Galaxy S7

[The Game 161]

Hmm it seems that only vodaphone are offering the free gear VR. O2 are offering some free jabra sport wireless headphones.
[doublepost=1456153148][/doublepost]The S7/S7 edge are available to demo in Samsung stores from tomorrow in the UK.

Really? Now there's a Samsung store here think will check it out.

Sim free it's £632 for the 32GB Model certainly pricey and not sure I would have funds for sim free. Although on contract not sure it's a good idea having 3 contracts as I have one for my current iPhone, iPad pro as well.

 

[Shanghaichica]

I wonder what the battery life will be like. I know the S7 edge has a bigger battery but this doesn't always pan out with android phones. However it was interesting that during the unpacked event they said that you could watch a whole seasons of game of thrones on a single charge. Episodes are on average about 60 minutes long and there are about 10 episodes per season. So that is roughly about 10 hours of screen on time. Obviously screen on time will vary depending on what you are doing, e.g using the net, playing games etc. However in theory it sounds impressive.
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Really? Now there's a Samsung store here think will check it out.

Sim free it's £632 for the 32GB Model certainly pricey and not sure I would have funds for sim free. Although on contract not sure it's a good idea having 3 contracts as I have one for my current iPhone, iPad pro as well.

Well I have a contract that I can finish for £250 which is significantly cheaper than buying it sim free. If I got one I'd probably get rid of my iPad mini 3 as I couldn't justify having two phablets and a mini tablet. So I can get just under £200 for my mini 3. So Ir would cost be about £50 which isn't bad. I've already got two contracts. So I wouldn't take out another.
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Really? Now there's a Samsung store here think will check it out.

Sim free it's £632 for the 32GB Model certainly pricey and not sure I would have funds for sim free. Although on contract not sure it's a good idea having 3 contracts as I have one for my current iPhone, iPad pro as well.

I've just checked the email again that I got from Samsung yesterday. It seems that it's only available to demo in the Oxford Street store, which happens to be my local now that they closed down the one in Westfield. I should think it will be available at all the Samsung stores soon though.

As the email was sent yesterday I guess that means that it's available to demo today. I won't go there until Friday or Saturday. I'm working an early shift so I can go after work.

 

[apolloa]

hmmmmmmmmm Ok, so I have found the official size of the S7 on EE's website:

http://shop.ee.co.uk/mobile-phones/...NDSET-Samsung_Galaxy_S7_p9926914836&WT.srch=1

And it is interesting, I got my digital calipers out and measured against my iPhone 6S which I have to use with the official Apple leather case as it's slippery, and the S7 is very close, it's slightly thinner width wise and is a tad longer, 1.8mm longer, it may be too big for me but I'll take a look.
The size of the device for a 5.1" screen I have to say is truly impressive especially considering the home button and fingerprint reader are on the face of the device.

Does anyone know if the camera is a Sony Exmoor or a Samsung Isocell?

 

[LukinLedbetter]

hmmmmmmmmm Ok, so I have found the official size of the S7 on EE's website:

http://shop.ee.co.uk/mobile-phones/...NDSET-Samsung_Galaxy_S7_p9926914836&WT.srch=1

And it is interesting, I got my digital calipers out and measured against my iPhone 6S which I have to use with the official Apple leather case as it's slippery, and the S7 is very close, it's slightly thinner width wise and is a tad longer, 1.8mm longer, it may be too big for me but I'll take a look.
The size of the device for a 5.1" screen I have to say is truly impressive especially considering the home button and fingerprint reader are on the face of the device.

Phonearena.com has a fantastic size compare tool. Check it out:
http://www.phonearena.com/phones/si...-iPhone-6s,Samsung-Galaxy-S7/phones/9501,9817

 

[The Game 161]

Really tempted by the S7 edge but money reasons I think will have to give it a miss least in the short term. Looking forward to reading all the reviews though on here.

 

[Zaft]

Apple you better make the 7 Plus smaller because Samsung is kicking your ass in this department.

 

[The Game 161]

Well the new iPhone will have a brand new design so I fully expect that to be the case.

