Samsung dethrones Xiaomi in India in Q4 2022

16 March 2023
Xiaomi's heavy reliance on budget smartphones has backfired.

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Anonymous, 17 Mar 2023argument for samsung knox, that knox is more rooted deep in... moreand excusing bloatware for those clock,calendar,calc apps that barely take any storage
plus you can uninstall if you dont want those, just feel u trying hard to find point to critics
Man and do you think 100% of people will bothering with uninstall especially small children and elderly people??? Those ones who accidentaly could remove something else instead.
No they wont.

Man yes for you might be samsung apps better than google ones. Someone else finds opposite to be true it really doesnt matter boh of you can install or uninstall whathewer you wants. All i am trying to say all phones should come as a stock android with istaling anything else as an option not a must have when you run your phone for the first time and is already there.

beside on maker side, offering basic apps is more like necessity
just imagine, samsung phones filled with 90% google apps, so whats different to google pixel ?
what different/special with samsung phones then ? if you ever learn about branding(creating brand image), u should understand about this.
Lastly about this i understands you but its mixed by statement above. Whichh said all phones should come with stock android all UIs and branded Apps should come as option not as a must have no matter what.
Brand image is not made by UI or Apps.
Nothing phone or brand is close or equal to stock android as is different from others.
Same goes for Nokia, Motorola and many else.
Brand image is not based on UI or Apps related to said brand. Something else making brand image.

If we exclude all this mess and fuss mixed about how do you think brand image were done or made 20-30 years ago when samsung, Motorola, Nokia etc. phones already existed but there werent litterary no apps to differentiate those brands???

Once again brand image is something else just now those brands have much more options than 30 years ago.

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    Shadocx, 16 Mar 2023Oh yeah, there is absolutely no difference between both pho... moreA52S is better.

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      AnonD-731363, 17 Mar 2023Man nowdays more brands willing to give more updates and so... moreargument for samsung knox, that knox is more rooted deep into system
      rather than on-top of system, thats why it know(flagged) if you root/altered the system or installed non-official build
      thus samsung knox is not same to any 3rd party AV, it also work together with phone-remote-locking/wipe

      and excusing bloatware for those clock,calendar,calc apps that barely take any storage
      plus you can uninstall if you dont want those, just feel u trying hard to find point to critics

      its have few differences, and it matter of user preference
      like notes apps, samsung notes is better than google keep for me personally
      for calendar, google might be better, but its widget, samsung calendar widget is way better
      so with samsung phone, i rather have samsung calendar sync to google account rather than using google calendar

      beside on maker side, offering basic apps is more like necessity
      just imagine, samsung phones filled with 90% google apps, so whats different to google pixel ?
      what different/special with samsung phones then ? if you ever learn about branding(creating brand image), u should understand about this

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        [deleted post]Man nowdays more brands willing to give more updates and software support for a longer period of time and this will be extended even to more brands soon.
        Its good you talked about samsung but its irelevant. 2-3 years ago even samsung did not give more than 2-3 years of updates and security.

        And man nowdays any UI is like to say Bloatware because apps whch samsung offers are already there by google and usually better.
        We have a google chrome no need to have another brownser in phone.
        Same goes for clocks, calendar, notes, calculator etc.
        Everything is already there by gogole same thing from samsung just cost disk space and ram and puts another confusing uicon into your screen.
        Many people will find this burden. Thats what i was trying to say.
        Why to have Samsung Knox if i for example are customer of Avast antivirus since 2006 year. Someone else could use Eset or any other security the usingor plan to se there is tons of theses. Its on people what they want and need no need to force them.

        People are free to do whathewer they want but all phones should be released as a stocka Android phones with UI and other apps as an option.
        But forcing people to have something they never asked for is plain stupid,

        Lastly feel free to laugh as much as you want but try for example negotiate 80 years old husband and wife for things they wont understand at ther age but they need so called smartphone for example because town they live in been hit yb covid hard and cant travel outside for half year for example and this is their only option to get a video call to be with their childrens and grand childrens.
        There are countless of other scnenarios i picked one at random which came up to my mind since i own a phone shop company which sells phones on daily basis and many customers came every single day with many needs.

        Once again onyl 2% of the world are tech geeks which litterary needs everything in their cell phones and can use their phone to a maxmum 100%.
        Many especially older people or small kids visiting basic school have no knowledge of what tech geeks know and needs their phone only to work for most basic tasks.
        Reason they boughtor got as a gift from parents or childrens Samsung phone for example is because there want any other brands available.
        Since brands like Samsung and Apple sells in like 202 out of 206 countries in world this is easy answer why samsung. Because they are most popular.
        Visit for example US or Canada and try to buy a Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Realme etc in their in any phone store. Not possible. Maybe only va Alliexpress.

        Sorry its a bit more reading but tried to be 100% accurate.

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          jayDAWG, 17 Mar 2023I think you need to see a doctor, why would you care if oth... moreMan then explain me how many of Samsung customers who buy samsung phones uses all apps and UI and skin based apps in a samsung phone.
          Most people buy because they know the brand but use only most basic things.
          You also forgot the major fact brand like Apple or Samsung is available in 202 out of 206 countries in the world.
          Next time before you start insulting for no valid reason please use your brain and logic and put all the major fact together before you spit out some or another stupid nonsense.

