Depends on the phone. For Canadian Galaxy series, Samsung bakes in the carrier firmware into the base images and factory resets itself the first time you insert a SIM.
For example if you buy a S23 unlocked from Costco and then insert a Telus SIM card, it factory resets itself to the firmware the that Telus has specces. That includes system level app MyTelus, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, and a few others that I can't remember right now.l. So if you like to do setup before inserting a SIM card, all the changes you've made get blown away (supposed to only happen the first time though).
What's more, Samsung phones tend to be very unsolicited notification heavy the first few days to draw your attention to all of the new features that they have. Whether you care or not i.e. the S20 will throw a notification about how you can change the background wallpaper. On the Pixel at least Google chose to wait until you accessed a feature to start throwing these 'tips' at you.
So at least for me, Samsung phones aren't a pleasant experience to deal with.
>In fact OneUI allows you to make everything look a lot more minimal and cleaner than the default pixel setup with it's huge buttons, colours everywhere and the google search bar you can't get rid of.
Perhaps but it is still faster to install Nova launcher and tweak one or two settings to remove the search bar, then it is to disable 10 or so individual apps bundled in Samsung phones.
For example if you buy a S23 unlocked from Costco and then insert a Telus SIM card, it factory resets itself to the firmware the that Telus has specces. That includes system level app MyTelus, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, and a few others that I can't remember right now.l. So if you like to do setup before inserting a SIM card, all the changes you've made get blown away (supposed to only happen the first time though).
What's more, Samsung phones tend to be very unsolicited notification heavy the first few days to draw your attention to all of the new features that they have. Whether you care or not i.e. the S20 will throw a notification about how you can change the background wallpaper. On the Pixel at least Google chose to wait until you accessed a feature to start throwing these 'tips' at you.
So at least for me, Samsung phones aren't a pleasant experience to deal with.
>In fact OneUI allows you to make everything look a lot more minimal and cleaner than the default pixel setup with it's huge buttons, colours everywhere and the google search bar you can't get rid of.
Perhaps but it is still faster to install Nova launcher and tweak one or two settings to remove the search bar, then it is to disable 10 or so individual apps bundled in Samsung phones.