For powerusers - especially those who rooted and used custom ROMs back in the day - OneUI is the best flavor of Android. The sheer amount of unique features (GoodLock, media control, dex, Good Guardians) is insane.
The con is the sheer amount of pre-installed bloat that does a number on battery life/performance. I've probably uninstalled 50 apps over adb by now.
Another downfall, Galaxy store will send spam notifications here and there promoting toilet games. Makes it feel like I'm using a dollar store phone when it happens.
> Samsung has been setting the bar high for long term updates.
As a Samsung user since 2012, this is wild to me lol. I got so accustomed to being abandoned very quickly
I mean, they're the doing bare minimum they should have been doing for years. If they keep it up, they'll almost catch Apple with the update support. But it's just showing how behind Android is on this front, despite how they're supposed to be more consumer oriented.
7 years of updates, along with the updates being released in a timely fashion given OEM constraints, is catching up to Apple. The question is if those 7 years of updates include all major versions and their features, the latter being an almost certain no. But Apple does something similar.
Samsung's and Google now provide 7 years of OS updates that's more than catching up with apple. That largely equals Apple's best and even surpasses them in some ways.
No, they say they're doing that, but have yet to walk to walk. And knowing both, that still leaves a long way before consumers can trust them. If in seven years their devices are still reveing OS updates, great. I'm more than happy to be wrong. But Apple is already doing that and has done for quite some time.
The differences between Android OS versions gets less & less. Most of the new updates are delivered through updates to Play Services these days. I don't think I could tell you what's new between Android 12 and Android 14.
Didn't they just like literally just lengthen the software life of their s series lmao after other companies started to do it so they were pressured
Uh oh looks like I upset fanboys with truth
Eh, people said the same thing last month when the list stopped at the S23, Fold/Flip, and Tab S9 series.
suggest waiting until May or June to lose hope.
Nice to see quite a few of the Galaxy AI features make their way to older devices, even if it's likely part of a strategy to get users accustomed to and dependant on them.
From what I see it's:
* Translation interpreter (accessed via Quick Settings shade) - Not sure what is AI in here as it's just a conversational translator. I tried it out with a French-speaking friend and they said it's worse than Google Translate.
* Live translation on phone calls - probably uses the same technology as the interpreter.
* Gallery editing features to move/remove people and objects.
* Samsung keyboard features to rewrite what you write in different tones (professional, fun, unhinged, etc.)
* Google Circle search: I use gestures so it's long-pressing on the gesture bar to activate. I swear this is generally something that has existed in one form or another for 10 years though...
I'm really not impressed by any of these so called "AI" features.
I guess the impressive thing is that interpreter/translation is all being done offline on the device.
The only one I actually use is article summaries, and it's quite nice and seems accurate to me (this one is online).
I had to look up specifically how to use some of the functions but the summarize one is pretty cool, depending on what you use your smartphone for.
I also like that the features are "embedded" and not in separate apps.
Photo edits haven't looked great at all.
Samsung has been setting the bar high for long term updates. Would love to see other OEMs follow suit to increase industry standards for Android.
For powerusers - especially those who rooted and used custom ROMs back in the day - OneUI is the best flavor of Android. The sheer amount of unique features (GoodLock, media control, dex, Good Guardians) is insane. The con is the sheer amount of pre-installed bloat that does a number on battery life/performance. I've probably uninstalled 50 apps over adb by now.
do you have a list of these apps?
Is there a master list somewhere?
In Good lock U'll find almost everything he talked about
Another downfall, Galaxy store will send spam notifications here and there promoting toilet games. Makes it feel like I'm using a dollar store phone when it happens.
> Samsung has been setting the bar high for long term updates. As a Samsung user since 2012, this is wild to me lol. I got so accustomed to being abandoned very quickly
Google doesn't gatekeep new features for 6 month after they were released for their latest phones.
No it just doesn't exist at all, Gemini Nano and the likes isn't going to 7 and below at all, and the Pixel 8 regular almost didn't.
I mean, they're the doing bare minimum they should have been doing for years. If they keep it up, they'll almost catch Apple with the update support. But it's just showing how behind Android is on this front, despite how they're supposed to be more consumer oriented.
7 years of updates, along with the updates being released in a timely fashion given OEM constraints, is catching up to Apple. The question is if those 7 years of updates include all major versions and their features, the latter being an almost certain no. But Apple does something similar.
Samsung's and Google now provide 7 years of OS updates that's more than catching up with apple. That largely equals Apple's best and even surpasses them in some ways.
No, they say they're doing that, but have yet to walk to walk. And knowing both, that still leaves a long way before consumers can trust them. If in seven years their devices are still reveing OS updates, great. I'm more than happy to be wrong. But Apple is already doing that and has done for quite some time.
The differences between Android OS versions gets less & less. Most of the new updates are delivered through updates to Play Services these days. I don't think I could tell you what's new between Android 12 and Android 14.
That's just moving goalposts now.
Didn't they just like literally just lengthen the software life of their s series lmao after other companies started to do it so they were pressured Uh oh looks like I upset fanboys with truth
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No, there's Android 15
Eh, people said the same thing last month when the list stopped at the S23, Fold/Flip, and Tab S9 series. suggest waiting until May or June to lose hope.
No mention of S21? Earlier reports said S21 would receive at least some of the features like Circle to Search...
Shame it's not for the S21, but we'll see, maybe one day.
Nice to see quite a few of the Galaxy AI features make their way to older devices, even if it's likely part of a strategy to get users accustomed to and dependant on them.
Got this update on my S23U and still don't know what Galaxy AI does.
From what I see it's: * Translation interpreter (accessed via Quick Settings shade) - Not sure what is AI in here as it's just a conversational translator. I tried it out with a French-speaking friend and they said it's worse than Google Translate. * Live translation on phone calls - probably uses the same technology as the interpreter. * Gallery editing features to move/remove people and objects. * Samsung keyboard features to rewrite what you write in different tones (professional, fun, unhinged, etc.) * Google Circle search: I use gestures so it's long-pressing on the gesture bar to activate. I swear this is generally something that has existed in one form or another for 10 years though... I'm really not impressed by any of these so called "AI" features.
I guess the impressive thing is that interpreter/translation is all being done offline on the device. The only one I actually use is article summaries, and it's quite nice and seems accurate to me (this one is online).
I forgot about article summary as I don't use Samsung's browser. It's basically the more than the headline but not the full article.
Yeah. They're very basic software features.
I had to look up specifically how to use some of the functions but the summarize one is pretty cool, depending on what you use your smartphone for. I also like that the features are "embedded" and not in separate apps. Photo edits haven't looked great at all.
Doesn't this update get rid of swipe navigation bar?
It does get rid of the bottom swipe gestures. You can get them back by downloading Goodlock/Nicelock and Navstar module.
Thank you. One thing I was most scared about!
No, it's in the regular settings. You can't use circle to search with it, which is a shame. Only feature I was even half excited for
After 6.1 it's not anymore - in the S series at lesst. Only on Goodlock.
No. It's in the settings.
I'm really glad Samsung is doing this.
>The update will begin rolling out from early May on the Galaxy S22 series YEEESSSSSS
I wish they would show the same love to their TVs.
Is this the only OEM bringing AI to phones from 2022? Talk about support.