[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] asaqwert:
Yea, that's exactly it. I've considered the S7 Edge, but it's just too dissimilar to the Note series.

My biggest gripe is that it's just not anywhere near the level of phone that the Note 7 is, but the price is basically the same. If the Note 7 was never released, I probably wouldn't have nearly as much issue with it being priced where it is (though I don't personally consider the S7 Edge to measure up to what I would consider a "flagship" smartphone to be at this point in time; too little storage, too big of a bezel, ugly, USB 2.1, etc).

But seeing as the Note 7 was released, I have had one since the day it was available in Canada, and now the "recommended option" is to downgrade to an S7 Edge for basically the same price (depending on what carrier you are with, who you talk to at that carrier, what day it is, where the planets are aligned, and what color underwear you're wearing, you might be told it's $100 less than the Note 7, the same price, or $100 more....), it's just unacceptable to me.

It would be like owning a nice new premium trim Toyota Tundra pickup truck, paying that price for it, then having it recalled and having the Toyota dealership tell me "Here, you can take the Tacoma in a mid-level trim, it's basically the same truck, it just doesn't have as big of a box".

Because of all of that, I just can't justify the S7 Edge. I just got confirmation from my rep that I'm getting the Pixel XL 128 GB "Quite Black". She's not 100% sure if I'll get it tomorrow, Friday, or if I'll have to wait until early next week (since I'm on a corporate plan), but at least it's confirmed. It looks like I'll have to pay $100 extra for the 128 GB version, which I can grudgingly accept. I would kind of expect Telus to eat that, or figure out some way to counter that cost, because it's the only phone they have that's even sort of comparable to the Note 7 (unless you count the iPhart 7 plus S super dooper pooper scooper, but I'd rather use a Motorola Peanut phone from the late 90's than anything with an apple on it).

The other frustrating thing here is that it looks like Telus is mostly refusing to transfer over the amount of the device balance that is paid off. So in the 2 months I've owned the Note 7 (technically 3 months in a few days, since partial months count as full months), I've paid off about 60 dollars of the purchase price (i.e. if I cancelled the contract today and just walked away from Telus, I'd owe them about $640 out of the $700 that they originally subsidized). They don't appear willing to transfer that 60 dollars (90 dollars as of tomorrow or Friday, I believe).

It seems that they are also inconsistent about when they will consider the contract for the replacement phone as beginning. A few people have been able to get the contract back-dated to the date they signed the contract for the Note 7. Most people seem to be being told that the contract for the replacement will start on the day of the exchange, and the contract for the Note 7 will simply cease to exist, as though you had never had the Note 7 at all, nor a contract with Telus at all. I don't know how that can be, or even if it's in compliance with the laws and regulations in Canada, but I don't believe it all is. I'm going to be fighting them on this, mostly out of principle - I understand it's not their fault Samsung screwed the pooch with no lube, but as a carrier who sells Samsung devices, it's up to them to ensure the customer is given proper service and treated fairly.