Samsung Galaxy S7 rumour roundup: two S7 variants reportedly confirmed
By
Staff Reporter on 23 September, 2015
Samsung has been enjoying some
Apple-like rumour attention in recent years, and we’re not too sure if its thriving as a result, or cursing that its phones’ specifications are seeping through the cracks before launch.
Nevertheless, the latest rumours suggests an exciting prospect that will likely be the
Samsung Galaxy S7.
Have a look at the trending topics of
Samsung HQ’s back alley below.\
Two Samsung Galaxy S7 variants reportedly confirmed, the Edge lives on — 23 September
Here’s something that isn’t too surprising.
A new exclusive report by
SamMobilehas revealed that there will be two Samsung Galaxy S7 versions launched; one with a “flat” screen and the other boasting the company’s famous curved edges.
While this may not come as a surprise, it’s important to consider just how successful the curved Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge was.
For now, “Canada, China, Europe, Korea, and the US” are the confirmed locations for the S7 duo’s arrival, but more regions will likely be confirmed as we edge (no pun intended) closer to launch day.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 benchmarked, things looking good for S7’s processing power — 23 September
Image: SamMobile via Weibo
As we’ve noted previously in this roundup, Samsung might be employing the services of
Qualcomm— the American chipset maker — and its Snapdragon 820 SoC. Now, thanks to SamMobile (and
G For Games initially), we have a much better understanding of just how the new chipset will perform. And initial impressions show a marked improvement over the 820’s first build.
“The new chipset is offering 1.38x and 1.77x the performance over the older variant in terms of single-threaded integer and floating point operations,”
SamMobile reports. And an even higher improvement over the
Snapdragon 810.
While these numbers might not be important to the consumer, it does mean that Qualcomm and Samsung are slowly eking more and more power from the 820 as it progresses in its development cycle. In turn, this could signal the rise of the Samsung Galaxy S7 as one of the most powerful mobile devices ever made.
Of course, while the Snapdragon 810 was a slob that could barely play a video without overheating profusely, we probably won’t see Qualcomm make such a major marketing gaffe like that again.
Initial rumours point to extremely varied concepts — 21 September
Rumoured for launch in February 2016 (a little earlier than its traditional launch venue at Barcelona’s
MWC), the phone itself
will be crafted from a magnesium alloy unibody which Samsung hopes will be about as strong but lighter than Apple’s 7000 series aluminium cocktail used on the
iPhone 6S series. We’re not too sure if this will ruin the phone’s signal reception but it should give the phone a more iPhone-like buttery smooth appearance.
More importantly, under the hood is where Samsung’s trashing Apple, and it isn’t going to stop anytime soon.
Either Qualcomm’s
Snapdragon 820will feature of the new in-house
Exynos M1, which is said to use Samsung’s own CPU cores instead of ARM’s Cortex. Slap 6GB of RAM on that and you have one insanely powerful pocket computer.
More interestingly, rumours of a
foldable screen have also surfaced, but this seems unlikely and extremely risky, but a 5.7-inch screen would almost surely mean that
Samsung’s Note range will be dying or getting a lot bigger in the future. There’s suggestions of a 5.2-inch standard version too, so the larger display might be that of a Samsung Galaxy S7+ model.
Additionally, Samsung could finally crack Apple’s stranglehold on the mobile photography market with a dual camera setup similar to the
HTC One M9‘s setup which allows users to adjust the depth-of-field after an image has been shot.
We gone eat