Samsung S7 Smartphone for Verizon

Love it more and more each day. Note, it did contain a Verizon SIM, so it could be activated online. (The SIM is smaller than the one in my S5 so I could not move that SIM.) The day I got it Verizon's activation service wasn't working so I had to do the support agent chat thing, but they got it activated. I was able to move the SIM from my wife's S3 to my old S5 and get her going in no time with my old phone. No need to go to the Verizon store and wait hours in either case, which may be your concern buying it this way. Great battery life, fast to do everything, awesome camera. I only wish the screen was completely flat so I could put a glass protector on it. Going with a plastic one, but am worried about breaking the screen, which, btw, doesn't show ANY finger prints. How do they do that?

I don't know how many people are still looking for a replacement galaxy S7...locked on the Verizon system...but if you are, this is the phone your looking for. Fair price and in excellent condition. Simply move the sim card over and your in business. The phone itself is aging itself out due to it not being able to upgrade to newer android operating systems. The newer apps won't run on the phone, and this is only going to get worse. It never had much internal storage, even with an optional storage card. But....it was ahead of its time with features and is still a good phone today.

First off, it is a magnificent device. Beautiful, fast, feature packed, and light. Buying new on Amazon saved me over $150 from being under contract by big red. But, had I been able to wait until Thanksgiving, Verizon had some super deep discounts on phones. But, my beloved Galaxy S3 developed a problem in the power button (exactly 3 years old) so I had to get a new phone much sooner than I wanted. It's great having some of the new features in this phone, but, some of the new features need some refinement. - The AlwaysOn display is nice, but it needs to have WAY MORE customization ability, and it really NEEDS to let 3rd party apps use it. The #1 reason that Samsung gives for this feature is to keep you from having to press the power button so often just to see time and notifications. But I want to see the temperature outside too, so I have to turn the main display on anyway. - Notifications (sound, vibration, LED) have been changed so much, and the different Android forum boards are chock-full of complaints about the loss of certain notification features. I don't mind needing to download a new app to get what I want, but my Galaxy S3 could do it without an extra app. - The camera is great. It's 12Mp but with this new Double-Pixel technology. It's suppose to really excel in low light conditions. My small testing of this showed improvements in picture quality of low light in about half of the pictures I took. The best improvement is in room lighting where it is dimmed mood lighting near you, and then the area in the distance also has some dimmed lighting. The close area is represented well in the picture and so is the other area that has its own lighting. Other pics that didn't do so well had only one source of dimmed lighting. But my favorite feature of the camera is its speed. I often take pictures of groups of people and I take many rapid-fire shots at a time in the hopes that I will get one or two pics where everyone has the right expression and looking in the right direction. My S3 was quite capable of this, and I'm glad to report that the S7 is even faster, and the shots I get are a lot cleaner (less of my own jitters). But I do have a gripe. Switching from Photo mode to video mode is annoying. First off, there isn't an icon that lets you switch from one mode to the next. It's a Record button (red dot). But, it starts recording instantly. You wouldn't think this to be a problem, except that the video aspect ratio and size of the target is different when switching from photo (4:3 12M) to video. This causes you to have to change where you are standing and change the angle you were originally aiming when in photo mode. You find yourself with several false-starts before actually videoing what you wanted. Annoying. Bring back the icon that lets me switch to video mode so that I can adjust my framing before I start recording. The double-press of the home button to launch the camera is cool, but it doesn't work as often as I'd like. It seemed to work better before I had enabled and setup the fingerprint recognition. My guess is that the two features are fighting each other. - Fingerprint recognition is cool. I just wish it worked more reliably. Too often it says I need to hold my thumb on it longer, or to wipe the screen. I've set up all 4 fingerprint IDs, each having about 10 different print pictures, with my thumb from different holding angles, but it still has trouble from time to time. - I love Wireless and Fast Charging. And I love the animation on the screen showing you where your charge is coming from. When wireless charging, a cool white exploding ring comes from the middle of the screen (and then is gone). When charging from the usb port, that white exploding ring comes from the bottom of the screen (near the usb port). I've had no problem with Fast Charging either. USB and Wireless both do great (even with the holster cover I use). - Battery life seems good so far. I'm so worried about what the battery life will be in a couple of years. Will I find myself searching rooms for a wall outlet to charge my phone like I see so many iPhone users doing. I kept extra batteries with me for my GS3 when I knew I was going to be away from my chargers the full day. When I'd get to 20% power, I'd put in a fresh battery. Then when I got home, I could charge them all at the same time. With a non-removable battery, I'm nervous of the future. Fast Charging is nice, but I'm not always near a charger. Will this battery start to lose its longevity in a year?

