Samsung announced Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphone on February 2016 that will be released on March 2016. This phone comes up with an Android OS v6.0 Marshmallow. This phone supports GSM /HPSA/ LTE network configurations. This phone has a dimension of 142.4 x 69.6 x 7.9 mm (5.61 x 2.74 x 0.31 in) having the thickness of 7.9mm and weighs about 152 grams.
It uses a Single SIM (Nano-SIM) or Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) registered via Samsung Pay (Visa, MasterCard certified). This phone comes with Corning Gorilla Glass back panel and is IP68 certified phone that is water and dust proof over 1.5 meters and 30 minutes. The display is of 16M colors and has Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen. The screen size is 5.1 inches, and the screen-to-body ratio is 72.1%.
The screen resolution is 1440 x 2560 pixels which are precisely 577 PPI pixel density. It supports multitouch and comes up with Corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection with TouchWiz UI and comes with Always-on display technology. It has got Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 820, and Exynos 8890 Octa chipsets and CPU comprises of Dual-core 2.15 GHz Kryo & dual-core 1.6 GHz Kryo and Quad-core 2.3 GHz Cortex-A53 + quad-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A53 processors.
The GPU used is MAdreno 530 and Mali-T880 MP12. The internal memory available is 32/ 64GB, and it contains 4GB RAM. It includes microSD upgradable up to 200 GB (dedicated slot) on a single SIM model and up to 200 GB (that uses SIM 2 slot) on a dual SIM model.
The primary camera comprises of a 12 MP, f/1.7, 26mm, OIS, phase detection autofocus, LED flash camera while secondary comprises of 5 MP, f/1.7, 22mm, dual video call and Auto HDR camera. The video feature is 2160p @30fps, 1080p@60fps, 720p @120fps, HDR and dual video recording.
The primary camera features include 1/2.6″ sensor size, 1.4 µm pixel size, geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, Auto HDR and panorama mode. The microphone jack is 3.55mm and has got stereo loudspeakers. The WLAN supported are Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct and hotspot.
The Bluetooth version is 4.1, A2DP, apt-X, LE. It also comes with NFC connection and infrared port. The USB available is v2.0 microUSB with USB Host. It also comes with Fingerprint, accelerometer, compass, gyro, barometer, heart rate, SpO2 and proximity sensors. The messaging can be performed via SMS threaded view, IM, Email and Push mail. The GPS technology is A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS.
It comes with wireless charging, and One Drive with 115GB cloud storage. The browser is HTML5. It comes with fast charging technology i.e. Quick charge 3.0 that charges up to 83% in just 30 mins and also comes with Wireless charging (Qi/PMA). The battery used is Non-removable Li-ion 3000mAH battery. The colors available are black, White, Gold and Silver.
