CollectedDust
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Just ordered a S7 edge, my first non-Apple phone in forever (iPhone 3GS is when I made the jump). Hopefully it's not too jarring
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Samsung Galaxy S7 & S7 Edge |OT|
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Jimbob Smalls
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By treating consumers as idiots?
Jazzy Network
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But they are? Remember the whole s-pen debacle?
It's a good thing for me. 32gb is flatout not enough space for a phone in 2016. Especially when I can get 128gb in an iPhone.
The trick about adoptable storage is you're operating under the assumption that 1) your SD card will never have an issue and 2) it will live inside your phone 100% of the time.
Samsung has always catered to 1) the ultra techie crowd that likes swapping SD and batteries for reasons that are beyond me and 2) people that don't understand phone tech all that much and buy Samsung because of marketing. For those two particular users bases, adoptable storage is probably the wrong way to go.
SD is still fucking stupid in 2016.
Samsung has always catered to 1) the ultra techie crowd that likes swapping SD and batteries for reasons that are beyond me and 2) people that don't understand phone tech all that much and buy Samsung because of marketing. For those two particular users bases, adoptable storage is probably the wrong way to go.
SD is still fucking stupid in 2016.
Bumping this. This is a good question and may be a deciding factor for me between the S7 and S7 Edge.
I haaaaaate Touch Wiz. If other launchers can't use the edge, there's not really a point in getting it.
For me these are non-issues. Saying I'm operating under the assumption that my SD card will never have an issue is like saying I'm operating under the assumption that the onboard storage or phone itself will never have an issue. Of course that's the expectation. If there is an issue with anything, I'll deal with it when it arises. That's no excuse to not have it in there.
For the second point, who are these monsters that are actually taking the SD card out of their phone? It is way more difficult and time consuming to take the SD card out of the phone than it is to use a USB cable.
Having used SD for many, many years, I've been burned enough to not really want my phone to fail when my SD acts up or fails.
Your Entertainer
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SD cards fail. It's another issue to deal with l, both for consumers and customer service. It's definitely less of a headache to include one and absolutely a valid "excuse". Samsung also likely has concrete data that shows a very small minority of users actually use one.
On top of that, they're less secure and slower than internal storage. There's a reason Apple and even Google for a time didn't officially support them.
Undeniably Me
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Does Android allow family sharing yet? It's one of the primary things I'd miss jumping back from iPhone.
Good value at 25 bucks, but the write speed still maxes out about 50.
Its a clear and shiny/slick. Well... it used to be about a year ago. Mine has seen some use.
lmao. More like reactions of "are you sure you can do that with your phone?"
Why yes... yes i can.
There is no way to ask this without it reading snarky over the internet, but do you really think Samsung has more or better data than Google about Android usage? If it was for a very small minority of users, why would Google add it as a new feature for an OS revision? That doesn't make any sense at all.
Jon Armdog
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I could not disagree more. It's a major selling point for me
The edge features seem very light based on my hands on with it. TouchWiz and Nova work in junction, at least on the S5.
It has larger batter and screen size and it's only a few bucks more.
I'm not excited about it the most, it just is the no brainer for most who are upgrading.
When I looked at T-MO it was about $5 more per month if I remember right. That's $120 more.
Depends what you are coming from. As an S5 user, I don't see why not. S6 person I'd probably think about getting the same thing just to ratify problems.
Edge features are nothing special. I love the edge purely for the aesthetic factor. It's a slick looking device. On the S6 where there were no other differentiators, that was still enough to get me to bite for the edge. With the larger screen and extra battery, it's a no-brainer for me on the S7.
It's gorilla glass, so you'd have to abuse it pretty badly to get any noticeable scratches. I take care of my stuff, but I'm not exceptionally anal about it and I have no scratches on mine.
manfestival
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I have not purchased a case in years for a phone as I tend to love the design of a phone for what it is and use it just how it was designed. Is there actually a case that protects the phone great and is not bulky? I am actually considering keeping this phone for a very long time so I want to protect it as much as possible
The Faceless Master
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but its supposed to be an option.
how it's supposed to work is when you insert the foreign SD card, you get asked you want to format and bond the sd card bla bla to the device and have to yes/no it.
rockman zx
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This may be an stupid question but can you turn off the edges (S7 Edge) when watching images and videos. I rather see my pics and videos flat.