          Once again 98% of the phone users are ordinary customers using most basic things they need and use for daily life and only 2% of the phone world are tech geeks which uses rest of the apps ,UI apps and many else things where ordinary people have no knowledge fo that and no passion for that because they simply dont know and they are simply not interested.
          Its simple as that but certain people will always act as they eat whole human history book and others just live their lives without having care for things they are not interested in.
          Thats those 98%.

          No need to thanks me. My educational lessons are always free.
          Please show me one chinese brand which is allowed to sell within US or Canada???
          That brand does not exist.
          Compared to that you can find Samsung and Apple in any store around the globe.

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            Samath N8 808 owner, 17 Mar 2023True & totally agreed. Google's bloatware is somet... moreMan o agree on that samsung dont spam ads in their UI lie XSiaomi or some other brands but to be honest all those ads can be turned off in a first time setup before you run into the main screen. And even in settings later you can turn everything off.
            Problem is solved.
            In case of Samsung you dont need because there aint ads to get rid off but tons of unwanted icons and apps.

              AnonD-731363, 17 Mar 2023Man yes stock android is empty great enough for alld evices... moreI think you need to see a doctor, why would you care if other people prefer more customisation and more features?

              More people buy Samsung than pixel, so your theory that stock is the best means nothing.

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                AnonD-731363, 17 Mar 2023Man yes stock android is empty great enough for alld evices... moreImagine making multiple comments, just because his favourite brand has lower sales than samsung👍

                  AnonD-731363, 16 Mar 2023Man good luck to you if you think Samsung UI is better. O... moreTrue & totally agreed. Google's bloatware is something tech reviews ignore like it doesn't exist. But we don't have a choice.
                  I'm not a Samsung fan, but at least Samsung don't serve explicit ads like Mi. This way its ok.
                  And we at least have a good chipset (SD750) in a good price(13k Indian rupees) in Samsung.

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                    [deleted post]Man yes stock android is empty great enough for alld evices which are not overbloated by heavy weight for CPU, GPU and RAM thus is better.
                    UIs are just a burden to CPU, GPU and RAm making your device slower over time littrary crawling and sweat like a pig on its slaughter day.
                    Thanks no. I can live without that. 98% of ordinary people too and those 2% like you are free to install whathewer bloatware, spyware, adaware, malware and other would say 2% user friendly viruses.
                    So feel free end enjoy but dont force majority to have something some kind or any kind of bloatware they never asked for.
                    Those non intuitive free from blaotware clean stock android things are called burden free.
                    I am not speaks of powerty i am man of simplicity.
                    We just dont want a sweating pig on its slaugher day fll of useless things which we never plan to use and if we ever plan to use we can install that without anyone forcing us to do so.

                    I really cant understand people like you who hates simplicity and instead needs complicity and litterary poke your nise into everything.

                      SathishKannan, 16 Mar 2023S20 FE is 2.5 years old device now and getting it for 30k i... moreAgreed, but its a 2.5 year old "flagship". Quality conscious users on a budget still get a good deal on it, as compared to the other products. Plus, Samsung's tendency to still give security updates go a long way.

                        rx8, 17 Mar 2023You live in a stonecave or what? Don't know something ... moreMy dude, people have been judging the icons of Android skins since 10 years ago. Half of the reason why touchwiz got so much hate was because of its hideous icons. I've never cared for those themes from the OEM's own theme store, they are usually the ugly and cartoony kind anyway.

                        If I actually wanted to theme my homescreen I would've installed a custom launcher with a nice icon pack, and some nice KWGT widgets. But if the stock UI is nice enough then I won't bother doing all that.

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                          Anonymous, 17 Mar 2023Funny statement. Because iphone is a poor mans Z Fold4/ ... moreThat’s funny because many rich people don’t even need the latest and greatest handset. It’s just a phone. As long as it gets their job done, it doesn’t matter too much

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                            NeonHD, 17 Mar 2023Ok but one UI is even more ugly. I don't understand ho... moreYou live in a stonecave or what? Don't know something called "themes" yet? Judging an entire android custom ui is bad solely because of the icons is the dumbest thing I see online today. You can choose from various themes in the galaxy themes.

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                              Anonymous, 16 Mar 2023Man consider your self lucky. 99% of people replace their ... moreWhat is your source of fact that 99% of people use phones for 2-3 years and then switch ?
                              Kind of weird to say 99% when Apple give 5 years of updates then probably the larger part of it's user based switch in 5 years

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                                NeonHD, 17 Mar 2023Ok but one UI is even more ugly. I don't understand ho... moreStock android phones sell much worse than OneUI phones... need more to explain?

                                  Anonymous, 17 Mar 2023Funny statement. Because iphone is a poor mans Z Fold4/ ... moreWhat??? Who told you this??? That's the wildest theory I've ever heard in tech

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                                    Indians are trying their best to avoid any Chinese phone brands loaded with ads and questionable backdoor spyware/malware. Samsung or Apple are the only ones left ... Also one UI and regular updates from samsung are being appreciated by users

                                      [deleted post]Ok but one UI is even more ugly. I don't understand how people think bold-colored squircles is even remotely nice looking.

                                        Anonymous, 16 Mar 2023Standard of living increases? Those who can afford it are a... moreNah people are buying it even they dont have disposable income. Smartphones have become such an integral part now a days for everyone, that most of them are considering the user experience rather than just performance.

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