Is the Galaxy S8 a better buy than the iPhone X? Here are some reasons it might be...

3. sgodsell (Posts: 6465; Member since: 16 Mar 2013)

The S8 has a quick charger in the box. iPhone X does not. That should be added to your list.

34. Medoogalaxy (banned) (Posts: 232; Member since: 25 May 2017)

Added: AKG headphone.

51. HansP (Posts: 542; Member since: 16 Oct 2011)

Add Wireless Quick Charge.

25. submar (Posts: 713; Member since: 19 Sep 2014)

Audio jack?? You must be selfish and backwards.

-Ray

49. aegislash (Posts: 1361; Member since: 27 Jan 2015)

I still can't believe he actually wrote that abomination of an article....

4. sgodsell (Posts: 6465; Member since: 16 Mar 2013)

Pride of not being a Sheeple goes to any Android device in general.

9. kiko007 (Posts: 7109; Member since: 17 Feb 2016)

You realize that there's more to Face ID than JUST scanning your face, right? Each individual has a unique bone structure and complexion compilation that makes Facial Recognition a reasonably safe alternative to a fingerprint sensor. Not to mention you have no idea which is easier to scan, because you haven't seen the damn thing in action yet.

13. uncle_gadget (banned) (Posts: 1050; Member since: 20 Sep 2017)

I know exactly what Face ID does.
Again you are missing the point.

Size is the difference here. A camera of ANY KIND, can easily see details of the face due to the size.

Have you ever look at your Iris up close? -https://68.media.tumblr.com/868359d0a4b46372a4e0f51c5362fac0/tumblr_nny2ypRA601uugrslo1_500.jpg

There is a photo for you. Now you see all those unique features of your Iris?

Here is the difference dude. Your face can easily be duplicated, but a very good mask or a twin.

It has already been proven that twins who have the exact same facial features, can get past facial recognition.

However, identical twins won't have the same eye map, just as they won't have the same prints.

Your iris is far more unique than your whole face.

Under a microscope, your iris looks a lot like a Galaxy from a telescope.

Iris scanning vs Facial scanning. Yes your face has features that the scanner must map. Yes complexion, face structure and more are considered.

Here is what you don't get. Even though your face features identify you, other people can have similar facial features.

The only thing your iris and someone else iris can have in common is color.

Also facial features are easy to fake with masks and makeup. You can't fake an iris period.

I can take a person who is black and has similar facial structure and make him look exactly like another person by using makeup and facial masks and those with time can dupe facial recognition. Such things can't be done to dupe your iris or prints.

Your claim - "Not to mention you have no idea which is easier to scan, because you haven't seen the dman thing in action"

Oh I have seen it in action and it didn't work.

But here is a fact for you. The facial recoginition uses a camara. When you take photos of an object, which objects are easier to get a better picture of, big things? Or little things?

Oh and here is another example. In the iPhone vs Galaxy photos, from a distance many photos look very similar, but when you crop in cliser, most times the Galaxy camera retails very sharp details while the iPhone camera loses them. Do you agree with that fact?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/w7VX6YELmGU/maxresdefault.jpg

Look at this sample. Look how when you crop in close, the Galaxy retains detail vs the iPhone.

You Iris has far and away more detail than your face.

I guess you didn't have a science class in school. I love science and I know exactly why Iris scanning is more in-depth vs facial scanning.

12. kiko007 (Posts: 7109; Member since: 17 Feb 2016)

Your Samsung is slow as hell and I like updates and getting all the best apps first so the iPhone is better in my opinion.

^See that? Short and to the point... try it.

14. uncle_gadget (banned) (Posts: 1050; Member since: 20 Sep 2017)

Its easy to be short, when you aren't saying anything with substance.

My Samsung is way faster and even with 20 updates by Apple, your iPhone does less than any Galaxy even one from 5 years ago.

15. kiko007 (Posts: 7109; Member since: 17 Feb 2016)

LMAO, dude get real. No way in hell your Samsung is faster than an iPhone, are you on drugs?

And I don't buy phones for the purpose of hipsterifying them, I buy them because I want a better experience. s**t software support and things like Bixby are why I think Samsung's are trash, so blame their software engineering team.

17. YeahYeah (Posts: 189; Member since: 16 Mar 2016)

Well there is proof that Samsung's are faster than iPhone. Not all off then.. so he ain't wrong.. There is nothing wrong with Samsung software as I find it to be the best in the market right now. You only fix something when/if it's broken. If it is not you, the why fix it. I guess IOS is broken or full of bugs that's why it gets a many updates..

