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I’d buy one over any Apple product.

The Galaxy S7 is the best phone ever made. No flaws, a masterpiece. The Google Pixel XL was a flop and Apple dropped the ball with the IPhone 7. My Apple-fanatic daughter and niece both wanted an iPhone 7 or 7 Plus for xmas and now they both want the iPhone 6s or 6s plus instead. They hate the 7.

No reports of failures, but my S7 battery gets pretty hot during charging. Well, when charging and using at the same time, it gets hot.

Solution? Set it on the charger and leave it be.

I bought a wireless charger off Amazon for my s7. I just have a pad I set it on on my night stand - works great and you don’t have to do anything to the phone - it just works.. even through a case..

It cost something like $12...

The Galaxy S7 is the best phone ever made. No flaws, a masterpiece. The Google Pixel XL was a flop and Apple dropped the ball with the IPhone 7. My Apple-fanatic daughter and niece both wanted an iPhone 7 or 7 Plus for xmas and now they both want the iPhone 6s or 6s plus instead. They hate the 7.

Why? In what way did Apple drop the ball with the iPhone 7? Both my girlfriend and I own iPhone 7 plusses and they are fantastic phones, in my case upgrading from a 6s and hers upgrading from a 6. I see nothing to complain about on the 7s models as they were actually major upgrades over the 6s models.

While the form factor is the same the speed boost alone is phenomenal on the 7 moving from the Dual core A9 processor to the Quad core A10.
The 7 and 7 plus are both 40% and 50% respectively faster than the iPhone 6s and 6s plus.
The cameras are fantastic with both the 7 and 7 plus having built in optical stabilization replacing the software stabilization in the 6s and the 7 plus now dual rear cameras with optical 2X zoom.
Flash upgraded to a new Quad-LED Dual Tone for better flesh tones.
Portrait Mode depth of field added to camera abilities which blurs background behind the in focus person.
The front camera moves from a 5MP on the 6s models to a 7MP on the 7. . . another big improvement.
The iPhone 7 and 7 plus are both water and dust resistant where the 6s and 6s Plus are not.
Apple upgraded the storage of each 7 model as well at the same price points as the iPhone 6s models were introduced.
The speed of the storage has been increased dramatically.
The 7 also offers a 50% boost in 4G speeds over the 6s. That is a big increase.
The battery life is 14% greater on the 7, and 30% greater on the 7plus.
Finally the screens are 25% brighter on the 7s than they were on the 6s models.

Overall it was a huge upgrade except in form factor and there have been very few complaints on the 7 and 7 plus.

IPHONE 7 BENCHMARKS
We haven’t been able to run our own benchmarks on the iPhone 7 just yet. But tests results are turning up from around the world, so we’ve already got a good idea of just how well the iPhone 7 performs.
On AnTuTu, the iPhone 7 scored a mega 178,397, which just about puts every other phone to shame. It’s far higher than the 133,781 scored by the iPhone 6S (33% improvement), and also trumps the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (134,599), the OnePlus 3 (140,388), and the HTC 10 (133,217).
On the new Geekbench 4.0 test, the iPhone 7 managed a single-core score of 3,425 and a multi-core score of 5,510. By comparison, the iPhone 6S scored 2,443 for single-core and 4,037 for multi-core. That means the iPhone 7 is 40% faster on the single-core test, and 36% faster on the multi-core test.
All in all, it’s clear that Apple has made significant performance and efficiency improvements with the iPhone 7. That should translate to a snappier user experience, better battery life, and hopefully improved gaming credentials. TrustedReviews.com — "iPhone 7 Benchmarks: How much faster is Apple’s A10 Fusion chip?"

The only negative in some people's minds (mostly people who did not buy one) was the discontinuation of the 3.5mm headphone jack, but Apple includes a Lightning to 3.5mm jack adaptor to use with any third-party headphones or other accessory you may already have, and they also include a set of lightning of earbuds that have a far better frequency response than the old analogue style had. That complaint about the lack of a jack has been pretty much laid to rest as people have been using the iPhone 7. It was created by pundits who were looking for something to complain about.

The only people who were saying Apple had dropped the ball were pundits who were writing BEFORE Apple actually debuted the iPhone 7 and 7 plus. They were caught with a lot of egg on their faces, because what they were claiming was going to be released, a minimalist placeholder upgrade, was NOT the major upgrade Apple actually did release.

On the other hand, the Samsung Galaxy S7 had very little improvements over the older model S5 (Samsung skipped the S6 model designations). . . not much in the way of speed enhancements — with its eight core processor being only marginally faster than Apple's dual core iPhone 6s which had already been out for a year — or any new features or upgrades.

Even Samsung's Note 7, which was supposed to be Samsung's iPhone 7 "killer" — rushed to market two months before the iPhone 7 — used the same eight core processor as the Galaxy S7, had no speed improvement. . . and we all know what a fiasco that was.

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When is Apple going to spell Phone correctly? : )

On the other hand, the Samsung Galaxy S7 had very little improvements over the older model S5 (Samsung skipped the S6 model designations). . . not much in the way of speed enhancements — with its eight core processor being only marginally faster than Apple's dual core iPhone 6s which had already been out for a year — or any new features or upgrades.

