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SAMSUNG UNVEILED ITS new Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge smartphones on Sunday during its MWC event in Barcelona,and we’re seeing the return of two fan-favorite features.
The Galaxy S7 is rated with “IP68″ dust and water-resistance, which means it can be submerged down to five feet underwater for up to 30 minutes.
That’s definitely good enough to protect the Galaxy S7 against accidental drops in the toilet or sink, rain, spills, and maybe even being pushed into the shallow end of the pool with your phone in your pocket.
The Galaxy S5 was Samsung’s last water-resistant phone, as Samsung ditched water resistance in the Galaxy S6 in favor of a sleek design.
Indeed, water-resistant materials meant the S5 was relatively bulky, and its charging port needed a water-resistant cover that many S5 owners complained would easily break off. As a result of breaking the charging port cover, the S5 was no longer water-resistant.
But Samsung seems to have figured out a way to keep the S7 water-resistant with a sleek design and without a flimsy charging port cover. We shot water directly into the S7′s charging port without damaging the phone at all.
The microSD card slot for expandable storage is back in the Galaxy S7 after Samsung removed it in the Galaxy S6.
Expandable storage lets users store more pictures, videos, and music while keeping a phone’s built-in storage open for more apps.
After making plastic phones while the competition moved on to premium materials, like glass and metal, Samsung was pressured to also make a phone with premium materials. And so it designed the S6 with glass and metal. The S6 was beautiful as a result, but it meant the back couldn’t be removed to give users access to a microSD card slot.
Samsung incorporated the microSD card slot into the SIM card tray instead of its usual place behind a removable back cover. You can add up to 200 GB of extra storage.
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This is one of the few countries where the US was involved, once, without anything in it for themselves in terms of Geopolitics, economics or security. In the 1990s the US marine corps in a massive humanitarian operation ended their famine. They repaid them by murdering the UN peacekeepers and dragging their comrades dead bodies through the streets.
Who is they? All of the Somalian people? Country was and still is in a state of civil war, with various opposing militias and warlords.
Calm down Jesus, He meant the people who actually dragged them through the streets. Not once did he tar all of Somalia with doing that. Stop looking for something that’s not their!
I am calm. And don’t call me Jesus.
Two tribes. One loved them the other hated them.
But when they were giving out food they never asked which group they were from. The US has done some good some bad like all big powers way more bad since 2001 (the REAL story behind that jingoistic sniper movie case in pont, Iraq, big brother) but theyre not all bad n i sometimes think they get no thanks for the good they did do. They saved this contenent from tyranny in the 40s and again in the 50s-1990 the latter without firing a shot through pure detterance. I know Africas more complex..the debt the unfair trade..but heres a case they did a selfless good,..and got burned for it.
To be honest, I wasn’t commenting on the UN/US humanitarian efforts, just adding the necessary context that those incidents you mentioned where carried out by specific group… who also largely prevented that humanitarian aid reaching the thousands it needed to. Using “they” was a poor choice when you don’t explain who they were.
It was a beautiful country. But unfortunately Islamic extremists destroyed ot.
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That’s nonsense. The civil war was ongoing for years before any major Islamist groups emerged
For the red thumbers :
Ok, Where the feck is Frank? Anyone?
Was thinking the same myself! He said something big was going to happen on Feb 17. No sign of him since before then…?
I was there in ’92 when the country was wracked by famine and civil war.
A dangerous place for sure, the Irish were the biggest expat community there as ngos tried to save people from dying of hunger.
A year later Irish Army peacekeepers ferried supplies as part of a UN force.
The Americans went in hard – they had no experience of peacekeeping.
They wanted to capture Mohamed Farah Aidid in Blackhawk Down, the leader of one of the clans fighting for control of the country.
I met him – an arrogant so and so.
Somalis were in the past known as the Irish of Africa.
A country with great potential – now bedevilled by Islamic extremism.
Khat
Charles it wud b gr8 if u cud visit somalia
Why?
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