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The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra isn’t so ‘ultra’ anymore
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TL;DR Don't bother. The only reason to stick with Samsung was the smart stylus and they killed it in favor of bad AI.
Personally I'm now thinking Pixel plus GrapheneOS after a decade of Samsung loyalty due to the stylus.
First they took the swappable battery, then the IR emmiter, then the magnetic card swipe, then the SD card, then the headphone jack, then added Bixby.... They have zero value proposition anymore. Everything else I do is on apple hardware, and so will be my next phone.
Definitely understand. I'm not in the Apple environment other than my SO who has a Mac and an iPhone.
I haven't bought a new phone because I refuse to give up my S10's removable storage. Won't do it. Runnin this fucker til the wheels come off.
There are current gen phones that have an sd card slot
but do they ave a headphone jack too?
Sony phones
Yes, for example some oneplus phones have an sd card slot and headphone jack
Only the Nord CE4 Lite, which is their lowest end model
Yes
Does your phone receive security updates?
after not getting them for about a year and a half, got a suprise security update this past august outta the blue
Same here, my Note9 just doesn't want to give up after 5 years and 2 screen replacements. No wonder it's LTT's daily driver – the best Galaxy ever created. I would've moved to Sony a while ago... if not for the damn stylus!
Are you not worried about the phone no longer receiving security updates?
Not really, I'm rocking it as long as it works
What do you use the stylus for? I'm on the s24 ultra and I didn't think I've ever touched it
S22 Ultra here. Selecting text, taking cropped screenshots, placing the text writing cursor precisely where I want it, hovering over web elements to view tooltips or alt text, playing Slay the Spire and Balatro, emulating the Nintendo DS, using the button as a camera shutter, hovering over the bottom of a scrollable element to smooth-scroll without repeatedly finger-flicking, and doing anything that benefits from a touchpoint more fine than a big fat thumb. The S pen is the only reason I'm still on Samsung instead of the greener true FOSS pastures.
When its cold outside. Touch sensitive gloves just never work right or well.
It's for those really small x that my fat fingers can't get to. Lol
Using the stylus with swype/swipe keyboards is really intuitive imo.
Woo! Took them just a decade to realize the smart stuff in the stylus is bullshit and go back to passive inductives? I'm so happy it happened.
Passive inductive styluses: have touch force, angle, button(s) Active inductive styluses: have touch force, angle, button(s), the selfie button, extra thickness, extra weight and an extra battery to manage.