Strange. Nowhere in the review of the phone is any mention made of how well this cellphone performs... making telephone calls.
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Thank you for the thorough review! Just had to comment on here because that bread photograph is positively drool-inducing and the emojis are hilarious
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Came for the review, stayed for the creepy emojis
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There is something disturbing about cartoonifying our reactions to the world in this way that appears to mock and minimize. When did we cease, as we often say to children, "to use our words"? Only the camera seems in the least appealing to me.
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Not trolling, but if you want a good phone that runs internet apps (navigation, music, email, etc) and do not care about emoji and all that nonsense, how does this stack up against what Google and Apple offer?
Countless millions of us want a great smartphone that is secure and powerful but give not a flip about Animoji, Augmented Reality and do not want to pay for it, either. Who makes that phone?
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These emoji are creepy. But above all, why does the Uncanny You have two left eyebrows, one arching up to your browline?
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All I needed in a review (and more).
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I Iove the bitmoji but find it hard to use on my computer or phone > I made ageat avatar and would like to use more on twitter Any suggestions? Kaaren McGill@FULNP!
In an outside tech review I read that the S9 underperforms the iPhone 7--an obviously cheaper and apparently still better phone.
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Funniest review ever (where’s my emoji?) :)
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The only thing that would excite me about a new phone would be a major improvement in battery life. And for Apple, please get with consumer replaceable batteries (that don't void the warranty, etc.)
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My ancient Note 4 works perfectly, thankyouverymuch. Like many other cynics, I saw this day of diminishing returns coming long ago. It's all in the apps these days, not so much in the hardware. Never again will I purchase a phone from my provider and endure payments, bloatware, and being locked-in to slow software upgrades. When my Note finally dies, I'll buy an unlocked handset from Amazon or Best Buy for $200 cash tops, it will have a replaceable battery, an SD slot, all-carrier compatibility, and do everything I need a phone to do. That my friend, is the future of cellphones.
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No, Dave, that’s the past of cellphones, the type used by a relatively small group of frugalistas. I’ll take a phone like the S9, thank you very much. And I’m more than happy to pay for cool new tech that I use everyday.
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I love my Note 4! It still does everything I need, and I love it even more after installing an app that disables silly unnecessary background-running packages. Doing so has greatly slimmed down the phone's battery usage. And yes, having a replaceable battery is, well, irreplaceable.
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No, Chris. The S9 is a rubbish phone plagued with all sorts of problems. Do some research before you buy!
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Is that your dog? I want more pictures!
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creepy emoji indeed
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Wow, those animated emoji are super creepy. As usual, Samsung copies an Apple idea, but badly. Even my teen wouldn't be sending those, much less an adult.
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You are correct. Those AR Emojis are creepy. VERY creepy.
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It's weird to think that phones must come up with ground breaking new features every year. Smart phones have basically hit laundry detergent territory where every year there is a new and improved version but most if us can't tell what the improvements are. Hopefully, we have reached a place where the next innovation is bringing all these features to phone that is actually affordable. Now that would truly be ground breaking stuff.
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Let's face it - the smartphone as a product category has matured. For the two leading phone makers, Apple and Samsung, the last couple of product iterations have been nothing but tinkering around the edges in terms of hardware (cameras being the only exception). Both these companies primarily have hardware DNA (with Apple having one of the best understandings of UI/UX in the business). All they are trying to do is extract more profit from hardware sales. This strategy is a losing one and won't induce users (other than their fanboys and fangirls) from ditching their good working phones to buy new ones. The real innovations will come from the software side provided they demonstrate a good value proposition to the end users and not just tinkering. The animated emojis is a case in point: it is a novelty feature they are heavily marketing to sell their overpriced phones (even the novelty here is questionable given that Snap has had variants of this for a while). Remember Samsung's curved screen TVs which they positioned as a huge innovation in visual experience that users just needed some time to "get it" and wouldn't want to live without.
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