I have a 5. Now that the new Razr+ is out, and they seem to have addressed most of the previous issues, that’s the one I’ll be looking at next.
Why? Samsung software. It’s pervasive and hard to remove, or even often just to disable. And Samsung collects all of the data. It’s crazy how much is shipped back to Samsung servers.
If you don’t care about that kind of thing, the hardware is nice. But I’m looking elsewhere for my next flip phone.
Motorola’s software is a lot less intrusive. Off the top of my head there is not a single important feature I can think of which is locked behind a Motorola account (though I am yet to get the Android 14 and Hello UI update, so I’m not sure if that changed things), whereas Samsung forces you to create and login to a Samsung account to access many of the features which make One UI so customisable. You can disable/uninstall/not create an account to minimise data leakage but then you’re missing out on some of the stuff which makes Samsung phones particularly good (like Good Lock).
I have a 5. Now that the new Razr+ is out, and they seem to have addressed most of the previous issues, that’s the one I’ll be looking at next.
Why? Samsung software. It’s pervasive and hard to remove, or even often just to disable. And Samsung collects all of the data. It’s crazy how much is shipped back to Samsung servers.
If you don’t care about that kind of thing, the hardware is nice. But I’m looking elsewhere for my next flip phone.
Is Motorola any better? I kinda assume they’re all doing that at this point. Because why wouldn’t they?
Motorola’s software is a lot less intrusive. Off the top of my head there is not a single important feature I can think of which is locked behind a Motorola account (though I am yet to get the Android 14 and Hello UI update, so I’m not sure if that changed things), whereas Samsung forces you to create and login to a Samsung account to access many of the features which make One UI so customisable. You can disable/uninstall/not create an account to minimise data leakage but then you’re missing out on some of the stuff which makes Samsung phones particularly good (like Good Lock).
Wooooow that is obnoxious but unsurprising.