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some side by side shots with my iPhone X, v30 and s9+..
Sorry for the bad photography.. taken with my iPad..
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Damn how did you guys get yours already?
T4rd is correct.. I work for TMO and there is an annual award for top performers that I won this last year and it was sponsored by Samsung so the winners got the new phone a little early. TMO pre orders will probably ship within a week as well.Damn how did you guys get yours already?
Speaking of that, think you could help me get that Pixel 2 credit on my old SC plan? hah.. Seems T-Mo is only letting people on the One or SC Unlimited plans have it. Any way around that or could I temporarily upgrade to SC unlimited and drop it back down to my 6GB plan?
T4rd is correct.. I work for TMO and there is an annual award for top performers that I won this last year and it was sponsored by Samsung so the winners got the new phone a little early. TMO pre orders will probably ship within a week as well.
Best I can recommend is to reach out to 611. Make sure it's during the day. You would probably have a team of experts your assigned to and they should be able to fix it if your entitled to it. If you don't have a team of experts and they can't fix it at 611 reach out to T-Mobile via Facebook or Twitter. Social media has folks that are also very well trained.
I agree in that Samsung needs to get their act together on the software front; it's the beginning of March, and I still don't have Oreo on my Note 8!Samsung makes arguably the best hardware out there... Their software... that's where it falls down. For years, they had so many redundant and useless features just for the sake of having them. This resulted in a phone that was noticably laggy at times and for whatever reason, every Samsung phone I Have had starts feeling noticeably slower inside of 6 months...
I have had Note 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7... I actually found my Note 5 slightly faster than my Note 7 which was laggy at times, even out of the box (both the original phone and the replacement phone...).
I appreciate that Samsung has continued to make improvements but many tech reviewers are still confirming that they are seeing similar things with the newer phones as well....
The Google Pixel XL and 2 XL I have are not experiencing these unexplained slowdowns... And they are receiving timely security updates and they have amazing cameras... I'm having a hard time getting excited about what Samsung is bringing to the table... Especially since they continue to push their own agenda with Bixby... Thy didn't listen to all of the outcry regarding the hardware Bixby button and kept it there for the S9/S9+... Why do we need more than one voice controlled assistant wanna be on our phone anyway? It just adds confusion and also with the hardware button, annoyance to the experience IMHO.
I hope anyone who gets the phone enjoys it, I'll be interested to hear what people think but I believe that Samsung is trying to play things super safe still at this point. Hopefully they have put more effort than usual into the software, so they can prove all of the Touchwiz haters to rest... I entered that camp when I started using a Google Pixel device after getting hosed on my Note 7... It's hard to go back even if there were a few Samsung customization I did like...
Man, I work for AT&T. We have some stuff like that but not for the phones. Bummer.
So uh, I hate to break it to you but... AT&T is having an employee program right now where you get the S9/S9+ for half off if you do 20 minutes worth of sales training. For about a day, it was open to non employees as well, before they fixed it. I ended up snagging an S9+ for $300 (with trade in of an S7). Now (once it arrives on 3/14) I just need to have it unlocked by AT&T so I can use it with T-Mobile.
T4rd is correct.. I work for TMO and there is an annual award for top performers that I won this last year and it was sponsored by Samsung so the winners got the new phone a little early. TMO pre orders will probably ship within a week as well.
Best I can recommend is to reach out to 611. Make sure it's during the day. You would probably have a team of experts your assigned to and they should be able to fix it if your entitled to it. If you don't have a team of experts and they can't fix it at 611 reach out to T-Mobile via Facebook or Twitter. Social media has folks that are also very well trained.
I had it in my cart for a preorder and couldn't pull the trigger. I couldn't bring myself to spend $800 for a touchwiz phone.
I cannot bring myself to spend $800 for any phone but, then again, that is just me.
Definitely only for retail. I'm not retail.
And I haven't been an AT&T employee for 8 years now. I still got it.
They've fixed it now to only accept corporate AT&T emails. So... if you have one, go for it.
