in South Korea
Important point there.
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
36 points (90.9% liked)
Android
34352 readers
164 users here now
DROID DOES
Welcome to the Android community on Lemmy. Here you can participate in amazing discussions and events relating to all things Android.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules
1. All posts must be relevant to Android devices/operating system.
2. Posts cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
3. No spam, self promotion, or upvote farming. Sources engaging in these behavior will be added to the Blacklist.
4. Non-whitelisted bots will be banned.
5. Engage respectfully: Harassment, flamebaiting, bad faith engagement, or agenda posting will result in your posts being removed. Excessive violations will result in temporary or permanent ban, depending on severity.
6. Memes are not allowed to be posts, but are allowed in the comments.
7. Posts from clickbait sources are heavily discouraged. Please de-clickbait titles if it needs to be submitted.
8. Submission statements of any length composed of your own thoughts inside the post text field are mandatory for any microblog posts, and are optional but recommended for article/image/video posts.
Community Resources:
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
I'm shocked hearing how well this phone has been selling. It was the most "meh" released from Samsung in years. Am I just out of touch?
I would imagine that a lot of people are only now upgrading from some of the older S series devices, and there have been enough improved from e.g. S22 to S26 to warrant an upgrade.
I would also guess that some people, particularly those who are less tech-literate, like Samsung's new AI features (it was like the majority of their recent keynotes, there are very few hardware changes!) that they restrict to the newest devices. I would guess this isn't to most people's tastes on Lemmy, but a regular person just sees cool image editing tools and summarisation features.
But yeah, purely hardware wise, the new Samsung devices have barely changed aside from the chip bump, and the "privacy screen" of the Ultra, as it turns out, doesn't really work that well (something noted in a Mrwhosetheboss video, where the phone number of one of their friends/staff was accidentally leaked, and they usually shill Samsung's AI features to a high degree), and it also cuts down the resolution when enabled which isn't great. Viewing angles when it's disabled are also worse than last year
My S26+ is decent and it was a nice upgrade over my S22+.
I do think a lot of it is from people with older devices only upgrading now, rather than jumping from S25 to S26.
I like mine. Can't speak how much changed in recent generations because it's my first new phone in 4 years. Other than deleting Chrome and switching browsers to Iceraven and the launcher to Lawnchair as well as the keyboard to Gboard, I don't think I customized much. Slight tweaks here and there but for the most part I was pretty content with the defaults which is rare for me. In the past I may have been shocked by crap on new phones I needed to get rid of but I actually think most Samsung modifications to Android are pretty good and I often prefer the Samsung feature to whatever the Google counterpart is.
I use that sidebar they have a lot. That AI Select thing is great and I set all Galaxy AI stuff to be on device. The only thing I dislike about AI Select is that a recognized song can only be played through Spotify which I don't use.
I cannot speak for the entire range of devices out there but if a line of products is unobtrusively good for a long time, it surely retents its user base.
Not saying it's a bad device by any means. I'm still running my Note 20 Ultra and this thing is still a workhorse 6 years later.
Maybe I'm just too much of a phone geek, but the S27 Ultra/Pro next year sounds like it's shaping up to be a far more interesting device compared to any of the phones they released in the last few years.
For people with phones newer than me, I just don't see the point in spending money to upgrade to what is by all accounts basically just the exact same phone they're already holding. Just feels like an unnecessary waste of money to me. They're not bad by any means, just unexciting and predictable.
My guess is its a year more people decided to finally upgrade? I know my phone is now 4 years old and I wanted to get one, but due to financial reasons I am trying to stick it out another year. I just hope I make it since earlier this year or late last year my sceeen went dead and I thought I was screwed... I decided to drop it and shockingly it worked! Fingerprint sensor went dead as well at the same time but once i rebooted it came back as well so it must be a loose cable connection. Its been fine ever since, but I do feel like im on borrowed time.
the S27 Ultra/Pro next year sounds like it’s shaping up to be a far more interesting device compared to any of the phones they released in the last few years.
After reading this I googled it and what I read didn't sound super exciting. Just the regular spec bump and I'm skeptical of the reported RAM increase. Wouldn't be surprised if they cut RAM like everybody else. So unless you want a Ultra level model in a base level enclosure, I don't see what the "far more interesting device" is.
I could get somewhat excited if someone made a Xperia Play type phone with a full FEX-enabled Steam client.
I'm sure all of it could be in flux because of the cost issues right now, but DDR6 RAM, UFS 5.0, the new Snapdragon model on a more efficient node, rumors of finally increasing battery capacity, finally upgrading at least some of the camera hardware, and actual mag safe support at least is a more exciting list of changes and some nice future proofing bumps than "here's the same phone again with more AI". If even half of these make it in it'll still be a mode interesting phone than the last few years