Samsung is discontinuing its S voice assistant starting 1 June 2020: Report- Technology News, Firstpost
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tech2 News StaffApr 14, 2020 10:03:06 IST
Much before Samsung launched Bixby, the company’s Galaxy smartphones used the S voice assistant. However, with Bixby now taking centre stage, Samsung has announced an official last date for the S voice assistant.
In a support page, Samsung has revealed that starting 1 June 2020, the S voice assistant will be discontinued, reports SamMobile.
Samsung’un yeni Galaxy A (2016) serileri üç farklı ekran boyutu seçeneğinde piyasaya çıkacak:
5,5 inç ekranlı A7
5,2 inç ekranlı A5
4,7 inç ekranlı A3
Galaxy A (2016), yeni Samsung Galaxy tasarım politikasını sürdürüyor. Metal ve cam malzeme kullanılan tasarımlarda, daha ince bir çerçeveye yer verilmiş.
Galaxy A, hem parlak hem de net fotoğraf ve videolar için gelişmiş bir kamera sistemi ile…
Samsung Made Almost the Perfect Phone in 2017, and Promptly Abandoned it
One of the best ways to find the right phone when you are in the market for a new one is to use the Phone Finder on GSMArena. You have to be careful with it though: if you become too specific with certain combinations, the number of phones available to you quickly drops to zero. There is a handy “Show ‘x’ results” button on the bottom of the page that helps you judge which features are significantly reducing the number of options available to you.
When I entered my requirements from a phone at about this time last year into this phone finder, these were the specific things I was looking for:
Width: 70mm or lower
OS: Android
RAM: 2GB or more
Card Slot: Yes
Display Size: Under 5 inches
Density: 300 ppi or more
Technology: OLED
Fingerprint Sensor: Yes
The phone finder brought up a single result; the holy grail of compact smartphones—the one phone that was perfectly suited for me.
Besides being a small, easy to handle Android phone with a high density, high quality display and a fingerprint sensor, it also has excellent battery life, waterproofing, a USB Type-C connector, the latest in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi standards and a 3.5mm headphone jack. It is also incredibly slim and looks and feels like a premium, well built device—all while being reasonably priced.
I am talking, of course, of the Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017)—a phone like no other. I have had this phone for a year now and I can honestly say I have never owned a better phone. It is the distillation of everything that is good about smartphones.
It fits better in your hand than any iPhone ever did, has a battery that lasts longer than any flagship phone from any brand, without sacrificing on look and feel, or thinness, or anything else, for that matter. Despite being a glass and metal sandwich, it is grippy and feels secure in your hand, because of its oh-so-perfect size and that curved back that is designed just right.
It is also built like a tank. I tend to drop my phone quite frequently and yet the thought of putting it into a case is anathema to me. In the one year I’ve owned it, I must have dropped it fifty times and it has never resulted in impaired functioning of the device.
Its display is still as good as new, though you might see hairline scratches on it if you were to clean it well and observe it closely under a bright light. I have cracked its back cover twice and getting replacements from China has cost me about ₹1,500 each time.
It is easy to handle, easy to use, hasn’t slowed down or presented any major bugs in a year of use and has been the most smooth sailing Android device I’ve ever purchased. It has Android 6.0.1 on it and I have rooted and installed a bunch of powerful apps on it that I cannot do without, and I don’t even want to update it to a newer version because of how unhesitatingly it is serving me.
But for some unexplainable, unfathomable reason, a device as perfect as the Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017) failed in the market. Samsung had so little expectations from it that it never even launched it officially in India. I paid customs and imported it from Dubai when it was launched.
The market has developed such a hankering for overpriced, underperforming (in the field of battery life, particularly) gadgets that the understated, utilitarian appeal of this beautiful device was lost on almost everyone.
Some people even had the gall to dismiss it as being too expensive after comparing it with the never-ending stream of crap that is produced by the likes of Lenovo, Oppo, Xiaomi, and their ilk.
It will never dawn on them that there is a justified premium to be paid for a device that is a joy to just hold in your hands and that you can use without worrying about lag and malware and everything else that is characteristic to Chinese skins for Android.
Samsung nixed this phone in 2018 and replaced it with the Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018), which falls between the A5 and A7 of the previous year. It has a 5.6-inch display in a 70.6mm wide body, which is still better than most of the truly monstrous phones in use today, but is nowhere near as friendly as the 4.7-inch display of the A3 in a 66.2mm wide body, and the fingerprint sensor on the front, where it belongs.
The other alternative is the Samsung Galaxy S9 which, at 68.7mm wide, has an excellent in-hand feel as well, but it has all the shortcomings characteristic of a flagship phone in this modern, unthinking, crazy world—it’s incredibly expensive, both to buy and to maintain, and has a battery that wouldn’t last half a day when put to the kind of use I expect to put it to.
Those are my only two choices if my beloved A3 conked off today and I was tasked with replacing it, and neither appeals to me nearly as much as this little beauty did.
But there’s also something special about that.
There is something special in knowing that this phone was only made in one year, for a limited amount of time, for a very small target audience—only so that I could use it and cherish it—never to be repeated again.
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