The phone has a faster processor and an always-on screen that is surely an eye-catcher, they've also managed to upgrade the camera in ways that maybe less than obvious, indeed camera phones have gone a long way in a few past years.
The Galaxy S7 is mistakenly related to the S6, but the familiar design has been improved and refined, size has hardly changed, it’s only heavier and slightly thicker to accommodate the bigger battery. The return of IP68 dust and waterproofing is another welcome change - giving users a peace of mind, the fingerprint reader embedded in the bottom below the screen works as well as before, a double press of a button also quickly start the camera no matter what you're doing.
The home screen is identical to the Touch Wiz UI of other Samsung phones, split screen multi-tasking is supported as well, as long as the app supported. Samsung game launcher is a new service which groups all the games at one place - it allows you to adjust power used during gaming by capping or resolution, most importantly this is where you activate the game tools key, which lets you record your gameplay on video with or without a voice over.
The phone feels great in the hand, it is nowhere as slippery as you'd expect from a door glass body, but keep it clean from smudges and fingerprints, the AMOLED display of choice is an excellent piece of hardware and its improved in almost every way even if only marginally, so it's brighter, more color accurate and more legible in the bright sun. The new always-on feature can show your basic stuff like notifications and the time and date, however, it probably shouldn't come as a surprise that having it on takes its toll on the battery.
In our dedicated battery tests, the Galaxy S7 scored a commendable 80 hour endurance rating, turning the Always-On screen, however, reduce that score by almost 40%. The good news is that the Galaxy S7 outperformed the S6 in almost all of our battery life tests.
Worldwide the Samsung Galaxy S7 is available with two distinct types of processors, we receive designers version, and it's a beast, and offers heaps of CPU processing power and the graphics department is finally a proper match for the high screen resolution, best of all the phone never gotten comfortable hot in use, but perhaps, the most interesting aspect of the Samsung Galaxy S7 is the revamped camera, the Samsung Galaxy S7 now comes with a 12 megapixel camera, but that number is about the only aspect where we could call it a step back.
The new camera has larger pixels a brighter aperture, an incredible number of face detection pixels, all the while keeping the optical image stabilization of the predecessor. The dual pixel moniker comes from the fact that there is a face detection sensor, a joining each and every pixel in the image sensor, Samsung is rightfully proud of it, when it comes to focus on speed, the new system blow the competition out of the water, focusing on side, image quality is excellent and the camera results plenty of detail, white balance is spot on and the colors are likable, low-light photos are quite good as well. As for the 5 megapixel selfie camera on the front, its image quality is more or less the same as the predecessors, that means balanced but unremarkable, we appreciate the new screen flash feature though.
The Galaxy S7 captures 4K video, just as expected from a flagship, video quality spot on as well and there is plenty of resort detail.
Samsung's flagships have always been the trend setters and the Galaxy S seven probably joins its predecessors. After the fundamental overall last year, now we're witnessing polish and refinement instead of from breaking changes, innovation is not lacking though, and the camera is the biggest attention grabber, but the big story is simple as usual.
The Galaxy S seven has got a beautiful design, a brain display an excellent battery life and waterproofing it's such a complete package that the competition have a hard time coming up with the worthy adversary.
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