 

[Tig Bitties]

I'm a hardware whore, and the S7 Edge, really is hard to beat. Plus I get a major boner from big batteries The S7 Edge is very compact for it's 5.5" size, and a massive 3,600mAh is almost unheard of now a days for a high end flagship phone.

I'm a big Nexus stock Android fan, but after owning my Note 5 for six months now, which is rooted, and tweaked, I am pleasantly surprised by Touchwiz on this phone, it doesn't bother me one bit now, and with a Material theme and Nova it practically looks like a Nexus, and I get amazing battery life 5.5h to 6h Screen On time, and the phone has no lag, and is buttery smooth. And I have all functions on too, nothing major disabled.

It's funny but everyone raves about stock vanilla Android, being such a lightweight OS, and very minimal system resources taken to run a Nexus. But weird thing is, these Nexus phones never seem to get great battery life, just ok or pretty good battery life. The Motorola Nexus 6 has a 3,200mAh battery, and the Nexus 6P has a huge 3,450mAh battery, you would think both those phones would be towards the top class of battery life, but even my Note 5 with just a 3,000mAh best them in battery life. Even official reviews, with fresh stock phones, typically shows the 3,000mAh Note 5 getting the same or slightly better battery life than the 3,450mAh Nexus 6P. Point being, put a 3,600mAh battery in a new Galaxy device, a la S7 Edge, and I think we may have Android battery champ.

 

[GadgetSN]

Where do you get this info from? Android 6.0 fully integrates the external SD card into internal memory and is the reason why SD card support returned to the S7. Samsung even stated this.
The limitations lie with the SD card, not the phone. If you buy a card the is less than UHS 3, then you won't be able to m3t certain read/write speeds or record in 4k.

Have you read this thread?

Yes we all know about Marshmallows sd card support but apparently both the LG G5 and S7s prevent the 6.0 feature being allowed on their phones.

 

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[kevinof]

Temptation was too great - Pre ordered a Black S7 Edge! Better live up to all the hype.

 

[MRU]

Temptation was too great - Pre ordered a Black S7 Edge! Better live up to all the hype.

Who did you pre-order from ?

 

[kevinof]

Samsung UK site. Only Black and Gold available. £639 but am buying through the business so get tax back.

Who did you pre-order from ?

 

[Lloydbm41]

Have you read this thread?

Yes we all know about Marshmallows sd card support but apparently both the LG G5 and S7s prevent the 6.0 feature being allowed on their phones.

That sucks! Big time!!

 

[Michael Goff]

Apple you better make the 7 Plus smaller because Samsung is kicking your ass in this department.

And the irrational hatred of bezels continues.

 

[Zaft]

And the irrational hatred of bezels continues.

Why is it irrational? I like my 6 Plus but it could be smaller. Im sure it will with the 7.

 

[grkm3]

I just wished Samsung stayed with exynos for all markets.I know its cheaper for them in USA because of CDMA and they don't want to pay license and royalty fees and would rather just use a soc with built in CDMA(Qualcomm owns it) but Samsung is crippling the exynos to match snapdragon.

It's been clocked at 2.6ghz with single core mid 2350s and multi well over 7400 in geekbench so they down clocked it to match the snapdragon.

Samsung should just buy Qualcomm and use there modem and GPUs with there big little exynos socs.

It would be a monster of a chip if it shared both parts.

 

[nviz22]

I just wished Samsung stayed with exynos for all markets.I know its cheaper for them in USA because of CDMA and they don't want to pay license and royalty fees and would rather just use a soc with built in CDMA(Qualcomm owns it) but Samsung is crippling the exynos to match snapdragon.

It's been clocked at 2.6ghz with single core mid 2350s and multi well over 7400 in geekbench so they down clocked it to match the snapdragon.

Samsung should just buy Qualcomm and use there modem and GPUs with there big little exynos socs.

It would be a monster of a chip if it shared both parts.

I thought Exynos would've been better last year, but devs can make things work easier with Snapdragon especially since it is an android flagship standard. Plus, Samsung helped design the 820 from what I heard/read.

