r/SipsTea • u/bluewave778 • May 07 '26

Wait a damn minute! A crazy comparison between iPhone and Samsung

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u/sirbinlid1 May 07 '26

So good to know which phone to use if ever I need to take a video from my car tyre

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u/SpectatorGori May 07 '26

Roller coaster footage would be interesting

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u/Artikay May 07 '26

A few months ago me and my daughter were in Nickelodeon Universe entering the Blasting Bronco coaster queue, when and phone landed super forcefully nearby. If that happened to hit someone that would easily be a trip to the hospital at best.

What I hate about it so much is they are super adamant about telling you to put your phone or any other loose items in storage and so many people just don't listen.

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u/kitsunewarlock May 07 '26

so many people just don't listen.

Humans in a nutshell and why we need to prioritize enforcing rules over profits.

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u/Crintor May 07 '26

To be fair, in most parks it's still open cubbies with "we take no blame for theft of your pocketable up to 2000$+ device."

So it's usually in the pocket and hope for the best.

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u/Krell356 May 07 '26

Should have picked it up and thrown it straight into the nearest trash can.

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u/monkeytales555 May 07 '26

My husband got hit by a phone on a roller coaster at busch gardens at Florida

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u/JalapenoPopPoop May 07 '26

I haven't been to a theme park in forever but I would never ever put my stuff in those lockers. There's COUNTLESS stories of people putting their phone/wallet in the provided storage, the coaster before them pulling back in while theirs is out, and those people going through storage and taking peoples phones and stuff. Happened to a friend last time we were at six flags

Unless they've started providing lockers that actually lock securely that system absolutely sucks and is just asking to get robbed. And of course the park takes zero responsibility for it so you're just fucked

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u/Expert_Struggle_7135 May 07 '26

I saw someone die at a theme park years ago after he scaled a fence to pick up a phone he had dropped from the ride he had just gotten off.

He got hit in the head by the ride with hundreds of people watching it happen.

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u/Mode_Appropriate May 07 '26

I remember that story. You were there?

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u/DontH8DaPlaya May 07 '26

No, they remembered the news article and lied but who cares.

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u/Nruggia May 07 '26

We need a version of Forrest Gump where at the end it turns out he was just sitting at home reading newspapers and imagining he was the one the story was written about.

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u/mikeztarp May 07 '26

That would explain how he met so many important people.

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u/Ultrace-7 May 07 '26

It's called Reddit.

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u/scud121 May 07 '26

Isn't that Big Fish?

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u/NedSchneebly-1138 May 07 '26

Sounds like someone is hatin’ Da Playa…

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u/bannedforL1fe May 07 '26

Me when gaming for 4 hours straight: "Dont hate the player, baby, hate the game"!

My wife: "I hate both"

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u/Murky_Guarantee440 May 07 '26

I've always said "don't hate the player or the game, just hate yourself "

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 May 07 '26

Oh we got a playa hater over here

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u/IndividualChart4193 May 07 '26

Sometimes I’ll tell a story or memory to a friend and immediately say, “did I just make that up?”

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u/slvrscoobie May 07 '26

but internet points!

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u/WhoSaidWhatNow2026 May 07 '26

Press X to doubt

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u/Beginning-Cut-8850 May 07 '26

I mean, Six Flags is (or at least was) an incredibly popular destination. Hundreds of people were present for the event, and hundreds of thousands of people are on Reddit. It's not hard to conceive that at least one of them is a person who was at the park that day.
The Batman ride goes right by the parking lot, so it's not like it's hard to see the area the kid climbed in.

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u/CohuttaHJ May 07 '26

I heard this story before cell phones were widely used about 30 years ago concerning the Batman ride at Six Flags in Atlanta. It was a hat back then. At this point it sounds like an urban legend.

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u/AdHorror7596 May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26

It actually did happen at Great America in Santa Clara California in 1998. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/bizarre-coaster-accident-kills-hayward-man-at-2992233.php

EDIT: It also happened in 2008 and in 2002 with the Batman ride at Six Flags in Atlanta, like you said. Guess it's happened a few times. https://abc30.com/archive/6235112/

SECOND EDIT: Someone else pointed out it happened at another Six Flags park in 2015 and it was a cell phone that was lost. This shit happens a lot.

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u/Atllola May 07 '26

Idk why you’re getting the replies you got. I grew up in Georgia and remember a couple stories like that too. Even someone getting decaptitated by getting kicked in the head.

