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Samsung’s $1,300 phone might someday have fees for AI usage (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Samsungs have always contained lots of bloat relative to other OEMs. Don't you remember how god-awful Touchwiz was?

Shit, the S4 had only 8GB space usable on a 16GB phone.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Who else remembers one of the old models having the fucken blockbuster app on it?

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Could u not reflash the older ones tho? And godamn i miss the ability to put an sd card my phone

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

You could, and this was before banks and such blocked your device if it was rooted. Still wasn’t accessible to most, and if you had a carrier variant you were probably out of luck.

[–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

ive had 2 old touchwhiz phones, i often replace the home screen of my phone and on one of them, event the notification shade. On the old s5, featues didnt mesh well and on both the notification shade was an awful unchangable theme. I once made a touchwhiz phone un-factory-resettable