Good day everyone!

I've gone through the phone section to find any news about the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 7 yet to be released this year but since I couldn't find any, I decided to post it myself.

We all know Samsung releases various categories of phones with different specifications ranging from medium to high-end smartphones every year (though there has been a recent restructure strategy to cut the rate of phones released each year for better and sustainable focus) and we've heard of the Samsung Galaxy S7 & S7 Edge variants released few months ago.

It is Samsung's tradition to release the Galaxy Note variant each year as we witnessed the successful story of last year's Galaxy Note 5 (one of the best designed smartphone for year 2015).

This year, Samsung will be skipping the chronological order of naming these devices as it will be jumping from 5 all the way to 7 (i.e from Galaxy Note 5 all the way to Galaxy Note 7 skipping the Note 6, best reasons known to them). I'll try to be brief.........

The most reliable rumors suggest that the Note keeps its 5.7-inch screen, but adds a USB-C port (they're all the rage) and an iris scanner for unlocking the phone with your eyes. Let's take stock of the most telling rumors. (P.S. remember, they're unsubstantiated, so anything could happen!)


Note 7's the name:

Chronology be damned! The internet agrees, the next Note will be the Galaxy Note 7 and not the Galaxy Note 6, even though 2015's model was called the Note 5. But who cares about logic when there's branding at stake?

Launch date: Early August instead of late August. The phone would come ahead of Apple's yearly iPhone launch in early September, which usually falls in the first two weeks of the month. Twitter tipster Evan Blass, who has built a reputation of accurate leaks, suggests that the phone will start selling around August 15 .


Curved display up front:

The Note 7's display will look more like the S7 Edge than the straight-faced Note 5, according to a recent rumour .


Totally new software interface:

New software, new name. The TouchWiz interface that Samsung has used for years to differentiate its phones from other Android -makers could see a major overhaul, including a potential name change. We might kiss TouchWiz goodbye and open our arms to Grace, a more paired-down yet interactive take on phone software, shown in an allegedly leaked video (below) from Italian site HD.Blog.IT.


Updated Note software, too:

This time, we could see a lightly refreshed style with different icons, but much the same functionality to handwrite, scribble and navigate with a touch of the S Pen to the screen.


Pressure-sensitive screen? Not too likely

From what I can see in the Italian video above (which cites the build-of-unknown-origin as "Note5", the Note 7 doesn't look like it borrows Apple's pressure-sensitive display, which lets you press and hold until the screen gently jostles to pull up more granular data. Still, this is a persistent rumor, and one we also heard about the Galaxy S7 (it didn't happen).


Iris scanner for real this time:

We've also heard tell of an iris scanner that can unlock your phone by staring you in the eye. The iris scanner loomed large in Galaxy S4 rumors, too, but turned out to be a different feature that kept the screen from locking when you looked at it often enough. Now that Microsoft's iris-scanning "Windows Hello" feature in the Lumia 950 has made the security option a reality, it's much more likely that Samsung will include a real iris scanner this time around.

Other suspected specs

5.7-inch screen

12-megapixel camera

5-megapixel front-facing camera

IP68 certified against water and dust

64GB of space expandable through a microSD card (the Note 7 is also rumoured to feature a 256GB internal memory with an expandable microSD of 256GB. This could make the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 to be the first mobile device to come with a monstrous memory capacity), so we are going to be having different memory package e.g 64, 128 & 256GB respectively depending on what your money can buy.

USB Type-C port; Quick Charge 3.0

4,200mAh battery

Black, silver, blue colors


Price and availability:

As a rule of thumb, Samsung's prices hover on the higher end of the scale, and a stylus-packing handset like the Note goes for more than a smaller, more mainstream model like the S7. If prices hold from 2015, expect the 64GB version of the Note 7 to sashay out for roughly $800, which converts to roughly £600 and AU$1,080. Prices will vary further by region, carrier, storage capacity and promotional deals.

Converted to Nigeria Naira @ N350 * $800 = 280,000 (based on speculation and not official)


Coined by, ganaziah & http://www.cnet.com/products/samsung-galaxy-note-7/