19. uncle_gadget (banned) (Posts: 1050; Member since: 20 Sep 2017)

Not here to debate your fanboy facts vs real facts. I also don't give a crap about benchmarks and how fast an app opens.

What I do care about is tech that does what I want. I love features whether they are seen to be gimmicky or not.

While you are worry about how fast the iPhone is, I will enjoy having the latest and greatest in advanced tech at a lower price point, than your overpriced feature-phone.

I don't comparte speed, because speedtests can be rigged and falsified easiy.

What does matter is this:

Gaalxy offers more storage capacity, more options for security,

29. uncle_gadget (banned) (Posts: 1050; Member since: 20 Sep 2017)

Galaxy offers more security options, more storage, faster data connector as USB TYPE C is just a modified USB 3.1 connector which offers faster data speeds vs Apple overpriced Lightning connector.

Access to extra storage without paying for cloud options is a huge plus.

The Galaxy has been taking better photos and recording better video than the iPhone since the Galaxy S4.

The Galaxy has better design language. Even though the edge design is a bad design for durability, it is no more or less fragile than any other phone based on drop tests.

Speed tests are all easy to fake and benchmarks just don't matter in real life usage. There is more to benchmarks than having the higher score, as you tried to claim with facial scanning vs Iris Scanning. And you were wrong there as well.

The Note 8 with more RAM can now hold as many as 25 apps in ram before app 26 needs to reload, while the iPhone with its petty 2/3GB restarts apps after half as many as seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjfVv2RPaGE&t=152s

So if you wanna debate speed,I'm not the one because there is no substance to your debate. I do see hwoever, you like to hang on to the few things you think Apple is better at, yet in recent years this is not the case.

Enjoy the following fact:

iOS has far and away more UI/UX issues vs any Android even Samsung TouchWiz Galaxy laden devices.

iOS crashes far and away more apps.

While you're screaming about updates, most of Apple updates are due to things they break. You wouldn't need as many if they didn't break things. Why do they break more things, when they have limited hardware configurations?

iOS animations drop frames, and is jacked up big time now.

Even the new iPad Pro with pro-Motion just shows those dropped frames, at a faster motion, but still very visible.

Then you have the bad design choice of the iPhone X which is an entire article on its own.

lt is obvious you prefer the iPhone. So enjoy. But stop comparing the 2 platforms is A: everything bad about what you say of another is also true of your own B: you gonna waste time exaggerating facts that don't even matter -e.g, iPhone benchmarks faster, but in day to day tasks and abilities not only is it slower, its not even capable of doing at all.

27. AxelFoley (Posts: 490; Member since: 30 May 2017)

The greatest example of "hipsterfying" a phone is dedication of time at a key note address to Apple's inven.....adoption of Animojis. This very article has specific examples of software engineering. Apple has to resort to copying Animojis and spending time to brag about all the great work they did on a hipster teenager app. The ability to put calendars/schedules/weather/news on a homescreen isn't the evil act you desperately want it to be.

However, I wholeheartedly agree with your comments on being concise.

50. RoryBreaker (Posts: 145; Member since: 11 Oct 2015)

The S8 is lightning fast & Bixby isn't a problem. Those that don't like it don't have to use it.

16. uncle_gadget (banned) (Posts: 1050; Member since: 20 Sep 2017)

Gonna show how I'm smarter than you and show you why the facts are what they are:

https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/authentication/biometrics-in-depth-examination-1329

This white paper may be too in-depth for you to handle, but at least read some.

Here is what makes Iris scanning more in-depth vs facial scanning.
The Iris scanner has to focus first on your Iris which is smaller, but bigger than a retina scan.

Next, according to the paper, both of your eyes, don't have the same iris footprint either. Which means the Iris Scanner has to make a map of not one facial pattern, but two unique patterns inside the same face.

It is a part of your face that can't be duplicated with a mask. The only way to duplicate an Iris, you would need a microscope and a tool that could print the exact same eye map onto glass or contacts.

Even the best laser printer in the world, even if you had a perfect picture of the Iris, would not be able to print the sophisticated shadows and depth and blood vessels in your eye.

Whether you are Caucasian, Negro, Hispanic, or Asian, there are facial features of each group that are the same, thus making for duplication easier.

Face Recognition can be duped with a very good photo or something as simple as having an identical twin which has been proven beyond reasonable doubt.

No one in the world can duplicate your Iris on any level, beyond having very sophisticated machinery.

