It is difficult to come up with complete strictness to the goose that lays the Golden eggs (the singer, which produces millions of stupid songs/politicians in the role of clowns, which kept the ratings of TV shows, and .t.etc.). With flagship smartphones from manufacturers exactly the same bundle of complexes in the spirit of “works – do not touch”. But the Galaxy S series works, and sold in enormous editions all over the world! Such an achievement is remarkable because “handsome” representatives of the S-series were only in the understanding of the Korean community for a long time resented “AMILOcam” design S3/S4, a combination of “plastic skin” with “plastic metal” in S5 stretched out on the line and less.
Samsung Galaxy S7
But since last year, capitulated, and Samsung have made their flagship styles – metal, glass, and even curved display in the opener called edge. Smartphones have been so successful that in 2016 Koreans released the new flagship in the same design. But did the Galaxy S so to buy it is the sixth generation and new smartphone-rivals – let’s find out.
Features
Samsung Galaxy S7
Operating system
Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Screen
Of 5.1”, 2560×1440, Super AMOLED, 577 ppi
Processor
8890 Exynos with 8 cores (4x Mongoose 2.6 GHz + 4x Cortex-A53 1.6 GHz)
Graphics
Mali-T880 MP12
Operational memory
4 GB
Permanent memory
32 GB, microSD slot
Link
4G (LTE Cat.12), 3G, Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 b/g/n/ac), Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, GLONASS, NFC
Camera
primary: 12 MP with autofocus, video recording 3840×2160,
front — 5 MP
Battery
non-removable, 3000 mAh
Sizes
142,4×69,6×7,9 mm
Weight
152 g
The price at the time of publication
50 000 rubles
Where to buy
Design and management
S7 was prettier. This is especially noticeable on the background of the Galaxy S5, which is next to followers looks like an ancient “armored train”
Metal on edges, Galaxy S7 has become less, but keep your smartphone is now easier
Cool smartphone large smartphone, says Samsung. Galaxy S7 edge is now strictly a 5.5-inch, and fans of moderate size cell phones offered only a flat version of the flagship.
Flat — not really, because the protective glass now, say marketers, 2.5 D. that is to say, convex and with diffused edges, in the best traditions of the lids on the canisters of the school. Of course, this design looks more beautiful (at first it seems that the display itself is curved accordingly, there is the illusion of “bezremontnoy”), and to capture the smartphone more convenient if it is placed display down and the protective glass is bent at the edges.
Reflections in a Galaxy S7 (right) on the edges of the display are constant companions rounded glass
The problem lies in that the glass collects sunlight spots (spontaneous flare) at the edges and at room, and street lighting. On our photo is perfectly visible, as the flash of the smartphone “lit up” the whole right side. Such blind spots in the vaunted 2.5 D-glasses is very annoying.
Colors of smartphones is now the new flagship Galaxy surprises deliberately calm tones the body, without the hint of “metallic”, as it was in S6. Colors — a matter of taste, but the fingerprints on a dark body became more visible than they were before.
Even with all the “Gypsy” chrome on the body of the Galaxy S6 (top) was less easily soiled smartphone
Case Galaxy S7 has become more practical, but the dominance of soiled glass will not appeal to everyone
But all the other changes our hero went good. The rear camera did not protrude above the body, like an umbilical hernia, the tacky “chrome” on the camera rim and buttons “Home” was replaced by matte black plastic, the key is now pressed slightly softer, and is flush with the body — the last great fact reduced the number of accidental clicks: in the old days often launched S6 camera in my pocket after a double response Home.
Back cover has “eaten” a little square near the metal edging on the sides — followers of the metal and design of the new A-series resent, though in fact keeping smartphone has never been easier. The power button and volume controls become more narrow, but not lost in the convenience. The fingerprint scanner has not improved from the word “very” — the palm of Google Nexus smartphones in the speed and accuracy of response to select Samsung not going. But that’s cool – so it’s the return of water protection to IP68 certificate. In addition to Sony such “flavor” in the flagship models, still nobody has bothered to implement.
Previously, Samsung was repeated in their smart phones features iPhone — now copy ourselves
The screen and sound
Samsung has always liked to surprise customers achievements “displayState” and HD-matrix in Galaxy S3 and especially S4 in Full HD were the most progressive of its kind at the time. From S7 enthusiasts were waiting for the “real” (not like Sony) 4K “sauce” AMOLED. But Samsung and LG previously said that 4K until fully redundant for mobiles and too load mobile iron to use it in mass-produced models, so no you Ultra HD with beautiful figures in the upcoming flagships.
