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Resolved Dipping my toes into the Android pool again: HTC 10 or Galaxy S7

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c0ppo

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epicrayban said:
Just clarifying, "touch" as in the physical feel of the phone? The glass? If so, I disagree. I don't think any part of the s7 edge feels cheap or bad. Quite the opposite. Everything feels high end to me.

HTC 10 feels high end, too.

I may have a preference for glass phones, but nothing about the s7 edge feels cheap.
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My native language isn't english, and I don't live in english speaking area, so if I'm describing something wrong, my apologies :)

By 'touch' I mean when u physically touch a screen. Sometimes Samsung phones register a touch even before u actually touch a screen, so called 'ghost touch'. And even when that doesn't happen, surfing thru lot of tables inside apps (gplay for example, but can be in any app), TW simply doesn't handle things smoothly like some other android devices out there. Touch simply isn't accurate like on Nexus, OnePlus X/Two, Xiaomi mi5, etc.

I'm comparing this only to the phones I've actually owned.
I hope this was well explained, doubt I can do better then this :D
 
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c0ppo said:
My native language isn't english, and I don't live in english speaking area, so if I'm describing something wrong, my apologies :)

By 'touch' I mean when u physically touch a screen. Sometimes Samsung phones register a touch even before u actually touch a screen, so called 'ghost touch'. And even when that doesn't happen, surfing thru lot of tables inside apps (gplay for example, but can be in any app), TW simply doesn't handle things smoothly like some other android devices out there. Touch simply isn't accurate like on Nexus, OnePlus X/Two, Xiaomi mi5, etc.

I'm comparing this only to the phones I've actually owned.
I hope this was well explained, doubt I can do better then this :D
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I don't experience such 'ghost touches'. Older Samsung phones had a lot of air gesture features which could be disabled if you wanted to. Pretty sure they've scaled back on them a lot in recent models. I've never bothered looking for air gesture settings in my S6.

I don't really know what people mean when they say TW isn't smooth. Seems an overblown critique to me. But then, the only high end Android phones I've used are Samsung phones.
 
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c0ppo said:
My native language isn't english, and I don't live in english speaking area, so if I'm describing something wrong, my apologies :)

By 'touch' I mean when u physically touch a screen. Sometimes Samsung phones register a touch even before u actually touch a screen, so called 'ghost touch'. And even when that doesn't happen, surfing thru lot of tables inside apps (gplay for example, but can be in any app), TW simply doesn't handle things smoothly like some other android devices out there. Touch simply isn't accurate like on Nexus, OnePlus X/Two, Xiaomi mi5, etc.

I'm comparing this only to the phones I've actually owned.
I hope this was well explained, doubt I can do better then this :D
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I understood. Thanks for clarifying. Your English is great.
 
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ozaz said:
I don't experience such 'ghost touches'. Older Samsung phones had a lot of air gesture features which could be disabled if you wanted to. Pretty sure they've scaled back on them a lot in recent models. I've never bothered looking for air gesture settings in my S6.

I don't really know what people mean when they say TW isn't smooth. Seems an overblown critique to me. But then, the only high end Android phones I've used are Samsung phones.
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Nah, I always turn off lot of gimmicks on samsung phones. When they introduced air gestures, that was one of the first things to turn off, so it's not about that.

See that bold part of quote? That's why it's so hard for you to understand what I'm implying :D
 
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c0ppo said:
See that bold part of quote? That's why it's so hard for you to understand what I'm implying :D
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I also use iOS devices and don't feel there is a meaningful difference in how 'smooth' my Samsung and iOS devices feel. So if I believe the critique of TW, I'd have to assume that non-Samsung Android phones are significantly smoother than both Samsung devices _and_ iOS devices. Seems surprising to me.
 
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c0ppo said:
My native language isn't english, and I don't live in english speaking area, so if I'm describing something wrong, my apologies :)

By 'touch' I mean when u physically touch a screen. Sometimes Samsung phones register a touch even before u actually touch a screen, so called 'ghost touch'. And even when that doesn't happen, surfing thru lot of tables inside apps (gplay for example, but can be in any app), TW simply doesn't handle things smoothly like some other android devices out there. Touch simply isn't accurate like on Nexus, OnePlus X/Two, Xiaomi mi5, etc.

I'm comparing this only to the phones I've actually owned.
I hope this was well explained, doubt I can do better then this :D
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I totally agree with what your talking about in referencing the "ghost touches". I wouldn't call them ghost touches per say but I would say that Samsung screens are highly sensitive.
 
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I myself have not experienced issues with the screen sensitivity.

Only accidentally palm touches here and there, but that's rarely. As we all know, the s7e is remarkably usable one handed despite its screen size.

But direct screen/touch interactions? Have not had sensitivity issues or ghost touches myself.
 
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I would have waited if i was the OP. One phone that has peaked my interest is the ZTE Axon 7 and thats it for right now.
 
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hallux said:
Interesting, I always thought the Nexus line released by Google was what was supposed to set the baseline for Android...
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Highly debatable! I think once upon a time, that might have been true. Nowadays? I'm not so sure.

To me, if anything, Google Nexus devices feel like a roundup at the end of the year of what flagship devices were that year. There's very little in the Nexus 6P that tells me it's forward-thinking or setting some sort of standard or precedence for future OEMs to follow. It's a culmination of that year's technology, not the next year's. And if you get even more specific, like say the camera, they've only recently offered a competitive camera. Even software-wise, they are only now adding some of the useful features found in other OEM's skins to Android N.

: shrug : That's how I see the Nexus line of late. The good news is, they're finally getting really good at making them. HTC hardware + Android N this year should be amazing.
 
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I have no experience of the HTC 10 but I am a longest time android user with HTC in that mix.

I think the Samsung Galaxy S7 is the best Android device I've had. I went against the grain and got the non edge version. Build and software is top class. Also upon watching an Android N preview it seems touchwizz has added the most useful features from this up and coming build. Split view and close all apps etc.
 
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Some quick thoughts:
Speakers are great
Camera is faster than my iPhone camera
Immediately moved to Now Launcher and Google Keyboard
 
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I'm likely going to be putting sporadic thoughts over the course of an unknown period of time. It's looking good as my new phone, the one I use that is, but we shall see after a week. We shall see.
 
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