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Bixby

Started Jan 31, 2020 | Discussions thread
CAcreeks
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Re: Bixby is back!

WryCuda wrote:

A newer update has reinstalled Bixby, which announced its presence by making my wife's phone "unstable". Well not really unstable, just anxious to have you enable all the features while it lurked among the other screens.

I was able to disable all the features, and make Bixby more or less go away. There were warnings that doing so might make some general features inoperable. Humbug!

I'll be getting a new phone for myself next week, and it won't be a Samsung.

Web searches revealed that most people hate Bixby, and there are multiple posts on disabling it. Not possible to delete Bixby absolutely.

I'm happy enough with a Motorola One, which cost around $350 when I bought it and still sells for about the same price, although now it has 5G. The "One" models run vanilla Android with updates, so they're kind of like running vanilla Windows 10 without vendor bloatware.

Open Camera is a huge improvement over the standard Android camera app. The standard messaging app is not easy to use, but I use Signal more than SMS anyway.

My wife has a Samsung Note, primarily for the pen, and complains about Bixby from time to time.

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