With its new S7 phone, Samsung looks even more like Apple

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Ever since Samsung announced its hyped up new Galaxy S7 at MWC, there has been much talk about its markedly better features, especially in comparison to the iPhone 6, Apple’s last iPhone. Samsung also rewarding those who pre-ordered before March 5 with a special delivery on March 8. Facebook will soon launch a streaming technology in Gear VR for 360 videos in near future.

VR is still in its early days, with much of the interest coming from hard-core gamers and tech pioneers.

While a comment calling the LG G5 the victor had the most up-votes at the time of this writing, Android fans calling the Galaxy S7 the victor definitely seem to outnumber G5 supporters by a pretty wide margin.

Sunday’s announcements at the Barcelona show come as worldwide smartphone growth has slowed, particularly for high-end devices such as Samsung’s S and LG’s G series. This year, the incentive is a free Gear VR, which usually costs more than Dh400 in the UAE.

The use of OLED technology is said to be the key reason as to why Samsung has been able to outstrip the competition.

In contrast, Galaxy S7, S7 edge come with a “Dual-Pixel” 12-megapixel camera with F1.7 aperture. The iPhone has also gotten better at low-light shots, even surpassing some standalone, point-and-shoot cameras in performance.

DJ Koh, head of Samsung Mobiles Communication said that “The Galaxy S7 is slated to go on sale in 60 countries on March 11”.

The Korean company also launched a 360-degree camera, the Gear 360, which resembles a small ball only slightly bigger than a golf ball.

GSMArena.com manged to get all the prices sorted, including those for the U.S. and its carriers as well as a couple of main regions in Europe and carriers specific for those countries.

S7 future buyers will be happy to know that this device will support Samsung VR headset. LG’s version has built-in, lighter displays in the headset’s eyepieces. In the new Galaxy S7, all of the image pixels could do the job according to Samsung.