Current Events > The Galaxy Note 8 has been great so far.

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The camera is really good. Having the stylus again has been very useful. The phone is incredibly responsive even with lots of programs open in the background. I have over 30 apps in open in the background and it hasn't affected the functionality of the phone one bit.
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How's the battery life?
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Gamer99z posted...

How's the battery life?

I'd say the battery life is okay. Not great, but I always have a charger with me. I've got a wireless charger at my desk at work. I've got a charger in my car. And of course charges at home.

So I don't really get very low on battery. At least, not yet.
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i got a note 8 as well and its p good
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tc did your visual voicemail shortcut disappear when you upgraded?

Are you trying to outshill Coffeebeanz or something?
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Gamer99z posted...

How's the battery life?

I played music at work for 6 hours and when I went home I was at 80%

L0Z posted...

tc did your visual voicemail shortcut disappear when you upgraded?

I don't recall seeing that icon at all
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L0Z posted...

tc did your visual voicemail shortcut disappear when you upgraded?

Why would anybody ever use visual voicemail in the first place?
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:( I'm thinking people complained about it being a separate app so they integrated it into the phone app. it was separate on my note 5 and when I did the transfer it was gone

if i had to complain about one thing, its that the security options are awful.

iris scanner doesnt work well with glasses
face recognition is terrible in that if the lighting is even slightly different it struggles, or if you're holding the phone different
the fingerprint scanner is in the WORST position. who the fuck thought it was a good idea to put it on the back of the phone near the top next to the camera? wow

ive reverted back to using a pattern lock.

other than that the phones good tho
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Aristoph posted...

L0Z posted...

tc did your visual voicemail shortcut disappear when you upgraded?

Why would anybody ever use visual voicemail in the first place?

so you don't have to call yourself and enter a pin and listen to every voicemail sequentially while your provider says press 9 to save or press whatever the hell number to delete. that was peasant flip phone feature

Rika_Furude posted...

if i had to complain about one thing, its that the security options are awful.

iris scanner doesnt work well with glasses
face recognition is terrible in that if the lighting is even slightly different it struggles, or if you're holding the phone different
the fingerprint scanner is in the WORST position. who the fuck thought it was a good idea to put it on the back of the phone near the top next to the camera? wow

ive reverted back to using a pattern lock.

other than that the phones good tho

Yeah, I'd say that's fair.

I'm using the clear view case from Samsung, and that at least makes it easy to locate the fingerprint scanner without looking.
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L0Z posted...

Aristoph posted...

L0Z posted...

tc did your visual voicemail shortcut disappear when you upgraded?

Why would anybody ever use visual voicemail in the first place?

so you don't have to call yourself and enter a pin and listen to every voicemail sequentially while your provider says press 9 to save or press whatever the hell number to delete. that was peasant flip phone feature

Only peasants even set up their voicemail these days. If I don't answer I don't want to talk to you so kindly fuck off, or text me.
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CableZL posted...

Gamer99z posted...

How's the battery life?

I'd say the battery life is okay. Not great, but I always have a charger with me. I've got a wireless charger at my desk at work. I've got a charger in my car. And of course charges at home.

So I don't really get very low on battery. At least, not yet.

L0Z posted...

Gamer99z posted...

How's the battery life?

I played music at work for 6 hours and when I went home I was at 80%

Hmm I might finally get around to upgrading then, I'm still on my Note 4.
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L0Z posted...

so you don't have to call yourself and enter a pin and listen to every voicemail sequentially while your provider says press 9 to save or press whatever the hell number to delete. that was peasant flip phone feature

It uses data, so it's already stupid.

And you don't have to call yourself to access your voicemail. It's just *86. I set up a contact for it and placed that contact on my home screen, so it's a single tap to get to the voicemail. The pin is a non-issue. In fact, not requiring a pin or authentication of some kind in order to listen to my voicemails seems like a really fucking terrible idea. 9 saves, 7 deletes, and you don't have to even wait for the message to finish before you press one. It takes no effort at all. And I've never in my life had to save a voicemail message for any reason. So I listen to it once, get the info I need, and press 7.
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Gamer99z posted...

