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Last updated: February 26th, 2018 at 08:32 UTC+01:00
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Sure, consumer feedback is what drives the smartphone industry – or any industry, for that matter – forward, but I find it silly that Samsung had the guts to say that it listened carefully to our feedback and moved the sensor “directly below the camera, where it's even easier to reach.” Well, the statement followed what can be considered a minor jab at Apple for removing the fingerprint sensor with the iPhone X, but why is it that Samsung didn't realize the fingerprint sensor's location was out of whack on the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ when the handsets were undergoing internal testing during the development process?
Yes, design and time limitations may have been to blame for the awkward placement, but the Galaxy Note 8 didn't change anything, either. And I'm perfectly fine with that, at least if Samsung really did run into obstacles trying to put the fingerprint sensor below the camera on the S8 and Note 8. But I'm not down with the fact that the company has never owned up to the real reasons behind why it messed up. Instead, all we got was a marketing statement to show that Samsung cares about consumer feedback, and while the Galaxy S9 and S9+ are all the better for it, I'm not sure sweeping one of the company's biggest design mistakes under the rug this way is the right thing to do.
Abhijeet's writing career started with guides for custom firmware for Samsung devices (including the original Galaxy S), and he moved to SamMobile in mid-2013 and worked up the ranks to Editor-in-chief. In addition to phones and mobile devices, his interests include gaming on both PC and console, PC hardware, and spending countless hours on YouTube watching videos on tech, movies, games, politics, and internet dramas.
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