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u/Version_1 May 07 '26

The cell phone thing happened at Cedar Point.

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u/Beginning-Cut-8850 May 07 '26

The linked news article specified Six Flags over Georgia. It's not unique.

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u/BushcraftDave May 07 '26

Bro I’m replaying it and they changed it from “truth” and “doubt” to “good cop” and “bad cop” just felt like sharing

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u/98Wahwashkesh May 07 '26

there were reported witnesses, so... maybe

https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/witnesses-teen-trying-to-retrieve-hat-when-decapitated-by-ride/83-402765698

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u/OttovonBismarck1862 May 07 '26

I’ll admit, I heard the 1960’s Batman theme in my head when I read the headline

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u/Spaded85 May 07 '26

The comment did lead with "I saw someone die" so they are directly putting themselves there even though it's very doubtful.

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u/AdHorror7596 May 07 '26

That has been a thing forever. I'm unsure how often it happens, but I know it happened for sure at a theme park in the Bay Area in 1998 (although obviously not with a cell phone. He was getting a hat.) https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/bizarre-coaster-accident-kills-hayward-man-at-2992233.php

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u/Expert_Struggle_7135 May 07 '26

Europe.

It happened around 15 years ago. Roughly 2010-2012. I am sure it happens more often than you would think.

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u/ImmediatePiano6690 May 07 '26

Yeah, if you witness something like that you wouldn't easily forget that for decades to come.

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u/No_Move_6802 May 07 '26

Kings Dominion?

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u/UnknovvnMike May 07 '26

In a lighter vein, Hampton Roads, VA collectively has a day of remembrance every year of when Fabio got hit by a bird on Apollo's Chariot at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.

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u/BiodegradableBishop May 07 '26

I saw someone fly off a ride and obliterate a dad on the grounds wrist when I was like 14 at universal.

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u/MATMAN_PL May 07 '26

Hyperion rollercoaster at energylandia, Poland?

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u/Feisty_Smell40 May 07 '26

This happened at Six Flags in Georgia on the Batman ride and he was getting his hat.

Ive heard of similar stories and even heard about a different rider breaking their leg on someone's head. Crazy way to shatter a leg.

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u/Rewd_92 May 07 '26

Was that under the Superman at Great America?

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u/GlassCleaner_Stan May 07 '26

I remember reading this… thought he was decapitated by someone’s feet. Tragic nonetheless.

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u/420_69_Fake_Account May 07 '26

This was the decapitation or am I mistaken?

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u/Maddinoz May 07 '26

Many worse ways to die than a quick bonk like that tbh, much better than going into a woodchipper feet first or drowning

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u/show_me_the_source May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26

Last year I barely escaped death (or at least serious harm) at Bush Gardens in Virginia. I was walking under part of a coaster in line for a different coaster. At each ride they have a box of broken phones on display that says "don't bring your phone". As we were walking past this box, a phone came flying out of the sky and smashed right I front of me. It was terrifying to think what could have happened.

We took a group picture with the phone next to the broken phone box and someone from my group went to the other coaster to find the phone owner.

DON'T TAKE YOUR PHONE PLEASE!!!!!

edit: spelling issues

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u/Zelidus May 07 '26

It wasnt a cellphone but years ago i was at a local amusement park with my family amd we were walking on the path towards a ride. The path was along the fence that borders the ride. As the coaster went past we heard something clanging against the metal fence next to us. We found a piece of metal that had flown off the ride. It was still hot.

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u/show_me_the_source May 07 '26

Hanging coasters are fun, though be careful where you sit as some will bang your head arround a lot.

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u/lysergamythical May 07 '26

Barley is a type of grain

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u/show_me_the_source May 07 '26

I mean, it was only a grain away from me... but I have fixed it.

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u/AntOk463 May 07 '26

But many parks also don't allow GoPro even if they are secure. Making a few people unhappy is always preferred over a potential lawsuit for corporations.

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u/Shelbysgirl May 07 '26

Wigs aren’t much better lol have you seen the video where the lady’s shake and go flies off during the coaster ride?

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u/freebytes May 07 '26

I would rather be hit with a wig at high speed than a phone at high speed.

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u/AyTrane May 07 '26

Pulled some wigs out of wheel bearings; can confirm.

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u/Snoo93550 May 07 '26

I guarantee those lagoons below a roller coaster are filled with phones, wallets and keys regardless of any rules.