Unknown Soldier
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No one seems to understand that adopting your SD card as internal storage makes it unremovable from the phone unless you want to really fuck your phone up and unreadable by anything else like your PC if you do remove it. Plus you know if that SD card dies, everything on your phone is lost. Adoptable storage is the phone equivalent of JBOD hard drives and NOBODY ON EARTH recommends you ever JBOD and no one knows why it's even an option in the first place on a lot of RAID controllers.
Samsung is making the right decision by telling Google to take their adoptable storage and shove it.
Samsung however immediately followed this right decision with a wrong one by not making the 64 GB versions of the phones available in the US. Goddammit Samsung, please don't fuck this up with the Note 6.
Samsung is making the right decision by telling Google to take their adoptable storage and shove it.
Samsung however immediately followed this right decision with a wrong one by not making the 64 GB versions of the phones available in the US. Goddammit Samsung, please don't fuck this up with the Note 6.
Agent_ShortBus
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Going all in guys, I just bought a 200 GB SD card (SD card is important to me) and a Spigen thin case. Ive used the thin spigen cases on my S5 and after many drops it's still going. Quick question for those with an S6 Edge or Edge+, has anyone of you bought a tempered glass screen protector for it?? I've had one on my S5 since I bought it and I love it but I'm not sure how well a curved one would be or if there is a recommended brand I should be looking at. I'm afraid the edges on the tempered glass would crack easily or not stick to the phone very well.
We literally had that conversation in this thread yesterday. Plenty of people know that.
Spigen cases are my go-to these days. They make the most attractive cases that still give a reasonable level of protection. Relatively cheap on Amazon, too. My last couple phones o have used their Neo Hybrid case.
I have been going with Spigen cases and screen protectors as well. The Neo Hybrid is a fantastic case. Slim, protective, and looks pretty good. The button response and cutouts are better than most other cases I've tried.
This is the Neo hybrid for the S7. Generally can be found much cheaper on amazon.
http://www.spigen.com/collections/galaxy-s7/products/galaxy-s7-case-neo-hybrid?variant=12163291585
I buy nothing but Elago Slimfit cases. Spigens are usually finished roughly at the seams (where pinky tends to rest at bottom of the phone) and I've yet to find another case with the same great matte feel as the Elagos.
They don't seem to have an S7 slimfit yet, tweeted at them yesterday to see what the deal is.
They don't seem to have an S7 slimfit yet, tweeted at them yesterday to see what the deal is.
Neo was trash for the S5 because they used plastic buttons. If the tpu pushes out, should be fine.
I posted this in the Android OT, but got to play with the Edge at Best Buy and the camera is just shit house bonkers. I held my 6s+ and the S7E side by side and took a variety of pics, and it's not even remotely close. Samsung straight murdered the camera field this year.
Still not crazy about how the edge glares in harsh light, nor how sharp the edges are when holding, but a good case will fix that last issue.
Still not crazy about how the edge glares in harsh light, nor how sharp the edges are when holding, but a good case will fix that last issue.
Jimbob Smalls
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You're assuming Google aren't smart enough to build fail safes into the os if the sd card goes down. The problem of lost data in the event of a faulty sd would be same in both scenarios.
If the sd fails in an adoptive storage scenario I would expect the phone to still operate and only the apps and data on the sd to be no longer available.
That's still a terrible scenario vs using onboard storage.
plagiarize
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I know. I can't afford much right now beyond the phone. That seemed like a sweet spot in terms of price to performance.
Impulsor
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I just installed a bunch of games and apps to the SD card of my S7 edge. What is this BS people are telling you?
Jimbob Smalls
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I'm not sure how.
Weird I`ll have to try it out myself.
Impulsor
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It isn't weird at all, you go to application manager and change the storage of the selected app. It IS true that some apps do not allow this, but the inmese majority does.
Oh of course. But I thought that was common knowledge. It`s just that you can`t use the SD card to expand internal storage as was expected by some.
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