Showing posts with label Samsung. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Samsung. Show all posts

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6+ Unpacked: what to expect


It's hours until the Unpacked event, which will see the debut of the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge+. Okay that's what we think from the rumors, let's recap them while we pass the time to the curtain opening. It goes without saying: spoilers ahead.
By the way, the event starts at 15:00 GMT. There will be a livestream so you can watch the unveiling, but it isn't available yet so check back in a few hours, we'll post it so it's easy to find.

Samsung Galaxy Note 5

Last year Samsung unveiled two Notes, but the fifth generation will likely be a solo act. The phablet king will be based on the Galaxy S6 both in terms of design and inner hardware.
The screen is expected to stay at 5.7" QHD, though Samsung probably has some technology improvements for Super AMOLED. The back will drop the faux leather look, switching to glass instead.
The chipset is rumored to be an Exynos 7420. Samsung usually uses a beefier chipset for the Note compared to the Galaxy S, but there's no word on a new Exynos. Perhaps we'll see higher clock speeds, but talk of a new 7422 chipset died out so new hardware is unlikely.
Like the chipset, the camera department will stay put – 16MP camera with optical image stabilization on the back and a 5MP selfie camera. There's a chance the camera will move toa Samsung sensor or mix them up with Sony-supplied sensors.


The Galaxy Note 5 should have 4GB of RAM, the extra gig will afford some extra room for Android 5.1 Lollipop, TouchWiz and apps. The new model will come with extra storage options – the usual 32GB, plus 64GB and 128GB.
In case you haven't heard, chances of a microSD card slot are slim to none. Samsung is also cutting off access to the battery. It already did that with the Galaxy S6 and it seems the Note 5 won't escape that fate. We may see the microSD slot return on the dual-SIM Note 5, but we wouldn’t bet on it.
We expect to hear how fast the UFS 2.0 storage is and how power efficient the new screen and chipset are, but those are small consolations.
Especially when Galaxy Note 5 is expected to have a 3,000mAh battery – 220mAh smaller than the previous generation. Wireless charging is a very likely addition for what that's worth and we're going to see some variation of Fast Charge (but no USB 3.0 or Type C).
Here's a potential plot twist – will the S Pen stylus be clickable or not? Will it auto-eject? (our bet: "no" for both)

Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+

It may have been the Note Edge that pioneered the screen side curve, but that seems to be moving exclusively to the "S6 edge" line. The Galaxy S6 edge+ will be the same size as the Note 5, but it will not have an S Pen (so it's not a "Note").
The ~5.7" screen will have its left and right sides curved as on the smaller S6 edge. Stylus aside, the hardware will be pretty much identical – Exynos 7420, 16MP+5MP cameras, no microSD slot and a sealed 3,000mAh battery.
We're not sure what could have prompted that decision, Samsung advertises the S Pen as the biggest reason the Galaxy Note is better than other phablets. Will the curved screen be enough to set the Galaxy S6 edge+ apart?
Well, it better. It's expected to cost €800/$875 for the 32GB model so it's definitely priced like a Note. Pre-orders should start around August 20/21 in France and South Korea, the launch two weeks later.
Samsung may be betting on a physical keyboard cover for the S6 edge+, which slides on the bottom of the phone and turns it into an OmniaPRO throwback.

Something else

A Galaxy S6 mini? An 18.4" tablet? A Tizen smartwatch? New Gear VR?
The Samsung corner of the rumor mill is quite busy and we might see one of the gadgets standing there get promoted to official status. Last year at IFA the company unveiled two Galaxy Notes (4 and Edge), the Gear S smartwatch and a Gear VR headset.


However, if Samsung brings out a new watch and headset today it won't have much left to show at IFA (which is less than a month away). Pulling the Note 5/S6 edge+ announcement forward was to give them some breathing room before Apple drops the new iPhone 6s/6s plus, so the focus will likely stay on them.

