I've had the S8 Plus, and now the Note. Note outperforms the S8 Plus, and not by a small margin.
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I've had the S8 Plus, and now the Note. Note outperforms the S8 Plus, and not by a small margin.
Yeah, it’s a bit bigger but on paper I think the screen is .1 bigger. RAM wouldn’t matter to me at this point. The camera I guess is cool and the pen I would want to find some use for it.
The RAM effects performance from the tests I've seen. Note has a slightly smaller battery too.
To expand on the previous answers, Samsung bought a company a while back that developed a chipset that essentially creates a magnetic field around the card swiper, and then beams the credit card data to it. Effectively fooling the device into thinking a magnetic card was swiped.
Samsung pay also has their own rewards program to get stuff on top of whatever your credit card company gives you.
Left my iPhone 7 plus last week for a note 8. Loving this phone so far. Excellent battery life and the camera quality is fantastic! Very happy here. Also, Samsung Pay is so incredibly convenient. The fact that it works at just about every card terminal is awesome. I tried it at a gas pump today - the kind where you have to put the card in and pull it back out - that didn't work lol.
This is what Samsung representative told me about, the magnetic card thing. It was cool.
It is something over time that will be less and less relevant. The more movement to chip readers will push more to NFC. But it is nice to be able to do both.
Unfortunately, people have been saying this for a while and numerous companies have yet to move to NFC
yeah, I've read that those readers don't look for a card until a physical card is in the slot, then it "turns on". Some have suggested that sticking any card in there (drivers license, library card, etc.) to "activate it" and then hold up the phone will work. But that sounds far more inconvenient than just using your debit/credit card
LOL never heard that, but I might try it just for the hell of it!yeah, I've read that those readers don't look for a card until a physical card is in the slot, then it "turns on". Some have suggested that sticking any card in there (drivers license, library card, etc.) to "activate it" and then hold up the phone will work. But that sounds far more inconvenient than just using your debit/credit card
I just did sms I'm on day 5??
My phone going back what I need done is not working like gestures lol
I'M not using android fOr the first time !
I MAY grab the note or if pixek or another s8
My phone going back what I need done is not working like gestures lol
I'M not using android fOr the first time !
I MAY grab the note or if pixek or another s8
Is there not much in Texas yet? Nearly everyone in Portland takes ApplePay/NFC payments. It was a please surprise, moving from the Midwest where adoption was slow.
there's not a whole lot of places near me in Fort Worth, TX. But I typically use the MST portion of Samsung Pay on almost all of my purchases. I just don't use Samsung Pay if it involves handing my phone to someone else to use it. Therefore, it'll never allow me to truly leave my debit/credit cards at home.
Samsung Pay is definitely one thing I am jealous of, though almost nobody lets you swipe cards anymore around here. Everything seems to be chip or NFC.
All the POS terminals I come across are chip and swipe, so even though my cards are all chip, if I have them in Samsung Pay, I can use the MST on the swipe portion of the POS terminal. Only a handful of places I visit regularly actually have NFC... Walgreens, local coffee shop and ice cream shop (both use square NFC terminal), whole foods, trader joe's and sprouts (I'm sure there's a few others I'm forgetting).
Interesting. I have tried to swipe a few times on terminals that have chips, and my Chase card will decline unless I use the chip.
Same here. But it's treated differently in Samsung Pay. Not sure why, but I'll take it.