Wired or Bluetooth SMART SWITCH?

[kide#WN]

Decided to go with wireless transfer. Took less than 50 minutes for full transfer and apps updates.

 

[STARGATE]

In my experience; wired has been faster than wireless, especially when transferring from an older phone or from another brand to Samsung.

Sent From the TARDIS

 

[Laura Knotek]

I've always done Smartswitch PC rather than wireless.

 

[waqqas31]

I wanted to get up and running "quickly" so I started off by transferring my essential data like accounts, apps, home screen (~70GB) via wireless and it took about an hour. Then I did my much larger photos, videos, docs, audio, downloads (~250GB) using a Thunderbolt 3 cable and it took 39 minutes. The wireless estimated transfer time for part 2 was 4 hours and 43 minutes.

Even if via cable is less reliable (doubt it is, unless your cable is low-quality), multiple attempts can still save you a lot of time, as long as it's minimum 5Gbps-capable.

 

[Dualmonitors]

in terms of the type of usb-c wire used, as there is a usb-c cable that came in the box with the S26 Ultra, should i use that cable? one would think they would include a suitably high end cable for such a costly phone, right?

 

[waqqas31]

in terms of the type of usb-c wire used, as there is a usb-c cable that came in the box with the S26 Ultra, should i use that cable? one would think they would include a suitably high end cable for such a costly phone, right?

According to MKBHD's review of the S25U, the unexpected part about the bundled cable was that it could do 45W PPS charging, but not faster data transfer speeds.