Samsung Galaxy S5: Check it all the main characteristics summarized in an infographic

A few days after the official launch, Samsung publishes an infographic that shows the main features of its new Galaxy S5. The image contains a detailed and precise all the information that may be of interest to anyone who was willing to get close to Galaxy S5.

Listing the main features both hardware and software, as well as specifies size and weight. Although the specifications are not eye-popping as he expected, Galaxy S5 can convince thanks to a particularly well supplied software.

Dong-hoon Chang VP Samsung confirms an important announcement for the upcoming MWC 2014

There is no longer any doubt, during the course of February Mobile World Congress 2014, or at the same time, however, we will have the first concrete information on the next terminal tip of the Korean manufacturer ready for this first part of the year. The confirmation came from Dong-hoon Chang VP Samsung , remembering how Samsung Galaxy S5 will be built with a completely new material and which are still in progress all the developments necessary to evaluate the use of a flexible display or not.

The hypothesis, however, lead to a presentation out of the MWC 2014 but temporally close with two variants of the next top range, a part certainly the Galaxy S5 and the other a premium version of the same so far as known Galaxy F which may not only take a aluminum body but also have different characteristics with respect to the new model of the Galaxy family.

Regarding the announcement at the Mobile World Congress, it is possible that the Korean organize a parallel event ​​for the exclusive reserve through a separate location or at different times in other cities but shortly after the end of MWC 2014.

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Samsung Galaxy S4 and S4 Mini "Black Edition" coming in February

The Samsung Galaxy S4 and Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini will have a total black version, the latest to miss all the color tones already available Samsung reserves usually last.

The hardware will of course remain the same; will also be a variant of the same color for the model dual-sim accumulate all by the presence of Android 4.3 on board. Samsung Galaxy S4 Black Edition and Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Black Edition should arrive in the next month February, highlighting even more the deep blacks of the Super AMOLED display with a good chance of being able to see already exposed in the upcoming trade fairs.

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Google Nexus 5 for all but not for LG, which he wanted to, call Nexus G [Inquisitiveness]

Although we have learned to identify the latest products in the Nexus range through a number, it must be remembered also that in the past Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus (both made ​​by Samsung) have been an exception, containing a reference to the line of smartphones Korean manufacturer: first with the letter S and then with the use of the Galaxy brand.

Starting from this premise are interesting rumors on the current Nexus 5, who also wanted to sell LG as the Google Nexus G, clearly inspired by the line device of the Korean manufacturer, after the renewal of the brand and the introduction of the letter G on all the latest products (LG G2, LG G Pad).

Google would obviously rejected the idea, and one of the most plausible reasons, there might just be the marketing of the Motorola Moto G version of Google Edition, too similar in name to the hypothetical Nexus G.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Limited Edition with flexible display from next month

The LCD variant of the new Samsung Galaxy Note 3 expected, but still to be confirmed, for emerging markets since November, could even be anticipated by another, built using a flexible display, probably with technology Youm . The report comes from some Korean media, stocks should be very limited as not ready for volume production. This circumstance leads to talk of a possible Limited Edition of  Samsung Galaxy Note 3 .

The latest speculation took it for good the possibility that Samsung managed to sell by November first device with a screen 5.6-inch equipped with the new technology in flexible displays, so the hypothesis is in addition to this and really could lead to an issue strictly limited the new Galaxy Note 3.

For the moment, not having any certainty, expect more information, or better yet, a few pictures leaked Samsung as now we have become accustomed.

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Samsung confirmed new factories to produce 20nm chips in early 2014

According to a recent report published by DigiTimes, Samsung would already be engaged in the preparation of the facility for the production of chips based on the production process to 20 nanometers . The purpose of Samsung is to launch activities from the beginning of next year it’s confirmed . The current proposals of competitors such as Qualcomm or MediaTek resort to the 28nm process, thus passing to the next step you will get a performance boost, lower power consumption and better heat dissipation.

The report from Digitimes confirms that Samsung has already diverted some of the resources available to the R & D department - working on the design of the chips produced in 14nm - to accelerate the development of the chip to 20nm and compete well with rival TSMC, whose plants in 20nm are already operating at 20-30% yield. However, you will still need to wait to see the work of the 20 nm technology in the mobile arena, a circumstance which could not occur before a hypothetical Samsung Galaxy S6.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 3: here's a first look of the device, real or disguised?

The new Samsung Galaxy Note 3. The next version of phablet has seen numerous rumors in recent days. Just 3 days of the official presentation here is what should be the first image of the Samsung Galaxy III notes.

