Samsung’s Galaxy S24 pitch: The AI we baked in makes you more human Samsung has made AI the centerpiece of its annual premium handset launch and featured its Galaxy Ultra, the heir to the Galaxy Note, as the hero of the day. There’s nothing startlingly new about the Galaxy S 24 range. As in previous years, Samsung has a base model, a Plus model that’s a little larger, and an Ultra that’s …
Ahh, phone size. My hands are of a I guess average size, but trouser pockets are indeed limited in capacity. The current phone is as big as can fit (actually a tad too big for some trousers, drat!). It was the smallest non-crap-phone I actually could buy at that time. New "flagship phones" are simply too big (not big if you want to find a spot to land a light aircraft...).
My forst thought on the "handles punctuation" feature was that sometimes it does indeed matter, example:
Let's eat, grandpa!
Let's eat grandpa!
(and I am not willing to spend that mouch money (1.6k€? WTF?!) on a phone. I would rather buy a decent sized band saw.... or upgrade one of my bikes, or go on holidays in Switzerland - but hey, I'm not judging, I'm not in the target audience, I'm not wondering about what tat my favourite "influencer" is trying to push, so - meh)
Haven't put a phone in a trouser pocket for decades: try cycling like that. Shirt or jacket pocket but needs to be able to operated with one hand. Otherwise, silly money for these toys! The Samsung A series or its keenly priced Chinese competitors do all I need from a phone apart from wireless charging.
See what's on the market in a couple of years…
I switched over to industrial "work" trousers a few years back; those big flappy front overpockets are perfect for modern massive mobiles, and the side pockets are great for things like powerbanks, earplugs, mini swiss army knife and the like.
And as an occasional goth/rocker/tekkie, they're even vaguely fashionable :)
Wouldn't work for me, have to be thigh side-pockets. But I also have a mount for longer journey 'cos I use the phone to navigate.
But jeans? On a bike? You can't be going far because that double-seam is designed to hurt. Gave up jeans years ago as impractical for everyday use. They're okay as work clothes when others are not available.
>According to Samsung the AI compnent will be subscription after 2025
Ah, the time-honoured drug dealer model.
"First hit's free."
I assume they're hoping that over the next 12-24 months users will get totally hooked on the AI features, such that being asked to pony up $$ each month after 2025 will seem reasonable.
On Barney Miller, Inspector Luger got Barney to write him letters to mail order Filipino ladies, and he wound up getting married.
Now the show was fictional, but it is a fact that it’s cancelled for many years, and Barney isn’t gonna write your love letters for you. It’s gonna have to be Samsung, or you, or else forget it?
Hawkeye and BJ did another Mash script read-through last year, and chat gpt had to write it for them. Writer’s strike!
Waiting for the Xiaomi 14 Ultra.
I like my 12s Ultra and if the 14 pro's camera adjustments are anything to go by, the new Ultra should be great - plus, hoping on an international ROM, I do miss my Android Auto on the China only ROM (and having to dig out my Note 20 Ultra for long car journeys) - not sure why you can download and install Android Auto from the app store for it to just give you a warning that it must come bundled with the phone to function, you would expect a software behemoth the size of google to be able to fix it so if you don't have it, you can't get it, or that it would install prerequisites if you're now located outside of China and running all the other apps (like mail, chrome and wallet...).
I’m years from upgrading after my mid 2007 purchase, a Nokia 2760 flip action that can make and receive calls and texts. In all truth I should say "receive texts" as replying is such a flap I normally don't bother. With Bluetooth disabled and a WAP 2.0 web browser that was retired at birth I feel I've made it difficult for any bugger to surveil me. The only cloud on the horizon is the availability of 2G, but I reckon I'm still good for another 6+ years.
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