Galaxy S7

[Sensamic]

I saw the new S7 and S7 edge today. The edge felt too big for me. Also didn't like the curve in the back. Felt weird. I prefer the S6 design. Icons on the S7 edge were too big, like I've read here. Screen didn't feel too much different from S6.

Didn't try them for more than a minute. Had to go. Will go again next week to try them longer, but don't feel the urge to upgrade from what I saw today.

 

[Lloydbm41]

Glad I gave the edge a try for a few days but it's going back. Guess I really am an iOS fan at heart.

And nothing wrong with that. You gave it a try and it wasn't for you. At least you gave it a shot.

 

[MRU]

Low light looks great. This is right after sunset.

Here is the same shot with my iPhone.

Got to love that new 'inside a car' filter samsung implememted



Great pics.

 

[nj1266]

iOS forces the system and apps to behave a certain way. Great for battery life and consistency, bad for multitasking. For example, you might get your music app or running app force closing on you, mid run, due to the nature of iOS multitasking. This won't happen on android.

You have repeated that your running app will close on you in background while using it on iOS more than once. I have used a running app and I have used a hiking app to record my run and hike while playing music and I have NEVER seen that behavior in both of these apps. I have used run keeper and all trails apps and both have recorded while the screen is off or in background with another app in the foreground.

It is entirely possible that the app that you are using is poorly coded and that is what is causing the problem on your iOS device. I assure you that what you said does not happen on my iOS device.

 

[Sevanw]

Just a quick battery update. The phone is incredibly impressive. Fully charged it, and started the set up process. This is how the battery stands so far. And on a side note, I actually like this S View Case more than I thought would.

 

[MRU]

Just a quick battery update. The phone is incredibly impressive. Fully charged it, and started the set up process. This is how the battery stands so far. And on a side note, I actually like this S View Case more than I thought would.

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I am getting similar battery life, surprising me as i am leaving it on autobrightness with slider just above 50% until i go outside and then it adjusts itself to go full ... Impressive battery life.

 

[sekoitus]

I have issues with my Galaxy S7 Edge and the PayPal app....

Trying to link my fingerprint in the PayPal app, it says "We can't confirm your fingerprint, try again later"

What gives? (other fingerprint stuff works fine in other parts of the phone, PayPal seems to be the only one giving issues to me)

Overall the phone is great, although the edge screen is not that useful in my opinion, and I often struggle to hold the phone in a way that doesn't register my palm on the sides.

 

[epicrayban]

Using the edge is like a whole new world. Very impressive so far.

Also glad to say no accidental palm touching at all during one handed use. Very lovely.

 

[BlueGoldAce]

You have repeated that your running app will close on you in background while using it on iOS more than once. I have used a running app and I have used a hiking app to record my run and hike while playing music and I have NEVER seen that behavior in both of these apps. I have used run keeper and all trails apps and both have recorded while the screen is off or in background with another app in the foreground.

It is entirely possible that the app that you are using is poorly coded and that is what is causing the problem on your iOS device. I assure you that what you said does not happen on my iOS device.

Happens for me. I use runkeeper as well. I can't speak for you and yours, or anyone elses experience. I have no reason to make something so specific up.

I'm gals your experience was better.

 

[nj1266]

Happens for me. I use runkeeper as well. I can't speak for you and yours, or anyone elses experience. I have no reason to make something so specific up.

I'm gals your experience was better.

So far there have been two people (me included) who have chimed in that did not experience what you are experiencing. It could be that you have a faulty iPhone.
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[doublepost=1457771956][/doublepost]"You won’t notice this initially. Fresh out the box the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge fly, but load them up with apps, browse complex web pages and you’ll quickly run into ‘jank’. Scrolling is the biggest offender, particularly browsing the web but even occasionally in basic navigation such as scrolling through Flipboard (Samsung’s default replacement to Google Now) or settings menus.

The experience is far from crippling, but it shouldn’t exist at all and the core experience can’t match iOS on the iPhone 6S/6S Plus or stock Android on the Nexus 6P which runs on previous generation hardware.