The device looks much less rounded and more square in comparison with the Galaxy Note II, but, as we know, often in these shots terminals are camouflaged with covers and cover details.

here is what are the expected specifications for this product:

• Display 5.68-inch Super AMOLED Full HD (Full HD LCD for emerging markets)
• Chipset Snapdragon 800 (for 80% of the devices while the remaining will find a Exynos 5420)
• 13Mpx camera (for devices with display super amoled) (8Mpx for the variant with LCD display)
• 3GB of RAM
• Internal Memory 32GB/64GB
• Battery 3300-3420mAh
• Android 4.3 Jelly Bean

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Samsung gives life to the 3D vertical NAND Flash memories

The storage space is one of the major limitations of mobile devices, often equipped with microSD slot to expand storage further and go against the growing needs of the industry. It is not about having more space in order to install a myriad of applications, the multimedia sector and the playful are among the most active and complex games require several megabytes, sometimes gigabytes, not to mention movies and photos taken at increasing resolution.

The turning point today that Samsung could therefore pave the way for a new generation of devices, able to integrate the brand new 3D memories vertical NAND Flash 128GB that the Korean company has recently started to produce in large volumes. The NAND Flash manufacturing planar are used to smartphones, tablets, and SSDs, but with the new vertical architecture can provide a much higher storage capacity.

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Samsung Galaxy S4 explodes in an apartment in Hong Kong, causing a fire

After the unfortunate story of the girl Switzerland, which has exploded view your GalaxyS3 in his pocket , we move to Hong Kong to follow a similar case that has caused much more damage than a few burns and a lot of fear. The poor protagonist Mr. Duche that while he was sitting on his couch playing a game of Love Machine with its Samsung Galaxy S4 , saw suddenly become hot, until the device will explode fortunately already out of the hands of the victim who managed to throw unfortunately on the floor not far from the couch.

In a few minutes he developed a raging fire that devastated the entire building before the fire of the place were able to douse the flames and save the rooms now reduced to a heap of ashes, after more than 30 minutes of action.

As stated by Mr. Du, the battery and the battery charger of the device were original. Samsung obviously has opened an investigation to understand what were the causes of the problem. Certainly the cases of the last few weeks have seen Apple and Samsung are making the protagonist around the world and although it has created a bit 'of scaremongering, such cases are very rare and millions of models sold fortunately very few have similar behaviors, and in the strategic great majority of cases, due to non-original accessories.

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Samsung Galaxy S3 exploded: the battery was not original [Investigation]

While news about the coming new Chinese girl electrocuted due to an electrical discharge caused by an iphone, used while he was in charge with the original charger is of poor quality, and probably not even suitable for the country in which it was used, also come new information for the story of Samsung Galaxy S3 exploded to a girl in Switzerland at the beginning of July.

You will recall in fact  Fanny Schlatter , Swiss eighteen which has exploded a Samsung Galaxy S3 in his pocket, causing third-degree burns on his right leg. The authorities have intervened immediately and Samsung spokesman Switzerland stated that it would be carried out in-depth investigations.

And soon get the first results and, after a few days, the same Berger state that: “The battery used in the device has not been provided and made by Samsung or a company authorized by Samsung itself. He also confirmed the laboratory EMPA Materials Science and Technology “.

Considering that the battery in question bore the Samsung logo is to understand where it is still to come, whether it was an ill-advised purchase of the young or otherwise. The investigation will continue.

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Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A: 150.000 units in two weeks in Korea

With processor Snapdragon 800 and connectivity LTE Advanced, the new Galaxy S4 LTE-A is the first device in the world to bring to market the new solution for Qualcomm CPU. A very interesting product that at the time, it was marketed only in Korea. In two weeks time, the new variant of S4 has recorded 150.000 units shipped in Korea alone, a number not particularly high when compared to S4 sold worldwide, but the only significant considering marketing in the local market.

The family continues to grow and therefore S4 with the novelties presented last month and ready to be marketed, the 100 million S4 (family) sold may not be a mirage too far.

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Samsung: We are also currently building a campus!

As is usually the case, followed by Apple, Samsung announced that it will open a large research campus in the town of San Jose, California. The draft Korean campus for 2000 people in Silicon Valley include: 10-stories building, public playgrounds with artificial ponds and fountains, outdoor cafes. In total, the area offices are located 4 companies, including the campus of Apple. The opening is scheduled for 2015.

But that has not stopped Samsung. The Korean company bought an office complex in Mountain View, across the headquarters of Google, as well as Samsung will open an innovation center in Palo Alto, near the office of Microsoft. Great, is not it? Ideal conditions for cooperation with the best IT-companies of the world! Further pictures of the future campus of Samsung's next to Apple:

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Samsung vs Apple Banned for iPhone and iPad AT & T in America!

