G+_Marlon Thompson Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 I am such an Android fanboy I swore off Samsung late last year and decided to go Nexus. Galaxy S5 rumors are making the rounds and I'm getting really excited about it. I need help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jimmy Servider Jr Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Battery life sux. - bloat bloat bloat... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Anthony Pyrtle Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 I heard its not gonna be filled up so much with bloat ware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted February 11, 2014 Author Share Posted February 11, 2014 Didn't say I was going to buy it but I am excited about it. Say what you will about Samsung they find a way to push the platform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jimmy Servider Jr Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 @ Anthony it will still have bloat, only this time I guess your gonna be able to remove it. We'll see. @ Marlon, love Samsung but the battery life & bloat kills it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Franklin Irelan Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Marlon Thompson if not Samsung then someone else. android doesn't need Samsung. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Anthony Pyrtle Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Just root it but with knox now thatd gonna be impossible lol? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted February 11, 2014 Author Share Posted February 11, 2014 Franklin Irelan if Samsung goes away it doesn't mean that an HTC or an LG is ready to run in and fill that gap, they can't. But this is not an Android needs Samsung post. Its just a post that I like tech and new tech even if I am satisfied with the device I have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Franklin Irelan Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 I'm sure htc or lg or any other oem would be fine after all that is there objective, you know to be "number one". they have the ability to manufacture to demand. The one accomplishment I'll grant them ( with regards to truly helping Android) is the fact they were the first to unify their product line across US carriers.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted February 11, 2014 Author Share Posted February 11, 2014 If only it was as simple as that. Their are a couple of reasons that Samsung is the number one Android handset. One major one is that they are a massive company that for the most part doesn't have to go outside of the company for the components that make up their phones. Secondly they have the mindshare all over the world especially in the developing countries where the next billion smartphone users are coming from. In my country for example the majority of people only think of an Android phone as Samsung, the HTC one only just launched here this month. The S4 and the note 3 was available here on the day of its worldwide release. If Samsung were to suddenly disappear, which wouldn't really happen, their would definitely be a scramble by the other handset makers, but that would also be iphone and windows phone. When Nokia started going under nobody definitively said that the next major leader would have been Samsung, Damn now this has become a Samsung vs the world post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tim Davis Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Samsung left a bad taste in my mouth after they crippled my wife's Note 2 battery life with the Jelly Bean OTA. Wound up getting her an LG G2, but rooted the Note 2 and put CM11 on it. I was really hoping for a Moto Nexus at some point, but with Lenovo at the reins, who knows if that'll happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jimmy Servider Jr Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 @ Tim, the Nexus is being dropped as well. :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Franklin Irelan Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 the are two reasons Samsung is where they are one is marketing. everything else including mind share is attributed to the fact that we the community christened them stewards of android and perpetuated them to all we knew as the must have android device oem. the masses will go where there tech friends tell them. That is a real power we have and its quite tangible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Franklin Irelan Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 jimmy atencio why all the @'s? use +. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jimmy Servider Jr Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Just old school I guess. I know... Gotta get with the times, right ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tim Davis Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Jimmy Servider Jr I hope the demise of the Nexus line is just a rumor, but I fear you are right :-(. Then again, they can call it the Dinglehopper Edition for all I care -- as long as I can get a low cost, high spec phone off contract and unlocked, I'm in, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jimmy Servider Jr Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 As I remember it, that was straight from Google. I might be wrong on that though. &, I'm with ya on the dinglehopper thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted February 11, 2014 Author Share Posted February 11, 2014 Franklin Irelan I and all my tech friends tell everyone to go nexus, how has that been working out. The entire tech press told everyone that the HTC one and the Moto X was the phone to get last year...Yes Samsung has the marketing but they also are a smart and powerful company that was at the right place at the right time and executed perfectly. LG, HTC and Lenovorola are not in that position right now. Look at this article from wired a couple years back, I agree with the reasoning behind how Samsung became dominant. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/5-reasons-why-nokia-lost-its-handset-sales-lead-and-got-downgraded-to-junk/ and again I am not saying that Samsung is the be all and end all of Android but dude they pretty significant and its not that easy to suddenly become number one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted February 11, 2014 Author Share Posted February 11, 2014 Jimmy Servider Jr Google has said no such thing its all rumor and conjecture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted February 11, 2014 Author Share Posted February 11, 2014 Anyway I'm excited to see the S5 in a couple of weeks and the HTC M8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jimmy Servider Jr Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Marlon Thompson Thanks for clearing that up. Couldn't really remember either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Franklin Irelan Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Marlon Thompson ok sure. bottom line we perpetuated them believe it also the resent community back turning on them are having an impact moto scared samy so dose nexus. but ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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