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Does the S7 have FM radio

Hi,
I'm not hopeful, but does anyone know if Samsung will see sense (like they did with waterproofing and a micro sd slot) and have an FM radio capability on the S7?
So far, I understand they have dropped IR; Samsung givith, Samsung taketh away ...

l.f.hant said:
Hi,
I'm not hopeful, but does anyone know if Samsung will see sense (like they did with waterproofing and a micro sd slot) and have an FM radio capability on the S7?
So far, I understand they have dropped IR; Samsung givith, Samsung taketh away ...
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Doesn't look like it:
https://www.o2.co.uk/shop/phones/samsung/galaxy-s7-edge/
See full technical specs.

maybe snapdragon 820 model but I dont think so.

Probably not and I can't comprehend why. For example the Galaxy A3 (2016) does have FM radio. Why can't the S6 or the S7 have it?

think exynos dont havev

I use Tunein app. Perfect sound.

chong67 said:
I use Tunein app. Perfect sound.
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When I ride the train to work. No signal so fm is perfect. Learned to live with downloaded tunes to hold me over

chong67 said:
I use Tunein app. Perfect sound.
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Tunein is indeed a great app and I use it - but it uses data, not FM.
The recently announced LG G5 uses the same Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset as the S7 so there is no technical reason why it shouldn't be there ...

SD820 Version
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=9686&view=1&c=samsung_sm-g930a_galaxy_s7_lte-a_samsung_hero
Exynos Version
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=9334&view=1&c=samsung_sm-g930f_galaxy_s7_lte-a_samsung_hero
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bergerstrasse said:
SD820 Version
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=9686&view=1&c=samsung_sm-g930a_galaxy_s7_lte-a_samsung_hero
Exynos Version
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=9334&view=1&c=samsung_sm-g930f_galaxy_s7_lte-a_samsung_hero
Gesendet von meinem SM-G928F mit Tapatalk
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I wouldn't trust pdadb's spec sheets for this.
In any case, for "Analog Radio:", they have "No information" for both links above; I'd trust gsmarena more, for the S7, they currently say "Radio To be confirmed".

Samsung Netherlands confirmed that the S7 (at least the Exynos version) doesn't have FM Radio.
https://twitter.com/SamsungMobileNL/status/702558238122840064

l.f.hant said:
I wouldn't trust pdadb's spec sheets for this.
In any case, for "Analog Radio:", they have "No information" for both links above; I'd trust gsmarena more, for the S7, they currently say "Radio To be confirmed".
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Interesting to see that gsmarena state that the Sony Xperia X Performance does not have an FM radio whereas for the cheaper and slower Xperia X, it states it has "FM radio with RDS". Maybe gsmarena are just guessing this stuff too?
For FM radio, the status for this on the S7 remains at "To be confirmed" ...

dejong12 said:
Samsung Netherlands confirmed that the S7 (at least the Exynos version) doesn't have FM Radio.
https://twitter.com/SamsungMobileNL/status/702558238122840064
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Thanks
I read that (thanks, google translate!) but can't see the reference to the Exynos chipset? The guy just appears to be asking if the Galaxy S7 has FM radio and the reply to this is, sadly, "The S7 does not have an FM radio." But maybe you're right - other phones using the 820 sport FM radios ...
I think I'll give serious consideration to LG's G5 instead an S7 for my next phone:
It has a removable battery
It has IR
It has FM radio
The only thing it lacks in comparison to the S7 appears to be waterproofing which I do find useful.

l.f.hant said:
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I read that (thanks, google translate!) but can't see the reference to the Exynos chipset? The guy just appears to be asking if the Galaxy S7 has FM radio and the reply to this is, sadly, "The S7 does not have an FM radio." But maybe you're right - other phones using the 820 sport FM radios ...
I think I'll give serious consideration to LG's G5 instead an S7 for my next phone:
It has a removable battery
It has IR
It has FM radio
The only thing it lacks in comparison to the S7 appears to be waterproofing which I do find useful.
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Well the Netherlands (as like other countries in Europe) will get the Exynos version, so you could say that Samsung Netherlands answered about that version.

dejong12 said:
Well the Netherlands (as like other countries in Europe) will get the Exynos version, so you could say that Samsung Netherlands answered about that version.
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Thanks,
I assumed the European version would have the 820 chipset.
Thanks for the clarification :good:

I'm the same as you, currently using tunein on galaxy s6 and it's a massive battery drain. I read a statement from Samsung saying people who buy high end devices only use downloads or streaming, this was the reasoning behind the s4 fm radio absence. On gsmarena the s7 fm radio is yet to be announced, but I doubt it will reappear. I believe fm radio should be a feature of android devices but manufacturers seem to think on our behalf, check out Xiaomi mi5 and mi4s, that's what I'm considering.

