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jamezr said:
Agree with you on this! I will always charge my phones overnight...unless for some unknown reason i can't.
Nice to know it could go 48 hours but it would stress me out too much knowing i didn't charge it!
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Yup. My XR has really good battery life, but there's no way it could ever go 48 hours unless I hardly looked at it!

It's why I find these battery tests really pointless. Same with all the 'scratch' and 'smash' videos. "Let's see how durable the glass is on the S10!".
Whhyyy?!

They're glass, they will break eventually under enough force lol.

Maybe I'm getting old? 😱😀
 
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okay...last wallpaper for today 😛

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Cnasty said:
I am still on the fence of what to do in regards to pay to upgrade early my XS Max and go S10+ or just wait it out.

The Applewatch might be the only thing that has held me back from pulling the trigger as of yet.

I did play with the S10+ yesterday and was blown away how light it is for such a large device. My XS Max felt like a brick in comparison. It was....weird? I wasn't a fan of the chrome sides (i wasnt able to see the black version) but that screen blew me away.

That lightness though was a welcome surprise from a device that big!
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The Apple Watch is singularly the one device that makes switching away from using an iPhone the most problematic for me. I was resigned to just ride out my time on an iPhone until Google could finally come out with a respectable smart watch but I’m considering an alternate two phone setup more and more.

I’m thinking about just selling my Max, picking up up a 7 at a steep discount and leaving it powered on a home as ‘homebase’ for my watch. I like being able to be reached on the watch via phone call or message but I could live without that—I just need it more so for fitness, music, podcasts, audiobooks and a few other secondary features. I’ll then move my main sim over to my Pixel 3 XL.

I just picked up a Surface Pro 6 over the weekend from the sale Microsoft had ($799 for i5, 8GB, 128GB storage and including the Type Cover) and have been genuinely surprised now much I’m liking it. Consequently, it may allow me to sell my iPP setup and come out with the SP6 cost covered and some extra $ as well.

I’m likely moving the entire family over to the paid version of Google Photos to extricate us from one more Apple service.

Slowly but surely digging out from Apple...
 
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tbayrgs said:
The Apple Watch is singularly the one device that makes switching away from using an iPhone the most problematic for me. I was resigned to just ride out my time on an iPhone until Google could finally come out with a respectable smart watch but I’m considering an alternate two phone setup more and more.

I’m thinking about just selling my Max, picking up up a 7 at a steep discount and leaving it powered on a home as ‘homebase’ for my watch. I like being able to be reached on the watch via phone call or message but I could live without that—I just need it more so for fitness, music, podcasts, audiobooks and a few other secondary features. I’ll then move my main sim over to my Pixel 3 XL.

I just picked up a Surface Pro 6 over the weekend from the sale Microsoft had ($799 for i5, 8GB, 128GB storage and including the Type Cover) and have been genuinely surprised now much I’m liking it. Consequently, it may allow me to sell my iPP setup and come out with the SP6 cost covered and some extra $ as well.

I’m likely moving the entire family over to the paid version of Google Photos to extricate us from one more Apple service.

Slowly but surely digging out from Apple...
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I thought the same about my Apple Watch but then I thought as good as it is what will I really miss going to galaxy watch?

Apps Like sports alerts for scores but I will still use the galaxy watch for notifications, fitness, music via Spotify app to replace the good Apple Music app
 
Aneres11 said:
I think good battery life is always welcome, but even when a phone has good battery life, I still charge i every night.
No phone will ever get me through 48 hours so will always need charging the same evening.

As long as it gets me to 10pm and doesn't need its charger (which I haven't had happen for over a year now with the phones I've used and how much better the batteries in these devices are getting), then I'm happy. 🙂
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I agree to an extent, no phone can last me 48hours with my usage, but with the Mate 20 Pro I usually just charge when I need to, usually takes less than an hour to get to 100% from around 15% charge, I usually charge either in the morning while showering or in the afternoon an hour before lunch time.

The faster they charge, you will find that your habits change to.

I wish Samsung would eventually move to Quick Charge 3.0, they have fallen behind in an area they pioneered. I hope they address this with the Note10.
 
