I’m sceptical. With all the added complexity of a foldable, the specs are probably gonna be below average to absymal. I’d love to be proven wrong tho.
Dunno man samsung’s mid range phones are exceptionally good.
Is that before or after you remove all the extra crap that Samsung shovel on it?
2015 called, they want their talking points back.
Seriously though, Samsung has a sleeker Android than even Google in 2023. You have to get an AOSP or similar os on a device to beat it. It’s been a long road, but the One UI is just better.
Aside from the launcher, they don’t change bits and pieces in the lover levels anymore (Knox & co.)? Don’t have to every google map a Samsung-equivalent, running from boot in background, anymore?
How many duplicated apps are installed on modern Samsung’s?
How many browsers? How many app stores? How many games?
Here’s all the Samsung stuff on my Galaxy Fold 4, two of which aren’t ones that it came with:
It’s really not a problem nor that bad. I chucked them into a folder and have only touched them to use the files app or manage Good Lock.
So if we’re including what Google gives us, that’s two app stores, Two browsers, Two note takers. Two messaging apps. Stuff for Samsung TV, Smart things, both useless to me. HP printing app for some reason. Samsung “news” (lol). AR zone (whatever the fuck that is).
I wonder how bloated the launcher is…
Literally none of that ads any value to a “stock Google Android” installation. It’s all bloat and crap. Arguably even the stock experience is not bloat free; this just makes it much worse.
And that’s only the stuff you see. God knows what other services and background shit is also running, sucking up resources and your battery life.
Yeah, it’s no better than it used to be. The talking point is still relevant and any assertion to the contrary is invalid.
I don’t consider it bloat. Bloat is preinstalled games or adware, not useful services. Everything preinstalled besides Samsung’s stuff was removable, and all of that at least does have a use, and works for what it’s supposed to do.
- Browser is a browser. It functions as such for people who don’t care about which browser they’re using.
- Note taking app does what it says on the tin.
- messaging app is the SMS app. It didn’t come with another one, I installed the one from Google myself for RCS.
- Samsung TV Plus is actually for watching TV networks, and it’s free. Works decently even.
- smart things is useful for anyone who has Samsung iot devices. The oven in the house I rent actually is one, which was funny to me.
- HP printing might have actually been one I added… For my HP network printer.
All of that aside, my Z Fold 4 is plenty powerful such that I never experience lagging or slowdowns. My battery rarely goes below 50% with 4-5 hours of screen on time daily. So if there’s background stuff, it’s not affecting either of the things you would expect it to.
The launcher is fine. No “news section” off to the side like the old Pixel launcher used to have, no frills or extras or adware in your face… it’s fine. The only complaint I have about the launcher is that I can’t make my app drawer continuously scroll. However, it provides the service for the ‘taskbar’ at the bottom of my screen:
and I use it a lot for multitasking so I can’t get rid of it.Honestly, from my perspective none of it is problematic. It sounds to me like you’re just hating on something to hate on it, none of those extra things being installed cause me any inconvenience. In the slightest.
Calling someone’s opinion on such a subjective matter invalid really speaks to your thoughts on other people. Are you ok? Need to talk about it?
Money needs to be invested in AR glasses tech as then you can have any size screen you want. Foldable is a dead end.
