Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge Physical Design Review

Samsung’s research and development is all that matters to lead in the race for the most advance products, this is also the bread and butter for the company’s business. Never ending investment in its collaborative global research network serves as a vital role of creating an innovative product that makes them a market leader in electronics and microchip industry. In 2015 was one of the biggest milestone were they launched their flagship smartphone which is the most improvement, made of high grade aluminium and durable glass away from its traditional plastic design. 

This was came together with a very tough decision to eliminate the micro sd card support and water resistance from the previous model, however disregarding these features doesn’t hinder to the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge to outshines most of the competitors and also one of the best-selling smartphone last year.

And now for the year 2016, Samsung has stepped up their game one more time and announced the comeback of the features that keeping them ahead of iPhone for years which are water resistance and micro sd card support that makes the crowd so excited about.

Design

The front physical design of Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge is almost the same compare to the previous model Samsung Galaxy S6 from the earpiece, front camera, led indicator, proximity sensor and button below the screen that serves as a home button and finger print reader at the same time and the volume rocker on the left side and power/lock button on the right. 

But now this fingerprint reader is more fast, sensitive and accurate. This only means that Samsung is listening to its consumer, addressing the problem that most of the users are getting frustrated unlocking the device. 

On the top where one of the microphone is located together with the hybrid sim tray, unlike last year's model. Now the tray is consist of sim card and an expandable external storage up to whopping 200 GB of capacity. And the company is planning to release a Dual-Sim support option of Samsung Galaxy S7 and  S7 edge in some selected places and Singapore is one of the country in that list.

At the bottom side of the phone just like the previous model where 3.5mm jack socket, charging port, speaker grill and the 2^nd microphone are located, although some critics are expected Samsung to improve the speaker of their flagship model for a dual or maybe front facing speaker just like in the  HTC and Sony. One of the disadvantage of the downward facing is can easily block by your hand while playing games or watching videos on a landscape mode that may reduce the sound.

When it comes to camera, the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge has improved the camera significantly compare to the previous version. They were successfully flatten the main shooter from a protruding camera of Galaxy S6 and its now down to just 0.46mm, even though they lower the pixel capacity from 16 megapixel to 12 megapixel it comes with some remarkable features that noticeably enhanced the quality of the image especially in a low light environment condition. Its wide f1.7 aperture, fast auto focus and optical stabilizer that results a well-balanced images better results compare with much higher megapixel cameras.