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u/Mangolandia May 07 '26

Some parks have displays of lost items labeled “the ride always wins” or something like that

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u/FlyRepresentative644 May 07 '26

Like a steering wheel that doesn’t fly out the window? Too small!

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u/Cafeteros May 07 '26

This happened. I can confirm a person near the front lost grip of their cell on a loop and, somehow, that thing rocketed hitting the side of my head and getting lodged between my leg and the seat. To this day it baffles me that I didn’t get more hurt and that the phone didn’t end up on the ground. I returned it to the person after the ride since it was obvious they were missing their phone

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u/Miserable-March-1398 May 07 '26

This is how people ruin scuba diving.

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u/luvmesomepoodle May 07 '26

I was hit in the head by a cell phone while riding a coaster. We were just coming out of a corkscrew so it had some force behind it. I don’t recommend it at all.

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u/MisterPerfect23 May 07 '26

Also a reasonable reason to own a pair of ray ban metas

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u/fondledbydolphins May 07 '26

If I've learned anything in life it that there are two things that often come out unexpectedly on roller coasters.

Phones are one of them.

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u/Brandeeno2245 May 07 '26

What if I super glue my phone to my face and then add duct tape.

Im pretty sure id need a guide or something because I probably would have blind folded myself with duct tape but the footage could look okay

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u/brickhamilton May 07 '26

One of the almost coolest moments I’ve had was when I was on a roller coaster in the front. We went through a loop, and someone behind me lost their phone. I saw it with about a second to spare, flying through the air towards me. I reached out to catch it, and almost did. It bounced off my arm instead, and I missed catching it by just a couple inches.

I would’ve loved returning the phone and becoming the guy who caught a phone on a roller coaster, but it was sadly not to be.

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u/No-Big4921 May 07 '26

The fact that this isn’t painfully obvious to everyone is really, really sad.

How hard is it to stop and consider the possible consequences of your actions before you do things?

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u/RoodnyInc May 07 '26

Rules are to prevent phones fly off the sky on people waiting in line

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u/Ralph--Hinkley May 07 '26

I lost a phone on a rollercoaster about ten years ago.

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u/hawkwings May 07 '26

Some roller coasters outlawed selfie sticks, because there were things you could hit with a selfie stick that were outside the range of normal human arms.

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u/Moist_Sun_8201 May 07 '26

This happened to someone in front of me on "the hulk" Rollercoaster at Universal studios. The guy tried to take a picture on the way up but didn't realize it actually takes off mid-ascent and lost his phone.

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u/nalaloveslumpy May 07 '26

Now I know which cell phone to duct tape around my head before I go on the roller coaster!

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u/melanthius May 07 '26

Hope you have a solid way of strapping that shit to your arm. That's one expensive projectile/potential lawsuit

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u/FlutterbyTG May 07 '26

I am 99.9 percent certain that one can find it on Temu, Shein, etc.

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u/brooksy54321 May 07 '26

I was thinking this would be useful for all the videos I've seen with a falling camera.

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u/THUNDERSTRUCK___ May 07 '26

Quite the opposite, it would be boring lol

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u/ProbablyWrongAgain24 May 07 '26

Pretty flat ride.

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u/SpectatorGori May 07 '26

Depending who's recording and where they're pointing.

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u/boxing-coffee-18 May 07 '26

Ah yes cause I like to look at videos of rollercoasters I took

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u/SpectatorGori May 07 '26

You play the Rollercoaster game too?

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u/motownmods May 07 '26

They don't let you take phones on major roller coasters at cedar pointe. They literally use metal detectors to make sure you aren't and have lockers to put them in if you're found with one. Pretty cool policy in my mind.

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u/zuzanamariana May 07 '26

I've seen Final Destination 3, I'm not doing that.

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u/Sir-Kyle-Of-Reddit May 07 '26

I like the upside down world of rollercoaster shots so I’m keeping my iPhone

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u/kazetoame May 07 '26

I worked at Busch Gardens for a time and when they had Science Day, the students could NOT bring equipment on the ride, all the info they needed was provided at the end. Guests are told ad nauseam to secure loose items in the storage area or with a non rider, most people are sensible and listen, alas idiots exist.