DxOMark reviews are out. I'm not surprised that DxO would give the S9+ takes the number 1 spot.
https://www.dxomark.com/samsung-galaxy-s9-plus-review-premium-specs-top-end-performance/
But I don't know how DxOMark averages the score between stills and videography, but shouldn't Pixel 2 two still be number 1 after 98 on still and 96 on video vs 99 and 91 respectively?
since you work for Tmobile, you can confirm what the software update for the S8 was? I woke up and the phone stated it was updated but I do not see android 8 yet lol..
After a few days with the s9 I can say that I like the screen so much better then the s8's. The subtle change they made to the curve is a huge improvement in holding the phone. I Spent several hours watching Netflix on it yesterday with the Icon X earbuds while I was flying home from Vegas & it was a pretty good experience. The picture quality wasn't perfect, but I am sure that was the Netflix downloads (250ish MB each per episode of altered carbon) I dont foresee this bumping my iPhone X out of the current "most reached for" phones I have, but it will almost certainly bump the v30 from the 2nd spot. Mostly just because of the bigger screen. Neither of them is really "front pocketable" for me so that alone will keep the smaller iPhone X in the first spot.
And just because I find it helpful to see the physical size differences.
https://www.phonearena.com/phones/s...30,Samsung-Galaxy-S9/phones/10414,10577,10717
By the way, if anyone here has AT&T and wants to save some money, I have an AT&T blue S9+ being sent to me, and I need the unlocked or T-Mobile version (which is $100+ cheaper than the AT&T). Straight trade? It will be unused.
Ok...the big question of the day. I have a regular S8 sitting here. Is it worth $400 to upgrade to the S9+?
I'm thinking of sending it back to Samsung as soon as I get it today and saving myself $400, but more RAM, better camera...
I get that, but I'm on the fence, and I guess I'm looking for more of "if you were faced with the same choice which would you choose?"
$400 is $400...but it's not going to break the bank.
Yesterday, I was leaning toward just keeping the S8...Today I'm leaning toward the S9+. S9+ gets delivered today.
I agree in that Samsung needs to get their act together on the software front; it's the beginning of March, and I still don't have Oreo on my Note 8!
On the other hand, Nougat on the Note 8 is surprisingly responsive by TouchWiz/Samsung Experience standards, though random framedrops have happened before (and went away after a reboot).
Google's problem is the opposite: they have the software down pat, since Android is their product and all, but that's the only thing they have going for them... well, that and their camera software that you can sideload onto any other phone nowadays.
They want premium prices, yet they don't have microSD slots (because everyone totally has unlimited data with perfect, uninterrupted cellular coverage, right?), don't have headphone jacks as of the Pixel 2 (it's not cool with LeEco, Motorola, HTC or even Apple did it, it's not any more cool now that Google's doing it), and the squeeze feature they took from HTC is effectively Bixby button 2.0, less functional than HTC's squeeze implementation, while Google practically gets a free pass for it just because it only launches Google Assistant.
Regardless of whether it's an extra button or squeeze, that should be a standard, remappable hardware input like the others, whether you want it to pull up the camera, launch a certain app, maybe serve as a secondary back button, or other things I haven't even thought of yet. I like having extra buttons for more control (and actually miss physical keyboards of the sort only BlackBerry does today), but that naturally comes with the expectation that I can make them do exactly what I want.
There's also the lack of wireless charging (something that even prior Nexus devices had!), but that's admittedly something I only use because Samsung gave me a nice fast wireless charger and 256 GB microSD to go with my new Note 8. Still, wouldn't hurt to have it for the price they're commanding.
Oh, and don't get me started on the Pixel 2 XL's screen. Just don't. LG is pulling AU Optronics levels of panel quality control here - something that is not a good thing when you read all the complaints on the XB270HU/XB271HU, PG279Q, XG2703-GS and all those other AHVA-based monitors.
It's frustrating, really. We just want Samsung-grade hardware (sans the curved-edge screen, that doesn't belong on a Note) with Google-grade software; is that too much to ask for?
It happened for a brief while with the whole Google Play Edition thing, but that sure didn't last long (and only covered the S4, not the Note 3 I would've opted for instead). Our only hope now is for Project Treble AOSP generic system images to become more commonplace, but that's rather useless when Samsung insists on locking their damn bootloaders for us North American folk.