5 Reasons You Should Ditch Your iPhone for a Samsung Galaxy S7
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We know, we know, you love your iPhone. The cloud! iTunes! Everyone else has one! What would it take to make the switch to an Android? We think the new Samsung Galaxy might be the cure for your "shattered screen, 7% battery left, 99% storage full, sat in a cup of rice all night because I dropped it in the bathtub/toilet/pool" blues. Here are five legit reasons to give the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge a hard look and leave your iPhone behind.
You Can Drop It In Water and It Won't Die
With an IP68 rating for water and dust resistance, Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge can spend up to half an hour in 5 feet of water. This means that you no longer need to worry about your phone if you decide to use it in the shower or bathtub, out in a downpour, or at a pool party.
To be fair, you can make your iPhone waterproof via a third-party protective case. However, it will have to look like this.
You Get a Crazy Fast Charge
The iPhone 6s takes almost two hours to charge via its bundled wall adapter. The bigger iPhone 6s Plus, on the other hand, needs almost three hours to do the same trick.
The Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge both take roughly 90 minutes to charge their batteries despite their larger capacity. Most importantly, because of their clever tech, the devices can deliver hours of usage after spending just a few minutes on the charger.
Plus, wireless charging allows you to charge the Galaxy S7 device without ever plugging a cable into it via a compatible wireless charger. This is not yet a feature available for the iPhone.
You Can Store More Photos, Videos, and Music Than Ever Before
Apple is known for asking a steep price for iPhone memory upgrades. The tech giant is also offering entry-level variants of the device with only 16GB of memory, thus forcing buyers to spend at least another $100 for more storage space.
The Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge come with 32GB of built-in memory and a microSD card slot. The latter allows users to add up to 200GB of additional storage to the device without breaking the bank (a high-quality microSD card with 128GB of memory, for example, costs $40 on Amazon).
You Can Always Keep an Eye on Your Updates
Always On display is a neat trick that takes advantage of the advanced Super AMOLED screens featured in Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge. It allows you to keep an eye on the time, your calendar appointments and notifications, or simply look at your cool screensaver display.
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You Can ACTUALLY Use Your Phone to Pay
Apple Pay is cool and convenient, but it requires upgraded POS terminals with NFC connectivity in order to work. That's why the payment service is yet to become widely available.
Samsung Pay supports not only NFC, but also MST technology for mobile payments. MST stands for magnetic secure transmission, and allows users to make payments with the Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 edge by simply hovering it above just about every payment terminal with a credit or debit card reader.
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