Specifications of Galaxy J7 (2016) revealed through GFXBench

The Galaxy J7 (2016) just passed through GFXBench, and there are a lot of surprises here. The Galaxy J1 (2016) has already been quietly revealed, so it makes sense that the South Korean giant will be releasing a new J series device soon, and it could be the Galaxy J7 (2016).

One of the surprises about the Galaxy J7 (2016) is the fact that the RAM has almost been doubled to 2.7GB from the previous model, which had 1.5GB of RAM. Another surprise is that this device won’t arrive with Android 6.0 Marshmallow out of the box, or at least according to GFXBench. The device will arrive with Android 5.1.1 by default, which isn’t bad at all.

It will pack a 5.5-inch 1080p display, an octa-core Snapdragon 615 processor capped at 1.5 GHz, 2.7GB of RAM, and 16GB internal storage. It will feature a 13-megapixel rear shooter with 1080p video recording, and a 5-megapixel front shooter. Finally, the Galaxy J7 (2016) does have a couple of minor downsides such as a lack of gyroscope and the lack of barometer, but this isn’t anything major.

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The Dutch Consumers’ Association files lawsuit against Samsung over device support

The Dutch Consumers’ Association has filed a lawsuit against Samsung over device support, stating in its lawsuit that the Korean giant doesn’t provide support for most of its devices in a given calendar year nor inform customers as to when they can expect their device(s) to receive subsequent Android updates.

Consumers are not sufficiently informed on the purchase of a Samsung Android device about how long they will receive software updates. The Dutch Consumers [are] demanding that Samsung [make] this matter clear and [provide] unambiguous information to customers…Samsung also does not provide sufficient information on critical security holes in its Android phones like Stage Fright (translated by Google Translate).

As for device support, a study from last year details that Samsung doesn’t update 82% of its devices, leaving only 18% of its devices as update-eligible.

Samsung does seem to have an erratic update policy, but it’s also true that many of its devices are budget-friendly and do not necessarily meet the demands that warrant an update. At the same time, however, many Samsung users are buying budget-friendly devices and want to see them updated for some time. Samsung is looking to bring fingerprint sensors and other high-end specs such as improved cameras into its budget-friendly lineup, so we could very well see Samsung’s update policies progress to include more budget-friendly devices. Google could help in this regard as well by not releasing so many incremental updates that only add emojis, for example.

We have reached out to Samsung for an official comment on the matter and will update when it gets back to us. Do you think this lawsuit is fair? Is Samsung right or wrong, or is this just another frivolous lawsuit? Speak your mind in the comments.

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Samsung starts mass producing world’s fastest high-bandwidth DRAM chips

Samsung likes to be the first in the world to produce memory and storage products with new technologies. It has now become the first in the world to start mass producing 4GB DRAM chips that are based on fast HBM2 interface, which will help in high-performance computing, gaming, and network systems.

These HBM2-based DRAM chips can sift data at a pace of 256GBps, making them seven times faster than current generation DDR5 DRAM chips. The company said that it will supply these chips to enterprises server manufacturers, who value performance more than anything else.

Samsung said that it will also supply these 20nm-based chips to NVIDIA and AMD, which will help these companies in churning out graphics cards with extremely high-performance and reduced power consumption. Samsung is currently making 4GB modules with four layers of 8-gigabit cores, but it will soon start making 8GB modules with eight layers.

Sewon Chun, senior vice president of Memory Marketing at Samsung Electronics, said, “By mass producing next-generation HBM2 DRAM, we can contribute much more to the rapid adoption of next-generation HPC systems by global IT companies. Also, in using our 3D memory technology here, we can more proactively cope with the multifaceted needs of global IT, while at the same time strengthening the foundation for future growth of the DRAM market.”

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