Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter

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Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter::Today, Samsung posted its Q2 2023 financial results. The report says Samsung's profits have dropped considerably compared to last year.

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each new phone is more expensive, with less functionality.

hover on the touch screen? gone

iris scanner, gone

headphone jack? gone

air pressure sensor? gone

humidity sensor? gone

ir blaster, gone

meanwhile I get charged out the ass for storage space.

Why the fuck would I want a newer phone?

Don't forget the SD card slot missing, S20 was the last one that had it. I still don't know what to get after that, just because of the missing SD.

mine can take an sd card, but only if i take out one of my sim cards, of course

I got an A52 just for that reason. Still using it. I wanted a S20 but they were sold out and I was told they stopped making it.

Internal storage on phones is over 200gb by now. I havent needed an SD for years. What the fuck do you store on your phone that could still need an SD? lmao

I have a young son and it was getting very irritating having to be selective recording my videos of him. I finally just paid $90 and added a 1TB premium sd card, and now I won't have to worry about it at all & download all the videos I want for us.

Upgrading the internal storage to 1TB on a new phone costs several hundred dollars.

4k video files will fill your phone up mighty quick. especially if you use it for youtube videos or similar. or film your family/pets a lot

I am 12 and this is deep, what a moronic take

Record 1 minute video, how big is that file? 200 MB, 0.2 GB. 5 minutes and 1 GB is full. When something interesting happens, 5 minutes are recorded easy, obviously. 200 GB, nothing for apps, maps, downloads,... are enough to record 15 hours of video. Then that is it. How many moments can I capture with that? Enough for maybe 2 years? I don't throw my memories away when I get a new phone. Instead, I just buy a new SD every few years and compress the video files every once in a while.

Also removable batteries gone

Mine is actually very easily removable. The device overheats so much, that it's completely annihilated the glue, and now the back panel is only held down by the case c:

That's supposed to be coming back by EU law in the next few years. So we have that at least.

Don't forget color changing led notification light. You could pay with your phone at old card readers using MST. Oh yeah, and the S9 had a blood pressure sensor.

Wait air pressure sensor and humidity sensor? Are you talking about their watches?

Samsung Note 10 and others have a barometric sensor, though I'm not aware of any app using them. Which might explain their removal, sadly.

I have a barometric sensor in my phone?!

I like using the app phyphox to look at all the different sensors on my phone

Oh boy this is a weird tool hahah, I love it!! Can't thank you enough for this recommendation, it always bummers me how wasted are most phones in terms of potential, when I used to fantasize about futuristic portable computers as a little boy I though that people would become a short of cyborg that would do "magic" with their computers. Turns out, phone became the "squary-glassy attention sink machine" xd

I was thinking on accessing the pressure sensor via termux and then export that data to a csv file with some python script! phybox looks ver interesting to gain control over my devices 😗

Air pressure is (was?l in pretty much any phone.

They want to keep competing with and copying Apple/iphones, yet they keep forgetting about what makes Android phones so appealing to the people who select these phones over iphones.

At least Samsung has proper video out through the USB port. Unlike the trash that Pixels depend on, such as Chromecast. What kind of GPU doesn't have either HDMI or displayport (through USB-C like Apple, Samsung, OnePlus, Steamdeck, laptops, etc. ) out in this day and age?

Holding tight on to this Samsung Note 9 until it finally dies. Battery is still 'ok' for now, will last a full day.

Snapdragon, not that pos Exynos

Finger print reader on the back is the only way to do it. Wife has had several newer models with built in front side fingerprint reader and it has been ridiculously unreliable by comparison.

Iris Scan

Face Scan

Headphone jack

Micro-SD Card

USB-C

Wireless charging

NFC with payment support

And even the stupid pen thingy that I use maybe once a month.

Not 5G but the 4G LTE is usually more than fast enough even for streaming when using as a hotspot.

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