Samsung galaxy S23 and S23 ultra

[5105973]

Arrgghhh. Now my delivery date has been changed to Tuesday the 28th. It originally said tomorrow. Poo.

I was looking forward to using it this weekend. My husband will be living with the suspense of not knowing if he's getting a lavender phone or keeping his lime one. 😆

The Samsung website said February 27th last time I looked so I guess that's just the date Amazon got from Samsung. I think my gift card is arriving tomorrow, though.

 

[Technerd108]

That's been my issue too, also have the 14 Pro Max and AirPods Pro 2. I am unable to use iPhone + APP for work calls, everyone tells me to repeat myself and audio cuts out. I made some test calls to myself and I sound like I am under water. I did an AC+ exchange and issue persists. This has been going on for a few months.

I'm using the new Razer Hammerhead Hyperspeed wireless buds with my S23+ and can make calls again. I'm tempted to get a pair of Samsung Buds 2 Pro to use with the phone, seems they are as seamless with the Galaxy phones as the AirPods are with iPhones.

I have a pair of the buds Pro 2 and I am pretty happy with them. They have a decent amount of bass for earbuds. The range on them is excellent and they fit pretty snuggly in my ear.

I am sure they will go on sale so maybe just wait for a good sale.

 

[Technerd108]

Arrgghhh. Now my delivery date has been changed to Tuesday the 28th. It originally said tomorrow. Poo.

I was looking forward to using it this weekend. My husband will be living with the suspense of not knowing if he's getting a lavender phone or keeping his lime one. 😆

The Samsung website said February 27th last time I looked so I guess that's just the date Amazon got from Samsung. I think my gift card is arriving tomorrow, though.

Amazon seems to change shipping dates after you purchase a lot. We pay for the more expensive membership every year and their delivery service seems to be getting worse each year.

I hope it all works out for you. I have my fingers crossed hoping this will be the one!

 

[Technerd108]

Not a big fan of bashing Apple even though at times it can be so easy. Lol

In terms of using your phone as a phone the Pixel 7 series pretty much has that on lock down. I would love to see Google add at least call screening as a regular feature of Android.

So last time I checked the Samsung Bixby text to speech call screening was only available in South Korea. Has that changed? If you have used it, how does it work? If it still hasn't been released does anyone know a time table?

My suspicion is that it might not work so well. Google allows you to enter your own text and I would like that better than pre written responses.

However, if Samsung can eventually reach parity with Google on call screening it will be a major reason to buy Samsung over Apple.

I don't understand why no other phone manufacturer has tried to implement similar features but it must take a lot of AI chops. Since Google has AI in the cloud maybe that is part of the call screening feature others can't copy?

 

[keithop]

My suspicion is that it might not work so well. Google allows you to enter your own text and I would like that better than pre written responses.

pretty sure we have bixby text call in the UK? and you can enter your own text etc I dont think its a spam screener exactly more of a way to answer every call but I havent tried it

 

[Harthag]

So last time I checked the Samsung Bixby text to speech call screening was only available in South Korea. Has that changed? If you have used it, how does it work? If it still hasn't been released does anyone know a time table?

The presser / news I've read on it still says "later this month" for S23 series (I'm in the U.S.). It doesn't appear to be an option yet on my S23+.

 

[three]

The presser / news I've read on it still says "later this month" for S23 series (I'm in the U.S.). It doesn't appear to be an option yet on my S23+.

Are we talking about this?

 

[mjschabow]

I'm in the US and have the option on mine.

 

[jamezr]

Same in US and it's here on mine

 

[keithop]

I'm in the US and have the option on mine.

I think there may be another level though perhaps? smart call? I dont know but I do remember reading something that's only available in south korea as an earlier poster said.

Dunno! I guess I need to try it

 

[5105973]

Not a big fan of bashing Apple even though at times it can be so easy. Lol

In terms of using your phone as a phone the Pixel 7 series pretty much has that on lock down. I would love to see Google add at least call screening as a regular feature of Android.

So last time I checked the Samsung Bixby text to speech call screening was only available in South Korea. Has that changed? If you have used it, how does it work? If it still hasn't been released does anyone know a time table?

My suspicion is that it might not work so well. Google allows you to enter your own text and I would like that better than pre written responses.

However, if Samsung can eventually reach parity with Google on call screening it will be a major reason to buy Samsung over Apple.

I don't understand why no other phone manufacturer has tried to implement similar features but it must take a lot of AI chops. Since Google has AI in the cloud maybe that is part of the call screening feature others can't copy?

