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I'm trying to decide on whether I wanna stick to android for privacy or go to apples iphone Please tell me what what you know they do to support privacy. Thanks in advance!

I have had a Samsung Note phone for sometime now and the one thing that bugs the hell out of me is the curved screen when taking notes, how many times I start writing and I go over the curved part of the screen and lose text. I have noticed that the usable part of the note taking screen is 65mm which leaves 10mm of totally useless screen space, 10mm that's a lot of space when taking notes on a phone. Hoping for a flat Samsung Note phone in the future. Francis

Ok, I've been a lurker of these boards for some time, but I felt like I needed to post some rants about my Note 10+ 5G as IMO, it doesn't nearly live up to the hype Samsung generated for this phone. I've owned every galaxy device up to the S8+ where I then switched to the Note 9 and now, 10+ but I think I'll be considering other manufacturers next year. Samsung are almost following sports car mentality with their phones in that you pay more for less. (I.e. a Porsche 911 GT3 RS is faster, and more expensive than the 911, but a lot of creature comforts and extras are removed) After a couple days with my Note 10, I find myself reaching for my note 9 too often. My gripes so far (may update as I continue using it) Left side power button - Every galaxy device since the OG galaxy S has had a right side power button. Not a deal breaker, but why change it? I take screen shots a lot and having both buttons to the left make taking them more awkward (and I'm not a fan of the palm swipe capture) Reduced sound quality over Note 9 - I was blown away when I first played some bass heavy music on my Note 9 as it punches out the lows unlike any other phone I've heard. The 10+ has a whole lot of chassis vibration, but very little Bass. No status LED - OK, I get this is impossible due to the full screen coverage, but a workaround can be made with samsungs own, GoodLock and the EdgeLighting+ plugin to show a light ring around the camera hole. But unless it's something you already know about, it's not exactly advertised. I rely on the LED at work as I can see it in the corner of my eye. With the 10, I have to keep reaching for it to check the AOD. No IR facial recognition / iris scanner - again, there are obvious reasons it's not included, but face unlock using camera alone almost seems far less secure. I have yet to test using a photo to unlock. NO PRESSURE SENSITIVE HOME BUTTON! - Seriously, this has been the most frustrating feature removal for me. Again, every device has had a physical, then at least a pressure home button. I am continually squeezing the bottom of my phone, only for nothing to happen. it's a very hard habit to break and I don't understand why it couldn't be incorporated. The lower right speaker magnet throws off the sPen accuracy when your are hovering, or drawing within about 5mm around it. I ditched my magnetic shut case on my note 9 for this reason, and now it's baked into my Note 10 The more aggressive "right to the edge" curves often cause accidental palm touches when reaching across the screen. The note 9 had an ever so slightly larger bezel on the sides and I never encountered this. The lack of a 45w charger. Samsung has always (mostly) included in the box, a charger that can power the device as fast as it is capable of. For an £1,100 phone, I kind of expect the 45w charger to be included. The under screen fingerprint reader - Although quick, I get far too many 'unrecognized fingerprint' errors. The rear scanner of my Note 9 worked 100% of the time, every time for me. despite this, I am overall impressed with the 10+'s raw performance, camera quality and display. I can also live with the 3.5mm jack removal as I rarely use it anymore anyway, but I'm seriously tempted to use my 14 day window to return it and stick with my 9 for another year as I feel like the 10 is pretty much a slightly faster CPU and larger display, at the expense of too many other features.

Hello everyone. With the launch of Galaxy S10 series, and their respectable SoC-s, I came up with a few questions about the upcoming Note series. Specially for the European market. It's been known that Samsung puts their Exynos in-house SoC-s into Note series, and this year's variant is disappointing to say the least. It was also really disappointing to see what memory standard they went with, the UFS 2.1. Now, for my question. Do you think it would be reasonable to assume Samsung is saving the UFS 3.0 standard for the Note or not? Also, are they really going to use that shit Exynos chip this year, or go with the much better performing Snapdragon variant? Since the Galaxy 10 Plus is already such a great phone, I refuse to believe they'd just bump up the display size a bit, slap a smart pen to it and call it a day. I'm currently using an Exynos variant of Galaxy S8 and I was planning on replacing it with the 10 series. But after seeing the numbers, I'm not so sure anymore. Is anybody in the similar situation? Anybody else waiting for the Note to see if it delivers? Cheers