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Samsung Galaxy S7/Galaxy S7 Edge tips and tricks
To help you get the most out of your new smartphone, we’ve rounded up our top tips and tricks for the Samsung Galaxy S7/Galaxy S7 Edge!
One of the biggest complaints with Samsung’s TouchWiz UI a few years ago was the fact that the software package was very bloated, and packed with a slew of features and extras that, ultimately, didn’t prove to be all that useful. Samsung has toned down their software experience drastically over the last couple of versions of the UI, and with the latest iteration, the software experience is by far the best yet.
That certainly doesn’t mean that these smartphones are particularly lacking when it comes to software and hardware features however. The Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge are making its way to consumers all over the world, and we’re here to help you out, with this roundup of our top tips and tricks to help you get the most out of your new smartphone. Let’s take a look!
– Disabling the Flipboard Briefing screen
One of the big issues with the Samsung software experience has been the Flipboard Briefing screen, with a lot of stutter and lag seen when swiping to it. The lag isn’t as prevalent a problem with the powerful Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge, and quite a few users do find this secondary screen useful, but if you are someone who, like me, don’t find it helpful, the good news is that it can be disabled easily.
All you have to do is long press on the homescreen and then swipe over to the Briefing homescreen, where you will see a toggle to turn it off. If you are looking to turn it back on again, just follow the same steps to do so.
– Changing the screen grid size
By default, the screen grid size is set to 4×4, which is a little bit cramped, and doesn’t allow you to take full advantage of the available display real estate. Once again, changing this setting is very easy. Just long press on the homescreen, and among the four options at the bottom, tap on Screen Grid. You can choose between 4×4, 4×5, and 5×5, and once you’re happy with your selection, tap on Apply. With the larger grid sizes, you will now be able to fit a lot more apps and widgets on the homescreen.
– Camera quick launch
The camera quick launch shortcut was first introduced with the 2015 Galaxy S flagships, and is one of the best features Samsung has come up with. Anytime you are looking to launch the camera quickly, all you need to do is a double tap of the physical home button. This feature works regardless of which app or screen you are on, and even when the device is locked.
This is an extremely useful feature and actually removes the need for a Camera app icon on the homescreen as well. The camera quick launch shortcut should be enabled by default, but if it isn’t, go to Settings – Advanced Features, and make sure that the Camera quick launch option is toggled on.
– One-handed operation
This feature allows you to shrink the interface down for easier one handed use, and while it may not be required with the relatively compact Galaxy S7, it may prove useful for owners of the larger Galaxy S7 Edge. To enable this feature, go to Settings – Advanced Features – One-handed operation, and you will see a toggle to reduce the screen size.
There is also a toggle for one-handed input as well, which will shift only certain apps, like the Dialer or Calculator, to one side of the phone, for easy one handed use. Once enabled, a triple press of the home button will launch this feature, and you will have the option to move it to left or right side, depending on which you prefer, as well as to go back to the full screen size.
– Re-ordering the Edge panels
This tip is of course, specifically for owners of the Galaxy S7 Edge. With the new Edge UX, Samsung now allows for up to 9 panels to be used at one time, and that can be a lot of panels to swipe through when your searching for a particular piece of information. If there are some panels you use more often than others, such as looking up weather information, you can put those panels at at the forefront to make them easier to get to.
To re-order the panels, swipe open the Edge interface, tap the Setting icon, and select the Re-order button at the upper right. From here, re-ordering the panels is as simple as dragging and dropping. Now, your Edge panels will be exactly the way you want them to be.
– Moving multiple applications to another homescreen
One of the most annoying things about Android when it comes to moving and organizing apps around the homescreens is that you can only move one item at a time. Luckily, Samsung has come up with a pretty elegant solution to help in this regard.
Just long press and hold an application, as you normally would when moving an app, and up top, you will see a Move Apps option appear. Once you’ve dragged an app to it, you will then be given the option to select 5 more applications to move. Once selected, swipe to any of the other homescreens, and simply drag them back down from the top.
– Make the UI look like stock Android
The latest version of the TouchWiz UI doesn’t look that bad, with a few aesthetically-pleasing changes made throughout, but if you’re still not a fan and are looking for a more stock-like interface, you can easily do so via the in-built Theme store.
My favorite theme lately is the Android 6.0 Marshmallow theme, but there are plenty of really good ones to choose from. The easiest way to find them is to use the search term “Material,” and you will find a lot of themes that offer a stock Android look, with a majority of them also available for free.