 

[grkm3]

I thought Exynos would've been better last year, but devs can make things work easier with Snapdragon especially since it is an android flagship standard. Plus, Samsung helped design the 820 from what I heard/read.

That was when snapdragon used native cortex cores and GPUs.my nvidia shield Android TV can't even get all 8 cores running because it's all custom and if you have a locked bootloader there is no hope for custom Roms anyways.

I don't know when snapdragon went only 4 cores.

 

[Michael Goff]

Why is it irrational? I like my 6 Plus but it could be smaller. Im sure it will with the 7.

Because bezels can be functional. I know I use the top and bottom bezels to hold the phone to watch videos without getting my fat fingers on the screen. What do we gain from losing them? Aesthetics. Form over function.

 

[mi7chy]

Why is it irrational? I like my 6 Plus but it could be smaller. Im sure it will with the 7.

I'm with you. I've got an Apple store gift card that I plan to use towards the iPhone 7 Plus only if Apple reduces the bezel space because right now the iPhone 6 Plus feels ginormous like holding a pizza slice up to my head and is stretching the limits of my pockets.

 

[Casfin]

Because bezels can be functional. I know I use the top and bottom bezels to hold the phone to watch videos without getting my fat fingers on the screen. What do we gain from losing them? Aesthetics. Form over function.

fwiw, Apple is the posterboy of form over function. Every year they put out a thinner phone with lousy battery life.

 

[billy the fish]

And the irrational hatred of bezels continues.

Why irrational? All That wasted real estate is extremely poor design....

 

[Shanghaichica]

Well O2 are not offering the free gear VR with the S7 edge so no buy for me.

 

[epicrayban]

I'm a hardware whore, and the S7 Edge, really is hard to beat. Plus I get a major boner from big batteries The S7 Edge is very compact for it's 5.5" size, and a massive 3,600mAh is almost unheard of now a days for a high end flagship phone.

I'm a big Nexus stock Android fan, but after owning my Note 5 for six months now, which is rooted, and tweaked, I am pleasantly surprised by Touchwiz on this phone, it doesn't bother me one bit now, and with a Material theme and Nova it practically looks like a Nexus, and I get amazing battery life 5.5h to 6h Screen On time, and the phone has no lag, and is buttery smooth. And I have all functions on too, nothing major disabled.

It's funny but everyone raves about stock vanilla Android, being such a lightweight OS, and very minimal system resources taken to run a Nexus. But weird thing is, these Nexus phones never seem to get great battery life, just ok or pretty good battery life. The Motorola Nexus 6 has a 3,200mAh battery, and the Nexus 6P has a huge 3,450mAh battery, you would think both those phones would be towards the top class of battery life, but even my Note 5 with just a 3,000mAh best them in battery life. Even official reviews, with fresh stock phones, typically shows the 3,000mAh Note 5 getting the same or slightly better battery life than the 3,450mAh Nexus 6P. Point being, put a 3,600mAh battery in a new Galaxy device, a la S7 Edge, and I think we may have Android battery champ.

Yeah, I'm not a big subscriber to stock Android either. I appreciate that it's cleaner and I certainly appreciate the faster updates, but to me, the advantages pretty much end there.

And those two advantages aren't that big of a deal to me personally. TouchWiz isn't a slouch and has been running smoothly and reliably for me. With TouchWiz, I also get the added benefit of more features and customizability.

And as for updates, that's just something I'm willing to bite the bullet on. I have no direct problem that afflicts my day to day usage by not having the latest OS. In fact, I try to look at the brighter side: a reasonable wait for a software update will hopefully mean less bugs, and all the hardware advantages (camera, battery, design, wireless charging, and with the S7, waterproofing) are far more important to me. Those are things that dramatically affect my day to day use of my smartphone. Until the update comes, the current software is more than fine. But there's nothing I can do if the Nexus doesn't come with, say, waterproofing or wireless charging.

I tried the 6P and liked it. But returned it to see what the S7 would offer. I have zero regrets. I'll take the S7/Edge over the Nexus 5P/6P anyday.

Maybe the 2016 Nexus can change my mind...