Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Factory Unlocked Phone 32 GB - International Version G935F- Titanium Silver

I am coming from Note 3. Tried and returned the following phones:Nexus 6 – very poor battery life for massive screen, but overall quite good;Nexus 6P – very bad sound quality (low volume, very low volume), build quality (headphone jack broke in 10 days)I did not want to go with Samsung just for the fact that they do not stand behind their products and make their products obsolete and not supported after 2 years. Not acceptable for me, and my Note 3 still works great even though it is running in KitKat.But anyway, I was getting tired finding a good Android phone. By that time every manufacture has to produce a great phone, which has great OIS camera, good CPU, bright screen and be nice looking with strong materials. But looks like every manufacture is failing to do that. Some have good screens, bad build quality, some just bad battery, or bad internals. I see only Samsung is making something decent I can live with: Great design, strong body, good and stable software and have ability to root.So after multiple tries with others, I decided to go back to Samsung.Let me start with things I do not like about it.1. Edge screen is too sensitive and I think there should be an option to disable edge touch, or make it app specific. Forget about quality typing with one hand. You will always hit backspace or other keys on your right (if you are right-handed) with your palm. Waiting for a case to see if this going to help. This is huge -1 star for this device);2. Home button is still sticking out of the body. Why not to flash it so there are no accidental wake ups while in the pocket or somewhere else?3. Fingerprint is not good. Nexus 6P had the best and was fastest. Here it fails to recognize in a lot of occasions even while trying to set it up. BTW, why only 4 fingerprints can be setup. Why not more? I was setting up the same finger touching with different sides of the finger in case I need to unlock from different angles.Now what I like:1. Screen brightness – great. The best among all the phones on the market;2. Sound quality (music) over headphones and Bluetooth. BUT. Sound quality is not that good using original signal processing. I am very peaky for bass and treble. That is why I was looking for a phone, I can root and install Viper4Android to make phone sound perfect.3. Like headjack on the bottom, now you can slip you phone in the pocket without flipping it over to make headjack on the top while it is in your pocket.4. Completely unlocked phone vs Snapdragon model where bootloader is locked. I installed Custom Recovery, rooted phone, installed Wanam Xposed framework and Viper4Android. These pieces of software is a must for me. Wanam provided me with long press back button to kill process, long press volume keys to switch tracks, remove annoying popup when headset volume is high and some other features. And Viper4Android makes sound like no one else can produce.5. Always On Screen – love it. Does not look like it drains a lot of battery if at all;6. Build quality – gorgeous. Back does not feel glass though. But I am going to put case on it anyway.7. Battery – very easy to make though the day or two. Used it with Navigation and screen ON for 2 hour drive. Battery went down only 15%.8. Taking pictures – very good and I like the fact that it is wide angle. Both front and back camera took very good pictures even indoors, while at the dance competition. Focus is lightning fast.9. Connectivity – very strong and where my Note 3 or Nexus 6P were struggling for LTE signal (AT&T), Galaxy S7 was fine.10. Call quality – it feels like a person is just next to you. Very clear and solid.11. Glad that Samsung did not remove the option to scale screen. Unfortunately they only provide 2 options: Standard and Condensed, but at least something. Nexus 6P gave me more options from 400 dpi to 640 dpi. But I had Cyanogenmod running on Nexus 6P.12. Performance – very fast, no lags at all.13. Google Pay is working on it even I am rooted and have Wanam installed. Made first payment today and it was good.Overall looks like it is a keeper, but if edge screen sensitivity is not fixed, I will exchange that phone to Note 6 in the near future. (Hope they will not make it with curved edge – I hate it).2.5 years later. Still have it. Running like new. Rooted with Oreo 8.0 ported from S9 installed. Very smooth. No issues with performance or battery.

For reference, my previous phones were not flagship phones but rather they call under the budget/mid-range smartphone category. This may skew my review a bit since I'm going from mid range to flagship, but I think the Galaxy S7 Edge has so much going for it that it doesn't matter too much about my previous reviews.PREVIOUS PHONESNexus 5, OnePlus One, OnePlus Two, Nexus 5x, Honor 5xDESIGNThis phone is beautiful. Honestly, I love looking at this phone and I find myself wiping down the phone to maintain it's reflective silver reflection. In the day and age of large phones, the Galaxy S7 edge finds the perfect size.(To Be Continued. I'm writing this on my lunch break)SUPER AMOLED DISPLAYThe display on thisPERFORMANCECAMERABATTERY LIFE IS FOREVERWATERPROOFINGFINGERPRINT READERIf I had to fault this phone for anything, it would be the fingerprint reader. For some reason, my phone doesn't always recongnize my fingerprints. I've reset them a couple times and it still doesn't always read it correctly. My last three phones had fingerprint readers and they were all quicker or more accurate than the S7 Edge. I suspect that it's because the home button is very short (height-wise) and that the home button is raised.FEATURES FEATURES FEATURES

When Samsung removed the ability to add removable storage to their line of phones I quickly defected. A short stint was run with LG and Motorola/Lenovo and now, with the S7 Edge I'm happily back in Samsung's court.I've been using Samsung devices since before the Galaxy line and have had each device save for the badly thought out S6 and Note 5. The S7 Edge is superior to the former iterations and I am happy to say that not only is the hardware beyond average but the software has been updated to not only run smoothly but also detracts from the excessive bloatware and creates a much more pleasant overall user experience.The Edge feature, while still gimicky I feel, does have its uses but I feel that like the S-Pen on the Note line you will either use it extensively or not at all. In the end though this is a wonderful upgrade and a welcomed return to the ability of having 200GB in my phone in addition to the onboard storage option.

I decided to write a review of this phone because it was the phone I wanted ever since it came out. Now that the price has dropped, I thought it would be the perfect time. This is an amazing phone! The screen, The size, the camera, the user interface. They are all polished and nice. This is not a cheap knockoff, which relieves me. The only setback I had was that the box said it included a 128gb micro sd card and there was none. I still have mine but I need a bigger one since mine is a 4 gb micro sd. The instructions were easy but I couldn't restore a backup from my other phone so I just set it up as a new phone and manually brought it all over.

Seriously who can NOT love these phones? Stylish, fast, excellent cameras? Great functionality with the edge screens...Samsung is my bae. Also, highly durable. I have dropped this phone a MILLION times in this year and a half and it is STILL going strong. My only complaint if I have one is that Samsung always comes with too much bloatware. Leave my storage alone dammit. I have a 128GB sd card but I'm STILL gonna complain lmao. Oh and in the beginning the battery lasted literally like a day and a half with moderate usage (i.e constant spotify, apps always in the background, instagram..etc) but now after a year and a half I get like a 13 hours.