Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge
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Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge
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#2wow, this is more like a paid infomercial than a wired article about apple products.
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#3> Perhaps the most significant change this year comes in the S7’s new 12-megapixel camera. It’s lower resolution than last year’s 16-megapixel shooter, but Samsung says its larger pixels let in 56 percent more light than before for better low light images.
What?
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#4The hardware quality of Samsung's flagship products has always been excellent. However the software issues make the price ridiculous.
Good luck getting rapid Android updates for your carrier-modified Samsung Galaxy S7. I'm stuck with a T-Mobile Note 4 with 5.1.1.
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#5> Perhaps the most significant change this year comes in the S7’s new 12-megapixel camera. It’s lower resolution than last year’s 16-megapixel shooter, but Samsung says its larger pixels let in 56 percent more light than before for better low light images. What?
Sounds just like what HTC did with the HTC One in 2013: http://www.androidcentral.com/megapixels-ultrapixels-samsung...
>The HTC One trades sheer megapixel count for larger (2-micron) pixels on the sensor itself, allowing for improved low-light capabilities when combined with its wide-angle f/2.0 lens.
>the HTC One runs rings around the Galaxy S4 in night shots
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#6> Perhaps the most significant change this year comes in the S7’s new 12-megapixel camera. It’s lower resolution than last year’s 16-megapixel shooter, but Samsung says its larger pixels let in 56 percent more light than before for better low light images. What?
Sounds just like what HTC did with the HTC One in 2013: http://www.androidcentral.com/megapixels-ultrapixels-samsung... >The HTC One trades sheer megapixel count for larger (2-micron) pixels on the sensor itself, allowing for improved low-light capabilities when combined with its wide-angle f/2.0 lens. >the HTC One runs rings around the Galaxy S4 in night shots
Interesting. TIL.
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#7> Perhaps the most significant change this year comes in the S7’s new 12-megapixel camera. It’s lower resolution than last year’s 16-megapixel shooter, but Samsung says its larger pixels let in 56 percent more light than before for better low light images. What?
Think of a CPU going from 4 GHz (Pentium 4) to 3 Gz (Core 2) and still being faster, because of a higher IPC. You can do the same thing with cameras to a degree, megapixel is not the end all be all measurement device.
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#8The hardware quality of Samsung's flagship products has always been excellent. However the software issues make the price ridiculous. Good luck getting rapid Android updates for your carrier-modified Samsung Galaxy S7. I'm stuck with a T-Mobile Note 4 with 5.1.1.
My Galaxy S5 has been terrible since the 5.1 upgrade. I actually don't want any software updates. My phone used to be a fast nicely functioning phone and now it's a sluggish piece of trash that's unusable. Like just stick with the current phone software and give me security updates and that's it. I've tried factory resetting and uninstalling most apps (and a factory reset is a huge pain with 2-factor set up everywhere by the way). The 5.1.1 upgrade didn't help either.
I don't want updates. Leave my phone alone.
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#9Still happy with my S3 and feel I'm not missing any key features. The more generations go on you realize just how incremental the phone upgrades have gotten for quite some time now.
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#10I few months ago I lost my 3 years old HTC One, so I had to get a new phone.
For the first time I decided to get an iPhone. So I got a 6s.
Worst mobile phone I've ever had.
The battery life is terrible. Now I understand why people have 'Power banks' with them all the time.
The phone also dies with 40% battery! I turn it on, it shows a splash screen meaning low battery, turns on, shows 40% battery, then dies after a moment again.Funny thing is that I try restarting it several times and at some point it starts working for hours (which means it actually does have 40% battery and its not a calibration issue).
The user interface (which it was supposed to shine at) is just bad. I can never find items I'm looking for. I had to read an article to find out how I'm supposed to turn on the Hotspot feature (And it actually seemed like editing xorg file!)
Viber/Skype start ringing and I cannot respond immediately, as the ringing dialog doesnt even show up until I do to the application.
ios has only a few keyboard layouts and misses my language (Farsi) and I have to rely on third party keyboards to type and third party keyboards are so unstable. Sometimes the keyboard just doesnt show up until I close/open the application.
My GPRS just started working when I inserted the SIM card to my HTC phone. On ios? I had to configure it manually! Again, felt like Linux +10 years ago!
I know this is totally off-topic to this thread but I had to say this rant. iPhone is only a fashion item. Its nowhere as usable as Android.
If you want a phone that just works do yourself a favor and give a decent flagship Android phone a try. You'd be surprised.
(And I'm not a fanboy of Google/Android, I wish we had a FOSS OS with an open ecosystem, but Android just works, unlike ios)