الأربعاء، 4 أبريل 2018

[Poll] Dual SIM Galaxy S9 may have an issue with missed call notifications

Are you missing calls on your dual SIM Galaxy S9 or Galaxy S9+ but seeing no mention of a missed call in the phone’s notifications afterwards? You might not be alone, as some owners of the dual SIM Galaxy S9/S9+ have complained that their phone doesn’t show them a missed call notifications at times. It’s unclear if this issue extends to both the S9 or S9+, although the solution for many seems to be disabling the inbuilt caller ID and spam protection feature from the phone’s call settings.

Some Galaxy S9 units are missing missed call notifications

Samsung doesn’t bundle spam protection on its flagships in every country, which might explain why none of our dual SIM units has the issue, and it may be why your device isn’t acting weird with missed call notifications either. Unfortunately, disabling spam protection doesn’t seem to work for everyone, and it’s not a proper solution anyway if users have to disable what can be an important feature. The issue persists even after the recent software update that was rolled out to the Galaxy S9 and S9+, so either Samsung isn’t aware some users are having this problem or hasn’t heard enough reports to be taking it seriously just yet.

But the recent update did improve call stability, and hopefully, the company will take notice, see what’s causing the issue, and roll out a fix in the next update. We have reached out to Samsung for a comment on the matter, and while we wait for a reply, tell us if your Galaxy S9 or S9+ (dual SIM or otherwise) is making missed call notifications disappear by voting in the poll and leaving a comment down below.

Also, if you want to try out the temporary solution, open the Phone app, tap the three-dot button at the top right, tap Settings, then go into the Caller ID and spam protection menu and disable both features. You can also use this app for third-party notifications as a workaround until Samsung rolls out a fix.

Does your Galaxy S9 or S9+ fail to notify you about missed calls?
Results

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Samsung will start making phones in Bangladesh soon

Samsung is all set to assemble phones locally in Bangladesh from next month. Samsung has partnered with the local firm Fair Electronics Ltd to make 4G smartphones locally in the country. Production will kickstart from the second week of May, and the first batch of ‘Made in Bangladesh’ Samsung phones are expected to be in the market before by June.

Fair Electronics Ltd has inaugurated a new 58,000 square-feet manufacturing plant in Narsingdi, Bangladesh, as part of the plan. The plant is expected to have three production lines with over 500 employees and the capacity to produce a few hundred thousand devices every month. The production capacity of the plant is reportedly enough to address the market demand in Bangladesh.

Prices will come down in Bangladesh

Samsung will be supplying all the parts to the local partner, provide training to the workers, and will place stringent quality checks to ensure finished products from the plant are of international quality. Initially, only entry-level and mid-range smartphones will be assembled at the plant before gradually moving to the higher-end smartphones.

Last year, Samsung accounted for 26 percent of the total imported smartphones into Bangladesh. Currently, import of finished mobile devices into Bangladesh attract up to 29.50 percent in taxes. By assembling phones locally, Samsung will be able to bring this tax to somewhere between one and 10 percent depending on various factors. Samsung is hoping to pass part of the savings to the customers through reduced prices.

Samsung accomplished a similar feat in neighboring India by manufacturing phones locally. When the Indian government increased taxes on imported smartphones, firms like Apple were forced to increase the price of their products to offset the additional cost until they could start manufacturing locally, while Samsung’s smartphone prices largely remained unchanged as the company had previously been making devices in India.

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Unlocked Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ finally get Oreo in the US

It has been a couple of weeks since major carriers in the United States starting rolling out the Android 8.0 Oreo update for the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8+. All four major carriers have since released the update. However, those who own an unlocked Galaxy S8 have had to wait but they will be delighted to find out that the wait is now over. Samsung has finally released the Oreo update for the unlocked Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ in the United States.

Unlocked Galaxy S8 Oreo update

Samsung had promised a few days ago that it would release Oreo for all variants of the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy Note 8 in the US within the next couple of weeks. Carriers have also released Oreo for the Galaxy Note 8 and the company released it for the unlocked model just yesterday.

It’s now rolling out the unlocked Galaxy S8 Oreo update in the country. Samsung explained recently that the updates for unlocked variants arrive later than their carrier counterparts because the firmware has to go through additional testing to ensure proper functionality with all supported carriers as opposed to the firmware for carrier-locked units that’s only tested for that particular carrier only.

Samsung is now rolling out firmware version G950U1UEU2CRB9 and G955U1UEU2CRB9 for the unlocked Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ in the United States respectively. The update comes in at just over 1.3GB and brings all of the new features that are included in Android 8.0 Oreo with none of the carrier bloatware. Check out our detailed What’s New With Android 8.0 Oreo series to find out more about all of the new features included in this update.

Unlocked Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ owners in the United States should expect to receive an update notification on their handsets soon if they haven’t got one yet. They can also try to manually pull the update by heading to the Software update menu in the Settings app.

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Samsung’s quarterly profit predicted to surge almost 50% this quarter

Samsung’s dominant position in the memory chip market has allowed the company to make money hand over fist for the past couple of years. Rising memory chip prices have also increased its profit margins which is why the company is expected to forecast an almost 50 percent increase in quarterly profit for Q1 2018 on Friday. Analysts feel that the rally in the memory chip market will help Samsung cover the slowdown in sales of smartphones and other related components.

