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    Samsung could ditch its Bixby virtual assistant and the Galaxy app Store as part of Google deal

    Discussion in 'Smartphones and Tablets' started by Spartan@HIDevolution, Aug 5, 2020.

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    Samsung could ditch Bixby and Galaxy Store as part of Google deal

    https://venturebeat.com/2020/07/29/...ixby-and-galaxy-store-as-part-of-google-deal/

     
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    In a blow to Bixby, Siri cofounder Adam Cheyer departs Samsung

    https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/04/in-a-blow-to-bixby-siri-cofounder-adam-cheyer-departs-samsung/

     
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    What is Exynos? ha ha ha!
     
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    The reason why I ditched Samsung forever. They sell us (Europe + Middle East) overpriced phones with inferior SoC and battery life
     
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    I know what they are, the fact that I can't buy one here is great. I am seriously looking at the a71. Got everything I need nothing I don't. I wish microsoft would open up the android app integration to all android phones instead of just samsung however.
     
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    Don't forget India, Australia and others.
    Exynos can't pick up signals even when the cell tower is few meters away and always reverts to 2G when 4G drops to -98dBm. Qcomm maintains 4G till -110dBm (pretty bad, I know).
    For a burner phone, A71 is good enough.
     
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    Imo for any phone besides gaming the a71 is awesome. The bang for buck is really high. I keep going back to my tab a 8 2019. It's was ok for what I was doing with it but then it got the android 10 update. What a difference it made to this little tablet. My iPad sits on my desk now and I am constantly using the galaxy. 1/3 the cost and 95 % as good now. I love the latest MS launcher on it too.

    The a71 does not have wireless charging or ip rating but that's the only downsides I see comparing it to my iPhone. Expandable storage is a big thing, windows integration is a big thing, the screen is deadly on it, and it's just awesome that I can install MS launcher on it too.

    For 549 cdn. It's 50 bucks cheaper than the iPhone but worth more.
     
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    If it works for you then its good. I don't think you'll save much by 50 CAD by going with bigger internal storage since it has more Write cycles than smaller micro-SD which can fail in near future w/o any warning. Also, Android doesn't auto-fix filesystem corruption on fat32/exFAT by deafult so you need a Windows PC to fix those errors.
    You always switch to iOS by saying Android is super laggy, slow IO, garbage battery life while older iPhone 6s/8 had better battery life, LTE coverage, Wifi speed, Day 1 like performance, A11/A12 Bionic which puts Androids to shame.
     
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    Don't worry about me. Oh. And if you missed it. I also stated android 10 is much faster than previous versions and iOS is becoming very buggy as well. My cheap Samsung tab a 8 is now more stable than my iPad 6th gen which has frequent spazz outs from apps crashing etc since 13.3
     
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    Try iOS 13.6. Android 10 is fast but not super stable unlike iOS 13.6.
    Reset location and privacy and you should be alright.
     
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    Tried it all. My iPad and iPhone are worse than my android 10 based Samsung tab a.
     
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