I really really really despise Samsung phones

But I have no other options because LG dropped out of the phone business.

The reason I loved my LG phone is, it had a red light on it. So if I charge my phone, a solid red light would show up until the phone was fully charged. If you got a text, the red light would blink as a notification.

My Samsung phone has none of that. My last Samsung phone, before I went to LG, got chopped up with a hatchet in Florida when I went down to visit my brother.

Anyway, I hope to God LG phones come back. LG is so much better.

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Heartlander · 80-89, M

If I can add, I once owned a s Samsung refrigerator. At about the 6 year point it slowly started losing temperature and within a week it was unable to maintain safe temperature for both frozen and just cold food.

The KC market is a pretty big market, and Samsung had no agents or facilities to repair their refrigerators. I called a couple of recommended appliance repair services and they responded that they didn't repair Samsung refrigerators.

That refrigerator is now probably in some landfill. With no one to repair it, we replaced it with a non-Samsung refrigerator.

twiigss · M

@Heartlander Good call on getting a non-Samsung refrigerator.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Heartlander "... in some landfill" ? Does you area not recover worn-out appliances etc, for their materials?

The OP is about LG and Samsung 'phones though.

I owned an LG2015 'phone for a few months. Clumsy, heavy, desperately difficult to use, no decent instructions available. (I was used professionally to all electronic and mechanical equipment being supplied with proper operating and servicing instructions.) I sold it and bought a much smaller and simpler portable telephone whose main function is... voice telephony!

Heartlander · 80-89, M

@ArishMell I know, but whenever I see the Samsung word I just feel compelled to express myself about it :)

Its disposition is unknown though I said "landfill". I left the disposition the the vendor of the Maytag replacement. They delivered the new one and hauled away the Samsung.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Heartlander @Heartlander I've never owned anything made by Samsung so can't compare experiences with it.

The Maytag dealers probably send the old appliances to a scrap-yard.

Some years ago now, the EU introduced what it calls its 'Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment" Directive, and this is still law in the UK. (A 'Directive' is a legal framework that is then translated and adapted to national laws without changing or weakening its aims - though there is nothing to stop governments from "gold-plating" it!) Under it, companies, local councils etc., have to dispose of scrap equipment in a proper way, recovering huge amounts of material.

It doesn't cover private individuals but the Councils have all introduced waste-collection systems to make it easy for householders; and many appliance sellers have a similar collections scheme to Maytag's for the old units.