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Good points are that you can plug it into any computer (except a Mac) and drag and drop files. For mac you need an app which I haven't tried, but I can't imagine it being more restrictive than iTunes/IOS. It also has a headphone socket.
I haven't set it up but you can use Samsung Pay if you're that way inclined, I prefer not to give Samsung my bank details.
Call quality and reception seem fine, as does the camera, and it is certainly powerful enough to play games etc. The only music related apps I have are a guitar tuner and a banjo app (don't ask) which showed incorrect chords!
On a few occasions I've used it to record environmental sounds with the voice recorder app which have made it onto recorded tunes - it records in stereo and the results I got were very usable.
The main reason I got it is it is waterproof to a certain extent and my previous phone died after It slipped out my pocket and into the toilet on a day when my mother was going into hospital for surgery.
https://www.airdroid.com/
And if you're a Linux kinda person, then there's KDE Connect and the associated KDE or Gnome apps.
Any other useful apps would be welcome- I don't know much about Android, the thing I need is dual sim support, as I am travelling a lot between Switzerland, Australia and Singapore at the moment and don't want to have to carry 3 phones.
As it stand I will be carrying 2 with me a lot of the time- my iPhone X (so not completely jumping ship... yet) and the Note 9.
Off to pick it up now actually.
Expect many confused questions from me.
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Cut a long story short we were given one of the new Nokia 6.1 phones to trial as an iPhone alternative. It went round our IT team and onto some senior bods for a few weeks and they all came back saying it did exactly what the iPhone did for half the price. I had a little play with it for 2 days and must say it was really impressive.
Not sure if it's sales patter or not but our phone supplier said that Nokia are selling these almost at cost because they want to get back some market share that they've lost over the years so it may be a good time to look at them.
It is a bit nice.
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I'm tempted to upgrade sooner rather than later. Hate putting big stupid looking covers on phones though, seen some real ugly ones out there. I just look after them.
LOVING the Pen although it does tend to put some weird capitalisations In place,
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I've always had a mixture of Mac and PC's though- indeed I am typing this on a Dell XPS13 9370.
When the iPhone came out I needed tight integration with the computers but now everything is so oriented towards streaming, so I don't need it like I used to.
If Apple made a two sim phone with a headphone jack then I might not have made the switch, but they don't.
So far I'm enjoying the Android experience.
It is super fast and I can do everything I can do on an iPhone.
Happy days.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
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Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Got a year old Sony XZ Premium which has a massive battery life and a larger than normal screen. When the contract is up in a year, I'll probably change back to Samsung or may even consider Huawei.
Headphone socket is insteresting - I personally found wired phones on a mobile device a nightmare - I was always breaking the cables. I see Samsung is now going socketless now after baiting apple for so long...
It has swipey-typey too.