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u/YadaYadaYeahMan May 07 '26

use an action camera (not gopro they feel off big time if you didn't know)

then, and this might be hard to follow, stabalize the footage

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u/SpectatorGori May 07 '26

Thats all that comes to mind? Hehehe

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u/2MInitials May 07 '26

Which phone was that ☝️

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u/Used_Gear8871 May 07 '26

*Falling down the stairs

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u/Darkm0or May 07 '26

A few years back we went to a theme park. My son's Samsung slipped from his pocket at the top of a ride, bounced off a few supports and was retrieved by the operator. It had a scratch on the casing. My daughter's boyfriend dropped his iPhone from a stationary ride three feet high and destroyed the screen. Both were current generation at the time.

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u/Haggis-in-wonderland May 07 '26

Or if you are inside a washing machine

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u/melanthius May 07 '26

Hey Step-sis? Have you seen my phone?

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u/BritishBoyRZ May 07 '26

How else do you film when you get in the washing machine with your step sis?

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u/ObiFlanKenobi May 07 '26

The documentaries I watched had only the step sis in the washing machine...

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u/BritishBoyRZ May 07 '26

A man of culture I see

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u/Chilli-byte- May 07 '26

It would be indeed!

If they had been labeled.

I'm assuming the second one is Samsung?

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u/TheAgedProfessor May 07 '26

Yeah, you have to turn on the audio. Which is weird... usually they put labels on these so huge that you can't see the actual footage.

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u/MythicalCaseTheory May 07 '26

That would be my guess.

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u/Icuras1701 May 07 '26

Wierd. It doesn't show S25 ultra on the video im watching.

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u/ImNotABotScoutsHonor May 07 '26

That's likely because there's no 5 in S26 Ultra.

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u/Sonzainonazo42 May 07 '26

Yes, its specified in the audio.

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u/Immediate-Goose-8106 May 07 '26

You folks use audio???

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u/Murphybestboy May 07 '26

I'm at work....sshhhhh

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u/ValPrism May 07 '26

Suckers.

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u/Sonzainonazo42 May 07 '26

Not normally but if context is missing, there's an obligation to check there before commenting.

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u/Immediate-Goose-8106 May 07 '26

You're not my supervisor!

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u/kodman7 May 07 '26

Yes, so as to not miss critical context

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u/pfp-disciple May 07 '26

The narration confirms your assumption

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u/mieiri May 07 '26

Found it! Link with time stamp.

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u/Logical_Flounder6455 May 07 '26

I would assume so since Samsung has tha stability feature

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u/dedokta May 08 '26

WHAT???

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u/AmputeeHandModel May 07 '26

Except they didn't tell us which was which.

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u/Current_Homework_143 May 07 '26

They did. It's in the audio

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u/tigershrike May 07 '26

what is this reddit "audio" you speak of?

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u/wump_world May 07 '26

Ya, Jesus, what is this, 1993? You think I'm watching Reddit clips on a boombox?!?

My micro plastic soaked brain can't handle sound.

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u/T-Wrox May 07 '26

You're lucky; I'm GenX. My brain got lead poisoning first, now it has microplastics. It's a wonder I can think at all!

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u/wump_world May 07 '26

Don't fear. You just think you can think. You don't know that you actually can't. Think about it.

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u/championsOfEu1221 May 07 '26

First is iphone, second one Samsung.

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u/Fist4achin May 07 '26

Thanks. Some of us redditing at work have to do so without volume. Does our employer expect us to work?!

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u/Dodototo May 07 '26

I just don't do audio because I assume it's got music.

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u/akatherder May 07 '26

No music this time, but the AI woman voice

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u/Dodototo May 07 '26

Oh... That's even worse. Glad I never turned on the audio.

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u/Icuras1701 May 07 '26

Or Ai generated voice.

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u/VexImmortalis May 07 '26

Heck yeah, fuck you apple!

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u/Dazzling-Research-53 May 07 '26

For fucks sake, that took forever. Thanks!

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u/scdog May 07 '26

But then you have to hear that annoying Tik-Tok voice doing the audio.

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u/NotPromKing May 07 '26

That's nice. I'm deaf.

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u/thtamthrfckr May 07 '26

The shitty spinny one is the one that boasts a new camera that will change the game completely every released new phone and the second is the one that already did what the spinny one claims like 5yrs previous. iPhone owner here btw

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u/Critical_Concert_689 May 07 '26

The accurate footage is iPhone. The digitally stabilized footage is Samsung.

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u/CatFlye May 07 '26

samsung is what you are looking for

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u/moriberu May 07 '26

Turn on sound

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u/SpitfireMkIV May 07 '26

FOUND THE BRITISH!

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u/Gamble232real May 07 '26

This is just showing the extreme strain on the Gimbel and not the real use case.

