Daily Archives: March 10, 2016

Galaxy S7: How The Battery Life Compares To Other Smartphones

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Samsung’s newest Android-powered flagship smartphones have received mostly positive reviews, but Forbes contributor Ewan Spence pointed out that the Galaxy S7 has “issues around performance” and the “changes are merely iterative, without any new vision.” In this article, the focus will be on the Galaxy S7 battery performance in comparison to other smartphones.
The battery in the Galaxy S7 is 3000 mAh. Since the Galaxy S7 edge is larger, Samsung was able to fit a 3600 mAh battery into the curved variant. This is substantially more than the 2550 mAh battery in the Galaxy S6 and the 2600 mAh battery in the Galaxy S6 edge. Despite having a larger battery, the Galaxy S7 actually has an inferior battery life compared to its predecessor, according to Phone Arena.
Phone Arena designed a strenuous custom battery life test to determine how long phones last before requiring a recharge. The Galaxy S7 lasts 6 hours and 37 minutes. Under the same test, the Galaxy S6 scored 7 hours and 14 minutes. “Considering the larger cell of the Galaxy S7, it’s a bit weird to see such a notable delta,” said Phone Arena in a blog post. The tested Galaxy S7 was branded Verizon and contains a Qualcomm 820 chipset rather than the Exynos. Phone Arena set the brightness to 200 nits on every device it tested and ran the same script that replicates real life usage to be certain of uniformity. 
The good news is that it doesn’t take long for the Galaxy S7 to fully charge. It takes only 88 minutes to fully charge the Galaxy S7 — which is only ten minutes more than the Galaxy S6 and should not be surprising since the mAh is much larger in the newer Samsung flagship.
How does the battery life on the S7 compare to other smartphones? In terms of battery life hours and charging time, here is a comparison of the devices:

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Why Virtual Reality Strip Clubs Still Make You Wait in Line — MEL Magazine

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Why Virtual Reality Strip Clubs Still Make You Wait in Line — MEL Magazine
As a developer for Vixen VR, Daniel Dilallo frequently monitors how people behave when inserted into erotic surroundings. Creating VR versions of popular strip clubs, including the Spearmint Rhino in Las Vegas, is just one of the way he’s now transitioning into the adult space after a successful career in video game development.

March 10, 2016 at 06:09PM
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T-Mobile demoing Gear VR in Times Square

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T-Mobile is usually the one to go all out with trash talking the other carriers, wireless promotions, and T-Mobile has also been aggressively advertising for a while now. Today is no different when T-Mobile set up its own transparent booths with hand-rails for passers-by of New York City to stop, try the Gear VR, take pictures, and talk about it to their friends. “Have you seen that VR thing? Oh, MAN, you gotta try it!”

Surely enough, the reps that are aiding with setting up the demos for every person must be telling them about T-Mobile’s buy-one-get-one-free deal for the New Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, which is to be officially released tomorrow.

Feast your 👀! Rock the #GalaxyS7 and the #GearVR at our #RealityCheck event in Times Square right NOW! 🔥 http://pic.twitter.com/yJEez4TO9m— T-Mobile (@TMobile) March 10, 2016

Samsung is also clever to give these Gear VRs away for every customer who pre-orders the new smartphone. It is difficult to get people to buy something they don’t know if they need, but by throwing it in for free, Samsung should be able to leverage more Gear VR units off the shelves by word of mouth.

T-Mobile’s official twitter account has been tweeting photos of the all the fun. Today was a beautiful day in New York and T-Mobile is taking advantage of the thousands of people who have come out to enjoy the incoming spring…

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