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what's up guys lon here from Android authority and the galaxy s7 and s7 edge have been out on the market for quite some time now and if you're still having a hard time making a decision on which one to buy we're going to put these two phones head-to-head and help you decide this is the Samsung Galaxy s7 versus the s7 edge alright so before we get into this comparison I just want to quickly throw out a disclaimer I'm gonna approach this one a little bit differently than your usual comparison so because they share so many similarities and a few differences I'm gonna break this into two categories I'm going to talk about the similarities and then I'm going to talk about the differences between these two phones so let's go ahead and start with the similarities so a lot of the similarities between these two phones will lie within the actual hardware and internal specs so they're both being powered by the Snapdragon 820 Adreno 530 and 4 gigabytes of RAM they also both have micro SD card expansion which is a feature that Samsung brought back this year so if you love expandable storage you have that option again with the s7 and s7 edge another feature that Samsung brought back is water and dust resistance II so they're both IP 68 which means you can dunk them in a toilet I use them in the middle of a rainstorm and they should be perfectly fine they also both have fingerprint sensors embedded in the home button up front and the fingerprint sensor works extremely well it's very fast very accurate so you really shouldn't have any problems at all with this fingerprint sensor another feature that these two phones share is on the back and that is the camera so it's a new and improved 12 megapixel sensor with f 1.7 aperture and optical image stabilization it's also utilizing dual pixel auto focusing technology which creates for really fast auto focusing and it is by far the fastest auto focusing system I've ever used on any smartphone it is seriously that fast as far as actual image quality goes if you don't already know the s7 takes absolutely incredible looking images and pretty much all lighting conditions yes it does have the tendency to over sharpen a little bit but for the most part the images do look really really good and it's not really going to matter whether you're a hardcore smartphone photographer or just the casual user you're gonna be able to get some really good looking shots with this camera now let's go ahead and talk about what makes these phones different and some of these differences are naturally going to have some similarities as well but I went ahead and categorize them as differences and you'll sort of understand why as I go through and talk about them so the first difference that I want to talk about is the design so they're both made of glass and metal which means they're very high quality very solid feeling smartphones but this also means that they're slippery in the hand and also fingerprint magnets and that's sort of to be expected when you're dealing with a phone that is predominantly made of glass now the biggest difference here is the actual size of these two phones and the slight design difference with the s7 edge the s7 edge is a slightly bigger phone than the s7 due to the bigger display so if you want a phone that's easier to use in one hand you're going to want to gravitate towards the regular s7 but if you want a phone with a bigger display and that curved edge glass then you're gonna want to lean more towards the s7 edge both of them do feel very comfortable in the hand but again the s7 is the easier phone to operate if you care about one-handed usability now that brings me to my next topic and that is the display so the s7 has a 5.1 inch screen whereas the s7 Edge has a 5.5 inch screen both are quad HD and both are Super AMOLED so you're getting those vibrant saturated colors those inky deep blacks and those high contrast ratios the main difference here is the extra screen real estate that you get on the s7 edge which means you're going to get a much better viewing experience when it comes to things like YouTube watching movies and playing games the s7 edge also has that curved glass which brings some extra functionality but I'll talk a little bit more about that when I talk about the software the next big difference between these two phones is in battery life so the s7 as a 3000 milliamp hour battery whereas the s7 Edge has a 3600 milliamp hour battery and if you want a battery life warrior you're going to want to go with the s7 edge it easily lasts a full day and sometimes a day and a half depending on how you use it now the regular s7 gets pretty good battery life too but just keep in mind it's not going to be anywhere near as good or lasts anywhere near as long as the s7 edge naturally because it has a smaller battery now both of these phones do have wireless charging and fast charging so you can take advantage of those features on either one of these phones but if you really want the best battery life possible and battery life is of utmost importance to you then you're going to want to go with the s7 edge alright so let's talk a little bit about the software and again I'm not going to dive too deep into all this because if you want to know more about these two phones you can check out the individual reviews which will be linked down below but they're both running on Android 6.0 marshmallow with Samsung's TouchWiz or whatever Samsung is calling their interface these days so the overall experience between these two phones is going to be pretty much identical for the most part you have a lot of the same features like multi window and palm swipe to capture and all the other motion gesture features and then you have a lot of the same applications like s voice and s planner and then the icons look extremely cartoony and bright but you do have the option to theme them with Samsung's theme store and change it to whatever you want it to look like or even make it look a little bit more like stock Android now where these two phones differ in the software is in the edge features that you get with the s7 edge so you have things like the apps edge the people edge the task edge and the variety of different edge panels that can show you information such as stocks sports scores and the weather and I will admit that these features do take a little bit of getting used to but once you do make that adjustment and get used to them they can actually be pretty useful the final difference and probably the biggest difference between these two phones is the price so the s7 edge cost an extra hundred dollars would be regular s7 and you're basically going to have to ask yourself if those extra features like a bigger display the bigger battery and the functionality is worth that extra hundred dollars and for some people it totally will be worth it and for some people it may not be worth that at all and for some people the price may not even really be a factor they just want the regular s7 because it's a little bit smaller and it fits better in the hand so there's a lot of different factors that come into play when it comes to picking between the s7 and s7 edge and it all comes down to what you really want out of a smartphone but hopefully this video helped you make a decision between these two phones and hopefully you enjoyed this video and found it helpful if you did please give a thumbs up down below we definitely appreciate it and also subscribe to the channel which is also down below if you haven't already and follow us on social media like snapchat Twitter Instagram Google+ all that good stuff feel free to follow me on Twitter as well those links are all down below and again check out the web site at Android Authority comm because we are your source for all things Android