Samsung Galaxy S7 edge review: Stargate

14 March, 2016
Pushed way out of its comfort zone and into a high-stakes flagship redesign last season, Samsung’s back to what it does best - making itself comfortable at the top of the heap. OK, it sounds like a bold claim but by no means incredible if you’ve seen the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge.

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Looks like edge is main actor, not flat one.

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    • Anonymous
    • krW
    • 15 Mar 2016

    IllusioConsciens, 15 Mar 2016this is a real high end model whit 2k super amoled, and gre... moreThis is not a 2K Amoled.
    2K is equivalent to a hair above 1080p.
    Quad HD is 2.5K.

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      • Gibby
      • R04
      • 15 Mar 2016

      Battery endurance of 98 hrs! Yesssss!!
      Very impressive.

      Now then - I wonder if anyone has the patience to count how many times the reference to 'Lagwiz' etc is used by commentors of this article, who still believe they're being original, but have yet to try this phone. I'm gonna guesstimate around 325no.
      Anyone wanna bet on the troll count?? ;)

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        • Anonymous
        • HsJ
        • 15 Mar 2016

        Gold color with gold BG color looks absolutely awesome..

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          • Ram
          • Pxk
          • 15 Mar 2016

          USA Snapdragon 820 for others exynos processor. so other country peoples are fool...wont buy this...

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            • mir
            • t7Z
            • 15 Mar 2016

            AnonD-504676, 15 Mar 2016Tested the phone at Leicester City. Oh my goodness, Touchwi... moreReality is that you have never actually tested the phone. Better try to practice your lying skills.

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              • Anonymous
              • 7Jv
              • 15 Mar 2016

              AnonD-504401, 15 Mar 2016That Battery life is incredible! I cannot wait for your ... moreAs good as the battery life is for each i did expect a little more. Mostly from web browsing especially. Followed by a little more video. Then a smidge more in call.
              Though the web browsing mostly.
              I guess the SoC is counteracting a bit. However the overall improvement if so is still good.

              And i have a good reason. Im comparing to the Note 4's scores in these categories.

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                • Anonymous
                • 7Jv
                • 15 Mar 2016

                AnonD-504676, 15 Mar 2016Tested the phone at Leicester City. Oh my goodness, Touchwi... moreNothing is lag free. Though like most others there is virtually none in it already

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                  • AnonD-504401
                  • s7v
                  • 15 Mar 2016

                  That Battery life is incredible!

                  I cannot wait for your LG G5 review, that's the one I'm most excited about.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • ntJ
                    • 15 Mar 2016

                    phone of the year!!!

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                      • Dubaiboy
                      • M{3
                      • 15 Mar 2016

                      thank you GSMARENA! I've been waiting for this review to determine the battery test result and I do agree that battery life are excellent as per your result. Your site is definitely one of the trusted mobile reviewer and unbias site. well done! you give the actual performance without giving any favor to other brand unlike IPhoneArena!!!

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                        • AnonD-180026
                        • mxB
                        • 15 Mar 2016

                        Replace TW launcher with Nova
                        Disable all the Samsung apps
                        Set animation to 0.5x or off in Developer Settings
                        Set animation and scroll to Nova or Fast in Nova settings

                        now it's lag free

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                          • AnonD-504676
                          • yA8
                          • 15 Mar 2016

                          Tested the phone at Leicester City. Oh my goodness, Touchwiz still lags...
                          When will Samsung ever learn?

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                            • Anonymous
                            • Xj$
                            • 15 Mar 2016

                            Nice

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                              • Anonymous
                              • pqp
                              • 15 Mar 2016

                              Anonymous, 15 Mar 2016where you see 2K video? the human eye cannot even see the d... moreYeah. The onscreen GPU benchmark is a good example for why the QHD screen resolution has no benefit, it is just a waste of GPU performance.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • ndp
                                • 15 Mar 2016

                                IllusioConsciens, 15 Mar 2016this is a real high end model whit 2k super amoled, and gre... morewhere you see 2K video? the human eye cannot even see the difference, dude. lol

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • EKx
                                  • 15 Mar 2016

                                  AnonD-509761, 15 Mar 2016Best phone? It can't even beat the iPhone6s performance. Yo... moreCome on? the Galaxy s7 beats the iPhone 6s in performance, multicores and everywhere. iPhone only wins in single core by not much; off course with that poorly resolution of 720 from 5 years ago! hahaha think about it

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                                    • AnonD-506194
                                    • qU$
                                    • 15 Mar 2016

                                    I'm very satisfied with the battery life of my S7 edge..the best part is Samsung hasn't even released the performance improvement firmware yet...it's only going to get better

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                                      • IllusioConsciens
                                      • Pba
                                      • 15 Mar 2016

                                      AnonD-509761, 15 Mar 2016Best phone? It can't even beat the iPhone6s performance. Yo... morethis is a real high end model whit 2k super amoled, and great performance. you can compare iPhones 6s plus with huawey p8 or sony z5, his rivals

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                                        • Sunny
                                        • KIJ
                                        • 15 Mar 2016

                                        One question... is it worth upgrading fron s 6 or edge plus? If memory is your concern then u can have 128 gb s6 cheaper then s7 launch price. If camera is the concern than other then faster auto focus there is not any major difference in picture quality (like from s5 to s6). Battery is worse if u use all the gimmicks. So i am thinking of selling my 32 gb s6 to buy a 64 or 128 gb s6 edge ;-) just my thoughts