Samsung's upcoming 2017 flagships Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge will possess features that the S6 series have missed. The Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge will sport microSD slots (compatible with cards up to 200GB).

Just like Galaxy S5, the S7 series will possess an IP67 certification -- which means it's dust proof and water resistant.

Design and Display

In terms of design, S7 will not differ so much from S6. But as for the display, S7 edge will offer a larger 5'5-inch curved display while the flat one will be the same as last year's.

The Super AMOLED screens will remain at 1440 x 2560 quad HD, but this year's release will include the always-on display (AOD) functionality, enabling a glanceable screen (with the ability to show downloaded content), which is reported to consume about one percent of the battery per hour.

Batteries

Batteries are generally the concern the whole tech industry cannot get over with, but the S6 series model received further criticism not for phones getting drained, but for their built in batteries.

Conspiracy theories point out that phone makers are creating phones with built in batteries so people replace their phones every three years when the batteries deteriorate.

Nonetheless, Samsung has reacted to criticisms with a capacity bump to 3000mAh and 3600mAh for the S7 and S7 edge, respectively (up from 2550mAh and 2600mAh).

Wireless charging time will be 2 hours for S7 and 2.2 hours for S7 edge.

Internals

A leap from Qualcomm Snapdragon phones S5 and S6, Samsung Galaxy S7 will be powered by the new, homegrown Exynos 8 Octa 8890, a system-on-a-chip based partially on an ARM reference design. The Samsung processor offers four high-performance 2.3GHz cores along with four power-efficient 1.6GHz cores (and an integrated cellular baseband modem, which will enable alleged LTE Category 9 throughput).

Nonetheless, other reports hint that Samsung may pack their units with different CPUs per geographic region.

There's a buzz that Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 SoC will be included in the North American S7 variants. Meanwhile, all S7 phones are promised the same 4GB of RAM alongside 32GB or 64GB storage options. Some fans are hoping for a 128GB option, which remains possible.

Cameras

Shockingly, reports claim that S7's camera is just 12 megapixels, 4 MP down. From the S6 generation's 16 MP. We don't believe this is we think this will be a marketing headache because phones from lesser known brands are introducing 20 MP cams.

Nonetheless Samsung has proven that all its cameras are excellent regardless of MP because of their lower apertures which means more light is included on the images.

S7 will contain f/1.7 lens aperture, lower than S6's f/1.9, which is already outstanding in low light situations.

The front-facing selfie cam stays at 5 MP.

Samsung's will allegedly unveil the line ahead of the 2016 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, in mid-to-late February. The global rollout of the initial black, gold, and white models starts in March, reports Venture Beat.