The official S7 /S7 Edge review thread

[love4speechless]

FLOSSY . This guy is hilarious!

I'm also waiting for Erica's review as well

 

[Popersg]

When creating an animated gif from your burst shots via the Gallery app, it can only animates backward. Eg. if my burst shots are 1,2,3...N, the animated gif is N...3,2,1. Anyone has found find a way to reverse the sequence?

 

[Cakefish]

Pocketnow S7 camera review:

https://youtu.be/pR3vHEjeDrU

 

[Rose4uKY]

I think the camera is amazing I took a selfie the other night and everyone commented how good it was on facebook after I posted it. My 1st original EVO way back with it's 8 MP camera was great back then and a couple others were good but the M9 over the M8 was a big mistake for us to upgrade too. This phone is amazing. This weekend if my husband is off work we will go to the bar and hear a band play and I'll take pictures,video,and selfies and really test the camera.

 

[Dan TheMan86]

So I'm about to take the plunge this weekend on the regular S7. My #1 concern is battery life...all the other features seem fine for me. Is there a general consensus on battery life on these phones? I'm a relatively heavy user and I'd like the thing to last at least from 7am to midnight without having to turn on power saving modes. I'm coming from Windows Phone, so we don't have a way to measure screen-on time. I imagine my screen-on time is probably around 5 hours between all the texting, facebooking, and web browsing I do. Will I be disappointed? Thanks!

 

[PsychDoc]

So I'm about to take the plunge this weekend on the regular S7. My #1 concern is battery life...all the other features seem fine for me. Is there a general consensus on battery life on these phones? I'm a relatively heavy user and I'd like the thing to last at least from 7am to midnight without having to turn on power saving modes. I'm coming from Windows Phone, so we don't have a way to measure screen-on time. I imagine my screen-on time is probably around 5 hours between all the texting, facebooking, and web browsing I do. Will I be disappointed? Thanks!

I'm finding that about five hours of SOT is what you can expect as long as you have strong signal or are on wifi. In weak signal areas all bets are off. However, you may be better served by the S7 Edge as it has a substantially larger battery. Anything north of five hours of SOT on a consistent basis is likely to be just wishful thinking.

 

[ric2001]

DxoMark just posted their review of the S7 Edge, which should be the same for the S7. It ranks as the new leader.

 

[Cakefish]

Android Police review: http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/0...an-iteration-but-one-samsung-can-be-proud-of/

 

[bembol]

I have both took advantage of my carrier's upgrade offer. The edge was bought outright with the freebies.

I'm really impressed so far well except for the hiccup I had with the edge restarting but so far it's all good.

Samsung had no choice making the S7 thicker to support a bigger battery which was my issue with the S6 so I'm happy.

I also love they made improvements with the edge features that I'm now using it more compared to last years.

The main reason why I went back to Samsung is the Water Resistant. I love this feature.

Who would've thought the S6/edge so bad that a year later I own and more importantly LOVING both!!

Also I even sold my 16GB iPad Air 2 LTE for the Galaxy Tab S2 LTE which I love as well.

EDIT: My edge is going back, it still kept restarting and this time it froze.

 

[RifterAD]

Bigger battery, SD card slot, H2O resistance...all on top of a great phone from lastyear...HECK YEAH. Now if only it also had the shatter-proof screen that the Droid Turbo 2 has (but with the amazing Samsung AMOLED screen)...that's be Nirvana

 

[ectoren]

From the always hard to please, Erica G.

 

[mariusfilip]

I have the S7 regular. The battery life on it so far is amazing! The only time it ran hot was when I first turned it on and it did its updates. Love the feel of it, love the use ability of it, just love it! Selling on my S6 edge. I know there isn't that much difference between the two but I like new and exciting

How much better is the S7 in terms of battery compared with the S6/edge? i have the S6 and the only thing for me to upgrade would be the battery, i'm not expecting wonders but with my S6 i am getting 2, 2 hours and a half on 3G+ with a 12 hours use period, on 4G the S6 is doomed
I would get the S7 Edge but it's just too big for my hands, Thanks.

 

[jma78b]

How much better is the S7 in terms of battery compared with the S6/edge? i have the S6 and the only thing for me to upgrade would be the battery, i'm not expecting wonders but with my S6 i am getting 2, 2 hours and a half on 3G+ with a 12 hours use period, on 4G the S6 is doomed
I would get the S7 Edge but it's just too big for my hands, Thanks.

Hi. I've now had the phone for 2 months and I was only saying yesterday how pleased I was with the battery life. As it stands, I charged it overnight and currently at 4.30pm I have 49% left. If I had the S6 it would have told me 49% at 10.30am! So yes battery life is amazing!

 

[mariusfilip]

Hi. I've now had the phone for 2 months and I was only saying yesterday how pleased I was with the battery life. As it stands, I charged it overnight and currently at 4.30pm I have 49% left. If I had the S6 it would have told me 49% at 10.30am! So yes battery life is amazing!

thanks, it's been almost two weeks since i bought the S7, definitely worth it