Display characteristics Samsung Galaxy S7 (“Main”)
The maximum brightness level
340 CD/m2 (manually adjustable)
Contrast
∞
Color gamut (sRGB)
100% sRGB
DeltaE
2
Gamma
2.4 GHz
Color temperature
6600K
But to complain and now not on display and last generation of smartphones was quite good, and engineers are now taught him to Shine a little brighter in auto mode adjusts the backlighting brightness under direct sunlight. In normal mode the matrix almost does not differ in characteristics from what we saw in S6 — bright, sharp and economical display with a good anti-glare, the perfect display of black color and is saturated in the normal mode colors. However, for journalists and meticulous clients in the settings there is still a mode of “Main” sharpened by the colorimeter performance.
One of the main features of the new Galaxy was always active display — date, time, and indicators for missed notifications are shown in black and white and never fully go off the smartphone screen. A very handy feature, which, moreover, has little effect on battery consumption (Super AMOLED does not consume power when it displays black color). To her, however, you need to get used to, because at first changing the numbers on the watch are distracting and create the illusion that the phone always come new notice.
A good display was slightly better but the sound quality has not changed since the days of predecessor
To the constantly active display will have to get used to, but by itself, the function is very convenient
The function is not implemented in smartphone violently — you can deactivate it in the settings, or reconfigure to your liking (enable the display of calendar or some pictures instead of the date and exact time).
On part of the sound of the smartphone has not changed. Loudspeaker, sonorous, clear and are generally good by the standards of 5-inch models. But on musical laurels that the speaker does not claim at all for such exploits need to buy a bigger LG G4 or Huawei Nexus 6P.
The earpiece is perfectly balanced — not whines and squeals, talk on the smartphone is convenient. Subjective sound quality in the earphones is the same as in S6. Specialized musiani, such as Meizu Pro 5 and (believe it or not) Highscren Boost 3 with appropriate headphones sound better, but for everyday “monitorning” and “plugs” the Galaxy S7 sound very good.
Iron
This is where enthusiasts have fluffed so it is in the “iron” part of the smartphone Galaxy S7 in different markets got two of the coolest CPU of 2016. The most powerful of them is the Snapdragon 820, Qualcomm which was rehabilitated in the eyes of enthusiasts after last year’s “kettle” under the index 810. For Europe and Russia will be supplied with options Galaxy S7 brand manufactured by Samsung Exynos 8890 is the first brainchild from the Korean brand with a custom high-performance cores Mongoose. Last year, by the way, Samsung just licensed from ARM standard Cortex-A57, but in 2016 has relied on its own development and left a “cortex” intact only in an economical 4-core unit “53”-x cores.
The performance of the entire system (test Antutu Benchmark 5.7)
Judging by the fact that neither MediaTek with his decategory trouble on the old process, neither Huawei, similar to “Axinos” 14-nm and FinFET Cortex-A72 even comes close to the Korean chip — Samsung did the right thing. The processor is very fast, cool and economical.
In the field of graphics Samsung, as usual, things go a little worse, so for gaming performance sweat top the accelerator ARM Mali-T880 MP12. This is the best option that you could buy “on the side”, and he’s a good 80% more powerful video card, which is adopted from the Galaxy S6, but in fact in the production of the GPU driving and will steer an individual approach — Adreno 530 in the top-end Qualcomm chip, and faster and just more convenient for development (API, Vulkan and the latest revision of the OpenGL ES 3.1 is the “Makoto” for games). Last year’s hardware platform GT7600 of the iPhone 6s new Samsung chip bypasses, but nearly a year after the release of Apple flagship it already “is not sports”.
No wonder Samsung began to develop a core for their processors — Exynos 8890 incredibly fast!
Gaming performance (the Sling Shot test 3DMark OpenGL ES 3.1)
Processor speed test (Geekbench 3)
Internal storage and “RAM” has changed little since the last generation (note that the 4GB at the start, the system is spreading to 1 GB of memory), but they are still quick and do not require upgrading. Importantly, the Koreans surrendered and gave Galaxy a microSD slot S7 — we all are well aware that internal memory UFS 2.0 a priori faster, but to have removable independent “Kirpichny” firmware, the drive will never be over.
Wi-Fi, navigation, and 4G in a new Galaxy they work flawlessly — on the stability and the speed of the wireless connection S7 is perhaps the best smartphone at all. And there was a nice “trick” in the form of repeater Wi-Fi connection. That is, you can “podaetsya” to the Internet, which for some reason does not see your laptop and transfer it from phone to computer. Or to share without unnecessary bureaucracy and binding to a mobile Internet in the Moscow metro. Convenient!
Software
This season’s fashionable grey – Samsung slightly “repainted” original shell TouchWiz with Android in version 6.0. New notifications, a button to list the applications (and, you can activate the “farm” and to integrate desktops with a list of software, like Xiaomi, Meizu and Huawei!), a few additional keyboard settings (digital number, you can leave or remove) and modest saver standards, a number of standard applications.
