Samsung is the top player in manufacturing the smart phones and it has produced the higher end phones like Note 7 in the market and S7 Edge, which has impressed a lot of people in preparing the superior build quality, great user experience and performance of the handsets. The mid range offering of the handset of Samsung does not meet the expectations of most of the people. Now Samsung is going to change the newly announced handset, Galaxy J7 Prime.

Design & Build Quality

The top end smart phones of Samsung are not prepared with metal but the company has changed it and J7 Prime is added with the metal body A-series handsets. The smart phone J7 Prime is giving he premium feel and it looks solidly built. The Gorilla glass is used on the front of the handset and it is added with metal on the sides. The handset uses 2.5 D glass and it gives the obtrusion between the metal and glass. It is added with 5.5 inches 1080p display with earpiece, sensors and front camera on top of handset. They will also find standard Samsung button on the bottom and home button in middle with multi tasking key on the left side and back key on its right side.

The users will find single LED flash along with primary camera on back and has the volume rocket with dual SIM slot and dedicated memory card slot on left side. The users will also find the loud speaker and power button on the right side.

Display

Samsung provides good display and it produced the best AMOLED display with their flagships and the panels are found on some other mid range offerings including Galaxy A7. Samsung is close to go with 1920 x 1080 PLS-LCD screen and it owns its version of IPS displays.

The PLS LCD display on the J7 Prime is excellent and it is added with plenty sharp and the brightness is turned all the way up and very easy to see even in direct sunlight. Samsung includes an outdoor mode to boosts the brightness for 15 minutes for better visibility. It is compared to FHD phone sporting a IPS LCD and there was big difference. The IPS display produced much better viewing angles and saturated colors. The PLS display on J7 Prime was not behind and in real world usage the users can be hard pressed to notice any difference.

Performance

The Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime is provided with Exynos 7870, which is the own processor of Samsung and it is an octa-core processor running at 1.6GHz and it is added with 3GB RAM. Most of the people use the social media websites including Facebook, WhatsApp, Chrome and playing few games like Missiles, Asphalt 8, Dead Trigger 2 etc. The users can get consistent performance out of it in your daily tasks and it performed decently.

This handset is added with 3GB RAM and it does not close applications in the background and it was able to maintain its apps. The users can get J7 Prime with enough horsepower to manage all tasks which they want to get completed. The improvement of software helped J7 Prime with the ability to hold more applications in background when it gives around 1GB free RAM.

Fingerprint Scanner

This handset is added with fingerprint scanner and it is also provided in J7 Prime. It does not boast with the special numbers with fingerprint scanner and it takes half a second to unlock the smart phone with this app. There are two ways to unlock the smart phone with fingerprint scanner by pressing the power button or home button and read the fingerprint. Secondly, they can rest their fingers on the scanner if the screen is off and it will read it and unlock the phone.

When the users have the former method to unlock the phone, the response time was faster and in the second method, it took couple of tries before getting around unlocking the smart phone. The users will not get the special features like assigning of the app to each of the finger to unlock the smart phone. The users can enroll maximum 3 fingers in mobile phone and these fingers can help to unlock the phone. Sometimes the users have to place their fingers on sensor more than one and this issue is present in the handset, J7 Prime and also in some other smart phones like Galaxy Note 7, Note 5 and S7 Edge.

Camera

The smart phone, J7 Prime is added with the camera and 13 MP Sony Imx258 sensor and the clients will also find them on Xiaomi Mi 4, OnePlus X, Sony Xperia XA and some other mid-range devices. This handset can capture images in 4:3 ratio and has the resolution of 4128 x 3096 and the quality of the picture is great if they are taken at day time. The camera quality is excellent and it takes time to focus. The front facing camera has the resolutions of 8 MP and it has the fixed focus lens. The exposure compensation is worst and it also increased the exposure to blow the highlights in the background. The users can adjust the exposure to move the camera in different directions. When the users get the right exposure, they can get good selfie and it can be used on the social media.

The users can double tap the home button so that they can have access to the camera and they used this feature to get some quick shots.

Connectivity and Storage

The smart phone, J7 Prime is included with dual SIM card slot and it is added with dedicated microSD card slot. The SIM card slots are 4G and the users can switch between these two SIMs to get the connectivity. The handset has limited internal storage capacity. The handset has 16 GB internal storage capacity and it the external storage capacity is 256 GB.

Battery Life

The smart phone, Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime is added with the powerful battery of 3,300 mAh and it is not removable. This smart phone is provided with the powerful battery and it is enough to make calls, massaging, leisure web browsing with few photos and WhatsApp. This handset is added of lots of screen with high brightness. This mobile phone has great standby time and it can help to run the mobile phone without any interruption for one day or more.

Software

The company has made the improvements in its hardware and software like TouchWiz. This software is better than that was in the previous days. The users will get the similar home screen with the setting panel with J7 Prime. The handset uses the white theme instead of blue theme and the animation looks better and the software gives the cool and lively feel. The software will show that the phone has improved its performance and the battery life. This handset, J7 Prime has the theme store, which is also introduced in Galaxy S6 Edge.

Conclusion

The price of the smart phone, Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime is Rs.34,999/- and this handset is added with excellent build quality, good camera and decent battery life. The users can get such good quality handsets, which are mid range devices and the customers will get this mid range handset having good hardware, software and its performance.