Themes Thursday: Here are some of the best themes released this week

Samsung has been releasing a lot of themes for its recently released smartphones lately, and this week is no different. The company has released 53 themes in the Theme Store this week, and we are listing some of the best ones here as a part of Themes Thursday. Note that some of these themes might not be available for slightly lower-end devices like the Galaxy J5 and the Galaxy J7.

As some one who likes Google’s Material UI design, I have installed the Android 6.0 Dark as well as Material Theme, but I also liked the Orion and all the RainDrop Themes, and all of them are listed below. Also, let us know if you think that there are not enough well-done themes in Samsung’s Theme Store, and if you think that most of the themes have designs that are too childish for your taste.

[MINU] HotPink_White – Free

Android 6.0 Dark – Free

BubbleYang In Pink – Free

Cloud_M2 – Free

Halloween – Paid

iGalaxy Theme – Free

Material Theme – Paid

Orion – Free

Pink Neon – Paid

Rainy Day – RainDrop Theme – Free

Red – Paid

Ruby – Paid

Simple Neon – Paid

SlickUI – Paid

Snowy Day – RainDrop Theme – Free

Sunny Day – RainDrop Theme – Free

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Samsung Galaxy J3 makes an appearance on GFXBench

The Galaxy J2 has barely been on the market for a month, and Samsung seems to be already working on a Galaxy J3. The Galaxy J3, with model number SM-J3109, has been spotted on the GFXBench benchmark with pretty much all of its specs listed; GFXBench doesn’t seem to have the device in its database anymore, but we can see an SM-J3109 over on Geekbench.

The J3′s specs include a 5-inch HD (1280×720) display, a 64-bit Snapdragon 410 processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage, an 8-megapixel rear camera, a 5-megapixel front camera, and Android 5.1.1. These specs look to be slight upgrades over what the Galaxy J2 offers, such as an HD screen instead of a qHD one and a more powerful processor. The model number is an oddity – based on other Galaxy J devices the model number should be SM-J300 instead of SM-J310 (the fourth digit isn’t as surprising as Chinese variants of Samsung devices usually have four digit model numbers), though this could be because the J3 is far from an official launch.

We are currently working on a review of the Galaxy J2, and we can only hope Samsung doesn’t launch the J3 before we’re done.

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Could Samsung bring something like Apple’s 3D Touch to its smartphones?

The latest iPhones have been making headlines everywhere since their announcement last month, and Apple’s new 3D Touch feature is being singled out as one of the best things about the devices. Earlier this week, Synaptics announced that it was working on a similar technology called ClearForce, which will enable a smartphone to offer various functionality based on the force applied on the display. Synaptics said that it is working with leading OEMs for sampling ClearForce, and it’s possible we will see something 3D Touch on Samsung’s future smartphones.

Synaptics and Samsung have a history of working closely on new technologies, such as the touch-based fingerprint sensor that debuted on the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge. 3D Touch – or Force Touch as it was initially called – is being heralded as an intuitive method of smartphone interaction (though the consumers will decide how intuitive it really is), and we all know Samsung has never been shy of taking popular elements of its biggest competitor for its own smartphones.

Apple isn’t exactly the first to think of this technology; OEMs were working on fingerprint sensors before Apple introduced them on the iPhones and made them popular, and it’s clear that Synaptics’ version of 3D Touch has been in the works for some time. Samsung was forced to wait for more than a year before it was able to bring touch-based fingerprint scanners to the Galaxy line, and the Korean giant probably wouldn’t want to wait as long with ClearForce.

What do you think? Could the Galaxy S7 or other future Samsung phones feature displays with support for ClearForce?

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