I am finding my S20 very “snappy” so I’ve got no complaints about Samsung lag at this point. I did see my Note slow down a little tiny bit here and there the last couple of months, though, and I think sometimes where Samsung feels a bit “busy” to me is in their integration of marketing.
I find it creeping up on me a lot. I’ll just find myself inundated with notifications for stuff from their merchandising partners. I run a very tight streamlined system on all my phones with very few third party apps installed on any of my phones. But Samsung itself has a lot of tie-ins to affiliates.
I just got slapped in the face with that when I went to use their browser and was faced with a new End User agreement I HAD to accept to continue to use the browser! I read the whole damned thing and the amount of data I’m signing away not just to Samsung but endless unnamed affiliates while using the browser was really pretty infuriating.
Anyway, until something creeps in to slow it down, a Samsung phone these days is fast and smooth. Keeping it that way seems a bit more involved than it does on a Pixel, though.
I wonder if what really slows down a Samsung phone, or more accurately, the experience of using one, is that they have so many business partners with hooks into the different apps that come with the phone. Like on my S8, there was a filter on the camera that was affiliated with Sephora. I’m not an app designer so I can’t know for sure, but I wonder if at times some of the slowdowns I had on that phone’s camera app came from something sending data back to Sephora. That whole phone lagged like crazy, but especially that camera.
Even if that’s not possible, there’s the human fatigue involved. I’m forever fending off ads and overtures and notifications from their affiliates. That can add to the perception of bloat and lag when you have to stop and deal with something trying to get your attention when you’re really intending to just use your app and get on with things.
Then there’s the world of Apple.
iOS is supposed to be fast and smooth but I don’t know what’s going on with it these days.
It is so lucky my husband is now working at home. One day I went from Safari to my photos and my iphone 11Pro froze. Then crashed. Then it went into the beach ball of death screen. And stayed there. And got hotter and hotter and hotter. All the calluses I used to have from doing landscaping work are gone and I have nice genteel lady hands again, lol. Unfortunately that means they’re really sensitive to heat and the phone was burning my hands even in the case. It was really hot.
I was sick from Covid that day so I had to yell for one of the kids to take it down to the kitchen to put it on the granite in case it was going to overheat and melt down. And have them get their father if he was not in a meeting to do something with it. Fortunately he does not have such sensitive skin as I do, so he could hold the phone. He looked up how to reboot it.
Remember how rebooting was once simple on iOS and we all knew how to do it? Now it is like a Mortal Kombat move and you need to have another device open to look up how to reboot. At least for those of us over 50 with memory leaks of our own. 😆
Fortunately the reboot fixed it. I was sick so I wasn’t thinking on my feet. I was just panicked this thing was going to have a battery burst through its seams in a parody of the scene from Alien.
Overall though, my 11Pro is a really good phone. The camera gets the shots I want 97% of the time. That’s just amazing to me. I have every intention of keeping it and skipping the 2020 models. That’s why it overheating the way it did, almost curling iron levels of hot, gave me a real oh 💩 moment. If anything happens to this phone it’s getting replaced with an iPhone SE until next year.
On the Android side of things, I’d like to say the future holds a mid range Pixel in it for me. But I know I can not possibly give up the gorgeous perfect display on my S20. I like to watch movies on my phones. I haven’t seen a Pixel display yet that can touch this S20 display. Wow.
Sorry for the long and winding post. I don’t find my way onto the forum to post much lately. I haven’t had much to say nor much energy to say what little I could think of. But I did miss participating. Take care, all. Happy Mother’s Day to the Mums and Moms on board.
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