Posted on 07/08/2016 5:47:12 PM PDT by Swordmaker
The phone is supposed to survive 30 minutes in 5 feet of water. In our testing, it didn’t.
Commercials for the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge showed hip-hop’s Lil Wayne pouring Champagne over the phone and dunking it in a fish tank. The Active version of the S7, which is available to AT&T customers for $800 and up, is being marketed as equally water-resistant. While Consumer Reports generally doesn’t evaluate phones for this feature, we do perform an immersion test when a manufacturer claims that its product is water-resistant. When we recently evaluated the Galaxy S7 Active, it failed this test.
Since the phone didn’t operate as claimed, it doesn’t make our list of recommended models—even though it performs extremely well in other tests.
Companies that label their devices “water-resistant” can cite a variety of benchmarks. In this case, Samsung says its phone follows an engineering standard called IP68 that covers both dust- and water-resistance, and that the phone is designed to survive immersion in five feet of water for 30 minutes. That’s the spec we used in testing the Galaxy S7 Active.
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Welp, there goes the deep-sea diving expedition.
I don’t think most people want to go swimming with their device, but I think it will pass what is the most common under water incidents for most people, in terms of accidentally dropping it quickly in the toilet or sink while doing dishes and then quickly getting it out.
It’s hard to talk underwater anyway. Comes out all garbled.
A friend of mine had a very nice water proof case on her phone and then she found out it doesn’t float , D’oh
It only works for champagne.
Samsung Galaxy 7 inch diagonal, did pass an 8 foot drop on to concrete. Cracked screen, worked for a year, til screen replaced.
Software however is Google android trash. Over time unit slows down with spam ware junk. Nobody has yet made a good stable OS.
I took a dip with my S7 the other day. Worked like a charm afterwards.
How did you own it for a year if it’s only been out since March?
Lil Wayne is no John Cameron Swayze of Timex waterproof watches fame. These Samsung’s obviously can’t take a licking.
My windows phone is a few years old now and it works like brand new. No slowness at all.
It may not be popular, but Microsoft did a really good job on the OS.
I think TheNext is referring to a 7" screened Galaxy tablet, not a Galaxy S7 which did just come out. . . but Samsung was not advertising the tablets as waterproof or resistant.
I did the same with an S5 with a worn otter case. Following YouTube instructions, I removed the battery, and used a vacuum cleaner at all openings. It worked!
If you go visit a elderly relative who lives rural, has no computer or Wi-fi, barely has cell service, be sure to turn off the feature on your phone or you will have a dead battery as it continues to search for a Wi-fi open connection. Happened to hubby this last week, thought he was going to need a new phone or battery at the very least. Turns out the house down the road had an stupidly OPEN no password protected Wi-fi to far away to connect to, but the phone kept hunting for and trying to connect to, drained the battery in a short period of time.
And watch your phone bills if you visit areas like Niagara Falls, walk down town, and one step you are on a US cell tower, next you are on Rodgers, and it reflects on your phone bill as international call, if you make a call while still in the USA if you walk into a Rodgers cell area.
He’s home now and phone works fine as we have Wi-fi.
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