the Galaxy S6 active blew me away with its strong battery life great camera and
rugged build quality and as my wife's daily driver has actually continued to
impress me with better than expected software updates provided you perform
them manually if you're not an AT&T user
its successor the S7 active blew me away
with its brick-like size and weight and unbelievably ugly gold front bezel but
then again maybe there is more to this ugly duckling then meets the eye let's
all hope
so Corsair boasts unrivaled comfort and
Universal compatibility on its void surround headset featuring a genuine
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out the link in the video description to learn more I don't want to bore you so
let's get the specifications out of the way really fast here here the Galaxy S7
active rocks a qualcom Snapdragon 820 CPU there is no exos version for some
markets this time around and adreno 530 GPU and 4 gigs of RAM making it
competitive with a nearly identical to
plus or minus a gig of RAM here or there any other Flagship smartphone on the
market on the back is a dbrand skin so
you can't see the abhorent color scheme you're welcome along with the 12 megap
rear camera that I know and love a two
Flash and wireless charging under the hood on top is a noise cancelling
microphone and a headphone jack in my preferred position on the right is a
nice clicky lock button and a tray for a single SIM card and micro SD card this
can be used to expand the 32 gigs of built-in storage on the left is a volume
rocker that feels good but is regrettably right across from the lock
button derp and the active key something
I wish Samsung and other manufacturers for that matter would add a lot more of
to their smartphones because this thing is great it acts as a shutter button
when the camera app is open and there are three different actions bound to
single double and long presses if you
don't care about activity zone or you
don't have Direct TV or whatever you can change them to open any app you'd like
now I'd still love to see more flexibility here like being able to
directly call a contact uh turn on the flashlight activate my mobile hotspot or
or whatever else but it's something I found myself using a lot even the way it
is now on the bottom is the main microphone and a micro USB charging port
hopefully a new VR headset comes soon so Samsung can switch to type- C and a
bottom mounted speaker that is decidedly status quo I'd like to see everyone
taking HTC's approach with an upgraded earpiece speaker giving the phone not
necessarily stereo but dual speaker sound next to the earpiece is the same 5
megapixel selfie camera from the S7 so
it's good if a little bit too wide making noses or other facial features
appear oversized under it is the 5.1 in
Gorilla Glass 4 covered 2560 x440 AMOLED
screen that continues to impress me with its not overly saturated colors
considering this is a Samsung OLED we're talking about and fantastic visibility
in all conditions including direct sunlight beneath that yeah okay so these
are Hardware buttons they're still here they're a bit of a love it or hate it
thing personally I got used to them
pretty fast and it was nice to not have to worry about pressing back with my
palm while Reaching Across the keyboard or accidentally closing videos all the
time in landscape mode but your mileage may vary all right so last time around
the big draw to the active model was the
ip68 Ingress Protection rating compared to the s6's complete lack of official
water resistance that's why I loved it so much even though it lacked a
fingerprint sensor something that has made it feel surprisingly obsolete in
the last year as more and more third-party applications last pass is
one that I use multiple times every day are making use of this feature
fortunately the middle home button has one this time around making the active a
full no compromises S7 experience
which is good because the regular models picked up damn impressive water
resistance this time around with RS7 beating out offerings from Sony and Kera
in this sea water depth challenge which you can check out right here let's talk
other tradeoffs you lose the sex appeal for sure the active is noticeably
heavier and thicker with bigger bezels
but in addition to water and dust proofness the active is rated for drop
resistance though it should be noted that if you drop anything enough times
it will eventually break and it features a whopping 4,000 milliamp non- removable
battery which combined with Samsung's good power management in the latest
TouchWiz resulted in me making it as close to two full days as I ever have
with a smartphone since I started reviewing them about a 175% of a day
unfreaking real it is AT&T exclusive So
4G band support is a little more limited because it does need such broad
compatibility but I didn't run into any issues with reception on my carrier that
stupid message that was always in the tray with the S6 active when it first
launched is gone and most of the AT&T
stock apps can actually be fully disabled this time so they don't
continue to run in the background TouchWiz continues to improve so I don't
have a ton of comments there other than keep up the good work ladies and
gentlemen and the camera is the same camera that continues to outperform
pretty much everything else in terms of launch speed shutter speed image quality
low light I I love the s7's
camera so then is the active better than
the regular S7 is it worth the price Delta well that's actually hard to say
the battery life is amazing that was the
only thing that kept the Droid Turbo ahead of the S6 active for me last time
around and software support for the S6 active has been confidence inspiring
even if you need to use ADB to upgrade it outside of America but there is one
nagging issue one that I thought I was imagining when I couldn't reproduce it
on camera and left it out of my S6 active review both the S7 active and its
predecessor's touch screens lag occasionally the most obvious symptom of
which is double presses especially fast ones resulting in a long press while
typing frustratingly I was once again unable to reproduce it on camera due to
the intermittent nature of the issue but especially side by side with the touch
latency optimization of the HTC 10 it is
noticeable other than that this phone is the absolute no compromises bomb and it
gets a very strong recommendation especially if you're the kind of person
who was going to buy an S7 and then spend a hundred bucks on a battery bank
and a rugged case anyway speaking of
accessories for your phone especially ones that save you from incidental dings
and scratches dbrand skins head over to
dbrand.com we've got a link in the video description and check out their
highquality Precision Cut vinyl skins they've got them available for phones
tablets uh game consoles game controllers and even laptop computers
these days and the best thing about dbrand aside from the fact that they fit
perfectly and are easy to apply and they're high quality and they stay on
and all that stuff you'd expect from a vinyl skin but unfortunately don't
usually get the best thing is the configurator with the configurator you
can see all the different zones that you can change the colors of and you can
swap them out in real time building the perfect device that is exactly your
style and that perhaps no one else would even want so check it out again that's
Linked In the video description dbrand.com they're great guys over there
and they make great skins and they ship worldwide so thanks for watching guys if
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