Samsung to deviate from traditional April release date with February launch for Galaxy S7

Samsung just might deviate from its traditional launch schedule for its flagship handsets. A tech company analyst has revealed that the Galaxy S7 will hit the market in February 2016.

Avid Samsung users are aware that the Korean tech giant usually launches its S smartphones in April. A tipster, however, has just leaked that the upcoming flagship smartphone will be unveiled in January 2016 and will be available in the market by February, Phone Arena reports.

This is reportedly different from when the company launched the Galaxy S7's predecessors, the Galaxy S5 and Galaxy S6. The devices were announced during the Mobile World Congress and were made available in April 2014 and 2015.

Samsung is reportedly utilising a new manufacturing and development methodology that allows them to produce mobile devices more quickly. Instead of the old "waterfall" method, which means the company will make one section of the device after another, it’s now implementing the "agile" method of manufacturing. The new system allows the company to work on different components of the device simultaneously.

Samsung has clearly taken its device production to the next level to more efficiently compete against Apple, its main rival. Samsung worked hard to release Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge+ a month before the Cupertino-based company was scheduled to launch the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus. The Apple devices were released on Sept. 25, as pointed out by Tech Times.

Samsung's new system for producing flagship devices supposedly confirms the possibility of the change of schedule in the handsets' release. The tipster who revealed the information works at SK Securities, which happens to be an affiliate of SK Telecom, which, in turn, is one of the largest carriers in South Korea.

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