#Samsung s7 battery photo plus#
The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus had one of the best smartphone cameras of 2015, but Samsung's 2016 flagships beat them here by a wide margin. And, for the first time, they now have always-on displays, so you can leave your phone sitting on your desk and see this white on black view, showing you the time, date, battery life and number of recent messages. The smaller S7 has the slightly higher pixel density, but both look terrific. As app, photo and video file sizes have grown, Samsung's approach is better adapted to today's digital world – not to mention friendlier to customers' wallets.ĭisplay quality is incredible – Samsung has been a leader in this category for the last few years. For similar prices, these Galaxies start at double that (32 GB internal) along with those microSD slots. Storage has become a major perk for Galaxy buyers over the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, which each start at 16 GB with no way to expand that once you bring it home. This time Samsung made the water resistance internal so you get the best of both worlds. If you remember the GS5, it was plastic all around, with a port flap that you needed to close to protect its microUSB port. This is the first time Samsung has married water resistance to a premium build. Both help to further differentiate the Galaxies from Apple's latest iPhones, which have neither. Samsung wisely brought water resistance (rated IP68, or "continuous immersion") and expandable storage, both last seen in the Galaxy S5, back from the dead. There are two key features onboard that aren't exactly new per se, but that we didn't see in last year's Samsung flagships.
Regular-sized flagships early in the year and big flagships late in the year doesn't make much sense, but regular and large side-by-side gives customers a wider and better variety of the very latest tech. Samsung may be taking a cue here from Apple, releasing standard- and phablet-sized flagships at the same time, but it's a good idea no matter where it came from. The smaller S7 has a 5.1-incher, just like last year's S6. The Edge is now a phablet – not quite as big as Samsung's end-of-year 5.7-inch phablets, but still standing tall with a 5.5-inch screen. One of the biggest differences between these two and Samsung's early 2015 phones is that the standard flagship (S7) and curved flagship (S7 edge) are no longer the same size. And of course the S7 edge also has that curved glass on its front. You get the same general glass back with aluminum-frame build – our pick for the best-looking smartphone design to date – only now with a curved glass back that makes them slide more naturally into your palm (that is, if you aren't just going to slap a bulky plastic case onto it). The phones are a lot like Samsung's 2015 flagships, only with some subtle external and not quite as subtle internal tweaks. Expect the very best among today's smartphones in all of these categories.
the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge are so good in these respects that there isn't much to say about them (okay, we will say something about them in a minute, but you get the gist). We'll do our best to keep things interesting, despite the lack of drama in these two near-perfect flagships.ĭisplay quality, build quality, performance and camera quality. They get so many things right that it's easy to sing their praises, but because they're so good and polished, lacking the kinds of gimmicks that used to define Samsung phones, they almost make for a boring review (after all, problems and conflict are the root of all storytelling). We can't decide if the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge are incredibly easy or incredibly hard to review.