Motorola and Google’s Nexus range already offer glanceable monochromatic data that doesn’t consume
10-15% battery life during a day (roughly 1% per hour) and Samsung’s implementation is basic. You c
an’t see Android notifications which makes that data an extra click away (home button or wake/lock) and (unlike the Nexus range) you can’t get straight to the home screen from the fingerprint scanner without waking the phone up first. It’s
clunky, but you can switch it off.
Fresh out the box the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge fly, but load them up with apps, browse complex web pages and you’ll quickly run into
‘jank’. Scrolling is the biggest offender, particularly browsing the web but even occasionally in basic navigation such as scrolling through Flipboard (Samsung’s default replacement to Google Now) or settings menus.
The experience is far from crippling, but it shouldn’t exist at all and the core experience
can’t match iOS on the iPhone 6S/6S Plus or stock Android on the Nexus 6P which runs on previous generation hardware.
As such I feel Samsung phones could be powered by Intel Core i7 Extreme desktop CPU and 16GB of RAM and they’d still not run smoothly. Yes, the synthetic benchmarks are strong and these phones are very fast (particularly in games) but they
aren’t smooth in day-to-day use and I’d swap the former for the latter all day long. It’s hugely frustrating and, even with their new heatpipes, they still get
hot during intensive tasks.
You seem out of topic.