Wallpaper Wednesday: Earth (Part 2)

Welcome to the latest edition of Wallpaper Wednesday. This week we’re highlighting five more backgrounds that feature elements of Earth. All of the images are available in a suitable resolution for the Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+ and just about any other smartphone on the market.

If any of the following images float your boat and you want to download and set one as your wallpaper, simply tap on the photo to maximise it, then click and hold to save it. Once the picture is stored locally, open up Settings, locate and select Wallpaper, then just press the image to set it as your background.

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Beach Corrosion

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Sands of Time

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Sideline Scene

 

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Swerve

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SamMobile Daily Recap: October 25, 2017 — Galaxy Note 8, Samsung Pay 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 we published today.

APK

SoundAssistant is now compatible with the Galaxy Note 8

Firmware News

T-Mobile Galaxy J7 Android 7.1.1 Nougat update released

General

Samsung India begins R&D work on 5G technology

Samsung Pay

Samsung’s latest incentive to use Samsung Pay benefits children in need

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Samsung India begins R&D work on 5G technology

Samsung has been playing a major role in the development of 5G technology. The company recently conducted its first 5G fixed wireless access trial in the United Kingdom. It has also inked agreements to deliver the first multi-vendor 5G trials with Verizon and Cisco. Samsung has now revealed that research and development work on 5G technology has begun at its R&D center in India.

Dipesh Shah, the managing director of the Samsung R&D Institute in Bengaluru, has confirmed that the company has started work on 5G technology at the facility. The facility in Bengaluru is Samsung’s largest research and development center outside South Korea.

Samsung India And 5G

Samsung’s R&D center in Bengaluru performs two major roles. It develops features to address the needs of Indian consumers. Features like S-Bike were developed here. The center’s other role is to work on products and services with a global impact.

This may not be widely known but the final part of development for Bixby was done at the center in Bengaluru. It also adapted the virtual assistant for local Indian accents so that users from different parts of the country could take advantage of the digital assistant.

There’s still a long road ahead before the commercialization of 5G technology. Seems like Samsung wants to make sure that it’s a leader in this space. Samsung’s R&D center in India will now be working on 5G technology alongside the teams based in South Korea and elsewhere.

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SoundAssistant is now compatible with the Galaxy Note 8

Samsung has updated its SoundAssistant application with support for the Galaxy Note 8. The upgrade also bundles compatibility for a number of new features and interface improvements, which have been built for the latest version of the firm’s Experience—formerly known as TouchWiz—user interface (8.5).

Among the new additions is the facility to alter the volume of an individual application and change the increments that volume is increased/decreased. You’ll also notice the option to share equalizer settings, so if you find a nice balance you can send it to a friend to use on their handset.

We’d recommend installing the update from the Play Store

The update is available to download from both Galaxy Apps and the Play Store starting today. We’d recommend grabbing it from the latter though, as it’s often marginally quicker to install an upgrade from Google’s offering than it is from Samsung’s. But that’s just our two cents.

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Samsung’s latest incentive to use Samsung Pay benefits children in need

Samsung will donate a school meal to a child in need every time you use its mobile payment platform—Samsung Pay—instead of an Oyster on Transport for London (TfL) and National Rail services, which covers the DLR, London Underground, London Overground and London River Bus.

There’s a caveat, though. To ensure a meal is donated, you’ll need to use a Mastercard-issued credit or debit card as your preferred payment for travel and seeing as most financial institutions are making the push towards Visa Credit, that may be easier said than done.

Samsung Pay launched in the UK in May

Samsung Pay has been available in the United Kingdom since May. It currently supports a number of the region’s leading banks, including First Direct, HSBC and M&S Bank; however, a couple of big names are still missing from the list (cough, cough, Barclays, Lloyds, cough).

The World Food Day promotion expires on Monday, November 6.

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T-Mobile Galaxy J7 Android 7.1.1 Nougat update released

We reported recently that the Galaxy J7 might soon receive the Nougat update. The handset was spotted at the Wi-Fi Alliance running a Nougat build. It was a big indication that the company was planning on rolling out the update soon.

T-Mobile has now started rolling out the Android 7.1.1 Nougat update for the Galaxy J7. It’s one of the few devices that Samsung has updated straight to version 7.1.1 from Marshmallow.

T-Mobile Galaxy J7 Android 7.1.1 Nougat Update

T-Mobile has started rolling out the Nougat update for the Galaxy J7 over-the-air. However, the company’s support document for this handset is all over the place. It assigns version number Android 6.0.1, Android 7.0 and Android 7.1.1 to one single firmware version, J700TUVU3BQI5.

This is obviously not possible. Clearly, there are clerical issues with the document. That doesn’t mean the T-Mobile Galaxy J7 Android 7.1.1 Nougat update isn’t rolling out. Those who own this handset on T-Mobile will soon receive an update notification if they haven’t already.

This firmware is also available for download from our firmware section where the Android version is accurately mentioned as Android 7.1.1 Nougat. Despite the fact that this update has been released in October, it comes with the August security patch.

Galaxy J7 owners on T-Mobile can either wait for the update to go live in their region or simply download the firmware from our website.

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