Samsung Galaxy S7 release date could be bumped to January

Samsung typically announces its new
Galaxy S flagships at or around MWC, which in 2016 takes place towards the
end of February. But this time we might
see the announcement brought forward
to sometime in January.

That's according to ETNews, which claims the Samsung Galaxy S7 could arrive more than a month ahead of schedule, citing 'multiple parts industry stakeholders' as their source. More specifically it appears to say that the flagship will arrive on January 19, though the translated version of the page isn't entirely clear.

While this is all just a rumour for now
Samsung did announce the Galaxy Note 5 a couple of weeks earlier than expected, so it is very possible that it
will do the same with the Galaxy S7.

Will the S7 be a foldable flagship?

The report also mentions both
'premium' and 'sub-premium' versions
of the phone, which lines up with
recent rumours of a foldable handset coming from Samsung. That was also
said to come in two versions- one with
a Snapdragon 820 processor and the
other with a Snapdragon 620 one and
like the S7 it's rumoured to be arriving
in January 2016.

So could this bendable phone and the
Samsung Galaxy S7 be one and the
same? They certainly both sound like
flagships, so it could be that one
version of the Galaxy S7 will be
bendable and arrive in January at a separate event, or even that they all
will be.

A separate rumour, this time from 'i Ice
universe' on Weibo, echoes an older leak with claims that the Samsung
Galaxy S7 could have a magnesium alloy frame, making the phone tougher than ever. Or at least making the sides tougher, as the back is likely to still be glass.

Whether all of this will pan out remains
to be seen, but one thing's for sure,
January is starting to look a whole lot
more exciting.