Category Archives: Samsung

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Review: Samsung Finally Gets it Right

By Rich W Woods

For those that know me or follow FTLoT, you know that I have never historically been a fan of Samsung phones. When I reviewed the Galaxy Note 4, it was titled A Perversion of Innovation. When I reviewed the Galaxy Note Edge, it was called Samsung Makes the Note 4 Worse.

When I watched Samsung unveil the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge at Mobile World Congress, I was not impressed. After all, the phone looked nice and seemed to have great features, but I know better than to judge a Samsung book by its cover. Like other devices, I won’t judge it until I actually have a chance to use the device for a period of time. If we were talking about a Sony or an HTC or an LG, I’d say, “Well, I’ve never actually gotten any hands-on time with it, but knowing them, I’m sure it’s a solid device.” Since this is a Samsung, I naturally assumed that they had found a way to screw it up before I even got my hands on it.

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Flashback Friday: Hands on with Windows Mobile 6

By Rich W Woods

I recently received the Samsung Blackjack, a Windows Mobile 5 phone that had been upgraded to Windows Mobile 6. I’ve recently been intrigued by the history of Windows’s mobile efforts, as they have more experience with mobile than Apple and Google combined, if you count Apple as starting their experience with the iPhone.

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Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Review: Samsung makes the Note 4 Worse

By Rich W Woods

It’s been a month since I wrote my review of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Review: A Perversion of Innovation. It was just as I described in the title. It was a fantastic piece of hardware with a blazingly fast processor, a beautiful AMOLED display, and a stunning 16 MP rear camera. Despite all of that, it was a terrible phone. It was a perversion of what a phone with those specs should be.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 was a niche phone. There are those that like Samsung features, features that don’t work particularly well but they get the latest features. By smart phone standards, the Galaxy Note 4 was a bad phone. By those standards, the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge was even worse.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Review: A Perversion of Innovation

By Rich W Woods

Perversion: the alteration of something from its original course, meaning, or state to a distortion or corruption of what was first intended.

Innovation: a new method, idea, product, etc.

Almost a year and a half ago, when I started For the Love of Tech, I called my reviews User Reviews. The reason for this was because the products that I was reviewing were products that I used for my day to day life. I wasn’t getting free review units, I wasn’t getting flown out to California for an iPhone event, and I wasn’t under the threat of not being invited back if I gave something a bad review.

I stopped calling the User Review in favor of Review and a title because more and more, I was getting devices for the sole reason of reviewing them. They were no longer devices that I used for personal use; however, I have always stayed true to the idea of giving honest reviews. This is why reviews at For the Love of Tech don’t come out the same day that the product launches. It comes a couple weeks later, after I’ve spent some time with the device.

That being said, this is going to be an honest review of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4. Some will love me for it and some will hate me for it, but there is one thing I can promise you: the facts you will read are true and the opinions you will read are honest.

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Samsung Gear Live: A User Review

By Rich W Woods

It seems like a lifetime ago but it was only about a month ago on June 25 when Google announced Android Wear at Google IO. There were three watches that were announced. The LG G Watch shipped on July 3, the Samsung Gear Live shipped on July 8, and the long awaited Moto 360 will ship later this summer.

The Moto 360 is clearly the one to be desired. After all, the LG G Watch and the Samsung Gear Live are almost identical and both use a Snapdragon 400 processor with 4 GB storage and 512 MB RAM. While the LG G Watch has a 280×280 LCD screen, the Samsung Gear Live has a 320×320 AMOLED display. Aside from the better display, the Samsung Gear Live is $30 cheaper. The specs on the Moto 360 are still unknown.

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