– Customizing the Always On display
One of the new features introduced with the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge is the Always On display, and while its functionality is quite limited at the moment, Samsung does offer a few ways to customize it. You’ll find these options by going to Settings – Display – Always On display, where you have the option to choose between a clock, calendar, or image, to display.
If you want to customize the clock, for example, you can pick between several analog and digital clock styles, and you can also add a background image to the clock. Granted, there are only a few images to choose from here, but those are available do look nice, and hopefully, more options will be added in the future.
– Turning off Pop-up view
A feature that I’ve always found to be quite annoying is Pop-up view. This feature lets you shrink an app into a floating window that you can manipulate and move around by swiping inwards from the top left or right corners. However, you will often find this feature being triggered when you’re simply trying to pull down the notification shade.
The good news is that with the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge, you now have the option to disable this feature. Go to Settings – Advanced features, tap on Pop-up view gesture, and turn it off.
– Keeping the screen turned off
The last and final tip is with regards to how to keep the screen from turning itself on when you don’t want it to. With both smartphones coming with physical home buttons, they can be prone to accidental presses from getting tossed around in a bag, or even while in your. which can ultimately waste a lot of battery life, with the screen turning on constantly.
Go to Settings – Display, and you will see an option for keeping the screen turned off. Once you’ve enabled this feature, your phone will never accidentally turn itself on in your. bag, or any other dark environment.
So there you have it for this roundup of some useful tips and tricks to help you get the most out of your Samsung Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 Edge. If you feel like there is something we’ve missed out on, don’t forget to mention it in the Комментарии и мнения владельцев section below.
Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 vs Galaxy S7 and S7 edge: Specs Comparison
BY Rajesh Pandey
Building on the success of the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge from last year, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S8 and S8 last night — its first major flagship smartphone since the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco. So, how does the Galaxy S8 compare to the Galaxy S7?
The Galaxy S7 and S7 edge were widely considered to be among the best Android smartphones released this year, and it shows since the handsets sold in excess of 50 million units. Now that their successors are out, let’s find out how the Galaxy S8 compares to the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge in various aspects.
Remember that the only difference between the Galaxy S8 and S8 is their screen size, dimensions, and battery capacity, so barring those, other comparison points below will be applicable for it as well.
Dimensions
The Galaxy S8 is 8mm thick, while the Galaxy S8 is 8.1mm thick. The Galaxy S8 and S8 weighs 155g and 173g, respectively. The dimensions of both phones are as follows:
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- Galaxy S8: 148.9 x 68.1 x 8 mm
- Galaxy S8: 159.5 x 73.4 x 8.1 mm
The Galaxy S7 and S7 edge are 7.9mm and 7.7mm thick, respectively, with both handsets weighing in at 157g and 173g.
The dimensions of Galaxy S7 and S7 edge are as follows:
- Galaxy S7: 150.9 x 72.6 x 7.7 mm
- Galaxy S7 edge: 159.5 x 73.4 x 8.1 mm
Display
The Galaxy S8 comes with a curved 5.8-inch Infinity Display with Quad HD (2960 x 1440) resolution and an aspect ratio of 18.5:9. The new aspect ratio makes the display taller than usual but it is better suited for multi-window multitasking.
The Galaxy S7 comes with flat 5.1-inch Quad HD (2560 x 1440) display with a 16:9 aspect ratio. As for the Galaxy S7 edge, it comes with a curved 5.5-inch Quad HD display with the same 16:9 aspect ratio.
Chipset
The Galaxy S8 comes with either Samsung’s own Exynos 8895 chipset or Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 chipset. Both chipsets are based on Samsung’s 10nm LPE fabrication process that should make them more power efficient than other 14nm based chipsets.
The Galaxy S7 and S7 edge featured Samsung’s own Exynos 8890 chipset or Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 chip. Both chipsets are based on the 14nm fabrication process.
Storage RAM
The Galaxy S8 and S8 both feature 64GB of NAND storage based on the UFS 2.1 interface. They also come with 4GB of RAM and a microSD card slot.
The Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, on the other hand, were available in either 32GB and 64GB of storage using UFS 2.0 NAND storage chip. They also featured 4GB RAM and a microSD card slot.
Camera
The Galaxy S8 features the same camera setup as the Galaxy S7. This means we are looking at a 12MP f/1.7 shooter with Dual Pixel and OIS. However, like the Google Pixel, the Galaxy S8 now takes three pictures in quick succession and combines them into one for better low-light imaging performance.
At the front, the Galaxy S8 features an 8MP f/1.7 shooter with autofocus, while the Galaxy S7 features a 5MP f/1.7 selfie shooter.
