Cool! What are your favorite features over the S6 Active?
I am loving the fingerprint sensor and SD card additions! The bigger battery cannot hurt! Going on 13 hours of up time and 64% left!
If only it didn't have the physical buttons
Fingerprint sensor is nice dnr the SD card is good. One sportier war the amount of AT&T bloat is less than the wife's s7 and my previous s6 active which I found odd. Was less apps than usual to disabled. Does anyone else agree with that?
The bigger battery makes it a full demon that is beyond beastly. The phone body is wider though I guess fir the bogey battery.
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Awesome planoman! Enjoy the S7 Active. I'm excited about this device as well, even though I don't have plans on purchasing it now. It seems like Samsung made significant improvements w/ the SD card, battery and fingerprint scanner. After seeing the video drop tests, I am convinced that Samsung made changes in the materials or design of the display. I would say that the S7 Active is more durable than its predecessor.
It's a water resistant/ Mil-Speced phone. If you submerged it than the screen and touch buttons wouldn't work.
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They are advertising it as an extra polycarbonate layer on the screen to make it shatter resistant. I remember when I bought the S6A they did not advertise that anything was different about the screen on it other than it may be slightly recessed vs the standard S6 at the time.Awesome planoman! Enjoy the S7 Active. I'm excited about this device as well, even though I don't have plans on purchasing it now. It seems like Samsung made significant improvements w/ the SD card, battery and fingerprint scanner. After seeing the video drop tests, I am convinced that Samsung made changes in the materials or design of the display. I would say that the S7 Active is more durable than its predecessor.
If only it didn't have the physical buttons
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the phone is water resistant and still not intended to be actually USED under water. I don't think Samsung has officially stated this phone is meant to be used underwater...just that if you drop it in water, you're not screwed.
Was always under the impression that the physical buttons were there from the start for those wearing gloves to quickly access around the device.
They are advertising it as an extra polycarbonate layer on the screen to make it shatter resistant. I remember when I bought the S6A they did not advertise that anything was different about the screen on it other than it may be slightly recessed vs the standard S6 at the time.
Was always under the impression that the physical buttons were there from the start for those wearing gloves to quickly access around the device.
I bought my S7A on Friday and coming from my Note 5 it's a huge difference in performance. Especially the battery life. I'm really loving this device the smaller footprint is actually a nice change coming from the Note 5 and iPhone 6S+. The only reason why I skipped out on the S6 active is because of the lack of finger print reader. I use Samsung Pay a lot and not having the finger print reader was a huge deal breaker. The 4000mah battery is a plus and could careless nowadays about the SD card since I have 1TB Google storage plan.
I have seen the info on the polycarbonate layer but wanted to learn more. I heard that makes it very shatter proof but more susceptible to scratches? I have a tempered glass protector coming tomorrow and want to know if it will be fine to install the glass protector or if that will somehow limit or damage my screen?
Which glass screen protector did you get? Can you post pics once it's on? I'm really worried about the problems I've been reading about with the screen scratching very easily.
Do their clear cases yellow over time? Have you ever tried the matte black ones?I got my CIMO TPU case. $8 on Amazon. It is often the first case I buy to protect and provide a better grip on my devices. This is the clear model. Nice fit, lightweight and better grip on the slippery sides.
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Do their clear cases yellow over time? Have you ever tried the matte black ones?
Got my screen protectors today. The link from Amazon is a a few posts up. I received two tempered glass protectors for $8
They fit fine and are typical glass protector. I have a few bubbles in the upper left. I tried 3 times to reset that area but they remain. Luckily they are not in the viewable area.
Like that screen protector quite a bit. Does it interfere with hitting the buttons at all? The one I had on my S6 made the buttons more difficult to use because the screen protector was higher(thickness) than the buttons.