الخميس، 28 فبراير 2019

SamMobile Daily Recap, February 28, 2019: Bixby remapping, Galaxy A6 Pie beta, 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 covered today.

Phones

Support page confirms approaching Samsung Galaxy A40 launch in Europe

Samsung launches the Galaxy A10, A30, and A50 in India

[Poll] A week later, what do you think about the Galaxy Fold?

Firmware News

Samsung releases Android Pie beta for Galaxy A6 (2018) in Korea

Bixby

Samsung brings Bixby key remapping to older flagships

With Android Pie, Bixby Voice no longer needs a physical key

Samsung to allow swapping Bixby in ‘Hi Bixby’ hotword with other words?

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Samsung to allow swapping Bixby in ‘Hi Bixby’ hotword with other words?

Now that we have the option to remap the dedicated Bixby key on our Galaxy phones, Samsung could be planning to give us the option to customize the ‘Hi Bixby’ wake-up command for Bixby Voice. Well, at least in China, where the company has apparently announced that Samsung will swap the Bixby in ‘Hi Bixby’ with a word of their choice.

There are no more details available yet, but Twitter leakster Ice universe says you could say ‘Hi IceCat’ instead of ‘Hi Bixby’, so we’re assuming users will a free hand at choosing any word they’d like. The ‘Hi’ part of the command will probably stay as it is, but letting people set up custom wake-up commands would take Bixby Voice a step ahead of Google Now. Google currently allows one to say ‘Hey Google’ or ‘Ok Google’ to use the Google Assistant.

It remains to be seen if the Bixby hotword customization will be come to devices other than the S10 and in countries outside China. If it does, what’s the word you’d use to access Bixby Voice? If you set it to ‘Hi SamMobile’ and give us some free publicity when you’re out and about in a crowd and need to ask Bixby something, we promise we won’t complain.

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With Android Pie, Bixby Voice no longer needs a physical key

When the Galaxy Tab S4 went official, Samsung told us that the tablet would have support for Bixby Voice. That was well and good until we realized the Tab S4 had no physical Bixby key, which is required for Bixby Voice access on a Galaxy device. Samsung told us Bixby Voice would come with an update to the Tab S4 in 2019, and it turns out it’s the Android Pie update that the company was talking about.

Long press power key for Bixby Voice, double press for camera

On the new Galaxy A50, which comes with Pie out of the box, you can talk to Bixby by long pressing the power button to bring up Bixby Voice. It’s not enabled by default, but the phone asks you if you want to assign a long press of the power key to Bixby Voice the first time you access the power menu. A shortcut to Bixby gets added to the home screen so you can access the main Bixby app, and the phone also puts the power menu options in the status bar once you map Bixby Voice to the power button so you can restart/power off the device.

This is a good step towards making Bixby Voice more widely available across the Galaxy lineup, and it should help Samsung improve its voice assistant faster than it would have if only flagships and a few select mid-range devices would continue to get a dedicated physical key (which can be remapped on existing devices now). However, Samsung may not be putting Bixby Voice on every new phone that comes with Pie out of the box, as the Galaxy A30 doesn’t have it. It may have something to do with the device’s specs, but we can’t be sure at this point.

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[Poll] A week later, what do you think about the Galaxy Fold?

It has been a week since Samsung announced the Galaxy Fold at its Unpacked event in San Francisco. The much-awaited device will go on sale on April 26 for $1,980 in select markets. So far, the company hasn’t allowed the press to play with the device, thereby leaving many questions unanswered. However, quite a bit of information about the Galaxy Fold has emerged online in the last few days, including a four-minute video from Samsung which gave us the closest look at the device so far.

Since the Galaxy Fold announcement, a lot has happened in the smartphone market. Companies like Huawei, Oppo, and TCL showed us their vision for foldable smartphones at the MWC. None of them, however, are going to hit the market anytime soon, leaving the Galaxy Fold as the only foldable smartphone that customers can actually buy. Taking all this into account, we are curious what our readers think about the Galaxy Fold a week after its announcement.

Vote in the poll below and then let us know more about your thoughts on the Galaxy Fold down in the comments section!

How do you feel about the Galaxy Fold now?
Results

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Samsung launches the Galaxy A10, A30, and A50 in India

After launching the online-exclusive Galaxy M series, Samsung is now focusing on the offline market in India by launching new Galaxy A series smartphones. In line with all the previous reports, the company has announced the Galaxy A10, A30, and A50 in the country today. Of these three models, the Galaxy A30 and A50 already made their debut at the MWC in Barcelona last week. While the three devices share many similarities with the recent Galaxy M models, they boast slightly different specifications and are priced comparatively higher to accommodate retailer margins.

Beginning with the Galaxy A10, it comes with 6.2-inch HD+ Infinity-V display, Exynos 7884 SoC, 2GB RAM, 32GB internal storage, 13MP rear camera, 5MP selfie, 3,400mAh battery, and Android 9 Pie with Samsung’s One UI on top. It is priced at INR 8,490 (~$120) and will be available in red, blue, and black color options.

The Galaxy A30, as we know already, sports a 6.4-inch full-HD+ Super AMOLED Infinity-U display, Exynos 7904 SoC, 3GB/4GB of RAM, 32GB/64GB of storage, dual-camera setup on the back, rear-mounted fingerprint reader, 4,000mAh battery with support for fast charging, and Android 9 Pie with One UI. Samsung will be selling only the 4GB/64GB storage variant of the A30 in India. It will be available in the same colors as the A10 and carries a price tag of INR 16,990 (~$240).