Connectivity
The Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 are the first phones to feature gigabit LTE Cat.16 modem. They are also the first phones in the market to launch with Bluetooth 5.0. The Galaxy S8 also features a USB-C port.
The Galaxy S7 and S7 edge only support LTE Cat.9 speeds, and they shipped with Bluetooth 4.2 out of the box. The Galaxy S7 and S7 edge feature a microUSB port.
Battery
The Samsung Galaxy S8 comes with a 3000mAh battery, while the Galaxy S8 Plus features a 3500mAh battery. Both batteries will be able to hold up to 95 percent of their capacity after two years.
The Galaxy S7 also featured a 3000mAh battery, while the Galaxy S7 edge came with a slightly larger 3600mAh battery.
All the four phones support fast charging, both wired and wireless.
Biometric Authentication
The Galaxy S8 features three different types of biometric authentication: iris, fingerprint, and face.
The Galaxy S7, in comparison, only features fingerprint authentication.
IP Certification
All the four handsets — Galaxy S7, S7 edge, S8, S8 — feature an IP68 certification that makes them dust and water-resistant in up to 1.5m of fresh water for up to 30mins.
Samsung Pay
All four handsets also support Samsung Pay.
New Features
The Galaxy S8 comes with two new features which are missing on the Galaxy S7: Bixby and DeX. The former is Samsung’s new AI-powered virtual assistant that features Bixby Vision and is contextually aware. As for DeX, its a docking accessory for the Galaxy S8 that turns it into a full-blown Android-powered PC replacement.
So, do you think the Galaxy S8 and S8 are a huge upgrade over the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge? While the larger displays and other key improvements definitely make Samsung’s latest flagship a winner, their battery capacity has me worried. A 3000mAh battery for a phone with a 5.8-inch QHD display sounds like a combination that will struggle to make it through the day.
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The Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge offer a breakthrough dual-pixel camera that’s brighter and faster than the iPhone’s, plus an always-on display in a water-resistant design.
Tom’s Guide Verdict
The Galaxy S7 takes everything that’s great about Samsung’s last two flagships and puts them into a phone that highlights the best tech you can get right now.
Pros
- Better battery with vastly improved standby
- Smooth, snappy performance
- Superfast autofocus
- microSD card slot and waterproofing are back
- Smoother, more seductive body
Cons
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The Galaxy S6 pioneered a bold new design for Samsung’s flagship phones, thanks to its luxurious glass-and-metal design. But to get there, Samsung had to sacrifice beloved features, such as microSD expansion and water resistance, that had been key components of the Galaxy S5. On the S7, Samsung has combined the best features of its previous two Galaxy S phones while simultaneously upping the ante for other phone makers. A slicker, more thoughtful design; a jaw-droppingly quick camera; a powerful Qualcomm 820 processor; and the latest version of Android result in a handset that’s both a beauty and a beast.
Editors’ Note: Looking for the S7 Edge? Read our full Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge review.
Design: A Rounder, Curvier Take on Glass and Metal
At first, the S7 appears quite similar to last year’s S6. But when you actually pick up the new phone, it feels like Samsung spent the past year sanding and polishing its dual glass-and-aluminum design with the deft touch of a jeweler’s hand. In front, the fingerprint reader lies almost completely flush against the phone’s bottom bezel. And while there’s still a bump for the 12-megapixel camera in back, it’s lower and much less obtrusive than on the S6.
Samsung has even taken cues from the Galaxy Note 5 by adding curved edges to the back of the S7 for a phone that’s not only more attractive, but also more comfortable to hold. As on previous Galaxy phones, the S7 features capacitive-touch buttons for Back and Recent Apps, which is a real boon for people like me who despise wasting precious screen real estate with on-screen buttons.
But the real magic is the return of the microSD card slot and water resistance, despite the S7’s incredibly sleek profile. Samsung added another section to the S7’s SIM card tray and fitted new supertight interior seals and gaskets for IP68-certified water resistance that’s good to depths of 5 feet for up to 30 minutes. The one quirk to the S7’s new waterproof design is that, after a dunk, it can take a while for the gaskets protecting the speakers to dry out, which results in reduced audio volume until they do. If you’re desperate for sound, you can blow in the speaker grille, like you did for old NES cartridges, to clear out excess liquid — but I wouldn’t really recommend it.
The one feature that didn’t make it onto the S7 from the S6 is the IR blaster, which can be used to controls TVs and other home media devices. That might be a deal breaker for some, but most people probably won’t miss it.
