Samsung plans initial production of 5 mn Galaxy S7 phones

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd plans an initial production run of about 5 million of its upcoming Galaxy S7 smartphones.

Samsung is planning to launch two different versions of its new flagship smartphone: a 5.2-inch flat-screen version, and a 5.5-inch, curved-screen version that will be called the ‘Galaxy S7 edge’.

Samsung plans to initially make 3.3 million of the flat-screen devices and around 1.6 million of the curved-screen version, the report said, with plans to launch the handset in February.

Samsung Galaxy S7 will have “the company’s own Exynos 8890 chipset” and another variant will run the Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 SoC. GeekBench benchmark scores of a so-called Galaxy S7 smartphone with Snapdragon 820 were also spotted on the Chinese website Weibo. Reports have said that Samsung has an exclusive tie-up with Qualcomm for the Snapdragon 820 processor for a year.

Another report has added that Samsung plans to add cooling pipes to the Galaxy S7 to deal with heating issues in the processor. On the design front, Samsung is expected to stick with the glass and metal design that was introduced with the Samsung Galaxy S6. The S7 will also come with a Type-C USB port like Google Nexus series, OnePlus 2 smartphone.