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what's up guys David here and if you live in the US and you bought the galaxy s7 like you may not know this but Samsung sold you an inferior version of this phone and this is despite charging you the same amount of money that are charging other people in other countries for the Federation now I know some of you guys may be sitting there thinking like what are you talking about Dave I live in the u.s. I got the galaxy s7 and it's a good phone in fact you yourself on Twitter said that you thought I had the best Hardware on any smart phone in all the 2016 and yeah that's true okay the galaxy s7 is a good phone in fact it's a great phone wherever you buy it but that doesn't change the fact that Samsung is young an inferior version of it here in the US along with a few other countries like China and Japan so how exactly is the US version of the galaxy s7 worse than the global version which is sold pretty much everywhere else there are a couple things actually and the first is performance so those of you follow fumbles know that we do performance tests that's kind of our thing and we tested the US version of the galaxy s7 against the global version we found that not only is it slower and initially loading up applications but it's also significantly worse than keeping those applications ready for you in the background which overall equates to slower performance now there are two different chipsets being used so the US version has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chip whereas the global version that sold everywhere else has an extra notes 88-90 chip that's made by samsung itself and you know at first glance you would think like okay well maybe the process of difference is the reason why one phone is slower I can mean that makes sense but it turns out that's actually not the case later on when we tested other Android phones with the same Qualcomm chip those phones not only perform better than the US version of the galaxy i7 but they also perform better at least some of them performs better than the global version with Samsung's own Exynos chip so like clearly the hardware wasn't the problem right the chipset difference wasn't the problem it was really that Samsung just didn't optimize the u.s. galaxy s7 as well as they did the Exynos version now if you really wanted to you could make an excuse for Samsung and say like well they had two different chipsets to worry about and obviously they were going to put the emphasis on their own in-house chip in fact there are more familiar with that chip so like it just makes sense that it performed better on the device band the Qualcomm chip but here's the problem with the argument guess who is being exclusive manufacturing partner for Qualcomm to make dragon a 20s who won the contract that some analysts say was worth over a billion dollars to make this afternoon a 24 Qualcomm it was Samson okay so they were familiar they were very familiar with the stature in a twenty because they were the one literally making it so like you would think like you would think that Samson would take some of that profit take some of that knowledge about the chip and make sure that the Snapdragon 820 on the US variant of the galaxy s7 performed really really well better than any other Android phone out there when in fact it's the opposite and like it doesn't make sense to me but maybe performance isn't your thing right now everybody has the need for speed everybody wants a sports car now if every cares about you know zero to 50 times some people just want to carve that gets you to point A to point B and they want to do it in a very fuel efficient manner here's the thing the US version the galaxy s7 also has worse battery life so there's publications online that did tests on both versions of the galaxy s7 and they found that the u.s. variant of the galaxy s7 had battery life that was anywhere between like 22 up to 70% less efficient than the global counterpart but that's a lot I will say a big part of the difference here is due to the chipset but at the same time optimization was a factor since other Android phones that same Qualcomm chip performed better than the US version of the galaxy s7 so you live in the u.s. you buy Galaxy a7 for the same price as anybody else in the rest of the world and you're getting worse performance and you're getting worse battery life like you think that would be as if they wanted to add insult to injury it's all they care you're both you have to deal with it starts right when you get the phone you get this box on the International Version there's a nice little magnetic clasp that you know closes elegantly and on the US version the box has this little paper tab instead and I'm not trying to make a big deal out of locks it's not a big deal you get the phone out of the box and you never see the box again but like it's the principle of it right like it's almost like the Samsung was just looking at these two different versions at s7 they're like you know what for the global version that we saw everywhere else we're going to make sure we pay attention to detail and put this nice little magnetic clasp on there yeah that would be nice but the US version and let's put a little paper tab that you know a little cheap version who cares and then you pull the phone out of the box okay okay wow this is a nice phone right and it is and you turn it around and boom what do you see you see a big old tramp stamp logo on the back your phone okay this doesn't happen on international versions and it just wouldn't happen like in going back to the car analogy right imagine you buy your car and before you drive it off a lot feels like hey hold on hold on let us spray paint our logo real quick on the back of your car like and just wouldn't happen so you turn on the phone and what are you greeted with the first thing you see is a bunch of carrier apps that you just don't want and yes you can disable them but even when you disable them they're not completely off your phone they're always going to take up a little bit of your storage space and then to top it off right like to top it all off when a new version of Android comes out with all the new features and bug fixes guess what you're not going to get updated to the latest version until like months after everyone else yeah sure other Android manufacturers do the same thing with carriers right they have all the bloatware and tramp stamp on there but we're talking about Samsung right this is the biggest Android manufacturer and their biggest competitor and Apple doesn't do that stuff like it doesn't matter if you buy an iPhone in California or if you buy in Australia I've done both the unboxing experience is the same you don't get tramp stamps you don't get carrier bloatware and updates roll out around the same time for everyone even Google they have an exclusive with Verizon this year on with the pink school but that phone doesn't have a chance up on it doesn't have carrier bloatware so what's Samsung's Excuse and you know when you add it all up together right like the slower performance the lower battery life the delayed updates and all the other carrier BS like it's just hard to not feel like Samsung gave the US the short end of the stick when it came to the galaxy s7 and honestly I'm afraid that they're going to do the same exact thing again with a Galaxy s8 unless we do something about it and what can we do let's talk about it right let's talk about the issue on Facebook tweet Samsung and tell them that you want an equal phone for an equal price tag me in your post I'm at Bob of pretty much everywhere I think if enough people know about the issue and Samsung knows that people know about the issue they'll do the right thing they'll step up to the plate and they'll make sure that they offer the same great experience that they're offering to other people in other countries to people on the US eco phone for an equal price that's what we asked for anyways that is it for me in this video thank you guys for watching and as always I'll be keeping it real with you in the very next episode