iPhone 7 rumored to get rid of the antenna stripes, waterproofing confirmed

29 December, 2015
Apple's next smartphone will allegedly use new materials to hide the antennas.

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  • 19 Mar 2016

Thought I'd share my experience and wait for the backlash.

I have received my Galaxy S7 Edge at the beginning of the week and am now returning for a refund. How Samsung have had the nerve to release this phone when it has so many bugs is beyond belief, especially considering the issues with the S6. The S7 has a number of common features with the S6, it runs very hot, it crashes, it freezes and requires restarting, the touchwiz interface is poor. Where the S7 really excels is the camera and SD card support. I am prepared to accept I have received a duff phone however the S7 Edge i had kept crashing when I used the camera, the SD card also kept causing the phone to crash and even after a hard reset and factory restore, the phone constantly redirected the card and formatted. this resulted in photos being lost one two occasions (i stopped using the card after the second time). At least my Note 4 was stable and managed the extra storage effectively and without problem.

Samsung have now lost me forever to Apple. I run two phones and have usually had something from Samsung and apple, my experience is that the apple product, whilst not as technologically advanced is far superior. The phones are more stable and I find the user interface more intuitive and efficient to use. I also find the camera on the iPhone 6s to produce better quality photos than the S7 in terms of colour balance and noise in low light. Critically, the iPhone doesn't keep deleting my photos and crashing.

As I have said, I could have been unlucky but surfing the reviews online suggests I am not an isolated case. For anyone considering the S7 I would suggest you do your research before you take the plunge and don't listen to the overly keen sales staff who seem to be pushing the S7 above anything else.

    Hades, 03 Jan 2016Apple will sue Sony, because apple also claims that they ar... moreJust wait for I-diots to start say i7 is better because it's the 1st waterproof phone etc.
    Same thing happened with i6 and 4k recording.. something that even android midrangers do by now. But it's like I-diots don't believe that other phones exist!!

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      • Hades
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      • 03 Jan 2016

      Apple will sue Sony, because apple also claims that they are the 1st for waterproofing lol.

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        • AnonD-104084
        • t@g
        • 02 Jan 2016

        This is just a rumour and you fans (android and ios) already bashing each other

        Get real life you all

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          • t7A
          • 31 Dec 2015

          i hope the next iphone will have a higher ppi and bigger screen atlst 5inch

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            • Rkj
            • 31 Dec 2015

            AnonD-80894, 30 Dec 2015agreed 6, 6s ugly designI agree, even owning both iPhones. Hopefully the next iPhone will look better.

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              • 5Mb
              • 31 Dec 2015

              SG N5, 30 Dec 2015Well...u think colour options as features of the phone...gr... moreGreat, one out of three times in my post i said features without adding "options/" on it and you take it literally to attack only that part of the comment, while you ignore everything else. Do you have nothing intelligent to defend your samsung gods except just one word missing, while the whole point of my comment is the general point and not one word?

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                • 31 Dec 2015

                AnonD-80894, 30 Dec 2015agreed 6, 6s ugly design6, 6s, best looking phones ever!

                  so we are gonna get some funky new marketing term no doubt as per the apple PR train to sell the so called NEXT thing in mobile technology water resistance even though its old news for the rest of the mobile world, they shall call it ingress proof or iProof for short perhaps

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                    • XNa
                    • 30 Dec 2015

                    Anonymous, 29 Dec 2015Funny how iBoys bring up Android on Apple news.funny how samsung fanboys bring android to defend samsung instead of brining tizen .. lol
                    read my post again and i clearly mentioned samsung and not android ( well this is expected from samsung fanboys )

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                      • XNa
                      • 30 Dec 2015

                      Mkdc, 29 Dec 2015Well, basically, according to samsung devotees, samsung did... morelike how apple trolled samsung ;-)

                      apple filed "Tap to connect" patent intentionally to troll samsung , and samsung really implemented it..
                      lol

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                        • 30 Dec 2015

                        Showoff, 30 Dec 2015Agreed. iPhone 5 and 5s design was much better. Apple is ju... moreagreed 6, 6s ugly design

                          Anonymous, 30 Dec 2015u should tell apple copy motorola for making phone call ~ ,... moreWho said anything about copying? Its fine, hell IT SHOULD HAVE ALL OF THOSE FEATURES, for the price. but it doesnt, so an iphone is an inferior device, do you like it or not.

                            Mello, 30 Dec 2015It's called outsourcing your production. It lessens manufac... moreWell as a business grad i know what outsourcing is and i know how cost saving is done and how companies go for make or buy options and etc. I was just giving it a sense of humour and apart from Samsung, every OEM does that, there is no problem in it but asking a 500% profit is! But then yes lets call it business and everything becomes fair because when stupid people make queues to throw thousands of dollars on a nearly identical both in body and spec'd phone then why would anyone care!

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                              • 30 Dec 2015

                              The Lycan, 30 Dec 2015Its Water Resistant and not Waterproof. And whatever said a... moreIf it is for who does it best....then the result would be favouring sony

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                                • 30 Dec 2015

                                woopwoop855, 30 Dec 2015no point in trying to reason with an izombie you would do b... moreYeah true Point
                                They r good phone(iPhone) but tooo much overpriced ifans are the worst

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                                  • 30 Dec 2015

                                  Anonymous, 30 Dec 2015thanks. IPHONE 6 - 6S IS UGLY. i phone 5/5s was much better... moreAgreed. iPhone 5 and 5s design was much better. Apple is just making their phone ugly nowadays.

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                                    • 30 Dec 2015

                                    iPhone is just the best.

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                                      • 30 Dec 2015

                                      AnonD-356282, 30 Dec 2015I think we were done with that joke in 2014. Nope, when you read some of isheep comments you just have faceplate sometimes

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                                        • 30 Dec 2015

                                        Jumbo, 30 Dec 2015Android phones don't have gawdy antenna strips already. It'... moreno point in trying to reason with an izombie you would do better to have a conversation with a brick get more sense from a brick its laughable really the level of delusions with ifans bit scary too that they will one day procreate the world is doomed lol