Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra Review: Why Buy Anything Else?
Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra Review: Why Buy Anything Else?
Cross posted from: https://lemmyf.uk/post/5106939
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Things I will never do -
Pay that much for a phone
Click on a YT link that's clearly an ad
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In this case, it's a semi-successful youtuber who does phone reviews.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarquesBrownlee
But I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you.
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semi-succesful
18 Million subscribers, Billions of views, has had Kobe Bryant and the US president as guests on his channel. If that's "semi-succesful", what on earth is your yard-stick for successful?
I don't always agree with his takes, but I honestly can't think of a better or better-known tech reviewer.
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Mr Blott was suggesting that the review is ultimately just an advertisement. I disagree with it, but each to their own.
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Semi-successful? He has 20 Million subscribers.
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Well, that extra $1000 added to the price would be a reason... 😄
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maybe because I don't need a new phone and don't see the need to upgrade every single damn year?
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What did you get last year?
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Not the user you responded to but in my case nothing. My Xperia 10 III is still working well after three years so there no reason to buy a new one.
Okay, I might be out of the OS support window so I might want to do see how AOSP does on my phone. But hardware-wise there's really no reason to upgrade (and much less to a comically expensive device like in the video).
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Nothing. My current average phone life-time is 7 years, and the majority were second-hand already.
I've spent under $400 a year on all my tech combined, including phones, tablets, desktops, laptops, accessories, toys, and anything else with a battery.
If you get good tools, you don't need to replace them.
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Why Buy Anything Else?
It seems to be the size of an air craft carrier.
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So, also usable as a weapon if required. Another feature.
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There are so many reasons, but the main one is that they keep pushing their shitty Exynos cpus in Europe! My next phone is certainly not a Samsung just for this reason.
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shitty Exynos cpus
Funny how Exynos is shitty but when it's rebranded as Google Tensor, it's the strong heart of the best Android phones.
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I mean, we are yet to see the performance of the latest generation
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Becuase a mid-range phone is good enough for most people
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I hammer on a phone. Run an FTP server at home to copy files sometimes, have multiple sync tools running, always manually copying files to/from network devices, run RDP/SSH sessions often. The screen is rarely off.
I do fine with phones that cost $100 used. 2 year old flagships are a great value. If they work for me, the average user would have no trouble with one.
Switch to Graphene/Lineage/Divest, and people think it's a new flagship.
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For sure on switching to a custom OS like you said. It makes them run so much smoother and faster than stock at least on Graphene for sure
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Just got a Pixel 8 (256 GB) for $510 a few weeks ago. I'm good with that, thanks.
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Holy shit how'd you get it so cheap? Is it carrier locked or refurbished?
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Unlocked, brand new direct from the Google Store. They emailed me a coupon code for being on the Google Assistant mailing list that gave me an extra $150 off, and it stacked with a $100 discount they were already running (so $250 off total). I'm a self-admitted headphone jack enthusiast, but the price was just too good to pass up.
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Love my Pixel. Great purchase. Especially with the now extended software support.
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$1300
TEN TIMES the most I've ever paid for a phone.
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I got a pixel 7 pro for €700, happy with that given the current nutty prices of phones
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Other than the battery life, the Pixels are great long term phone investments.
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I’m still on my iPhone 7 and still haven’t found a good enough reason to upgrade. All my productivity work is done on my PC since I work from home. And I have a camera for photos. I’d rather use that money to buy Apple shares.
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I thought the people still using 12s were mind-blowing.
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once i got my a54 i honestly don't know why i ever went with the s series
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Is it that good?
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for me it's basically as decent as my old s series but half the price; the camera is slightly worse but for what i use it for it's not bad.
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Found the phone interesting, but my S22 is working just too perfectly the last 2 years to buy a new one now. Maybe I'll get the S26, if it's time to change
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I generally change every 4 years anyway. It's around the time battery performance starts to become noticeable I find.
I suppose if there was nothing worth upgrading to I'd just change the battery. But after 4 years there usually is.
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Samsung have for the large part, done really well with their phones in recent years. I'm glad people are getting more and more usage out of them.
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What the fuck is he smoking??
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in answer to your question Marcus, because I paid attention in economics class and understand the concept of opportunity cost.
To paint the full picture, it's $2,399 to pre order it in the country I live in (Australia).
The average wage in australia is 90k pretax, approx 70k post tax
2399 is mortgage payments, food or transportation.
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Stateside here, and I agree that price is insane. Also, I like to root my phones , and Samsung makes that hard. that said, I am writing this on my tab s8 with a stylus. people forget that Saving for real needs takes priority! retirement is not free, after all.
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I enjoy reading about the S24 Ultra for showing what could be possible in a smartphone. Buying one for personal use is another matter entirely.
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Maybe if I can remove Samsung's software.
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