الثلاثاء، 26 فبراير 2019

Samsung and Huawei settle patent infringement lawsuit

Samsung hasn’t just been competing with Huawei in the market. Both companies have been involved in legal battles since 2016 when they sued each other on allegations of patent infringement. Lawsuits were filed in the United States and China with Samsung contesting them in both markets.

The two companies have decided to settle their issue out of court, at least in the United States. A joint motion filed today confirms that Huawei and Samsung has entered into a settlement agreement this week.

Settlement agreement will be finalized over the next few weeks

The joint motion filed with the Federal Circuit seeks a stay on the appellate proceedings concerning Samsung’s antisuit injunction. A stay at this stage when only the appellate decision was left suggested one thing which was confirmed by the joint motion. Samsung and Huawei have entered into a settlement agreement.

“The parties entered into a settlement agreement and, pursuant to that agreement, they anticipate that in the next several weeks they will complete the pending steps to finalize the settlement and ultimately that Huawei will file an unopposed motion to dismiss this pending appeal within the next 30 days,” the joint motion states.

This case was filed in the United States back in 2016 and would have gone to trial in September. The jury would then have heard Samsung’s allegation of Huawei breaching its FRAND (“Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory”) licensing obligations. Both countries have been battling it out in the courts since then and have no appeared to make the wise decision of no longer wasting resources on this fight

It’s unclear what the terms of this settlement are. They might be made public in the coming weeks once they’re finalized. It’s good to see that Samsung and Huawei can see eye to eye on some matters.

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Samsung’s doubling down on Bixby Voice at MWC 2019

Samsung has spared no expense to make sure Barcelona is aware that Bixby Voice can now understand Spanish, dotting several Hola Bixby Experience Stores around the capital, where MWC 2019 is currently underway — with the most notable situated opposite Apple’s flagship Passeig de Gràcia location, which has been closed for the last month for refurbishment.

The so-called Hola Bixby Experience Stores are decked out with Samsung’s latest devices, ranging from smart home accessories to smartphones, in a unique configuration that demonstrates how Bixby can be used at home, on the move and in the office. Customers also have the option to trial the tech for themselves, interacting with the assistant in their native language.

Samsung launched Bixby Voice for five new languages last week, including English (UK), French, German, Italian and of course Spanish. There’s one caveat, though: in order to use the feature, you’ll need to be using a Galaxy device that’s running Android 9 Pie. You’ll also need to have version 2.0.52.14 of Bixby installed, which can be done by following these steps.

If you’ve been following our MWC 2019 coverage, you’d know that the Galaxy Fold and Galaxy S10 are the stars of the show — the latter of which was available for manhandling at the Hola Bixby Experience Store I attended opposite Apple’s Passeig de Gràcia Store. Those wanting to see the Galaxy Fold in the flesh will, however, need to head over to the Fira de Barcelona.

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Galaxy S10 will come with a built-in cryptocurrency wallet

As rumored and reported previously, Samsung’s Galaxy S10 lineup will come with a built-in cryptocurrency wallet called Samsung Blockchain KeyStore. It’s a cold storage wallet that can be used to store Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Cosmo Coin. The Korean company confirmed and elaborated about the wallet during the Samsung Mobile Business Summit at the ongoing MWC in Barcelona.

Along with the wallet, the company’s latest flagship also supports select Decentralized Apps (DApps). Cosmochain, a South Korean blockchain startup, will be Samsung’s initial DApp partner with its COSMEE DApp. COSMEE is a blockchain-powered beauty review app that rewards users with Cosmo coins for leaving beauty reviews in the app.  These coins can be transferred from COSMEE to Samsung’s crypto wallet directly.

DApps coming to the Galaxy Store?

While details are scarce, it appears partner DApps will be available for download from the Galaxy DApps page (tentative name) in the Galaxy Store. We currently don’t know if it is possible or Samsung intends to bring the wallet and DApps support to other Galaxy devices in the market. In the past, the company has ported new features from the latest Galaxy smartphones to older models if the hardware permitted. The same may be the case this time as well.