And this is the crux of it. TouchWiz has never looked better. It’s as stylish as it has ever been (though still not a patch on stock Android’s Material Design to my eyes) and Samsung has cut about 1GB of bloat since the Galaxy S6, but it still falls short.

Users are still ‘treated’ to around 50 pre-installed apps out the box, nearly all of which cannot be removed and pointless app duplication. For example you’ll find two browsers, two email clients, two photo apps, two voice control systems, two app stores, two SMS apps and three media players. In addition deals with Microsoft and carriers add yet more bloat – for example, Verizon bundles 13 apps. It’s ridiculous.

As such I feel Samsung phones could be powered by Intel Core i7 Extreme desktop CPU and 16GB of RAM and they’d still not run smoothly. Yes, the synthetic benchmarks are strong and these phones are very fast (particularly in games) but they aren’t smooth in day-to-day use and I’d swap the former for the latter all day long. It’s hugely frustrating and, even with their new heatpipes, they still get hot during intensive tasks."

That is a pretty harsh assessment.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonk...y-s7-vs-galaxy-s7-edge-review/2/#4c9fcd8d41f0

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

So far there have been two people (me included) who have chimed in that did not experience what you are experiencing. It could be that you have a faulty iPhone.
[doublepost=1457771797][/doublepost]
[doublepost=1457771956][/doublepost]"You won’t notice this initially. Fresh out the box the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge fly, but load them up with apps, browse complex web pages and you’ll quickly run into ‘jank’. Scrolling is the biggest offender, particularly browsing the web but even occasionally in basic navigation such as scrolling through Flipboard (Samsung’s default replacement to Google Now) or settings menus.

The experience is far from crippling, but it shouldn’t exist at all and the core experience can’t match iOS on the iPhone 6S/6S Plus or stock Android on the Nexus 6P which runs on previous generation hardware.

And this is the crux of it. TouchWiz has never looked better. It’s as stylish as it has ever been (though still not a patch on stock Android’s Material Design to my eyes) and Samsung has cut about 1GB of bloat since the Galaxy S6, but it still falls short.

Users are still ‘treated’ to around 50 pre-installed apps out the box, nearly all of which cannot be removed and pointless app duplication. For example you’ll find two browsers, two email clients, two photo apps, two voice control systems, two app stores, two SMS apps and three media players. In addition deals with Microsoft and carriers add yet more bloat – for example, Verizon bundles 13 apps. It’s ridiculous.

As such I feel Samsung phones could be powered by Intel Core i7 Extreme desktop CPU and 16GB of RAM and they’d still not run smoothly. Yes, the synthetic benchmarks are strong and these phones are very fast (particularly in games) but they aren’t smooth in day-to-day use and I’d swap the former for the latter all day long. It’s hugely frustrating and, even with their new heatpipes, they still get hot during intensive tasks."

That is a pretty harsh assessment.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonk...y-s7-vs-galaxy-s7-edge-review/2/#4c9fcd8d41f0

But myself and many other are reporting a smooth experience. Maybe Forbes has a faulty S7.

 

[MRU]

So far there have been two people (me included) who have chimed in that did not experience what you are experiencing. It could be that you have a faulty iPhone.
[doublepost=1457771797][/doublepost]
[doublepost=1457771956][/doublepost]"You won’t notice this initially. Fresh out the box the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge fly, but load them up with apps, browse complex web pages and you’ll quickly run into ‘jank’. Scrolling is the biggest offender, particularly browsing the web but even occasionally in basic navigation such as scrolling through Flipboard (Samsung’s default replacement to Google Now) or settings menus.

The experience is far from crippling, but it shouldn’t exist at all and the core experience can’t match iOS on the iPhone 6S/6S Plus or stock Android on the Nexus 6P which runs on previous generation hardware.

And this is the crux of it. TouchWiz has never looked better. It’s as stylish as it has ever been (though still not a patch on stock Android’s Material Design to my eyes) and Samsung has cut about 1GB of bloat since the Galaxy S6, but it still falls short.