CableZL posted...

Gamer99z posted...

How's the battery life?

I'd say the battery life is okay. Not great, but I always have a charger with me. I've got a wireless charger at my desk at work. I've got a charger in my car. And of course charges at home.

So I don't really get very low on battery. At least, not yet.

L0Z posted...

Gamer99z posted...

How's the battery life?

I played music at work for 6 hours and when I went home I was at 80%

Hmm I might finally get around to upgrading then, I'm still on my Note 4.

I did have power saver mode on though. I usually turn it off when watching video or playing a game

S8+ has substantially better battery life. Giving the Note 8 a smaller battery was a bad move, even if they were being cautious.
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Aristoph posted...

It uses data, so it's already stupid.

What?

Aristoph posted...

And you don't have to call yourself to access your voicemail. It's just *86. I set up a contact for it and placed that contact on my home screen, so it's a single tap to get to the voicemail. The pin is a non-issue. In fact, not requiring a pin or authentication of some kind in order to listen to my voicemails seems like a really fucking terrible idea. 9 saves, 7 deletes, and you don't have to even wait for the message to finish before you press one. It takes no effort at all. And I've never in my life had to save a voicemail message for any reason. So I listen to it once, get the info I need, and press 7.

Why are you trying to play off that this is somehow easier than just looking at a screen with everything there? He finds all this annoying and there's nothing wrong with that.

Coffeebeanz posted...

S8+ has substantially better battery life.

Lol, not really.
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I don't have a problem with the finger print scanner.
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So far it's good. Battery life seems ok for me but I need to charge it daily at home.

DoctorVader posted...

What?

From the screen that comes up with the terms & conditions when accessing Visual Voicemail for the first time:

"use of this app will be billed on a per-megabyte basis, or according to any data package you have"

Exactly how much data is used I really don't know, because I don't use it. But the fact that any data-plan usage is required in order to just access your damn voicemail is ridiculous to me and I won't support it.

And the other stuff was because he made it out to be some ridiculously complicated process to listen to your voicemail when it's clearly not. Listen to the message and press 9 or 7. That's the end of the process. It's at most equally as complicated as the visual voicemail is, so simplicity really isn't an argument for VV over normal.
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the note 8 is fantastic and the battery is fantastic if you charge it appropriately and let it get below 5% and give it a full charge when possible. mine lasts 16-20 hours with heavy use and i have had it over 2 weeks, it doesn't seem to be diminishing
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LG G6 yo
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Aristoph posted...

From the screen that comes up with the terms & conditions when accessing Visual Voicemail for the first time:

"use of this app will be billed on a per-megabyte basis, or according to any data package you have"

Exactly how much data is used I really don't know, because I don't use it. But the fact that any data-plan usage is required in order to just access your damn voicemail is ridiculous to me and I won't support it.

It uses like 1 kb/sec which is absolutely miniscule. You can to listen to an hour of voicemail in the same usage as refreshing gamefaqs once without adblock.

Aristoph posted...

And the other stuff was because he made it out to be some ridiculously complicated process to listen to your voicemail when it's clearly not. Listen to the message and press 9 or 7. That's the end of the process. It's at most equally as complicated as the visual voicemail is, so simplicity really isn't an argument for VV over normal.

Opening an app and tapping on the message or getting a transcript is way simpler than having to call and deal with voice prompts.

You said you don't even use this nor save messages, so how can you even understand what's easier for him? You're wondering why anyone would even use it when it's pretty damn obvious.
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I guess going to the phone icon then hitting dialer and then the voicemail icon will have to do. I emailed Samsung and theyre taking forever to email me with a solution. no doubt they'll say download the at&t brand visual voicemail app anyway. I don't remember my pin and I don't like the icon.