The Galaxy S7 will be announced a month earlier, in January, to dissuade S6 customers from jumping ship to the iPhone instead of waiting for an S7 launch in February. We're not so sure about this particular rumor, despite Electronic Times citing its source as "many people that are in parts industries".
Samsung finally brought high-end materials to the Galaxy S6, and that trend is expected to continue. The S6 featured a frame made of 6013 aluminum with a glass back, making it the best Galaxy S phone in terms of quality.
However, the Galaxy S7 might go one step further. A report from china in mid-October claims the phone will have a much stronger frame built from magnesium alloy. Samsung is also expected to utilize a similar glass back as well.
In a nutshell, the Galaxy S7 probably won’t look all that different than its predecessor, but it will be of a higher quality.
It is reported that Samsung is planning to use three different chips for the S7. A source suggests that it will use its own Exynos 7422 chip, originally intended for the Galaxy Note 5, for the Samsung Galaxy S7 in India, with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 earmarked for China and the US, and the Exynos 8890, for Korea, Japan and Europe.
Samsung using the Snapdragon in any territory would be big news for Qualcomm, which may have thought its days of powering Galaxy devices were over. The two companies have had a strained relationship ever since the Snapdragon 810 chip was dropped from the Galaxy S6 in favor of Samsung's Exynos processors in 2015. There were rumors that the switch was related to overheating issues with the 810, but nothing was ever confirmed.
Whatever the inside story, Samsung and Qualcomm seem to be back on speaking terms. Chinese site Weibo recently posted benchmarks of two versions of the Snapdragon 820 against the old 810. The yellow bar represents the Snapdragon 820-A and the red represents the 820-B. The green is the Snapdragon 810.
A recently published solution brief from Samsung, brought to our attention by Galaxy Club, flaunts a 20 MP camera that uses 1.0-micron pixels, making it more compact and able to fit in a thinner smartphone. It also features a lower power draw than the 16 MP 1.2-micron sensor used in current Samsung flagships.
Samsung also claims that the camera's RWB color pattern enhances light sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio in low-light and back-light conditions.
A new report from MK, a Korean publication, claims that the galaxy s7 will come with a dual camera setup as well as a 5.7-inch display, which is a large bump from the current 5.1-inch display on the Galaxy S6. The report doesn't provide any proof for these specifications, however.
A previous phone that was launched with dual rear cameras is the HTC One M8. It didn't necessarily equate to better photographic capabilities on that device, but we suspect that if the Galaxy S7 were to feature dual cameras, Samsung would get the formula right, something HTC was not entirely successful at.

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