Users are still ‘treated’ to around 50 pre-installed apps out the box, nearly all of which cannot be removed and pointless app duplication. For example you’ll find two browsers, two email clients, two photo apps, two voice control systems, two app stores, two SMS apps and three media players. In addition deals with Microsoft and carriers add yet more bloat – for example, Verizon bundles 13 apps. It’s ridiculous.

As such I feel Samsung phones could be powered by Intel Core i7 Extreme desktop CPU and 16GB of RAM and they’d still not run smoothly. Yes, the synthetic benchmarks are strong and these phones are very fast (particularly in games) but they aren’t smooth in day-to-day use and I’d swap the former for the latter all day long. It’s hugely frustrating and, even with their new heatpipes, they still get hot during intensive tasks."

That is a pretty harsh assessment.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonk...y-s7-vs-galaxy-s7-edge-review/2/#4c9fcd8d41f0

Gordon Kelly is not the most informed tech reviewer. I have had personal dealings when he used my posts on xda as basis of a couple of articles he wrote which were full of out of context declarations of fact that were no such thing.

I corrected him on Twitter and yet he still seems to continue giving out opinion and 'fact' based merely on other bloggers articles.

He is the very definition of a Hack IMHO. I would take a look at the article author and walk away as soon as you see Kelly's name attached.

 

[John Mcgregor]

Gordon Kelly is not the most informed tech reviewer. I have had personal dealings when he used my posts on xda as basis of a couple of articles he wrote which were full of out of context declarations of fact that were no such thing.

I corrected him on Twitter and yet he still seems to continue giving out opinion and 'fact' based merely on other bloggers articles.

He is the very definition of a Hack IMHO. I would take a look at the article author and walk away as soon as you see Kelly's name attached.

But he is right. Touchwiz is bad. At first it's very smooth and fluid, but then you open few apps, browse few websites, let the phone be for a few minutes and suddenly it's not so smooth. Then you close apps, do that boost thing and it goes back to normal for a while and the whole thing repeats. There is even an option to reboot the device to keep it performing optimally. What the ****.

 

[BlueGoldAce]

So far there have been two people (me included) who have chimed in that did not experience what you are experiencing. It could be that you have a faulty iPhone.
[doublepost=1457771797][/doublepost]
[doublepost=1457771956][/doublepost]"You won’t notice this initially. Fresh out the box the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge fly, but load them up with apps, browse complex web pages and you’ll quickly run into ‘jank’. Scrolling is the biggest offender, particularly browsing the web but even occasionally in basic navigation such as scrolling through Flipboard (Samsung’s default replacement to Google Now) or settings menus.

The experience is far from crippling, but it shouldn’t exist at all and the core experience can’t match iOS on the iPhone 6S/6S Plus or stock Android on the Nexus 6P which runs on previous generation hardware.

And this is the crux of it. TouchWiz has never looked better. It’s as stylish as it has ever been (though still not a patch on stock Android’s Material Design to my eyes) and Samsung has cut about 1GB of bloat since the Galaxy S6, but it still falls short.

Users are still ‘treated’ to around 50 pre-installed apps out the box, nearly all of which cannot be removed and pointless app duplication. For example you’ll find two browsers, two email clients, two photo apps, two voice control systems, two app stores, two SMS apps and three media players. In addition deals with Microsoft and carriers add yet more bloat – for example, Verizon bundles 13 apps. It’s ridiculous.

As such I feel Samsung phones could be powered by Intel Core i7 Extreme desktop CPU and 16GB of RAM and they’d still not run smoothly. Yes, the synthetic benchmarks are strong and these phones are very fast (particularly in games) but they aren’t smooth in day-to-day use and I’d swap the former for the latter all day long. It’s hugely frustrating and, even with their new heatpipes, they still get hot during intensive tasks."

That is a pretty harsh assessment.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonk...y-s7-vs-galaxy-s7-edge-review/2/#4c9fcd8d41f0

Maybe.

