What's your guys' favorite smartphone of all time and why? Mine is the Samsung Galaxy S4 and you'll see why down below

I've had a couple of Samsung phones and I think they're great. I've ever only had two of their smartphones tho, or three if you count the Galaxy Young.

Galaxy Young was an experience to say the least. Looking back it doesn't even seem like a smartphone but just because it had a touch screen, it was a smartphone, at least for me. I remember the pressing of the buttons surprisingly smooth and didnt feel like those screens where you had to press with mild pressure to actually interact with the screen. And after a while I got really good at the typing and using the phone in general. But seeing all the other people in my group move away from those types of budget smartphones didnt even phase me one bit. And this was a true budget phone, hell it cost 30$ and it lasted me 3 years. And then I got the Galaxy S4 for 12th birthday.

I won't ever forget it. Started hyperventilating and everything when I saw what I actually got as a present. It became a joke in the family and even my friends because my reaction was filmed and was showed to every member of the family of the friend I was at. Cus I had been looking at this phone for a while, looking not in a "I wish I had it" kinda way, but literally going to the shop and just lookin at it and using it. If my dad or my mom asked me to come with them to the mall I would always find a electronics shop and go to the phone section and start using the phone. And there I would be testing out all the features for hours on end. Gosh, the freaking features this phone had, half of which I didn't even use and was defo a gimmick. But at that time I was pretty goddamn impressed with some of them, especially the eye-scrolling. Worked surprisingly well a lot of the time. And the camera was good in that time period. But this phone goddamn, I had this phone for 5 years. In that period the people at my school already had already changed about 5 phones, 1 each year. But there I was, still happy as day with my phone. Around year 2 of having the phone I broke it. I was coming home from school and had the keys and the phone in the same pocket. You know that keyring with the branded ribbon looking thing a lot of people have, for having the key around your neck? Yeah, so the phone was above that and got lifted out of the pocket and kissed the concrete floor about 2 metres down. I picked it up in a hurry and both me and the phone were absolutely shattered. It had a sliver of life and I could see the light below the screen light up but the screen itself was dead as anything. I began to cry instantly. I didn't even open the door with my key I just ranf the bell. My mom came and opened and saw me cry and was worried. I said my phone broke and she let out a sigh of relief and said she thought it was something much worse. At the time I was annoyed with her because she didn't care about how serious I was about the situation, but now that I've moved on in life, I now see that she was just happy I was fine. I didn't even eat that day. I went to sleep and got woken up when my dad came home, and obviously he had already gotten the news. He said it was all fine and took the phone from me and tried it out. Saw that it didn't work and said he would take it to work with him. Everyday for a couple of weeks I asked where my phone was, and everyday I met with the answer of him being busy. Until one day I was just as eager as any day and asked about the phone. I didn't even finish the sentence and the phone got handed to me by my dad. I couldn't believe it. I had broken it and shattered it, but there it was, looking brand new. It was like magic and my dad being the wizard made it all the better. I broke the phone two more times after this. One time was when I was scared shit less by a honeybee and the phone dropped from my jogging trousers down on the asphalt. Cue the crying and the foodless day. I was met with a bit more angered father this time but what do you know? He fixed it up again sometime after and gave it back to me. I was grateful as ever. Another time was when I went to Sri Lanka on holiday, we went to the hometown of my mom and had eaten at a restaurant and was about to enter this Toyota RAV4, a tall car for me at the time in 2015. And what do you know? A FUCKING HONEYBEE. God I hate these things lol. Once again, I was absolutely petrified by the flying fucker and got in the car in a hurry, but the inside of my pockets at the time was huuuuuge and super slippery so the phone just dropped to the gravel down under the car. And I already knew it was broken and started crying already. I showed it to my dad and he said "Really? The third time? The location changed but your crying didn't huh? Thank god we ate before this phew". I knew he was angry but this time I didn't know if he would fix it. There was still a looooong time for us to get home, the equal amount of time for the phone to get potentially fixed. The day the phone broke I was crying all day until we got home, but the car ride was just made worse by the taunting and laughing from my other relatives. "It was just a phone". Looking back? Yeah I guess it was. But I don't know, I always thought when I was young in kind of a funny way that the day I got my phone, the hyperventilating was me actually transferring a part of my soul in to the phone. It made sense for the little old me, cus the heartbreak that followed after the phone broke each time was soooo real. But eventually we returned home and it got fixed up. But not as good as previous times, this time the glue that sticked the actual glass to the lcd screen would keep coming off you angled it slightly upwards of you, so that the phone would be slightly above you. It was funny to show my friends at school that lol. They were telling me to desperately get a new phone, but I was just fine with my phone. I got the phone when I went 7th grade, and it lasted until the half of the second year at high school. The word "lasted" is not used that the phone died, but that's when I got my new phone.

The Samsung Galaxy S9. And it has been my trusty friend for two years now. Obviously since we live in the EU we get fucked over with the Exynos bullshit. BUT, as an avid fan of tech it was only a couple months ago I found out my S9 had exynos. I thought the overheating especially was just a part of Samsung's brand at this point since it was also what got me caught if I had used my S4 during the night while I was "asleep" for school. But about two months ago I found out I used the Exynos version of the phone and as a person who used the thinking it was the Snapdragon version, I got a bit pissed off. But seeing as tho I thought it was the superior version of the phone I was using, the speed wasn't something that I actually noticed. But, that said, I haven't used a Snapdragon device yet. Like ever. And that's why I'm kinda tempted to buy a new phone. Just to experience something new, not because this phone is bad. It was the same case with my S4. I would have used that phone to the grave if I had not gotten the S9. But looking back, the S4 probs wasn't that far from being six feet under regardless.

I don't like the shitty selling tactics and differentiating shit Samsung is doing with the difference between Exynos and SD. At least let us pay less than what the SD guys pay since the phone is obviously worse than the SD version. But not only do you charge the same, in some cases you charge more. And also the ridiculously high prices for the standard versions of the Note and S series line up. Stop it, don't become what Apple is getting criticised for. I really hope you change your tactics and get your shit together Samsung. I was an avid fan and supported and argumented with everyone who threw slander at you as a brand and compared you against Apple. But now you might lose one of your longest customers not because of a bad product, but because of disappointment in the brand. Don't let that happen Samsung. Get your shit together and get back on track, I'm super eager to show everyone why you guys were such a great company back in the day when it came to smartphones. But now you overcharge and underdeliver? What's the difference between you and what criticism Apple have gotten before? Please, get back on track. I beg!

Submitted December 27, 2020 at 11:56PM by UmeshgaarB https://ift.tt/2L4dTyA https://ift.tt/eA8V8J