Samsung Galaxy A8 will feature a 16-megapixel camera with f/1.9 aperture and Real-Time HDR

Samsung has not officially announced the Galaxy A8 yet, but the device has been leaked a number of times, revealing its design as well as some of its specifications. Now, a new image has surfaced on the Internet, which seems to be a brochure that lists all the specifications and special features of the device.

According to the brochure, the Galaxy A8 (SM-A800S) will feature a 5.7-inch 1080p Super AMOLED display, an octa-core processor (probably a Snapdragon 615), 2GB RAM, 32GB internal storage, a microSD card slot (up to 128GB), and a 3,050 mAh battery. Other specifications include a new 16-megapixel primary camera sensor with f/1.9 aperture and Real-Time HDR similar to the camera in the Galaxy S6, and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera.

This particular variant of the Galaxy A8 features LTE (Cat. 6), VoLTE, and DMB. A 5.9 mm, it will be the thinnest smartphone from Samsung yet. It will also feature a newer version of TouchWiz that will be running on top of Android 5.1.1 Lollipop. This brochure doesn’t reveal any detail about its pricing or launch date, but we will report it as soon as Samsung announces it officially.

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Samsung served with a lawsuit over bloatware in China

The Galaxy S6 and S6 edge allow users to disable a lot more pre-installed apps than was possible on existing Samsung phones, but it looks like the company’s penchant for bloating its devices has gotten it in trouble over in China. The Shanghai Consumer Rights Protection Commission has filed a lawsuit against Samsung (and local manufacturer Oppo) alleging that the Galaxy Note 3 does not allow users to uninstall a lot of pre-installed apps.

According to the commission, the Galaxy Note 3 (the Chinese model) comes with 44 apps installed out of the box, and it wants smartphone manufacturers to state on a product’s box what apps have been installed and how users can remove those that they do not need. The commission is also alleging that some of these apps steal cellular data, thought out of the 20 smartphones tested, it did not lay the blame for this particular wrongdoing on Samsung’s phone.

Maybe this is what we all need for manufacturers to stop putting apps that can’t be uninstalled on their smartphones, but it remains to be seen if this lawsuit will bear any fruit for what has been a major evil in the smartphone industry for a long time. A Chinese court ruled in favor of Apple in a similar case last year, and it’s very likely Samsung will come out of this without any repercussion.

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Samsung Pay enters final testing with eight card companies

Despite formally announcing Samsung Pay back in March the company is yet to launch its new payments service, Samsung Pay is slated to go live in South Korea and the United States initially by September this year. According to a new report the payments service has entered final testing with eight local card companies in South Korea as Samsung puts it through strengthening tests to ensure that the service is properly ready for the public.

Citing financial industry sources the report claims that Samsung is facing issues with its technology to beam information to conventional card readers at checkout counters through magnetic fields because the system isn’t working as smoothly as initially believed, hence the need to conduct multiple technical tests with card companies to ensure that things are up to the mark before launch. Samsung Pay works by replicating the card’s magnetic information and creating a magnetic field which is used to activate a Credit Authorization Terminal but only after the user authorizes it through the fingerprint sensor.

Apparently magnetic field formation and fingerprint verification isn’t quite up to the mark as older card readers at merchants are facing difficulties in recognizing the magnetic fields generated by the payments system. Thus it’s imperative for Samsung to continue running these tests to minimize error rates and ensure that the Samsung Pay launch goes off without a hitch this September.

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