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To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (104406)	10/1/2019 11:55:42 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) of 110581

Re: Samsung Phones My first 2 smart phones were Samsung Note and Note 2. Both of them stopped performing well after a year or so. The Note 2 got bad enough that the phone company replaced it. But the replacement also started misbehaving after 2 years. I've read the user reviews on the net and most people seem to be happy with their Samsung phones while a minority complained that theirs died too soon. Importantly, it seems that some time after Note 4 Samsung began to get it right and quality improved. So maybe they are not bad anymore. The consensus on the net seems to be that Samsung will support software updates for 2 years and then it is off to the pasture (possible exception for some security patches). Perhaps you could comment on that. I am a fan of good Chinese phones. I had great experience with Oneplus. I had even better experience with ZTE. I would keep my ZTE Axon 7 if they had not been barred from OS and parts. Not only it has great design and great battery life (with fresh batteries), in some respects it beat many of the current top phones (e.g. 20 MP camera). For now, Oneplus is not on the banned list and people have argued that there is no reason for them to be ever restricted since they don't sell/deploy telecom equipment in the US. Their top of the line phone is the same price as Samsung Note 9 (which is now dated). You can check it out here: oneplus.com It's 48 MP camera and low light specific hardware just can't be beat! Samsung Note's 12MP camera seems so old and mundane in comparison (it's even worse than the 20MP camera on my ZTE Axon 7, and that phone is about 4 years old). But I am not shopping for a camera and Oneplus has put in too many trendy new features (e.g. in-display fingerprint reader - which is apparently the fastest of its kind in the market) at the expense of things that I care about. So right now I am inclined to give Samsung Note 9 a chance. The issue of software updates however needs to be sorted out. I don't want to get one if next year they will stop the updates.

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