

Upwards of 20h of video playback are possible on the S7 edge, while web browsing drains it in 13 and a half hours. The capacity increase is higher than the increase in area needing to be lit up, not to mention some battery draining processes are a constant regardless of display size, so the Galaxy S7 edge is supposed to last longer than the S7, just by looking at the numbers.Īnd it does. The sole difference between the Galaxy S7 edge and the S7 under the hood is battery capacity, and the edge comes with a 3,600mAh power pack. That said, if you're comparing to the S6 edge, the new model is 25g heavier and has grown a bit in every dimension to fit the larger screen. It weighs just 157g - 5 grams more than the S7 gets you 20% more battery and 0.4 inches larger diagonal. The S7 edge measures 150.9 x 72.6 x 7.7mm, making it thinner than the plain S7. In our book, that makes a potential S7 edge+ fairly unlikely to happen. In 2016 so far we have the S7 edge splitting the difference between the two, but leaning towards the Plus. Last year's Galaxy S6 edge stood at 5.1 inches, and there was the 5.7-inch Galaxy S6 edge+. And it's that display, that gorgeous 5.5-inch Super AMOLED spilling over the sides, that's the real difference between the two, and the sole reason why one would pay the premium and pick the S7 edge and not the S7. Which is another way of saying that the edge has a bigger battery, and that's it. Flagships come in pairs, that's the recent trend and in the case of the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge they share a good bit of the internals.
