Faced with weak growth, has Samsung lost its vision?

English Language The Hankyoreh ^ | Jan.29,2016 18:05 KST | By Lee Jeong-hun, staff reporter

[AFreeBird]

I wear glasses to watch tv. Why would I want to wear two pair of glasses?

3D is a flop IMHO.

[catbertz]

Believe me, I treasure removable battery feature, but who’s left building high end phones with replaceable batteries besides LG? Huawei? Lol.

Currently several less than flagship models from various manufacturers still feature removable, but it’s a dying breed. Manufacturers have stubbornly followed Apple in pursuit of the thinnest phone competition.

[MrEdd]

There are a number of Chinese brands that are decent. Not marketing in the US does not equate to not being available.

Whenever I buy a phone I spend several months researching the market. The phones I buy are always built to last and have good transceiver sections. Since 2005 I have had an HTC Wizard, a five inch Dell Streak, and the Samsung Galaxy Note2. All still work although the screen seems so tiny on the Wizard now.

I make my machines last. If I have to pay more in order to get one that can, I will. And there will always be someone servicing that market.

[Swordmaker]

And the screen colors blow away even the newest Apple phone ...that was confirmed by a room full of IPhone lovers that noticed the vivid display. One asked if it was the new iphone.

They may be "vivid" but they are not true to life, which is what you need and want for photography. The color gamut is all wrong. It is TOO vivid and to garish for real photography. Apple works hard to reflect reality in its screens. That's why you see iPhones being used by professional photographers and cinematographers and you don't see Android and Samsung phones being used by pros for much of anything. iPhones have even been used to video two successful feature length movies.

[catbertz]

Oled will conquer all other formats due to its advantages.

www.macrumors.com/2015/12/29/apple-close-oled-deal-lg-samsung/

[catbertz]

I’m currently using the Note 4, which is nearly perfect in form and function. Of the Chinese brands, only Huawei is really worthwhile, if you trust them..

[Secret Agent Man]

No they were working on 3d sets that didnt need glasses.

[gunsequalfreedom]

They may be "vivid" but they are not true to life, which is what you need and want for photography. The color gamut is all wrong. It is TOO vivid and to garish for real photography.

blah, blah, blah.

[gunsequalfreedom]

Just to clarify, I was not in a room filled with expert master iPhone movie makers and cinematographers. They were just your normal iPhone extraordinary people. I do aspire to one day meet the caliber of iPhone people with whom you frequent.

Resolution iPhone
1,080 x 1,920 pixels

Resolution Samsung
1,440 x 2,560 pixels

Cameras iPhone
Rear 12MP, Front 5MP

Cameras Samsung
Rear 16 MP, Front 5MP

The Note 5 bests the 6S Plus in terms of processing power and RAM. With double the RAM available, running multiple apps and switching between them, should be much smoother on the Note 5, especially when the phone’s Exynos 7420 64-bit chipset is factored in.

I can't believe this review would be so uninformed, can you? I mean, there were two successful feature length movies made with iPhones. The review did not even mention that?

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/iphone-6s-plus-vs-galaxy-note-5/

[rmlew]

No kidding. The battery of my S6 is shot and I can’t even get a day out of it.

[shotgun]

My 3 year old Samsung 64 inch plasma 3D just stopped working because the main power board died. Took to the repair shop and found out the TV is obsolete and parts are no longer available. I’ve been working /fighting them for a month to replace it.

I paid $3,500 and their first offer was $481.19 and I told them I would put it out by the street with a sign on it not to buy Samsung. They have now agreed to replace it with comparable new model.

[shotgun]

See my post 31

[Secret Agent Man]

Good for you. Glad they are doing that for you.

[shotgun]

My basic argument is that this is not throw away money. When they offered me the money I told them i got $200 for my 2 year old iPhone 4s! Costco has the 75 inch Samsung 4K HD on sale right now for $2,250.

[Secret Agent Man]

I agree.

[Swordmaker]

The Note 5 bests the 6S Plus in terms of processing power and RAM. With double the RAM available, running multiple apps and switching between them, should be much smoother on the Note 5, especially when the phone's Exynos 7420 64-bit chipset is factored in.

I don't care what your review claims about SPECS. What counts is what can they do with those specs.

First of all, for example, your resolution comparison of the iPhone 6s and the Samsung Note 5 is meaningless when you realize that after a certain resolution the human eye cannot discern any more detail beyond what it is capable of resolving. Adding more pixels just to add numbers beyond that which can be discerned by the eye is mere advertising hype. In fact, more pixels than necessary actually slows down the graphic ability of the device to move those extra pixels around in animations for no good purpose.

Secondly, the iPhone's have had 64bit processors for far longer than any Androids have had 64 bit processors, and those processors with the dual cores, and the amount of RAM supplied have been soundly beating the four and now onto-core processors of the processors in the Android and even Windows phones and tablets for over two years.

Thirdly, and this is related to the second point, you are wrong about the smoothness and switching of apps. The iPhone 6S Plus beats the competition in all the Geekbench tests and real world tests, by quite a bit. It isn't even close.

Oh, there's your Samsung Note 5, in 4th, 35% SLOWER than the iPhone 6s Plus!

Well, the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 beats the iPhone 6S,
but then it has an Intel i3 processor in it!

These benchmarks are from last year, but the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s Plus is even faster, with a nine times FASTER graphics processor. I'm including them to prove my contention the iPhone has been faster for years:

Finally, as for the cameras, the Samsung Note 5 does nicely in daylight if you like cool photo colors, but it fails in low light conditions. The iPhone 6s Plus is produces equal quality pictures but with warmer colors. . . But is much better in low light due to larger pixels with a microscopic black "wall" separating the pixels in the CCD preventing bleed over of light. The iPhone 6s Plus's motion damping system is far better than what is provided on the Samsung Note 5. Both offer 4K video recording but only the iPhone can do 240 frame per second high speed recording for slow motion native to the camera. The iPhone also provides on device video editing.

[gunsequalfreedom]

I don't care what your review claims about SPECS. What counts is what can they do with those specs...After a certain resolution the human eye cannot discern any more detail."

[Swordmaker]

Oh, you’re another one of those who doesn’t like facts that refute your blather. You spew out nonsense and then post a ridiculous photo bomb when you are hoist on your petard. OK. Thanks for playing.

[gunsequalfreedom]

You are the one that jumped in on the Samsung post. The conversation is about Samsung. You don’t like anything but Apple. Everyone gets it and they understand you think your superior intellect supports your position. That does not logically follow.

The Samsung Note 5 is a fantastic bit of most modern technology. For you to suggest otherwise is total foolishness.

[Swordmaker]

You are the one that jumped in on the Samsung post. The conversation is about Samsung. You don't like anything but Apple. Everyone gets it and they understand you think your superior intellect supports your position. That does not logically follow.

Uh, Guns, I posted the article. . . good luck with complaining to the original poster.