Third Strike
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Samsung Galaxy S6 reportedly drops bloatware in favor of Microsoft apps
Seems like you'll still have an option to download Samsung's apps.
Touchwiz me if old.
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Samsung allegedly dropping bloatware on S6; will instead have Microsoft apps
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Samsung Galaxy S6 reportedly drops bloatware in favor of Microsoft apps
Seems like you'll still have an option to download Samsung's apps.
Touchwiz me if old.
Nicktendo86
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Feeks like 'less bloat' is promised/rumoured before every galaxy s release. Will see if things are actually different this time...
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Moto G is great in this regard.
Very little bloatware, phone runs super smooth even in its low specs.
Very little bloatware, phone runs super smooth even in its low specs.
Yep. When you barely support the apps, let me remove it.
Frustrated_me
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So we can assume this was part of the billion dollar agreement this week between Samsung and Microsoft? Interesting.
I knew they had settled but didn't know the conditions.
I knew they had settled but didn't know the conditions.
AyaisMUsikWhore
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This is ugly. Thank goodness I don't buy Samsung anymore.
Extra Sauce
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I have a company S4 and I hate its bloatware with the power of a thousand suns.
If I wanted the manufacturer to control my experience I would have chosen an iPhone.
If I wanted the manufacturer to control my experience I would have chosen an iPhone.
jamesinclair
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AuthenticM
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Are Samsung phones easy to root ? If they are, I'd suggest doing that and installing Cyanogenmod on them.
Your Entertainer
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A Samsung phone is like a 2003 SAMs club hp laptop
Best analogy ever
Best analogy ever
Was just saying the other day how I hated Samsung phones for all their bloatware. I know you can root it but I'm too lazy for that stuff and I heard its not good on newly released Samsungs (not sure about that).
I just want a phone that doesn't have nonsense right when I first turn it on.
I just want a phone that doesn't have nonsense right when I first turn it on.
I think MS just invested in Cyanogenmod too. So, they may be bundling their services too, lol.
The Faceless Master
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the bootloader is only locked on the VZW/ATT versions. everywhere else it's not locked.
A long time ago I got a phone with Blockbuster streaming video. I didn't want it yet it couldn't uninstall it. And it ran in the background.
That's one thing. There were a dozen apps like this.
If the answer is "just hack the rom" my answer is sell me a phone where I can uninstall this stuff.
If I don't want the pedometer app I should be able to uninstall it.
Shit should be illegal honestly
The Faceless Master
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but nobody sells a phone like that. i mean, imagine being able to uninstall an app store or dialer etc...
Blockbuster is not needed to use my phone and much less use my bandwidth and services to sit and do nothing.
Stumpokapow
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I would say that the more things you can't uninstall (particularly things that take up scarce resources) and the worse-executed those things are, the more substance the complaint has. I agree in principle that someone should be able to uninstall the dialer, but mostly dialers work OK so at least provided you want a dialer, the stock dialer is not going to be a terrible thing.
This is true across all phone OSes, btw. Lots of people complain, rightfully, about not being able to uninstall Stocks or Tips or the Newstand Magazine app on iOS.
Exactly. The way I see this, they remove bloatware only to install bloatware again.
My unrooted S5 has great battery life. Gets me through two days normally on a charge without the extended battery.
The majority of bloatware comes from the carrier. I have a 2nd gen Moto X AT&T version, and it comes with all kinds of AT&T bloatware that I can't remove. Worse is some of those AT&T apps tie in to things they shouldn't - anytime I want to look at my contacts and go the the default People app, the AT&T address book takes over and takes a few seconds to load up. I can't clear defaults and remove his behavior either.
Motorola is one of the better OEMS when it comes to bloatware and modifications, but my previous Sprint LG G3 had less bloat. The Spring based apps that I had could be uninstalled. Thanks AT&T.
Motorola is one of the better OEMS when it comes to bloatware and modifications, but my previous Sprint LG G3 had less bloat. The Spring based apps that I had could be uninstalled. Thanks AT&T.
njean777
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iPhone or nexus those are your only choices.
The Faceless Master
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yeah, but what company wants to take the PR hit on stuff not working because someone uninstalled a preinstalled app like the step counter or newsstand? most of the people who call that stuff bloat and want to remove it have the knowledge and ability to be able to do so currently!
did you try this?
That sucks. Their is an Amazon Instant video app for phones - they don't allow it on tablets?
Probably on the back burner with the increased challenge of floundering Samsung sales and white hot competition from Chinese phonemakers like ZTE, Xiaomi and OnePlus.
With its last few phones, Samsung has shown it's not on Apple level yet. Or even Google level. Are people willing to drop Android to follow Samsung? Were Samsung Apps superior to what Google offered etc.
You mean using their official banned from Play Store app?
Or chrome. Had to install dolphin and flash. So Google banned it?
The Moto G is a nice budget phone but it runs and performs terribly. 1 GB RAM makes it useless for any semblance of heavy work, storage is terrible, and it lags in menus.
Nah.
People who like WP like it because of the phones and/or the OS. This is a play to get their services to the people that don't fall into that group. There's a reason Google puts their services on iOS.
My unrooted s5 barely gets me through a day.
Baroquemantic
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That's not really dropping bloat. It's just replacing bloat with other bloat, which is what MS's apps are on an android device.
TouchWiz is the worst. Samsung just needs to give up on software. They clearly have more talent in HW design.
Admiral Woofington
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Well I'm nearing the point I need to get rid of my S4 as it's about to be 2 years since I got it. Ball's in your court Samsung. Keep me around or I move to like LG or Motorola which apparently are making sweet phones now.
Christberg
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My S4 has been really bad, what with heat issues, resource leaks and bloatware. Nothing better than when google maps crashes mid drive somewhere due to heat or the phone randomly slowing down so bad you can't even enter a passcode on the lock screen.
Gonna have to go back to Apple in spite of how overpriced they are. :/
Gonna have to go back to Apple in spite of how overpriced they are. :/
In that price range all of those drawbacks are pretty expected. Also the lack of bloatware at least means you are getting what the hardware is capable of instead of wasting cpu cycles on shit you can't remove without flashing.
Admiral Woofington
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Biggest problem with my S4 is that most of the updates it gets fucks up the ability to read the SD card and it keeps getting removed every 5 seconds unless I restart.
While yes, MS's software is also better performing and universal. So at least there's that.
what is "heavy" work on a phone? Are you just looking at benchmarks or something? Also I've never had it lag in menus and there's a micro SD for storage.
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