PerfectReign
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Nah, GS6 is too small, no removable battery, has TouchWiz, and stupid glass back.I ditched my lumia 930 for a Galaxy s6, best decision ever! so of course i'm buying the galaxy s8
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Nah, GS6 is too small, no removable battery, has TouchWiz, and stupid glass back.I ditched my lumia 930 for a Galaxy s6, best decision ever! so of course i'm buying the galaxy s8
Ain't no shame in it. You're looking out for Number 1.Well I've done what I swore I wouldn't do both here and on Android Central. I was hell bent on skipping this Galaxy S for the 1st time and went and pre-ordered the Galaxy s8 Plus. I got another iPhone 7 Plus a few weeks ago and made my L950xl my 2nd phone. Loved getting the use of my Apple watch again which was just sitting in a drawer and also the dual cameras are the best I've used on any phone....but even after just a few weeks I'm growing bored with it already and been picking up the 950xl more and more to use. My wife works for Sky Tv here in the UK and they've just become a phone network now too so she gets subsidised phones so she ordered me the S8 Plus in black and I get it a week earlier than general release here too so can't wait and I'm just gonna sell the apple watch and put the money toward a Gear S3 Frontier or a new Androidwear watch
I got a hands on with the new S8 and honestly I'm not impressed. Unless your an Android fan, you wont like this phone. Windows Phone users are Windows Phone users for a reason. We like the integration into the ecosystem. Even while flawed, I prefer using Windows Mobile over either of the other 2 options. I came to Windows Mobile from Blackberry. I tried both iOS and Android and just could not adapt. The primary reason is I'm a business user. I could care less that I dont have Snapchat and all the other consumer games and play apps. I use my phone for specific needs and Windows Mobile meets those needs. Yes, its frustrating at times, but after working in technology for 0ver 25 years, I'm used to it. I feel that the Windows Phone users are a niche group market that will expand later in the future when the product matures into what Microsofts vision of what our communication devices will look like in the future. Notice I am not using the word "phone" since I believe we will morph into a single device down the road. A true portable PC that also does voice communication as a function. Just my own personal thoughts. Thank you for indulging me.
I've preordered the S8+ and am trading in my Lumia 950, will be keeping the XL around even carrying it most days, but likely tethering it to the S8+. Got one for my wife too, she'll probably keep hers in a drawer unless she's using Continuum. Hopefully DEX works on the MS hardware otherwise we likely won't use that feature. If MS has something coming up and it is compelling enough to replace the XL it'll tether to the S8+ until the apps come back, we both prefer the Windows interface to Android and iPhone but with even the indie devs leaving we can't stay with these as our only and primary devices.I got a hands on with the new S8 and honestly I'm not impressed. Unless your an Android fan, you wont like this phone. Windows Phone users are Windows Phone users for a reason. We like the integration into the ecosystem. Even while flawed, I prefer using Windows Mobile over either of the other 2 options. I came to Windows Mobile from Blackberry. I tried both iOS and Android and just could not adapt. The primary reason is I'm a business user. I could care less that I dont have Snapchat and all the other consumer games and play apps. I use my phone for specific needs and Windows Mobile meets those needs. Yes, its frustrating at times, but after working in technology for 0ver 25 years, I'm used to it. I feel that the Windows Phone users are a niche group market that will expand later in the future when the product matures into what Microsofts vision of what our communication devices will look like in the future. Notice I am not using the word "phone" since I believe we will morph into a single device down the road. A true portable PC that also does voice communication as a function. Just my own personal thoughts. Thank you for indulging me.
Done, ordered 3 S8+ for family and I. Today MS releases a CU, after the first reboot, same that always happens, stuck on the MS logo. Soft reset wont work, only a Hard Reset. Happens always to 2 of our 3 950s. Love everything about the 950, just can't deal with the many hard resets, and the 3 or 4 times a day reboots...
I didn't have an opportunity to try out DeX. I feel that unless MSFT gets moving with Continuum, Samsung will take the lead here. The basic fact is that after 2 years since Continuum came out, MSFT hasn't done much at all with progressing the functionality.
This article is pretty good at explaining it.
http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/30/15120312/samsung-dex-microsoft-continuum-pc-phone-battle
I have the Icon and mine got stuck on the MS logo as well last night. I just let it sit for 15-20 minutes and it took care of itself. In the past, there have been reports of them getting stuck on this screen for 30-40 minutes, but they usually fix themselves. By the way, it wasn't the CU. We won't be seeing that until April 25. What I received was Version 1607, build 14393.1066 in the release preview ring.