Phone for filming and editing while on trail?

Charlie83

Thru Hiker
The article linked to by @tarptent is about what became the S20 series (though like many, the Express' predictions were none too accurate), which was announced on February 11 and released in early March.
Not that that means they can't have an S11 in the future, but most people seem to expect an S21 next.

I didn't read it :D I'd rather slam my bits repeatedly in the knife drawer than open any link to the express.
 

Odd Man

Thru Hiker
Thanks for the detailed clarification. Luckily it was only the Note 7 that was affected...Probably just a bad batch of batteries that Samsung got in from cheap from China. But the batteries in iPhones have also been known to spontaneously combust too:

And their chargers too: https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/iphone-charger-faulty-technology-8066132

Actually, it wasn't a bad batch of batteries, it was a design flaw in the battery itself that would make the batteries explode in certain conditions.

In the original run of devices, the battery, produced by Samsung SDI,[39] contained a design flaw that made electrodes on the top-right of the battery susceptible to bending. This weakened separation between positive and negative tabs of the battery, thus resulting in thermal runaway and short circuits.[33][34]

The story that you linked about iPhone chargers was about cheap 3rd party chargers, and had nothing to do with Apple.

After months of warning about Whirlpool tumble dryers catching fire, I’ve been alerted to another household blaze hazard – unofficial iPhone chargers.

Which means this can happen with any brand when using cheap, 3rd party chargers.
 

Odd Man

Thru Hiker
Problem with being tied to a single manufacturers os is that the market stops working without competition!

I agree, but also Android is a Google's OS. It's just the HW manufacturers put a skin and their own apps/services on top of it. There are also a few Chinese OS's based on open source linux mod, as is the Finnish Sailfish. Then there are number of simple 'dumbphone' OSs with the cheap feature phones. There is the open source Linux OS Tizen. However coding drivers to maximise the HW opportunities is very slow on these as they don't come pre bundled with phone.

iOS works well for its users, because of the tight SW - HW integration. This also makes is more secure, but also limits the options. Google Pixel phones tend to work really well as they order the phone HW based on their new Android version, whereas Samsung & al need to optimise their HW based on the latest/upcoming Android version.

But if we at least have different equally competing ecosystems (as we do now), then we have decent competition.
 

Alf Outdoors

F.K.A tarptent
The article linked to by @tarptent is about what became the S20 series (though like many, the Express' predictions were none too accurate), which was announced on February 11 and released in early March.
Not that that means they can't have an S11 in the future, but most people seem to expect an S21 next.

I wonder why they jumped straight from S11 to S20? Maybe some Korean superstition?
 

Enzo

Thru Hiker
I agree, but also Android is a Google's OS. It's just the HW manufacturers put a skin and their own apps/services on top of it. There are also a few Chinese OS's based on open source linux mod, as is the Finnish Sailfish. Then there are number of simple 'dumbphone' OSs with the cheap feature phones. There is the open source Linux OS Tizen. However coding drivers to maximise the HW opportunities is very slow on these as they don't come pre bundled with phone.

iOS works well for its users, because of the tight SW - HW integration. This also makes is more secure, but also limits the options. Google Pixel phones tend to work really well as they order the phone HW based on their new Android version, whereas Samsung & al need to optimise their HW based on the latest/upcoming Android version.

But if we at least have different equally competing ecosystems (as we do now), then we have decent competition.

Very true, os was a poor way to describe what apple seems to be.
Lots of people seem tied to Apple so even if the competition is good the market doesn't work.
 

Odd Man

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Very true, os was a poor way to describe what apple seems to be.
Lots of people seem tied to Apple so even if the competition is good the market doesn't work.

iOS only holds about 27% of the market vs 73% for Android, but IRCC iPhone 11 became the most sold Smartphone model on its (high end) market segment, but this is only because there are multiple competing models, even with the same brand, like Samsung which has multiple models in the same market segment which fragments the segment a lot. This has been the Apple strategy, to produce products to high end segment where the margins are more profitable, but because of that it seems that most people are tied to Apple ecosystem. There are massive volumes of mid- and low-priced Androids sold in the world, especially in the developing countries where Chinese OEM manufactures pump out generic phones that make Android the majority of the global sales, but those margins are very thin.
 
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