Samsung has taken the revenge! Sounds like the ruling that bans in America all iPhone 4 and iPad 2 and earlier and earlier marketed by AT & T in the United States. After being sentenced to a fine of about $ 1 billion, Samsung has continued to defend himself by going to counterattack in a fight of patents that now has the feel of a soap opera with so many twists but never a true end.

The ITC has requested the ban for certain models of the iPhone and iPad because it would infringe certain patents related to data transmission module. The International Trade Commission has ordered Apple to stop importing the products marketed by AT & T as iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G, iPad 3G and iPad 2 3G . Second when declared by Samsung , Apple in these devices and with the operator in question, would use a patent for the transfer of Korean giant. The new models will not use this transmission system and would be exempt from the ban.

Apple, for its part, argued that Samsung had agreed to license its patent on terms reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) in order to eliminate the threat of litigation for patents that were essential in a standard like the band wireless broadband, but has not been able to prove it in court.

The stop imports is subject to the approval of President Obama, who has 60 days to decide. If it does not do its ban on imports comes into force. Obviously, the position taken by the agency had no immediate effects on the securities Apple who have lost up to 1, 2%.

Although the judgment is important, in addition to not be in any way definitive, goes to hit devices which, in most cases, are unlikely to diminish the sales or market share of Apple in the USA. The United States is in fact one of the markets most hotly disputed between the two giants and the launch of the S4 in New York was a strong demonstration of the will of the Samsung occupies the first place in America.

Samsung ahead of Apple in the reliability rating technique

The company Rescuecom, engaged in computer repair and technical support for users, summed up his traditional studies. Within its framework, it identifies the most reliable manufacturers of PCs.

Based on the results of the study, Samsung ahead of Apple in terms of reliability engineering. The company from Cupertino inferior Lenovo, ASUS, Toshiba, HP, Dell and Acer, and Sony and Panasonic all dropped out of the rankings. The report was prepared for the first quarter of 2013.

According to Rescuecom, most clearly gadgets reliability and quality customer support computer manufacturer shows the ratio of the number of users' service center and market share of the company. According to statistics, researchers, Apple controls 26.2% of the market with the iPad. It is almost 12% ahead of its nearest competitor - HP. Treatment in Rescuecom because of problems with the technique of Apple is 11%, which is the fifth place out of nine companies list. Samsung's market share in the quarter was 9.4%, and the treatment for its technology - 0.8%, which results in her 1170 points versus 237 at Apple's rating system Rescuecom.

These figures are substantially different from previous rankings, because they counted the plates for the first time. CEO David Milman said: "Now there is a transition from PC to mobile computers, including tablets, before that there was a transition from PCs to laptops."

In last year's ranking Rescuecom involved only PCs and laptops, and then Apple was sixth (9.7% of sales and 12.7% on the appeals). Samsung was the same and then the first (4.3% of sales and 0.7% on the appeals).

Nokia: Lumia 928 camera is better than the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S4

When Nokia officially introduced the smartphone Lumia 928 , its main forte has been named the camera PureView, which is especially good photographs and shoot video in low-light conditions. The day before the company released a promotional video, which stated that "the camera Lumia 928 is better than the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S4».

Pictures shot for the U.S. operator Verizon. You may notice that the image of the Finnish system, made in low-light conditions, the brighter, the picture is better lit, the colors more saturated.

Nokia says that the phone is equipped with a 8.7-megapixel camera with a "floating lens» (floating lens) - so the company calls an improved optical image stabilization system that works in both photo-and when shooting movies. Available optics Carl Zeiss, as well as xenon and LED flash. As the curtain roller announcer pronounces the sacramental phrase: "It's better than the iPhone 5, it is better than the Galaxy S4».

Samsung is testing communications technology 5G rate of 1 gigabit per second

South Korea's Samsung made the first successful tests of the fifth-generation communications technology and promises that users will be able to use the 5G in 2020, according to Yonhap News.

According to the Samsung, with 5G, you can download a movie in less than a second, because the download speed will reach tens of gigabits per second (Gbps) compared to 75 megabits per second (Mbps), provided by the technology of the fourth generation LTE. What is the volume of the file is not specified.

According to the newspaper, Samsung made the first successful test platform 28 GHz band to transmit data at a speed of 1 gigabit per second. The company said that in order to transfer data between devices in real time using 64 antenna elements.

In the commercial operation of 5G will be launched in 2020. Many countries, particularly China and the European Union, are vying for the right to first introduce a new standard by investing heavily in the development of a new communications platform, so Samsung probably will not be alone in its initiative.

