Galaxy S7 edge Silver Titanium from T-Mobile

The Samsung Galaxy S7 edge..... Is a beast!
It may look a lot like last years two edge models, but there is much more to this puppy than meets the eye.

I recieved my device on the last day of Febuary, nice that T-Mobile was able to ship them early to those who pre-ordered the device.
Heres what you get in the box (besides the device that is)

The Sim card that I got is one that you have to cut to fit like they think I can do that without mucking it up...get real here But fortunatly you just have to switch out the Sim from your old device as long as its a Nano sim anyway and you are good to go. (More on the Sim later)

The S7 and S7 edge are both sporting a new 12mp rear camera. Down from the 16mp of the S6/S6edge of last year. Its really not a down grade and this has been covered by about every blogger and youtuber out there. So if you need to know why its an easy search on YouTube to find all you need to know.I'm just sayin the camera is great and here are a couple of photo's to show you.

Some of the things I like best about the S7 edge are the edge for one. Much improved over last years model and more user friendly.
For the first time ever I am not cluttering up my main home screen with a ton of apps. The screenshot above is how I have I have it setup but I am now using a different theme from the theme store. All the main apps I use I keep on the "Apps edge" You can keep uo to ten apps there. Then you can add some short cuts to the "Tasks edge as well. So its just a quick flip to get to what I need.

Another feature is that "Cooling tube" you have most likely heard about. Thats a bigger deal than most people think. If you have the S6/S6 edge and a Gear VR you know how fast it can heat up and flash the warning about the device getting hot. Well not once have I had that on the S7 edge. I've played games watched Netflix until the cows came home and never have I gotten the warning. In fact the device seems to only get a little warm. Gaming on this device is a no brainer.

Speaking of gaming, there is a gaming mode built into the device as well with some cool little features. You can limit the amount of battery the game can use. block notifications while playing. But the one I like the most is the screen shot or video recording feature. Heres a screenshot I took of a game I play way to much of.

My device comes with the 820 Snapdragon processor and it runs like a beast with a mission. I use to be all about the benchmarks, but over the last few years I only run them when I first get the device just for my own knowledge. But I did a screenshot, so you can see how well it did.

Yeah, thats not to shabby.

Now I am with T-Mobile and I am on the Jump program so I just had to order the device and then send them a phone back in its place. I have had two S6 edge phones one a 32GB and one a 64GB. I used the jump program with the 32 on the S7 edge thinking that I would use the other mostly on the Gear VR I decided to jump the other S6 edge and get a S7. (This one will be the gold platinium one)

This is also Samsungs first flagship device that you can hot swap the Sim cards with. Meaning that you don't have to power the device down to swap out the Sim. This makes it even more compelling for me to get the second device, That and my phone bill will actually go down a few bucks a month

The last feature I am going to cover today is the Always On Display (AOD) Its kinda cool and there are a few nice choices that come pre-installed. But there are also a few themes in the theme store that also have a AOD feature that look nice. I keep turning it off and then the next day turn it back on. If I leave the device face up beside me the moving of the disply always makes me look over at it and I don't like that.. But thats just me. I also have the Gear S2 and the Gear S, the latter I will hook to the regular S7. So I really don't have much need for the AOD feature. But I can see why some would love it.

This is the AOD from a theme I picked up in the theme store. Most of these are now free but later they will not be from what I can tell so you may want to jump over and grab them soon. I seen one this morning that is a paid app, so hurry.

Well thats it for now, I plan on doing an updated version of this when the S7 I ordered this morning gets here, its on back order so it will be about a week or more I will want to play with it for awhile as my main device first before I do a review on it and the differences I find between the two and anymore tips and tricks I find. I do have a few already but I'll leave them for the next write up.

Thanks for stpping in, Duck out.