This is not even remotely scienftiic and to somehow connect this so-called test to real-world use case scenarios is pure hyperbole. Fact is, Samsung just makes better hardware and software. Samsung's hardware has more cores and more RAM. So I have to think these tests are just false.
The one so-called advantage the iPhone 6s has over the S7 is 3D Touch, a so-called feature that adds no additional level of interactivity or pratical usability. You can compile a list of everything 3D Touch offers and it still wouldn't matter. OLED is a higher priority than 3D Touch. A bigger battery is a higher priority than 3D Touch. Smart Scroll is a higher priority than 3D Touch. It just saddens me that Apple wasted years of resources for something so stupid as 3D Touch. Ooh, I can now interact on z-axis interfaces. How is this revolutionary? It's like adding a 5th wheel to a car.
There has never, ever been a time where I've personally wished I could press harder on an interface element. Never.
So the way I see is the iPhone is clearly inferior to the S7 and Android in every single category. Don't be so quick to be guilible that Apple's stupid so-called custom chip has some advantage over Samsung's superior chip.
I bought the galaxy s7 because i was hyped after reading all the reviews.
After using it for a few months:
- Samsung Software mostly sucks. Thankfully most of the things can be disabled. So i don't see how samsung makes better software. But Android itself i like.
- Yes the battery is bigger and at the beginning it was amazing how long it lasted. Sadly the performance degraded really fast and it's very unpredictable. Sometimes i end up with like 50% at the end of the day, sometimes it's just 20%. When i look at the Battery Usage screen then, it says that it was mostly used by Google-Play-Services and Android System. wtf?
that's not much better than my 4 year old iphone 5 (which was still on the first battery). I'm not a heavy user.
- the OLED screen has amazing colors. clear win. (just don't look at it in bright sunlight, the colors will look terrible.)
- the fingerprint reader is not as reliable as the one on my ipad. i've tried to train it a few times, but it doesn't seem to improve much.
- when i went to a different country, it did not change the timezone correctly. it showed me 2 clocks, but both with the same time. but it was set to adjust it automatically. always worked fine on my iphone. i ended up having to adjust it manually.
- after driving in the metro, not having any reception for a while and getting back up, the gps couldn't get my correct location until i rebooted the phone. this happened several times. never seen it happen on my old iphone.
- when i don't listen to music for a while it will just deactivate the music player. which means: when i go into the car and the bluetooth connects, it will not play the music automatically. so i tried like 2322424 apps that can start and play the music automatically when my cars bluetooth connects... and it still doesn't work 50% of the time. this must either be an android 6 or galaxy s7 problem, because there are plenty of guides on how to do this on older phones. but it's clearly not working on mine. but let's be honest: this should just work out of the box unless i kill the music app myself.
- the phone encryption somehow disabled itself. i turned the phone off before the flight. turned it back on. it didnt ask for the key. tried again -> the same thing. a day later without me changing any settings: it asks for the key again and shows the decryption animation. obviously i don't trust the encryption anymore.
that's just a few things than come to mind. but there were more little things that bugged me in the last few months. it just doesn't feel very polished. sadly the iphone 7 doesn't sound very interesting so far.. so i might just wait and see how android 7.0 improves things. (sadly samsung doesn't have the best track record on bringing android updates fast.)