Samsung Galaxy S4 release a version with a 16-megapixel camera and optical zoom

Samsung, in the usual style for himself, builds around its flagship smartphone entire ecosystem models. They all come under the same brand name and the Galaxy have a similar design.

 

On the eve of the Internet leaked specifications of the new version of the Galaxy S4, passing under the code name SM-C1010 or SM-C101. In the new emphasis on the use of the device as a camera - modification will have a 16 megapixel camera with optical zoom.

Galaxy S4 Zoom will get a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED display format qHD (working resolution 540 x 960 pixels, 256 ppi) and two-or quad-core processor. Also available, the model will stick of 8 GB and a slot for memory cards microSD (up to 64GB). A set of standard interfaces: Bluetooth 4.0 + LE, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n and GPS-receiver. Camera phone will come in two colors - black and white.

The device will run on the mobile platform Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, backed by proprietary user interface TouchWiz Nature UX. Release Galaxy S4 Zoom is expected in June or July.

Apple also plans to improve the camera in the iPhone. The company's next-generation smartphone will receive a  12-megapixel matrix , although it's optical zoom is not.

Users of the 16-gigabyte version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 is available only 8GB

For those who want to buy Samsung Galaxy S4, which has already appeared on the foreign media stores, it will be useful to know the following interesting fact. As is well known, accessible version of the Korean flagship offers 16 GB Built-in memory for storing data - that is, as stated in the description of the device. In fact, the user under his own needs of them are available only 8.49 GB (53%). For comparison, the 16-gigabyte version of the iPhone 5 has almost 90% of this volume.

Even factory Galaxy S4 without SIM-card and with no contract gives all the same eight and a half gigabytes. The company has decided to reserve 7.2 GB for system usage and tear of this volume at least a small part will not work. About 2 GB is itself Android, a few hundred megabytes brought to the application, and for the rest of the space that you need, we can only guess. Perhaps it is used to restore the image of the operating system and factory reset, or the locations of installed applications in many languages.

Thus, Samsung sells its masthead unit under the label "16 GB", positioning it as a competitor to the iPhone 5 and the other 16-gigabyte flagship smartphones, and selling them at the right price. In reality, the name of Samsung Galaxy S4 8GB would be more appropriate.

Of course, you can always extend the built-in flash storage cards microSD-format, but, you see, is not too pleased to see that the claimed 16 GB in fact turn out to be almost half trimmed.

Samsung Galaxy S4 promotes dancing in the style of Gangnam Style

In late April, in many countries the presentation phone Samsung Galaxy S4. India has decided to promote the smartphone with the local color. Korean marketers sung hit Gangnam Style.

Sings about the Galaxy S4 Bollywood celebrity Ranvir Singh. Instead Gangnam Style he turned Samsung Style, and in the title song on the big screen and 441 pixels per inch, and the camera, and even a slim device. None of what harmony, or the intricacies of design in India does not seem to have heard so wildly lit hit by a converted Korean musician PSY.

iFixit dissected Samsung Galaxy S4 [Photos]

Specialists site iFixit, which evaluate maintainability gadgets dismantled new flagship smartphone Samsung Galaxy S4. Dissect a novelty, experts put the device 8 out of 10 points and called it very easy to repair. For comparison, iPhone 5 on this indicator gained 7 points, and the HTC One - only 1 point .

 

The internal design of Galaxy S4 is largely the same as the Galaxy S III. However, the new device is equipped with a much more advanced accessories: display with a diagonal of 5 inches (1920x1080 pixels) with a density of 441 dots per inch, 13-megapixel camera and 2 gigabytes of RAM. Many of the parts ordered from Samsung Qualcomm: LTE-chip, multi-mode modem, audio-codec’s, furthermore as a lot of.

The advantages of the Galaxy S4 in terms of repair was attached battery that can be replaced in a matter of seconds and without tools, as well as ease of disassembly (the cover is held on the 11 standard screws, and designed for a standard screwdriver). However, complicates repair that some of the bonded components. Furthermore, the cost of replacing the protective glass can be high, as it is soldered to the screen and frame.

 

IFixit particularly praised supersensitive touch screen controller Synaptic S5000B, which responds to the touch even when wearing gloves. Has also been featured primary camera with LED flash and backlight sensor that lets you record HD-video at 30 frames per second.

" Placement of the infrared sensors on either facet of the earphone makes it clear however the new feature Air read / Air Gesture. examination the infrared emission that's reflected from your hand to each of the sensors, the phone can track the gesture whereas not the moving display"- same the iFixit.

 

Up to 10 points Galaxy S4 has not held due to the high cost of replacing the protective glass, bonded both with the display, and with his frame, and because of difficulty in replacing the front panel, which requires complete disassembly of the machine.