I used to love Siri. I do still use Siri a LOT. But for very basic purposes relating to the operating of my phone like adjust screen brightness or turn on flashlight, stuff like that.

She stopped working with Apple Music for me a long time ago. Apple Music honestly does not my favorite interface. I just keep playing my same Playlists over and over to avoid dealing with it. So many of my songs suddenly became unavailable as well.

The assistant I talk to most is Alexa and she’s really gone downhill. She is constantly talking back trying to show off what she can do for me. It’s annoying.

My husband was an extensive user of Bixby. He liked it but I don’t know if he still uses it as much. It was something he got into in a big way one year then I lost track of what he was doing with it.

 

[keithop]

The assistant I talk to most is Alexa and she’s really gone downhill. She is constantly talking back trying to show off what she can do for me. It’s annoying.

alexa by far the most used assistant for me too.... although you're right, all the "do you want to buy the items in your basket?" "500 of your saved items now have a deal" etc has got very annoying

 

[Technerd108]

alexa by far the most used assistant for me too.... although you're right, all the "do you want to buy the items in your basket?" "500 of your saved items now have a deal" etc has got very annoying

I have an Alexa speaker and it is great for playing music or answering questions. It is annoying when it goes off topic trying to get me to buy something.

I think Amazon originally sunk billions into Alexa because they thought it would make them money but the reality is no one uses it to buy anything but rather to do things unrelated to anything profitable for Amazon.

I think they are in a bit of a pickle since people don't trust an AI to buy stuff and get annoyed when it tries to shove purchases down your throat and they don't know how to make it profitable.

Personal I think Amazon is looking at it wrong. Alexa should not be monetized but rather offered as a service that compliments Prime members. If people just enjoy using Alexa they will naturally buy more from Amazon but when you try to make Alexa a profit making tool you actually turn people off of Amazon.

You would think that they would have figured that out already.


Thanks for the information on the text to speech service from Samsung. I am excited to try it out. If it works well this will be a major reason for people to buy Samsung phones just like Pixels.

 

[Harthag]

Are we talking about this? View attachment 2163442

I'm in the US and have the option on mine.

Same in US and it's here on mine

I found it within my "phone" app settings, still getting used to all of the menus. Thanks for the replies. Is this feature activated automatically? It seems so, but there isn't really a good explanation of how to use it within the phone settings for this. I will keep on reading about it.

 

[aggie99]

Battery just keeps getting better. It only drained 2% last night while on the nightstand. Took it off the charger around 10pm last night and stayed up a couple hours reading on it. Been in bed all day using it without charging. By the way this norovirus crap sucks. Wouldn't wish it on anyone.

 

[Technerd108]

I used to love Siri. I do still use Siri a LOT. But for very basic purposes relating to the operating of my phone like adjust screen brightness or turn on flashlight, stuff like that.

She stopped working with Apple Music for me a long time ago. Apple Music honestly does not my favorite interface. I just keep playing my same Playlists over and over to avoid dealing with it. So many of my songs suddenly became unavailable as well.

The assistant I talk to most is Alexa and she’s really gone downhill. She is constantly talking back trying to show off what she can do for me. It’s annoying.

My husband was an extensive user of Bixby. He liked it but I don’t know if he still uses it as much. It was something he got into in a big way one year then I lost track of what he was doing with it.

I have never really tried Bixby but once and it didn't seem to play well with other apps besides Samsung apps. If it actually works well for things like speech to text and can open and close apps and actually do voice commands within them then it might be better than I originally gave it credit for. It can turn the phone off which is something Siri can't do.

Siri has been a pretty big disappointment for me. I tried to use it for hands free use of apps and for speech to text and even ask questions like Alexa and it is terribly limited and inaccurate. Doing very basic things it is fine but much beyond that it is rather useless.

Google assistant, specially on the Pixel is pretty amazing. You can practically use the phone hands free and get a lot done. You can make calls, receive calls, send texts, send emails, open and close apps and turn the phone off. It is extremely reliable and accurate. It is the first assistant I really like.

 

[TheBigKing]

Just sold my 7 pro and buy a red s23u anyone use camera protector or not? I will buy whitesdome protector i think it's the best i use with s21u pixel 7 pro and never have any problem or it's ok to use cheap glass protector since it's not curved?

 

[Technerd108]

Just sold my 7 pro and buy a red s23u anyone use camera protector or not? I will buy whitesdome protector i think it's the best i use with s21u pixel 7 pro and never have any problem or it's ok to use cheap glass protector since it's not curved?

