsung had been a stalwart provider of high end phones with removable battery and uSD slot, but with that going away what's left to differentiate Android from iOS.

Look like my Note 4 will have to last a while...


Brian

Android != Samsung

 

[DesiPower]

We recently got rid of our home line and got 2 Samsung S3, one for me, one for my wife, hoping to save a little bit of money with the older phone version.

Well, what a mistake. My wife hated the phone from day one. The phone would lose the connection in the middle of a call, go dark as soon as she had it to her ear and it was beyond her understanding how to light up the screen again. So when she broke the charging port after 2 months of use and the warranty would not cover it, it gave me a good excuse to get her a decent phone.

IPhone 6, no less and she loves it, especially how easy it is to switch a call to facetime and chat with our granddaughter. What a difference.

No more Samsung for us and I don't care how many curves it has.

I just can't wait for mine to breakdown. (I got rid of the protective case so it shouldn't take too long). Hopefully the next IPhone version will be out by then.

So you start off by buying a used phone that is from 2012, complain it doesn't work, then go off and buy a brand new phone for $600? iPhone6 is the least durable phone they've or anybody has ever made. My parents both bought Galaxy S4 phones when the phone came out, they're still happy with their phones. Meanwhile, all I hear from neighbors is complaints about how buggy and annoying their iPhones have become, what with all the updates Apple has forced upon them. iOS8 has been an especially sore point with them.

I know, Number1, you post is a textbook example of troll

 

[Rakehellion]

Why do people need removable batteries? Is it really that much more convenient to carry than a USB battery pack or is it just that they're used to it and don't want to change?