Update: New rumors advise a Galaxy S7 will demeanour mostly like a Galaxy S6, with customarily a few tweaks to a pattern and a new 3D Touch-like shade technology. It’s looking ever some-more approaching that a Galaxy S7 will arrive progressing than expected, and competence come with microSD support. Samsung has also announced a new camera sensor, that could be used in a phone. And we’ve seen both a rumoured Exynos 8890 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipsets benchmarked.
Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge revived a flailing smartphone brand, giving it a new franchise of life with a uninformed pattern and some code new features.
Samsung is going to have to do a lot of work to be means to repeat a pretence – nonetheless there’s most some-more that can be softened on in a new phone, so there’s copiousness of scope.
We don’t pattern to see a new handset until early 2016 nonetheless – customarily Samsung takes time out in early Mar to announce a flagships during MWC in Barcelona, and we pattern it to be a same again this year.
However, rumors about a new phone are already commencement to hurl in, so here’s all we’ve picked adult so far.
Cut to a chase
What is it? The subsequent flagship phone from Samsung’s Galaxy S line.
When is it out? Possibly as early as Jan 2016, unwell that substantially during MWC in late February.
What will it cost? Expect dear – it’s firm to be one of a some-more dear phones to buy subsequent year.
Samsung Galaxy S7: The techradar concept
When it comes to a new Samsung Galaxy S7, we wish to see Samsung vacating from a standard, blocky smartphone design. What we wish this time is something innovative, something that pushes a bounds and takes into comment all a overwhelming record Samsung keeps promising.
So here’s how we consider it should shake down: techradar’s Galaxy S7, finish with all a record Samsung has talked about, with a few of a possess flourishes thrown in…
The categorical disproportion is, again, a screen. If Samsung is going to make a success of a Gear VR, it needs a improved screen, and leaping brazen to 8K will make looking during a arrangement a pin-sharp experience.
The other large thing we’re anticipating to finally see is a iris scanning record that will substitute a fingerprint scanners we’re saying in some-more and some-more phones. With twin hi-res scanning cameras on a front, with extended apertures, simply branch a phone shade on will endorse your identity.
The edges of a super-sharp shade are now scrupulously pushed to a side of a phone, with a notifications now arrangement scrupulously presumably side – a S6 Edge has a curves as decoration, nonetheless now they’re indeed going to be used.
And bass-rich speakers on a tip and bottom will utilize Samsung’s omni-sound record to make a phone a loyal media marvel – no some-more backwards-facing tinny sound here.
Of course, TouchWiz still remains… nonetheless hey, there’s customarily so most we can wish for…
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Samsung Galaxy S7 recover date
China Mobile has recently put a post adult on amicable media arrangement all a large phone launches it expects to see in a entrance months. The Samsung Galaxy S7 was enclosed underneath MWC 2016, suggesting a network knows a tiny bit some-more than it should be revelation us.
Other sources have claimed it will launch during some indicate in February. What isn’t transparent is possibly Samsung will endorse to wait until a finish of that month to announce during Mobile World Congress or go progressing in a month to skip a phone rush.
Samsung has recently been phenomenon a Galaxy S flagships during MWC and releasing them shortly after. In 2016 that’s Feb 22-25, so maybe that will be when we see it.
Another gossip settled that a Samsung Galaxy S7 could be announced in January, presumably on Jan 19.
That’s not a initial we’ve listened of this either, as an researcher during SK Securities also reckons a Galaxy S7 could be denounced as shortly as Jan for an early Feb launch, while other sources claim Samsung has started building a firmware a month early, that also suggests a probable early release.
This follows progressing information from a South Korean website Newsis, that cites insider sources who explain that Samsung started work on a Galaxy S7 about 2 to 3 months forward of a common schedule. So it is plausible that a S7 could launch early, nonetheless we’d still take it with a large assisting of salt.
Samsung Galaxy S7 design
Given that Samsung has customarily usually overhauled a flagship pattern for a Galaxy S6 we’re not awaiting large changes in a Samsung Galaxy S7. Any changes on a Galaxy S7 are approaching to be tiny with a mostly identical demeanour to a Galaxy S6.
A source tighten to Samsung told The Korea Times, “As a S6 and S6 Edge represented progress, a S7 will have improvements both in pattern quality, opening and other some new features. The pivotal indicate is can consumers suffer calm with extended observation peculiarity and increased estimate speed.”
