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Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge Specs, Features, Release date and price

Galaxy S7 is the upcoming smart phone from Samsung and Galaxy S7 Edge is the curved variant of the forthcoming flagship. Many new rumours and reliable reports appears every day about the upcoming Galaxy S7 flagship. Now we are going to roundup the most reliable of them.

Samsung Galaxy S6 flagship was launched back in March and released into the Global market in April with a price tag around $800. That flagship achieved a great success in the South Korean tech giant's history and also made a big step towards the use of powerful Chipsets and Most advanced technology in phones. Now Samsung is going to announce the next phablet in Galaxy Note series under the name Galaxy Note 5 in August ahead of IFA 2015 in September. This phablet also borrowed many specs and design from the most successful Galaxy S6 flagship. The Galaxy S7 is the successor of Galaxy S6 and is also going to bring a revolution in smartphones with its exclusive specs and features.

According to most reliable sources, Samsung is going to release the next flagship in Galaxy S series with 5.2 inches display. The predecessors of Galaxy S7 featured with 5.1 inches display and so that in the next flagship, Samsung may increase the screen size by one inch. Samsung is also going to reduce the side bezel size in Galaxy S7. So we will see almost bezel less Galaxy S7 in coming months. By reducing the bezel size, Samsung ultimately increases the screen to body ratio. Galaxy S5 features 69% screen to body ratio and Galaxy S6 features 71% screen to body ratio. So that the next flagship may feature screen to body ratio upto 75% because of the reduction in bezel size. Some rumours also claim that Samsung is going to make Galaxy S7 with flexible body and screen. If that really true, then we will see the S7 flagship with flexible body like LG G Flex. According to insider reports, Samsung already started working on Flexible displays.

Galaxy S7 Edge is the curved variant of Galaxy S7 and features two curvy edges like Galaxy S6 Edge. The dual curvy edged Galaxy S7 Edge offers special functions on both edges like pinning apps, contracts and other. The S7 Edge also features 5.2 inches display like Galaxy S7.

The Galaxy S5 was released in MWC 2014 with 1080p resolution and Galaxy S6 announced this year MWC in March with 2K or QHD resolution. The successor of Galaxy S6 may feature Super AMOLED Display with 4K resolution. As Samsung already going to release smartphones with 11K resolution in 2018, it is obvious that we see the Galaxy S7 flagship coming in 2016 with 4K resolution. The UltraHD resolution of 4096 x 2160 is a very impressive feature of Galaxy S7. So we will the forthcoming flagship with the pixel density about 890 ppi. The Galaxy S7 Edge flagship also features the same UltraHD resolution for its curvy edge screen.

Galaxy S6 is powered by Exynos 7420 Chipset which has brought a revolution in chipset with its 64-bit support and amazing benchmark score. It is an Octa Core Processor, four cores clocked at 1.6 Ghz and the remaining four cores clocked 2.0 Ghz. Till now it is the fastest SoC for Android phones and no other chipset can beat it in the near future. The upcoming Note 5 phablet also going to be powered by Exynos 7422 chipset which is the all in one solution for Ram, Chipset, Internal memory and Modem also. So the next Galaxy S flagship from Samsung also will be powered by another remarkable chipset like Exynos 7420 and 7422.

Samsung has been building custom Mongoose cores for about an year. Another side ARM already announced Cortex A-72 cores clocked at 2.5 Ghz. So Samsung may use any one of the above cores for its next Exynos chipset which will be used for Galaxy S7. So the upcoming Galaxy S flagship will be powered by an Octa core, 64-bit processor clocked at 2.5 or 3.0 Ghz. The chipset will be based on 14nm FinFET process like Exynos 7420 and consumes less power also. The full details about this SoC will be revealed in coming months. Galaxy S7 Edge also will be powered by the same chipset of Galaxy S7.

Previously Samsung used 2GB Ram for Galaxy S5 and 3GB Ram for Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge devices. The upcoming Galaxy Note 5 flagship is coming with 4GB Ram for first time from Samsung. By increasing Ram along with Processor cores and Clockspeed the speed and multitasking capability of the device increases enormously. According to present expectations, the Galaxy S7 flagship will boast 4GB or 5GB Ram. With this great amount of Ram coupled with the best processor, the next flagship from Samsung tops the score in benchmarks like Geekbench and Antutu.

In Galaxy S5 which was released in 2014, the South Korean giant used 16 MP Rear camera and 2MP Front facing camera. Surprisingly, in Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge also Samsung used the same 16MP Rear camera with some enhancements to the picture quality and speed. But the South Korean tech giant used 5MP front camera in Galaxy S6 to make selfies and video calling better. Till now, Apple iPhone camera is only the best in smartphone cameras. But the quality of the camera of Galaxy S6 is also similar to the camera of iPhone. As Samsung didn't increase the resolution of Camera in Galaxy S6, it will definitely raise the resolution of the camera of the next Galaxy S flagship. Current rumours and reports are saying that Samsung will use 30MP rear Camera with Optical image stabilization, HDR and other features in Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge. The front camera resolution also may be increased to 8MP in the upcoming flagship. With this great front camera resolution Galaxy S7 may become the best selfie phone in future. Currently only a few phones are available with 8MP and above front camera resolution.