I’d take the Asus over the Samsung. Samsung phones are bloated and laggy almost as a rule. Also their UI is fucky and a pain to swap. I have a 8.3 5g as well and part of what I love is that there isn’t any bloat or fuss. You might also consider Sony for a similar experience to that.
That rule may have used to be true for Samsung. But I have had a s21+ since it came out. Before that I had 3 different one plus phones. This phone has been the best Android experience I’ve had and it still runs great. Also Samsung has one of the best promises to continue updating their phones for a long time which is great. I wouldn’t count Samsung out these days. Sure there’s a bit much bloat when you first set it up but I just disable all the apps I’m never going to use.
Every time I’ve had someone say that all the bloat and slowness issues on Samsung have been solved, it hasn’t been the case. Maybe that’s finally, finally the actual case. But I’m a little skeptical of the claim as it’s been bunk in the past.
This isn’t a Samsung exclusive thing, but the unremovable disabled apps always bug me. Why does the app have to stay? What is it doing while it is “disabled”? I think it has to be doing something otherwise they’d let me delete it. I’m too cynical too believe it’s not doing something.
And I’m not sure if this is also still the case, but the Samsung UI was a royal pain to remove/replace without rooting the device. Like if I wanted to use Nova it wouldn’t work right without rooting. Is that still the case?
I like that my Nokia had none of these issues from the start and while I started on android 10, I’m on 12 now with the latest security update. If they’d make a good successor to the 8.3 5g I’d stick with them but they are shifting focus to mid low range so they don’t have a solid mid-high end right now.
I got a different launcher the day I got the phone. Samsung ui has a decent amount of customization available now too and the routines page in settings is basically a root level iftt which can be very helpful. The UI is slightly ugly (notification shade) but other than that it’s been pretty great. I hate to be a Samsung shill but honestly it’s a solid phone these days.
I’d take the Asus over the Samsung. Samsung phones are bloated and laggy almost as a rule. Also their UI is fucky and a pain to swap. I have a 8.3 5g as well and part of what I love is that there isn’t any bloat or fuss. You might also consider Sony for a similar experience to that.
That rule may have used to be true for Samsung. But I have had a s21+ since it came out. Before that I had 3 different one plus phones. This phone has been the best Android experience I’ve had and it still runs great. Also Samsung has one of the best promises to continue updating their phones for a long time which is great. I wouldn’t count Samsung out these days. Sure there’s a bit much bloat when you first set it up but I just disable all the apps I’m never going to use.
Every time I’ve had someone say that all the bloat and slowness issues on Samsung have been solved, it hasn’t been the case. Maybe that’s finally, finally the actual case. But I’m a little skeptical of the claim as it’s been bunk in the past.
This isn’t a Samsung exclusive thing, but the unremovable disabled apps always bug me. Why does the app have to stay? What is it doing while it is “disabled”? I think it has to be doing something otherwise they’d let me delete it. I’m too cynical too believe it’s not doing something.
And I’m not sure if this is also still the case, but the Samsung UI was a royal pain to remove/replace without rooting the device. Like if I wanted to use Nova it wouldn’t work right without rooting. Is that still the case?
I like that my Nokia had none of these issues from the start and while I started on android 10, I’m on 12 now with the latest security update. If they’d make a good successor to the 8.3 5g I’d stick with them but they are shifting focus to mid low range so they don’t have a solid mid-high end right now.
I got a different launcher the day I got the phone. Samsung ui has a decent amount of customization available now too and the routines page in settings is basically a root level iftt which can be very helpful. The UI is slightly ugly (notification shade) but other than that it’s been pretty great. I hate to be a Samsung shill but honestly it’s a solid phone these days.
Right on, thanks for the input