This is not the first time Samsung is dabbling in the crypto space. The company announced last year that its foundry business was making ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) chips for mining hardware companies. The Samsung Blockchain Keystore and DApps support, however, point to a more direct and consumer-facing play in the nascent industry.

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Samsung says Galaxy Fold customers will get a ‘concierge-like service’

Samsung has been very light on the details about the Galaxy Fold so far. It only confirmed some of the specs at the launch event on February 20 apart from revealing when it will arrive and for how much.

It has now provided additional information about how the device is going to be sold and the premium aftercare that customers will receive. The Galaxy Fold will go on sale on April 26. It’s going to cost $1,980 and this new information helps put that price tag into context.

I wrote yesterday that Samsung allowed us to see the Galaxy Fold from a distance at its MWC 2019 booth but didn’t allow members of the press to go hands-on with the device. Hopefully, that’s going to change in early April.

Galaxy Fold will receive intensive aftercare from Samsung

Samsung UK’s director of product, services and commercial strategy Kate Beaumont has told The Verge that there’s going to be a press event for the Galaxy Fold “at the beginning of April.” Samsung will reveal more information about the device at this event and may ostensibly allow members of the press to experience the device for themselves. I say ostensibly because there’s no guarantee that it will be a press event in the conventional sense. Samsung may just reveal more information about the device through a press release.

Beaumont mentioned that there’s going to be less supply of the Galaxy Fold at launch than the company would have of a device like the Galaxy S10, and that “how it goes to market is really important to us.” Samsung Mobile boss DJ Koh has previously said that the company will produce one million units of the device initially and that production may be increased if the response is good. He has previously said that the foldable device will be released globally.

However, it may not be released like a conventional Samsung smartphone. Beaumont said that the device won’t be on display in all stores. “You’re not going to see it on the stands, we want to make sure it’s a very personal experience,” adding that “This is a super premium device, and we want to make sure it has a concierge-like service and experience.” No explanation has been offered about the concierge-like service but that will most likely come at the device’s press event. It will surely be interesting to see what this “intensive aftercare” will turn out to be.

What that means is customers won’t find the device at every retailer and carrier store. Samsung may only make the device available through select retailers and it’s possible that it may opt to sell the device through luxury department stores in some markets. That’s something that Apple did with the $10,000 Apple Watch Edition.

Vertu used to provide 24/7 concierge support to customers of its premium smartphones. Whether Samsung will be doing the same for Galaxy Fold customers remains to be seen. It may not offer that level of aftercare but it would certainly be more than what you get with any other Samsung phone.

Commenting on the design of the device, Beaumont said that Samsung considered a lot of options. The company feels like having the screen on the inside is the best way to protected that foldable display with respect to usability and durability. “We have the technology to do a fold that is very very tiny, as of course if you have the fold on the outside it doesn’t take quite the same amount of research and development to get that device to fold as it does something that is folding with a much lower angle degree on it,” Beaumont said, throwing some shade on the likes of Huawei, something we also explained in our opinion about the hype and reality of Huawei’s foldable phone vs the Galaxy Fold.

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Swatch files complaint against Samsung for trademark infringements

According to Reuters, Swatch Group, the famous Swiss watchmaker which owns renowned brands like Longines, Omega, Swatch, Rado, and Tissot, has filed a complaint against Samsung Electronics and Samsung Electronics America in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York over trademark infringements.

Swatch alleges that downloadable watch faces available for the Gear Sport, Gear S3 Classic and Frontier smartwatches “bear identical or virtually identical marks” to its trademarks. The Swiss company is demanding a trial and seeking more than $100 million in damages. The company says it initiated the legal proceedings in the US since the allegedly infringed trademarks were registered there.

A known problem

Samsung smartwatch users can download thousands of watch faces from the Galaxy Store. Barring a handful, most of them are designed and sold by third-party developers. It is not immediately clear if the watch faces under contention are designed and published by Samsung themselves. Incidentally, we have reported in the past that many third-party watches faces available in Samsung’s app store blatantly copy iconic watch designs and yet pass the company’s store approval process.

