aaronMar 3

Day one with the Galaxy Z Fold 7. Setup was a disaster. Smart Switch didn't. TalkBack went silent. Samsung installed everything I told it not to.

This is why nobody upgrades their Android phone.

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/galaxy-z-fold-seven-day-one-the-fold-has-arrived-setup-was-a-disaster-this-is-why-no-one-upgrades-their-android-phone/

#Samsung #GalaxyZFold7 #Android #TalkBack #Accessibility #Blind #tech #writing #blog #reviews

Galaxy Z Fold Seven Day One: The Fold Has Arrived. Setup Was A Disaster. This Is Why No One Upgrades Their Android Phone. — fireborn

Show threadCasey Reeves (it/its)Mar 3

@fireborn OMG this is like, almost so hillariously bad you'd almost laugh. Except you can't laugh because it's not actually funny at all.

Pretty glad my next phone is the iphone 17e.

Show threadaaron
@xogium Right? I hope tomorrow is better. Maybe I just got incredibly unlucky.
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Show threadCasey Reeves (it/its)Mar 3

@fireborn Maybe... But this being samsung, I honestly doubt it.

Your post makes me incredibly glad I never, ever went to samsung. That, plus all the failure over the years I kept reading about including the loss of speech over bluetooth during phone calls and the broken explore by touch if you had the display hidden.

Show threadaaronMar 3
@xogium Oh yeah, I had the broken explore by touch problem, but that was my fault for enabling without doing updates when I knew the bug existed.
Show threadCasey Reeves (it/its)Mar 3
@fireborn Sure but what I mean is, someone who doesn't know... Like a beginner? Just... Good god.
Show threadCasey Reeves (it/its)Mar 3

@fireborn Honestly the worst I've ever had with my iphone SE 3rd gen in nearly 5 years of usage is, it froze on me. Only twice. Twice, in almost 5 years. Thati s nothing compared to the worst I've seen from other manufacturers.

Was it scary? Sure was. The home button was still reacting but nothing else was going on, no tts, no sound, no haptics from VO. I had to force reboot it. But it never happened again.

I wouldn't trust android to not keep crashing like that if it did. That being said I believe VO also has no fallback if the system can't talk, exactly like talkback. I might be wrong though?

Show threadaaronMar 3
@xogium VO doesn't have a fallback as such, but you can add different voices from other engines to your voice rotor which you can navigate to in most cases.
Show threadD.Hamlin.MusicMar 3
@xogium @fireborn Yeah this is why the general rule is just stick with Pixel if you are a blind android user, never run across any more issues than I had when I still could see.
Show threadJonathanMar 4
@dhamlinmusic @xogium @fireborn Yup, this. Was about to say, I wonder if the Pixel fold would've given you similar issues.
Show threadaaronMar 4
@jonathan859 @dhamlinmusic @xogium aI couldn't say if it would or not with any degree of certainty. A lot of this seems to be failures on Samsung's part, but that wouldn't change the fundimental state of things, that a foldable is still a foldable
Show threadD.Hamlin.MusicMar 3
@fireborn @xogium Have Samsung fixed the issue where you'll just be bricked if you enable screen curtain
Show threadaaronMar 3
@dhamlinmusic @xogium Yes, appears so. I have screen dimmed right now and it's not doing anything stupid.
Show threadD.Hamlin.MusicMar 3
@fireborn @xogium Ok cause even by Samsung standards that was an impressive issue.
Show threadJoshuaMar 4
@dhamlinmusic @fireborn @xogium yep