The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S7 could get an early release.
Reportedly, AT&T is testing units of the Samsung Galaxy S7 units according to gadget leakster @evleaks. With model number SM-G930A and SM-G935A, these units could be the S7 and S7 Edge variants, Phone Arena reported.
"AT&T already testing both Galaxy S7 variants (SM-G930A and -G935A), adding weight to rumors of an early- to mid-1Q16 release."- Evan Blass (@evleaks) shared on November 13, 2015.
Phandroid added, this leak supports the rumored early release date of the Samsung Galaxy S7 of early or mid 2016. It noted that the Samsung Galaxy S6 was launched at the Mobile World Congress 2015, so there's also a chance that its successor could appear at the said event.
Previous rumors suggest that the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S7 will be powered by the Snapdragon 820 which boasts incremental development, according to GSM Arena.
"The Snapdragon 820 will use the new generation Adreno 530 GPU, Snapdragon 618 and 620 will use 510. All 5-series Adrenos will support OpenGL 3.1 (with 3.2 coming later) and the new Vulcan API. Qualcomm claims a 40% jump in performance along with a 40% cut in power usage. The Adreno 510 GPU should deliver similar improvements over the 405," according to GSM Arena.
Moreover, it features 35 percent improvement over its predecessor and Sammobile claimed that the Samsung Galaxy S7 codenamed Jungfrau, "will benefit from Adreno 530 graphics and LP-DDR4 RAM support with this chip inside," PC Advisor reported.
"We have to use the best engines to make our products competitive, which is why we opted to use our own chips. But we may very well end up using products from Qualcomm again in the next Galaxy phone, said JK Shin, head of Samsung Mobile.
As for its specs and feature, Samsung Galaxy S7 will come into two screen variants of 5.2-inch variant and a bigger 5.8-inch variant with 4K resolution, according to GForGames, However it is still unclear whether these two variants will feature the same resolution, while others claim that Samsung might water down the smaller version's resolution.