Samsung has good return policies and I hope that some day they convince me to finally switch over. However, there is no way I would change at anywhere close to the list price for these items, so I’ll take a look. And if I decide to keep them, it’s like $24 for 36 months interest free and yes, I can probably afford that.
Heh, I bought a $15 LED shop lamp from Walmart today. Now, that was in my “fuck it, why not” territory.
LeeAbe
3155
And then you are going to trade it in for whatever the new iPhone is next month? :-P
Always a bit weird for me. “Oh, some new Samsung phones! Wonder what Qt3ers are saying about it?” Nothing.
Hehe, I am actually on the iPhone upgrade plan, so…probably!
I discovered today that the new Parallels version is looking like a viable Windows emulator for M1 so my interest in Samsung is waining. Will probably cancel the order tomorrow after I confirm a few things.
rei
3157
Outside of Apple’s in-house silicon, I thought Quibi compared favorably to Kirin (from HiSilicon?) and Mediatek SoCs?
I had a PowerComputing Mac clone once-- it was the last Mac OS machine I bought (which included a Mac SE with two 1.4 MB floppy drives in 1990, upgraded to a Mac SE/30 by Christmas of '91, some flavor of PowerPC based Mac Performa in late '94, and finally said PowerComputing machine in the summer of 1997). But the lure of PC games finally brought me over to the Dark Side and I bought a P II 400/Voodoo 3 3000 machine running Win98 SE in June 1999, about 9 years after that first Mac.
rei
3159
I never owned one so I don’t remember if they ran worse or better.
At first it ran fine but later you could tell Apple wanted to get people back to buying their overpriced hardware, because things just started not working right as I recall, and the OS support was limited to System 8 or at best System 9, I think.
Now that I think of it I even bought a Daystar Digital daughtercard for that machine about a year in to upgrade the processor. I truly had more money than sense then, but hey, I was still in my 30s.
rei
3161
Given Jobs wasn’t back they might have been the best choice for some people at the time. The Motorola one has SVGA, and some contained PCI slots instead of NuBus.
If you’re referring to the PowerComputing Mac clones, the one I bought in '97 was definitely the best choice for me. Substantially less expensive than getting anything remotely as powerful from Apple. Add that to the dismal games availabilty and pricing on MacOS in the late 90s and you can see why I switched to Windows, which by then was at least tolerable and supported USB properly.
I had an SE c. 1987, and later around 1990 a Quadra 700, on which I did my dissertation. A very different universe indeed.
And now to bring it back to Android phones: Google introduced the Pixel 5a today–looks pretty decent, and Google says they’ll give me a $160 trade in on my current 3a XL:
Canuck
3165
Not interested with a bigger phone so I think I’ll stick with my Pixel 4a. I’m pretty sure that high quality photos don’t count against the limit with the Pixel 4a, correct? Didn’t they stop that for their future phones?
mono
3166
The 4A-5G and 5A are imperceptibly different. The 5a screen is .1" bigger, has the same camera, storage, processor and memory as the 4A-5G.
I was just comparing specs and noticed the same thing.
Canuck
3168
Really? The article above has it at .55 in difference which isn’t nothing measured diagonally. I was one of the phablet pioneers (I had the OG Samsung Note) but I’ve come to really appreciate having a small phone. These things come and go in cycles j guess.
Canuck
3169
Oops just noticed you said 4A 5g. Well I already decided to to with the 4a over 5g because of the size difference.
I don’t know about the specs of the 4a 5G, but does it have an OLED screen and waterproofing?
In any case I’d be upgrading from a 3a XL, and just the doubling of storage would be huge for me.
Can confirm no waterproofing, that’s the thing that has me wondering about an upgrade from my 4a 5g.
I decided to preorder the Samsung Flip3 since I quite like the form factor and the (rather generous) trade-in program will see me getting around £250 knocked off the price from sending them my old OnePlus 6 (up to £100 for the phone and £150 bonus on top for pre-ordering).
This will be my 4th smart phone. I’m not heavily invested in them as you may glean from that fact alone. Out of the previous ones the only one I had any real affection for was the Microsoft Lumia 640. That doesn’t have much to do with anything here but it was a fantastic little phone for the price. RIP Windows Phone. Even with the trade-in discount that £750 price tag on the Flip3 is steep. I’m hoping it’ll finally be the android device to win me over, the others have been… ok? I guess.
Arrives next Friday.
