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Curious what others think of samsung hardware on HN.

Ive had:

>S5 phone whos charging port broke and had terrible battery life. But hey, when I bought the phone the screen was bright and beautiful... I feel like I was tricked

>My SSD failed in a year

>My grandpa's 1,000 dollar samsung TV he bought in 2018 has an irresponsibly slow smart TV.

And I read some horror stories about samsung home appliances when I was looking to buy them last year.

I cannot tell if Samsung has lots of customers with horror stories, or a massive marketing department that is able to get people to buy average products at luxury prices.

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> And I read some horror stories about samsung home appliances when I was looking to buy them last year.

I can add to that. From a previous comment: "I actually just replaced a 3 year old Samsung Electric Dryer. The heat was no longer working, and I suspect it was the heating element. To access the heating element required me to: - Take off the control board - Take off the entire top of the dryer - Take out the door - Take out the Front panel - Take out the drum I only figured this out after finding a service manual, as I did not want to risk destroying a dryer to figure out how to fix it. A new heating element was $80 off the grey market. I wanted to see how much it would be to get it fixed by a service place, and any service place I went to wanted to charge $100 just to look at it!

When I saw a new dryer was $400, I just decided I did not want to deal with it anymore and bought a new dryer.

I will not be buying Samsung products again. "

I had a Samsung fridge, it would constantly reboot... Samsung products just flat out suck in my experience. They insist on installing shitty software on everything.

I used my Note 4 for three years and it's still in perfect shape, aside from the headphone jack. I've got several of their SSDs, they're all good so far. I just got a scratch and dent 2017 year entry level Samsung TV running Tizen, the UI is much faster than what I've seen on other devices. My Samsung microwave had issues within the first year, a local service depot sent a person to the house to fix it.

I don't like their choices deviating away from Android to the degree I won't buy their handsets anymore, but have no complaints about them otherwise and think a lot of their hardware and design is very good.

Samsung is the only real competition to Apple right now. As much as Google wishes it can say it controls android it barely has a grip on it. Samsung has carefully de googled most of it's phones and created it's own line of tizen products running a much lighter OS. Nobody can honestly look at samsung in current year and not be impressed by their computing platforms and chip quality.

Hands down if I want an OLED phone the panel isn't coming from LG.

I'm still using my Galaxy Note 4, and I have no complaints.

Still using S5 as my daily driver, with LineageOS. No major complaints here, but yeah I will probably get a new battery soon.

Does GPS work reliably with the S5 and LineageOS?

Yes. OK I have one complaint, the speakerphone (microphone) does not work well in some applications like WhatsApp. However I believe that can be fixed with some settings changes, I have not tried it.

It sounds to me like a lot of issues were had. I'm sure Samsung isn't for everyone but as a poweruser nothing remotely compares to the speed, power and reliability Samsung devices give me.

My favorite feature is by far Samsung Pay, it's completely replaced my wallet.

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