**** The Official Samsung Galaxy S7/Edge Thread ****

Chris344 said:
So coming from my iPhone 6S Plus. Hardware is out of this world, screen is beautiful and it's just a better device than the iPhone. Apple really need to think about the ip7.
Software, not so much. Yes, there's more freedom and you can customised but it's just not as polished as iOS. Massive icons and letters in front of contacts in messages, all seems very messy and I'm not sure what to do.

Do I stay with this device or keep my iPhone?
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im trying to make this decision, do i buy one before the pre-order offer runs out
 
maccapacca said:
Didn't realise how much bigger the edge is to the standard phone, guy at work had his standard delivered as well today.

We were comparing sizes and mine is clearly bigger than his.
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What about the phones though?

Got my case and screen protectors today. The protectors were a bit rubbish but have done the job. The case isn't half bad. Bought from rainy place selling knock offs for a fiver and is pretty good.
 
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Off to a bad start with Vodafone, store are still waiting for their stock...Though if I'd have selected home delivery, I'd have missed the courier by being at work..
 
I have the unlocked firmware (samsung shop / carphone warehouse)

Just checked for updates and there was a 1.5MB update that apparently fixes some bugs and has a few performance improvements.
 
Chris344 said:
It's a difficult one. Setup time takes a while so it's in the box at home and I'm on my iPhone 6s Plus today.

The UI is simply not as clean and sleek as iOS.
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i actually find IOS quite limited , overall personally its not for me the locked up environment they want you to stay in

you can customize android as much as you like and the way you want it ,
 
no_1_dave said:
I have the unlocked firmware (samsung shop / carphone warehouse)

Just checked for updates and there was a 1.5MB update that apparently fixes some bugs and has a few performance improvements.
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Yeah I got that too, have you noticed any changes at all? Samsung Pay disappeared after the update for me?
 
My ladies Gold S7 arrived yesterday, such a little beast! Quite fancy one myself now, but not had my Nexus 6P that long. TouchWiz with a theme on it is actually very decent too, amazing :D
 
I just spoke to Vodafone who stated that they've been made aware that a number of customers didn't get the VR headsets with their order. If you call Vodafone they will take your details and it will be looked into by them. This might be useful for anyone Vodafone customers on here who didn't receive their headsets but should have.
 
mrk said:
Very impressed with it. Samsung has finally reached a level some people never thought would be reached. There are a few things I’m getting used to and/or find tedious, such as accidentally touching one side of the edge screen causing something to be pressed or a keyboard key to be touched while quickly typing…
I also don’t use the Edge panel much, I have enabled just the compass, RAM usage and Data usage bars. Everything else I had customised via Nova gestures and things anyway and I don’t intend to change that.

The camera is really excellent. The amount of light it picks up and is able to focus with is pretty insane and puts the speed of the Z5 to shame in most cases.

The QuickCharge 3.0 Anker wall charger doesn’t play ball with the Samsung Wireless Fast charger though. When charging the charger will randomly flash the blue LED and the phone will say it’s wirelessly charging again. Plug in the Samsung mains adapter and it’s fine. I imagine it’s also fine with the Aukey QC2.0 adapter too but will test tonight. USB charging from all the adapters show Fast charging without issues though. Seems the Samsung wireless fast charger needs strictly QC2.0/Hybrid fast charging blocks attached.
It wirelessly charges faster than the Z5 does wired and the Z5 has a smaller battery and is supposed to support QC2.0 as well…

The AMOLED screen is warmer in colour tone than the Z5 (tweaked white balance), getting used to this but the clarity is great. Battery life is as we all expected, excellent. I used it for several straight last night from a full charge and at 48% was on 4hrs 44mins screen on time. That was installing, configuring, using VR, transferring files and so on.

I don’t like that when I enable vibrate only in the sound slider, the phone will vibrate for app notifications when those apps have been set to not vibrate in their settings (e.g.: GMail). ON the Z5 this works great, only apps that have the Vibrate checkbox selected will vibrate in vibrate mode, all others will remain silent.
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My concern before I purchase is the edge of the screen being touched whilst holding, do you find this happening a lot?
 
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