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We reported three weeks ago that Samsung had applied for a trademark on "Samsung Daily." The filing was a little light on details but it seemed that this would likely be for a newsfeed app for the company's mobile devices. That's exactly what it is. Samsung officially unveiled Samsung Daily at its annual developer conference in San Jose, California today. It also confirmed that Samsung Daily will be replacing Bixby Home as the primary content discovery platform on its devices. Samsung Daily set to replace Bixby Home For those who are unaware, Bixby Home is a card-based contextual information hub. It pulls in a whole host of information from supported apps and displays all of it in a card-based interface. You can have cards for the weather, your calendar, Samsung Health, email, news, etc. The company has decided to replace it with Samsung Daily. The core functionality remains the same. It will pull in information which will be displayed as cards that you can

Samsung shook up its notebook lineup today with the Galaxy Book Flex and the Galaxy Book Ion . The new models are meant as replacements for the Samsung Notebook 9 Pen and Notebook 9. Samsung has made some significant changes to these models. The internal shake up was to be expected. What truly shows that this new lineup is a return to form for Samsung is the design. We got to play with both of the new laptops for a while at the Samsung Developer Conference 2019 in San Jose today. They're impressive products, that's for sure. Samsung also highlights that they're the world's first laptops with QLED displays. That's the same display tech you find in the company's televisions. Samsung says that the display panels are up to 400 nitts bright in regular conditions and can achieve a maximum brightness of 600 nitts when running in the Outdoor Mode. The Galaxy Book Flex The Galaxy Book Flex is clearly the star of the show here. It's a 2-in-1 so it can be used

It's been over a year since Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Home . The company's Bixby-powered smart speaker has still not been released. While we've all been waiting for it, Samsung went ahead and made another smart speaker, which we had exclusively revealed to be the Galaxy Home Mini . Samsung hasn't even released the Galaxy Home Mini to the public but it did start a beta testing program for the device in South Korea two months ago. The company has the mini speaker on display at the Samsung Developer Conference 2019 that's currently underway in San Jose, California. Samsung shows off the Galaxy Home Mini at SDC 2019 Samsung gave users in South Korea the opportunity to sign up for the speaker's beta program until September 1. Once they're approved, they will receive the speaker ahead of its planned release. The idea here is that Samsung would test the device in a real-world environment with a select group of users before releasing the device. No such b

Cat S52 is Candybar, Touchscreen Android Smartphone from Cat which runs on Android OS, v9.0 (Pie). Cat S52 is available in Black color and 210 g (7.41 oz) of weight. Cat S52 has 5.65 inches IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen display. Cat S52 is powered by Octa-core (4x2.3 GHz Cortex-A53 & 4x1.8 GHz Cortex-A53) CPU, Mediatek MT6765 Helio P35 (12nm) Chipset and PowerVR GE8320 GPU along with 64GB 4GB RAM.Additional features of Cat S52 are IP68 dust/water resistant (up to 1.5m for 35 mins), MIL-STD-810G compliant, Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic. Cat S52 has 3G, WIFI, Bluetooth, GPS connectivity options on board. #Google #Android #Smartphones #OS #News @ndrdnws #ndrdnws #AndroidNews

Samsung Galaxy Xcover FieldPro is Candybar, Touchscreen Android Smartphone from Samsung which runs on Android OS, v9.0 (Pie). Samsung Galaxy Xcover FieldPro is available in Black color and 256 g (9.03 oz) of weight. Samsung Galaxy Xcover FieldPro has 5.1 inches Capacitive touchscreen display. Samsung Galaxy Xcover FieldPro is powered by Octa-core (4x2.7 GHz Mongoose M3 & 4x1.8 GHz Cortex-A55) CPU, Exynos 9810 (10 nm) Chipset and Mali-G72 MP18 GPU along with 32GB 3GB RAM.Additional features of Samsung Galaxy Xcover FieldPro are IP68 dust/water resistant (up to 1.5m for 30 mins), MIL-STD-810G compliant, Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic. Samsung Galaxy Xcover FieldPro has 3G, WIFI, Bluetooth, GPS connectivity options on board. #Google #Android #Smartphones #OS #News @ndrdnws #ndrdnws #AndroidNews

Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro is Candybar, Touchscreen Android Smartphone from Xiaomi which runs on Android OS, v9.0 (Pie). Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro is available in Black, Gray, Red, Blue, Pink, White, Green, Purple colors and 208 g (7.34 oz) of weight. Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro has 6.47 inches Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display. Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro is powered by Octa-core (2x2.2 GHz Kryo 470 Gold & 6x1.8 GHz Kryo 470 Silver) CPU, Qualcomm SDM730 Snapdragon 730G (8 nm) Chipset and Adreno 618 GPU along with 64GB 6GB RAM, 128GB 8GB RAM, 256GB 12GB RAM.Additional features of Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro are HDR10+, Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic. Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro has 3G, WIFI, Bluetooth, Infrared Port, GPS connectivity options on board. #Google #Android #Smartphones #OS #News @ndrdnws #ndrdnws #AndroidNews

Xiaomi Mi Note 10 is Candybar, Touchscreen Android Smartphone from Xiaomi which runs on Android OS, v9.0 (Pie). Xiaomi Mi Note 10 is available in Black, Red, Blue, White, Green colors and 208 g (7.34 oz) of weight. Xiaomi Mi Note 10 has 6.47 inches Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display. Xiaomi Mi Note 10 is powered by Octa-core (2x2.2 GHz Kryo 470 Gold & 6x1.8 GHz Kryo 470 Silver) CPU, Qualcomm SDM730 Snapdragon 730G (8 nm) Chipset and Adreno 618 GPU along with 64GB 6GB RAM, 128GB 8GB RAM, 256GB 12GB RAM.Additional features of Xiaomi Mi Note 10 are HDR10+, Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic. Xiaomi Mi Note 10 has 3G, WIFI, Bluetooth, Infrared Port, GPS connectivity options on board. #Google #Android #Smartphones #OS #News @ndrdnws #ndrdnws #AndroidNews

Samsung and San Francisco-based ridesharing company Lyft are partnering to offer Samsung Rewards to Lyft customers and Samsung Pay users in the United States. Starting today, October 29, Samsung Pay users who link their Rewards and Lyft accounts can earn 1,000 Rewards points. As usual, these points can be used to purchase Samsung products at discounted prices. Earn Samsung Rewards points with Lyft, win $2,500 Lyft credit It's important to note that only the first 60,000 Samsung Pay users who link their Lyft and Samsung Rewards accounts will be eligible for the aforementioned 1,000 points, so if you want a chance to win them, you'd better act fast. But even if you won't make the cut, you'll still be able to earn one Samsung Reward point for each dollar spent on Lyft rides after linking your accounts. In addition to the Samsung Rewards points, every eligible Lyft customer in the US will also automatically enter a raffle for a chance to "win Lyft for a yea

It was reported a few months ago that among the new form factors being considered for Samsung's second foldable smartphone, the company had created a clamshell prototype . The report also mentioned that Samsung had begun fine-tuning the design. Additional reports have also hinted at the possibility that the next Galaxy Fold will have a clamshell or flip phone-like design. Samsung has now dropped what might be the biggest hint about its next foldable smartphone. The next Galaxy Fold is likely to have a clamshell form factor The company has posted a video on YouTube titled "A New Form Factor for Foldable Smartphones." It starts off by providing a refresher about how the user interface looks on the existing Galaxy Fold. It then changes slightly to show what the UI would look like on a device that folds around a horizontal axis. A side angle is also provided to drive the point home that the UI will work just as well on a vertically folding device. A side-by-side compa

