![]() ![]() Unlike the iPhone and the latest round of Nexus devices and LG G5, the Samsung home button is raised instead of carved, which means that you can easily drop your finger on it in the wrong spot. The fingerprint recognition is very hit-and-miss, not because the sensor isn't sensitive but because there's no physical boundary to your thumb. That's a big bonus for any modern smartphone.īut there are a few annoyances that are still plaguing my experience after a month. I haven't completely submerged the S7 Edge in beer a la Lil Wayne, but I have dropped some water on it and didn't feel panic at the moment. From the gorgeous display to the abundant RAM, the powerful processor (I have the Exynos version), the solid build and the elegant design, the fast storage, and the great camera. There isn't just one aspect to love about the S7 Edge, there are plenty. There are plenty of added features in TouchWiz that make the experience unique and interesting. Oh well.Īpart from those added apps, some of which I wouldn't call bloat because they're just shortcuts, I haven't had any issues with the S7 Edge. As to Samsung's own apps, I disabled S-Voice and S-Health, but couldn't do that to S-Planner, Email, or Internet. These were Facebook and several Microsoft Office apps. Luckily, they were all shortcuts to the corresponding app on Samsung's Galaxy Apps store, so I just disabled them. I uninstalled Paper Garden and Shahid (some Arabic app), but I couldn't remove any of the other apps. The Galaxy S7 Edge that I got had a few unnecessary apps preloaded. I love the simplicity and smoothness of pure Android on my Nexus 5X, and I also love what LG and Samsung have done to augment and improve that experience. I'm not going to get here into a debate over the merits or lack thereof of manufacturer skins on Android, but suffice it to say that I'm firmly in both camps. Lots of tapping noises when touching the edge of the screen were heard and I ended up removing them altogether. The problem though is that I've tried a couple of tempered glass screen protectors for the Edge and none of them stick well or curve perfectly with the phone. I just take it off and replace it for a few bucks. That way if it gets scratched by lint or sharp objects or whatever, I don't regret it. I am aware that there's a super tough Gorilla Glass 4 on top of my phone, but call me old-fashioned or overly protective: I just like an additional layer of tempered glass. The curved display also creates another conundrum: good screen protectors are impossible to find. My S7 Edge doesn't suffer from the incorrect touch recognition issues that had plagued some versions of the phone, but by its mere design, it has incited more mistaken actions from me than any other phone I have owned. It's also harder to type since the border letters on the keyboard are often on the curvature of the display it's even harder to do so one-handed because the moment you try to reach the opposite side of the screen, your palm will sure trigger the keys that were below it. The lack of a MicroSD slot meant that despite all that was amazing about it, I had to skip the S6. 32GB of storage, which was the S6 storage tier sold in Lebanon, wasn't nearly enough. I like having my hiking, travel, and personal photos with me, as well as my music, and maybe a few videos. I live in a country were reliance on the cloud is a ridiculous gamble, because HSDPA and LTE are fast but their plans are expensive, and home WiFi networks and ADSL are slow as molasses and even more overpriced. But the S6 still wasn't right for me since I need external storage. When I read David's hands-on with the S6, I knew the company was really doing things right again: you don't impress our resident Android Police curmudgeon with one single layer of polish. By the time the G4 was announced, the Galaxy S6 was already making waves and whether on paper or in the hand, it felt like Samsung's path to redemption. My journey with Samsung stopped and I jumped over to the LG G2, which I loved, then the G3, which I loved even more, then the G4, which I… liked. They were reiterative in all the wrong ways and far from what I was expecting from a modern smartphone. When the Galaxy S4 was announced and later the S5, I wasn't remotely convinced by them. ![]()
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