Last Updated on March 4, 2016 by Larious
Samsung has launched the Galaxy S7, a wedding of glass and metallic which continues the themes that made the Galaxy S6 the good departure that it was from Samsung’s earlier efforts.
The Galaxy S7 is Samsung’s foremost flagship, the extra conventional smartphone that is geared up with a superb previous flat display of cheap measurement. In a way, the Galaxy S7 is like an ‘s’ era iPhone, the enhancements it brings do not appear to radically alter the design and path of the product, however quite polish and ideal the muse that was laid by its predecessor.
The Galaxy S7 is a strong enchancment throughout the board. It brings a brand new digital camera, refined exterior and sooner efficiency. Let’s check out what we’re coping with so we will have a greater thought of simply how sturdy of a competitor the Galaxy S7 is.
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Design
The Galaxy S7 would not look a lot totally different than its predecessor. Nevertheless, that does not imply Samsung hasn’t launched some useful adjustments to the design. Maybe most notably, the S7 has adopted the Word 5’s curved glass again, which positively makes for a extra nice really feel whenever you’re holding the telephone. The sides of the steel body surrounding the system are additionally good and clean, so they do not create discomfort within the hand. Weight-sensible, the S7 has grown noticeably heavier, which could be attributed to the considerably bigger battery inside (extra on that later). Anyway, the added heft does not appear to detract from the aura of premiumness exuded by the Galaxy S7 – but it surely makes it really feel extra substantial for positive.
The colours during which the Galaxy S7 will probably be accessible in “Black Onyx” (black), “Gold Platinum” (gold), and “Silver Titanium” (silver-ish). All shade variants look good and mature, What’s additionally nicer within the S7 is that Samsung has introduced water-resistance again. With IP68 certification, the S7 is virtually mud-tight, and it means you possibly can safely submerge it into water past 1 meter for so long as you wish to, although, Samsung would advise that you do not.
Display
Samsung’s AMOLED displays are typically within the higher echelon by way of specs. This yr, nonetheless, the corporate has neither pumped up the decision, nor elevated the diagonal. As a substitute, it is introducing a brand new function that is supposed to boost person expertise: all the time-on show.
Using the strengths of AMOLED, Samsung has crafted an all the time-on display function which is continually preserving a part of the show on, to be able to present necessary data, such because the time, notifications or appointments. What number of instances have you ever pushed the facility or dwelling button to wake the show of your cellphone, simply to see what time it’s? You are doing this very often, we might wager. So in that line of thought, the Galaxy S7’s all the time-on show characteristic ought to are available in very helpful. The perfect half is that it is not purported to waste an excessive amount of battery, since AMOLED screens can mild up solely choose pixels, and never the entire backlight like an LCD.
Its specs perspective the display stays largely the identical: 5.1″ diagonal and extremely-sharp 1440 x 2560 pixel decision. For sure, all this lends to a fairly sized show (and telephone), together with additional-clear picture for pleasurable studying and viewing. Sadly, we won’t touch upon the colour accuracy of the show at this level, however hopefully it will be improved over that of its predecessor.
 
Interface and Performance
This time round, Samsung is not speaking about slimming issues down – as a matter of truth, we could not establish any lacking options on this newest iteration of the software program, so superior customers will in all probability be pleased to know that issues like aspect-by-aspect app multitasking have been stored in tact. TouchWiz seems and feels reasonably coherent at this level, with design themes that may be traced all through the entire interface.
The weak hyperlinks within the TouchWiz chain have at all times been system efficiency and dealing with. The gadgets we had the chance to check have been fairly clear ones, as you’ll be able to think about, so we won’t actually touch upon the lengthy-time period efficiency of the Galaxy S7 but, however a minimum of our preliminary observations are that the S7 will deal with equally to the S6… with the added efficiency advantages courtesy of Android 6 and the brand new processor. We count on the Galaxy S7 to maneuver a bit quicker than its predecessor, however scroll jerkiness and sporadic stutters should be a part of the equation. We’ll have to check the gadget extra in-depth, as a way to draw any conclusions
Memory And Processor
Samsung has the good thing about producing its personal chipsets, and you’ll make sure that it’s going to be saving the perfect silicon it is produced for the Galaxy S7. In america, although, the S7 will use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 system-on-chip, whereas internationally, some markets can be handled to the latest Exynos chip, with others additionally getting the Snapdragon model.
