Samsung Galaxy S7 Launch Date Confirmed: Here Are The Details

After much speculation, Samsung has finally announced the details of the Galaxy Unpacked 2016 event. The company will be hosting an "Unpacked" launch event on Sunday, February 21 in Barcelona, Spain.

It is expected that the South Korean smartphone maker will introduce the standard Galaxy S7 as well as the Galaxy S7 Edge at MWC 2016 during the Unpacked event.

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According to Samsung, the press conference will take place on CCIB (Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona) on February 21st, just the day before official MWC 2016 event kick off.

Rethink what a phone can do. February 21. #TheNextGalaxyhttps://t.co/oCVxCmiwO8

— Samsung Mobile (@SamsungMobile) February 1, 2016

Rumors have to suggest that Galaxy S7 variant will be powerful and will be available in three different processing chipsets: Snapdragon 820 in China and the US, its own Exynos 7422 in India and also the latest Exynos 8890 in Korea, Japan and Europe.

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Meanwhile, the AnTuTu benchmarks results shows a device running the Exynos 8890 chipset scored 100,000 in the test. For comparison, AnTuTu recently published ranking for the fastest smartphone in the world, and no Android smartphone has over 100,000 points.

Previous leaks have pointed that the Galaxy S7 will sport a 5.1 inch Super AMOLED display with a QHD 1440x2560 pixels resolution. While the Galaxy S7 Edge is said to features a 5.5 inch Super AMOLED display with the same resolution of S7.