Well, I bit the bullet. Yesterday (Friday) my new Galaxy S7 Edge arrived.
I haven't had any prior Galaxy S or Note handsets, and haven't wanted any of them even a little bit. This time, they got me. Oh, sure, it's shiny...that never hurts...but my reasons for leaving the G4 are several.
I got an upper level point and shoot camera (an Olympus Stylus 1). While I will still always want a really good camera on my phone, the desire to take pics of our daughter playing hoops is no longer handled (to a mediocre degree) by the G4's camera. It was the camera, above all else, that made me get the G4 to begin with. In particular, the manual controls.
The G4 battery drove me nuts. I can tell in less than a day's use of the S7E that I should be much happier with the battery on it than I was with the G4. It isn't only overall life and SoT, but the fact that I always felt something just wasn't right...never fully optimized...with the G4 battery. The way it drained...super slowly at first, and then jumping from 3-something percent per hour to 6-something percent per hour just sitting there...was always cause for frustration. Watching the S7E drain not only more slowly, but more evenly, seems "right."
Finally, given that my G4 refurb is a 507 serial #, I have zero confidence that it isn't going to also bootloop like my original 505 did. It's run just fine since I got it in mid-January, but then so had my original G4 from June to January. Until it didn't. Maybe they fixed that very problem on my refurb...or maybe somebody traded in their G4 for another reason entirely.
One thing I'll say is that, for me, the G4 feels better in hand than the S7E. I know that's not what you've likely been hearing. I have large hands, and the G4 being wider actually makes it fit more comfortably. I also like the less tall and skinny look of the G4. I thought pics of the Galaxy 6 and Note lines from last year looked really weird. I'd thought that about the HTC 8 and 9, too, but when I held HTCs in the store, they were fine in person. The S7E is too tall and thin looking in person. I do love having an AMOLED screen again, though. That contrast just cant be beat, and oh, the blacks!
Anyway, thanks for the hang these past 9 months or so. G4 owners are a good group of folks.
I haven't had any prior Galaxy S or Note handsets, and haven't wanted any of them even a little bit. This time, they got me. Oh, sure, it's shiny...that never hurts...but my reasons for leaving the G4 are several.
I got an upper level point and shoot camera (an Olympus Stylus 1). While I will still always want a really good camera on my phone, the desire to take pics of our daughter playing hoops is no longer handled (to a mediocre degree) by the G4's camera. It was the camera, above all else, that made me get the G4 to begin with. In particular, the manual controls.
The G4 battery drove me nuts. I can tell in less than a day's use of the S7E that I should be much happier with the battery on it than I was with the G4. It isn't only overall life and SoT, but the fact that I always felt something just wasn't right...never fully optimized...with the G4 battery. The way it drained...super slowly at first, and then jumping from 3-something percent per hour to 6-something percent per hour just sitting there...was always cause for frustration. Watching the S7E drain not only more slowly, but more evenly, seems "right."
Finally, given that my G4 refurb is a 507 serial #, I have zero confidence that it isn't going to also bootloop like my original 505 did. It's run just fine since I got it in mid-January, but then so had my original G4 from June to January. Until it didn't. Maybe they fixed that very problem on my refurb...or maybe somebody traded in their G4 for another reason entirely.
One thing I'll say is that, for me, the G4 feels better in hand than the S7E. I know that's not what you've likely been hearing. I have large hands, and the G4 being wider actually makes it fit more comfortably. I also like the less tall and skinny look of the G4. I thought pics of the Galaxy 6 and Note lines from last year looked really weird. I'd thought that about the HTC 8 and 9, too, but when I held HTCs in the store, they were fine in person. The S7E is too tall and thin looking in person. I do love having an AMOLED screen again, though. That contrast just cant be beat, and oh, the blacks!
Anyway, thanks for the hang these past 9 months or so. G4 owners are a good group of folks.
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