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The latest flagship Android phone from industry leader Samsung, the Samsung Galaxy S7 proves to fix a lot of problems with earlier S-series devices, including adding MicroSD card support (up to 200GB per card!) and bringing back the water resistant features of earlier phones too. Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ talks you through the features and capabilities of the phone and explains why he thinks it's one of the best Android smartphones on the market!
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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we're looking at the Samsung Galaxy s7
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that's this guy this is the flagship
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smartphone from Samsung right now and
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Samsung has gone through a lot of
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evolution in their smartphones and this
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one really demonstrates a lot of what
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they've been listening to their
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customers about with previous
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generations
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so unlike the s6 for example this has a
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microSD card reader so you can put in up
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to 200 gig of additional space and you
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could actually swap in and out multiple
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microSD cards if you're super
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enthusiastic I've never seen anyone do
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that but it would theoretically give you
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infinite storage space which you got to
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admit be pretty nice also comes built-in
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with 32 gig but let's look at the actual
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screen in the tech itself so it's
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running marshmallows so that's Android
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6.0 for those of you paying attention
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and that is a lot of power management
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features which is good because one of
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the things with the s7 is the battery
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life is kind of met at best but we'll
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come back to that it has a 5.1 inch HD
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Super amo LED screen or AMOLED whatever
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you want to call it I don't know what
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that means but it just means it's a nice
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bright colorful screen and the s7 edge
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actually is a slightly bigger screen
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because you get that screen on the edges
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so that's a 5.5 inch but this is just
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the straight s7 so 5.1 inch and it's
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plenty bright enough and plenty enough
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resolution to make photos and movies and
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TV shows and everything all look pretty
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sweet the cameras worth mentioning the
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front one's just a 5 megapixel nothing
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to write home about
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but the back one is a 12 megapixel dual
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pixel tech camera and what they mean by
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that is that it has a faster focusing
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and better rendering of the images that
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it sees so here's an example of an image
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or a photo that I took with this and you
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can see it's bright vibrant colors it's
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capturing a lot of nuance in the color
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and one of the other things that Samsung
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says is with the dual pixel technology
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the
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it also gives you better low-light
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photos so that's something to explore I
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haven't really heard much pro or con in
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that regard but Samsung generally packs
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a nice camera on their phones
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let's see another really cool thing is
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that this again has dust and water
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resistant features so if you're have it
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on the table and you're drinking and you
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knock over your cup of coffee and it
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splashes across your phone you do not
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have to completely panic all you have to
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do is wipe your phone off and you're
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good to go
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I would not however recommend leaving
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this in your pocket when you go for a
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deep-sea dive probably not what it's
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rated for we haven't tested that I don't
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recommend you do either but having it be
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water and dust resistant is pretty nice
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and you've probably seen their TV ads
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where the guys has it drop into a puddle
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and then he pulls it out and their phone
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works perfectly well so again that's
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what they mean by water-resistant let's
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see so let's talk about the battery
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since we're at that point now is it so
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so the s7 comes with the 3000 milliamp
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hour battery which is bigger than like
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the iPhone 6s but it's not big enough
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for this phone and here's the reality is
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that this phone runs out of battery
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fairly quickly so this is something if
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you go and look online that is the
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number one complaint from people is that
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if you're using this heavily then it's
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not even going to last a single day
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without needing to be recharged and that
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might just be the state of the way you
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know the sort of the state of the
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industry with smartphones but it's
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really frustrating to have your phone
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and to want to use it which so I got it
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in the first place and then to realize
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around four five six pm that you're
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going out on the town and your phone
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really is just about on its last leg so
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now you got to figure out how can I
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charge it before I meet my friends for
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dinner and then we go to that theater
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show or something so that's something
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worth knowing the other thing a lot of
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people complain about is fingerprints on
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the screen now I haven't really
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experienced that much and frankly it's
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pretty easy to wipe your screen
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occasionally so I'm not sure why people
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get so upset about that I mean we have
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fingers our fingers have oil if we're
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using touchscreen surfaces they get
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dirty but again
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something I want you to know about with
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the seven is that there is some issue
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potentially with fingerprints so let's
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see that's pretty much the key features
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it's just an you know overall a really
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nice phone it's a really nice Android
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phone and just as I said has this really
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wonderful feel in your hands comes in
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two colors this is what they call black
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onyx and they also have a gold platinum
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and it's pretty expensive if you want to
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buy one of these straight out I looked
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at AT&T Wireless for pricing so if you
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want to buy one of these straight out to
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put onto the AT&T network or of course
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on to whatever cellular network you
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prefer they ran about six hundred and
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ninety five dollars so that's a lot of
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money but this is a lot of computer just
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tucked into a really handy pocket form
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now with AT&T you can also do their
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payment plan so the other way to do this
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is if you're willing to spend payments
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for 30 months you can get it down to 23
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bucks a month so that makes it a very
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small increment on your cell phone bill
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although in 24 months when the s23 comes
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out or whatever it is then you might
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have to go back to your AT&T people and
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see what they can work out in terms of a
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finesse or however else you acquire the
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phone of course you can learn a lot more
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at Samsung's website but I will tell you
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that it's a really nice phone I really
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like the s7 if I was an Android user I
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actually used my iPhone as my primary
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phone but if my primary phone was an
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Android phone this would be on the very
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very very short list and I would learn
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how to deal with the battery issues by
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having just a charger in my car and
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maybe every time I'm at a restaurant I
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might have a little extra battery that I
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charge overnight and such
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whatever easily manageable but the phone
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itself just has a really nice feel and
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it's very very zippy and a really bright
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screen so this is dave taylor looking at
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the Samsung Galaxy s7 smartphone
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and I'll see you in my next video
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