Sunday, August 9, 2015

From seafood trader to king of technology - a glimpse at Samsung’s history

Hello everyone and welcome to our new article series that will go over the history of some of the mobile industry's leading companies. We are starting with the current largest player in the game, but other makers will be coming over the following weeks.
Samsung may be one of the world's biggest technology conglomerates today, but the company’s business activities were not even remotely associated with technology when it was founded. In this write-up, we take a look at the company’s journey from a humble beginning to becoming a global technology powerhouse.
Fish trader
Samsung - which means three stars in Korean - was founded back in 1938 by Byung-Chull Lee as Samsung Sanghoe. It started as a company based in Daegu (Korea) that exported dried local fish, vegetables, and fruit to Manchuria and Beijing.
Lee started the business with 30,000 won, which is equivalent to today’s $25. The company quickly expanded, having its own flour mills and confectionery machines, as well as its own manufacturing and sales operations in just over a decade. In 1951, Lee established Samsung Moolsan (now Samsung Corporation).
Business expansion
Then, in the next couple of decades, many other subsidiaries were born, including Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, Samsung Life Insurance, and Samsung Everland. But it was 1969 when Samsung-Sanyo Electronics (which later became Samsung Electronics we know today) was established.
The subsidiary’s first product was a black-and-white TV (model: P-3202), whose production started in 1970. It went on sale in Korea a couple of years later.
By 1976, the company had produced its 1 millionth black-and-white TV. That number quadrupled in the next couple of years, which at that time was by far the most by any company in the world. Samsung Electronics also started producing color TVs, washing machines, refrigerators, and microwave ovens, as well as began exporting its products for the first time in 1970s. The decade also saw Samsung acquiring a majority stake in Korea Semiconductor, which was later renamed Samsung Semiconductor.
First phone
During the 1980s, Samsung Electronics achieved various milestones, including venturing into AC production, producing its 20 millionth colour TV, and exporting microwave ovens and VCRs to Canada and the US, respectively. In 1985, the subsidiary built its first ever phone, dubbed SC-1000, although it was made for in-car use only.
The device was reportedly plagued by quality issues, and hence wasn’t successful. However, that did not stop the company from producing its first hand-held phone - the SH-100, which went on sale in the year 1988. Sadly, this handset wasn’t successful either.
This was also the decade when the subsidiary started producing personal computers (PCs), and developed the world’s smallest, lightest 4mm video tape recorder. Some new subsidiaries, including Samsung BP Chemicals, Samsung Semiconductor & Telecommunications, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, and Samsung Data Systems were also established in these years.
End of an era
Unfortunately, the decade also marked the end of an era for Samsung, as founder Lee died of lung cancer in 1987. Given the fact that Samsung was - and still is - a chaebol (a Korean term for clan-owned business), it was obvious that his successor would be someone from his own family. While Lee had three sons, he reportedly wanted his eldest daughter Lee In-hee to succeed him. However, that didn’t happen as one apparently needs to be a male to head the company.
A few weeks after his death, Lee’s youngest son Kun-hee became the Samsung Group’s second chairman. The reason senior Lee didn’t choose any of the elder sons was because he felt that they were “unfit for executive positions.”
Frankfurt Declaration and the famous bonfire
Samsung had come a long way from where it began, and was still going strong - the early 1990’s saw the Electronics division developing world’s first 64M DRAM as well as the first-ever digital video disk recorder (DVD-R). However, the quality of products that the subsidiary was producing was not up to the mark.
In 1993, chairman Kun-hee went on a world tour to see how the company was faring internationally, only to find out that most of its products - especially TVs - were performing poorly compared to those by rival companies like Sony and Panasonic. Obviously, he wasn’t happy.
While in Frankfurt, Germany, he summoned around 200 Samsung executives to the Falkenstein Grand Kempinski Hotel, where he was staying. And what did he do? He delivered a three-day long speech, detailing his vision for the company’s future and the steps needed to make it a reality.
The intensity of his speech can be judged from one of the popular quotes in which he said, “change everything but your wife and children.” The event became known, formally, as the Frankfurt Declaration of 1993
Soon thereafter, the subsidiary completed development of world’s first 256M DRAM as well as introduced world’s first 33” double-screen TV. Just when it started to appear that the speech has turned out to be a game-changer for Samsung, quality of products began slipping again. And then, something unprecedented happened.
In 1995, Kun-hee sent out the company’s new wireless phones as New Year’s gift to family, friends, and some close business associates, only to find out that the devices didn’t work the way they were supposed to. Embarrassed with the development and upset over the poor quality of products, he visited Samsung’s largest plant located in Gumi (Korea).
