Today, Samsung posted its Q2 2023 financial results. The report says Samsung's profits have dropped considerably compared to last year.

Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter::Today, Samsung posted its Q2 2023 financial results. The report says Samsung’s profits have dropped considerably compared to last year.

  • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2071·
    11 months ago

    each new phone is more expensive, with less functionality.

    hover on the touch screen? gone

    iris scanner, gone

    headphone jack? gone

    air pressure sensor? gone

    humidity sensor? gone

    ir blaster, gone

    meanwhile I get charged out the ass for storage space.

    Why the fuck would I want a newer phone?

    • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
      733·
      11 months ago

      Don’t forget the SD card slot missing, S20 was the last one that had it. I still don’t know what to get after that, just because of the missing SD.

      • Sukisuki@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        I got an A52 just for that reason. Still using it. I wanted a S20 but they were sold out and I was told they stopped making it.

      • RedAggroBest@lemmy.worldEnglish
        856·
        11 months ago

        Internal storage on phones is over 200gb by now. I havent needed an SD for years. What the fuck do you store on your phone that could still need an SD? lmao

        • Balderdash@lemmy.worldEnglish
          27·
          11 months ago

          I have a young son and it was getting very irritating having to be selective recording my videos of him. I finally just paid $90 and added a 1TB premium sd card, and now I won’t have to worry about it at all & download all the videos I want for us.

          Upgrading the internal storage to 1TB on a new phone costs several hundred dollars.

        • jcit878@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          11 months ago

          4k video files will fill your phone up mighty quick. especially if you use it for youtube videos or similar. or film your family/pets a lot

        • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Record 1 minute video, how big is that file? 200 MB, 0.2 GB. 5 minutes and 1 GB is full. When something interesting happens, 5 minutes are recorded easy, obviously. 200 GB, nothing for apps, maps, downloads,… are enough to record 15 hours of video. Then that is it. How many moments can I capture with that? Enough for maybe 2 years? I don’t throw my memories away when I get a new phone. Instead, I just buy a new SD every few years and compress the video files every once in a while.

    • updawg@lemm.eeEnglish
      201·
      11 months ago

      Don’t forget color changing led notification light. You could pay with your phone at old card readers using MST. Oh yeah, and the S9 had a blood pressure sensor.

    • Ⓑⓡⓞⓚⓔⓝ@lemdro.idEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      They want to keep competing with and copying Apple/iphones, yet they keep forgetting about what makes Android phones so appealing to the people who select these phones over iphones.

    • Blastasaurus@lemm.eeEnglish
      73·
      11 months ago

      Wait air pressure sensor and humidity sensor? Are you talking about their watches?

      • Screeslope@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        11 months ago

        Samsung Note 10 and others have a barometric sensor, though I’m not aware of any app using them. Which might explain their removal, sadly.

            • egeres@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              Oh boy this is a weird tool hahah, I love it!! Can’t thank you enough for this recommendation, it always bummers me how wasted are most phones in terms of potential, when I used to fantasize about futuristic portable computers as a little boy I though that people would become a short of cyborg that would do “magic” with their computers. Turns out, phone became the “squary-glassy attention sink machine” xd

              I was thinking on accessing the pressure sensor via termux and then export that data to a csv file with some python script! phybox looks ver interesting to gain control over my devices 😗

    • mightyfoolish@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      11 months ago

      At least Samsung has proper video out through the USB port. Unlike the trash that Pixels depend on, such as Chromecast. What kind of GPU doesn’t have either HDMI or displayport (through USB-C like Apple, Samsung, OnePlus, Steamdeck, laptops, etc. ) out in this day and age?

    • dezmd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Holding tight on to this Samsung Note 9 until it finally dies. Battery is still ‘ok’ for now, will last a full day.

      Snapdragon, not that pos Exynos

      Finger print reader on the back is the only way to do it. Wife has had several newer models with built in front side fingerprint reader and it has been ridiculously unreliable by comparison.

      Iris Scan

      Face Scan

      Headphone jack

      Micro-SD Card

      USB-C

      Wireless charging

      NFC with payment support

      And even the stupid pen thingy that I use maybe once a month.

      Not 5G but the 4G LTE is usually more than fast enough even for streaming when using as a hotspot.