Samsung Galaxy S7 Specs & Rumors: Leaked Benchmark Shows New Flagship Shows Snapdragon 820
A pair of benchmarking results over the past couple of days has confirmed that Samsung is currently perfecting the Galaxy S7.
Initial evidence about the Galaxy S7 first sprouted on the Geekbench Browser database. It highlighted a smartphone from Samsung, which had the codename "Lucky". The device in question was powered by an Exynos 8890 chipset.
Now, "Lucky" has been caught again, this time, on the AnTuTu database.
The recent discovery, which revealed "Lucky" sporting a different processor, was first sourced by a user on the Chinese social media site Weibo.
"It's very interesting to note that the same "Lucky" was also spotted in AnTuTu earlier today, this time around with a Snapdragon 820 in tow. And as you might recall if you've kept an eye on our feed, there are already numerous reports hinting that Samsung is considering the use of both a Snapdragon 820 and a new Exynos processor in the creation of the Galaxy S7," GforGames wrote on the recent discovery.
But techies weren't overly surprised by the development as News Dreamx via Sam Mobile reported last month that Samsung was conducting rigorous testing on the S820. However, the South Korean-based mobile manufacturer hasn't decided yet whether to use it or not.
The recent discovery might hint a solution to Samsung's dilemma.
For the record, the prototype boasted of a 5.7-inch display with 1440 x 2560 resolution while the current Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge only came in at 5.1 inches. Samsung could be planning on releasing two variants of the Galaxy S7. One might stick with an Exynos processor while another might sport the S820. There are murmurs in Korea that the Galaxy S7 will come in two sizes, 5.2 and 5.8 inches.
As for the rest of the Galaxy S7's preliminary specs, it has 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB internal memory while running on the Android 5.1.1 Lollipop.
GSM Arena speculated the possibility of Galaxy S7's final version having a 20-megapixel ISOCELL camera, which is different from what the prototype boasts. The news outlet added the possibility of Samsung keeping the ultrafast UFS 2.0, only tweaking it "to work with microSD cards as its memory controller is currently incompatible with expandable storage.
However, the news outlet said that users should not be too excited about this detail was "not a given."
According to prior rumors from Weibo via GforGames, Samsung was given first priority by Qualcomm to test its latest line of top-tier processors.
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