Thank you for this mate, great list! A lot of ugly stuff there, haha, but a lot of gems too. Each to their own, of course!
Pretty tempted to order one of these. I really want a folding phone, but damn it's hard to talk myself into a Fold 5 when I know this exists.
Sorry yes, those are all Samsung model names that I was listing.
Well, I can't speak for the Lenovo experience as I've never used one, and I'll happily admit that any Samsung device needs a little tweaking to begin with, but I use my Tab S8 regularly for editing 60mb RAW photos off my full-frame camera and I can confidently say it performs very well.
My daughter uses my Tab S6 Lite and it's more than up to meeting her demands — which includes a lot of educational games and so on.
My son uses my Tab S4 and he's had no complaints either.
I mean, there's not much else a tablet is meant for, really!
What carrot? A carrot is an incentive. Google didn't embrace the tablet format until very recently, in the grand scheme of things. They haven't offered devs any special deals that I'm aware of — say a revenue split from the play store or paying them to deliver a tablet version of their app — so they didn't incentivise devs to focus on Android tablets.
iPads have dominated the market for so long, and remain a fairly predictable and consistent device to develop for, so... why would an app developer have poured time into an app for Android tablets in years past?
I hear you, but at the same time, there are so few apps I want to use on a tablet more than I'd prefer to use it on my phone – which is likewise always with me.
Reading comics, watching video, editing photos, drawing, reading meal recipes on the kitchen bench... that's about the extent of my tablet use. Browsing social media? I'd rather do it on my phone. Productivity, notes, gaming? Even that, I'd rather do on my phone – if not my Macbook, of course.
So it's been a pretty easy decision for me to stick with Android tablets, especially Samsung, which obviously ties in well with my S23U.
Aaah, of course. Yeah, none of the options gave me that older picker, apart from Disabled of course.
Apart from Disabled, I tried each of these and didn't get a picker with an overflow menu. Disabled is the only one that allowed me to get to the system media picker.
Briefly thought this was saying that Android was finally getting a native notes app as capable as Apple's notes app...
I use my S Pen a lot, but never for writing. It's generally just photo editing, sketching, annotation, etc. I'll be bloody sad if Samsung ever ditches the silo!
Oh I'm happy to admit I have no idea how they'd do it. I thought perhaps they could make the phone wider, like the Pixel Fold, and that might free up some room on the outer edge (i.e. not near the hinge). But I guess it'd also need to be a very thin stylus, since each panel of the Fold is thinner than an S23U. 🤷♂️
That's interesting, I've honestly had zero issues with LR on my S23U! It's been an absolute dream.
Love this, you've described my exact process. I keep a compact SD reader in my EDC, and I'll often get my RAWs onto my phone before I get home, get some selects and crops and light edits done, and then take over on my MacBook — the photos having synced in Adobe cloud before I even get home.
I've got the Galaxy Watch4 and I love it. I get nearly two days of battery, which is fine by my standards, and the UX is snappy as hell.