Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

I have a nice Kindle Paperwhite, but I hardly ever use it. Instead, I read my Kindle books on my S24 Ultra. Why? One is the classic photographer's question: "What's the best camera?" The one you have with you. The other is that I really like scrolling instead of page-turning. I can hold the phone in one hand and use my thumb to scroll up and down just like any webpage or document. This lets me keep my context instead of losing it at every page turn. There are two steps to enable this. First, open any book and tap somewhere in the middle. Select the "Aa" icon at the top. Go to the Layout tab at the top and turn on Continuous Scrolling. Now you will have a problem. The selfie camera's circular hole cuts into the scrolling area. At least to my eyes, it is incredibly disorienting and annoying to have all the rest of the screen scroll but that camera cutout sits there. To fix this, go to Settings / Display / Camera cutout. Scroll down to Kindle and change its setting from "Auto" to "Hide Camera cutout". This takes away a few pixels at the top of the screen, but you have plenty of display space available. And no disorienting black circle as you scroll. You may still prefer a physical Kindle device, but with these two settings, the S24 Ultra is now my favorite Kindle.

I managed to purge myself of Apple as of a couple of years back by getting an s24 ultra. Main things that stand out over apple: - Much higher resolution camera w/ pretty incredible zoom. Though overall picture quality is a far closer comparison. - S-pen, mostly used for its remote capability, shame they dropped that for the s25... - Samsung Dex. I use my phone as my laptop daily, I've also used it as a dumb terminal for remote gaming while travelling which works exceptionally well - Access to alternative browsers, ad blocking, alternate stores, side loading apps etc While Google is no angel Apple actively works against open systems and control of your own devices, I'm glad to be out of that ecosystem.

>>Phones are wireless, which is too slow to test anything. As a random aside - I've been surprised by this recently. I got a new shiny Wifi 7 router(TPlink BE550) and my Samsung S24 Ultra can sustain 2.2Gbps over wifi, both to and from the router. At this point I'm not sure if that is the actual limit or if it's limited by the 2.5GbE port on the router since that had my NAS connected to it and I was testing transfer to and from it. And it wasn't like an inch from the router either - it did it while in my hand, on the other side of the room with me sitting on our sofa.

That's because Samsung's new offerings are trash compared to where we were a few years ago. I have the S24 Ultra and in my opinion it's better than the S25 ultra. The camera, the features, maybe it's better built for AI but I don't want Samsung's garbage AI on my phone. Even the new S-Pen loses features to the old one (one of the main features I used too, the remote shutter). The Object Eraser feature recently updated to have an "AI Object Eraser" and now a simple removal of a sign in my picture adds an "AI Generated" watermark onto it. They spam me every time I use the regular Object Eraser to try the AI one, it's really not impressive in any way and now adds a watermark even for the simplest modifications. Definitely all around seems like Samsung is on a decline. I probably won't be buying a Samsung next time I need a phone, though I won't be buying Apple either.

My iPhone friends literally grab my s24 ultra camera when we take pictures at cocktail bars and tell me to send them the picture

I own a Samsung S24 Ultra, by choice. Would not consider myself a charity case. I got my first smartphone years and years ago, and it was an android. Then they came out with the iPhone 3GS, and I briefly had that. Didn't like it, traded for an Android. Was ready to experiment back then, even briefly ran Windows Phone flashed on a HTC device. But inertia had its way with me, and I've been sticking with Android ever since. I have all the apps I need. I have my ages-old "weird" workflows set up, like keepass synced through OneDrive. I run an andblocker on firefox. Moving to an iPhone would be just so much pain for no real gain. If you don't provide an Android app, well, provide me with a burner iPhone if you want me to use your service.

I also write code using my phone when I'm on a bus or the subway. It requires some patience but after getting used to it, the experience is surprisingly pleasant especially if you're familiar with terminal-based tools. My environment consists of: - Galaxy S24 Ultra - Termius: I think it is the best terminal emulator and SSH client on Android. The sad thing is that the paid version is a bit too expensive. ($10 per month, no permanent option) - tmux: Mobile connections are brittle so it is a must. - Vim: Allows me to navigate the code freely without using arrow keys, which is really useful on the touch keyboard. Not that of a big deal, but the thing that I think is more pleasant on the phone than on the PC is that I can use my fingerprint to log in to the remote server. The fingerprint is stored in the TPM so it is safe. It feels magical! Edit: The biggest pain point for me was the limited width of the smartphone screen. It is a bit hard to skim over the code quickly because most lines are severely cut. Text wrapping helps this but personally I hate text wrapping. Keeping landscape mode is not an option because the code area is completely hidden when the touch keyboard is displayed. That's why foldable phones are great for coding, as they have a wider screen. My previous phone was Galaxy Fold and it was a wonderful coding machine.

Curious how you're finding it so far? I mowed my Note20 Ultra in June of last year and replaced it with a 14 Pro Max then just last month went and swapped back to an S24 Ultra. I found Apple to be too restrictive. The OS level stuff was one thing but the app store lacking things like emulators or vape apps because "Apple said so" rubbed me the wrong way, whether I need them or not. Plus I like writing python on my phone.

I know you're referring to the materials. And I'm saying you can find those same materials in Android phones. I'm used to actual luxury goods, watches and clothing for example, where the quality is very much noticeably better. A Rolex or Audemars has way more attention to detail than, say, a Tissot or Tag which has far nicer materials than a Timex. Or suits, the kinds of fabric on higher end suits are very noticeable. Or luxury restaurants. Where the ingredients, techniques, staffing levels and attention to detail far surpass normal restaurants. Whereas with iPhone versus Samsung S24 Ultra, both are titanium, Samsung has nicer glass, less bevel and more utility (also costs more). The only real difference is Apple has much better marketing and their stores are nicer. Better logo too. Beyond that, there's no quantifiable quality advantage.

It's 100% for pushing the Samsung phones, the whole galaxy unpacked event theme was "Galaxy AI." Everyone I know has gone from upgrading every 1 or 2 years to 4+ years, including myself. Phones are much more expensive and iterations are fairly minimal, but over a 4+ year span it's pretty significant. I'm going from an S20 Ultra to S24 Ultra this year and excited for the better display, cooling, cameras, and having a stylus I can use for small pixel arty stuff without lugging my massive ipad around.