Watchface Friday: Here are four of this week’s best watchfaces

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for another edition of Watchface Friday! For those unaware, every Friday, we highlight a selection of our favorite watchfaces for the Gear S3 classic and Gear S3 frontier. All of the offerings are available to download through the Galaxy Apps Store, so you can rest assured that you won’t have to search all over the Internet to find something we’ve listed.

Gear S3 classic

Ant Clock by Guozj

MK Rose Gold by Anthony Persichini

Gear S3 frontier

Airplex Blue W by Watch Face Industries

Color Digital by Sky Watch

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SamMobile Daily Recap: July 28, 2017 — Galaxy S6, Galaxy S8 Active and more!

We publish a lot of stories on a daily basis. Unfortunately, the majority of news breaks during our European hours of operation, which makes it difficult for our readers in the US (and other regions) to keep up. However, we think we’ve come up with a fantastic solution — a daily recap.

Here’s what went out today.

Business

Samsung ends Intel’s 24-year reign, becomes the largest chipmaker in the world

Deals

Daily Deal: Save 20% on a SmartThings Hub

Firmware News

July security update landing on the Galaxy S6 in Europe

Phones

Samsung Galaxy S8 Active detailed specs revealed ahead of official announcement

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Samsung Netherlands to pre-install In-Reply Traffic app on new handsets

Samsung Netherlands launched a new app called In-Traffic Reply four months ago. The company aims to help drivers keep their attention on the road when they’re driving and not on their phone. It goes without saying that texting while driving is very dangerous and is not something that drivers should be doing.

The company highlighted a survey conducted by PanelWizard when it launched the app. The survey revealed that one-third of the road users in the Netherlands have used their phones behind the wheel. They mostly did that because they felt social pressure to reply to messages and answer calls immediately.

The app was initially launched by Samsung in beta before it was eventually released on the Google Play Store. In-Traffic Reply automatically replies to incoming messages and calls with standard responses such as “I’m sitting in traffic, so I can not answer at this time.”

Samsung Netherlands has now confirmed that the In-Traffic Reply app will be installed on all handsets sold in the country. Existing Samsung handset owners will be notified about this via the app.

The company will pre-install the In-Traffic Reply app on the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+. In-Traffic Reply will also be pre-installed on the Galaxy S7, Galaxy A and Galaxy J series.

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Daily Deal: Save 20% on a SmartThings Hub

You can currently snag yourself a SmartThings Hub for $79.98 (20% off), which is a fantastic price to pay for a device that sits at the centre of the IoT household, allowing users to connect a host of appliances to the internet.

If you’d like to take advantage of this promotion, all you need to do is hit the Buy Now button below — but Amazon only has a limited amount of inventory available, so you’re probably going to want to act fast.

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July security update landing on the Galaxy S6 in Europe

Samsung has started pushing out an update, which transports all of the patches included in this month’s security release, as well as a couple of additional bug fixes and stability improvements, for the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge in Europe.

Related: Samsung details contents of July security patch

The Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge have already reached the end of their two-year support period, so it’s nice to see Samsung release regular maintenance updates for them — but exactly how long it’s planning to keep it up for remains unknown.

Recommended: Galaxy S6 edge Nougat update appears to be rolling out

To check to see if the upgrade is ready for your Galaxy S6 or Galaxy S6 edge, open up Settings, tap Software Update, then press Download Updates Manually. Alternatively, you can wait until you receive an alert prompting you to download and install the OTA.

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Samsung ends Intel’s 24-year reign, becomes the largest chipmaker in the world

Samsung announced its quarterly results yesterday, and became the most profitable company in the world. However, the company broke a few other records as well. It ended Intel’s 24-year reign as the largest semiconductor-based chipmaker in the world. Samsung has now leapfrogged Intel by posting a higher revenue as well as operating profits during Q2 2017.

The South Korean electronics giant consistently developed new DRAM and flash storage technologies. However, what helped Samsung in become the king of semiconductor chips is that it quickly responded to the changes in the industry. On the other hand, Intel couldn’t make successful chipsets for mobile devices, failed in capitalizing on the growing smartphone, tablet, and wearable devices segment.

Samsung’s chip business posted a revenue of KRW 17 trillion ($15 billion) and an operating profit of KRW 8.03 trillion ($7.1 billion) for Q2 2017, which is a huge increase over Q2 2016’s operating profit of KRW 2.64 trillion ($2.4 billion). The reason behind this increase in operating profit is rising demand for server DRAMs and SSDs. Intel reported a revenue of $14.8 billion and an operating profit of $3.8 billion for the same period.

“Given Samsung’s strength today in flash memory, I am not surprised Samsung surpassed Intel in semiconductor revenue,” said Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy, adding that Intel may be able to catch up Samsung when Intel’s memory output is at full production capacity in about six months. “I think we will see a lot of back and forth between the two companies.”

While Intel stuck to developing CPUs for laptops, PCs, and servers, Samsung diversified its portfolio by developing chipsets for smartphones, tablets, wearables. It also made signification improvements in its UFS and SSD storage chips as well as DRAM products. Its Evo and Evo Pro lineup of SSD solutions are one of the best in the world.

Samsung’s chip business could also beat Intel in annual performance as the chip industry’s outlook remains bright for the rest of the year. Samsung is also developing connected chipsets for IoT devices as well as automobiles. To make a strong headway into the connected automobiles segment, Samsung announced that it would acquire Harman International Industries last year, and the acquisition was completed earlier this year.

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Samsung Galaxy S8 Active detailed specs revealed ahead of official announcement

It’s been more than a year since the rugged version of the Galaxy S7 made its way to the US, and Samsung could soon launch its successor. Named Galaxy S8 Active, the durable smartphone has already been certified by the FCC and the Wi-Fi Alliance. Moreover, its images were leaked earlier this week, revealing a flat display and a 4,000 mAh battery. Now, detailed specifications of the smartphone have been revealed.

According to the images of presentation slides that appeared online, the Galaxy S8 Active features a 5.8-inch QHD+ Super AMOLED display with 18.5: aspect ratio and Gorilla Glass 5 protection. It runs Android 7.0, and comes equipped with a 4,000 mAh battery that’s compatible with fast wireless charging. It features a Snapdragon 835 processor, 4GB RAM, 64GB of internal storage, and a microSD card slot. It weighs a hefty 208.09 grams and its dimensions are 152.15 x 74.93 x 9.91mm.

The phone is supposed to be quite durable, thanks to IP68 certification (for dust and water resistance) as well as MIL-STD-810G certification for resistance from shocks, drops, and extreme climatic conditions. The Galaxy S8 Active retains the camera specifications of the Galaxy S8 and S8+ with a 12-megapixel rear-facing camera that features dual-pixel phase-detection autofocus, OIS, f/1.7 aperture, and 4K video recording. The front-facing 8-megapixel camera also features autofocus, f/1.7 aperture, and QHD video recording.

Connectivity features of the Galaxy S8 Active include Bluetooth 5.1, Wi-Fi, NFC, MST (for Samsung Pay), GPS, A-GPS, and GLONASS. The phone could be launched in two colours: Meteor Gray and Titanium Gold. It also features with a physical button for summoning Bixby, but we are not sure whether it could be remapped. Last year, the Galaxy S7 Active had an ‘Active Key’ that could be configured to open any installed app of user’s choice when they short press, long press, and double press it.

Thanks to a much larger battery, the Galaxy S8 Active should be able to last longer than the Galaxy S8 does with its 3,000 mAh battery. However, the smartphone is expected to be sold exclusively in the US through AT&T. What do you think about the Galaxy S8 Active? Let us know in the comments section below.

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