I'mnotanumber said:
I'm the same as you, currently using tunein on galaxy s6 and it's a massive battery drain. I read a statement from Samsung saying people who buy high end devices only use downloads or streaming, this was the reasoning behind the s4 fm radio absence. On gsmarena the s7 fm radio is yet to be announced, but I doubt it will reappear. I believe fm radio should be a feature of android devices but manufacturers seem to think on our behalf, check out Xiaomi mi5 and mi4s, that's what I'm considering.
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Samsung is looking at this all wrong. FM radio should be on all phones when possible. Consider a natural disaster. A few years back when Joplin, MO was hit by a tornado cellular services was nonexistent for a while. Those antennas not destroyed were overwhelmed. One of the local radio stations at the time was campaigning phone companies to put FM on their phones.

So the S7/is actually the Samsung Hero?
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Got to protect I heart radio, tunein radio and the rest! Or don't you know!

Got to play with SPRINT GS7 in Mesa AZ USA,
Playstore installed NextRadio
BUT...
Opening app displayed this message...
FM Radio is Unavailable
We'd love to bring yoy local FM radio,
but NextRadio doesn't have access to
th FM radio receiver in your device.
Let your wireless carrier know that
you'd like to listen to free FM Radio on
your phone with NextRadio!

snapdragon or exynos?

i will buy samsung s7, wish version is better snapgragon or exynos and why ?

I think the Exynos is the preferred model, more dev support, unlockable bootloader (G930F anyway), 8 cores, slightly faster of the two afaik
Still reading up on it all myself, only had the phone a couple of days but that's what I've gathered so far

Exynos, but first make sure that it works on your carrier.

thanx for reply

Exynos being crippled?

I understand Exynos doesn't work with US CDMA and that is why the Qualcom versions exist. Is Samsung intentionally crippling it's own CPU to keep things the even? Verizon is EOL on their CDMA network next year really only leaving Sprint. Sprint is the 4th carrier now and only has a 12% market share. Canada is already sunsetting their CDMA too. Sprint has 12% (52 million) market share. Samsung has a 25% of that. At most that's 12 million people and much less since Samsung sales low end phones too.
Kind of silly to have to produce two models to cater to that especially with licensing and the fact that it is their chip.
I ask because I saw a thread suggesting that the camera could shoot much higher speeds on the Exynos, but was software limited.
I just want the best I can get!
Has anyone verified NextRadio and the FM antennae yet?

I'd say there are skeptical things with Qualcomm. They must have some impact on this to sell their chips in the US

ls3mach said:
Has anyone verified NextRadio and the FM antennae yet?
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On Snapdragon versions, yes. Exynos versions no (I believe).
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Exynos 9810 has no modem built in, and CDMA compatibility has nothing to do with why the U. S. market gets the Snapdragon. Luckily Snapdragon 845 is a better SOC than the Exynos 9810 and you can rest assured you are not screwed.

This really ticks me off to hear if it is true. I am from Canada and purchased the international version this time because I read so much that bragged the Exynos version was so much faster than the Snapdragon version. Paid a pretty penny for it too! I do like my phone but my ANTUTU scores don't seem to be as good as those running SD SOC's.

Samsung apparently has a marketing agreement with Qualcomm to not sell phones with Exynos in the U.S. Otherwise, Samsung could certainly build Exynos based phones with CDMA support if they wanted to.

Guys,
Enjoy your phones, they are both more or less equal with Exynos being very slightly faster in CPU intensive tasks and Snapdragon being slightly faster in GPU (gaming) related tasks. In real world, this difference is almost unnoticeable. (0.5 to 1 second faster game launch on SD).
The good thing is that Exynos is only going to get better due to unlocked bootloader and open source development that will follow.

meyerweb said:
Samsung apparently has a marketing agreement with Qualcomm to not sell phones with Exynos in the U.S. Otherwise, Samsung could certainly build Exynos based phones with CDMA support if they wanted to.
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How long is that in place?

