Samsung is working to bring some features of its ill-fated Galaxy Note 7 phone to its S7 and S7 Edge devices.<\/p>\n
In October, the Galaxy Note 7 was recalled and discontinued after reports that some handsets were catching fire.<\/p>\n
Samsung told the BBC it would “enhance” the S7 and S7 Edge with new features.<\/p>\n
One analyst suggested the company was hoping that people returning their Note 7 would be tempted to stick with a Samsung phone over newer rivals.<\/p>\n
“Normally, Samsung launches a flagship phone twice a year,” said Ian Fogg, analyst at IHS Markit. “Now effectively the S7 Edge is its flagship for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n
“They need to do everything they can to make it competitive against newer rivals such as the iPhone 7 and Google Pixel.”<\/p>\n
Enhancements<\/strong><\/p>\n The first changes have been made to the “always-on screen” feature, which has been updated to more closely match the functionality of the Note 7.<\/p>\n The “always-on screen” can display photographs, a clock and notifications while the phone is idle.<\/p>\n “We have issued a software update delivering certain feature enhancements to the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, which offer a more convenient and customisable mobile experience,” said Samsung in a statement.<\/p>\n The update has not yet been rolled out in Europe, and software developers on one message board said it still had some bugs that needed ironing out.<\/p>\n “They want to take some of the innovation they had on the Note 7 and add it to the S7, but the challenge is that they have different hardware,” said Mr Fogg.<\/p>\n “The Note 7 had a stylus and an iris scanner for unlocking the device. They might manage to add some software features to other Samsung phones but not everything will be possible.”<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Samsung is working to bring some features of its ill-fated Galaxy Note 7 phone to its S7 and S7 Edge devices. In October, the Galaxy Note 7 was recalled and discontinued after reports that some handsets were catching fire. Samsung told the BBC it would “enhance” the S7 and S7 Edge with new features. One […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":259302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[3,205],"class_list":["post-259301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ghana-news","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/259302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}