Samsung Just Can’t Catch a Break, But Let’s Not Joke About It

Jan. 4, 2018

Samsung has been making some of the best flagship smartphones for years. True, its ‘TouchWiz UI’, now named ‘Samsung Experience UI’ is the exact opposite of what I like in Android phones, and it slows things down a lot, but just looking at Samsung’s hardware, it’s top notch. It’s stuffed with technology, and innovative (mostly useful) features.

Lately, however, it seems as though the South Korean giant just can’t catch a break. The company is suffering through multiple issues, and even though I really dislike their smartphones (only because of the UI), I can’t help but feel bad about it.

For months, the company was the butt of all the jokes in the world of technology. Fire jokes, blast jokes, jokes about how Samsung phones could be used at the New Year instead of fireworks and so on. Not gonna lie, they were funny when they started, but they got insensitive and boring after a while.

The new Samsung Galaxy 7 is water resistant, which comes in handy when you’re trying to extinguish it from being on fire.

I have an iPhone but I hear the new Samsung Galaxy is lit 🔥

To cap things off, Samsung also got stuck in a major bribery case — a case that, by the way, resulted in South Korea’s first woman President getting impeached, and Samsung’s de-facto Chairman, Lee Jae-yong getting jailed.

For a moment, everything was fine. The Note 8 had no fiery issues, and didn’t start blowing up people’s cars just because it was hot inside. Samsung seemed to be on track for a perfect year, and oh what a comeback it had been.

But then, it happened again. Battery issues, it seems, have taken a liking to Samsung’s flagships. The Note 8 (at least some units) gotbricked if the battery reached 0%. That’s just plain weird. Samsung ignored the first few issues — no blame there, these things happen — but then the complaints started rising in a manner reminiscent of last year’s Note 7 debacle, andSamsung had to take note(no pun intended).

The situation is still developing, and we can only guess why this happened to the Note 8, but as of now, Samsung is having some really poor luck with its Note series. The worst part is, this phone really deserves to be out there — it’s a great device. I still don’t like the UI, butthe phone has everything one would want in a flagship smartphone, and the camera, as Samsung’s cameras always are, is top-notch.

What we do know, is that a company like Samsung can bounce back from almost anything. It’s awesome like that, but we — as consumers, journalists, and tech-enthusiasts — owe it to the company that gave us years of great smartphone experiences, to not ridicule them for their failures. Heck, Apple made theiPhone Xand Apple loyalists will fight you if you tell them the design sucks, the phone is overpriced, and the cameras aren’t nearly as good as they should’ve been. Samsung actually deserves fans like that. After all, everything aside, Samsung’s phones are top of the class, and nigh unbeatable in every aspect.