I was pretty sure samsung would not nerf their own processor but now I'm sure they did. We can all claim it is for battery reasons or something, but I believe that it is so that it can be neck and neck with the snapdragon.
These screenshots were taken a few minutes ago, after I flashed a custom kernel and unrestricted the 4 big cores so they are able to hit 2.9ghz and the little ones 2.0ghz. I believe that 2.7ghz is what was running for most of the benchmarks, but it hits 2.9ghz on the CPU scaling Log.
Exynos is, in fact the second best processor on a smartphone right after the A11 and would most likely match it on geekbench (surpasses it on antutu even stock) if I could lock the frequency at 2.9ghz but minimum can only be set to 2.0ghz and so it goes up and down and there is only the stock governor to choose from and that is utter crap.
Any doubts I'll help as best as I can.

ls3mach said:
How long is that in place?
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No idea, I'm afraid.

New here.

Hi,
I'm sorry if I overlooked a similar thread, but I'm looking in to buying a galaxy s7 and I wanted to buy one that has an unlocked bootloader and will work with USA metro pcs. is there such phone? lol I've heard usa s7's don't unlock. just wondering.

The Exynos models G930F/G930FD/G930W8, and the hong kong snapdragon model are the only ones can be bootloader unlocked
They will work in the USA, but the USA uses different network carrier standards than the rest of the world, so your connectivity won't be as good as using a USA specific device. You may also lack carrier features like VoLTE.

Thanks! Are the s8's like this as well? I'm trying to figure out if I want a 7 or 8. is there much difference between the phones?

Same for S8 through to S10. International gets unlockable Exynos, USA gets locked Snapdragon, HK gets unlockable Snapdragon.
Main difference would be the bump in specs and build. S7 also won't get official Android Pie, I believe the S8 will/has.
S8's were also a bit unique in that unlocking the Exynos bootloader is harder on them but still possible, S9 and S10 went back to easy as far as I'm aware.

Canada/US Snapdragon or Global Exynos?

I am reading that people are really disappointed the Global version is Exynos based and not snapdragon but my requiremetns are these
I need it rooted, after I found out that S8 Snapdragon had no root for longest time - and even now the solution is not good, I was totally put off by Samsung
I understand Exonys versions have root come out fairly quick
I need to use Samsung Pay or Google pay( which If i am not mistaken can be done via Magisk? ) as its currency not possible in S8 or S9 Snapdragon due to its rooting method
Dual SIM - MAIN Reason - I beleive US version wont have Dual and Exonys wil?
Bring out the inner artist in doing some sketching
So considering he above, is the Exynos chip t hat and compared to my requirements above?
Any other recommendation? seek Note 10+?

Hello, on all that i still suggest you using Snapdragon version. As far as i can see you need root for custom rom. I have rooted Note 10+ (Exynos) and going for also Note 20 Ultra Snapdragon, since the Exynos is still prone to overheat and underperform. I dont know which is having dual sim and which not, but as far as updates go Samsung change their game... official updates are really fast they even announce 3 year support with updates. Rooted phone i think it means so much less now since google is closing everything good about it. Thats my opinion. And from my Exynos 9825 there is 33% performance increase on Snapdragon where Exynos is only about 15%. And i am from Europe and i feel offended by Exynos...

It is my understanding that the South American and Hong Kong varians twill be Snapdragons with an unlocked bootloader. Although they can be rooted, traditionally development might be slow on these variants.
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Eudeferrer said:
It is my understanding that the South American and Hong Kong varians twill be Snapdragons with an unlocked bootloader. Although they can be rooted, traditionally development might be slow on these variants.
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the Korean versions are snapdragon this year also which is new since they have always been exynos.
i may go this route since the idiots at samsung only have the 512gb version in black in Canada and the US.
they are so stupid...did the sme thing last year with the 10 plus..only 512gb in black.

Here is a question, is the model/variant: SM-N9860, will it come in 512GB / 12GB RAM / Dual Sim (is it dual physical sim or hydrid dual sim - 1 slot for SD/Nano SIM & and 2nd slot for Nano SIM), and it will be the snap dragon variant with unlocked bootloader.
Also, will these models support Canadian Telcom's 5G network?