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Perhaps they could try having just a handful of models. Having dozens can't be cheap.

The other thing they could try is not creating all the bloat ware.

TL;DR

• Samsung has raised US prices on its budget and mid-range Galaxy phones, following last week’s increases for its high-end models.

• The Galaxy A17 5G now costs $270, the A27 is $380, the A37 is $490, and the A57 has risen to $600.

• The article says higher RAM and NAND flash costs, driven by demand from AI data centers, are a main reason consumer electronics are getting pricier.

Nice try Samsung. Is it metal?

Again? Or was it to sell to data brokers last time?

It's fucked up because there are so many politically-connected people trying to get this data, and health data should be private.

Also, Samsung is really the only company trying to compete with Apple on performance. I don't think Google ever did, and nobody cares about the other companies and/or they don't care about competing with Apple and Samsung. But, for now, Apple is keeping health data private. So if you're a Samsung user and you're looking for your next phone, and you don't care about the couple things Samsung does better, you don't play high-end games or anything like that... an iPhone's not looking too bad if you value your health data. You're just maybe thinking the other shoe drops soon and Apple copies Samsung. After all, the two copy off each other all the time — it goes both ways. (And Samsung is an Apple supplier, further complicating the issue. Both my iPhone and my Galaxy phone have Samsung screens and Samsung storage, maybe other Samsung parts.)

I do like Samsung, and I enjoy using my Galaxy S10. Yes, my Android device is that old. My iPhone is 5-6 years newer, but other than booting faster, and having 4x the storage (before the S10 adds a memory card), the iPhone is not really better at most tasks. It's smoother. The UI is a bit cleaner — not by much. I like typing (Gboard) on the S10 better, and I like the home screen (Nova Prime) on the S10 better. Android is janky AF, but I'm used to it and it only mildly annoys me — and, I think, if you've never used an iPhone, you might not even notice it, but I do. One thing I don't do with my S10, however, is Samsung Health. I don't touch it.

I plan on replacing my S10 before I replace my iPhone — that should last me another 7-8 years at least. The only innovating Apple is doing these days is AI, and they're shit at it. I don't care about AI, so I won't need a new iPhone until they teach it a new trick that mine can't do. So I'll get some Galaxy A something or other that blows the doors off my S10, maybe even make it my primary, just keep the iPhone for health stuff, for working with my Watch and AirPods, and as a secondary device. I neither love nor hate either platform or brand (though I do like Apple's computers, but as far as things that aren't relevant here, Samsung makes good TVs, I guess).

Only for us, I presume.

Extorted

Same. Sad times.

Curious use of the word “asked” in the title. Try substituting “told”.

I deleted Samsung from by "buyable brand" list a long time ago.

Oh, that's nice that they'll delete the data for us.

With current tech market projections, I'd estimate that this'll release at $1499 USD at minimum.

Ironic that I had to go through not one, but 2 dark pattern cookie banners to get to the article.

Samsung calls the 80 percent figure false while simultaneously admitting historic RAM shortages. The denial is empty when the same press release justifies the conditions that make the hike possible.

@AbsolutelyNotCats was months ago but needed help to put a screen protector on my used samsung s22 i bought

Samsung has been killing functional features and software upgrades for years to force hardware upgrades. DeX was half-baked for three generations, MST in Samsung Pay got killed despite being objectively superior to NFC, and now the Galaxy S26 upgrade cycle gets strangled before it even starts. This is the pattern: make the old experience worse so the new hardware feels mandatory, then charge a premium for the privilege of not being cut off. Did anyone actually expect Samsung to change course when artificial scarcity is their entire business model?

C64 SID remixes from Slayradio have aged better than most modern electronic music. A trip to Kjell after binging those tracks sounds like a solid Wednesday. What needs fixing at the shop?

Bixby has been the neglected stepchild of Samsung's software stack for years, and rebranding it with AI features does not fix the fundamental issue that most users never adopted it in the first place. Device controls through a voice assistant only matter if the assistant reliably responds, and Bixby's track record on basic commands has not inspired confidence. The One UI 8.5 timeline also raises the question of whether this is a genuine platform investment or just marketing polish for the next Galaxy launch cycle.

Samsung calling this a 'big step forward' in 6G is the kind of vague corporate language that means nothing without actual numbers. 6G standards aren't even finalized and deployment isn't expected until 2030 at the earliest, so every year we get these announcements claiming progress while the real technical specifications remain unclear. What's the actual throughput or latency improvement being claimed here?

Samsung calling their 2nm GAA process competitive with TSMC's 3nm N3P is bold given Samsung foundry has historically lagged node-for-node. The article itself shows Exynos 2600 cores clocked lower than comparable MediaTek Dimensity 9500 results, which does not inspire confidence in the claims. The real test will be sustained performance under load since Samsung's thermal management has never been known for letting the Exynos cores sustain max clock speeds for long.

Samsung regional chip segregation forces developers to chase two different thermal ceilings and GPU driver behaviors. Exynos has historically lagged behind Snapdragon in sustained performance, and this split means app testing stacks double for anyone taking the platform seriously. At the price point the S26 targets, that overhead is unacceptable.

Samsung hides useful camera features behind menus nobody searches, then wonders why people call their software bloated. The硬件 is there but the experience is gatekept like it's a premium upgrade. At this point the camera app strategy is to bury好东西 so it feels like a reason to buy Ultra later.

Samsung dropping Hi-fi audio claims on earbuds usually means boosted bass and rolled-off highs that audiophiles will immediately EQ away. The wearability angle is the only part worth caring about since fit determines whether any of that sound signature actually reaches your ears.

Python 2 to 3 was genuinely painful for anyone maintaining large codebases in 2019. The string encoding differences alone broke entire pipelines, and the fact that so much enterprise software hung on for years past EOL proves the migration cost was real, not imagined. Communities that laugh at 'still on Python 2' ignore that rewriting mature codebases is not a weekend project.

Texas dragging Samsung into asking for express consent says a lot about how rotten TV surveillance got. A screen in your living room should not ship with data collection on by default and hide the off switch in six menus. Samsung earned this punch in the teeth.