Um, you're joking right? The completely new S7 camera is the best on the market. The iPhone 7's does not even come close, and the 7 Plus' two-lens camera has been ridiculed in the tech press. They may fix it in the 7s, as they often do. But for now, Samsung has a huge advantage there.

and the 7 Plus' two-lens camera has been ridiculed in the tech press.

The claim of a "Two-lens" camera is a false claim that I've seen. The ridicule I've seen comes from pundits who seem to think the camera has a mere two lenses on a single camera. It's a TWO Camera system, both independent, both with optical image stabilization, and each of which has a six-lens system which takes superb photographs.

Both the iPhone 7 and the Samsung take excellent photographs.

Here is Digital photography Review's conclusion of the review of the iPhone 7 Plus's camera. . . its 88% rating is only equaled among other reviewed digital smartphone cameras by the Nokia Lumia 1020 in quality rating, which exceeded the iPhone 7 Plus only in still photo quality (frankly by quite a bit) but suffered in all other areas.

Overall Conclusion
With the iPhone 7 Plus Apple has done something that is has always been very good at: take an existing technology and lift it up to the next level. Dual-cams on smartphones have been around for a while now but the Apple version is the first to provide real added value, at least as long as you are shooting in relatively bright light. Yes, there is much room for improvement in darker conditions, but overall the Apple system is definitely a step in the right direction and a lot of fun to use.
Looking at camera operation and camera app features the Apple is, as usual, up with the best and the wide-angle camera offers very good color, tonality and dynamic range. It lags slightly behind the best in class in terms of pixel-level detail, though. Of course the 7 Plus also offers the excellent build-quality and materials, responsive operation and high-quality display you would expect from a premium brand. Overall the Apple iPhone 7 Plus is a lot of fun to use as a mobile imaging device. If the dual-cam is what you've been waiting for and you're willing to spend the money, you can't go wrong with Apple's latest innovation.
Features & Operation
Over the years Apple has step by step expanded the iPhone's camera feature set and by now the iOS stock camera app offers some of the best special modes in the business. Both panorama and slow-motion modes are class-leading. HDR mode is one of the most efficient and while Timelapse and Live Images aren't anything you'd use on a daily basis, they can be fun to play with on occasion.
The headline feature is the new dual-cam, though. Apple is a little late to the dual-cam game but, thanks to a secondary lens with longer 56mm equiv. lens, it's arguably the option that currently provides most added value to the user. The longer lens provides a more pleasant angle of view for people photography and makes an ideal combination with the new background-blurring Portrait mode. It also means that the iPhone 7 Plus is by far the best smartphone for zooming, as long as your scene is bright enough for the tele-camera to achieve a decent exposure.
Raw-capture and manual control are not available in the stock camera but those features can be acquired, along with an abundance of others, via the excellent selection of third-party imaging apps in the Apple App Store. In addition the Photos app offers a good array of editing functions.
Image Quality
When looking at the iPhone 7 Plus image quality you have to distinguish between the 28mm wide-angle and the longer 56mm lens. The former captures, in typical Apple fashion, images that show pleasant colors, good exposure and wide dynamic range down to very low light levels. On the downside, pixel-level detail cannot quite keep up with the best in class and some luminance noise is visible in areas of plain color, even at base ISO. If image detail is priority, competitors in the shape of the Google Pixel models, the Samsung Galaxy S7 or the Huawei P9 are currently a better choice.
In bright light the 56mm lens delivers very similar image quality to the wide-angle. However, as soon as the light gets dimmer, the slower aperture and lack of optical image stabilization mean that higher ISOs have to be used, resulting in increased image noise and noticeably reduced levels of detail. In anything darker than typical interior lighting images will be underexposed and the stock camera app will default to digitally zooming the wide-angle camera.
On the plus side, the longer lens offers much better resolution and detail than digital zoom when you can't get near enough to your subjects and also a more pleasant angle of view for most types of people photography. Video-shooters will love the iPhone's excellent video stabilization on both lenses and the very stable video-AF in all light conditions.
The Final Word
Comparing the iPhone 7 Plus to the competition is not an easy task. The dual-camera, with its 56mm lens providing something of a tele-perspective, is currently unique in the market. As we have explained throughout this review, it's not without its flaws and of limited use in low light, but the added reach and alternative angle of view it provides in good light conditions make it a real game-changer for mobile photography. That said, we are looking forward to the second generation of the technology which will hopefully be more useful for indoor and night shooting.
If you can live with the, compared to some rivals, slightly lower levels of image detail, the only thing that could potentially hold you back is the Apple's rather steep price point of $769 for the 32GB base version. However, given the dual-cam's advantages, many users might find the premium over the competition to me more than acceptable.

Note also that the iPhone 7 models cameras can take still photograph pictures in the wide band DCI-P3 standard, something that no other smartphone cameras can do at this time. That's the standard used in the professional 4k Video format. The others don't even use that standard in their 4K videos.

Yep, that’s what I use!