There competence be a few tweaks to a demeanour of both a Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge, nonetheless it seems Samsung wants to keep a mostly identical pattern denunciation opposite a board.
On a other hand, an comparison rumour suggested a Galaxy S7 is going to be most bigger than a Galaxy S6 with a 5.7-inch shade – we’re holding that with a large splash of salt nonetheless as it sounds utterly out there.
On tip of that a Galaxy S7 competence be built of a opposite form of metal. Sources explain a association is experimenting with magnesium formed amalgamate that will make a phone stronger while gripping it light and allows a feverishness out when a processor is operative hard. This gossip has popped adult again recently, so it could be accurate.
A slim steel and potion build seems approaching and whatever we get it’s approaching to be premium, generally as there’s a rumor that a battery won’t be removable privately given creation it so would concede a design.
Samsung Galaxy S7 screen
Interestingly there’s talk that Samsung could offer a Galaxy S7 in dual opposite sizes. One with a 5.2-inch shade and one with a 5.8-inch one and presumably during slightest one of them will have a 4K display. Given there’s already a Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ nonetheless we wouldn’t reason a exhale for a phablet chronicle of a S7.
Then again a benchmark believed to be for a Samsung Galaxy S7 claims it has a 5.7-inch display, so maybe it will be growing. It lists a 1440 x 2560 QHD one nonetheless rather than 4K.
It looks like Samsung competence adjust a identical underline to a iPhone 6S’ 3D Touch technology. A association called Synaptics has a record called ClearForce that allows for opposite functionality depending on how tough you’re dire on a screen.
The Wall Street Journal also spoke to “sources informed with a matter” who explain a record will entrance on a Galaxy S7. There’s no word on a name for a record yet, nonetheless it’s looking some-more and some-more approaching that Samsung is scheming a possess chronicle of a shade tech for a subsequent flagship phone.
Another gossip states that a Galaxy S7 may be entrance with a winding screen. According to supply sequence sources a phone will be rising with a stretchable arrangement after Samsung put in some large orders with Taiwanese manufacturers. That gossip has popped adult again some-more recently.
It competence finish adult being a apart chronicle of a Galaxy S7 most like with a Galaxy S6 Edge, nonetheless it’s engaging all a same.
A new streamer filing suggests Samsung is operative on a possess new super-strong arrangement record called Turtle Glass. It’s set to reinstate Corning’s Gorilla Glass 3 and we competence see it launch on a Galaxy S7.
There’s even speak that Samsung will go serve and broach a foldable phone, nonetheless this seems impossibly unlikely. Even if a record is in place (which is a large if) it’s puzzled that Samsung would risk something so new and untested on a flagship.
Samsung Galaxy S7 rivals
In new years HTC has been a poignant opposition to Samsung, rising likewise considerable phones during around a same time, so we’d pattern a HTC One M10 could be a Samsung Galaxy S7 rival. Very tiny is famous about it nonetheless nonetheless it’s certain to be stylish and approaching to be unequivocally powerful.
Other than that there’s a iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus, that are approaching to still be offered unequivocally good by early 2016, while a Sony Xperia Z6 or whatever Sony’s cooking adult subsequent could take some courtesy divided from Samsung too.
Samsung Galaxy S7 camera and battery
Samsung’s unveiled a new BRITECELL camera, that is designed to be both improved in low light and smaller in distance than a limp on a Galaxy S6. It’s not been reliable possibly it’s streamer for a S7, nonetheless it seems sincerely likely.
On a other palm there are also reports of Samsung vocalization to Sony to get a reason of a IMX300 sensor that is enclosed in a Xperia Z5 series.
Samsung is so tender with a record that it competence embody it even nonetheless it has been operative on a possess sensor – gossip is a Galaxy S7 will have a opposite sensor depending on a segment and indication of a phone.
Another gossip has suggested that Samsung isn’t worrying about megapixels and is instead focusing on other areas such as how light a photos are and a distance of a sensor itself. According to a tipster on Weibo, Samsung will dump a Galaxy S6’s 16MP camera down to a 12MP one on a Galaxy S7.
Previously, an AnTuTu benchmark showed a phone believed to be a Samsung Galaxy S7 as carrying a 16MP back camera and a 5MP front-facing one. Those are a same camera specs as a Galaxy S6, nonetheless that has one of a best smartphone snappers around so that wouldn’t be such a bad thing. With so many camera rumors nonetheless it’s tough to know what we’re going to get.
