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Note 7 specs - whoa! (if it becomes a reality..)

Another site says the LG V20 is arriving in September with 7.0 nougat. With 7.0 supposedly ready to go, I'm thinking the Note 7 is going to launch with 7.0. :) Especially if it doesn't come out until the 19th. How about that? lol :)
 
Considering that Note 7 manufacturing ramped up a couple of weeks ago, I highly doubt that Google handed Samsung a final Android 7.0 to flash on the assembly line. I imagine that Samsung will get Nougat as soon as it's released, tweak it to the Note 7, and push it out as an OTA. I wouldn't expect that to happen until September at best... maybe even October or November. My 2¢
 
I would not be concerned with the device being built a month ago. They can do "warehouse flashes" on Aug. 10 just before they ship to retailers, right?
 
That would involve a ton of last-minute flashes, hectic packaging and distribution to retailers. I'm not saying it's impossible... just that the path of least resistance would be a post-launch OTA.
 
Seems a while back that Apple, Samsung, Moto, and others can send a signal to make a phone turn on, connect to a spicific open wifi, download a new OS and update, then shut down, without opening a box. They can update them by the pallet-load, the day before they ship.

Or at least, that is what I read, back cera G-Nex...
 
With the Note 2, I remember a similar situation where Kit Kat had already been announced, but the phone actually released with Jelly Bean. Right off the bat, it got upgraded to 4.3 (which was a major Jelly Bean Update, from what I recall), then Kit Kat started rolling out 3 months later, in 2014. I wouldn't mind if the update went like this.
 
drexappeal said:
Wow, I don't know how functional the sides on the curved display will really be, but I love the erganomics. I just hope that this doesn't lead to more accidental touches when people are holding the phone on the sides:

http://www.phonearena.com/news/More...-7-appear-on-the-eve-of-its-unveiling_id83724
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i agree, i already hit the 2 capacitor buttons next to the home button on my note 4 when turning the phone into landscape view....the only place to hole the phone will be the top....kind of liking holding a dirty diaper to the trashcan i guess.
 
Specs were accidentaly leaked by a Swedish electronics chain.
Price in Sweden was set to around 9000 SEK in the "leak" (around 1050 US $ or 940 Euros) - thats quite hefty considering specs dont seem "that amazing". They are good but not much better than S7Edge.
Pros
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The rest of the pre released leaks seem to be just about right.
No news if there is a front (selfie) flash Yet though as leaks indicated


Cons
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No 4000 mAh battery
No 7Gb RAM
Nothing new with the camera
no 4K screen

LEAK
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Translated to English:

Specifications for the Samsung Galaxy Note 7

5.7 -inch display of the " Edge " type , with Super AMOLED and 2560 by 1440 pixels
Gorilla Glass 5
Exynos 8890 , octa -core 2.3GHz (same as S7 / S7 Edge )
4GB RAM
64GB storage
Memory card slot ( not Samsung's new UFS type)
3500mAh battery
12MP camera ( same as in S7 / S7 Edge )
Front 5MP camera
fingerprint Reader
Eye Scanner ( said to be " up to 200 times more secure than a fingerprint reader " )
USB Type-C
LTE Cat. 9 , Bluetooth 4.2 , NFC (no FM radio )
S Pen ( stylus)
IP68 certification
Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Weight: 168 grams
Dimensions : 153.5 x 73.9 x 7,9mm
Colors : black, silver , gray and gold

Source:
http://www.swedroid.se/specifikationer-och-svenskt-pris-samsung-galaxy-note-7/
http://www.mobil.se/nyheter/elgiganten-har-prissatt-note-7#.V5_07qKP7xI


Some more leaky info, probably allready mentioned here:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/More...-7-appear-on-the-eve-of-its-unveiling_id83724

http://www.slashgear.com/galaxy-note-7-new-s-pen-air-commands-get-leaked-01450167/

Some specs here does not match above sales pitch - like nougat vs marshmallow.
2 versions of RAM (could be that the most expensive model 256Gb gets 6Gb and 64/128 only gets 4Gb - to sell more expensive phones as opposed to cheap SD-cards ;) )
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note7-8082.php

Well - 11am (17 here) we will know.
For me I think Ill wait and see what Nokia brings in Q4 to the Android market - talks about graphene based sensors (photo and fingerprint) certainly raised my eyebrows since that would be a true revolution in smart phones :)
 
Anybody else notice that the official package, for the phone, also has a Spigen logo on this pic? Seems odd to me, unless there's going to be a tempered glass protector provided along with the Note 7? Or maybe a case? Or both?
Galaxy-Note-7-3.jpg


http://www.mobipicker.com/galaxy-note-7-caught-on-camera/
 
Wow, that would be GREAT if they included a tempered screen protector. I will be getting one for sure and having one included would be very nice.
 