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HEALER FLAME said:
Seriously when is Google going to upgrade its cheap looking Android icons


I am not sure why you think s10+ is cheap quality?
May be the white color not being solid is looking bit cheap but the Black wow.....what can I say. I can assure you s10+ will kill all its rivals including its cousin Note 9.
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You can use Nova Launcher to make changes to icons if that helps?
 
Having an Apple Watch has made it difficult for me to consider switching away (im also happy with iOS though), so that will be quite a big test for me and I’m interested to eee how much I miss the watch. Or not.
I went that long without one and I wouldn’t say now I have one I couldn’t be without it, but maybe actually being without it will show that i actually can’t.
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Aneres11 said:
Having an Apple Watch has made it difficult for me to consider switching away (im also happy with iOS though), so that will be quite a big test for me and I’m interested to eee how much I miss the watch. Or not.
I went that long without one and I wouldn’t say now I have one I couldn’t be without it, but maybe actually being without it will show that i actually can’t.
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There Galaxy Watch Active looks sweet.
 
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Tsepz said:
I agree to an extent, no phone can last me 48hours with my usage, but with the Mate 20 Pro I usually just charge when I need to, usually takes less than an hour to get to 100% from around 15% charge, I usually charge either in the morning while showering or in the afternoon an hour before lunch time.

The faster they charge, you will find that your habits change to.

I wish Samsung would eventually move to Quick Charge 3.0, they have fallen behind in an area they pioneered. I hope they address this with the Note10.
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Rumoured note 10 will have 25w charging
 
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The Game 161 said:
I thought the same about my Apple Watch but then I thought as good as it is what will I really miss going to galaxy watch?

Apps Like sports alerts for scores but I will still use the galaxy watch for notifications, fitness, music via Spotify app to replace the good Apple Music app
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Yeah, I did the research and there are certain things neither Samsung’s watches nor Wear OS can replicate (easily) that I use daily on the Apple Watch, things like offline audiobooks on Audible, apps such as Authy, 1Password, AnyList, offline podcasts (not a Spotify user and not switching) and a few other things. I also don't like how Samsung ditched the best feature of their previous watches, the rotating bezel and don't have the crown to navigate either.
 
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tbayrgs said:
Yeah, I did the research and there are certain things neither Samsung’s watches nor Wear OS can replicate (easily) that I use daily on the Apple Watch, things like offline audiobooks on Audible, apps such as Authy, 1Password, AnyList, offline podcasts (not a Spotify user and not switching) and a few other things. I also don't like how Samsung ditched the best feature of their previous watches, the rotating bezel and don't have the crown to navigate either.
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That’s why I got the galaxy watch instead and I think the active is just a fitness option I think a galaxy watch 2 might still happen this year
 
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Cladster said:
It won’t beat the XR in battery, especially when you account for battery drain.
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Does it even matter though? Apple has great optimization with hardware and software, hence the standby battery life advantage. But what good is that extra battery life when your phone isn’t as productivity friendly?

All that matters if the S10 family lasts all day.
 
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Oohara said:
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Vid link for context:

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There's more to the downvotes. The Verge's parent company, Vox, abused YouTube copyright strike to remove fair use critiques of The Verge's terrible PC build video so the internet community reacted in kind. Before someone says it's racist the guy is half Asian.

 
tbayrgs said:
Yeah, I did the research and there are certain things neither Samsung’s watches nor Wear OS can replicate (easily) that I use daily on the Apple Watch, things like offline audiobooks on Audible, apps such as Authy, 1Password, AnyList, offline podcasts (not a Spotify user and not switching) and a few other things. I also don't like how Samsung ditched the best feature of their previous watches, the rotating bezel and don't have the crown to navigate either.
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Just to correct ya, Samsung did not ditch the best features. The new active watches are not replacements for the Galaxy Watch they are additions. Those will be updated later this year.
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Cladster said:
It won’t beat the XR in battery, especially when you account for battery drain.
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The S10 already out performs the iPhone's newest models in battery life. The Plus can go 10 plus hours of SOT. You will never see a iPhone do that.
 
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Got my hands on an S10 + for a while today. I'm not gonna repeat what everyone here has already said. Hardware is unmatched and software felt fluid and smooth, even on a demo device.

What I will say is that the factory installed screen protector was not impressive. It doesn't go edge to edge, the lines (especially around the camera) are very noticeable, and the edge we're easily felt. 3rd party screen protectors are still the way to go IMO.
 
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