“This unabashed copying of the Trademarks can have only one purpose – to trade off the fame, reputation, and goodwill of the Swatch Group Companies’ products and marks built painstakingly over decades,” the Swatch Group said in its complaint

“This is a blatant, wilful and international violation of our trademarks by Samsung,” a Swatch spokesperson told Reuters. “The affected brands are worth billions. Our claim for compensation? Triple digits in millions,” the representative added further. Samsung, on the other hand, declined to comment on the complaint.

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Galaxy A10 render surfaces ahead of launch in India

Samsung will be launching the refreshed Galaxy A series on February 28 in India. The Galaxy A10, A30, and the A50 are expected to be launched initially in the country. Samsung has, in fact, already made the latter two official at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday. An image leak from a case maker has now revealed the render of the Galaxy A10.

Nothing to surprise here

The newly leaked Galaxy A10 render reveals a familiar design. The device features an Infinity-V display with a waterdrop notch, like the Galaxy M10 and Galaxy M20. The right hand panel of the device houses the power button and the volume control buttons. The bottom part has cutouts for the 3.5mm headphone jack, USB connector and a microphone. There’s also an opening for a second microphone at the top.

Speakers are placed at the bottom left of the back panel, similar to that of the Galaxy M10. Also, there’s no sign of a fingerprint sensor on this device as well. However, the Galaxy A10 gets only one camera at the back. The Galaxy M10 features a dual rear camera setup. Along with the 13MP primary sensor, it also gets a 5MP ultra-wide camera. The Galaxy A10, meanwhile, is expected to feature a 13MP lens at the back, and a 5MP snapper on the front.

As for other specs, a major leak earlier this month had revealed it all. The Galaxy A10 is powered by the Exynos 7884B SoC, coupled with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage space. It features a 6.2-inch Infinity-V HD+ display. Though the device misses on a fingerprint sensor, it is expected to come with face recognition.

As said earlier, the Galaxy A10 will be launched in India on February 28, so there are only two days to go. In the meantime, you may read our Galaxy A50 and Galaxy A30 hands-on.

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Galaxy S10 brings a change to the camera’s Live Focus mode that I like

With great power comes great responsibility, and with more cameras on a flagship phone come new and improved features. Samsung talked all about the Galaxy S10 cameras at the official unveiling, focusing on the new ultra-wide camera joining the Dual Aperture and telephoto lens from the Galaxy S9. The ultra-wide camera enables pictures with a 23-degree field of view, and it changes a key element of the Live Focus mode that I am happy to see on the Galaxy S10.

I’ve loved having 2x zoom capability on Samsung’s flagship phones. But I’ve never liked the fact that in Live Focus mode, the camera zooms in on the subject. With dual camera setups that include a telephoto lens, the telephoto lens is the one used when you switch to Live Focus mode. The primary camera is tasked to capturing the background and the telephoto lens captures the subject in focus. Well, at least that’s my understanding of how dual cameras enable bokeh pictures, and it forces you to move back to maintain proper distance with the subject that you’re trying to capture more often than not.

Samsung’s mid-range and budget phones come with a dedicated depth sensor at the back instead of a telephoto lens, so there’s no zooming in involved on those, giving you more leeway to frame the subject as you see fit. And that’s the case on the Galaxy S10 as well, since Samsung is using the primary 12 MP sensor for capturing the subject on the S10 and the ultra-wide sensor for the background. This also allows the S10 to take slightly wider bokeh pictures and enables the Galaxy S10e to have Live Focus support as well.

Of course, it remains to be seen whether this change will make me use Live Focus more often. And based on my short time with the S10+, I’m not sure the overall quality of the bokeh pictures has improved. Our review units are running pre-release software, though, so I wouldn’t go so far as giving you a solid conclusion at the moment.