The best laser printers, can't even duplicate money too 100% accuracy.

Counterfeit money can be detected, with a simply swipe of a special marker.

Come on dude, get educated and stop being a fan and just read tech facts. I presented you with facts. You can choose to accept or ignore, but nothing you do will change them.

20. Sammy_DEVIL737 (Posts: 1155; Member since: 28 Nov 2016)

Ohh pls for the god sake, try to justify your thoughts in simple and short sentences.

37. jeroome86 (Posts: 2314; Member since: 12 Apr 2012)

Short sentences is impossible for uncle gadget formally known as Techie xp. Would you consider trading names with him? Yours is more fitting for him. He only follows Samsung and Apple. One to praise and one to bash.

43. uncle_gadget (banned) (Posts: 1050; Member since: 20 Sep 2017)

I praise and bash both companies. I follow Apple and Samsung because those are the devices I buy and only buy.

However, facts prove Apple has more to be bashed about vs Samsung overall.

Examples? Poor design of iPhone 4, poor design of iPhone 6, poor design of iPhone X, software updates that breaks things that were working, apps that crash all the time, UI/US nightmares where simple things require to many steps to accomplish due to bad UI design, removal of useful features like headphones jacks and home buttons, for useless things like motor for heptic feedback and a busted camera array.

Samsung biggest mistakes? Putting way to many features on the S4, when its CPU and RAM amounts were too low. S5 having poor design. Note 7 battery issue.

Greatest things about Samsung devices in general, more useful features for the price, less flaws in the UI/UX, apps rarely crash if ever, designs are harder to destroy by accident, easy to accomplish UI steps that make logical sense, everything is user customizable in one way or another.

The best thing about Samsung devices, if you don't like it, you can remove, hid, turn-off or replace. With Apple, you are stuck with it and have to justify their poor excuse for bad decisions.

Older Android devices are not crippled by updates that would otherwise make the hardware unusable. Apple updates everything, but then devices work even worse and when you upgrade your only option is another iPhone.

At least if an update cripples an Android, you can simply choose a phone from any brand you want.

Apple intentionally cripples devices to make you spend money. Example, deploys fast charging on the iPhone 8, doesn't put fast charger in the box. Removes headphone jack, to get you to buy overprice wireless headphones that sound exactly like the corded ones.

Purprosely limits storage capacity on the base model, to force you to pay a lot more for more storage. To be fair, all OEM's do this, but Apple stuck with 16GB of storage on the base model for SEVERAL years. And since the iPhone has all but killed the iPod, storage should have been increased year ago.

Low RAM means less versatility. Its planned adolescence to keep you buying over and over. I've owned 3 iPhone models. Will I ever buy another? Sure I will. Ass soon as the one I have is so outdated I have no choice as I've always done.

Galaxy devices have gotten better since the S5. iPhone devices have gotten worse sense after the 5S and iOS7. That is fact and isn't hate and isn't bashing.

A fact is a fact whether you like it or not!

Oh and I guess because I have long posts I have to be someone else. So that means CNOUR, KIKO,PIYATH and others I see here must all be the exact same person because they all sound like an Apple commercial and are all coined as "kikosheep".

47. Xilam (unregistered)

Oh my G, can someone please put a cork in techie again. His leaking becoming a flood again!!!

You wanna write articles - make your own damn website and feed your herd this crap you call “facts”.

31. uncle_gadget (banned) (Posts: 1050; Member since: 20 Sep 2017)

Apple and Samsung get the most attention due to being at the top of the smartphone market as far as share and customer base.

Even though a Chinese OEM has pushed Apple to 3rd place as far as sales, Apple in certain countries like the USA is a status symbol and has the marketing prowess to dupe customers into buying tech that was readily available on other phones year prior and pay a ransom note to have it now, with no batter capabilities than 3 years ago.

The wireless charging in the iPhone 8 is a perfect example of waiting 4 years for Apple to support it, and they implemented in a way that offers zero benefit vs what we had 4 years ago.

I think the mistakes Apple made with the iPhone 5C, 6, 6S, 7, 8 and 10; really shows how much Steve Jobs played a key roll in decisions that mattered.

Tim Cook is focused on what he can sell, and not making the best product that will still sell. They went from making a hamburger with substance (Wendy's) to making numbers (McDonald's) and the suffering of quality has been showing since iOS7 and iPhone 6.

But the fans will point at flaws of other platforms, while turning a blind eye to similar or worse issues.

Quote - "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye,
but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"