I bought the phone from PRIVI. The phone works perfectly well, like new. I would definitely recommend PRIVI and buy from them again. However, I absolutely hate the phone. My former LG phones were a lot better, the cameras were excellent and I had a lot of options to customize the phone. This Samsung phone is just not doing it for me. It aggravates me every single time I use it. I will never get another Samsung phone again. Hate hate hate this phone!

I was really worried about purchasing a "used" cell phone but I figured if something was wrong, I could always ask for a replacement. Didn't have to, thank goodness. The phone arrived exactly when it was supposed to and was packaged well. It did not come with any original box or printed material or charger but that was OK. There was a little dirt on the edges from being in a protective case but it all cleaned off nicely. No scratches or blemishes anywhere. The screen was NOT scratched in any way and all works very nicely. My old phone bit the dust and I didn't want to pay the exorbitant prices that Verizon charges for this phone. ($33/mo for 24 months) This phone was half the cost of Verizon. The only downside, it did not come with a Nano Sim card. No problem, you can go to Verizon and they'll install a new sim card and if you aren't changing plans, it won't cost a dime. Yippee! And I asked Verizon what size SSD card it would support. Would you believe 128gb.....wow. I didn't buy one from Verizon (I'll get one from Amazon) but I did buy a new case which was overpriced but what the hey. All is good.

EDIT #2: The second "new" phone was also not actually new, but better described as either "like new" or "open box." Screen had some tiny scratches on it (not visible unless light hits it just right, the kind of scratches you get from having it in your pocket with your keys for example). So, while the phone is great, the experience of buying it here is not (unless you know ahead of time that you are getting a device that's not really new and you pay a price that matches this expectation). Unfortunately, I cannot give an excellent rating to the phone and a low rating to the service, so I have to split the difference and call this three starts. However, the phone itself is great and worth 5 stars. EDIT: Phone's going back. Won't keep a charge when sim card is inserted (fine without sim card in it). Having now googled "samsung galaxy s7 unboxing" (and hating myself for it), I now suspect that the phone that was sent to me was not new, but was a previously-opened return. The packaging lacked any security strips holding the box closed and there was apparently a micro-usb to usb adapter that was supposed to be included that wasn't. I don't care about the adapter, but if this was fraudulently advertised as "new" when it was indeed not actually new, that's a problem. Since I bought through prime, Amazon will, of course, take it back, but (a) how much would it suck if I had bought without prime and (b) who is going to compensate me for the 4-6 hours of setting this thing up and then trying to debug it to figure out what the issue was with the battery? That's right, no one. The thing is, the phone was good (once properly set up), so I don't want to change the star rating yet, but the experience (so far) deserves a negative star rating (I wish this were possible). Trying again (with a different seller this time), still through prime. If that one works out as this one, I will lower the rating, not to reflect the quality of the phone, but to reflect the quality of buying it here. ORIGINAL REVIEW: As someone who has been extremely leery of Samsung phones because of their TouchWiz overlay on top of plain Android, I must say that I was hesitant to buy this phone. However, replacing the stock launcher with Nova, most of the stock apps (which cannot be removed, but can at least be made less visible by renaming them via Nova) with stock google apps (dialer, messaging, calendar, and google now instead of s voice being the main ones), changing the theme of the remaining touchwiz bits to a dark material theme, and some timely swearing has turned this phone into something that appears (at least for now, on day 1) to be better than anything else currently available (and very much unlike any Samsung phone I have previously used). The google pixel (aside from being $200 more expensive than this phone) is not waterproof, has no external memory capability, is bigger than this phone, but has a smaller screen, and has a lower screen resolution. It has the latest version of Android, which is nice, but ultimately, I prefer external storage, a better screen and a bigger battery. Every other android phone is either too big or is lacking the best specs, which is unfortunate. So, if you are looking for a 5" screen in a phone that fits well in your hand and in your pocket, but are afraid that Samsung's customizations will drive you nuts -- fear not, all is fixable (without root), given a few hours' of work. One deviation from stock that i decided to keep is that the "back" button is on the right, while the "current apps" button is on the left, this is backwards from the standard android setup and always annoyed me. However, once I held the phone in my hand long enough, I realized that as a righty, having the back button, which I use much more often, nearer to the corner where my palm is makes it easier to reach. So, I'll keep this deviation, since it's an improvement.

