Notice FAA warns passengers not to use Samsung smartphone after reports of devices catching fire

Because they're phones for children. Samsung's epic failure to catch the problem doesn't make the iPhone a good phone.

My wife has a 6s Plus or whatever the last big top of the line phone is called. I can't tolerate using it. My old porn abused Note4 is still better than her phone.

I'll buy a Pixel or some other basic android phone without the bloatware Samsung loads on their phones. The phone itself is superior in every way. She is always charging that gigantic piece of shit.

I know because she has me unplug it and bring it to her in the evening when my Note is still at 60 percent for the day.

 

That's interesting, because my experience is the exact opposite of that. I had the Samsung S4 for 2 years, after going from Iphones just to see what all the hoopla was about for Android.

Promptly went back to Iphone. Android OS is fucking terrible IMO.

battery issues generally are people using the screen to brightly, from what I've gathered.

 

What's terrible about it?

 

Mine is on full blast all day. Her's is on automatic so I can't usually read it half of the time.

 

I didn't mean for this thread to become an Android vs iPhone thread by any means. Just curious, do you own or use any Apple products?

 

Wonder how she has her settings set up? I use my phone all day and never get close to the battery dying.

 

I've used her phone hundreds of times. It was the most recent top of the line. It at least has a large screen now.

 

I just didn't like the way it was laid out, how to access certain things, how infrequent the device would update, I absolutely despise the messaging (text messaging) portion of it (back then, maybe its changed now? The big faces when someone called you if you didn't have their picture in the phone....dumb.) I couldn't stand the fact that when I would stream Pandora, or Google Play, or Samsung Music app, the sound would cut out of the headphones (play audibly from the phone speaker) when I received a text message, then my music would play again. (again this was back w/the S4 and it's 2 years of updates, they MAY have fixed that by now). There were other minor cosmetic things that I preferred on the Iphone over Android. The cheapness feel of the S4 was a big turn off too. The speaker, and screen quality wasn't as good (to me), and I did not like the touchscreen response compared to the Iphone.

I gave it two years, but both my wife and I went back to Iphone 6's. We may upgrade to the 7, but probably will wait for the 7.5 or whatever the fuck its called.

Yeah I don't want to start a war, because I'm not about that. I gave both sides a pretty fair shake and made my decision from my own personal experiences. Other people can buy whatever they want, and it doesn't bug me whatsoever.

 

I have no real knowledge of how computers work whatsoever. I also don't understand the technology or how the $300,000 machine I use at work, works. I don't know how to change the oil in my car.
That said, I can drive the fuck out of my car and I kill it at work!
I know what I want out of a device and put myself in the best situation to succeed when using one. I have an iPhone, Apple watch, iPad Pro and a MacBook Air. At home we have an iMac. My wife and two kids each have iPhones and iPads and we have two apple tvs running at the house. I have CarPlay in my car as well the syncs to my phone.
I know that when we send a message,picture,video or we add something to a calendar, it goes everywhere and we are all on the same page, no sweat. I also know that my wife and kids completely understands how this works.
I'm sure you can do the aforementioned things on an Android device, but the system we have set up is so damn simple and easy for us to use.
NEVER have had an issue with any aspect of our system.
Apple products are PERFECT for people like myself who want to do EVERYTHING, but know NOTHING.
Never did quite understand the hate that the android users have towards apple people and the other way as well.
Find what you like and use it.

 

I got an S4 soon after it came out and I still use it. I'm probably going to upgrade soon but I have had a wonderful experience with the S4 so I'll certainly get another Samsung phone. I've never had a problem with any of the things you listed.. I use google's messaging app for texts and its great. I don't remember the faces thing but I guess it's possible it happened, that's just not something that would bother me. I also don't remember the music playing audibly when getting a text, just that it stops for a second to play the text tone. I've also had many friends that have iPhones marvel at my speaker quality and screen responsiveness, so I definitely don't understand that complaint, but to each his own.

 

This is exactly why my wife loves Apple products. She is not a computer person. Whereas I am. But I hate troubleshooting or messing around with my own stuff. I do enough of that crap at work. So when I get home I want stuff to 'just work"

Last line is well said.

 

lol

 

And one other thing......I don't ever crack on people when I see they have an Android. But I get them busting on me all the time. And you know what their main crack is....they look at my phone and laugh and tell me that it sucks because I can't "Change" the battery!
What? Is that supposed to be a good thing?
Never quite understood that.

 

The music doesn't play, it just stops the music playing in my headphones and plays the text message audibly out the phone speakers. Which is really fucking annoying when you're at the gym and your wife is texting you non-stop about work stuff...

The speaker quality is pretty good, but I believe my Iphone was better, hell it's been 2+ years without it so I don't remember; other than it was a pain point.
Also the faces thing is when someone calls you, it pops up this like 'default' picture on the screen


Anyway sorry about the big picture, just wanted to show you what I hated; I just felt like this OS was super unattractive.

 

Well, I guess it's a good thing they can change their battery, because themshits exploding!!

 

Nope, one reason people are pissed at Samsung. Biting them in the ass right about now. I can change my Note4 battery in under a minute and have 50gb of music on a SD card. I believe the Note7 has SD capability.

 

Just picked a random nova launcher home screen off of google, vs the same boring screen iPhone users stare at every day

 

Changing the battery is awesome. I have 2 extra batteries, they fit in my coin pocket in my jeans. Don't have to worry about taking a power brick or conserving my battery.

 

My main problem is that the iphone is so fucking expensive. Also, I can't clear the cache for some of my streaming apps when they get huge I have to delete then add the program back again.

I use iOS with an ipad, its fine, I don't have anything bad to say, but I pretty much use the apple and the android ecosystems interchangeably and not really much of a difference.

The main thing is the battery though, at least for me. If you travel and use walking naviation, your battery drains very fucking fast and I hate having to have a portable battery charger attached to my phone inside my pocket.

 

Big hit for Samsung!