Because I don’t trust pixels. One plus has never interested me, Sony seems like kind of a bore and is over priced in some markets.

The phone dialer updates in the galaxy store?

My cloud storage isn’t slow. And I don’t need 4k video of everything. Even people that need to record hours and hours of b roll in 4k for editing later are smart enough to use another storage device. I never get people that need to have all the media they have ever downloaded or recorded with them at all times.

You’re just not good at using all the options available to you on a phone that’s basically a computer. It’s nothing to do with being an iPhone user, especially since it’s not just Samsung and iPhone that don’t have expandable storage. Judge your experience on its own merits and leave out the childish brand slap fighting. They won’t reward you for calling people names on their behalf.

Get good, that’s the moral of this story. There are many options available before you get to “I had to delete everything and now I feel like an iLoser 😭😭”

Also if you need a phone feature to make you feel superior. You’re kinda just like the people you’re trying ti make fun of

I don’t get this update paranoia.

For the sake are squashing the idea that the carriers take the builds and “add” software to the firmware and that takes a month, this isn’t true. At least not in a literal sense that the builds are some how charged when they come from Samsung.

In the US for example. Aside from changes specific to mobile radio firmware, carriers all have the exact same build. People like to assume Samsung cranks out a build and hands it to the carrier then the carrier modifies it. That would be a quality control nightmare considering Samsung is ultimately held accountable for the software on their devices.

Well how do you get carrier software, to include system level apps like visual voicemail and messaging apps to appear then?

This is where DT Ignite comes into play. At the time Samsung generates a build it includes this software that can read the CSC files and the sim card and make a determination of which carrier related changes, limitations, and software to implement.

This means the build that Samsung sends to the carrier isn’t then being modified again, at least not from a software design standpoint, DT Ignite already exists on the phone. Yes your phone does change based on the carrier sim but this is based on a response from software already on the Samsung firmware when it leaves Samsungs servers. This has allowed Samsung to move to unified builds for their devices years ago without worrying about generating a build for each carrier separately.

Why make say five builds when you can remotely control the software each carrier installs after the fact during the first boot when the sim card is read.

This is also why some SIM card changes will trigger a full wipe.

Just for clarity. The carriers are just testing. They aren’t adding or removing anything. You can tell this because the last beta build became stable, this is usually the case. So the carriers aren’t approving apps after the fact. So it’s not carriers adding and removing anything because one the software packages don’t work like that. That means the carriers would need to build their own updates from source and prior to cranking out a build adjust the packages included inside. Now that’s neither here nor there because it’s not like you get it sooner. But all that time is used to test. Not change builds.