Gone for the standard TouchWiz music player and left only a cloud-based Play Music, but the Microsoft Office was not planning to leave, and the social network (Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, non-removable) are supplied. The minimalists contend, in a fit of rage buy Nexus’s/looking for ways to get root and “cutting” a standard set of software, and everyone else gets ready for work, the smartphone and, in General, satisfied.
The interface of the operating system in Samsung Galaxy S7
About the gamers taken care of in full — can and gameplay to record comments on camera, and to degrade the graphics to play longer
New “game center” — the cool thing. All games are stored in a single menu (you can add your own if automatics didn’t define them), you can disable the alerts system during the game, ask the keys to lock “back” and “menu” to prohibit to throw the game out of RAM when you minimize or record gameplay. Recording, by the way, you can carry on in the best traditions of retsplejelov — activated front camera and your comments on the microphone.
And even for those who think these classes the privilege of Internet exhibitionists, Samsung store useful functions in any game can “cut” the resolution to 1280×720 and reduce the framerate from 60 to 30 fps — that is to play will be minimal load on the processor, and graphics! A great option if PowerBank far, the Internet is not internetda, and to sit and something to wait a long time still have.
Long press the left touch key under display not activate the context menu, and the mode of mnogokanalnosti, bulky stuff in the form of gestures, measuring heart rate and other vital things too, but since the Galaxy S6 is almost unchanged.
Camera
While Sony actively supports the Olympic games the level of “who is longer?” and produces 20-megapixel sensors, smartphones with a focus on really high quality photography such competition no longer do. The most prominent representative of the “quality instead of quantity” remains the iPhone, but last year’s Nexus suddenly went around the Galaxy S6 for detail shots in difficult conditions (night, bad light in the room, etc.). Samsung on the “debriefing” gave it a thought and shoveled their sensors in the direction of greater light sensitivity and better focusing. The pixel size had grown to 1.4 micron, and phase detection autofocus now uses all pixels in the matrix, which never happened before.
Example photos taken with rear camera of Samsung Galaxy S7
New useless shooting modes it is possible to note high-speed shooting with stabilization (Hyperlapse) and animated panoramic pictures. A useful illumination of the face by using a display when taking selfie.
Later we will check the photographic potential of the flagships of Samsung more meticulously, but on first impressions we can say is better. Not so, however, determined to sell S6 and run for a new smartphone. Just noises in the dark was reduced, and focus was to be more careful and not so Intrusive, especially while shooting video.
Galaxy S7 is slightly better removes at night and in dark rooms that its predecessor
Example photos taken with the front camera of Samsung Galaxy S7
Speaking of video, if possible to shoot Full HD video at 60 fps, even with the stabilization of the other modes simply don’t need. Stabilization really works crudely, but effectively. The camera itself is, as before, is started by double-clicking on the “Home”, but it does it much faster than its predecessor and, seemingly, already does not depend on the number of open apps in the background before locking the screen.
Selfie-camera has changed minimally all the same 5 megapixels, with a small revision (looks like the software kind), suitable for self-portraits, but less steep than the selfie backdrops.
Autonomy
You will laugh, but there is a certain interlayer of people that 3000 mAh battery in a 5 inch smartphone little. In fact, the autonomy of the Galaxy S7 is very good, because the display in our economical hero by design (like other representatives of AMOLED), a processor and firmware is perfectly “fitted” to each other, so such a circus with voracity, as to gadgets with chips Intel Atom, in our case is not close.
Use (brightness 200 CD/m2)
The duration of work hours
Video from a memory card
15 hours
Game
6 hours 10 minutes
Reading
12 hours and 15 minutes
When the average intensity of smartphone use will last for 2-3 days, and if you pull it on the little things without getting tired, the Galaxy S7 will last deep into the night. Power-saving modes with different degrees of radicality have remained in their places, and the full charging takes 1.5 hours.
