Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge G935FD 32GB Unlocked GSM 4G LTE

I admit I thought it was shady when the package came, and it seemed like it had already been open and re packaged. I called Samsung to see if this phone had ever been owned by any one else, they could not give me an answer. I do wish they would keep track of their phones, like vin #s on cars. all of that said- I have had it for many months. I have spilled a lot of water on it (no damage). It looks good, the gold is no too flashy, its' a soft gold. The operating system it comes with is great, it is still very fast. Dual sim works. SD expansion slot works very well. Thanks for such a good phone. One caveat: it is huge, can't really hold my phone ad text with one hand.

The phone worked great. I bought it from Amazon as the seller. I purchased a clear case here on Amazon too. The screen however does break easily, so get a really protective case for this phone. All performance aspects of phone were good, but it only lasted 3 weeks. I hope Samsung can repair it under their paid services. I will find out and report back. I'm in the USA and this is the international version, so we'll see if they will service it.Update 09/24/16 - I called Samsung and explained I want to pay to have the screen replaced, but the IMEI does not come up in their system and they won't touch it. I argued that a screen is a screen and I really want to pay whatever it cost to have it repaired. Samsung said no. If you buy a phone not from your country you may not be able to get any type of service.I called Amazon too in hopes of finding somewhere to send it for quality repair, but no luck there either. Guess I will have to try a mall kiosk.The worst part is the lack of service available from Samsung, especially their paid service. If I'm requesting paid service why do they turn me away?Update: I am sending the phone to a place that will replace only the outer glass. Won't be perfect but functional hopefully. Will post hoe it goes.Update 11/26/16: I had just the outer glass replaced by someone who sells this service on eBay for 150. The LCD and digitizer were not replaced, just the outer glass. It's not a perfect repair, but it's good enough. See the repaired pics.

This review is not about the performance of the phone itself, which you can check online with many reputable phone reviewers. This review is about my experience in buying an international version through this seller as opposed to through a carrier as most mobile phone consumers do in the US. Now that I have a chance to use it for close to three months, I can say that it is safe to buy this phone as I had doubt before buying it. It is an international version sold in Asian countries and works as advertised. I love it because it supports dual SIMs and is in gold color, both of which are not available in the US market where I live. The phone works just like any new Samsung Galaxy phone thus far and I am impressed with Samsung's quality. Just so you know, I had the Note 7 prior to this phone and no phone can beat the Note 7, so it was a shame that it was recalled.Here is the summary of my review for this international version of the Galaxy S7 Edge:Pros:- Same quality as the US versions- Unlocked (can be used with any GSM carriers)- Dual SIMs support (or 1 SIM 1 micro flash memory)- Much cheaper then its US counterpartsCons:- No warranty (this is a gamble you would have to take). Samsung US will not help you if you ran into issues- The seal of the box was broken, but nothing seems to have been missing. Not sure why that is- The charger's plug is not compatible with the US outlets, you will need to get an adapter. I thought his version uses the the US style but I was wrong.

The looks are just awesome - I bought the gold version which wasn't really my first choice but was the only one in stock at that time and I'm too impatient to wait. However, once I received the phone, I was very pleasantly surpirsed by how nice it actually looks - very stylish.The phone is snappy - there is no lag, no slowdown, something I used to notice quite a lot in previous Samsung phones, this was generally attributed to the Samsumg TouchWiz overlay on top of Android - the UI is still very much TouchWiz, but I guess the processor is so powerful now it easily handles the load.The Edge features have been beefed up since S6 days, however ,I still find them gimicky and don't really use any.The bad:On day 2, the phone randomly started turning off, screen wouldn't come back on. At the same time, I kept getting "SD Card Present" notification.I panicked and thought I had a bad phone, a bit of googling, and someone suggested deleting the cache (Power off, turn on with power, vol up and home button pressed, when Android logo appears, let go of power, navigate to Delete Cache) - Did that, the phone started behaving - temporary relief, next day, same behavior again.Really started cursing my stars, more googling, there were suggestions the SD card slot had a hardware fault in the first batch, which was fixed in subsequent production runs. I downloaded a Samsung Hardware info app which indicated the phone was manufactured in Vietnam on 02/03/2016. This is too new to be an initial production run, so, I looked at the SD card itself, and found, it had corrupted. Plugged it into my laptop and tried to format it took about 2 hours and then failed at 80% complete. Plugged in another SD card (not new, old one, but formatted before inserting) and, every thing has been fine.I had also bought a Joylink tempered glass screen protector from Amazon, and whereas it looked very nice and fitted perfectly, I found after a while the touch sensitivity would go bonkers. This could be on a/c of the Galaxy VRS case (also from Amazon) I had put on, possibly lifting the tempered glass protector at the edges during use. I actually had a similar experience with the S6 edge last year. I think a GhostArmor or Zagg screen protector would go better with the edge contours than a hard glass protector, specially if you plan to keep the phone in a case.Samsung Galaxy S7 EDGE G935F 32GB Factory Unlocked GSM Smartphone International Version (Gold)