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Wow 6s vs. S7
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Some of you talk about how many steps ahead of Apple Samsung is. But none of that matters when the phones are filled with bloatware and they get laggy over time and battery life gets eaten up by unknown things. I have a nexus 5x that I just gave to my husband along with the many other android phones I've had over the years and none of them have ever worked just quite as well as my iPhone.
All the features in the world added to something still doesn't make it better if it doesn't work right. I'm sure the s7 is a beautiful phone but I'm certainly never going to buy one.
All the features in the world added to something still doesn't make it better if it doesn't work right. I'm sure the s7 is a beautiful phone but I'm certainly never going to buy one.
Feels solid, but just operates like pure trash.
Thank you! It's a hazzard of reading and answering forums while in bed at 6 am!!! Edited the post.
I have a Galaxy S6 which still hasn't received an update to Marshmallow (duh). It also has better specs than my iPhone 6s Plus, but experience using two phones can't be more different. iPhone will drop a frame here and there sometimes, produce a glitch or display some sort of lag, but it's rare. Normally it is smooth as babies but. S6 on the other hand is just **** in terms of OS performance. And display is nowhere near the same as when i first bought it.
I sold my 6s and got the Galaxy S7 on a new Jump On Demand agreement last month...
Yesterday was exactly 1 month... and I used my first JOD upgrade of the year and went right back to an iPhone (6S Plus this time). I was having so many glitches and errors.... and I was completely stock... no root. Things like the system getting screwed up and instead of showing the labels of apps, it started showing the file names of apps (com.facebook.katana)...etc. Stock Android might be ok... but Samsung sucks...
Anyway... thank god for Jump on Demand... I have 2 more upgrades left for the year, so I will be ready for iPhone 7 come September. At least I was in the Galaxy S7 long enough to take advantage of all the freebies tied to it! Free year of Netflix... already redeemed. Free Samsung VR headset... going onto eBay. Free Samsung Wireless Charger... going onto eBay. Free $30 Best Buy gift Card... spent toward an Apple leather case for 6S Plus!
Yesterday was exactly 1 month... and I used my first JOD upgrade of the year and went right back to an iPhone (6S Plus this time). I was having so many glitches and errors.... and I was completely stock... no root. Things like the system getting screwed up and instead of showing the labels of apps, it started showing the file names of apps (com.facebook.katana)...etc. Stock Android might be ok... but Samsung sucks...
Anyway... thank god for Jump on Demand... I have 2 more upgrades left for the year, so I will be ready for iPhone 7 come September. At least I was in the Galaxy S7 long enough to take advantage of all the freebies tied to it! Free year of Netflix... already redeemed. Free Samsung VR headset... going onto eBay. Free Samsung Wireless Charger... going onto eBay. Free $30 Best Buy gift Card... spent toward an Apple leather case for 6S Plus!
If you can get it off? Why would I need to delete things from a brand new phone? This is the problem. Never has there been an iPhone where I needed to eliminate things from the operating system to make it run faster. That's a small difference between Apple and other companies that goes unnoticed, but makes a huge difference.
Yet there are "bright" people insisting on being able to delete Notes app or stocks app because it is bloatware
I swapped my iPhone 6 for a Samsung Galaxy S6 for a month and I did notice it was very laggy in comparison, especially scrolling on social media apps.
Yet there are "bright" people insisting on being able to delete Notes app or stocks app because it is bloatware
Agreed. Although lately, that talk has been hushed with the sizes of OS updates being lessened. Do I wish I could delete apps like stocks, podcasts, find friends, etc.? Yes. The reality is that the OS was designed with these on board and have no impact on the performance of my phone
Not for nothing, but I've not seen that in my [extremely] limited experience. I think Samsung really turned things around and the S7 is a great phone that is not slow or clunky. As you mentioned you were playing with a store demo units which is not the best measurement of a phones performance.
I'm fully locked into the walled garden that is iOS, otherwise I'd be looking at the S7 more in-depth. I have no complaints on my iPhone 6 plus (other then the size
), and I think iPhones are a great product, but that doesn't mean the Galaxy is not a great product.
Not repeating history. Once bitte, twice shy and such....with one to spare!
