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hey what is up guys and qHD here and these are my real first thoughts and impressions of the new Samsung Galaxy s7 and galaxy s7 edge should be pretty simple so there are two phones this year a 5.1 inch galaxy s7 and a 5.5 inch galaxy s7 edge so no edge plus or any weird naming these are the only two phones and they look familiar because well on the surface they are very similar to a galaxy s6 we already know and actually because they're so similar they've gotten really upstaged by some other announcements this week like the LG g5 but Samsung took what was already a pretty good phone with the galaxy s6 and then fixed most of the worst parts about it the galaxy s7 is what feels like a slightly refined improved just better polished version of its predecessor so first of all it comes in four colors this time and actually black phone not blue so that's cool a gold platinum a silver titanium and a white pearl and just overall fit and finish of the familiar design is a little bit better they curved the glass on the back now like they did with the note 5 making it a little bit easier to hold and it's now fully ip68 water-resistant with pretty much no added bulk or flaps or anything weird like that so no worries about using your phone in the rain or near water and can we all just take a second to appreciate that Samsung actually just made their new phone one millimeter thicker to accommodate a larger battery Thank You Samsung I haven't been preaching to a brick wall it is much appreciated also the camera bump on the back is now greatly reduced it's not totally flat but it's less of a pain when the phone is on a table and the home button slash fingerprint reader on the front is also more flat so yeah it just looks and feels in a subtle way like a smoother slightly refined version of the s6 kind of like the iPhone 6s was for the iPhone 6 so I guess you can think of this as like a galaxy s6 S which really isn't that bad people are quick to forget that the galaxy s6 was one of the best phones of 2015 and in a lot of ways the galaxy s7 is following up on that the galaxy s6 had what was considered by most to be the best display on any smartphone Samsung bringing that back with this really bright quad HD super amoled display here on the galaxy s7 it also had one of the best cameras in any smartphone and Samsung has again improved on this bringing a new 12 megapixel sensor with larger pixels a wider F 1.7 aperture and some pre ridiculously fast autofocus that I got to play around with now the camera is again obviously one of those things that I need to spend more time with and that I'll be testing thoroughly for the full review but from my limited hands-on time it seemed to have some pretty great poise as a great follow-up to the s6 and of course top end specs again so in the US the new Snapdragon 820 chip 4 gigabytes of ram and the latest version of android and they brought back the micro SD card slot so you have expandable storage at your fingertips again overall it's kind of a beast now it's obviously not perfect I mean this thing is still going to be number one slippery it's still a serious reflection and fingerprint magnet all the time and it still has that tiny speaker at the bottom it still doesn't have an IR blaster anywhere or even USB type-c and it's totally still running the heavily skinned version of Android that people sometimes love and sometimes hate but either way it'll be a familiar experience for anyone who's used a Samsung smartphone recently so those bright super saturated colors and big round colorful icons it is actually a toned down version compared to previous versions of the legendary TouchWiz but yeah there's no escaping the Samsung look here there's a couple new features in this software like the always-on display which will show you the time and date and battery at all times on that AMOLED display you can even choose to have like a calendar show up there or decide what information is always up and that barely slips any battery since it's AMOLED and on the s7 edge there's also an improved edge panel which gives you way more options to put stuff over there you can put your favorite apps you can put custom tasks which should be really useful you can also get people and news but yeah I really like the idea of being able to swipe in and launch a custom action within an app like a task for that tasks panel so that used to be something you needed a third-party app from the Play Store to do cool to see that built in here so overall look this is a safe bet for Samsung as a phone and it's going to be a super solid smartphone my preference between the two right now is we going to be the s7 edge just because of that bigger battery but also I like bigger phones anyway but yeah if you were looking for something wild and radical and crazy you'll probably gonna want to look elsewhere maybe keep waiting or go something like the g5 but Samsung has stuck to their roots with this one and I like it can't wait to get it in for the full review thanks for watching and I'll talk to you guys in the next one peace