The S10+ is here. Flamingo Pink. Gorgeous.
But I didn't get to unbox it.
Samsung does not seal their boxes so my phone and all the contents were tumbling around loose in the shipping box. Fortunately there's not a scratch on it and it seems to be working fine so far but I am just getting it set up. My husband is helping me with that. Well at least he's making sure I don't do anything goofy.
No earbuds.
My husband's account shows that they are on backorder.
I've got a teal colored Clear View Smart Cover case and it looks surprisingly good with the flamingo pink phone.
Of course I'm reminded of how bloat works. It infuriates me that I can't remove/uninstall Bleacher Report and Facebook. I'll never use the former and I have a seething hatred of Facebook and deeply resent that I can only disable it. I don't want apps taking up any storage I paid for unless they're needed to run the phone. This crap should not be hardwired into my phone, in a manner of speaking. But I always fume about this when I set up a Samsung phone and I move on and forget about it quickly enough. iPhones have some apps like that, too, though mercifully not Facebook.
I have had a killer headache even before I got the phone so I can't evaluate the display for how it triggers migraines because the damned weather has already done that.
Anyway I'm thrilled it's here at long last! I guess it couldn't wait to be my phone because it unboxed itself.
I was going to call an S10e a Pink Punk, but I have to say that any phone that can unbox itself deserves to be called the Pink Punk even if it's kind of big. In some respects it seems smaller than my S9+ so it's not seeming as big to me as I thought it would.
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I have an S10e (first tried the S10 but felt it was too big and I really didn't like the fingerprint sensor) and used to have an S9. I can honestly say that I just cannot stand the Samsung phones and will never purchase another after I am done with the S10e.
1 - Configuring the thing and figuring out how to disengage totally non essential Samsung garbage on the phone can be a nightmare. It can literally take me hours to google something that I would like to do, only to find half a dozen explanations due to various android upgrades over the years. Good example of all of this is the stupid Bixby app.
2 - Speaking of Bixby, why on earth Samsung is so hell bent on providing their own appl that google has already put onto all the android phones is beyond me. They take up extra resources, use more battery power, and just all in all duplicate things that are already there serving no purpose. Whats more, it is impossible to get rid of many of them.
3 - Seems that I struggle on almost a daily basis to turn things off (like notifications asking me how I enjoyed burger king a half hour ago) only to see them start up again a few days after I have finally learned how to disable them.
4 - I never have been able to get email notifications to work correctly, neither in Gmail nor Samsung mail so I ended up having to download yet a third email app from the play store so that I do get email notifications correctly.
5 - If I am not alert, and I happen to miss a notification that Samsung has downloaded yet another useless something or other when I wasn't looking, I may then get an add pop up over something I am working on, such as paying my bills through my bank's app.....very annoying!
6 - Though the always on screen has SOME value since there is no longer a red notification light on the S10 series and there is an option to engage little notification icons on this display, the idea is really useless if I just leave in on and place the phone into the wireless charger. Why? Because even though the phone will ever so slightly move the stuff on the always on display around the screen to avoid burn in, there is a STATIONARY notification on the bottom of this display telling me that the phone is charging! Duh!! So much for preventing burn in.
7 - Menus menus menus. Seriously? Get what I am saying? The menu system is more convoluted, poorly organized and time consuming to navigate than anything I have ever had the pleasure of working with.
Is there anything that I like about the S10e? Ummm, I guess the fingerprint sensor in the power button is kinda nice.
I can't really respond to all your points because I'm just setting my phone up. I haven't noticed really noticed all that you're complaining about on my S9+. But I haven't really used it much since putting Oreo and One UI on it.
I like Bixby. I don't use it as an alternative to Google Assistant though. I use it to program small discrete functions for my phone to preset times. My husband does that even more extensively than I do and loves it. He's got his truck programmed to start up so it's warm when he gets out there and it's also programmed to remind him to take his coffee with him when he leaves. Bixby can sometimes get in the way but mostly I ignore it.
I have some duplicate apps because I never made up my mind which I liked best. Like I now have Aquamail and Samsung mail. I use either. I also use Samsung gallery and Google Photos.
Sorry you don't like your phone much.
