Flashback: Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge corrected the mistakes of the past
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- elionel
- Kig
- 06 Feb 2022
s7 is something we should remember because champion has returned after the trash of s6 follow apple trend
no micro sd phewwww
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- Anonymous
- Egc
- 06 Feb 2022
I used the s6 edge back then and it was such a robust phone. All the gizmos it had were quite advanced compared to the iPhones and other Android competitors. However, the battery and overheating issues were quite prevailing.
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- IpsDisplay
- 4m}
- 06 Feb 2022
Flashback you know what I remember back in this time of S7
The LG G5 WITH an LCD display had an always on display
People nowadays think an LCD display can't do it lol good joke
Not only that the gsmarena team agreed it was SUPERIOR in their review to the S7
The display got even dimmer and performed much better
And it was more energy efficient while being a FULL RGB 2k LCD Panel
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- S7 Edge
- sm9
- 06 Feb 2022
It was one of my favorite Samsung phones.
It was not as advanced as the S21u but I liked it a lot more
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- Mat
- v{u
- 06 Feb 2022
Best designed smartphone by Samsung except Galaxy Note 7.
- Whackcar
- 6p{
- 06 Feb 2022
I've used both of these phones. They were excellent back in the day. Their camera was awesome (the actual detail level wasn't the best, but the focus speed & illumination was excellent for the time). Design was also good, especially of the S7 Edge, but it didn't provide a good grip, so we had to put a case on it which downgraded it's appearance. The battery life was also pretty good on the Edge. Pretty decent phones overall.
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- guv94
- d%c
- 06 Feb 2022
"corrected the mistakes of the past", only to have repeated the same mistakes a few years later on... To be honest, I LOVED the S7. The only downside was the microUSB port (which was due to the Samsung VR headset at the time using microUSB and they couldn't update it with Type-C at the time, so this device had to be microUSB as well). But I can not forgive Samsung for excluding microSD card support (and the exclusion of 3.5mm jack-to a lesser extent), especially when their software quality matured SO MUCH now. I'm in a dilemma now; go with Samsung to have no microSD or 3.5mm jack and fantastic software, or go with Sony to get mediocre software support but the ups of microSD and 3.5mm jack...
- GAMIR3DH
- Pv2
- 06 Feb 2022
Nexus One, 06 Feb 2022Galaxy S7/S7 edge gets overhyped like the HTC One M7 does w... moreThat last statement is soo true, but not only with phones...
But then i get called either a zoomer or an idiot. 🤦♂️
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- lvm
- JEP
- 06 Feb 2022
...and made quite a lot of its own mistakes. One of the first phones with the screen-distorting light-reflecting curved screen edges, I believe. Even notch is not that annoying.
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- Anonymous
- arS
- 06 Feb 2022
My wife's s7 still in use, she don't want to hear about new phone (=bigger, heavier and without phisical home button, which is great to answer incomming call) . I have s10, last great sammy w/o camera island...
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- Blake
- 39x
- 06 Feb 2022
Still using the S7 Edge rn. It's still a pretty good phone. If it had more software support it would have been great
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- Piyash
- f}F
- 06 Feb 2022
I'm still using s7edge
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- Andy
- inS
- 06 Feb 2022
Samsung phones still don't have IR Blaster, and they used to have for every phone they released. As of now, only Xiaomi and Huawei have IR Blaster and my Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra does it all in every field and beats Galaxy S21 Ultra. I had been Samsung's customer since S1 and my last phone was Note 9. I would buy S series and Note series every 6 months. Samsung lost me as a customer and Xiaomi always beats my expectation.
- Kangal
- PEC
- 06 Feb 2022
The step up to the S7+ model meant you were getting a nice big screen, but much smaller than today's devices, and excellent battery life. It was the better option in my opinion, despite the cost. Let's not forget about the S7 camera was the best in its day.
This was trading blows with the Original Pixel, besting the HTC M9, and the elusive iPhone 6S.
Also, the Exynos 8890 was the version to get.
Out of the box, it was faster. It was the version that allowed you to unlock the bootloader. If you tuned it, it used less power than the QSD 820. And there would be many great community developments on it years to come (Custom drivers, kernels, roms, and mods). There are millions of users still out there, just check the xda forums. Bonus information, both chips were made by Samsung Foundries and you couldn't buy any QSD 820 devices (besides the S7) for the first 6-months since Samsung monopolised the chip supply for itself.
Everyone loathed the curved screens, but these were not as curved as today's devices. It was only tech journalists (ie Not-Professionals) who said it was great. That and their advertisers. An expensive (+$50) glass protector from WhiteStone Dome was a necessity, as well as a decent case for the rear. None of these were necessary for the S7-Active, which was the best version, however, it sold so few units because it was locked/exclusive to AT&T which wasn't even available in many parts of the US. We did lose the User Removable Battery, but a somewhat fair trade-off with IP67 waterproofing was accepted. The audio experience was average, the 3.5mm Headphone Jack had a decent DAC, but that bottom-facing monospeaker was weak. And Samsung's insistence to use the microUSB 2.0 (with Host/Otg) was a letdown to many fans who wanted to get it with TypeC 3.0 port.
Besides these three setbacks, it was an uncompromised device. A definite upgrade from the S5, S6, and Note6 options. And a worthwhile sidegrade to the likes of the legendary Note 4-Exynos. And possibly the best Android device of the year, with next year's competitors not having much of an improvement (some were worse). That's why the S7+ Exynos holds a warm spot in memory, along side the S10+ Snapdragon.
Personally, I think overall the ZTE Axon 7 was the best phone of 2016, with the iPhone 6S+ coming a close second, and the S7+ Exynos coming a close third. This was a great year for phones, after the clusterfud that was 2015, and the pinnacle imho being the 2014 Smartphone Wars.
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- Anonymous
- pjh
- 06 Feb 2022
Scram, 06 Feb 2022I don't agree completely. Samsung grew famous in the s... moreThe S5 had 16mpx, and the S4 had 13mpx.
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- Scram
- MXj
- 06 Feb 2022
Nexus One, 06 Feb 2022Samsung still made good phones since the S7...
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S... moreI don't agree completely. Samsung grew famous in the smartphone industry for its exceptional hardware. The term used to describe Samsung smartphones was "everything and the kitchen sink." The smartphones had everything, including novel tech that many (particularly Apple and Sony fans) decried as gimmicks.
This is why they sold so well even when they had sh*t software support and the worst UI and performance of all the then major OEMs.
Samsung has lost that identity. To their credit, software support, UI, and performance has improved drastically. But they aren't the hardware champ that made them a people favorite. Now, how much of that is due to the Note 7 fiasco is debatable--Samsung ceased beefing their hardware and accelerated the removal of features after that incident.
Even then, I recall how long it took Samsung to change the 12 MP lens on their flagships.
- YUKI93
- K1L
- 06 Feb 2022
WhyGoogle, 05 Feb 2022S7 and s8 were the last great phones samsung made, S10 was... moreS10 is the last great flagship Samsung. It went downhill since the S20.
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- Anonymous
- sUS
- 06 Feb 2022
They did not remove the abomination called edge screen and added it to the Note as well.
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- CaptSandman
- uIA
- 06 Feb 2022
Still using it regularly even after 5 years without a single repair.
M loving it :)