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.
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I purchased this phone for the expressed purpose of developing VR projects for Gear VR and Google Cardboard. I never expected or intended to use the phone features of the device. So I never added a SIM card much less carried it around or away from my office. After a couple of weeks the OS seemed to have crapped out and got itself stuck on some green terminal looking boot screen. Despite all my attempts to force a restart, perform a system restore, drain/charge the battery or whatever Android lets you do by holding in button X while closing one eye and whistling a happy tune, the phone just won't get past that Bootloader exception screen.I'm not an Android guy and since the purpose of the phone was to test apps, the device was required to be as close to stock as possible to adequately replicate the experience someone might have on their own device. By that I mean I didn't "root" the phone or mess with the OS beyond letting Android run all those auto updates it seems to do on a daily basis.I contacted Samsung US support and they said my phone didn't exist as far as they were concerned because it was obviously an international device. They told me to determine the country of origin and arrange service there.How convenient.I looked for some type of local resource that can service phones but it appears all that can be done are screen or battery replacements. Anything heavier has to go to the manufacturer...in Spain...or Antartica...or the Moon.I contacted the Amazon Marketplace vendor (Mobiles International LLC) that I purchased the phone from and they we nice enough in their correspondence and said:"Unfortunately Samsung does not provide warranty service on international unlocked phones. If you sent it to us in Miami, we can get a quote from a Samsung authorized service center to get the phone repaired. It looks like a software issue and should be fixable."I FedEx'd them the phone and waited and waited. After two weeks or so I sent them an email wondering if there was any update."At this time we have not received a quote unfortunately, the Samsung repair center here cannot repair your device because it is not Latin. We have one other option that we are trying. We will contact you as soon as we get a response."And waited and waited...till about a month and half had passed and got this:"We received the unit back from Samsung this week. They returned the unit saying the warranty was void. We have shipped back to your address yesterday."Huh? Is Samsung saying that I dropped it in a toilet? Or that I used my considerable phone hacking skills to circumvent their awesome software and install my own custom OS? No idea.So the lesson being, read the fine print. International unlocked phones may or may NOT come with a warranty. And even if you work yourself past that little detail and decide to roll the dice...if something goes wrong with your device there appears to be no recourse to have it repaired.Even if you expect to pay for said repair because the assumption being that a repair would cost less than the cost of a new phone there doesn't seem to be any reasonable way to facilitate getting it fixed. Waiting weeks and weeks to get some vague note about the warranty being void is hardly a workable solution.
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