Uncooked computing efficiency needs to be significantly higher than earlier than. Samsung boasts as much as 30% quicker CPU and 60% quicker GPU efficiency in comparison with the S6, which sounds good, however not floor-breaking. Each the Exynos and Snapdragon 820 variants of the Galaxy S7 ought to ship these sorts of efficiency will increase.
The excellent news for gamer do not cease right here! Samsung says the Galaxy S7 would be the first telephone to assist the superior Vulkan graphics API, which permits builders to essentially faucet into the uncooked potential of the machine’s hardware. All of those computing assets might be utilized for higher graphics, results, and sooner efficiency in video video games. Talking of video games, Samsung has additionally produced a brand new app, referred to as Sport Lounge, which unlocks a bunch of cool choices for gamers, resembling gameplay footage recording, straightforward notifications dismissing whereas gaming, and efficiency optimization in video games.
It is a bit disappointing that Samsung is not making a model with greater than 32 gigs of inner reminiscence, however at the least customers can benefit from Android 6’s possibility to make use of an SD card as inner reminiscence complement. Simply you’ll want to seize a very quick, excessive-stage SD card.
Camera
 At first, you could be shocked to know that the primary digicam’s decision has been lowered from sixteen MP to 12 MP. However don’t be concerned, there are different components which have a lot  extra to do with photograph high quality than the sheer quantity of pixels, and on this relation, Samsung has delivered.
The brand new 12 MP digicam has giant, 1.four-micron pixels, in addition to a large aperture of F/1.7. The bigger pixel dimension is estimated to permit about fifty six% extra gentle to achieve the digital camera sensor for a similar period of time vs the S6, whereas the broader aperture delivers round 25% extra gentle than earlier than. General, these upgrades ought to permit the Galaxy S7 to take significantly better low-gentle images, with brighter exposition and extra focus.
Talking of focus, the opposite massive enchancment right here is named Twin Pixel. Whereas the earlier mannequin additionally had section detection autofocus, it might really use only a fraction of its pixels to give attention to the article in entrance of the lens. Within the S7, Samsung’s new sensor can use all of its pixels to be able to obtain a a lot sooner and extra dependable focus. You may flick through the digital camera samples we now have within the gallery beneath to get an concept of the brand new digicam’s capabilities, however remember that outcomes from the ultimate model of the Galaxy S7 is perhaps a bit totally different.
Apart from that, the digicam interface of the S7 has remained largely the identical as earlier than. It is nicely organized and permits quick access to a very powerful controls just like the digicam and camcorder shutters, in addition to fast publicity adjustment. A very nice trick is the power to pause and proceed video recording, which makes it very simple to finish up with a properly composed, single video clip. Superior handbook controls are, naturally, obtainable as earlier than, however handbook video recording mode is not out there
Battery
One of many extra profound upgrades discovered within the Samsung Galaxy S7, in our opinion, is the a lot larger battery. Final yr’s Galaxy S6 got here with a 2550 mAh unit, which is not small for a telephone with 5.1″ show, however this yr, Samsung is taking issues to an entire new stage. The brand new battery has a capability of 3000 mAh, which is a a lot appreciated 17% enhance. To place issues in context, the a lot bigger Galaxy Word 5 has a 3000 mAh, so we won’t assist however be impressed with the sheer proven fact that Samsung managed to suit such a big juicer within the extra compact physique of the Galaxy S7. The one factor we hope at this level is for this greater capability to translate to a noticeably longer battery life as effectively.