Samsung has unveiled a pair of new laptops at SDC 2019 today. The Galaxy Book Flex and Galaxy Book Ion are the world's first laptops with a QLED display. That's the display technology Samsung uses in its premium television. It has even added the Wireless PowerShare feature to these laptops. First introduced with the Galaxy S10 this year, Wireless PowerShare allows users to charge other devices that support wireless charging. The new Galaxy Book laptops can charge Qi-compatible smartphones, Galaxy Buds and wearable devices through the touchpad. Galaxy Book Flex and Galaxy Book Ion feature QLED displays Samsung has co-engineered the Galaxy Book Flex and Galaxy Book Ion with Intel as part of the latter's Project Athena program. Intel created this program to work with some of the industry's biggest names to bring out a new era in laptop innovation. These are thus premium products with 10th Gen Intel Core processors, Thunderbolt 3 and Intel Wi-Fi 6 support. One

The annual Samsung Developer Conference is underway in San Jose, California. The conference is all about software and Samsung has highlighted new ways for developers to bring enhanced experiences. Bixby and One UI 2.0 improvements were among the things it talked about in addition to foldable smartphones. The Bixby Marketplace was launched earlier this year to allow developers to bring their Bixby capsules to millions of Bixby users. Samsung says that the size of the Bixby developer community has doubled in the past six months. Starting next year, the Bixby Marketplace is going to expand so that developers can offer third-party integrations on more Samsung devices. Samsung's annual developer conference is underway It has also made some improvements to the Bixby Developer Studio. The new Bixby Templates allow developers to create capsules using pre-existing forms. This means that they don't have to start from scratch. With improved Bixby Views, developers can build experi

Some of you might be surprised by reading that title. It's not something you would normally expect to read on SamMobile. It may even be considered rude on some level but we feel that this reaction is justified now. We are sounding the alarm for the Galaxy Fold, the most expensive device that Samsung has ever made. We have purchased four Galaxy Fold units here at SamMobile. They were bought from Germany since Samsung hasn't started selling them in the Netherlands . This post is not about any hardware problems. All of our units have been working exactly as they're supposed to. We genuinely feel that the Galaxy Fold is a great device. Our issue here is the lackluster software support. Until today, our Galaxy Fold was running the August 2019 security patch . All of our units are the 5G variant (SM-F907B) and Samsung hasn't shown enough haste in rolling out updates for this variant compared to the LTE-only SM-F900F. The October 2019 security patch was released for the 5G

Samsung revealed its latest plans for mobile blockchain technology at SDC 2019 , detailing how its new Samsung Blockchain Platform SDK is going to help developers in overcoming the security and complexity issues surrounding the development of DApp (Decentralized App). Bringing blockchain technology to mobile has been a challenge because the majority of blockchain apps are web or PC-based for security reasons. It's virtually impossible for a hacker to access a blockchain without having the blockchain's public and private keys, but the mobile platform doesn't offer a lot in terms of secure key storage. Samsung launched its Blockchain Keystore earlier this year to tackle these problems and make mobile devices a secure platform for cryptocurrency. Here's what's next on Samsung's agenda. Samsung Blockchain Platform SDK announced The Korean tech giant announced that it's going to complement its Blockchain Keystore with a new Blockchain Platform SDK (Softwa

At the ongoing International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference in Chicago, Samsung officially announced the Galaxy XCover FieldPro rugged flagship phone. The company says it's a purpose-built field-ready device that is suited for a wide range of enterprise customers, ranging from law-enforcement agencies to field service technicians, transportation professionals, etc. Unlike other offerings in the Xcover lineup so far , the FieldPro comes with flagship-level internals. These include a 5.1" QHD display, Exynos 9810 SoC (the same chipset used in the Galaxy S9), 4GB RAM, 64GB internal storage, MicroSD slot for expansion, rear-mounted fingerprint reader, and a massive 4,500mAh removable battery. In the camera department, it comes with a 12 MP rear shooter and an 8 MP front camera. Strangely, it seems to run Android Oreo out of the box but supports an upgrade to Android Q. Overall, the device seems to borrow quite a bit from the Galaxy S9 series on the inside. As

