[Note 7 Questions & Answers] krabman:
Had the FD for a day now. Can compare it directly to the 6P and Mrs Crabs cool-aid device. Comes pretty close in my opinion without even having gone through the usual shut everything down process I do with TW phones. No questions asked my experience is that this is by far the best TW device to date in terms of out of the box flogging around the GUI.

That said I rooted after a few hours and moved over to Action Launcher 3 which is my go to launcher. My observation here is folks who are accustomed to doctoring up their launcher as I am will soon move away from TW simply because it lacks features.

At this point it is hard to make an accurate assessment of performance because my 6P is lean, mean, and highly tuned to the Nth degree. The Sammy is close to fresh out of the box with a lot of stuff running that I haven't yet turned off but will because I don't use a lot of their whiz bang. I'm making a guess here but I think in the end when I've gotten the Sammy tuned up it will be as smooth or smoother than my 6P which compares quite favorably with Mrs Crabs cool-aid device. Again its a guess but not without some foundation, I'm old, love my toys, can afford to feed that love copiously. I've been through a lot of devices including all the Nexi but one and most of the SGS and note series along with Motos and other assorted devices. Still it is a best guess so take it for what it's worth.

There are a few things that I feel good about calling right now...

IMO Samsung is currently unrivaled with their cameras. The 6P is not bad but the Sammy clearly takes better pictures for people like me that tend to be bad photographers and need all the help they can get. Point at something and click and you have a pretty good chance of having something in focus that doesn't look half bad. For me thats all I need and the Sammy does it better than any I have tried to date.

The Sammy hardware is clearly a step above the 6P. Cost more and newer so that shouldn't surprise and yet it isn't always true. In this case you get what you expect.

Strictly subjective but the screen is better, not a lot but side by side I give the nod to the Sammy. Not subjective, it is much easier to see the Sammy screen in outdoor light, it is significantly brighter. Also not subjective, the Sammy auto brightness works quite a bit better than my 6P which I would rate as fairly poor.

Downsides for Sammy would be I miss the dual front facing speakers already. I don't listen to music but use speaker phone often and the 6P has much more natural sounding voices. It's also easy to stifle the Sammy speaker while doing things like watching tube if you place your thumb there or let it get too close to your palm. I don't like the amount of menu diving Sammy puts you through, certainly they are unrivaled in the total number of sub menus that have sub menus. It might be better than previous versions but it still isn't there. One small thing here is that I actually prefer than text that Sammy uses in their menus versus all the icons. You just about have to have credentials at a doctoral level as a symbologist to keep up with all the freaking icons any more and IMO the world could use a few less.

My bottom line right now is I'm keeping the Sammy, it is in my opinion a better piece of tech and one I find myself liking more than I expected.