Galaxy S6 less bloatware then even vanilla Android phones.

[Teehee]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/03/23/samsung-galaxy-s6-edge-bloat/

 

TouchWiz on S6/S6 Edge was leaked on XDA Dev Forums that kept promise of less bloatware by Samsung.

 

A user in the dev forum found out that not only is there less bloatware on the new touchwiz, but almost every one of the pre-installed app can be uninstalled and wiped completely from your phone.

 

This even includes apps that couldn't be uninstalled before (unless rooting).

 

Apps include -

GMAIL App

Google +

Youtube

You can even uninstall the Play Store app.

 

Of course all the Samsung crap can be uninstalled like S health/voice

 

And the Microsoft bloatware that comes with most Android phones like

OneNote

OneDrive

Skype

 

Poster Jeshter2000 stipped the phone to the bare basics.

Dialer

Calendar

Web Browser

Camera

Samsung App store

 

Pretty much every app can be uninstalled without rooting or voiding warranty on the phones.

 

 

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[CartertheCOCguy]

you cant get more stock than vanilla ... its vanilla

[Kherm]

So OneDrive, OneNote, Skype is now bloatware? And Office too?

[Victorious Secret]

So OneDrive, OneNote, Skype is now bloatware? And Office too?

 

Yea lol. 

 

I guess free productivity apps that don't suck are bloatware now. 

[Teehee]

So OneDrive, OneNote, Skype is now bloatware? And Office too?

Bloatware is what the user of the device wants it to be.

 

If you use OneDrive/Note/Skype, then it's not bloatware to you.

 

If you DON'T use OneDrive/Note/Skype, then it IS bloatware.

[s3ns3]

So OneDrive, OneNote, Skype is now bloatware? And Office too?

same can be said about gapps.youtube,maps,gmail,gplus so yeah its bloat since it comes with the phone and you can`t unninstall them w/o root. 

 

well a big + for samsung lol

[imthewalrus]

So OneDrive, OneNote, Skype is now bloatware? And Office too?

Not every one uses those apps.

[AlexGoesHigh]

out of all people, i didn't expect samsung to be the one to allow easy removal of bundled stuff, though if its the korean version, by law they have to allow them to be removed

[TheMcSame]

Less bloatware than Vanilla from Samsung? 

 

I need Karl Pilkington here ASAP

 

[AxelRantila]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/03/23/samsung-galaxy-s6-edge-bloat/

 

TouchWiz on S6/S6 Edge was leaked on XDA Dev Forums that kept promise of less bloatware by Samsung.

 

A user in the dev forum found out that not only is there less bloatware on the new touchwiz, but almost every one of the pre-installed app can be uninstalled and wiped completely from your phone.

 

This even includes apps that couldn't be uninstalled before (unless rooting).

 

Apps include -

GMAIL App

Google +

Youtube

You can even uninstall the Play Store app.

 

Of course all the Samsung crap can be uninstalled like S health/voice

 

And the Microsoft bloatware that comes with most Android phones like

OneNote

OneDrive

Skype

If you don't GMail/G+/YouTube or of some strange reason the Play Store those can also be considered bloatware.

 

Personally I use OneNote, OneDrive and Skype quite a bit so that is far from bloatware for me

[Teehee]

out of all people, i didn't expect samsung to be the one to allow easy removal of bundled stuff, though if its the korean version, by law they have to allow them to be removed

Yeah agreed. I think it's more of the country that Samsung HQ is in that pressured them to do it rather then the company themselves.

 

Since it's now illegal to have unremovable apps on smartphones in South Korea now.

[tobben]

Since it's now illegal to have unremovable apps on smartphones in South Korea now.

+25 to south korea.

[LAwLz]

It's very nice to see that Samsung did a 180 and has removed all the crap they ship on their phones. The things that are still there are pretty good stuff as well. Two thumbs up to Samsung.

Kind of weird how you can remove Google Play though...

[Jade]

It's very nice to see that Samsung did a 180 and has removed all the crap they ship on their phones. The things that are still there are pretty good stuff as well. Two thumbs up to Samsung.

Kind of weird how you can remove Google Play though...

Nope. They've been gunning to remove and replace Google Play with their own offerings for a long time. Hence their knockoff apps.

[xtroria]

Less is more these days and people prefer it. Just look at apple

[Real_PhillBert]

Good for Samsung, I hope more phone makers follow their example.

[aom]

Nope. They've been gunning to remove and replace Google Play with their own offerings for a long time. Hence their knockoff apps.

so how does almost removing all their offerings and knockoff apps from TouchWiz in S6 achieve that? Your argument would have been valid in the pre S6 days.

[Jade]

so how does almost removing all their offerings and knockoff apps from TouchWiz in S6 achieve that? Your argument would have been valid in the pre S6 days.

Says less, not none. Still, not everyone even wants the Play Store. There's alternatives, like Amazon's app store.

[SaleemVFX]

This is awesome...makes me want to chose this over the M9

[s3ns3]

This is awesome...makes me want to chose this over the M9

choose m8 if you want htc phone.m9 is worse in every department compared to previous model

[creativename]

you cant get more stock than vanilla ... its vanilla

Actually stock android has a bunch of useless apps I'll never use. Such as all of the play media(is that what they're called?) apps. I'll never use google music/books/video ,etc they're just a waste of space.

[spartaman64]

has google play store omg bloatware has no UI just a terminal finally a phone thats completely bloatware free

[Octagoncow]

I really hope that this trend continues!

[popman]

you cant get more stock than vanilla ... its vanilla

I'm guessing they mean AOSP.

Nobody knows what a lot of the android releases are called though. So people usually cal what's on the nexus "stock".

 

 

Technically, AOSP is the barest version of android. (and that doesn't even have the play store, google supplies that to the ODMs for their ROM images)

[Lord Baal]

So OneDrive, OneNote, Skype is now bloatware? And Office too?

If you don't use them and they're not removable yes. Personally I'd not use any of them on my mobile so they sure as hell would be for me.