Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge

MrsMcSteamy wrote: »

Think I might go this option myself

Just ordered there, came to 708e delivered to parcel motel for the s7.

Happy enough with that, was goin to have to drive to Enniskillen twice with the other option.

Think I will order the gear VR now from voda

jimmynokia

Some stores have the demos in already. Seen the S7 today but going for the edge

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Trigg171

MrsMcSteamy wrote: »

Think I might go this option myself

Yeah it looked the best I could see to be honest. Would have been nice to order a sim free with a free gear vr for about €800 but seemed like too much messing about. The free case and what looks to be a decent Bluetooth speaker seems a nice deal for me. Price works out at just over €800 aswell.

MrsMcSteamy

Trigg171 wrote: »

Nonot used them before but read around on reviews and even android central(I think) did an article on the deal. They accept Irish cards as they deliver to Ireland. Delivery is £11. Total was £630.98.
Only thing is delivery might take 5 days or so after release which I'm fine with.

Think I might go this option myself

Trigg171

MrsMcSteamy wrote: »

Have you ordered from this company before? Did they accept your Irish card or did you use a revolut card or the likes?

Nonot used them before but read around on reviews and even android central(I think) did an article on the deal. They accept Irish cards as they deliver to Ireland. Delivery is £11. Total was £630.98.
Only thing is delivery might take 5 days or so after release which I'm fine with.

Trigg171 wrote: »

Well I preordered the edge black 32GB from unlocked mobiles. You get a case and a bluetooth speaker with it so not a bad deal. Total for just under £631 including delivery which is still cheaper than the official price.

Has anyone used these before? Thinking of ordering the s7. £20 cheaper than Samsung and no messing around with uk cards.
Will just buy the gear VR from Vodafone.

Also, Amazon.co.uk have the s7 up now. £570 but no mention of gear vr

MrsMcSteamy

Trigg171 wrote: »

Well I preordered the edge black 32GB from unlocked mobiles. You get a case and a bluetooth speaker with it so not a bad deal. Total for just under £631 including delivery which is still cheaper than the official price.

Have you ordered from this company before? Did they accept your Irish card or did you use a revolut card or the likes?

Trigg171

Well I preordered the edge black 32GB from unlocked mobiles. You get a case and a bluetooth speaker with it so not a bad deal. Total for just under £631 including delivery which is still cheaper than the official price.

Rob C wrote: »

Well I'm completely lost....

I'm due an upgrade and just cannot decide between the iPhone 6S and the Galaxy S7 Edge.

I've been running a Note 3 for the past number of years, great phone. My intention was to go down a size and I'm an iMac user at home and do like Apple devices but I also really like Android and the whole Google 'ecosphere'.

The S7 edge really looks the business and has the higher storage and better screen plus the Edge features I really like which I'm considering going with the bigger phone again. But I can't say I'm a hige fan of Touchwiz and Apple has the better and more varied apps.

Who do people recommend as a carrier? I've been billpay with Meteor for about 5 years now. The best deals I'm looking at are with Vodafone and Three. Who is better in users experience?

I would say the S7 edge feels significantly smaller than Note 3. I think it's definitely not as wide.

I've left Vodafone recently to go to 3. There's benefits to both:

Vodafone:
Better coverage
More consistent 4g
International calls

Three:
Unlimited data
Better value

I pay €20/month less with 3, and they will give me an upgrade after 21 months. Overall, the value won me over, even if you don't get consistently as good 4g speeds.

OldMrBrennan83

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Rob C

Well I'm completely lost....

I'm due an upgrade and just cannot decide between the iPhone 6S and the Galaxy S7 Edge.

I've been running a Note 3 for the past number of years, great phone. My intention was to go down a size and I'm an iMac user at home and do like Apple devices but I also really like Android and the whole Google 'ecosphere'.

The S7 edge really looks the business and has the higher storage and better screen plus the Edge features I really like which I'm considering going with the bigger phone again. But I can't say I'm a hige fan of Touchwiz and Apple has the better and more varied apps.

Who do people recommend as a carrier? I've been billpay with Meteor for about 5 years now. The best deals I'm looking at are with Vodafone and Three. Who is better in users experience?

Has anybody heard anything from carphone warehouse? I talked to their UK branch and they give away free GearVR but the Irish site is conflicting, with the right hand side of the page saying its free and the bottom of the page saying its 50% off.

Mitch Connor

For the people that want to buy off the samsung site (and need an english card) can you not just put the first line of your own address in the billing field and then fill the rest of it out with some UK address information (such as the Parcel Motel NI address). I have done this previously - on the Dell.co.uk outlet site iirc - and it worked fine. The card processed fine on mine end and the UK postal address/code got me past their region locked shopping cart.