Samsung’s quarterly profit

Samsung reported an operating profit of $8.7 billion in Q1 2017 and it happened to be the company’s second-best quarterly result ever. It also represented the highest-ever operating profit for the January to March period. Even back then, the company said that despite a slowdown in mobile sales it had a great quarter due to increased sales for memory chip products.

Financial analysts polled by Thomson Reuters predict that Samsung is going to forecast a jump of almost 50 percent in operating profit on Friday. They expect that the semiconductor business will account for almost three-quarters of its $13.7 billion operating profit for Q1 2018. Some analysts even predict that Samsung will rake in 70 cents in operating profit for every $1 of DRAM chips sold.

Samsung’s stellar performance in the memory chip market has enabled it to firmly dethrone Intel as the world’s largest semiconductor vendor after 24 years. However, some analysts feel that Intel could take back its lead if memory chip prices fall in the coming year, something they expect to happen as Chinese manufacturers gear up to enter the lucrative market. Unlike Intel, Samsung’s lead isn’t built on microprocessors, which are largely non-volatile when it comes to pricing.

The company is due to issue its earnings guidance for the first quarter of the year on Friday before it reports the full results later this month. The Galaxy S9 is expected to have a considerable on-year impact on Q1 2018 profitability given that it was released almost a month before the Galaxy S8 was last year.

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Leaked Galaxy Note 9 images with ‘in-display fingerprint sensor’ are fake

So the time is just right for rumors about the Galaxy Note 9 to begin making the rounds, now that the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ have been available for purchase for a few weeks, but it looks like someone may have jumped the gun in their eagerness to be the first with live images of Samsung’s next Note flagship. A website called Samrena.ir has published photos of what it says is a Galaxy Note 9 with no fingerprint sensor at the back, thereby suggesting that the fingerprint reader is underneath the display. Samsung has certainly been reported to be considering an in-display fingerprint solution for the Note 9, although the leaked images are anything but the real deal.

Galaxy Note 9 images leaked? Not so fast

How do we know? Well, all the images have been taken from various Galaxy S9 hands-on articles, something we were able to discover with a simple reverse image search on Google. Add a bit of Photoshop magic and you have everything you need to make people think they might actually be looking at the Galaxy Note 9. Samsung probably doesn’t even have a working prototype available just yet for actual images of the Galaxy Note 9 leaking out so early. Or maybe it does, but again, these aren’t the images you are looking for if you want a glimpse at the company’s next flagship. We’ll probably have to wait a few months before believable images and leaks start appearing online, and there’s always a chance the Galaxy Note 9 will just be a Galaxy S9+ with an S Pen instead of offering features like an in-display fingerprint sensor to put the kibosh on everyone’s anticipation and expectations.

What do you think of these pictures? We’ve added the original and the “leaked” versions side-by-side along with the images from the source of this particular leak, so check them out below and let us know your thoughts by leaving a comment!

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Samsung explains how it brought Super Slow-Mo on the Galaxy S9 ‘to life’

When the Galaxy Note 8 came out with the first dual camera setup for a Samsung flagship, the company’s marketing was all about the features the dual camera enabled, such as 2x zoom and Live Focus photos. Many had looked forward to these features coming to the Galaxy S lineup with the Galaxy S9, but whether because the regular S9 only has a single camera or if Samsung just likes the Super Slow-Mo feature better, the company has focused all of its advertising on Super Slow-Mo and let the benefits of the dual camera recede into the background. And, it looks like there’s a reason the 960 fps slow-motion video capability of the Galaxy S9 and S9+ gets all the attention.

It’s all about the right image sensor

What is that reason? Well, apparently the amount of hard work Samsung put into creating the necessary image sensor to make Super Slow-Mo possible. Samsung has put up a new post on the Samsung Newsroom talking about how its engineers went about building the feature and the necessary hardware, though it doesn’t exactly say more than what we already heard the company reveal on-stage during the Galaxy S9’s announcement. The main theme running through the post is that Samsung’s engineers had to work on creating an image sensor that’s four times faster than conventional sensors, with the sensor supported by a dedicated memory chip for quickly processing super slow-mo videos.

Of course, Samsung isn’t the first to offer such a feature on its smartphones. That was Sony, though Samsung can certainly be proud of introducing the ability for the camera to automatically record slow-motion videos when the sensor detects movement. It doesn’t work well all the time, and indoor and poor lighting conditions are a big challenge for the Galaxy S9’s Super Slow-Mo feature, but it makes for some amazing slow-motion videos when it does work. And we can expect to see improvements with the Galaxy Note 9 (or at least the Galaxy S10), improvements that will hopefully let the camera record these videos in Full HD to offer sharper detail than they do right now at 720p resolution.

Hit the source link to check out Samsung’s post, and let us know what you think of Super Slow-Mo on your Galaxy S9. Don’t own the Galaxy S9? Take a look at a few super slow-motion videos recorded on the phone and also check out our full review.

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