According to IDC, the worldwide tablet market declined 8.6% during the Q3 2018. The global shipments fell to 36.4 million and the slate tablets accounted for the majority of the market with 31.6 million units, down 7.9% from the previous year. Detachable tablets also declined, down 13.1% from the previous year, and accounted for 4.8 million unit shipments. Continue reading “Worldwide tablet shipments declined 8.6% in Q3 2018, Apple and Samsung continue to lead: IDC”
Samsung Electronics is said to be planning on bringing new voice-assistant features to challenge its rivals in AI. The company is planning on opening its Bixby virtual assistant to third-party developers for the first time at an event in San Francisco next week. Continue reading “Samsung said to open Bixby voice-assistant to developers to take on Alexa and Siri”
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone vendors shipped a total of 355.2 million units during the Q3 2018; this is a 6% decline year-over-year. This was the fourth consecutive quarter of year-over-year declines for the global smartphone market. Continue reading “Global smartphone shipments down 6% in Q3 2018, Samsung leads with 72.2 million, Huawei posts 32.9% YoY growth”
Foldable smartphone tech is slowly on the rise. Samsung and Huawei are the most heard names for the front-runners among the bunch and both the companies will introduce their foldable smartphones in the next few months. Surprisingly LG might be in the race too as the company is rumored to unveil a foldable phone at its 2019 CES keynote. Continue reading “LG said to introduce foldable smartphone at CES 2019”
Samsung Galaxy Note9 supports up to 1TB storage with inbuilt 512GB storage and an additional 512GB support via microSD card. However, there’s no 512GB microSD card from Samsung, up until now anyway. Back in August, Samsung teased the 512GB microSD card but never announced it, but 512GB Evo+ is now being spotted on the local Samsung website with a price tag. Continue reading “Samsung introduces EVO Plus 512GB microSD Card”
Samsung Electronics has introduced two new 0.8-micrometer (μm) pixel image sensors; the 48-megapixel Samsung ISOCELL Bright GM1 and the 32MP ISOCELL Bright GD1. Thanks to the reduced pixel size, the new sensors provide greater design flexibility, enabling manufacturers to build smaller modules or pack more pixels into existing designs. Continue reading “Samsung 0.8μm 48MP Bright GM1 and 32MP Bright GD1 ISOCELL image sensors for smartphones announced”
Xiaomi earlier this week has launched the Mi MIX 3, Black Shark Helo Gaming Phone. It also launched the 6GB RAM variant of the Mi A2 in India. Meizu has launched the Note 8, OPPO introduced the R15x in China and lots more from this week in our weekly roundup. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: Xiaomi Mi MIX 3, Black Shark Helo, Samsung Galaxy A6s, HTC EXODUS 1 and more”
Italy’s anti-trust watchdog has fined Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics 5 million euros ($5.7 million) each over reports suggesting both the companies slowed down their phones through software updates. the Cupertino company was hit with an additional 5 million euro fine for failing to give clear information about how to maintain or eventually replace handset batteries. Continue reading “Apple and Samsung fined $5.7 million each by Italian anti-trust watchdog over slowing down phones”
Samsung has filed a patent with the USPTO and WIPO which is a method for acquiring biometric information and electronic device supporting the same’. The patent was published on October 18, 2018. Unlike the regular optical in-display fingerprint scanner, Samsung has patented a new technology that makes it possible to use the entire display as a fingerprint scanner. Continue reading “Samsung patent hints at a full-screen fingerprint scanner”
Samsung Electronics has announced a new advanced display technology for the HMD Odyssey+, bringing true-to-life Windows mixed reality space through the Windows Mixed Reality Platform. It comes with exclusive Anti-Screen Door Effect (Anti-SDE) Display innovation. Continue reading “Samsung HMD Odyssey+ Windows VR headset with dual 3.5-inch AMOLED displays announced”
Samsung has introduced Flash, its new laptop with Intel’s 802.11 ac 2X2 Gigabit wireless LAN card that supports speeds up to 1.7 gigabytes per second. It sports a 13.3-inches Full HD display and is customized for network services of KT Corp. mobile carrier.
Smartphone space is growing at a rapid pace, we have two types of designs; one where smartphones embrace the notch and there is Samsung which is minimizing the bezels on all corners without a notch. Off late, we have been seeing water-drop notch replacing the regular notch and we have Samsung that is working on eliminating even that by including in-display cameras and sensors. Continue reading “Samsung is working on in-display front camera, screen sound and gaming smartphone with haptic on display technology”
Samsung has announced the Galaxy Book2 its new always-connected PC that comes with Gigabit LTE, keyboard, S Pen. It is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 mobile compute platform and runs on Windows. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Book2 always connected 2-in-1 PC with 12-inch sAMOLED FHD+ display, Snapdragon 850, 4G LTE announced”
Samsung Electronics has announced two new automotive solution brands; Samsung Exynos Auto and Samsung ISOCELL Auto to bring application processor and image sensor technology solutions to the road. Based on the qualities of the Exynos mobile processors, Exynos Auto meets industry requirements for harsher environments, allowing automotive manufacturers to develop applications such as infotainment, advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) and telematics. Continue reading “Samsung introduces Exynos Auto and ISOCELL automobile chips”
Samsung recently launched the Galaxy A7 (2018) which is its first phone to come with triple rear-cameras and A9 is the world’s first smartphone with four rear-cameras. Now it looks like Samsung is working on yet another A-series phone that will be launched only in China initially. It is also said to be the company’s first ODM device which means that a third-party would manufacture it for the company. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A6s ‘Phoenix ‘with dual-rear cameras, gradient colors surface in live images”
