The Galaxy S7 looks good with curves. Photo: OnLeaks

The Galaxy S7’s new design, which takes cues from last year’s Galaxy Note 5, has been revealed early in an apparent leaked design video. The device has a curved glass back, but doesn’t too dissimilar to its predecessor at first glance.

A leaked Galaxy S7 display panel (right) alongside a Galaxy Note 5 panel. Photo: PhoneArena

Samsung’s new Galaxy S7 will sport a familiar design, according to recent reports — but it may not be the Galaxy S6 clone we’ve all been expecting. According to a leaked display panel, the device may actually look just like a mini Galaxy Note 5 instead.

Damn that easy-to-use grid of apps! Photo: Apple

The arrival of the original iPhone may have fundamentally changed Google’s plans for its Android smartphone platform, but according to Google’s Vice President of Design, Matias Duarte, Apple’s iOS layout — consisting of grids of apps icons — is disappointingly stagnant.

“[The iPhone] crystallised a lot of other things that were kind of stayed even by that point,” Duarte told Wired in an interview, “like the rows of icons, which don’t scale very well. This idea of a tiny grid that you manually curate starts to feel very heavy and burdensome.”

We’ve heard for years that Apple could incorporate OLED displays into next-generation iPhones, but over the past few months, those rumors have ramped up, suggesting that the power-sipping display technology could land as early as the iPhone 7.

Now, a new report buttresses those rumors, saying Apple is close to finalizing a supply agreement with Samsung and LG to give future iPhones OLED displays.

How long does it take an iPhone to lap a Nexus and a Lumia?

If all of the big boys’ flagship phones – the iPhone 6s Plus, the Google Nexus 6P, and Microsoft’s Lumia 950 XL – raced in NASCAR, which would be the fastest phone around? This speedtest video puts that concept to the test, making all three phones “run laps” to see which is the fastest.