Galaxy S10e

  • Model: SM-G970F
  • Dimensions: 69.9 x 142.2 x 7.9mm
  • Display: 5.8” (146.5mm) Super AMOLED
  • CPU: Exynos 9820 Octa
  • Camera: 12 MP, CMOS F1.5/F2.4 (77) & 16MP, CMOS F2.2 (123)Ultra Wide
More specifications

Galaxy S10

  • Model: SM-G973F
  • Dimensions: 70.4 x 149.9 x 7.8mm
  • Display: 6.1"(157.5mm) Super AMOLED
  • CPU: Exynos 9820 Octa
  • Camera: 12 MP.CMOS F2.4 45° Telephoto & 12MP F1.5 77° & 16MP F2.2 123° Ultra-wide
More specifications

Galaxy S10 Plus

  • Model: SM-G975F
  • Dimensions: 74.1 x 157.6 x 7.8mm
  • Display: 6.4"(162.5mm) Super AMOLED
  • CPU: Exynos 9820 Octa
  • Camera: 12 MP.CMOS F2.4 45° Telephoto & 12MP F1.5/F2.4 77° & 16MP F2.2 123° Ultra-wide
More specifications

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[Poll] Which Galaxy S10 did you pre-order and why?

It’s been almost a week since the Galaxy S10 was unveiled by Samsung in San Francisco. As the company is wont to to in recent years, it started taking pre-orders for its latest flagship the very next day across the world. Samsung has three different variants of its flagship on offer this year: the Galaxy S10e, Galaxy S10, and Galaxy S10+. The Galaxy S10e is rather different from the S10 and S10+ in some respects, but all three have something to offer, and and we want to know which of the three Galaxy S10 models you have pre-ordered and why.

So let’s get right down to it: Vote in the poll below and then tell us the reasoning behind your decision in the comments. If you haven’t yet pre-ordered but are thinking of doing that in the next few days, do check out our roundup of Galaxy S10 pre-order deals for various markets. Can’t decide which one to pick? Our hands-on experience with the S10e, S10, and S10+ can help. Our full review is also in progress and should be out in the next couple of weeks. And finally, those who would like to wait for the 5G model can see if their country will be getting the Galaxy S10 5G and see what it’s all about in our hands-on impressions.

Which Galaxy S10 did you pre-order and why
Results

Galaxy S10e

  • Model: SM-G970F
  • Dimensions: 69.9 x 142.2 x 7.9mm
  • Display: 5.8” (146.5mm) Super AMOLED
  • CPU: Exynos 9820 Octa
  • Camera: 12 MP, CMOS F1.5/F2.4 (77) & 16MP, CMOS F2.2 (123)Ultra Wide
More specifications

Galaxy S10

  • Model: SM-G973F
  • Dimensions: 70.4 x 149.9 x 7.8mm
  • Display: 6.1"(157.5mm) Super AMOLED
  • CPU: Exynos 9820 Octa
  • Camera: 12 MP.CMOS F2.4 45° Telephoto & 12MP F1.5 77° & 16MP F2.2 123° Ultra-wide
More specifications

Galaxy S10 Plus

  • Model: SM-G975F
  • Dimensions: 74.1 x 157.6 x 7.8mm
  • Display: 6.4"(162.5mm) Super AMOLED
  • CPU: Exynos 9820 Octa
  • Camera: 12 MP.CMOS F2.4 45° Telephoto & 12MP F1.5/F2.4 77° & 16MP F2.2 123° Ultra-wide
More specifications

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T-Mobile begins testing Android Pie for the Galaxy Note 9

T-Mobile has been rather late in releasing the Android Pie (One UI) update for the Galaxy Note 9. The carrier has only begun testing the Android Pie update for the device now. It is expected to roll out the update in the coming weeks, once testing is complete.

Sprint and AT&T have already rolled out the Android Pie update for the Galaxy Note 9. Verizon, meanwhile, remains mum on the matter.

T-Mobile Galaxy Note 9 will get Android Pie soon

T-Mobile’s software update program consists of three stages: Development, Testing and Complete. Android Pie for the Galaxy Note 9 is currently in the testing stage. At this stage, the new software will go through tests to find and fix bugs and any final issues before it can be declared complete. Once the software is approved to be bug-free, it will be rolled out for consumers, so Galaxy Note 9 users on T-Mobile can expect the Android Pie update anytime soon.

T-Mobile has already released the update for the Galaxy S9 and S9+. The carrier has the Galaxy S8, S8+, S8 Active, Galaxy Note 8, Galaxy J7 Star, and the Galaxy A6 currently listed under the development stage. Testing for these devices should begin once the update is released for the Galaxy Note 9.

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