We analyze the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge, a phone that is easy to fall in love with

Last year finally the Korean manufacturer opted to bring other lines in the design and play it with an edge version for the Galaxy S6. That edge version put us before a really beautiful Samsung flagship and with a series of quite surprising virtues at a general level. A high-quality camera and overall performance that raised the quality of this series when compared to other editions. The only thing that left us was a bitter taste due to the low battery of the terminal. Not that I had little, but when you have a smartphone of this type, you are going to use it and that means that you need a good autonomy.

Today we have to pass before him Samsung Galaxy S7 edge, a phone that has fixed some of the bugs of the S6 such as include SD card, resistance to water and dust and a higher capacity in the battery. A smartphone that in this edge version makes you fall in love with it and you don't want to know anything more about other brands, including Apple's. Samsung has done a great job in this terminal to even lighten the weight of its heavy Touchwiz layer and bring us a very remarkable quality in the photograph, as you can see in the example photographs of this analysis or review.

One can fall in love with a smartphone

We have come to this new Galaxy S7 edge from the Galaxy S6 as I have said with the hope that it will partly improve all its defects. And such is so, that the battery arrives perfectly at 4 and a half hours of screen and it has great performance with the phone screen off. In this almost month that I have been with it, I have even gone to almost two days when I have made normal use. Logically, when you give it a go, it suffers, but arriving perfectly up to date.

You have microSD slot to extend the 32 GB It has by default, is resistant to water and dust and has an increased battery that, with the addition of Marshmallow and Doze, brings us to a spectacular Android phone. As I show in the title of this analysis, it is a mobile that you can easily fall in love with.

The main reason, apart from having an edge version that is nice to show you for its lines and that glass finish on the backIt's because you can give it all the chicha you want when playing video games, capturing dozens of video games or spending time watching your favorite television series, that the Galaxy S7 edge will render everything you want and more.

And I will not forget its excellent screen that frames it as a phone that, wherever you look at it, stands out from any of those currently on the market. It's the phone to look at if you really want to get one of its better features. It's that easy.

Key features

Integrated

Having the glass in the back has been a great success again for the Korean company. It is the really remarkable thing about this phone and that, at the edge, as the photos show, it takes everything beautiful that has to shine. It has a finish in every way where it is quite difficult to find a fault and the design has been redefined in certain details to bring us a clearly more beautiful smartphone.

With a terminal that will be the prelude to the next Galaxy S8, which is supposed to bring some important innovation in design, it is the definitive version of that S6 that arrived finally a change to that language on the lines it needed a big makeover.

Screen

The first thing that will come to our eyes the moment we turn on the terminal will be its screen with its 855 nits of brightness. Is right now the best in the market And the moment you raise the brightness bar that you can find in the notification bar, you can be amazed at those nits that do their thing so that it can be seen perfectly from any angle.

Camera

We can only say good things about the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge camera in every way. Especially where it handles very well is in low light circumstances and the great effect achieved by the camera flash offering brilliant results. It is the perfect phone for those nights out or when we are celebrating a birthday with the family and we need the flash to work perfectly so that everyone is perfect in the photo.

We already know the characteristics of the S7 in relation to the camera and, as many say, has an accent on sharpness and in an excess in the saturation of colors. But it is in automatic mode, the one that we will use to take quick captures in which we do not want to waste any time in manual settings, where the Galaxy S7 stands out a lot. It is the perfect mobile for those who want to take it out, press the home button twice and shoot in one second. The shooting speed is spectacular and the focus goes the same way so that 95% of the photos come out perfect.

Another interesting fact is that this time the lens on the back doesn't stick out as much as in the S6, something that is appreciated and that gives greater unity to the whole that is the design at the same time that the lens itself takes another entity.

Performance

With a less aggressive and heavy UI layer, we have the feeling of being in front of a software that is lighter and that gets carried away better than in other times. We also have a terminal that has great hardware, something that helps it to perform at its best. And it is that it works perfectly in all its facets and we do not find any moment where there may be some lag or that something takes time to open.

we passed a few benchmarks so you can see what I'm talking about.

The Samsung Galaxy S7 edge that Samsung has lent me is the one that comes with the Sony IMX298 sensor and the CPU is the Exynos 8890. Below is the AIDA64 data for the camera, CPU and screen.

Battery

Having a smartphone of such quality in the photography and screen, forces us to use it and this is where the battery does a great job. With excessive use we can perfectly reach the day without major problems, and if we go to normal use in which we do not play games and take a few photographs, it can perfectly reach a day and a half.

With Android 6.0 Marshmallow, the Galaxy S7 edge responds very well in sleep mode thanks to the doze mode, because if we don't get to use it a lot, the two days of battery will be there. I say use it a lot, but send messages, respond and the typical notifications. The truth is that there is an obvious improvement in this field if we compare it with the Galaxy S6.

Camera Examples

The Galaxy S7 edge 12 MP camera and features a new 1 / 2,5 ″ sensor, somewhat larger than the Galaxy S6. Having less resolution makes the pixels larger. These also determine how much light the sensor can pick up, so here we have 1.4 um and that means 95% more light is getting.

It has aperture f / 1.7 that achieves that have 25% more shine and high-speed autofocus with Dual Pixel. This technology allows to obtain the light with two separate sensors to adjust the focus. We are talking about a three times faster approach than the Galaxy S6.

The photographs have been reduced to 1600 × 900 for their weight and I have made more emphasis on the night due to the great quality that this phone treasures in this category. I repeat that we are in the photograph with the Sony IMX260 sensor on the back, since there is another version of the Galaxy S7 edge that has ISOCELL (made by Samsung), but that gives the same results or they have tried to make it so.

Exterior

Selective focus

Macro photos

Nightly

Multimedia

Speaking so clearly and wonderfully about its excellent screen and hardware that gives us great performance, as you have seen in the AnTuTu benchmarks, puts us before a smartphone in which to play all kinds of video games, play series of TV or movies or that our favorite songs play through your speakers or headphones, it is an entire audiovisual experience.

One of the best smartphones for this task and with which you can be amazed. It's not that I see the world in a rosy color, it's that this Galaxy S7 edge makes you see all that multimedia content at its best. The edge screen also counts in this regard.

Verdict

Today it is difficult to find a phone that can please us in all its facets. I do not know why it will be, but always one of the top high-end sins of something. In the LG G5 we can miss a little more battery, in the Huawei P9 that performs better in night photos or in previous phones, such as the Galaxy S6, that did not have water resistance or that there was no way to expand the memory internal terminal using a micro SD card.

To speak of a detail that has struck me, the "always on" screen that frees you from having to turn on the terminal every two by three to know the time or see notifications. It seems silly at first, but since it has almost no effect on the battery and saves the activation of the screen, it is a feature that you can no longer live without. The same goes for the fingerprint sensor which works perfectly.

Possibly about the Galaxy S7 edge we can talk about many of its virtues, but I do have to talk about one, it is his ability to miss nothing. It is even in its Touchwiz layer, loaded with weight, that we notice that it is lighter, so we find a terminal that does not limp anywhere. Surely the most special user will be able to find some fault, but in general terms it is the best Android terminal of the moment and I could almost say that the one manufactured by Samsung. Naming it the best Android smartphone there has always been are big words, but it's close and as I mean in the description below, the Android community will decide.

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