Evident from the model number, the Galaxy A50 is the most premium and powerful of the three devices and is the first Samsung midranger to pack an in-display fingerprint reader. Other specs include a 6.4-inch full-HD+ Super AMOLED Infinity-U display, triple cameras on the back, Exynos 9610 chipset, 4GB/6GB of RAM, 4,000mAh battery, and Android 9 Pie with One UI. It will be sold in white, blue, and black color options for INR 19,990 (~$280) for the 4GB/64GB variant and INR 22,990 (~$325) for the 6GB/64GB variant.

All the three models will be available for purchase in India, both in online and offline channels, from March 2 onwards.

Galaxy A10

  • Model: SM-A105F
  • Dimensions: 155.6x75.6x7.94mm
  • Display: 6.2"(157.48mm) LCD
  • CPU: Exynos 7884
  • Camera: 13 MP, CMOS F1.9
More specifications

Galaxy A30

  • Model: SM-A305F
  • Dimensions: 158.5 x 74.7 x 7.7mm
  • Display: 6.4"(162.5mm) Super AMOLED
  • CPU: Exynos 7904
  • Camera: 16 MP, CMOS F1.7 & 5MP, CMOS F2.2
More specifications

Galaxy A50

  • Model: SM-A505F
  • Dimensions: 158.5 x 74.7 x 7.7mm
  • Display: 6.4"(162.5mm) Super AMOLED
  • CPU: Exynos 9610
  • Camera: 25 MP, CMOS F1.7 & 5MP, CMOS F2.2 Depth & 8MP, CMOS F2.4 Ultrawide
More specifications

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Samsung brings Bixby key remapping to older flagships

We reported last week that Samsung had finally struck a compromise by allowing Galaxy S10 users to remap the Bixby key to launch a third-party app. Since this is a software feature, there was a possibility that Samsung would bring it to older devices.

It’s not waiting for the Galaxy S10 to come out to do that. Samsung has rolled out an update for the Bixby app today which allows users to remap the Bixby key on the Galaxy Note 9, Galaxy Note 8, Galaxy S9/S9+ and the Galaxy S8/S8+.

Remap Bixby key on older flagships

Once the update is installed from the Galaxy Store, just go to Advanced features in the Settings app followed by Bixby key. You will be presented with two options. You can either set a third-party app to launch with a single or double press of the key.

The caveat here is that you can only select one option. So either a single or double press can be remapped, not both. The option you don’t select will continue to launch Bixby Home. A long press will always bring up Bixby Voice.

This compromise means that users don’t just disable the Bixby key entirely and never open Bixby Home. By allowing them to remap a key press, Samsung is ensuring that Bixby Home doesn’t get shut out by users for good.

You can try this out for yourself on the Galaxy Note 9, Note 8, Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S8 series. We have and the feature works as expected.



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Samsung releases Android Pie beta for Galaxy A6 (2018) in Korea

Now that Samsung has released the Android Pie update, either in beta or stable form, for its flagship devices, it is shifting its focus to bring the same to many of its newer midrange devices. Last week, the company kickstarted the Android Pie beta program for the Galaxy A7 (2018) users in India. It is now bringing the same update to the Galaxy A6 (2018) customers in Korea.

Predictably, the Pie update also brings Samsung’s new One UI to the A6. Unfortunately, from the screenshot we received, we can’t tell if the update also brings the latest February security to the device. You can read our posts about the Android Pie and One UI to know what the latest Android version update from Samsung brings to the table.

Unlike stable updates, beta software doesn’t roll out automatically to users and requires enrolling into a beta program. To do so (process may vary depending on the region), open the Samsung Members app and navigate to the Notices section. If the beta program is available for your device, you will see a notice for the same. Opening the notice provides a Register button to enroll in the beta program. Once successfully registered, launch the Settings app, open the Software update menu and then tap the Download updates manually option to receive the beta update.

Before enrolling into the beta program, it is worth remembering that beta software by nature may contain bugs and other issues which may impact your daily use of the device. It takes anywhere from weeks to months for the update to move from the beta to the stable channel.

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Support page confirms approaching Samsung Galaxy A40 launch in Europe

Samsung has now announced the Galaxy A10, A30 and A50 in several countries, and shown of the latter two during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. But more models in the A series are nearing release, with the Galaxy A40 possibly leading the next wave of A series devices.

Galaxy A40 coming to Europe

On Samsung’s German website, the first Galaxy A40 support page confirms our earlier reports about the device coming to, amongst others, that country. Despite the fact its existence has been known for quite some time, not many details about the A40 have so far emerged. Aside from a handful of basic specifications – Exynos 7885, 4GB RAM, Android 9 – we do not know much about its display size, nor about the cameras, fingerprint sensor or battery.

samsung galaxy a40 support germany

One thing that the few known tidbits do make clear, is that the Galaxy A40 will sit just a step below the A50 in Samsung’s new mid-range line-up. Therefore, we do expect it to come with a European price tag that is even friendlier than that of the Galaxy A50 which will initially sell for €349.

Release-wise, we expect the Galaxy A40 to hit stores across Europe sometime this spring, possibly together with a few more phones in the same series. After all, we know the Galaxy A20 and A70, too, are on their way to various markets, as well as a Galaxy A90. It is safe to say Samsung is serious about its offensive to (re)conquer the globe’s affordable smartphone markets.

For now, do not forget to check out our hands-on preview of the already-launched Galaxy A30 and A50.

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