Total Samsung

[Walter Wagenleithner]

Just wondering if anyone has tried going totally Samsung (no google apps) on the Galaxy S24U?

I use the Samsung apps because I like the consistent design between the apps and One UI, especially in dark mode.

 

[BerryBubbles]

I use the Samsung apps because I like the consistent design between the apps and One UI, especially in dark mode.

That's a good point!

 

[Village_Idiot]

Microsoft's are the same. A consistent design across the apps. Google...not so much. Although it has gotten better.

 

[Laura Knotek]

I could access my Gmail from the Outlook app if I chose. Since, I forward everything from Gmail to Outlook anyway, it would be redundant.

Microsoft Launcher allows me to sync across all of my devices.

Google Messages is actually very good. It has come a long way in the past six or seven years that I've been using it.

OneDrive (which has been around longer than Google Drive) is much better than Google Drive. It can do what Google Photos and Drive can both do. I also don't get Spammed in OneDrive, where I have received plenty of Spam in Google Photos and Drive.

Microsoft Edge is a great browser too; although I do use Google as my search.

Sadly, Microsoft stopped supporting Windows Mobile. Who knows. Now that Windows on ARM has become a truly viable option, we may start seeing Windows based tablets and phones again.

I gave up on Outlook because it has a horrible spam filter. Gmail does much better filtering the spam.

 

[notforhire]

I gave up on Outlook because it has a horrible spam filter. Gmail does much better filtering the spam.

you have never lied here. my original hotmail address became just one of several aliases in my 365 account. once I deleted that alias, my spam stopped......................now they've found another of my aliases and it's picking up again

 

[Village_Idiot]

I gave up on Outlook because it has a horrible spam filter. Gmail does much better filtering the spam.

You should give it a relook. I've been using it for years. Outlook's Spam filters are excellent. I haven't gotten Spam in my inbox for quite a while.

 

[joeldf]

I gave up on Outlook because it has a horrible spam filter. Gmail does much better filtering the spam.

You should give it a relook. I've been using it for years. Outlook's Spam filters are excellent. I haven't gotten Spam in my inbox for quite a while.

Does the Outlook app use something in the app itself.

My spam filtering is done by the desktop Outlook which carries to the account online, and I move anything that does get through to the junk e-mail folder. Works well for me as I get very little spam, if any, going straight to the inbox.

 

[Village_Idiot]

Does the Outlook app use something in the app itself.

My spam filtering is done by the desktop Outlook which carries to the account online, and I move anything that does get through to the junk e-mail folder. Works well for me as I get very little spam, if any, going straight to the inbox.

It is server side filtering, for both the web app and desktop app.

 

[joeldf]

It is server side filtering, for both the web app and desktop app.

Thought so. Works well for me. Both my personal and my work emails

 

[Laura Knotek]

You should give it a relook. I've been using it for years. Outlook's Spam filters are excellent. I haven't gotten Spam in my inbox for quite a while.

Is this desktop Outlook from an Exchange account or outlook.com? The outlook.com, fka Hotmail, MSN, etc. is a haven for spam ending up in the inbox.

 

[joeldf]

My home and work accounts are Office365 or now called Microsoft365 accounts. Work is corporate, and home is outlook.com through MS-365 Family subscription but both use exchange.

 

[SyCoREAPER]

I use the Samsung apps because I like the consistent design between the apps and One UI, especially in dark mode.

Consistent? Sir have you come through a dimensional rift? Messages isn't the same. Keyboard isn't the same. Samsung Pass/Wallet aren't the same. GoodLock and GoodGuadians modules don't have the same options if available at all. Phone is different.

Don't get me wrong, I prefer Samsung and have slowly been purging Google hardware and software from my life but Samsung has some serious QA issues when it comes to the user experience.

And I'm not a Samsung hater, I've has most tablets and phones since the S10 and Tab S4 onward

 

[SyCoREAPER]

@Laura Knotek

I've had multiple instances where I snoozed messages (on Android) in Outlook and they disappeared into oblivion. Not anywhere in the app, not even on Google Web mail portal in any folder or bin. Convinced it straight up deleted it.

