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Samsung's long awaited galaxy s7 and the curved s7 edge are here at last but how do the phone stack up and what do they mean for samsung in the broader smartphone market we're catching up with some cnet experts to get their first impressions so Jessica the s7 and the curved s7 edge you've seen them you've played with them what are your impressions of the phones are they any good yeah they're beautiful they're both made of metal and glass just like last year's from the outside they look very similar and almost the same to last year's phones except the edge is a little bit bigger but importantly they're waterproof again this year and they have a micro SD card slot the batteries are larger of course to the camera promises to take better photos all in all everything is going to be just a little bit better than last year's little bit better sounds good do you think it's enough bearing in mind tower how close the competition is out there you know these are very high-end premium phones and I think that they're going to be very attractive for people who have an older phone but for people who have last year's models I don't think they're going to be as interested in moving on to the cirrus versions and in fact i would recommend that they don't Chara samsung's had a bit of an old time in the last few years it hasn't been as on top as it has been in the past do you think the s7 and s7 edge you're likely to change that was the company going to continue to struggle these definitely aren't radical changes so it's not going to completely turn their fortunes around they're not going to be able to get all these iphone buyers to come to samsung what it's going to do those kind of attract people who maybe were interested in samsung but wanted expandable storage or waterproof or I guess water-resistant those are very attractive features for them it's not going to completely change things and does it do you think it'll help Samsung fend off competition from those smaller manufacturers like Xiaomi or well way who are you know making cheap very cheap Android phones the problem really for them is pricing so these Chinese guys they have really high end phones but their pricing them incredibly cheaply for samsung we don't know exactly how they're going to price this yet but there's no way that they're going to be able to reach the pricing of the Chinese vendors so you know all these features are great but it's not necessarily really going to change things for them on the low end