Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro

Here’s some food for thought – what makes a smartphone stand out in a crowd? The internal specifications of a device and the software it’s running are important, but a captivating design is what draws customers to it in the first place. After all, your smartphone will be your most used gadget until you upgrade it, so why carry a device which looks like a slab of metal in the first place? Samsung has been designing some good-looking smartphones as of late and the Galaxy J7 Pro has gotten the full ‘premium looks’ treatment from the company. The J7 Pro has been constructed out of metal, and flaunts a seamless design which looks mesmerising, to say the least.

The Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro comes with a pair of 13MP sensors on the back and the front respectively. The primary shooter boasts a F/1.7 aperture whereas the secondary shooter comes with a F/1.9 aperture lens and both the shooters feature a dedicated LED flash module too. On paper, the Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro features capable shooters, however, before I dissect the smartphone’s camera performance, let’s look at the built-in camera app first.

Buyers familiar with Samsung will know that the company uses in-house chips to power most of its smartphones. The same is true for the Galaxy J7 Pro, which is backed by an Exynos 7 7870 octa-core processor clocked at 1.6GHz. The handset gets 3GB of RAM, and by now, you might be wondering why you should pay Rs 21k for a smartphone with a year-old processor and just 3GB of RAM when we’ve got smartphones with faster chips and 8GB of RAM in the market. While the spec sheet might seem a bit disappointing on paper, let me assure you that it packs enough grunt to keep everything running smoothly for the most part. Once launched, regular apps work fine. That said, there’s some lag while opening the app drawer or swiping right to bring up the Briefing page. The smartphone isn’t bloat-free either and there are multiple accounts of duplicate apps on board the J7 Pro.  

The battery life on the Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro is excellent. The handset comes with a beefy 3,600mAh unit which will easily last you a day on heavy usage. I managed to hit the 5-hour screen on time mark multiple times with the J7 Pro and you could even push the smartphone a bit further if you enable one of the power saving modes. In our video loop test, the J7 Pro managed to run for over 19 hours, which is one of the best results we’ve seen in this segment as of yet.