It is curved similar to your former Pixel 7 Pro. It is just less curved than previous generations and probably a little less curved than the Pixel 7 Pro.

I would probably stick with the Whitestone dome. It is one of the best.

 

[keithop]

I have an Alexa speaker and it is great for playing music or answering questions. It is annoying when it goes off topic trying to get me to buy something.

I think Amazon originally sunk billions into Alexa because they thought it would make them money but the reality is no one uses it to buy anything but rather to do things unrelated to anything profitable for Amazon.

I think they are in a bit of a pickle since people don't trust an AI to buy stuff and get annoyed when it tries to shove purchases down your throat and they don't know how to make it profitable.

Personal I think Amazon is looking at it wrong. Alexa should not be monetized but rather offered as a service that compliments Prime members. If people just enjoy using Alexa they will naturally buy more from Amazon but when you try to make Alexa a profit making tool you actually turn people off of Amazon.

You would think that they would have figured that out already.

I read a long article a few weeks ago saying that amazon were looking for ways to back out of alexa, perhaps by selling it off or getting another tech company to run it and try and make money from it. It was on track to lose $10 billion in 2022 etc.

Thing is, the vast majority of Alexa's server time was spent processing requests to "turn off the lights" or "play some music" rather than "buy an lg tv" but then, if they'd asked anyone, we could've told them that right?

Thing is, they DO make money out of us buying the smart bulbs, plugs etc that alexa then turns on and off. They sell amazon prime and music subscriptions etc.

As you rightly say, soon as you push the monitisation in someone's face, they'll start to turn away from it. Look at facebook and their horrible curated timeline showing you what THEY want you to see including adverts. shudder.

...but anyway, I hope alex sticks around because she's 1000* more useful than siri to me

 

[SteveJUAE]

I've had some kickback from people including 1 saying he just won't message if I'm not on imessage because he hates whatsapp so much. Well ok bud your choice mate

BUT when I look at it, although I live in imessage on my iphone, most of the messages in were actually sms/texts! from multi factor auth, from websites, from credit card companies sending verification texts and so on. So there aren't actually THAT many pure blue bubble conversations and most of those are already on my whatsapp.

I think your observations a far nearer the norm for most

SMS has been on the decline for years now and is mainly propped up by the institutions you note (eg Banks/2 factor etc)

There is obviously a natural bias on reporting how important or common imessage is in the US as we are on an Apple forum and like most of us native English speaking members we tend to read from sites, influencers, reviews etc etc that are mostly American

What scarce and factual data we have seems to imply the popularity is overly stated and more from the natural bias we read than reality

Simply from market dominance Apple is just over 50-54% so almost half of the US are not using Imessages . Messenger was the dominant e message service in US and Whats-app was getting on for 100m users in the US.

We because of where we choose to read or interact are likely to see more of this bias where whole groups or families only have Imessage contacts

Of course there are groups and clumps of people that are part of social and economic demographics that for many varied reasons eg marketing, fashion and status to name a few propagate some aspects and as we have seen recently not always in a healthy way among teens

 

[three]

Hey all. For those of you with the S23 Ultra, what cases are you using? I switch between the tan Samsung leather and the Spigen Ultra Hybrid with MagSafe. I'd like to add one or two more into my mix, something thin and smaller preferably. I'd love your suggestions!

 

[mjschabow]

Hey all. For those of you with the S23 Ultra, what cases are you using? I switch between the tan Samsung leather and the Spigen Ultra Hybrid with MagSafe. I'd like to add one or two more into my mix, something thin and smaller preferably. I'd love your suggestions!

I love the Samsung Silicone Strap case. Super convenient and you will never drop the phone. Gotta take the the phone out to wirelessly charge though.

 

[aggie99]

Hey all. For those of you with the S23 Ultra, what cases are you using? I switch between the tan Samsung leather and the Spigen Ultra Hybrid with MagSafe. I'd like to add one or two more into my mix, something thin and smaller preferably. I'd love your suggestions!

I'm using the Ultra Hybrid with magsafe. Love it. Probably going to add another from Spigen but not sure which

 

[three]

I love the Samsung Silicone Strap case. Super convenient and you will never drop the phone. Gotta take the the phone out to wirelessly charge though.

I had that one. I loved the idea but hated the thickness of it!

 

[three]

I'm using the Ultra Hybrid with magsafe. Love it. Probably going to add another from Spigen but not sure which

I buy the Ultra Hybrid for every phone I have! Love it, I love Spigen!