Samsung Cutting Production All models

[mustang7757]

I had never been a Note person either, but I got a Samsung Tab S6 Lite tablet 1½ years ago. There was an S Pen with my tablet, and I ended up using the S Pen. Now I think the S Pen is a great feature that I don't know how I lived without it.

The accuracy the Spen provides is on another level

 

[Rose4uKY]

I had never been a Note person either, but I got a Samsung Tab S6 Lite tablet 1½ years ago. There was an S Pen with my tablet, and I ended up using the S Pen. Now I think the S Pen is a great feature that I don't know how I lived without it.

My husband had one with good Galaxy tab 3 he hard to have and some Minoan at the mall bought his tablet and he got to keep the pen and he liked it. But we did get 2 pens free with our 21 Ultra also.

 

[tadpoles]

The accuracy the Spen provides is on another level

For real, I didn't truly appreciate it until I used a Motorola Stylus. Their pen is so much worse then the S Pen its almost indescribable. Really made me appreciate how good the S Pen is. Now its seems hard to use a phone that doesn't have one. Even though I don't use it all the time I love it when I want/need it.

 

[Rose4uKY]

For real, I didn't truly appreciate it until I used a Motorola Stylus. Their pen is so much worse then the S Pen its almost indescribable. Really made me appreciate how good the S Pen is. Now its seems hard to use a phone that doesn't have one. Even though I don't use it all the time I love it when I want/need it.

Same here we got the S Pen with our 21 Ultra and hardly used it. Now that I have it built into the phone I was playing around with it tonight and I like having it there even if I don't use it often. I just am not used all the features and stuff that it does but I'll play around with it more.

 

[rsmin]

Makes sense. Inflation, high gas prices are going to cut in all manufacturing products. I will keep my insurance on the fold 3 for now. I'll see what the fold 4 brings,but not looking like much better then the 3 from the rumors.

Me too

 

[KupKrazy]

I think Samsung should stop coming out with variants that are not necessary (in my opinion), like the FE versions of phones that come out many months after the launch of a particular model. If anything, you are just thinning out sales of the original models themselves. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone get the FE version of a phone that wouldn't have gotten the original model if it wasn't for the FE.

It's these little things that Samsung does that is a headscratcher. They have shortage of parts last year but yet they still came out with S21 FE.

I blame Apple for starting the impulse to buy a new phone every year. Prior to their first iPhone, I think most people kept phones for like two years (even though people had contracts, the 'need' to update wasn't there after a year). Then after they released the iPhone, and then the iPhone 3G, etc., iPhone users started to expect Apple to upgrade their phones with every iteration of iPhone. Does anyone remember all that? Original iPhone users were so upset that they had to pay to upgrade their phone after a year. Then the annual phone cycles started to take shape and here we are!

 

[mustang7757]

I think Samsung should stop coming out with variants that are not necessary (in my opinion), like the FE versions of phones that come out many months after the launch of a particular model. If anything, you are just thinning out sales of the original models themselves. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone get the FE version of a phone that wouldn't have gotten the original model if it wasn't for the FE.

It's these little things that Samsung does that is a headscratcher. They have shortage of parts last year but yet they still came out with S21 FE.

I blame Apple for starting the impulse to buy a new phone every year. Prior to their first iPhone, I think most people kept phones for like two years (even though people had contracts, the 'need' to update wasn't there after a year). Then after they released the iPhone, and then the iPhone 3G, etc., iPhone users started to expect Apple to upgrade their phones with every iteration of iPhone. Does anyone remember all that? Original iPhone users were so upset that they had to pay to upgrade their phone after a year. Then the annual phone cycles started to take shape and here we are!

I agree with Samsung part , not sure about apple

 

[KupKrazy]

I agree with Samsung part , not sure about apple

I was embellishing a little with Apple - but it wasn't until the iPhone did anyone start producing the "same" phone with annual updates. The only other phone I can think of back then was the HTC Tilt, and the Tilt II. I can't think of any others (maybe I just don't remember?). New phones just had new model names. The incremental numbering automatically makes a lower number seem obsolete.

 

[donm527]

People kept their phones around two years because you usually got the iPhone under a 2-year contract for a subsidized price of $199 from their carriers and you could get a new phone for another $199 again for another two years until they finally stopped offering subsidized pricing for consumer accounts. Every two years you get a new iPhone and pay $199. I went with iPhone 1... then 3G then 4GS... every two years.

They still offer subsidized pricing for commercial accounts so when they stopped with consumer accounts, I'd get the ok to upgrade one of our company's eligible lines and pay for the phone out of my pocket. $199. Then over the years the price went up but still cheaper than retail. I think the most I've paid for a phone was $450 for my Note 8?

Then for my N20U, AT&T gave me a $1000 credit on my 3 year old Note 8 so that only cost me $300 and Samsung gave me $950 for my two year old Note 20 U and got my S22U for a little over $250 out of pocket. I could get never those kind of deals on an iPhone from Apple.

If anything, when Apple released the original iPhone, I remember they were the first to actually make it affordable to try a smartphone for the masses. $59 a month I believe for voice, text, and unlimited data? I remember before the iPhone, my buddies were rocking Samsung BlackJacks and other smartphones. I couldn't afford a smartphone and afford the plans that went with it. I kept that plan even when I moved to my Nexus 4, LG G2, etc and finally had to give it up I think when I got my N8 or N20U.

So it's not Apple's fault I would say. Blame it on the Carriers back then and also lately on Samsung. Samsung needs to stop buying back phones for $1000 just to pump up there sales numbers and try to keep up with Apple numbers. But not a real complaint from me if I can keep getting my phones for a few hundred dollars out of pocket when time to upgrade every 2 or three years.

I think Samsung should stop coming out with variants that are not necessary (in my opinion), like the FE versions of phones that come out many months after the launch of a particular model. If anything, you are just thinning out sales of the original models themselves. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone get the FE version of a phone that wouldn't have gotten the original model if it wasn't for the FE.

It's these little things that Samsung does that is a headscratcher. They have shortage of parts last year but yet they still came out with S21 FE.

I blame Apple for starting the impulse to buy a new phone every year. Prior to their first iPhone, I think most people kept phones for like two years (even though people had contracts, the 'need' to update wasn't there after a year). Then after they released the iPhone, and then the iPhone 3G, etc., iPhone users started to expect Apple to upgrade their phones with every iteration of iPhone. Does anyone remember all that? Original iPhone users were so upset that they had to pay to upgrade their phone after a year. Then the annual phone cycles started to take shape and here we are!