Samsung has announced its new flagship - Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge

Samsung excelled in that, in addition to the usual live video, broadcast organized in the format of a circular 360-degree panoramas, and everyone present was given to journalists head-mounted display.

We knew about the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge almost everything long before the presentation, and a lot of it was confirmed. Externally, the flagship almost not changed in comparison to its predecessors, with the exception of the lack of chrome elements almost without protruding from the camera body and the rounded edges at the rear Galaxy S7. However, the main feature - moisture and dust protection standard IP68, which not only provides immunity to splash smartphones, but will withstand a half-hour immersion in water at a depth of 1.5 meters.

Galaxy S7 S7 Edge and are protected by glass Gorilla Glass display with a diagonal of 5.1 inches and 5.5, respectively, and a more narrow scope. As well as a display LG G5They are permanently enabled to display helpful information. In this case, the screens of smartphones Samsung and even automatically detect when you put them in his pocket, and turned off to save battery power. We can say with confidence that the Always On Display will be the trend this year.

Details of both are almost the same smartphone: Galaxy S7 weighs 152 grams with dimensions of 142.4 × 69.6 × 7.9 mm, Galaxy S7 edge - 157 grams with dimensions of 150.9 × 72.6 × 7.7 mm. Screen resolution despite the diagonal, is completely identical - 2560 × 1440 pixels, but the container batteries varies: at Galaxy S7 it is 3000 mAh, while the Galaxy S7 Edge got the entire 3600 mAh. Quite good compared to LG G5 with its modest 2800 mAh. Samsung flagships while support wireless charging, and can be charged in a short time.

All this power will go to the needs of the productive filling. The global version of Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge is built on the chipset Exynos Octa 8 with 4 cores and 4 GB of RAM. CPU performance boost over the previous generation is more than 30%, and graphics, and even more - 60%. The company boasts an effective cooling system using a heat pipe made of copper. Newfangled USB-C Samsung did not implement, but returned a slot for microSD-cards.

Much time was given to the presentation and the improved camera, what advantages over the competition it has. In particular, it was an increased matrix with Dual Pixels technology and aperture f / 1.7. In addition to the better shots in low light conditions, all this will also allow the module to change the focus of much faster - "almost like a human eye". At Galaxy S6 focusing time was 0.85 seconds, while the new flagship of only 0.2. Also updates will Motion Panorama function, which is something like Live Photos on the iPhone, only for panoramic shots.

Good news for the fans to play. Firstly, the Samsung implemented a new flagship support Vulkan API (new technology for game developers), and secondly, I come up with a software add-in menu, you can interact with toys and less distracted by the events during games.

Both flagship will go on sale March 11, but in fact smartphones can get even three days earlier, when pre-order - they will take tomorrow. In this case, Samsung as a bonus will give more and headset Samsung Galaxy VR virtual reality. In Russia, the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge will be sold at a price of 49,990 rubles and 59,990 rubles, respectively.