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@techdroider Buh still no "wipe cache partition " for the minimization of planned obsolescence ?

Samsung hasn't removed Download Mode. It's just hidden now and mainly intended for service centers. It's still possible to flash firmware using Odin and enter Download Mode, but now you'll need to enable Maintenance Mode first for the option to appear. So no, Download Mode isn't gone. Samsung has just hidden it instead of removing it.

vivo X300 Ultra vs Galaxy S26 Ultra 6800mAh vs 5000mAh Thanks to the silicon-carbon anode battery, even though the camera takes up a large area, vivo's battery capacity is still larger than that of Samsung. Therefore, the battery not only affects the battery life but also the improvement space of the camera. If the S26 Ultra had adopted vivo's camera instead of the silicon-carbon anode battery, the battery capacity might only have been 4000mAh.

@CallanNik @UniverseIce Started with the Samsung Galaxy mini through to s3,s5 now on a Galaxy A34,if Honor phone were being sold wholly in my country, would have like to try them.

@UniverseIce I'm a long term galaxy user since the s3. I've owned probably 10+ of their flagships. The Chinese brands have always put specced them but Samsung software was always superior. That's not the case any more. I've ordered a one plus 15 and had a find x8 pro before that.

If you want to understand the future of Samsung phones, reading this article of mine is enough. TM Roh has seized the highest authority over the mobile terminal business. Where is Samsung's phone division headed? What roles will TM Roh, Lee Jae-yong , and Choi Won-joonplay? Here’s my analysis and breakdown: “After TM Roh’s Rise to ‘Dual Giant’ Status: Samsung Mobile’s New Power Structure and Long-Term Risks” Samsung announced a personnel shuffle today that caught my eye: TM Roh, the former head of the MX division, has officially been promoted to CEO of Samsung Electronics and put in charge of the entire DX division, forming a dual-CEO structure alongside Jun Young-hyun, who runs the DS (semiconductor) side. In plain terms, the man famous for squeezing every last cent of cost and chasing every last cent of profit now sits on the throne of every consumer device Samsung makes. To many buyers he is the guy who quietly trimmed, thinned and cheapened the Galaxy flagships year after year. To the founding family he is the only executive who reliably keeps the mobile money machine climbing. If you want to understand where Samsung phones go next, three names are unavoidable: TM Roh, Choi Won-joon and Lee Jae-yong. 1. TM Roh: king of profit, not of product Roh now runs the whole DX bucket: phones, tablets, TVs, home appliances, wearables, even bits of network gear. His playbook is brutally simple. - Specs only need to be “not so bad that people refuse to buy.” Anything beyond that can stay the same or be downgraded. - Any hardware dollar that can be cut must be cut, so the margin graph and the share price graph both tilt north. That is why you see the same main camera sensor reused for three straight years, the periscope shrinking, the battery stuck at 5000 mAh, the shell barely changed, the charging wattage still anemic, the marketing deck the only thing that gets a facelift. It is why Europe keeps getting Exynos chips even while local reviewers scream. It is why foldables are priced like luxury handbags instead of spec monsters. On the quarterly spreadsheet the tactic works: Samsung was still global shipment leader in Q2 and Q3 2025, and MX profit keeps setting records. Only Apple and Samsung sit safely in the top brand tier worldwide. The catch is that every won of short-term profit is borrowed against long-term appeal. 2. Choi Won-joon: the open-minded tech boss with tied hands Inside the phone division the number-two figure is Choi Won-joon. In two years he has jumped from head of MX R&D to president and COO of MX, while still overseeing engineering and global operations. Outsiders describe him as an engineer who is open, aggressive, allergic to boredom, and allergic to AI buzzwords that do nothing for real users. Most of the Galaxy AI features that actually ship bear his fingerprints. He is the guy arguing in the conference room, “Give me ten more dollars on the BOM this year or we will look silly next to Xiaomi.” I am told he fought hard for a 200 MP 1/1.12-inch sensor in the S27 Ultra, but the request is likely to be shot down upstairs. Upstairs is now TM Roh. So the phone group will live inside a permanent tug-of-war: Choi pulls for tech and delight, Roh pulls for margin and predictability. While that power map stays intact, you may get gentle improvements, but you will not get a sudden spec monster that leapfrogs Chinese flagships. 3. Lee Jae-yong: does he care if Samsung phones lose the spec race? The chairman’s view can be read from the org chart. He likes the dual-CEO setup, one for DX, one for DS. He fills key posts with engineers, yet the KPI that matters first is operating income and share price, not review scores. Does he mind that Samsung cameras, screens and batteries are no longer the undisputed kings? His actions say he knows the Chinese are out-spending him, but as long as Samsung keeps roughly twenty percent global share and the brand still commands a premium, he sees no reason to torch cash. His priority list is short: - Get the semiconductor business back on its feet in process and yield. - Secure long-term bets on AI, compute and advanced research. - Keep the consumer business profitable. “Reclaim number one in mobile imaging” is not in the top three. He wants the handset division to mint money; he is less interested in whether it mints admiration. 4. Why Samsung would rather be roasted than give up a single point of margin On the surface it looks stingy. Under the hood it is incentive design plus chaebol culture plus risk aversion. First, the bonus formula. A Samsung division president is judged on one- to three-year operating profit, share performance and cash flow stability. If Roh proposes adding twenty percent cost for a chance at twenty percent more sales, the board sees only downside: victory is expected, defeat is a firing offense. Nobody volunteers to be the martyr who killed the margin. Second, the chaebol mindset. Hierarchy is sacred, stability is holy, mature businesses are not playgrounds for moonshots. You will not see Samsung reboot its camera system in twelve months or green-light a flagship that knowingly loses money for brand halo. The safe career move is to keep milking the cow. Third, nobody will sign the radical cheque. To load a Galaxy with truly top-tier parts you must promise the board that profit will dip yet recover later. In a business already printing cash, that promise is career suicide. So the unspoken consensus is “everyone knows we must fight harder, but no one wants to be the first to spend.” 5. The double punch: Chinese brands sailing overseas and Apple spending lavishly at home Above Samsung sits Apple, below it swarm Xiaomi, Vivo, Oppo and Honor. In India, Southeast Asia, Middle East and Africa those brands already meet Samsung head-on. In China Samsung is a rounding error. Their shared playbook is simple: over-deliver on camera, battery, charging and screen minutiae, price aggressively, flood every channel. Once a user has lived with a Chinese flagship, a Galaxy can feel insultingly parsimonious. Meanwhile Apple, cushioned by its own fat margin, keeps writing fat cheques to Sony for custom sensors, and to its own R&D for next-gen HDR and LOFIC tech. Consumers now slot “photo king” to Huawei-Vivo-Xiaomi and “video king” to Apple. Samsung lingers on the list out of habit, not merit. 6. Can Samsung hold the line forever? Shipments say it is still number one, and foldables give it a brief moat. Yet if the current script continues, the long-term risks are clear: - Premium aura erodes. - Foldable lead is being devoured by Huawei and Honor at home and by aggressive Chinese pricing abroad. - If Apple enters the foldable game next year, Samsung will be squeezed between Apple’s ecosystem above and Chinese value below. Without a counter-attack in the next one or two flagship cycles, Samsung will not collapse overnight; it will fade like Nokia, still present, increasingly irrelevant. 7. The probable script for the three leading actors TM Roh will stay the profit sentinel as long as the money tap flows. Choi Won-joon will keep pushing for braver specs, ready to take center stage if the numbers ever wobble. Lee Jae-yong will keep writing billion-dollar checks for fabs and labs, satisfied if the phone division merely stays lucrative. 8. How to watch the story unfold Do not bet on a sudden “Galaxy moment of conscience.” The S26 and S27 will likely offer polished AI tricks, not spec-sheet dominance. The real signal is when Samsung green-lights a flagship that visibly costs more to build. That will mark the instant the board admits profit alone is no longer enough. Until then, users hold the loudest vote. If enough premium buyers switch to Chinese brands or to Apple, the pain will travel up the org chart and Lee Jae-yong will discover that saving pennies can cost dollars. Epilogue Today’s promotion crowns TM Roh the undisputed winner inside Samsung. A decade from now history will label him either the hero who rescued margins or the villain who hollowed out Galaxy. The verdict depends on whether Samsung, at least once, is willing to gamble on raw product power instead of pure profit.

