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Samsung has decided to end support for three in-car services at the same time. We hear that the company will no longer support MirrorLink , Care Mode and Find My Car. Samsung's devices have had MirrorLink support since 2014. MirrorLink is a widely used standard for car and smartphone connectivity. Those who own cars with MirrorLink-compatible stereos could use the built-in app on their Samsung phones to mirror their device's screen to the car's infotainment display. Samsung shuts down some more services Samsung has now decided to end support for MirrorLink starting June 1, 2020. It will not be available to new users after that. Existing users will be able to continue using it, however, if they factory reset their device, connect to a new vehicle, clear app data or even update the firmware on their device, they'll lose Mirrorlink. Samsung introduced its Car Mode app in 2015 as a sort of an alternative to Android Auto. It provided easy access to features you were

With much of the world physically apart right now, people are finding creative ways to use custom-built maps to maintain a shared sense of community, albeit virtually. In 2007, we launched a tool called My Maps to help people create their own custom maps on top of Google Maps. With a simple drag-and-drop interface you can add placemarks, draw lines and shapes, and embed text, photos and videos. You can share your map via public URL, embed it on websites or publish your map for others to see. Over the past four months, we've seen a surge in the number of people creating and viewing My Maps. From December 2019 to April 2020, we saw nearly a billion more My Maps creations, edits and views compared to the same time period last year, growing from 2 billion to nearly 3 billion. With My Maps, communities have been sharing helpful, local information in rapidly changing situations—from COVID-19 testing sites and food banks to where first responders can access childcare facili

With much of the world physically apart right now, people are finding creative ways to use custom-built maps to maintain a shared sense of community, albeit virtually. In 2007, we launched a tool called My Maps to help people create their own custom maps on top of Google Maps. With a simple drag-and-drop interface you can add placemarks, draw lines and shapes, and embed text, photos and videos. You can share your map via public URL, embed it on websites or publish your map for others to see. Over the past four months, we've seen a surge in the number of people creating and viewing My Maps. From December 2019 to April 2020, we saw nearly a billion more My Maps creations, edits and views compared to the same time period last year, growing from 2 billion to nearly 3 billion. With My Maps, communities have been sharing helpful, local information in rapidly changing situations—from COVID-19 testing sites and food banks to where first responders can access childcare facili

Samsung is offering support to manufacturers of face masks struggling to ramp up their product outputs as South Korea continues its fight against COVID-19. The development is just the latest in a long series of moves Samsung made as part of its contributions to international relief efforts seeking to slow down the spread of the novel coronavirus strain. Just over a month ago, Samsung began closely collaborating with protective gear manufacturers Loesstech, E&W, and Evergreen. Among other things, it shared its vast engineering talent with the firms in question, allowing them to scale their operations with the constantly rising market demands much more efficiently, primarily by helping them with various levels of automation. Samsung maintains aggressive coronavirus strategy Naturally, the most immediate goal of the initiative is accelerating the deployment of smart factory solutions, for which Samsung went as far as to completely circumvent the need for certain component impo

Update: According to @rquandt on Twitter, the Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20+, and Galaxy S20 Ultra will also be released in white in Europe. Original story follows A Galaxy S20 Ultra in white – or at least a dummy unit – popped up in a live photo earlier this week along with reports that the phone should be launching in China soon. Now, it looks like the white model's launch in China is drawing very near, as official promotional material is popping up on Twitter through unofficial sources. The Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G in white will ship with 256GB of storage, according to the render at hand. In most countries around the world where the 5G variant was released, Samsung customers could only choose between 128GB and 512GB of memory. In any case, the render's caption reportedly reads 'Coming Soon,' so it's pretty obvious that Samsung is gearing up for the phone's release in China. Samsung is trying to get a bigger piece of the 5G pie China was the biggest 5G mar