EXACT replacement was awesome. I'm not Ansel Adams, so the camera is good enough for me. Easy interface. Easy navigation. TURN DOWN the brightness to save battery and prevent overheating. Buy a "fast charger". Trust me.

Apparently you should leave these plugged in all the time. It was good while it lasted

I updated my review...if you are excited to buy this phone and have a habit of dropping them like me, then please read the updated section before you do... ---original--- If you are an android fan, then you will like this phone. It's fast, it's functional and if you buy it on Amazon it's cheap! If you are an IPhone fan, well that's your problem. jk The fingerprint scanner is highly improved over older versions, it just needs a half second with your finder on it, no sliding required. The camera is excellent, great pictures in low light compared to just about all other digital cameras I have ever had. It is nice and slim and looks great. ---after much research and consternation--- All Samsung screens have curved edges. Even my last phone, the Note 4 has slight curves. This makes screen protection a little difficult. There are basically 3 types of legitimate screen protection mechanisms: full coverage tempered glass with adhesive, partial coverage tempered glass with no adhesive, and full body cases. * The only way to get full coverage with the S7 is to use a screen protector like the kind they have developed for the edge which are often labelled 3D. The "3D" screen protectors are well known to pop off easily, collect dust around the edges, leave the screen with decreased sensitivity, or crack when using a case. I have been through a handful and can attest this is absolutely true. There is no advertising such as "QQQ glass works with case AAA or BBB" or "buy X, Y, or Z glass with our case". If these really worked with cases they would have advertised exactly how to do it or more often sold them together. All the case/glass combos I tried resulted in cracked glass and all of the glass protectors actually contained "CASE FRIENDLY" in the name. * Another solution is a full body case. Unfortunately none of the full body cases I have researched receive more than 3.5 out of 5 stars on customer reviews, with even the expensive Lifefproof FRE only receiving 3.5 stars with 1 in 5 users giving it only 1 star. * The only remaining option is to buy a screen protector which only covers the flat part of the screen and buy a case for the rest of the phone. The issue now is that the sides of the screen are unprotected. True story, I once dropped my Note 4 and yes, the tiny 3 mm unprotected section of glass came into contact with concrete and the entire screen shattered. Beyond simple protection, the OCD crowd may develop ticks, twitches and spontaneous turrets as they try to swipe the popup menu from the side of the screen. For my Note 4, I purchased a case with larger corners to increase protection as much as possible and popped a couple Vailum to manage my ticks (not really). I'm sure there is a legitimate reason for the curved edges, I just wish Samsung would work with vendors to develop a best fit solution to the screen protection issue. I DO recommend buying this product, but if you are rough on phones like me, make sure you are informed before you do.

Fast delivery and as described