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the Galaxy S6 active blew me away with its strong battery life great camera and

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rugged build quality and as my wife's daily driver has actually continued to

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impress me with better than expected software updates provided you perform

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them manually if you're not an AT&T user

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its successor the S7 active blew me away

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with its brick-like size and weight and unbelievably ugly gold front bezel but

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then again maybe there is more to this ugly duckling then meets the eye let's

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all hope

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so Corsair boasts unrivaled comfort and

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Universal compatibility on its void surround headset featuring a genuine

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Dolby 7.1 headphone USB adapter check

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out the link in the video description to learn more I don't want to bore you so

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let's get the specifications out of the way really fast here here the Galaxy S7

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active rocks a qualcom Snapdragon 820 CPU there is no exos version for some

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markets this time around and adreno 530 GPU and 4 gigs of RAM making it

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competitive with a nearly identical to

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plus or minus a gig of RAM here or there any other Flagship smartphone on the

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market on the back is a dbrand skin so

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you can't see the abhorent color scheme you're welcome along with the 12 megap

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rear camera that I know and love a two

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Flash and wireless charging under the hood on top is a noise cancelling

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microphone and a headphone jack in my preferred position on the right is a

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nice clicky lock button and a tray for a single SIM card and micro SD card this

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can be used to expand the 32 gigs of built-in storage on the left is a volume

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rocker that feels good but is regrettably right across from the lock

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button derp and the active key something

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I wish Samsung and other manufacturers for that matter would add a lot more of

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to their smartphones because this thing is great it acts as a shutter button

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when the camera app is open and there are three different actions bound to

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single double and long presses if you

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don't care about activity zone or you

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don't have Direct TV or whatever you can change them to open any app you'd like

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now I'd still love to see more flexibility here like being able to

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directly call a contact uh turn on the flashlight activate my mobile hotspot or

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or whatever else but it's something I found myself using a lot even the way it

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is now on the bottom is the main microphone and a micro USB charging port

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hopefully a new VR headset comes soon so Samsung can switch to type- C and a

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bottom mounted speaker that is decidedly status quo I'd like to see everyone

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taking HTC's approach with an upgraded earpiece speaker giving the phone not

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necessarily stereo but dual speaker sound next to the earpiece is the same 5

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megapixel selfie camera from the S7 so

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it's good if a little bit too wide making noses or other facial features

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appear oversized under it is the 5.1 in

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Gorilla Glass 4 covered 2560 x440 AMOLED

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screen that continues to impress me with its not overly saturated colors

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considering this is a Samsung OLED we're talking about and fantastic visibility

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in all conditions including direct sunlight beneath that yeah okay so these

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are Hardware buttons they're still here they're a bit of a love it or hate it

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thing personally I got used to them

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pretty fast and it was nice to not have to worry about pressing back with my

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palm while Reaching Across the keyboard or accidentally closing videos all the

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time in landscape mode but your mileage may vary all right so last time around

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the big draw to the active model was the

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ip68 Ingress Protection rating compared to the s6's complete lack of official

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water resistance that's why I loved it so much even though it lacked a

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fingerprint sensor something that has made it feel surprisingly obsolete in

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the last year as more and more third-party applications last pass is

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one that I use multiple times every day are making use of this feature

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fortunately the middle home button has one this time around making the active a

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full no compromises S7 experience

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which is good because the regular models picked up damn impressive water

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resistance this time around with RS7 beating out offerings from Sony and Kera

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in this sea water depth challenge which you can check out right here let's talk

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other tradeoffs you lose the sex appeal for sure the active is noticeably

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heavier and thicker with bigger bezels

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but in addition to water and dust proofness the active is rated for drop

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resistance though it should be noted that if you drop anything enough times

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it will eventually break and it features a whopping 4,000 milliamp non- removable

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battery which combined with Samsung's good power management in the latest

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TouchWiz resulted in me making it as close to two full days as I ever have

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with a smartphone since I started reviewing them about a 175% of a day

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unfreaking real it is AT&T exclusive So

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4G band support is a little more limited because it does need such broad

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compatibility but I didn't run into any issues with reception on my carrier that

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stupid message that was always in the tray with the S6 active when it first

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launched is gone and most of the AT&T

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stock apps can actually be fully disabled this time so they don't

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continue to run in the background TouchWiz continues to improve so I don't

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have a ton of comments there other than keep up the good work ladies and

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gentlemen and the camera is the same camera that continues to outperform

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pretty much everything else in terms of launch speed shutter speed image quality

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low light I I love the s7's

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camera so then is the active better than

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the regular S7 is it worth the price Delta well that's actually hard to say

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the battery life is amazing that was the

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only thing that kept the Droid Turbo ahead of the S6 active for me last time

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around and software support for the S6 active has been confidence inspiring

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even if you need to use ADB to upgrade it outside of America but there is one

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nagging issue one that I thought I was imagining when I couldn't reproduce it

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on camera and left it out of my S6 active review both the S7 active and its

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predecessor's touch screens lag occasionally the most obvious symptom of

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which is double presses especially fast ones resulting in a long press while

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typing frustratingly I was once again unable to reproduce it on camera due to

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the intermittent nature of the issue but especially side by side with the touch

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latency optimization of the HTC 10 it is

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noticeable other than that this phone is the absolute no compromises bomb and it

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gets a very strong recommendation especially if you're the kind of person

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who was going to buy an S7 and then spend a hundred bucks on a battery bank

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and a rugged case anyway speaking of

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accessories for your phone especially ones that save you from incidental dings

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