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All in One

Started Nov 28, 2015 | User reviews thread
Glen Barrington
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Re: All in One
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bs1946 wrote:

I've had the Note 4 for about 10 months. It replaced my dying iPhone 5 and to be honest, I'm thinking of going back to Apple. Especially now that Samsung has joined Apple with non-replaceable batteries and no memory cards.

  • Sometimes the camera is great and at other times I have to play with it to get it to focus. I have an app from mike bank that allows remote check deposits from the phone using the camera to take pictures of the checks. Sometimes I have to take the same photo four or five times before the bank will accept.
  • I have hardly found a use for the S-pen other than using it as a keyboard stylus. Unless you're into drawing, there aren't a lot of useful S-pen apps.
  • When I used smartswitch to move all my data and musing from my iPhone and iTunes it was easy and everything seemed good. But when I used the music player, it had all my playlists, but wouldn't play any of them. I had to rebuild them manually.
  • I was running out of memory very quickly because the apps were putting all my music, photos, and data in main memory. I had to use the file manager to move all that stuff to the SD card manually. I still haven't found out how to set apps to store their data on the SD card automatically.
  • I kept finding different apps running so I started using a lock code on the screen. I can't access anything except the phone or camera without unlocking the screen but I still find app, some of which I've never used, running.

As far as apps running that I've never invoked, I have the same problem with my S5. Sometimes, I'll see the browser page running and the page being displayed is waiting for a button to be clicked to complete a purchase. I'm running anti malware and it happens with enough random app launching that I'm certain it is just a crappy overall design.  My Droid Bionic was not a perfect smartphone, but it was closer than this POS.

I'm done with my experiment of Samsung.

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