Oh noes... Does it at least have good battery, or maybe decent anthena? Or is it as big garbage as S22?

I don’t think that’s crazy. Having some preparedness is logical imo. I try to always carry a first aid box atleast. Edit: on my car. Don’t carry it in person.

No one is saying that everyone who hikes needs an inreach. But if someone has already decided that what they are doing requires them to have an inreach and they now own that inreach they shouldn't use an iPhone as a substitute.

Right but only helps you if you were at 100% and turned it on before you started out on whatever you are doing that would warrant an emergency satellite phone. In reality, you drove out to where ever, used the phone for directions, and now the phone is down to about 60% by the time you start. Being out in the hot/cold kills your battery while it constantly tries to find service. And before you know it your battery is at 10%. A garmin inreach in its most battery-heavy mode and conditions will last for 2 full days. If you are going for full battery saver mode it can be ready to use for a full year.

Still extremely expensive. My 48C1 has been great, 4K@120Hz and I paid $899 for it. $999 for a 27" QHD is wild, even at 240Hz and OLED.

OLED

Make it ultrawide and it will be worthwhile.

1k for a 27" screen is a little hard to swallow.

>Millions of people in the US hike and camp in areas without cell service every year.

Many of whom shouldn't.

When things like the SPOT came out a bunch of people who had no business being in the back country went to the back country with the attitude of "and if I get into trouble I can press this 911 button". Then started pressing the button to order hot chocolate, because their trail guide was snoring, or because they started a six hour hike at 3pm in shorts and without water and then realized that they were smrt enough to have the insta 911 button.

> Saying they should all pay hundreds of dollars a year for an inreach is ridiculous.

PLBs require no subscription.

Compared to normal LCDs, yes, but a good OLED display narrows that gap incredibly.

The thing causing that is crash detection, which is a completely different thing than the emergency SOS via satellite.

That's because the default settings are meant to be eye-catching... at the cost of watchability.

Believe me, this actually does mean something - and something big - for TV/monitor technology.

I think you might not understand what this is. iOS also has an emergency call thing, which functions similar to Samsung's (though it's slightly more difficult to activate, I've never done it by accident). That's existed for a long time, and would be on an iPhone 13 as well.

The thing the iPhone 14 added was the ability to contact emergency services even if you don't have cell service. It's an option within the existing emergency call system; if it detects you don't have service, it'll let you message search and rescue via a satellite system.

And they just figured out that if they use a different tape inside the battery (over simplified) they can cut battery drain dramatically

Truth is flat screens have comparatively worse image quality as what we had with good CRT screens.

Millions of people in the US hike and camp in areas without cell service every year. Saying they should all pay hundreds of dollars a year for an inreach is ridiculous. They take cellphones with them anyway and somehow manage to not break them.

Thought it was an ass with a thong lol

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How many times in my life have I ever needed an emergency SOS via satellite? Zero. Samsung doesn't need an answer. They don't need to invest resources into a .0000001% demographic.

It's okay to just sell a TV without trying to market it as some huge advancement. These features will immediately forgotten after purchase. I got a Sony TV like 15+ years ago and it's still working great. No need AT ALL for this retina burning btightness, 1000fps crap. That stuff makes the TV hard to look at, IMO.

Pretty sure emergency services will be happy as they keep having to 'rescue' skiers that just fell down.

Because they regurgitate paid content (like WSJ) and apply their spin to it. If you can read between the lines and the trash headlines you may learn something.

Samsung does have an answer, they have the stupid emergency call button right below the 0 on the unlock screen, worst idea ever. I was almost going to buy an iPhone until I heard about this feature. I better get a 13 before they are discontinued.

Oh that's neat. Sounds super useful. I'm surprised Samsung isn't pushing for this feature.

"60 percent brighter images and 30 percent wider viewing angles than conventional OLED displays"

I am not asking this sarcastically but Did you just not read that these are OLED? Or do you not think that oleds have any advantage over lcds? Or just don't know that OLED happen to be less brighter than lcds and are relatively a newer tech?

Lol the need for that article