The latest firmware update for Samsung's Galaxy Buds may have crippled the very thing it was meant to improve – the wearable's connectivity performance. Touted as a major upgrade that will allow users to go "completely wireless" by leveraging a number of features introduced with the newer Galaxy Buds+ , the software revision wasn't exactly met with the warmest of responses. A vocal portion of the Galaxy Buds user base hence took online to complain about issues such as Ambient Sound Mode consistency, frequent disconnections, and, in rare cases, even total failures of the left-hand earbud. Galaxy Buds users still waiting for Samsung's response What's more, a number of  SamMobile readers  are also reporting issues with touchpad gestures, claiming the device often fails to recognize them even though it exhibited no such problems beforehand. Meanwhile, others aren't able to get the Ambient Sound Mode to work, possibly because the update messed with t

Predicting Samsung would release the Galaxy Note 20 and Galaxy Fold 2 in the second half of 2020 would have hardly been an act of clarvoyance at any point in recent memory. Regardless, that launch window is official as of just a few hours ago. The confirmation arrived as part of Samsung's mixed Q1 financials , or more specifically, the company's subsequent earnings call with analysts and investors. While the conglomerate acknowledged the massive global uncertainties stemming from the ongoing coronavirus crisis, it has zero intentions of significantly altering its remaining annual smartphone roadmap in response to the situation. Joint Galaxy Note 20 and Galaxy Fold 2 launch still on the cards Furthermore, Samsung said both the new Galaxy Note and its next foldable will turn up the level of competition in the ultra-premium market segment by a sizeable degree. Even more important is how the company's not framing that forecast as a promise of some remarkable achievemen

Huawei P smart plus is Candybar, Touchscreen Android Smartphone from Huawei which runs on Android OS, v10.0. Huawei P smart plus is available in Black, Blue, Red colors and 163 g (5.75 oz) of weight. Huawei P smart plus has 6.3 inches OLED capacitive touchscreen display. Huawei P smart plus is powered by Octa-core (2x2.27 GHz Cortex-A76 & 6x1.88 GHz Cortex-A55) CPU, HiSilicon Kirin 810 (7 nm) Chipset and Mali-G52 MP6 GPU along with 64GB 4GB RAM, 128GB 6GB RAM.Huawei P smart plus has 3G, WIFI, Bluetooth, GPS connectivity options on board. #Google #Android #Smartphones #OS #News @ndrdnws #ndrdnws #AndroidNews

Samsung is seemingly preparing a new Galaxy Buds+ color option for the market, at least judging by a video discovered by XDA-Developers in the SmartThings app. The marketing material showcases a 3D render of a 'Deep Blue' Galaxy Buds+ flavor, and the 'Deep Blue' moniker is also mentioned in the same app. As you may know, the Galaxy Buds+ are offered in four color options (sans the Thom Browne Edition ) including white, red, Cosmic Black, and Cloud Blue. The latter color option is of a much lighter hue compared to the so-called Deep Blue. Deep Blue Galaxy Buds+ may or may not become available While it's obvious that Samsung has been working on this new color option – at least as far as the marketing material is concerned – there's no absolute guarantee that the Deep Blue Galaxy Buds+ will see the light of day. The marketing material exists, but Samsung's current plans for this color option are unknown. Interesting to note is that the flavor does look

Samsung confirmed it's doubling down on 5G smartphones in hope that they'll help soften the impact of a full-fledged mobile crisis that's now looming over its business. That's not exactly a development many expected to witness at this point last year, but it does well to underline how unusual Samsung's latest financial report was. Especially given how the company's Q1 numbers are far from horrific. On the contrary, even as many of its top markets began shutting down in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, Samsung managed to marginally improve the profitability of its smartphone business over the first three months of 2020. That achievement is all the more remarkable in the context of a significant revenue hit Samsung would have taken in the first quarter regardless. Samsung hoping 5G is ready to go mainstream After all, post-holiday consumer electronics sales have nowhere to go but down, so negating their traditional effects on one's bottom lin