There’s no word on what distance a battery will be nonetheless nonetheless according to one rumor it won’t be removable as it’s apparently not probable to have a removable extract container nonetheless compromising a design. Given that a Samsung Galaxy S6 has a hermetic battery this doesn’t unequivocally come as any surprise.
Samsung Galaxy S7 OS and power
The Samsung Galaxy S7 will roughly positively launch with Android Marshmallow. In fact snaps of ostensible inner Samsung papers per a Android Marshmallow refurbish have done their approach onto social networking site Weibo, and seem to endorse a rumored Galaxy S7 codename ‘Jungfrau’ and a pivotal spec of a arriving flagship.
A new gossip is entrance out of China suggests Samsung will be adding liquid cooling to a Galaxy S7. It would act opposite a phone overheating and removal a battery or even blazing a tips of your fingers.
It would meant Samsung is means to put higher-spec components into a Galaxy S7 and a variants nonetheless carrying to worry about it overheating. We wish this comes true, nonetheless it seems like something Samsung is approaching usually experimenting with for now.
Samsung’s Galaxy S7 is rumoured to come in dual opposite variants – one with an Exynos chipset and another with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. That Snapdragon 820 gossip has given been echoed by other sources and in a benchmark.
The Snapdragon 820 chronicle has been held by Geekbench’s benchmarking suggesting a device will measure a multi-core measure of 5423. That’s zero on a rumoured Exynos 8890 chronicle that scores 6908 nonetheless it’s customarily usually behind a unequivocally absolute iPad Pro that scored 5468.
The fact a Snapdragon 820 chip is being related to a Galaxy S7 is interesting, as Samsung ditched Qualcomm’s charity for a Galaxy S6, instead exclusively regulating a possess Exynos processor. Samsung didn’t divulge a logic as to since it opted to do this, nonetheless a stream top-tier Qualcomm chip – a Snapdragon 810 – has been tormented by reports of overheating and sketchy performance.
Perhaps this is a pointer of Qualcomm’s lapse to form in a chipset market, nonetheless it’s too early to endorse presumably way. However while Qualcomm has been touted as a builder of a Galaxy S7’s chip, other benchmark formula have leaked onto a internet that explain to uncover Samsung’s subsequent SoC, a Exynos M1, could potentially energy a new Galaxy.
These benchmarks uncover a hardware used to make a Exynos M1, and it looks like it uses a array of tradition ARM cores. Intriguingly a benchmarks also uncover that a Exynos M1 is most some-more absolute than a Snapdragon 820 in roughly each aspect.
While we’d advise holding these benchmarks with a splash of salt it would meant that a Samsung Galaxy S7 could be a some-more absolute handset if it again shuns Qualcomm’s hardware. Whatever processor we get we’re awaiting to see 4GB of RAM, not slightest given a Galaxy S6 Edge+ has that already.
Samsung Galaxy S7 other features
A report out of South Korea suggests a Samsung Galaxy S7 competence have critical audio skills, as it could use a SABRE 9018AQ2M chip from ESS Technology. The chip facilities a a 32-bit mobile audio DAC and has 129 dB vigilance to sound ratio, so Samsung could be set to give HTC a run for a income when it comes to music.
It’s also been rumored that a Samsung Galaxy S7 will support USB Type-C, permitting it to assign faster and definition we can block a wire in presumably approach round. We’d contend this is one gossip that’s roughly guaranteed to be true, as some-more and some-more phones are adding USB Type-C support.
The Samsung Galaxy S7 is firm to have a fingerprint scanner, usually like a Galaxy S6.
A new gossip has suggested a Galaxy S7 competence come with microSD support – something a Galaxy S6 didn’t offer – and it’ll have support adult to 128GB.
That competence meant we see a inner storage options cut down to usually 32GB or 64GB nonetheless – nonetheless a lapse to microSD is a good step and means we can have most improved control over your storage.
Samsung Galaxy S7 cost
There’s no word nonetheless on what a Samsung Galaxy S7 will cost nonetheless we can tell we right now that it will be unequivocally expensive. While a cost cut would be good we’d be astounded if Samsung launched it for any reduction than it primarily charged for a Galaxy S6. If we had to theory we’d contend it could start during adult to around £600 / $650 / AU$1,100.
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