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The Samsung Galaxy A36 5G will get updates until 2031, but it already feels outdated to me
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budget phones have a bad reputation.
They are slow as hell... A quick reference is antutu benchmark... this brand new A36 has a score of ~550k, my 2021 old phone has ~800k and it is still snapy and all, but no more update, so it's a choice...
What phone is that?
PoCo F3, it is 4 years old, was a bomb at the time for ~$400
All this many years update thing is just marketing bullshit.
Not only you will receive those updates 12-18 months later than the newer phones, you also will not receive most if not all the new features which will remain locked to the newer hardware. Since most new Android features are the one tied to the newer smartphones you will effectively receive nothing or almost nothing, and a year later on top of that.
OK, I'm about to get lynched, but here goes:
I've never liked Samsung smartphones.
One, because I was poor, and the low end phones were dog slow with the bloated UI.
Two, because I never liked the bloated UI when I could afford a mid-tier phone.
Three, because I still never liked the bloated UI when I could afford their high end phones.
I'm not saying they're shit, or garbage, or insulting people who like them. I just don't.
You won't get downvoted to hell. Custom roms are popular on the federnet. Most of us avoid Samsung.
I think they're fine phones, just locked down and their UI is annoying.
If I had known then what I know now I would not have gotten a Samsung phone. It's what I'm stuck with though because it works fine and I don't see the point in buying a new phone until this one dies.
You and I both fell into that trap because no one else seems to care and the fanboys will even deny the bloatware exists.
I'm still shocked that Bixby is so terrible. I only use it to set timers when I'm baking and it can't even do that 50% of the time.
I'm not shocked, they're all terrible. The only thing that shocks me is that they keep trying year after year.
Agreed. As I'm looking for an affordable small tablet right now, there are lots of cheap options, but the dozens of third-party apps and bloat included by default, plus the fact that phones on the A lineup could easily slow down a ton is what is keeping me from considering them.
I remember my dad getting a galaxy tablet probably 10 years ago and it was so sluggish, and had literally the worst camera I have ever seen.
i dint get thier low budget phones for this reason, mostly because they have geared the same models towards mostly international customers, but have a downgraded version for the us, because they want samsung customers to buy thier flagship phones.
I am surprised the performance was this bad at release. It almost sounds there could something else going on.
Some samsung phones are this bad and sometimes even worse (A53, M55).
I'm guessing its a samsung optimization issue alongside using cheap parts. Chinese OEMs in the same price range use faster chips and Vapor cooling chamber for improved performance.
Haven't they had major issues with the OneUI 7 rollout on other devices? I don't think this has anything to do with OneUI being "bloated" as others are saying, like you my family has many mid-range Samsungs and none of them ever had performance issues. Last year's weren't anywhere near this bad, either. To me it sounds like something is seriously fucked up with OneUI 7, which these new phones are launching with, and that is the major reason why it the weaker chipsets are suddenly struggling.
Very well could be. No one in my has a phone with OneUI 7, and I am only happy out phones will be getting it once it's been beta tested by someone else. π
Well, it's a lower mid-tier phone. It exists to make you want to upgrade to a higher tier.
I've been using mid-tier phones for the past ~10 years (including Samsung A series in the last 5) and I've never experienced a mid-tier smartphone working this bad on release.
I'll take your word for it, and believe you. I always buy the last, or next to last generation.
But never Samsung.
Don't get me wrong, I got a work issued Galaxy Note 3 in 2014 and I swore off Samsung for 6 years. I liked the phone itself, but software experience was just so bad. It felt like a completely different device after Installed Lineage OS.
But then tried the A50 (after reading several in-depth reviews) and I've been buying mid-tier Samsung device for myself and the family sense then.