Samsung has been expanding the Galaxy M31's availability to more countries over the past couple of months, and the latest market to get the mid-range device is Spain. The company has officially announced that the Galaxy M31 will be available for purchase in Spain from May 6 via the company's online store and Amazon. In fact, customers should be able to pre-order the phone from Amazon Spain starting today. The Galaxy M series has proven to be hugely popular around the world and our latest addition, Galaxy M31, is poised to continue that success,  said Marketing Director, Luis de la Peña. Indeed, the Galaxy M31 is a compelling budget phone equipped with a monstrous 6,000mAh battery with 15W fast charging, and an excellent (at least for its class) 6.4-inch Super AMOLED display with a pixel count of 2340 by 1080. Another mid-range phone equipped with a macro camera The Galaxy M31 improves upon its predecessor in a number of ways. It has a 5MP macro camera with an f/2.4 ap

External hard drives are a good solution for when you want to store a lot of data like media or documents that you want to backup. Conventional external hard drives are slow, due to their moving parts and way they store data. This SSD drive by Samsung is able to read and write with speeds up to 540 MB/s! This means you're able to transfer your data fast and reliably. Now available at a massive 33% discount, this is the perfect time to get one in. Hit the Buy Now button below to get one while still discounted! The post Daily Deal: 33% off Samsung T5 2TB External SSD appeared first on SamMobile . #Google #Android #Smartphones #OS #News @ndrdnws #ndrdnws #AndroidNews

Technology that connects us while we're apart helps keep us safe and productive. Over the past few months, we've seen the power of video meetings bring us together—whether we're working with teammates, talking to healthcare professionals, sharing with loved ones, or learning from home.  Today, we're making Google Meet, our premium video conferencing product, free for everyone, with availability rolling out over the coming weeks. We've invested years in making Meet a secure and reliable video conferencing solution that's trusted by schools, governments and enterprises around the world, and in recent months we've accelerated the release of top-requested features to make it even more helpful. Starting in early May, anyone with an email address can sign up for Meet and enjoy many of the same features available to our business and education users, such as simple scheduling and screen sharing, real-time captions, and layouts that adapt to your preference,

Samsung took a long time to bring Android 10 to the Galaxy Fold , but the company made up for the delay by updating its first foldable directly to One UI 2.1 . As a result, the Galaxy Fold received a number of features that were introduced with the Galaxy S20 when it was updated to Android 10. However, the initial Android 10 release didn't bring  all  of the Galaxy S20 features that were promised for the Galaxy Fold . That is changing today thanks to a new update that's rolling out to the device. New camera features include Pro video mode, Single Take, and Night Hyperlapse The update comes with firmware version  F900FXXU3BTDD and adds multiple new camera modes to the Galaxy Fold. There's Single Take, which allows you to take a series of videos and still images with all of the rear cameras with a single tap. Then there's Night Hyperlapse, which records timelapse videos with long exposure to create a light trail effect that's beautiful to look at — check out this

Samsung has started rolling out a new software update for the Galaxy S20 series just a week after the flagship received its previous update . This is the third firmware update that has been released for the Galaxy S20, S20+, and S20 Ultra in the month of April. Unlike previous updates, this one only brings a new security patch – the May 2020 security patch to be exact. It sports firmware version  G98xxXXS2ATD5 . Since it's just a security update, we can hope it won't break any features or introduce bugs, as that will only further sour the experience of owning the Galaxy S20, S20+, or S20 Ultra for many customers after a string of issues Samsung has had to fix with recent updates . The update is currently rolling out in a number of countries in Europe for both the LTE and 5G models, and it shouldn't be long before it starts making its way to other regions, including the United States. You can download the update over the air on your Galaxy S20, S20+, or S20 Ultra by go

