Samsung Galaxy S7 Active
The Samsung Galaxy S7
Active, which first emerged in late March and was allegedly pictured in the
wild recently, gets another confirmation of its existence.
For one, this alleged Galaxy
S7 Active is listed with a 5.5-inch display, and initial import listings in
India clearly stated 5.1 inches. The live images also depicted a device with a
flat front, and we all know how this year's Samsung flagship with a 5.5-inch
display is the dual-edge Galaxy S7 edge. Not impossible, just not the usual
practice for building a rugged Galaxy.
The chipset is no surprise -
the Snapdragon 820, RAM is 4 GB, and internal storage of the tested model is
32 GB. In typical GFXBench practice, the 4,032x3,024 pixels camera resolution
doesn't qualify for 12 MP - you need 1,024x1,024 pixels to count as a megapixel
in their book. We'd also be surprised if the S7 Active can't shoot 2160p video,
like the benchmark would have us believe.
The front camera, on the
other hand, is supposedly capable of square 1,920x1,920 video recording? The
existing S7 can shoot square videos already, but resolution is limited to
1440p. It just doesn't look like the most logical upgrade.
There's no info on battery
capacity and, that's one area where Samsung took a lot of heat last year after
the Galaxy S6 active had a substantially larger power pack, hence longer
battery life than the vanilla S6. The Galaxy S7 is not exactly underpowered,
though, so even if there are differences, they'll unlikely be as dramatic.
All of the above considered,
the listing should be taken as yet another proof that there will, indeed, be a
Galaxy S7 Active. As for the specs, surprises seem unlikely.