There he first asked all employees to wear headbands that said Quality First, and then ordered around 150,000 gadgets, including phones, fax machines, and TVs to be burned in front of them. Hardware worth around $50 million was reduced to ashes in a single day. This was followed by installation of a new CEO for Samsung Electronics in 1996, the year in which the subsidiary developed world’s fastest CPU, the Alpha chip.
Focus on phones
The Asian financial crisis of 1997 affected nearly all Korean businesses. However, Samsung was one of the very few companies that not only weathered the storm but also managed to grow - it achieved top share of world’s TFT-LCD market in 1998. By this time, Samsung had also started taking mobile more seriously - the company released one of its first Internet-ready phones, the SCH-3500, in 1999.
And then the early 2000’s saw the company launching a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) phone, industry’s first ultra-thin handset, and 16 Chord Progression Melody Phone (shown below).
A new high-definition TFT-LCD colour cellular phone as well as one with the UFB-LCD concept was also released during this period. Some of Samsung’s other achievements during the early 2000’s include world’s first 40 inch TFT-LCD, world's slimmest PDP-TV, world’s first 46” LCD TV, and 54”TFT-LCD - the largest digital TV monitor in the world. Samsung was also ranked the No. 1 IT company by Business Week, and 5th most admired electronics company by Fortune Magazine.
In 2005, Samsung developed world’s first speech recognition phone, dubbed p207 (shown below).
This was followed by the world’s first 7MP camera phone in the same year, and a 10MP phone the very next year. In 2007, the company’s BlackJack (shown below) was given the Best Smart Phone award at CTIA in the US.
In the year 2008, the South Korean company first claimed the top spot in the US cellphone market. Incidentally, this was also the year when the Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional-basedOmnia phone was launched.
Other milestones Samsung Electronics achieved in this decade include the world’s first OLED for 40" TV, the largest Flexible LCD Panel, the world's’ first Blu-Ray Disc Player, the world’s first real double-sided LCD, the world’s thinnest Blu-ray player, and the world’s thinnest TV (6.5mm). The company also announced its own open mobile platform dubbed Bada in 2009.
Android phones
Samsung's first Android phone - the i7500 (also known as the Samsung Galaxy) - was released in 2009. It was powered by a Qualcomm MSM7200A SoC with 528 MHz ARM 11 CPU and Adreno 130 GPU. It had a 3.2-inch display and was the first Android-powered device to come with a 5 megapixel camera.
This was followed by the Galaxy S, which came out an year later with Hummingbird chipset (1 GHz Cortex-A8 processor and PowerVR SGX540 GPU), 4-inch Super AMOLED display, and 5MP camera. The device was Samsung’s first step into the US smartphone market. It turned out to be a well received handset.
Samsung upped the screen-size, processor power, and other specs in the Galaxy S2, which was released in 2011. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that the device established the company as a serious contender among other established smartphone players, like Apple. The handset received rave reviews and was also given the Smartphone of the Year award at Mobile World Congress’ Global Mobile Awards in 2012.
The trend continued with the oval-shaped Galaxy S3, which brought along a new design and powerful quad-core processor. It turned out to be a hugely successful smartphone for Samsung, both critically and commercially, with the company selling over 10 million units in less than a quarter. It was also labelled as an "iPhone killer” when it overtook the iPhone 4S to become the world's best-selling smartphone in Q3, 2012.
Released in 2013, the Galaxy S4 sported a 5.0-inch, 1080p Super AMOLED display, was powered by an Exynos 5 Octa 5410 SoC, and featured a 13MP rear camera. The device was so successful that it became the company’s fastest selling smartphone, as well as the fastest selling Android phone of all time.
Unfortunately, the Galaxy S5 failed to replicate the success of its predecessor - the first quarter sales reportedly lagged by as much as 40% against what was expected. The flop-show was largely attributed to the handset’s unimpressive hardware, with the Wall Street Journal even calling the back of the phone a "Band-Aid". Samsung also fired three of its senior executives over the device’s failure.
This brings us to the present year, when the tech giant made a hell of a comeback with itsGalaxy S6/S6 edge flagship duo. Both devices have arguably been hugely successful.
Other products
While the Galaxy S series has been a highlight of Samsung’s smartphone line-up, the company has also launched many other smartphones that deserve a mention. For example, in 2010, it launched the Nexus S, which was co-developed by Google. The company’s Galaxy Note series has also been hugely popular among users.
Besides smartphones, Samsung also develops tablets, smartwatches, and smartbands. It’s also into mobile operating systems - while Bada may be dead, the Tizen-based Z1 smartphone has been a commercial hit in the markets where it is currently available. The company has also developed its own mobile payments service, dubbed Samsung Pay, and is expected to unveil it this month.
Conclusion
Samsung’s is truly a rags-to-riches story, from a small, non-tech company to one that makes all kinds of products you could imagine - it even has a subsidiary called Samsung Techwin that makes tanks and jet engines, with countries like Poland, Turkey, and South Korea as its customers.

