Can Samsung’s new Galaxy S7 convert a hardcore iPhone fan?

Hey, what's up, I'm Steve with Cult of Mac and my time of the Galaxy 7 is coming to the close

I spent a full week with this using it as my daily driver, so today I am going to share with you what I like and dislike about the Galaxy 7 and Android

So, let's get started. Before I get into my likes and dislikes, I want to point out I have never had any extended use with Android

The most experience I've ever had is with the odd tablets here and there and friends' phones

I've always actively tried to avoid Android, and I always seem to be fanboying out for iOS

whenever there's an iOS versus Android debate. But the truth is, I've never given it the chance

Nor the other handset said Apple's competitors seem to churn out. I put my iPhone 6 plus to the side for a week

and use the S7 exclusively as my personal phone. So let's start with the hardware

In terms of design, it's okay. A lot of people out there love it

and I can see why. It's clean, simple, but a bit boring for me

It looks like a slab of glass and metal with a little bump on the front and back. Nothing about it stands out, apart from that super shiny gold finish

Yes, it looks nice in the box, but as soon as it's opened, it's just a fingerprint magnet

I've never known anything like it. The build quality of the S7 is impressive, and I love the fact it's got that IP68 water resistant rating

Don get me wrong I really careful with my phones but having a two running about means I bound to have accidents Filming the waterproof test last week for the S7 felt really wrong every fibrary with me telling me not to do it Basically being too scared to risk worth of phone

But I was really impressed with it when I finally did give it a go. The S7's battery life is my favourite thing about the whole phone

It just keeps on going. Usually my iPhone 6 plus will get me pretty much through an entire day with about 20% battery

life left by, say, 7pm. The S7, however, will get me through an entire day and when I check the battery at 8, 9 o'clock

I'll still off 50% or more. I've actually had an entire two days from a single charge

Every review you read says much the same about the S7's display, which is fair enough

It's a really great display. I'm a big fan of Ammolet displays, with each pixel being individually lit

They're far superior in terms of brightness, contrast and colour to most, if not all LCD displays

But I think Samsung has gone a little bit too far with saturation and contrast

Videos have worked on using displays that are specifically made for colour grading, but crushed

and oversaturated when watching on the S7. Yes, there are other modes you can choose within the software to change the settings

of the screen, but all of them seem to have some sort of coloured tint or just gone too far

Plus, the viewing angles aren't the best if you're not holding it straight on

And the camera is great too it by far the fastest focusing camera on any phone It one of if not the best smartphone camera on the market right now But I think the screen has a lot to help the photos out When I reviewed the S7 pictures versus the successes on my MacBook retina screen there not a huge difference

in terms of quality or colour. But the S7 definitely has a nice depth of field and is quicker

to autofocus. I also hate the touch buttons on the bottom. I know it's more of an Android

fault than Samsung's, but it just doesn't make any sense to me. It's much easier swiping left and

right, between pages and apps, something I'd repeatedly found myself trying to do

And I would press them by accident when just trying to scroll through Facebook, which then made me

paranoid when using the phone, being careful as to where my fingers and hand were placed

On top of that, I found that the screen isn't as responsive as on my iPhone. I'd find myself repeatedly

tapping and scrolling again and again, then accidentally pressing one of the touch buttons and losing

the page I was on. Plus, surely the back button should be on the left hand side? When it

When it comes to Android, there's a few things I like, and a few things I really don't

Let's get the negatives out the way. Firstly, why so many pre-installed apps

And two versions of them. When booting the S7 for the first time, I already had two browsers, email, video

music and photo apps. I know this is because of Samsung's TouchWiz working on top of Android, but it just makes

no sense. I also find it really annoying to find and open other tabs that I have opened having to press the touch buttons at the bottom to see the other tabs and apps in the same screen I do however like the little widgets I can add to the home screens I like the Google Search widget on there being able to search for a website without opening

up the browser. It just feels a nice integration. Although iOS does have the ability to just swipe down and search from there, but there are

things like the weather widgets and such that are just a nice touch

All that being said, what I really messed about my iPhone is the integration with the other Apple

products. My iPhone connecting to my Apple TV or my IMac and my MacBook, it's just a really

nice way to work. Also, I missed the ease of use. It may just be because I'm used to iOS

having using it and being in Apple's ecosystem for over eight years. But I've generally

found Android is just less intuitive. I feel like anyone could pick up an iPhone for the first

time and make the way around eventually. But with Android, it's a bit more of a steep learning curve

Android isn't as bad as I first thought. But I'd definitely prefer using iOS on a daily basis and I'll be keeping my iPhones over Android

But let me know in the comments down below which operating system and phone you prefer

I'm going to take a guess which one you all prefer, but let me know in the comments down

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