I had the S6 Edge. The battery wasn't too bad for me. My issues were that it got extraordinarily hot and the edge screen made it hard for me to hold without accidentally touching the screen.
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Fair enough. I had that problem with the S6 that it lagged after a while
But none with S7. Samsung really got rid of a lot of the additional bloat ware they used to have. I also disabled a lot of that bloat ware or uninstalled what I could which may have helped.
I keep a black background (which also serves to extend battery life due to the nature of the Oled tech) with a dark theme as well. Battery easily lasts all day (end the day with anywhere from 15-70% depending on usage, most often ~40%...I also use always on display) and it's smooth.
I also think with the release of nougat on s7 that it will be even smoother as Samsung is further trimming bloat and streamlining their version of android.
The lag on this aging iPhone 5 is so bad that frankly I've gotten used to it.
Also Google Now (now called Google Assistant) has been out for a while. Perhaps confused the two?
Actually, Google Now and Assistant still remain two separate entities ...
Even if you have a pixel, if your not using one of the few supported language regions then you won't get the assistant feature, you will get the now common Google Now instead.
A long press won't in those instances bring up the assistant interface, it will just default to show you Google-on-tap like any other OEM device on Marshmallow / Nougat.
You have had to call 911 ton of times?
As far as Siri being better than Ok Google, that has not been my experience.
Just saying "if". I have had to call it a few times in the last few years for my dad with stroke and other issues.
I would be satisfied with that, but the a slightly smaller bottom bezel would be make it flawless.
That is good to know, this will be my next phone. Still on the fence about preordering though (after the fun with my Note 7). The S8 is looking to be a great phone.
Even better is the fact that not everyone experiences these lag issues. In fact, I would say majority don't. Sorry to hear you got lag. Then again, I don't think there is a single phone where people have not complained of lag. Just glad my experience with my S7 Edge has been nothing but silky smooth.
This link is interesting.
http://www.fool.com/investing/2017/01/04/comparing-apple-incs-a10-with-qualcomm-incs-new-sn.aspx
I think Single Core scores matter the most because of core smartphone functions.
All I know is the Note 7 was damn near as snappy as vanilla Android. The 835 and 6gb will most likely make the S8 fly. Especially if Samsung slims down TW/Grace UX even more.
Also, I think the VR will take advantage of multicore.
Also the Note 7 seemed snappier than the iPhone 7 plus. Basically cause of iOS animations.
Didn't use the Note 7 so can't comment on that aspect. I do hope that the S8 is everything I want so I can ditch iOS for a top of the line speced phone.
That benchmark isn't the important one though. It's always about single core geek bench scores because you have to remember that phone calls, texts, and modest web browsing are considered low power functions.
Geekbench is flawed the only reason the iPhones score higher is because of optimised HTML test.if you look at the snapdragon 820 is scrored like 500 in that test and the iPhone does like 30,000 and it majorly boosts it's single core numbers.
the 820 scores 22-2300 in geekbench 3 and in geek bench 4 it drops to like 1500 because of that little test they added to boost the iPhone.
apple owns the browser and has that test optimized to scrore high.