Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra

> if you don't want any of these AI capabilities, you can spend a few minutes disabling and getting rid of most of them.

Why is this "a few minutes" and "most of them"? Why isn't it "a few seconds" and "all of them with a single toggle in Settings"?

This phone costs 1700 euros here... 1700 (Netherlands)! That is the price of a gaming laptop!

Everything has become so incredibly expensive it just isn't fun to buy anything anymore.

My iPhone 11's FaceID broke a few weeks ago and despite that I think I will just stick with it with today's phone prices.

People use their phone today to: Manage 100k+,1M+ bank accounts, 2FA, secret messaging, sensitive media, medication, credentials and more. This privacy feature makes a lot of sense. Give it a couple of iterations and I think this will be the standard in business. It never made sense to me the trust that we put on no one looking at the contents of a display at the same time as us.

> it doesn't dramatically reduce screen brightness or image quality.

AFAIK it significantly decreases the brightness. Jerry Rig Everything demonstrates this here - https://youtu.be/TRW4W7KkJXs?t=32

This chip is faster in Geekbench than the Ryzen 3900X system I just upgraded. At the time, this was at the top-end for multithreading performance, with a 105W TDP. Now outclassed by a phone.

How's the dex? It's close to the only thing I miss from samsungs, which I used good 15 years I guess before hopping onto grapheneos.

Does Live Caption Translate available? I think that feature is only available for Google Pixel which is unfortunate.

Yeah, watch out for those nosy people looking over your shoulder at your phone, they're spying on you.

Please ignore all the data mining we're doing on your phone and please don't make us continually harass you first thing in the morning every morning to accept new terms and conditions. (For what it's worth, my Fold 7 harasses me to accept two sets of updates to terms and conditions first thing in the morning every morning)

I was hoping, this being Wired, the article would have at least a surface-level technical description of how a software-defined privacy filter works, but alas.

How does it work? I'm guessing it's some kind of extension of the LCD polarizer, but all I can find online are explanations of the software like in the Wired article.

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