Wednesday, 27 January 2016

Everything we know about the Samsung Galaxy S7 & Apple iPhone 7

Computing Forever’s Dave Cullen sifts through the tech rumour mill to uncover the latest news regarding the upcoming Galaxy S7 and iPhone 7 smartphones.

It’s the season to begin discussing the future high-end smartphones of the year and two of the biggest show stoppers will be the Samsung Galaxy S7 and the Apple iPhone 7. The hardware for the new Galaxy S7 has been revealed by an AnTuTu benchmark database.

It’s believed to feature a 5.1-inch display at a resolution of 2,560 x 1,440 with an octa-core Exynos 8890 SoC processor with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. It’ll have a 12 mega pixel rear-facing camera, which may be 4 mega pixels less than its predecessor, but the pixels are larger, which provide the camera with more light to process the image.

The Galaxy S7 may also feature a pressure-sensitive display similar to Apple’s 3D touch screen, which provides additional context menus and functionality beyond basic touch capabilities. The physical design of the device may be comprised of a magnesium alloy chassis with a glass back cover



As for Apple’s new iPhone 7, it remains to be seen if Apple will continue with the numerical designation it’s employed in previous models. For the purposes of this discussion, we’ll continue to refer to it as the iPhone 7.

The physical design of the device is expected to change quite significantly. The iPhone’s chassis design is markedly altered after every S edition, the iPhone 5 and 5s shared the same design as did the iPhone 6 and 6s. So we can anticipate that Apple will totally redesign this next iPhone for 2016.

Li-Fi capabilities have also been suggested. Li-Fi is a light-based data transfer technology that transfers information between devices over 100 times faster than using radio-based Wi-Fi standards.

The iPhone 6c has already been leaked and is effectively identical to the iPhone 6s but with a smaller 4-inch display instead.

The C model iPhones tend to continue the previous generation iPhone designs, so this would be consistent with Apple’s previous behaviour.

The new iPhone 7 will likely come preinstalled with Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 9.3. This new edition of the OS includes Night Shift mode. This is a feature designed to alter the screen colours and lighting of your iOS device in the evening so as to reduce sleep disturbance caused by the harsh blue light effect of the screen.



Source: http://utv.ie/Blogs/2016/01/22/Everything-we-know-about-the-Samsung-Galaxy-S7-Apple-iPhone-7-52726

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