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hey how's it going guys this is Dave - Dee so I've been using the galaxy s7 edge as my daily driver for a little bit over a week and want to share some thoughts with you about what I really loved about the phone and other things I didn't like as much so first I really like the design and build there's a slight curve on the back it's easier to hold on last year's Galaxy devices visually the difference is subtle but when you hold it it's noticeably more comfortable the camera bump has been flattened a bit it's still not flush and the hump last year wasn't ever a big issue for me but this is nicer it has Gorilla Glass 5 which is supposedly better than Gorilla Glass 4 but I scratched my screen on the 3rd day I don't even know how I did it at first I thought it was keys in my pocket but I tested it it wasn't the keys it might have been like a piece of sand or something but whatever it was the screen can still be scratched so protect it if you care about scratches the same thing goes for the back it'll scratch if you're not careful and it's slippery so get a skin for it this one's from D brand I'll link it in the description so they have SD cards again and I've really missed this feature but not only their SD support but unlike what they originally said in their press release you can totally install apps on the card you can just transfer it over if you remove the card the apps installed on the card just get grayed out the rear camera is a beast it's a 12 megapixel I've shot a lot of photos on this thing over the past week and I think it shoots a little better than the iPhone 6s and the Nexus 6p so it's faster to focus equally good and bright light and much better in low-light the photos look great and I think this really deserves the camera crown right now but if you're wondering whether or not it's worth upgrading from a 2015 flagship to the s7 for just the camera like unless you're shooting a ton of low-light photos probably not because the 2015 camera Kings are still pretty close it has a five and a half inch quad HD AMOLED panel and Samsung phones often have the best displays they have the best contrast but viewing angles energy efficiency they're brighter and more visible in sunlight and even like the best color accuracy so the default setting again is crazy oversaturated to make it pop out in stores but if you put it on basic mode the color accuracy is bang-on the always-on feature is also pretty cool just put the time or the calendar up on the screen when the device is sleeping and it doesn't seem to drain batteries very much I found the dual edge display on the s6 edge a little gimmicky and on the s7 edge there's more customization but I still don't find it super useful it is really cool looking though it's ip68 dust and water resistant and having a water-resistant phone is nice it's not a big deal but it's one less thing you need to worry about if you're ever in the rain or if you drop your phone in the toilet like we've all done that right okay yeah me neither the s7 comes in two processor variants so the one I'm running here is the Snapdragon 820 four gigs of ram and it's supposably vapor cooled it's very fast but when you compare to other flagship devices right now it's not a huge jump in speed so obviously the 820 is going to benchmark faster than an 8/10 and if I'm trying to find a difference between them yeah the s7 is a little bit faster but when I'm using it in my day to day all three of these devices feel super fast now thermally the s7 does way better than the Nexus 6p the 60 always ran a little hot and it throttled down because of it but the s7 stays as cool as the iPhone 6s it's a really fast processor with excellent thermals it's got a beefy 3600 milliamp hour battery and with very heavy use I was comfortably lasting a full day with around four and a half hours of screen on time it's a nice change over the s6 devices with more normal use the battery lasted a day and a half with screen on time closer to 6 hours it still uses micro USB I kind of wish Samsung used the s7 to speed up USBC adoption around the world but microUSB is still cool the phone also supports fast adaptive charging and of course it has wireless charging ok on to a couple things that I don't like first the speaker so just to be clear this is a loud speaker not the earpiece it's on the bottom again and it's not a great position it's like the iPhone where you need to cup it to hear stuff better and it's a single speaker so you lose that immersion when you're playing games or you're watching videos now a lot of people won't notice or even care about speaker quality but I can seem a good chunk of my media on my phone and compared to the Nexus 6p the audio output here is really too and lastly the thing that I dislike the most about the phone is TouchWiz I like my stuff clean so I'm a stock OS kind of guy I love stock Android I love stock iOS but TouchWiz comes with a ton of features that are completely useless to me and I know I can route it or run launchers to hide TouchWiz like I'm running a material theme that kind of masks it and I'm using deep loader to turn a bunch of things off but these apps are still eating up storage and it just kills me that I'm carrying around dozens of apps and features that I'll never use and I can't uninstall but that's just me one nice thing is that the RAM management is much improved the s6 would aggressively close apps when they weren't in use but this time around I don't really notice it okay the Samsung s7 edge fantastic material choices and build quality a very premium phone awesome looking screen covered in Gorilla Glass 5 but it can still scratch the rear facing camera is arguably the best on smartphones right now inside we're rockin 32 gigs of storage that's expandable with microSD it's got a super-fast Snapdragon 820 with 4 gigs of RAM a big 3600 milliamp hour battery that'll easily last you a day or more all this any water-resistant package ok so the phone is awesome and aside from TouchWiz and the speaker I would consider it nearly perfect for everything I'm looking for in a smart phone but here's the thing tons of people use TouchWiz and love it and I'm a firm believer that if you use something for long enough you can learn to appreciate it and like it as well so because the hardware is as good as it is that's what I'm going to do I'm going to force myself to use TouchWiz and see if I can get on board this train that's any of this video hope you guys liked it thumbs if you liked it subsequent it it's been nice I'll see you guys next time