Samsung Galaxy S7 to “feature pressure-sensitive display”

PanARMENIAN.Net - Samsung Electronics Co. will add a pressure-sensitive display and a new high-speed charging port to its coming line of flagship smartphones slated to be launched in March, the Wall Street Journal reports citing people familiar with the matter.

The South Korean technology company is also considering adding a retina scanner to some versions of the flagship device, though with three months to go, these people said that features could change.

The improvements to the new Galaxy S7 smartphone, as the new device will be called, aren’t a major departure from its predecessor, the Galaxy S6.

Like this year’s flagship device, the new smartphone will be offered alongside a premium curved-screen version, called the Galaxy S7 Edge, the people said, according to the WSJ.

The Galaxy S7 will likely also feature a next-generation charging and connection port called a USB Type-C port, the people said, which will allow for a full day’s charge in under 30 minutes and in some cases significantly faster than that. The port has already appeared in smartphones manufactured by LG Electronics Co., Huawei Technologies Co. and others.

The noncurved version of the Galaxy S7 will likely also include an external memory card slot, one of these people said.

The Galaxy S7 will also feature an improved camera that is optimized for lowlight photography and is flush with the back of the phone, these people said, unlike the Galaxy S6 camera that bulged out the back of the device.