There's considerable interest in the next foldable smartphone that Samsung is working on . New information related to the device's battery has now surfaced online and it likely reveals a big clue about the Galaxy Fold 2's design. To be clear, it's not confirmed as yet if this device is going to be launched as the Galaxy Fold 2. Samsung could decide to call it something else entirely. What we do know is that the device is codenamed "Bloom" and bears model number SM-F700F. Big clue about the Galaxy Fold 2 design Much like the Galaxy Fold, this new foldable smartphone is also going to have two batteries. However, unlike the existing device which has two batteries of almost the same capacity, the capacities will likely differ significantly on the Galaxy Fold 2. The Galaxy Fold has a combined battery capacity of 4,380mAh . Since it folds down the center, there's a 2,135mAh battery in one half and a 2,245mAh battery in the other. Our friends over at Gal

Samsung has released an Android 10 hotfix beta update for the Galaxy S10 series for the critical issue that is causing devices to stop accepting the PIN, password, or pattern and locking users out. We reported this issue just a few hours ago, and Samsung is now pushing out an update to fix it. We can confirm the update is available in Germany and India, and it should also be rolling out in other markets where the One UI 2.0 beta program was launched given how important it is. The update has build number G97*FXXU3ZSL and is a roughly 135 MB download. Developing… The post Critical Galaxy S10 Android 10 beta update out, fixes device lock issue appeared first on SamMobile . #Google #Android #Smartphones #OS #News @ndrdnws #ndrdnws #AndroidNews

Samsung is on fire right now, as the company has released next month's Android security patch for the Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10+ here in late October, after rolling out the November update for the Galaxy Tab S4 and for the Galaxy S10 series . Like the Galaxy S10, the Note 10 and Note 10+ are getting the update in Switzerland, but the update does not include a slow motion mode for the front camera, which came to the Galaxy S10 lineup with an update released yesterday . However, we shouldn't be surprised that there are no new features onboard this update. Its build number is N97*FXXS1ASJG , and the letter 'S' after 'XX' indicates this is only a security update. Updates that add new functionality or change things other than the security patch usually have a 'U' in that position. It's also worth noting that the Galaxy S10 family is mostly just getting features that already exist on the Galaxy Note 10, so Note 10 owners will likely have to wait for t

Samsung's yearly developer conference will be kicking off today, October 29, at 10 AM PT, in San Jose, California, and the company will have a range of topics to address , such as Bixby, 5G, IoT, and One UI 2.0. SDC (Samsung Developer Conference) is a two-day event aimed primarily at developers, and it starts with a keynote by DJ Koh , president and CEO of Samsung's mobile division, and other speakers that will reveal tidbits on everything the Korean giant is working on. You don't have to be a developer or be in attendance physically at SDC to watch that keynote, however. You will be able to watch the whole thing on YouTube thanks to Samsung's live stream, and we will add that YouTube stream here once the event begins, so make sure to check back later today. We will have boots on the ground at SDC, so you can also look forward to our coverage of everything Samsung announces at SDC 2019. The post How to watch Samsung Developer Conference 2019 keynote live appeared f

Samsung posts news about its products, collaborations, business, and more on its Samsung Newsroom portal. These include posts about AI (Artificial Intelligence) as well, which is an increasingly important area of interest for the Korean tech giant. However, given the scale of the company and the diversified nature of its operations, it may not be easy to keep track of all the AI-related news Samsung posts on its website. To overcome this, the company has launched a dedicated 'Samsung AI News' webpage to pool all its AI news in one place. Samsung says the page will go beyond just providing news updates and will feature insights from experts to help readers understand the world of AI better. The posts on AI news page are split into six sections: AI Expert Voices, AI Devices, AI Platform Bixby, AI Components, AI for Good, and AI into the Future. These sections are not just meant for updates from hereon as the company has categorised even posts from the past into one of these

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