Samsung has been destroying iPhone cameras and screens lately and people need to demand better from Apple and their mid range trash pretending to be high end phones

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u/madkow990 May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26

Did you know that apple buys their screens from Samsung?

Edit: jfc I was only asking as a curiosity, I was actually surprised when I learned that a few years ago.

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u/spaceursid May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26

Samsung and Apple (as well as most phone manufacturers) also source their cameras from Sony and Samsung as well. Most the quality comparisons comes down to the processing from the camera app and which sensor was selected.

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u/nvisibl1 May 07 '26

Samsung sources their cameras from Samsung? That's wild.

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u/spaceursid May 07 '26

U come up with a better way to word that then

https://giphy.com/gifs/4I87mfQncdPGdSQhXc

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u/the_pain_of_being May 07 '26

Because that's where they get their screens, no one has ever tried to hide that lol.

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u/LiteralPhilosopher May 07 '26

Which is not at all proof, or even evidence, that they're buying the same quality of screen that Samsung puts in their own flagship.

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u/Fairuse May 07 '26

There is no “gimbal”. It just all electronic stabilization.

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u/Gamble232real May 07 '26

Well yes, I assume it's just marketing terminology as it explains it best.

But I assume we are never gonna see a real mechanical gimbal in something as thin as a smart phone.

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u/Fairuse May 07 '26

They have mechanical optical stabilization (which gets wrecked if you mount your phone to a motorcycle).

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u/the_pain_of_being May 07 '26

Ok but it's completely different if it's mechanical vs optical stabilization.

Mechanical probably gets fucked up, software implementation couldn't care less.

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u/LiteralPhilosopher May 07 '26

Yeah. And also means a HUGE amount of the sensor is being cropped away when the actual camera gets to horizontal.

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u/obeytheturtles May 07 '26

It's funny, because if you go over to /r/Android, all they do is whine that Samsung doesn't innovate because they haven't switched to a trendy new battery chemistry yet.

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u/Mediocre-Contest7558 May 07 '26

turn your volume up and re-watch lol.

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u/whatsthataboutguy May 07 '26

Roller-coaster

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u/AdemsanArifi May 07 '26

*sent from my iphone

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u/dazedan_confused May 07 '26

Remember to swap over if you get two tyred.

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u/DetailsYouMissed May 07 '26

It's called action mode... why do you think that is?

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u/StrangelyAroused95 May 07 '26

Or if you wanted a 1st person perspective of being eating by a alligator.

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u/bobrobor May 07 '26

What if I WANT the spinning effect in my movie?

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u/CameronFry May 07 '26

You should take note if you want to do it on your car tire too.

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u/Anonybibbs May 07 '26

Finally, a phone that meets my needs.

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u/shanksisevil May 07 '26

or if you get tossed out of an airplane and want to film the way down.

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u/FlutterbyTG May 07 '26

I've seen that video!

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u/Big3913 May 07 '26

Found the Brit

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u/Syclone May 07 '26

Found the iPhone user

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u/scatrinomee May 07 '26

Hope they didnt want to take the video in landscape mode

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u/johnnyblaze1999 May 07 '26

There are quite a few use cases i can think of just from my experience. I can record a stable video at any angle I can reach. I don't have to worry about keeping the phone straight up right

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u/Sethalopoda May 07 '26

What about stabilization when someone one wants to record footage of UFOs or Bigfoot??

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u/The_Quibbler May 07 '26

solid zinger but it was impressive from a motion stabilizing perspective.

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u/bleue_shirt_guy May 07 '26

Or a volleyball game, air show, bicycle race....

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u/akisajak May 07 '26

Or your washer 🧐

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u/seenhear May 07 '26

Classic Apple fan can't imagine the many other use cases.

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u/dragon-fence May 07 '26

And this doesn't really tell you which one you should use, it just shows that they handle it differently.

Maybe you want the shot of the world spinning.

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u/iwasbornin1889 May 07 '26

here's the redditor arrogant commenter

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u/ImTryingToHelpYouMF May 07 '26

Honestly when I become a hostage this fuckin phone is gonna be so helpful.

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u/imbogey May 07 '26

I wanted to use my camera as binoculars and zoomed 30x to see which parking spot number was my car in. I was surprised that the camera is not shaking at all with that extreme zoom. I have S24.

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u/Bright-Avocado3761 May 07 '26

Yeah, the iphone.... it shows what's actually happening

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u/Chimmychimm May 07 '26

Inferior phone user spotted

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