Upgrade from S7 edge to mate 10 Pro?

[gavo360]

Hello, anyone upgraded from a S7 to the mate 10 Pro and was it worthwhile? Overall I'm still happy with my S7 but it's coming up to 2 years old now and the battery life is pretty poor now but I'm still happy with the screen and camera. So anyone has done this upgraded how do they compare? Also I buy my phones sim free and I can still get a decent amount for the S7 and the mate 10 Pro has had quite a big price cut this week.

 

[krazyatom]

I don’t have mate 10 pro but i doubt screen quality is better than S7. Samsung makes the best screen for smartphone IMO. Also, Samsung may have faster storage read/write. Rest goes to mate 10 pro. Emui vs touchwiz would be your personal preference.

 

[veg_biryani]

Samsung TV broke after 13 months. Samsung phone bricked after 14 months. Never Samsung again.

 

[tuckertje01]

Samsung TV broke after 13 months. Samsung phone bricked after 14 months. Never Samsung again.

I bought a Samsung smart tv 3 months ago, my former Samsung tv was 9.5 years old and still working fine. My husband is on his 5th Samsung smartphone and I'm on my 3rd, they all worked just fine and the former ones have all been sold on. Happy Samsung customer here.

 

[Michaelw81]

I'm in the same situation as the OP, and would be interested in this too. I'm just wondering whether to buy the Mate 10 Pro, or wait for the S9

 

[dov1978]

Anyone coming from being used to Samsung Galaxy's may find a few issues with the Mate 10 Pro well more with EMUI to be more accurate. I go through heaps of phones because I like trying new and different things. I had the Huawei P10 after my S8 and before my current Note 8 which I'm just about to trade in for the Mate 10 Pro. Samsung are well known for throwing every feature possible into TouchWiz/Samsung Experience and depending on your usage you may find EMUI a little restrictive in places. I say it's somewhere in the middle between iOS and TouchWiz. Battery optimisation is quite aggressive so it takes a little getting used to having to go find and turn on a lot of notifications and background process settings that they turn off by default to save battery. Once you get used to its little quirks though it's awesome and there's quite a lot of features they have that you won't find on many other phones like screen recording and knuckle gestures etc. I read and watched a lot of reviews before I got my Huawei P10 last year and I'm so glad I ignored the many negative opinions of EMUI and tried it for myself because it's the first phone in a long time I've actually kept longer than 6 months and could have comfortably kept it a bit longer too.
If you think you might be waiting for the S9 then personally I'd probably wait for that as it looks like it's gonna be an amazing phone and I'll almost definitely be getting one too but if you're bored with Galaxy's and eager to try something different then I doubt you'll be dissapointed

 

[Michaelw81]

Thanks for the heads up. I was in a phone shop last week, wasting an hour, and had a play with nearly every current flag ship in there. The 10 mate Pro felt one of the best in hand and I loved the screen too. I have an S7 and my wife has the S7 edge, and I hate holding her phone, so thinking a flat screen might be better for me. For the price difference, I couldn't see what I was getting more from the Note 8, than the 10 Pro? I had a play with cameras too, and I hate to admit, the iPhone X seemed by far the best. I had a look at the Pixel 2, and the screen was awful, and was quite dim, even though the brightness was turned right up? Considering the mate 10 pro was the cheapest to buy outright, and how nice it seemed, I don't understand why there's so many underwhelming reviews of them?