Consumer Reports Names Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge as 'The Best Smartphones' [Video]
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Posted March 23, 2016 at 1:49pm by iClarified
Consumer Reports has named the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge as the number one and number two smartphones, respectively.
The new Galaxy S7 and S7 edge bring back water-resistance and expandable memory. They earn Excellent battery life scores, and turn in top-notch performance in other areas. These new models aren't just Samsung’s best smartphones, but, perhaps, the best smartphones. And they now sit atop our Ratings.
Consumer Reports cited the phone's main camera, optical image stabilizer, 4K video recording, microSD slot, and water resistance as key features.
While Consumer Reports is run by a non-profit organization in the United States with targeted readers in the United States, it has been overlooked a feature especially important for readers in the United States for years that does not apply to elsewhere. That is the capability of working on all major mobile/cellular networks in the country.
When people in other countries have ability to switch mobile carriers/MVNOs (mobile virtual network operator) at will for best fitted mobile plan for more than a decade without getting new handset, most people in United States still lack of such ability thanks to handset manufacture like Samsung continues to make only carrier specific handset for the United States in favor of carriers instead of consumer. Where I believe Consumer Reports should be in favor of consumer in the United States, stop high rating handsets without this important capability at the first place.
With over 80% of population in the country live in urban areas, and Wi-Fi is widely available at home that very well means any major carrier/MVNO can serve vast majority of people well enough.
Competition has been heated up since government blocked Sprint and T-Mobile merger. Almost all carriers have dropped two years contract and subsidizing handset in favor of lower plan pricing. There are even three MVNOs offer no monthly fee (basically free) mobile phone plans, but require BYOD (bring your own device -- phone) if one is not willing to pay for a compatible device.
With phone manufacture like Samsung offers high priced phone with complete lock down, carrier specific mobile communication technology and radio bands, consumer once brought their phone effectively also mean they have to stay with same carrier or its MVNO for two years even they paid for the phone in full out right.
Some may argue that is not the case for GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications, originally Groupe Spécial Mobile) handsets without knowing the handset simply lack of complete bands support for both GSM carriers in the United States and requires domestic as well as international unlock separately by carrier/MVNO that is in addition to regional lock from Samsung. Let alone carrier/MVNO modification for their own benefit such as removing SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) capability from native Android Phone app so carrier/MVNO can continue to include voice and text as separate items in their plans when everything eventually will be just over LTE (Long-Term Evolution), and these items have been totally free of charge from multiple third parties for years. Not to mention those modifications caused months of delay for the operating system update.
To sum up, if the author truly meant “nothing pushes my buttons more than quirky smartphones, overpriced cell plans and underwhelming wireless service”, he opted to consider the capability of working on every major mobile/cellular network in the country as essential instead of non factor at all.
Finally realized comment like this is censored by Consumer Reports. It unambiguously shows Consumer Reports is bigoted at best, biased at worst. If this trend continues, Consumer Reports opts to be changed to Corporate Reports to accurately reflect its culture.
Apple just released a phone that you can hold with one hand. Meanwhile, Samsung released a phone that you can hold underwater and it will still work. It lasts longer than the iPhone 6S, has a much clearer and brighter curve screen, and charges on a wireless pad on your desk or in your car.
Here is the problem as I see it:
iOS >>>>>>Android OS
Android hardware > iPhone hardware
I want Android hardware with iOS. That is what I want the Jailbreak community to work on. Not some silly little tweaks that USUALLY provide only some limited additional capability.
Though I'm sure it would be super complicated to achieve, due to scaling and UI issues, etc., I agree that this would be an amazing achievement. iOS perfectly ported to the android system. An s7 with iOS would be so badass.
Finally someone with a BRAIN. They love to compare this year model Samsung to last year model iPhone. When we compare care we compare the 2016 model to the 2016 model not the 2015 model because that obviously mean its a year outdated. So of course the 2016 Samsung will beat the 2015 iphone. Can we wait to compare the 2016 Smasung to the 2016 iphone?
apple lost it? The only way Samsung won was releasing something months after the iPhone along with only having a micro sd card slot. This is an unfair comparison!
Honestly by you replying to me and ranting with the same argument "Samsung sucks" every time with nothing to prove that I'm wrong is further perpetuating and proving my points.
What about usability and real life functions. If the best thing it has is water resistance and camera then it's not enough. You know what happens when the phone is truly water resistant? On a warm day and if you use the phone as a GPS, it will cook your SIM card, no vent, no air.... Crispy SIM cards!
I'll admit that I once tried an ad card on an android tablet and I thought the tablet itself was just awful, but the ad slot acted like something was preventing it to work properly,a bd for how small the ad cards are, how can it be easy relying on that if they're too easy to lose? This is why we have cloud storages, but the tablet, oh don't get me started!
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