Unannounced Samsung device blasts through AnTuTu with 96,000 points (updated)


A mysterious Samsung device shattered the AnTuTu benchmark charts by posting a barely believable score of 95,972 points. For comparison, the already capable Samsung Galaxy S6and Galaxy S6 edge score in the range of 70,000 points.
Update: The score has turned out to be a fake. The "mysterious" device ended up being aSamsung Galaxy Alpha variant for market in East and Southeast Asia.


The handset features the model number SM-G8508S. There is no word on the product name of the smartphone, though early speculation suggests that we might be looking at a Samsung Galaxy S7 test mule. At this point, Samsung Galaxy Note 5 is out of question, as the phablet is all but certain to pack the same Exynos 7420 SoC as the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge.
There are no details on the make and model of the device’s chipset. We might be looking at either Samsung’s next generation Exynos solution, or a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 SoC.

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Samsung and Google promise monthly security updates from now on

Recently a pretty nasty vulnerability in Android was discovered. It's being called Stagefright, and it affects versions 2.2 Froyo and newer of the OS. There is a fix, and thankfully it's now starting to be deployed through over-the-air updates by different manufacturers and carriers.
But to ensure a more swift response to future situations of this nature, two companies that are very important to the Android ecosystem have announced some similar measures today.
Let's start with Google, the developer of Android and the company in charge of software updates for the Nexus line. It has unveiled that, going forward, it will release monthly security updates for the Nexus devices, in addition to the usual platform updates.
The first such security patch is in fact rolling out right now to the Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 7, Nexus 9, Nexus 10, and Nexus Player, fixing the aforementioned Stagefright exploit. According to Google, Nexus devices receive security updates "for the longer of three years from initial availability or 18 months from last sale of the device via the Google Store".
At the same time, Samsung, the biggest Android device maker, has committed to implementing a new security update process for its products. This will fast track patches when new vulnerabilities are uncovered. The updates will come to Samsung devices over-the-air "regularly about once per month".
The Korean company is already doing some fast tracking in issuing a patch for the Stagefright bug, but it "plans to further develop this process and implement it as a timely security update practice".

Sunday, July 12, 2015

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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

GoDell More 1.4 New Rom!


Changelog for V.1.4
  • New kernel 2.6.35.14
  • Overclocked up to 864Mhz
  • Governors and I/O Schedullers
  • Performance as default Gov
  • SIO as default Sched
  • Added feature StatusBarTweaks (clock, battery,battery bar,signal,transparancy) credit to Parasmi, pvyParts, and RomanBB
  • Boot Animation and Boot Sound from Andro-ID credit to TJ-Style (thanks for permission)
  • Scrolling Cache and Volume Step credit to AndroidON
  • Enable / Disable CRT Animation
  • 6x8 Quickpanel layout
  • TouchWiz with transparent status bar
  • 5 icon dock
  • 5x3 app drawer
  • Improve performance
  • MOD some UI
  • Back to ODEX
  • Remove some GoogleApps (you can download it from PlayStore)

What He removed
  1. Gmail.apk
  2. GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk
  3. Quickoffice.apk
  4. Street.apk
  5. Swype.apk
  6. talkback.apk
  7. VoiceSearch.apk
  8. YouTube.apk
  9. YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT FROM PLAYSTORE

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