In a glorious bucking of the trend of phones getting thinner and lighter year after year, the S7 is actually 1 millimeter thicker (about 0.04 inches), and almost half an ounce heavier, than last year’s S6. Some may say this leaves the S7 feeling a little too hefty, but the increased size and weight opened up room for a 3,000-mAh battery that’s almost 20 percent larger than the one in the S6. That’s a trade I’ll make any day of the week. However, I would have preferred a USB Type-C port on the bottom, because in a couple of years, when all other phones have moved on, I’d prefer not to be lugging around an outdated charging cable.
At 5.36 ounces and 5.61 x 2.74 x 0.31 inches, the 5.1-inch S7 is slightly larger and heavier than the 5.04-ounce, 5.44 x 2.64 x 0.28-inch iPhone 6s (with a 4.7-inch screen), but the difference doesn’t feel as big as their screen sizes would imply. The S7 is also more compact than the S7 Edge, although Samsung has done a pretty good job of keeping the S7 Edge’s waistline to a minimum. Despite the S7’s larger 5.5-inch screen, the device measures just 5.94 x 2.85 x 0.3 inches.
Display: Now Always-On
One of the few things on the S7 that has stayed pretty much the same from the S6 is the phone’s gorgeous 5.1-inch 2560 x 1440 quad-HD AMOLED display. But the S6 boasted one of the best displays on any phone, so you can hardly fault Samsung for staying the course.
That doesn’t mean things have gone entirely unchanged, though. On the S7, Samsung added an always-on feature that displays the time, date, battery and even a calendar at all times. So if you rely on your smartphone to tell the time, you no longer need to unlock the phone just to get a peek at the clock. Because displaying blacks on an AMOLED display draws literally zero electricity, Samsung says the always-on feature drains only about 1 percent of the S7’s battery per hour, although it can also be disabled entirely if you so desire.
I really like the S7’s ability to change what you see on the always-on display. But with the phone’s pretty limited selection of backgrounds, formats and colors, I’m hoping that Samsung adds some more options in the future.
When watching movies, you still get those true inky blacks and vivid, saturated colors. When I watched the trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the S7’s screen exploded with rich, fiery oranges and cool, electric blues.
We found that the S7 has a peak brightness of 487 nits, which is a little dimmer than the S6’s brightness of 521 nits. That didn’t really impact outdoor visibility, with the exception of the always-on display, which can sometimes be hard to see in direct sunlight. Apple’s iPhone 6s (452 nits), Huawei’s Mate 8 (445 nits) and Google’s Nexus 6P (337 nits) were all dimmer than the S7 in our tests.
Samsung has also redefined how we should think about low-light photography and smartphone cameras. The S7’s lens is wider, at f/1.7 (versus f/1.9 on the S6), and the individual pixels in its sensor are bigger (1.4 microns for the S7 versus 1.12 for the S6). As a result, the S7’s camera takes in way more light than before — essential for snapping crisp pics in low-light scenarios.
In a side-by-side comparison of the Galaxy S7 and the iPhone 6s Plus, a shot of the iconic lion statues outside Capital Grille at 11 p.m. looks like the literal difference between night and day. With the much brighter exposure and sharper details of the S7’s picture, most people would be hard-pressed to tell that the image was taken at night. The iPhone 6s Plus’ photo, by comparison, looks dark, soft and quite muddy.
Results were similar in another late-night shot of the Ford Foundation Building’s lobby, where the iPhone 6s Plus’ shot was underexposed and featured dreary, bland-looking trees. The S7’s photo looked much livelier, with brighter greens and even better detail in the office Windows in the background.
Under better circumstances, the two phones were much closer. Outdoor photos of some snow-dusted apples shot by both the S7 and the iPhone 6s Plus looked about the same. However, indoors, the S7 claimed a slight advantage when snapping shots of some flowers. Both phones did a good job of capturing a sharp and detailed pic, but the yellows in the S7’s photo looked a bit more vibrant than the pale shades in the iPhone 6s Plus’ shot.
While my photo of a lobster isn’t exactly what you’d call a typical portrait, when you look at two photos from the Galaxy S7 and the iPhone 6s Plus, the S7 shot looks just a bit sharper around the lobster’s eyes, although I have to give credit to the iPhone 6s Plus for its richer, more saturated blues.
The S7’s front camera stands pat at 5 MP. On a blustery late-winter morning, it didn’t capture as quite as much detail in my hair as a selfie from the iPhone 6s Plus’ front cam. Still, I prefer the S7’s wider field of view, as the phone captured more of the background.