@UniverseIce If Honor phones were active in my country I would think twice,and also Huawei before ban will be the best choice.

For our group of people, Samsung has no future. Although there are many surprises from One UI and AI behind, these can't stop the arrival of megatrends, and there have been irreparable cracks in Samsung's building. Samsung's cost control will continue. They want to make more profits. It's time for us old Samsung users to leave Samsung gradually. Similarly, there will be a new batch of new users to fill our position. There are so many people in the world, and Samsung still has enough time and resources to continue to live. This is Samsung's inherent advantage. So, which brand will you embrace after leaving Samsung?

@hon_adutette @UniverseIce Its would be a wise choice, especially since these upgrade are seemingly minimal,especially the battery size.

@UniverseIce I'm getting the s25 ultra to wait for the s27 ultra or s28 ultra. By then, the new tech used in s25 ultra will be better off

This is what we currently know about the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra: The body will become even thinner at 7.x mm, with slightly increased width and height, while weighing a few grams less 6.9-inch display featuring CoE depolarizer technology + third-generation anti-reflective glass Camera upgrades: HP2 (2026) sensor with ultra-large aperture, new 3x sensor, and larger aperture for the 5x lens 5000mAh battery with 60W fast charging Snapdragon 8 Elite2 for Galaxy (4.74GHz CPU, 1300MHz GPU), with Exynos 2600 under testing Will run One UI 8.5

I still feel more excited looking at electronics than meeting girls.

@TheGalox_ All this for a watch ?

So good it has to be used again Galaxy Watch8 series will be powered by the Exynos W1000 A year after its release it is still the fastest smartwatch chip • 1x Cortex A78 at 1.6GHz • 4x Cortex A55 at 1.5GHz • Mali G68 MP2 • 3nm GAA process • LPDDR5 memory