I like Samsung and Edison Mail

 

[VidJunky]

I asked this question, either when I had my S10 or when I got the S20 because I was pretty new to Samsung then. What I got was most people use a mix of the two. So for me, Find My Mobile is far superior to Find My Device. I don't like Googles Gmail and prefer Sammy's Email app. I can't off the top of my head tell you why, it's been so long now, but I do. On the flip side though, GBoard is way better than Samsung's keyboard, as is Assistant vs Bixby, and Google's Speach to Text and Text to Speach. Sammy just doesn't get it somehow. Google Pay is better than Samsung Pay. It's easier. Just unlock and go, where with Sammy, you have to unlock twice. This wasn't as big of deal back in the day when they offered MSE, magnetic strip emulator, that allowed you to scan your phone even at readers that didn't offer NFC. Samsung's Phone app, some may think of it as a dialer. But Sammy has a lot of good options baked in. Spam protection being the one most important to me. Another long time app, so long that I don't remember why I switched, is Samsung's Browser vs Chrome. I think it's the way they do tabs or navigation but I don't miss Chrome whatever it is. Google Contacts, and I say that because if I'm going to sign in someplace it is almost exclusively into my Gmail account making it so convenient to have all of my contacts there. Then I'm kind of split with passwords. Google is convenient for everything I do off of my phone because most of the time I'm doing it in a browser but on device Samsung Pass is my go to. Maybe it just works better on device, and maybe that is by design.

Yeah so it's back and forth for me. I'd be curious to meet someone who is exclusively one or the other on a Samsung device. I mean it seems possible.

 

[notforhire]

you have never lied here. my original hotmail address became just one of several aliases in my 365 account. once I deleted that alias, my spam stopped......................now they've found another of my aliases and it's picking up again

to clarify (after reading some follow on posts), any spam I do receive goes to my junk folder. so in that regard, it's flawless. I just don't like receiving it at all

 

[joeldf]

Oh yeah, forgot about the keyboard.

For that, I'm still using the old BlackBerry virtual keyboard for Android. It does what I need, has the "word flick" feature from BlackBerry 10 - the next guessed word is just above the next letter and you just flick up that word instead of picking the word from the list of possible words along the top of the keyboard. I had been so used to that feature since that was on my BlackBerry Z10 from 2013, that once a version of the Android keyboard from the BlackBerry Priv was made available, I made continued use of it.

That keyboard app was never officially made available for other Android phones, probably because the basis of it was licensed from SwiftKey, and since MS bought SwiftKey soon after and sold it themselves, BlackBerry likely couldn't sell their own version - even with the BlackBerry exclusive word flick feature.

However, the app itself works fine on its own, even though it hasn't been update in years. Still works great on my S24+.

 

[Village_Idiot]

Oh yeah, forgot about the keyboard.

For that, I'm still using the old BlackBerry virtual keyboard for Android. It does what I need, has the "word flick" feature from BlackBerry 10 - the next guessed word is just above the next letter and you just flick up that word instead of picking the word from the list of possible words along the top of the keyboard. I had been so used to that feature since that was on my BlackBerry Z10 from 2013, that once a version of the Android keyboard from the BlackBerry Priv was made available, I made continued use of it.

That keyboard app was never officially made available for other Android phones, probably because the basis of it was licensed from SwiftKey, and since MS bought SwiftKey soon after and sold it themselves, BlackBerry likely couldn't sell their own version - even with the BlackBerry exclusive word flick feature.

However, the app itself works fine on its own, even though it hasn't been update in years. Still works great on my S24+.

Oh yeah. I forgot about that too. I use Microsoft Swiftkey. BTW, Microsoft still owns Swiftkey and is still updating it. I got an update a few days ago.

I still think Microsoft Wordflow for Windows Mobile OS is the best virtual keyboard ever made. Several texting world records were made and broken by people using it.

 

[Laura Knotek]

I use Samsung keyboard, Microsoft SwiftKey, and Gboard on a rotating basis. I don't have any scheduled time to change them but just do from time to time. Right now I'm using Samsung keyboard, but it might be SwiftKey or Gboard tomorrow (or maybe not).

 

[Village_Idiot]

I like Swiftkey. Although there have been a couple embarrassing moments. One time it auto corrected to gherkin. Why? I have no clue. I had never used the word gherkin in a text message or email...ever!

 

[Laura Knotek]

I like Swiftkey. Although there have been a couple embarrassing moments. One time it auto corrected to gherkin. Why? I have no clue. I had never used the word gherkin in a text message or email...ever!

That's hilarious.