Five years ago, Samsung had announced that it could start making 5nm chips without a lot of difficulties. Last year, it started working on the development of 5nm process nodes , and earlier this year, the company started investing in 5nm production lines . However, it was reported earlier this month that COVID-19 has caused a serious setback  to Samsung's plan of mass producing 5nm chips. Samsung announced its financial results for Q1 2020  earlier today, and a part of the announcement mentioned the company's plans to start the mass production of 5nm chips in Q2 2020 using its EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet) process. This is a pleasant surprise since industry experts were expecting that the South Korean semiconductor giant would not be able to start the mass production of 5nm chips until the fourth quarter of this year. It is being reported that Samsung could start producing 5nm-based Ampere chips for Nvidia. The GPU brand is expected to launch its next-generation GPUs later thi

Samsung TV Plus is Samsung's own free, on-demand video streaming service that comes pre-installed on all new TVs from the company. The South Korean firm is continuously adding more channels and content  to its TV series over the past two years. Today, it has been announced that three new channels are coming to Samsung TV Plus. Endemol Shine Group, a British-Dutch production and distribution company, announced earlier today that it is bringing three channels to Samsung TV Plus. Two of those channels—Deal or No Deal and Sterling Drama—are coming to Samsung's video streaming service in the US, while scripted drama channel Der Serienkanal will be available in Germany. Sterling Drama has been available on Samsung TV Plus in the US since last week, and it brings British titles, including Hamish Macbeth, The Hour, and The Mill. Deal or No Deal will launch on Samsung TV Plus in the US soon, and it will bring the US version of hit game show hosted by Howie Mandel. Der Serienkana

Ever since Samsung unveiled its 64MP camera sensor to one-up Sony's 48MP sensor, the company has never looked back. Last year, it revealed a 108MP sensor , which ended up inside the Galaxy S20 Ultra that launched earlier this year . The company recently announced that it plans to  develop up to 600MP image sensors in the future . A new report from China states that Samsung has completed the production of the 150MP ISOCELL camera sensor and started the development of a 250MP ISOCELL sensor. While the 250MP sensor's size or features are yet to be revealed, it is entirely possible that it could be a 1-inch or even larger sensor. It is hard to fit such a large sensor inside slim smartphones. In comparison, the 64MP S5KGW2 sensor is 1/1.72-inch in size, while the 108MP S5KHM1 camera sensor is 1/1.33-inch in size. The company would most likely use a 9-in-1 Nonacell pixel binning technology for 27MP still images. We should be able to get more information about Samsung's 25

Samsung announced its financial results for Q1 2020 earlier today. Its operating profit rose by 3% to KRW 6.45 trillion ($5.2 billion) and its revenue rose 5.6% to KRW 55.3 trillion ($55.4 billion) compared to numbers from Q1 2019. However, the South Korean firm's net profit fell 3% to KRW 4.9 trillion ($4 billion) compared to Q1 2019. The company's results are in line with the estimates from its earnings call . Samsung announced that sales of smartphones and display panels dropped due to weaker demand and the ongoing COVID-19 situation. However, sales of its mobile and server components saw an improvement. If you didn't know already, the South Korean firm makes DRAM and NAND flash chips for data centers, PCs, and servers. It also manufactures smartphone components such as RAM, NVMe, and camera sensors. During the first quarter of this year, the company's capital expenditure was KRW 7.3 trillion ($5.99 billion), of which, the company spent KRW 6 trillion ($4.92) on

Note: These are Sundar Pichai's full remarks from today's Alphabet Q1 2020 earnings call. See below for an email to employees Sundar sent following the call.  When I last spoke with you in early February, no one could have imagined how much the world would change, and how suddenly. Our thoughts are with everyone who has been impacted by COVID-19, especially those who've lost loved ones or their livelihoods. It's a challenging moment for the world.  Through it all, we're incredibly grateful for all of the essential workers on the front lines of this crisis... from health care workers and first responders... to the grocery store clerks and delivery workers...to teachers grappling with new technology to help children learn remotely...to all of the scientists and researchers working hard to develop vaccines and treatments...and many others who are leading through these difficult times. Thank you. These people fill us with hope and show us the power of huma