Performance: An Even Faster Galaxy
Last year’s Exynos 7420-powered Galaxy S6 was the fastest Android phone of its generation, and the S7 pushes performance forward again with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 CPU, 4GB of RAM, 32GB of storage and the return of microSD expansion.
In Geekbench 3, which tests overall performance, the S7 scored 5,390, which puts it a full tier higher than almost all of the top premium phones, including the iPhone 6s (4,385), the Nexus 6P (4,289), the Galaxy Note 5 (5,053) and the Galaxy S6 (5,120). Huawei’s Mate 8 topped the S7 with a score of 6,207 from its Kirin 950 CPU.
It’s a similar story when it comes to graphics power, where the S7 notched 28,883 in 3DMark’s Ice Storm Unlimited benchmark, beating everything else out there, including the Mate 8. The Nexus 6P (17,674), the Galaxy Note 5(22,536) and the Huawei Mate 8 (17,930) all trailed the S7 by a good deal, with the iPhone 6s coming closest (26,070).
Battery Life: Much Better Standby
With a runtime of 8 hours and 43 minutes on the Tom’s Guide Battery Test (continuous Web browsing over 4G-LTE at 150 nits of brightness), the S7 lasted barely more than 10 minutes longer than the S6’s time of 8:32. But out in the real world, the S7’s longevity feels like it’s on a completely different level.
After I charged the S7 to 100 percent before leaving work around 5:45 p.m., the phone still had 54 percent left 24 hours later. As the owner of an S6 Edge, I know that earlier generations of Samsung’s flagship phone would have been lucky to make it through the night, let alone a full day of use taking pictures, running benchmarks, and toggling on and off almost every setting in the phone. The S7’s always-on display was enabled the whole time, too, which was especially impressive, as the phone lost less than 10 percent of its battery life while I was sleeping.
When stacked up against other flagship phones, the S7 lasted almost a full 2 hours longer than the iPhone 6s (6:46) and an hour longer than the soon-to-be-replaced LG G4 (7:38). The Samsung struggled to match the double-digit runtimes of larger phones like the iPhone 6s Plus (10:00), the Nexus 6P (12:25) and the S7’s big brother, the Galaxy S7 Edge (10:09).
A quick word of warning about charging the S7: Because the phone has an exposed USB port even though it’s water resistant, you may get a moisture detection warning after the phone gets wet. That could delay you from charging the phone; however, in my testing, the message disappeared fairly quickly.
over, Samsung has added adaptive fast charging to the S7. Even though the feature works only with specially made chargers (like the one that comes in the box), it actually delivers on its promise of juicing up the battery by 50 percent in just 30 minutes.
Interface: A Cleaner, Lighter TouchWiz
Every year, Samsung’s TouchWiz interface gets pared down to be a little cleaner and lighter, but even on the S7, a few odd spots remain to remind you that Samsung’s UI skin is standing between you and an unfettered Android Marshmallow 6.0 experience.
On the plus side, you get handy features, such as real support for dual-window multitasking and access to a superconvenient theme store for customizing your UI. On the other hand, you have a Settings menu that’s too long and clunkier than it should be, as well as a redundant quick settings menu in your notifications tray. And don’t even get me started on the ugly new “squircle”-shaped icons. They feel like the TouchWiz designers couldn’t decide between something round or something square, so they opted for both.
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Thankfully, if you spend a few minutes in the theme store and fiddle with the options, you can get a pretty clean interface. It would just be nice if you didn’t have to take these steps at all. I just wish I could say the same about all the fat that’s bound to come from your carrier. In the case of our Verizon review unit, there are almost as many Verizon apps (nine) as there are first-party Google ones (10), and I can count on no hands how many of Verizon’s apps I will ever want to use. The small upside is that, at least on Verizon, isn’t a default app.
Bottom Line
If the S6 brought premium design to Samsung’s flagship phones, the Galaxy S7 refines and combines those trend-setting good looks with all the features you really wanted from the phones that came before it. The S7’s camera is faster and better in low light, its battery life is better, its body is more seductive and water-resistant, and as a whole, this phone pushes the smartphone bar higher than it’s been before.
Really, the S7’s biggest competition is itself — or rather, the larger, edgier version of itself. With an extra 1.5 hours of battery life; a larger, 5.5-inch screen; and only a modest amount of added size, the 750 Galaxy S7 Edge is just as appealing as the S7, if not more so. In the end, picking between Samsung’s two S7s is almost as simple as choosing the right size phone for your hands, because currently, there really aren’t any other handsets within reach of Samsung‘s latest Galaxy.