I remember reading a help article on runkeeper support. It stated that for longer rubgs with multiple audios streams going, that runkeeper needed to be in the foreground.

Not that it really matters. It's one of those minor but noticeable differences in the two OSes. That is all the example was meant to be.

 

[grkm3]

But he is right. Touchwiz is bad. At first it's very smooth and fluid, but then you open few apps, browse few websites, let the phone be for a few minutes and suddenly it's not so smooth. Then you close apps, do that boost thing and it goes back to normal for a while and the whole thing repeats. There is even an option to reboot the device to keep it performing optimally. What the ****.

This is just not true at all.maybe in the gs3,4 days but the new galaxy's do not do this at all.they will hitva RAM aggressive limit and dump apps out of memory but the ones that are kept run as fast as they did when first ran and the past few phones I got ran fasted with every new OS update.

Not slower!

 

[John Mcgregor]

This is just not true at all.maybe in the gs3,4 days but the new galaxy's do not do this at all.they will hitva RAM aggressive limit and dump apps out of memory but the ones that are kept run as fast as they did when first ran and the past few phones I got ran fasted with every new OS update.

Not slower!

Oh sorry i must have a "special" phone then.

 

[grkm3]

Oh sorry i must have a "special" phone then.

Make a video of your gs7 doing this and I'll PayPal you 50 bucks.you are flat out wrong and do nothing but crap talk Samsung when ever you get a chance.I have a gs6 sitting next to me and it's still just as fast as day one and is loaded with apps.

 

[John Mcgregor]

Make a video of your gs7 doing this and I'll PayPal you 50 bucks.you are flat out wrong and do nothing but crap talk Samsung when ever you get a chance.I have a gs6 sitting next to me and it's still just as fast as day one and is loaded with apps.

And i believe you, that doesn't mean everyone has this experience.

 

[grkm3]

And i believe you, that doesn't mean everyone has this experience.

You are the one blasting the gs7 saying you phone does this.cmon let's see that phone slow down with apps in memory bud

My gs6 with ever new update got faster and smoother and it's geekbench scores went up on every update.the battery life and RAM management would also get better and better and now people are saying marshmallow on the gs6 is running clutch and is amazing how well the phone runs.

 

[John Mcgregor]

You are the one blasting the gs7 saying you phone does this.cmon let's see that phone slow down with apps in memory bud

I'M TALKING ABOUT UI FLUIDITY NOT APPS. GO REREAD MY POST.

 

[jamezr]

But he is right. Touchwiz is bad. At first it's very smooth and fluid, but then you open few apps, browse few websites, let the phone be for a few minutes and suddenly it's not so smooth. Then you close apps, do that boost thing and it goes back to normal for a while and the whole thing repeats. There is even an option to reboot the device to keep it performing optimally. What the ****.

That is just your opinion stated as fact. The vast majority here acknowledges TW is sooo much better on the S7. Do you have one? How do you know? The people that own the S7 are here telling you how much better is. So why don't you listen? Do you have an agenda? The experience you described the rest of us are not having.
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I'M TALKING ABOUT UI FLUIDITY NOT APPS. GO REREAD MY POST.

So lets see your S7 with this thread open or i call BS......Take a picture or a screen shot....c'mon let's just see this S7 you are here in the S7 thread talking about.

 

[grkm3]

He doesn't have a gs7 bro

 

[jamezr]

He doesn't have a gs7 bro

I don't think he has any Android phone! He says he has a GS6 and always posts in the S6 thread. But I don't think he has that one either.....

 

[MRU]

It's easier just to ignore posters who you think are soliciting reactions - by responding to them, all you're going to do is give them what they want .. the attention.

Just let the posts die by ignoring them and soon the novelty of posting continual negative prevaricating posts will ware off.

 

[Wiesenlooser]

Have seen both S7 versions today. They are really gorgeous and feel great in your hand. Kudos to Samsung.

Now is it only me or is the screen of the s7 edge really blue at the edges - due to the curves ? Looked kind of terrible.