The new processor and Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow combo make for a phone that feels almost always fast. I really, really like that I can say that. The smaller S7, especially, is just a nice phone to hold and use. Finally - finally Samsung isn’t adding in new things without smoothing over the last generation’s rough edges first. Everything about the S7 and S7 edge just screams refined. The raised ridge on the tactile home button in the lower centre of the bezel feels good, and it clicks with just enough force that it resists an accidental touch and rewards a more forceful one the power and volume buttons are clickier still. It’s a great phone to hold, especially versus last year’s S6 purely because its rear glass is slightly convex, and fits more comfortably in the hand. The microSD card takes the place of the second SIM in the SIM tray of the Galaxy S7 - in markets outside of Australia, you can use a second SIM instead. The camera, too, will default to storing single photos on the SD card, although burst photos and videos are saved by default to the phone’s faster UFS 2.0 internal memory. You can use an SD card of up to 200GB capacity in the Galaxy S7, and Android 6.0 Marshmallow’s newly reintroduced support for SD cards means you can store media files on the removable card both using Samsung’s own My Files app and within other apps, like Spotify, that support SD card access. And, yes, the new phone now has a microSD card slot in the SIM tray. The S7’s Exynos processor requires a phase-change heat-pipe to channel excess heat away this runs down the right-hand side at the rear of the phone, starting roughly where the power button is and continuing halfway down the length of the handset. That chip has four Samsung-customised cores running at up to 2.6GHz and four ARM Cortex-A53 cores running at up to 1.6GHz, and also has a LTE Category 12/13 modem that supports theoretical 4G download speeds of 600Mbps and upload speeds of 150Mbps. In Australia, the new phones run Samsung’s in-house-developed Exynos 8890 Octa octa-core processor, with 4GB of fast LPDDR4 RAM. And all of this happens without external, extraneous, forgettable seals on the headphone jack and microUSB 2.0 charging port - just like Sony’s excellent benchmark Xperia Z5. Yes, you can take your new phone in the shower and to the beach and it won’t die. Samsung was quick to tell us that it isn’t technically waterproofing - that would be the highest possible IP69K rating, which includes resistance to high pressure and high pressure water - but the rating means the new phone will resist water ingress during complete, continuous submersion in a metre of water for half an hour at a time. The most obvious and potentially significant of all those is the Galaxy S7’s IP68 water resistance and dustproofing. The phones themselves are slightly thicker and heavier than last year’s S6 iterations, but there’s a good reason for that - it might not look like it, but this year’s Galaxy flagships have the most significant under-the-hood changes in a while. The Galaxy S7 is the smaller variant of the two, measuring 142.4×69.6×7.9mm and 152g with a 5.1-inch Quad HD (2560x1440pixel) Super AMOLED display, while the S7 edge is somewhat larger at 150.9×72.6×7.7mm and 157g with a 5.5-inch display and otherwise identical specifications. The Galaxy S7 and S7 edge are Samsung’s newest, most powerful and sleekest smartphones, running the latest version of Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow.
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