Continuing the fashion of building metallic J and A series smartphones since last year, the J7 also has a completely metallic unibody design. The design screams class and glamor from every possible angle. Without actually using the phone, or looking up its price online, most people will be remiss when guessing its price range.
Although the design is modern and premium, it still retains the old school Samsung charm and familiarity. You can easily tell it is a Samsung device, without ever taking a glance at the manufacturer logo on the device.
Despite having a 5.5-inch large screen, the device is actually quite comfortable in the hand. Although I have quite large hands being 6 feet and 3, the device didn’t feel freakishly large in the hands of people with considerably normal proportions.
New devices by Samsung in the J series, the J5 prime and J7 prime, although are on the lower end of the price spectrum, are made up of premium materials and do not seem cheap to boot.
Due to a uni-body design, you cannot remove the battery. Though, you can access SIM and micro SD card slots through small trays along the sides of the device. Left side holds the slots for the primary SIM card along with another slot for the secondary SIM as well as the SD card slot. The left side also houses the volume up and down keys. Both keys, separated by a small wedge, have similar shape and design, and thus are somewhat difficult to distinguish from each other at times of urgency. I wish Samsung had made it easier to know which one rocks up the volume and which one lowers.
The right side of the device only hosts the power key and a small slot for the loudspeaker. The loudspeaker is small and muffled in both size and quality. The sound quality is enough for making sure that no call goes unnoticed in a crowded area. You, however, can never expect to fill a room with music using the device’s speaker.
The positioning of the speaker is also very peculiar. You can easily cover the speaker with your fingers when holding in hands — which is not good. The size of speakers is small and will be covered completely without much effort on your part.