Let me know when Samsung software stops sucking and then we'll talk.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
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The moment you replace it. You get to keep the awesome hardware.
What software do you mean?
There are no Samsungs you should buy.
True, just side graded from a S23 base to a pixel 9, the pixel is a lot better in many ways. Mainly the UI is clunky and everything is bloated on the galaxy. There's way too many features and way too little thought that went into organizing said features. Meanwhile the pixel is beautifully animated and has very nice and actually convenient features for calls for example. Most of the galaxy features I feel are just toys and gimmicks. The pixel is also more repairable with their online parts pairing tool as well as being more open to custom ROMs
Oh yes, Samsung's software always needs replacing, but it's easier to install better software on a Samsung than wait for better hardware in a Pixel. Where's the Pixel with a stylus? That's a 2011 Samsung feature. 4K video output? My 2019 Samsung can drive 4K. Meanwhile Pixel owners are squealing they got any video output last year, another feature coming 13 years late. And of course Auracast will make Samsung's dual Bluetooth output obsolete quicker than Pixel engineers would recognize that people sometimes listen to things together.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to daily-drive a Pixel. GrapheneOS sounds nice and the KVM is something I'd love to play with. But for decades I've watched Pixels hardware to improve while Samsung lost features, hoping Pixels will catch up. If it wasn't for Folds, they'd be only another decade away from hardware feature parity with 2011 Samsungs, but now there are Folds and here we go again.
Is the bootloader Unlocked? No? Bye.
I hope that's a sound of you GTFOing out of the USA to pretty much anywhere else, where Samsungs have and always had unlocked bootloaders. =)
i wish I could