Edit....to clarify....do have the SGS7 but primarily to use as a test device since it's the latest Samsung out and in view of the deplorable state of my Note 4 after Lollipop.
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Store phones tend to have some bloat installed that runs in the background.
I considered switching to an S7 edge but my plan price would skyrocket. I pay $85 for Verizon unlimited data, a couple of texts (since iPhones use iMessage, come on Samsung) and a few minutes since Verizon to Verizon is free. I would be an idiot to give up this plan! If there were some way to have an iMessage like setup I could do it.
This is not true. 2 thirds of my S6 Edge's screen are completely burned in. And I've seen this happening to others as well. They may not be many but it does happen enough to not dispute that this problem can exist for some. So, this is indeed a very realistic scenario. It's also why I'm holding off with buying the S7 Edge.
Yeah, the store demo of the S7 in the Sprint store didn't have any type of demo installed and it ran a lot better. I made sure to close all of the apps down though.
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The Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge are definitely sweet, I just wish they ran iOS and used an A9.
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The Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge are definitely sweet, I just wish they ran iOS and used an A9.
I don't remember any of my Samsung phones being sluggish except for one area that drove me batty. Taking pictures. Brand new they would focus and take really quick pictures. Over time it basically became unusable in that I would always miss the moment or they would take blurry photos which I had to delete.
How would I know from what? Two thirds of the screen are now yellow. The upper top is white as it should be (on a white background). I can take pictures. It's not a pretty sight.
PS: it's like here only that the upper half is fine and the other two thirds are yellow just like in this picture:
I swapped my 6 too for a S6 half a year ago and still have it. I have never noticed any lag no matter what I do on my phone. I just tested it with Instagram and it scrolls and loads pictures as fast and smooth like butter. Actually on the iPhone 6 I was disappointed by the slow scrolling, what appears to be normal on iOS. You can read an example here: https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/3qpkva/slow_scrolling_on_safari/
I almost can't imagine that people can be that negative about a phone that other people are happy about. Here in Holland the people I know, including myself, are very happy with their S6 performance. On one of the biggest review websites in The Netherlands the Galaxy S6 scores an average of 9.0 out of 10 after 1630 reviews. It's in Dutch, but still I would like to share the link with you guys. People are speaking about the perfect phone, and that it's a powerful monster: http://www.kieskeurig.nl/smartphone/product/2549228-samsung-galaxy-sm-g920f/reviews
To me, that right there is why the iPhone wins every time over just about every Android phone. I don't want to spend hours messing with my phone. Ten or fifteen years ago, I would've been all for it. But today, I have a wife, a kid to help raise, and work to do.
That's the same reason I'm sending back a high-end Asus router that I bought to replace the AirPort Extreme I was using. I had a brief lapse in judgement when I thought that I wanted to have more control over my network so I bought an Asus router with tons of settings I could tweak when I wanted to.
In the end, I ended up basically wasting a weekend tweaking settings in order to try to get FaceTime video calls to be as smooth through the Asus router as they were via the AirPort Extreme, which I had done zero tweaking with. There were several settings I tweaked on the Asus but I could never get through even a five minute FaceTime call without video stutters and out of sync audio -- and this is over 802.11ac wireless and a gigabit fiber connection, mind you. I finally wised up after two days of tweaking the Asus and put my AirPort Extreme back in service. No FaceTime problems since.
But remember this allows android devices to cost much less than iPhones, and there is the possibility to remove or hide most of the stuff you don't want, and the capability to tweak most visual elements in android. With iOS we are (as of today, will probably change soon according to Tim Cook) stuck with the stock iOS apps with no easy or official way to remove them and we can't modify much of anything.
So there are pros and cons to each side but I prefer having a cleaner, faster, easier to use phone out of the box which is why I have an iphone.
Snapdragon 820 S7 has major performance issues compared to the Exynos version, which runs far, far smoother. This has been well documented by major review sites:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/0...an-iteration-but-one-samsung-can-be-proud-of/
http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/0...an-iteration-but-one-samsung-can-be-proud-of/
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The size of the 6s Plus is ridiculous to begin with but I thought I would try it out even past 14 days to give it a fair shake. Once the S7 Edge came out, forget about it and I sold my 6S Plus as well.
I did not abandon iPhones though, just the large ones.