Computer Pad: The Galaxy S7 cease the race for megapixels

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

The Galaxy S7 cease the race for megapixels – Numerama

The rumors are multiplying around the Galaxy S7. One of them concerns the camera, which would be slightly less powerful than the S6. A decision that would not necessarily be aberrant.

This is probably at the Mobile World Congress to be held in late February that Samsung will present its future ship Admiral in smartphones. And if the South Korean manufacturer is silent as a carp on design, performance and functionality of the Galaxy S7 – trade name that should probably be terminal – this is not the case for many specialized sites <. /> p>

From price screen size via pressure sensors, several aspects of the phone have been noise corridor all kinds. To this list must now be added several other rumors for the appearance of a listing on Weibo. Published by AnTuTu, it could be that the Galaxy S7. Can , as the realm of hearsay, caution should be in order.

A Galaxy S7 with a slightly less dramatic camera?

Without going into technical ad nauseam , two points are worth noting. The first concerns the RAM onboard the S7: it would increase to 4 GB RAM, 3 GB against the S6. However, the camera on the front lose a few megapixels . On the S6 can take pictures in 16 Megapixel, it would increase to an S7 merely 12 megapixel photos.

Is this a sign that Samsung stops the race megapixels? It is true that the trend in the industry is to outbid. However, this presents problems to photographers overexposed or underexposed photos, increase digital noise, increased weight shots in HD, limited value without a large format print … Especially that there are other aspects in the Photo deserving of attention

Maybe is this that Samsung has surprised?

Among the other characteristics that were relayed by AnTuTu include the size (5.1 inches) and the definition of the display (1440 by 2560 pixels), knowing that another model would be a bit bigger as the program. The mobile would also have an internal storage capacity of 64GB and would work with Android Marshamallow. But it will have to wait a month to see if the noise corridor were just