Samsung, LG to release latest smartphones in coming weeks

Ben White, Acting Managing Director of Product and Marketing at Optus, said, "We want our customers to get the best possible experience with Optus which is why we are excited to bring them the new Samsung Galaxy smartphones". Both the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge are apparently already being packed and will start shipping as early as this Monday, February 29th.

Samsung Electronics' spokesperson declined to clarify whether the rumors are true in South Korea as well as possible moves to extend this practice to the global market.

Display: The Samsung device has a 5.5-inch Super AMOLED screen with a resolution of 1440 x 2650, while the LG phone's 5.3-inch IPS-LCD display.

Those in the concierge programme can also enjoy a one time 50 per cent discount on any off-warranty repairs, such as screen replacement or water damage repairs, in the first year of ownership.

However, there are a couple of differences between the two phones.

Samsung fans went up in arms when we recently learned that Samsung was not going to activate the "adoptable storage" feature of Android, something that was supposed to be innate to Android Marshmallow. Samsung's S7 is waterproof without having to seal off all ports and can be charged wirelessly by placing the phone on a charging base. iPhone does not offer any of these options.

The Galaxy S7 takes the traditional square flat boxy shape. It feels like Samsung thought of this as an answer to not allowing adoptable storage. However, consumers who purchase their S7 by March 18th will receive a free Samsung Gear S2 or Gear VR if ordered online. The S7's low-light images are crisp, more dynamic, less grainy, and brighter than that of the iPhones'.

The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is available now on eBay with only a $460 United States dollars price tag. In the U.S. and several other countries, the two devices are underpinned by a 64-bit quad-core Snapdragon 820 processor, while on certain markets the phones are available with an Exynos 8990 CPU.

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