Samsung Galaxy Note7 review: Thinking Big
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- Anonymous
- x%D
- 14 Sep 2016
Rohan, 30 Aug 2016Hello GSM Arena Team, I was going through your review of th... morei think it is in the setting, then advanced features, then experimental i think........
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- AnonD-367917
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- 13 Sep 2016
Anonymous, 27 Aug 2016"I can run apps faster and smoother." -iPhone 6s to Note 7 :-PiOS will always have that advantage.
Much better hardware utilisation, allows for 'sipping of the power' and some great real world usage metrics.
Brute forcing (stupid amounts of CPU and RAM) Android will never make it run better.
Apple designing hardware to run a custom operating system yields many benefits.
This is what having full control of hardware and software allows.
In Android environment it is different; Google have Nexus phones, that are 'not quite flagship' builds. They are solid/reliable and perform well and will get updates vastly quicker than other manufacturers phones (again, with the exception being iOS).
Nexus phones will implement new android features, generally, but will never yield the benefits that Apple can claim when, as an example; incorporating the 'M' co-processor into the main CPU die, for 'always on' and power efficient usage.
If ever Apple evolve iOS to 'do more' (each version does), it might end up with a winning platform even for tech enthusiasts.
I would wholeheartedly happily use an iDevice/phone if they lowered the SAR factors, but that has not been their hardware focus.
Samsung do have exceptionally low SAR, certainly on the phablet models... this is important to me.
The year iOS out musters Android for me (as a tech user) will be a difficult one for selecting a phone.
Having seen iOS 10; it is getting vastly better, rapidly so!
I came late to the iOS game, starting around iOS 9.
Multitasks like a champion. 10 brings so many improvements, and finally sets a 'cut off' for older hardware (Eg iPAD 2) that will allow it to make use of more than 512Mb of RAM. We will start to see some great Operating System usefullness be incorporated, going forward...
Anyhow, comparing Android to Apple iOS is like comparing Windows to Linux. (Very different beasts used for different groups of people; technically you can do similar stuff, but the methods and reliability /performance difference is enough for people to see their differences)
I have no doubt that 'low specification' iOS (an OXYMORON, Apple is generally cutting edge, but anti Apple zealots look at numbers and not implementation) will crap all over 'brute force' Android.
Where Android will win out, it wouldn't if we factored in power usage to achieve said goal....
In a desktop environment raw power is all that matters.
In the portable world- weight and battery life considerations matter. And now that we have relatively high performance from ALL PRODUCTS, weight and battery life might become the main battle ground.
iOS is a great way forward for many users. Windows desktop should be on the out. Web versions of software (platform agnostic) is become 'a norm' for a lot of software; at which point an embedded OS/tablet might become the 'portal' or 'dumb terminal' for users to access information/input data.
like what we had in computing in the 1970's before Apple gave us the first (mainstream) PERSONAL COMPUTER. Make the users the administrators? NO WAY!
Anyhow; love my Note 7. 80+hours usage, 20% battery remains. Small, (relatively) lightweight and powerful device. Nice camera, Ingress Protection etc. brilliant multimedia (screen and sound).
Here's hoping Samsung do honor faster OS rollouts and updates and that Android as a platform doesn't continue to hold back these phones from future updates.
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- AnonD-367917
- H3V
- 13 Sep 2016
AnonD-59657, 10 Sep 2016Note 7 is dead already. Very high chance, Samsung may not s... moreNote 7 should prove some excellent sales figures. not necessarily greatest profits... but actual handsets sold, into an ever growing market, should be pretty impressive.
come on; we know that 2.5 million 'refurbished' (cheaper) flagships will be available, of a phone that is such an evolution over previous models...
s-pen users need only apply!
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- AnonD-59657
- IVF
- 10 Sep 2016
mir, 10 Sep 2016They always release their S flagship early on in the year. ... moreFor sure this is 1st time in history, the Note 7 only lasts less than 6 months.
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- mir
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- 10 Sep 2016
AnonD-59657, 10 Sep 2016Note 7 is dead already. Very high chance, Samsung may not s... moreThey always release their S flagship early on in the year. So what's your point?
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- AnonD-59657
- IVT
- 10 Sep 2016
Note 7 is dead already. Very high chance, Samsung may not sell a lot of Note 7.
Rumors suggest Samsung will launch Note 8 early 2018.
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- Anonymous
- JEa
- 09 Sep 2016
Biggest device failure we ever meet a flagship with flagships problems battery kaboom, stylus gets stuck badly..etc avoid
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- Jimmy Boy
- 3DR
- 07 Sep 2016
I say the Note 7 is terrible the camera is only 8mp really its lying saying its 12mp there isnt a lock button on the side its on the top so my hand isnt big enough to lock it with one hand and theres also a weird noise whenever someone phones me its like a "ring ring" noise and it only goes off when i answer the phone!!! It must be broken and when i put it in water it sinks it dosen't even float!!!!!
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- Jimmy Boy
- 3DR
- 07 Sep 2016
AnonD-488678, 30 Aug 2016What are you gonna do with this phone that the previous pho... moreYou can have 2 whatsapp accounts on this phone, thats kinda neat would'nt you say?
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- wMH
- 07 Sep 2016
Not goodbye galaxy note 6 sony xperia z6 sony xperia m6 who no6?samsung galaxy note 7 vs apple iphone 7 crazy power
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- AnonD-139449
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- 06 Sep 2016
kamil, 24 Aug 2016why samsung not produce note 6?why???B'coz Samsung team time travelled in the future and found that Note 6 version would get faulty battery and could explode so they made version Note 7 but déjà vu didn't work and the rest is history...
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- 06 Sep 2016
AnonD-568377, 27 Aug 2016Mi Max is a phablet.8-12 hours SOT.No gimmicks.Pure screen ... moreAnd it won't explode under your a$$.
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- AnonD-493531
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- 01 Sep 2016
"Don't fret it" in the performance section... curious choice of words, after the Verge/XDA drama about Note7 performance, when the same word was used about performance to dismiss the XDA review
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- Karim
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- 31 Aug 2016
Can any one hear a static noise from the top speaker during calls it is not that loud but it is present and can be heared in quit rooms
can anybody who have a note 7 tell me if he can hear this static noise please?
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- Rohan
- PTS
- 30 Aug 2016
Hello GSM Arena Team, I was going through your review of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. In the user interface page you have mentioned that there is a way to disable the app drawer in the note 7. I have been using the device but do not see the option to disable the app drawer. Can you help ?
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- AnonD-488678
- y$9
- 30 Aug 2016
What are you gonna do with this phone that the previous phone can't? Writting a note in the water? Really..?
Are Whatsapp/Instagram/FB/Snapchat/Line/Telegram/Viber will be shown as an 'Ultra HD 16K' in this phone?
Or is it just about lifestyle needs?
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- Crag
- StU
- 28 Aug 2016
Does the Exynos version use a Wolfson dac like older phones did?
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- Crag
- StU
- 28 Aug 2016
Does the speaker sound better on the Exynos version?