The battery capacity of 3000 mAh battery 5.2-inch smartphone with a big enough margin
The duration of the mixed workload tests (PCMark, 200 CD/m2, min)
Competitors
Samsung Galaxy S7
LG G5
Sony Xperia Z5
Operating system
Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Android 5.1 Lollipop
Screen
Of 5.1”, 2560×1440, Super AMOLED, 577 ppi
5,3”, 2560×1440, IPS, 554 ppi
At 5.2”, 1920×1080, IPS, 428 ppi
Processor
8890 Exynos with 8 cores (4x Mongoose 2.6 GHz + 4x Cortex-A53 1.6 GHz)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 MSM8996, 4 cores (2x 2.1 GHz Kryo + Kryo 2x 1.6 GHz)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 MSM8994, 8 cores (4x Cortex-A57 2 GHz + 4x Cortex-A53 1.5 GHz)
Graphics
Mali-T880 MP12
Adreno 530
Adreno 430
Operational memory
4 GB
4 GB
3 GB
Permanent memory
32 GB, microSD slot
32 GB, microSD slot
32 GB, microSD slot
Link
4G (LTE Cat.12), 3G, Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 b/g/n/ac), Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, GLONASS, NFC
4G (LTE Cat.13), 3G, Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 b/g/n/ac), Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, GLONASS, NFC
4G (LTE Cat.6), 3G, Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 b/g/n/ac), Bluetooth 4.1, GPS, GLONASS, NFC
Camera
primary: 12 MP with autofocus, video recording 3840×2160,
front — 5 MP
16 MP, autofocus, 3840×2160 video, front-facing: 8 MP
main: 23 MP, with autofocus, 3840×2160 video, front: 5.1 MP
Battery
non-removable, 3000 mAh
removable 2800 mAh
non-removable 2900 mAh
Sizes
142,4×69,6×7,9 mm
149,4×73,9×7,7 mm
146x72x7,3 mm
Weight
152 g
159 g
154 g
The price at the time of publication
50 000 rubles
50 000 rubles
45 000 rubles
Where to buy
Call vertelki:LG G53inline
Call vertelki:Sony Xperia Z53inline
LG G5
LG G5
Until Samsung releases a moderately upgraded flagships, LG reshuffle their best model out of all recognition. The new G5 everything is subordinated to the idea of “if something is missing – you will have the opportunity to connect. Replacing the battery with “army” speed, connection, cool audiochip and a pack of clever accessories – such chips flagship LG aims to win the hearts of buyers.
In terms of appearance, the manufacturer has relied on brutal minimalism – silver case with a matte paint looks more modest than mottled glass and metal S7, power G5 no less steep, the quality of the cameras is comparable, but you want to compare.
Call vertelki:LG G53inline
Sony Xperia Z5
Sony Xperia Z5
The mid-size flagship of the Japanese company released a controversial. Display resolution left old-fashioned, proprietary moisture-proof means only “falling under rain” and no underwater, as in advertising Sony, and the Snapdragon 810, though, and began to overheat less, still works in this model is not perfect.
But the quality of materials used and the convenience of the operating system and advanced camera, the flagship of Sony and to this day remains an attractive model. Automatic shooting modes in Z5 are not perfect, but in manual mode from the camera Z5 can squeeze amazing quality pictures. The autonomy of the smartphone is inferior to the results demonstrated by top-end Samsung, but the iPhone 6s will be moving on to retirement (and quickly outdated HTC One M9 Plus), LG Nexus already sold 5X is much less powerful and not as prestigious, and outside the thoroughbred the flagship models of moderate dimension just end.
Call vertelki:Sony Xperia Z53inline
Conclusions
Towards the Galaxy S7 is changing as the phone usage. First impression – “restyling” of last year’s flagship under a new guise, but then summerwash number of innovations and understand that improvement of this magnitude in the iPhone %something%S’d have gone for the revolution, and every Apple fan would love it. Not only that Samsung released the S6 Super/Ultra/Neo, and released the S7, which divided the judges of the brand into two camps.
The current owners of Galaxy S6 recognizes that the smartphone has become “better at everything”, but I see no reason to change the existing models for new flagships. Those who watch for falling prices on the “obsolete” series S6, also in no hurry to get out of the pocket an extra 15 thousand rubles. Remains the audience, which becomes “the new cool Samsung” with each new generation of the model, and those who are disappointed in the other flagships/doesn’t want to wait until the manufacturers release more breakthrough superphone.
However, there is no “breakthrough”? In the class of “less than 5.5 inches” really clever smartphones — a cat naplakal. If not for the iPhone 6/6s — the balance of manufacturers rushed to produce “shovel” with no options for the buyer. In this sense, the Galaxy S7 (only do not laugh) — live exotics, because the class 5-inch flagships slowly dying out.
But the release cycle by a principle “the modernized version of the revolutionary version” – it already is the Apple way, comrades. And let us unusual conditional two-year cycle from evolutionary to revolutionary Galaxy S, such changes will benefit fans and the “sit to steep models”, and everyone who sells old smartphone to buy a new one, “with changes and additions.” One can only hope that such tactics do not “drown” Samsung and the Koreans know what they’re doing.
Samsung Galaxy S7
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
- The highest level of performance
- Quality camera
- Usability (moisture-proof, microSD slot)
- Good autonomy
- Convenient gaming options
- Easily soiled case
- Glare 2.5 D protective glass
- Not the most agile of the fingerprint scanner
- Aggressive optical stabilization when shooting video