There were mixed messages out of South Korea on Friday as Samsung , the world's top smartphone vendor by shipment volume, officially launched its latest flagship smartphones. The all-new Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge represent the best smartphones available to Android users at the moment — though there are two other phones shoppers may want to consider instead — and-their reign will likely continue for at least the rest of the first half of 2016. Early reviewers sang high praise of the new phones,-with hardware quality and Samsung's new camera tech at the top of everyone's lists. That adoration apparently translated into-strong-preorders for Samsung, but the company wasn't as upbeat as it should have been on

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