This phone has it all! Beautiful display, great camera, and amazing battery life.
Pros: Realistic color, Bright display
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
5
Performance
5
Design
5
Value
4
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
5
New android User
on March 25, 2016
Posted by: Gboehl
from Sacramento, CA, USA
Expertise:Intermediate
I have been an Apple Loyalist since the iPhone came out, I made a brief switch (2 weeks) to the galaxy s5 and hated it, went back to iPhone. I recently traded in my 6S for the S7 Edge and i fell in love immediately. Never would i think I would be a Samsung owner let alone one this happy.
The phone is beautiful, the expandable memory and the flow in which the phone performs is awesome and I can't be happier. There is obviously a learning curve however, that is most of the fun.
The only downside, I currently have is with the Battery which seems to be draining very fast, but I'm sure some tweaks to some network settings will fix that right up.
Have owned the phone for a week now and I can say it meets all expectations. Very solid construction with high quality materials. The phone is a bit slippery without a case, but I would prefer that over a plastic phone.
Pros: Realistic color, Lightweight, high quality materials, slim
Cons: slippery, seems fragile
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
4
Performance
5
Design
5
Value
4
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
4
Lucky Number 7
on March 25, 2016
Posted by: ThomK
from Ohio, USA
Expertise:Expert
I'm glad I waited for the S7 coming from an S4. This is the second Galaxy that I've owned and I'm pleased with it so far.
It's great that Samsung listened to it's customers and brought back the removable storage. So far, I'm very pleased with it.
Unfortunately, the bootloader is locked which certainly puts a damper on things. Between Google, Samsung and Verizon, the phone has far too many aspects beyond the user's control.
GearVR is great although it can't be used with non-Oculus apps such as those made for Google Cardboard.
The GearVR has a 'screen door effect' with the crazy magnification of the lenses. The S7 display should have ample pixels to create a better picture even at 1.5" away.
Every time I turn off my cellular data, I have to hit a consent dialog. Really? How many times to I have to 'accept' it? It's so stupid "Unless you use Wi-Fi, you will not be able to use Internet..." Really, I never new that! I've only been using connected phones for half a decade, that all comes as a real shock to me.
Every time I turn on my GPS, I have to hit a consent dialog.
As much as the carrier wants you to run up your data bill and Google wants you to believe that having all of the radios on all of the time won't really run your battery down: Let me turn those things off without having to root my phone!
There's an app that measures your pulse and blood oxygenation using the built-in light by the camera.
There's nothing that I'm going to say here that's going to stop a person who wants one from getting one and convinces someone who didn't want one to get one. The S7 appears to be a very good phone if not the best (Android) phone out there. I'm glad I waited and we'll see how this phone performs over the next two years!
I am a huge Samsung guy and have everything Samsung and always will, but I love my new Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge!!! I love everything about it and it's performance, design, and all of its amazing abilities.
Love the new phone! Need to focus on some bug fixes for the sound and video. My phone doesn't always play my ring tones, I have to rely on the vibration to tell me someone is calling... when I restart the phone it will works properly. Same thing with videos, I get the something went wrong error on YouTube, but after I restart my phone it works properly. The only flaw I have with the design is it is too slippery, my friend dropped his S7 Edge and shattered the display. I dropped my S5 numerous times without a case and only chipped the plastic edges.