Gorgeous Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Concept Stuns With Rumored SD 820, 4GB RAM As The Banner Specs (Photo : Facebook)
Reports say that Samsung is making sure that the Galaxy S7 will out-spec the competition on its rumored early 2016 release date with the mighty duo of Snapdragon 820 and Exynos 8890 chips as its headlined hardware. But the upcoming flagship is likely to draw more attention with its operating system, which a new rumor suggests could be Android 6.0 Marshmallow in pure form.
Or the near-native build of the latest Google mobile operating system as blog reports coming from Asia indicate that the Android maker intends to work closer with Samsung in order to optimize the Android version that runs on Galaxy smartphone. According to G4Games, pointing to a blog post from Vietnam as source, Google is helping out Samsung to improve the latter's OS implementation on its mobile devices.
The main object of the partnership, the report said, is "Google might help Samsung in optimizing the next version of TouchWiz."
The possibility of Google having a direct hand in improving the generally unpopular TouchWiz Android skin by Samsung makes good business sense as the report pointed out that to date no other OEMs threaten Samsung's position as the top Android device maker. By playing a bigger role in the software side of Samsung Galaxy device, Google is essentially taking care of its business interest, the report said.
How exactly TouchWiz will be optimized was not discussed in the report but it can be safely assumed that Samsung's new take on Android will make Material Design, Google's core design philosophy for its mobile OS, more prominent in upcoming Galaxy models, starting off with the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge.
Another scenario is Samsung will go the way of Motorola, which quickly gained traction in the Android world by powering its Moto X, G and E smartphone series with Android in near-vanilla form. The South Korean tech giant can replicate the Lenovo-owned device maker by deploying the Galaxy S7, for instance, with a bloatware-free Android.
In Motorola's case, the Moto X is unpacked with an Android build that is very close to the native build but with Motorola-exclusive apps and features that users learned to love.
So to take after Motorola and to boast of a flagship that is fully-optimized with Android 6.0 Marshmallow, the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge on release date will still showcase the signature Samsung features like Samsung Pay while running on the Google operating system in its near-basic form.