I can't see ANY cell phone being worth a thousand dollars, I don't care what it is. If Samsung puts the price point that high, they're going to be very disappointed in sales.
 
I kinda didn't believe the 6gb ram. The one I'm more surprised about is the battery. How Samsung is going to "justify" the bump down in battery capacity from the s7 edge, I'm very curious to see/hear...LOL I'm sure I'll do fine with 3500mah, but no way it'll do better than my Mate 8, which is still holding strong to 2 days of use before needing a full charge. I just hope that they were smart enough to get the device out for sales sooner than later. 19th will be too long a wait IMO.
 
So did they release the actual SPECS of the phone? How do you announce a thousand dollar phone and not release actual tech specs? I want to have it compared to the S7 and see if there are actually any hardware upgrades besides a little software fluff BS.
 
Teegunn said:
So did they release the actual SPECS of the phone? How do you announce a thousand dollar phone and not release actual tech specs? I want to have it compared to the S7 and see if there are actually any hardware upgrades besides a little software fluff BS.
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Anandtech reporting same 8890 International and Snapdragon 820 for US
*I cry.... I wanted at least 8890 US version or Snapdragon 821 for the speed bump.
 
I think they held back on giving us leading hardware specs (in other words, the lesser CPU, 4GB RAM instead of 6GB, 64GB storage only, instead of 128GB and 256GB versions) so that they can leave themselves room to try and get us to fork over another $1K again for some or all of those should-already-be-available-specs-this-time next year. I think they recognized what me and I bet many others did. I bought by Note 3 when it came out in 2013. I didn't think of replacing it (because there was no need), for 2 years. If they hadn't screwed us over so badly with the Note 5's needlessly crippled featuresset, I'd have bought one.

Instead, I reluctantly decided to push on through another year with the Note 3. At this point, if the One Plus 3 included a microSD slot, I'd be buying it instead of the Note 7. It's $400 for a 6GB RAM device, instead of the $1K it's going to be for a Note 7, with only 4GB of RAM. There seems like no reason for Samsung to have taken a back seat to upstarts on leading edge specs other than to sandbag their customers into replacing again sooner. Who's telling them that curved edges, half-baked iris scanning, and a stylish fragile glass back are higher draws for customers than fastest possible device performance, largest possible on-board storage, and largest capacity battery?

Samsung's performance in meeting customer expectations with the Note 5 to me looked like them blasting their own foot clean off. This year, I'd rate them as having done only slightly better. The Note 5's feature set was such a deliberately cynical and disappointing let down that I had zero interest in supporting them for it with a purchase. The Note 7's conspicuous lack of top specs this time is significantly disappointing, but probably not enough to prevent me from buying it. It has the improved low light camera capabilities that I was looking for in the Note 5, and this time it has the microSD slot like I expected the Note 5 should have had. A nice extra is the IP68 feature. I'll appreciate the dust-proofing even more than the water-proofing. With my Note 3, I eventually gave up on keeping the proximity sensor working. I had to pull the phone apart a number of times, on different occasions, to clean out the dust/lint that works its way inside and blocks the sensor, causing it to stop working.

Maybe I'll get the Note 7 this time, then prepare to be really patient again. Maybe someone in charge at Samsung will eventually figure out that their own greatest fortunes lay in offering product spec levels based on however close they can reliably get to the leading edge at that moment, instead of on a strategy that appears aimed at trying to hasten their customers to replace their purchases more frequently. Maybe they will sell each customer a new handset less often, but I bet they will earn themselves a much larger total number of customers. I bet that would make their success and their company the strongest.

Or am I just being ungrateful? ;)
 
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