An unequal approach

  • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    The missing features are software based. They’re not selling inferior phones. The article even mentions that getting this to work in other countries involves different issues such as regulation and legality of the features. This really is not new.

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      1 year ago

      And sometimes missing “features” are a good thing. Like when you see people complaining about annoying ads on monitors / system apps, etc. in the US but not elsewhere

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      1 year ago

      There were examples when the same phone was released with different hardware in different regions, but it’s not mentioned in the article…

      E.g. in 2022, Samsung S22 European version had Exynos 2200 SOC, while in other regions it had Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, IIRC there were some performance differences between them.

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          1 year ago

          For S23 there is only one Worldwide version with Snapdragon. They had separate versions since S7.

          • kadu@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Since the S7? Not at all - they’ve been doing that much earlier. The Galaxy Note 3 was Exynos based in India and some other regions, but Snapdragon based in the US and Europe.

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          1 year ago

          It’s been a common thing for years from all major phone manufacturers, as far as I know. It was the reason I careful when buying a One Plus 7 Pro back in the day.

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    1 year ago

    Ehh. For iPhone you are only missing out on “Live Voicemail”. I can’t remember the last time I even got a voicemail so don’t think I’m missing much

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      1 year ago

      I get 5 Chinese spam calls a day… since turning on live voicemail they’ve mostly stopped, and the ones that make it through get deleted without me listening to them.

      I LOVE the feature.

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      1 year ago

      It happens on device before your carrier. So you don’t have to pay for voicemail. Big unexpected surprise for me (as I don’t have vm). Otherwise it’s on the fly and instant. Thought I wouldn’t care but sending unknow callers there is slick.

    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Can I get it to transcribe WhatsApp voice messages? I ignore them but people keep sending them.