Report: Galaxy S22 sales falling due to the GOS scandal, carrier subsidies increased to counter

04 April 2022
Demand for the S22 in South Korea has reportedly decreased after the throttling scandal. Carriers are increasing subsidies to increase demand.

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Anonymous, 05 Apr 2022Yeah, I'm not happy to say the least about the lack of... moreI got the 1TB. You don't need no SD slot.

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    • Anonymous
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    • 05 Apr 2022

    Anonymous, 05 Apr 2022Complete bullsh!t. First of all, microSD has ALWAYS been sl... moreYeah, I'm not happy to say the least about the lack of a Micro SD slot...🤮

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      • Anonymous
      • rU2
      • 05 Apr 2022

      I have the 512gig S22 Ultra and the battery life is not what they claim. Or as least in my experience with the new handset, it hasn't been all that stellar. I had to disable "Motion Smoothness" and lower my brightness or not use auto brightness. Everything else is great, beautiful screen, excellent camera night mode. That battery though... 🤮

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        • Anonymous
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        • 05 Apr 2022

        Anonymous, 05 Apr 2022Complete bullsh!t. First of all, microSD has ALWAYS been sl... moreRight on point

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          • Anonymous
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          • 05 Apr 2022

          Note9 User, 05 Apr 2022XR is a toy compared to the Note9, see & use them side ... moreThe xr was never meant to compare with the Note 9 IMO. The Samsung is obviously way more advanced

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            • Anonymous
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            • 05 Apr 2022

            Anonymous, 05 Apr 2022Lol, I will rather use a Note 9 without software support, t... moreThat is true and a better OS even with less support is always better than the one with lots of support but still lacking in features

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              • 05 Apr 2022

              The baker, 05 Apr 2022It is not GOS, it is the poor battery life, the Exynos and ... moreWe are talking about Korea. Samsung phones in Korea have Snapdragon chipsets not Exynos. Snapdragon chipsets are the problem.

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                • Anonymous
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                • 05 Apr 2022

                Anonymous, 05 Apr 2022A toy that's much faster and has better software suppo... moreLol, I will rather use a Note 9 without software support, than an Xr, 11, SE2, SE3 or 12 Mini iPhones with full software support. Even though software support is important from a certain point of view, the immediate effect of using a phone is not the software support.

                And let's be honest, almost all the people I know that have iPhones change their phones once per 3 years. Many even once per 2 years. This so called 5-6 years mark is only on paper and majority of iPhone users update more frequently their phones. Is used mainly by fanboys online, to justify their love for Apple. In reality it has no practicality whatsoever.

                I don't know a single person who uses nowadays an iPhone X for example. Even though 5 years ago, almost all the people I knew with an iPhone, had one. All of them have updated to iPhone 11, 12 or 13 series (Pro's or Pro Max's).

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                  • Michal
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                  • 05 Apr 2022

                  Everyone cares about this stupid nonsense, yet no apology for whole s20 exynos lineup's battery problems.... lol

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                    • Anonymous
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                    • 05 Apr 2022

                    Domestoboto, 05 Apr 2022But the transfer speeds of microSD cards are VERY low compa... moreComplete bullsh!t. First of all, microSD has ALWAYS been slower than internal memory. Can you remember the days of, at least, the Galaxy S5 in 2014? You couldn't even do burst camera capture on external storage. But external storage still existed on Samsung high end more than 8 years later. Even, just think about in, even for a computer, external storage like a laptop will be slower than NVME, is is a reason to ban external storage on a laptop? Complete sh!tty excuse. Expandable storage is more than just speed, it is also about... Backup. And cloud is even 20x slower than expandable storage like microSD and there are a whole set of limitations with cloud storage. Do you work for Samsung?

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                      • Anonymous
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                      • 05 Apr 2022

                      Vonikhsat S Metra, 04 Apr 2022This is such a leap of faith, it's simply ridiculous a... moreExactly. The moment of realization for me was seeing Xperia 5 III review as I'm still rocking my Xperia 5 II. There was virtually ZERO reason to upgrade and it literally felt more like a sidegrade, with SD888 being basically an overclocked SD865. Same case for most phones these days, there is just nowhere else to go.

                      btw. you were lucky with that phone pick, OP6 and OP6T were last decent OnePlus phones in my opinion.

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                        • Anonymous
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                        • 05 Apr 2022

                        Note9 User, 05 Apr 2022XR is a toy compared to the Note9, see & use them side ... moreA toy that's much faster and has better software support. But sure, it's a toy if you say so.

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                          • 05 Apr 2022

                          always scandals with samsnug but no scandals with apple

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                            • Anonymous
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                            • 05 Apr 2022

                            Lesson: be honest to your buyers

                              Anonymous, 05 Apr 2022Wow if only Samsung made another series of smartphones whic... moreNo one is forcing them to make these cheap (although they could cut their promo activities. That would bring the price down a bit)
                              But if you want me to pay 1000€ for your phones, these phones better have it all. And they don't.
                              Old phones had so many features and their prices were lower...
                              Samsung is trying so hard to become "cult" company like Apple but they can't. They core user base is different and they are losing them and very little people are switching from iphones.
                              Now they removed headphone jack from A53 and A73 and pushed exynos with A53. Watch their sales become even worse and I can't wait for it to happen!

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                                • AnonD-1037771
                                • 3RM
                                • 05 Apr 2022

                                No SD card slot = NO BUY!
                                Please, don't give me the 'It's slow excuse'. I almost never use the camera, let alone take videos. I don't install apps on it. I just use it as backup storage for a LOT of things like movies, photos, torrents, apks, kits, scripts, programs etc.
                                I really wanted a new Note for my 1TB Extreme Pro SD card from SanDisk, but I guess I'm switching to Sony.
                                Bye-bye Samsung!

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                                  • 05 Apr 2022

                                  Newtmas, 05 Apr 2022Agreed. I’ve been using my iPhone XR since early 2019 and i... moreXR is a toy compared to the Note9, see & use them side by side.

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                                    • 05 Apr 2022

                                    Domestoboto, 05 Apr 2022But the transfer speeds of microSD cards are VERY low compa... moreThe purpose of having MicroSD is not to shoot 4K/8K or fastest memory copying.

                                    MicroSD is a cheap & convenient alternative to increase device storage.

                                    EXAMPLE- iphone 13 128gb cost ₹5000 compared to its 64gb model.so if theoretically iphone 13 supported MicroSD then you could get 64gb varient with MicroSD(cost-₹500-600) & transfer large files to MicroSD.
                                    This is the convenience & cost advantage of MicroSD.

                                    Cloud storage is expensive & less secure compred to MicroSD.

                                      Kiflom, 05 Apr 2022I'm not gaming on my phone, so I don't care about... moreSo with would u call iPhone 13 and 13 pro if these are not flagships

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                                        • 05 Apr 2022

                                        It is not GOS, it is the poor battery life, the Exynos and the unrefined software with all the glitches - display, camera, random freezes and restarts, phone calls disconnects and so on and so on…. That being said, I am an owner of S22 Ultra, but I am strongly considering selling it and going for something else. I am not a gamer, but 5-6h of SOT is a no go for me.