I don't know why people are surprised about the VR gear. Loads of things get announced at these events that only apply to certain markets.

twinsen wrote: »

http://www.amazon.de/Samsung-Smartphone-Touch-Display-interner-Speicher/dp/B01BTZFSTC/ref=sr_1_1?s=telephone&ie=UTF8&qid=1456493541&sr=1-1&keywords=samsung+galaxy+s7+edge 799 for edge then

Which is the same price as Samsung UK.

twinsen

Thor wrote: »

Not an edge, so normal price really.

http://www.amazon.de/Samsung-Smartphone-Touch-Display-interner-Speicher/dp/B01BTZFSTC/ref=sr_1_1?s=telephone&ie=UTF8&qid=1456493541&sr=1-1&keywords=samsung+galaxy+s7+edge 799 for edge then

twinsen wrote: »

Instead everyone getting this from uk for around 800e why not get this from here http://www.amazon.de/Samsung-Smartphone-Touch-Display-interner-Speicher/dp/B01BTZFM0W/ref=sr_tr_sr_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456492072&sr=8-1&keywords=galaxy+s7 at 699e?

Not an edge, so normal price really.

Basil3 wrote: »

Talk about it. For years I've just walked into a shop on release day and handed over the money.

It's a joke. It's a bad state of affairs when you have trouble giving a company 700e+ for something

I wrote on the Chat for Samsung thing and they said for GearVR it is up to the store to provide the GearVR, and said she has no clue why they announced on stage every pre order got a gear vr

Frankmagnet wrote: »

Linked my revolut card to my paypal, was charged the small fee and the 4 digest code appeared on the revolut transaction history, now I'm not given the option to enter the pin to verify the card.

Just keeps saying something went wrong, please try again.

So much hassle to buy a phone

Talk about it. For years I've just walked into a shop on release day and handed over the money.

twinsen

Instead everyone getting this from uk for around 800e why not get this from here http://www.amazon.de/Samsung-Smartphone-Touch-Display-interner-Speicher/dp/B01BTZFM0W/ref=sr_tr_sr_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456492072&sr=8-1&keywords=galaxy+s7 at 699e?

Linked my revolut card to my paypal, was charged the small fee and the 4 digest code appeared on the revolut transaction history, now I'm not given the option to enter the pin to verify the card.

Just keeps saying something went wrong, please try again.

So much hassle to buy a phone

digitaldr

Apparently the S7 and S7 lock to the carrier of the first SIM inserted (if not bought SIM free) Not sure if this applies outside the USA or what the implications would be if it did.

Haha ****ing hell. Well I'm selling my Nexus 6P for 450. Only got it in November but the thing is so big and slippy (That sounds bad), and I really don't want to break it and not make any money on it. Thing is always slipping out of my pants when I get out of the car.

S7 Edge with the official Samsung case seems the way to go. But I think I will only put it in the case when I'm leaving the house. The thing seems to nice to lock away in a case

GoodGamerGuy wrote: »

So maybe I should contact samsung support to ask about registering with Samsung for the GearVR? Seems like a mess of a preorder situation

Oh yeah. The really botched it.

Carphone warehouse are only doing bill pay for the launch, so didn't matter if prepay would get them, as they aren't doing it.

They never have sim free phones at launch. At least the they didn't get S6 sim free devices until 6 months after it launched.

I'm pretty sure that anyone pre-ordering an S7 or S7 Edge will end up with a gear vr somehow. Samsung really don't want the bad press an launch if a ton of people pre-ordering their phones don't get something they promised on stage.

I asked for a comment directly from Samsung regarding the free gear vr offer and this is what I they said.

“The Samsung Gear VR pre-order offer is available via Carphone Warehouse and Three. Customers who pre-order the new Galaxy S7 and S7 edge devices from Carphone Warehouse or Three will be entitled to receive a Samsung Gear VR headset with their new Galaxy S7 device. Terms and Conditions apply and are available from the relevant seller of the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge devices.”

So, things don't look good as these retailers applied their own terms and conditions to the deal. However, it might not be their fault. If they only get a small supply of gear vr units, and have a lot more pre-orders. They can hardly be blamed.

In short. Who knows what's really going on behind the scenes.

So maybe I should contact samsung support to ask about registering with Samsung for the GearVR? Seems like a mess of a preorder situation

GoodGamerGuy wrote: »

When I say branding, I mean will it say Three on my S7 or what? What sort of branding is on the phone?

Also what is the story with carphone warehouse? On their preorder page to the right it says a free gearVR with every preorder but at the bottom of the page it has a image saying half price gear vr with every preorder.

My S6 Edge+ has 3 splash screen, and a few 3 apps (think they're all removable). It came sim unlocked.

Regarding sim unlocking, I have purchased from 3 in Newry in the past as well, and the guys in the shop knew I was taking it back down to Dublin with me. They said to just call 3 if it was sim locked and they would unlock it. Turns out it wasn't locked anyway.

GoodGamerGuy wrote: »

Also, is every preorder not meant to get a GearVR? I thought that's what Samsung said? Three are out of stock apparently

Indeed. That was what they announced, but not what happened.

There was some word that perhaps once you get your phone, you can register with Samsung and they will send you the gear vr.