Weekly SamMobile Quiz 24 – Come test your Samsung knowledge!

Consider yourself a superfan of Samsung? Take our quiz and see how many answers you can get right! This is a fun activity that we do with our readers every week to test their knowledge of our favorite company. The quiz has a mix of easy and difficult questions that most fans should be able to answer without turning to Google.

We intend to make a new quiz for you every weekend so we hope that you’ll participate and learn a thing or two about Samsung in the process! Don’t forget to share the results of the quiz with your friends and see if you can outscore them. A little competition never hurt anybody!

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How to record 4K 60 fps selfie videos on a Galaxy S20/S10/Note 10/Fold

One UI 2.1 introduced a variety of new features, and while the new UI version debuted on the Galaxy S20 series, many of these additions were subsequently added to older flagship phones through One UI 2.1 firmware updates. The list of devices includes the Galaxy S10, Note 10, and the Galaxy Fold.

One of the new One UI 2.1 features lies in the ability to record smooth and crisp 4K selfie videos at 60 frames per second, and today, we’ll explain how you can record selfie videos at this particular resolution and frame rate on your One UI 2.1 Galaxy device.

How to record 4K 60fps selfie videos

Enabling 4K 60fps selfie recording is a very simple process. All you have to do is:

1. Open the Camera app.
2. Tap the cogwheel icon to access the Camera’s settings.
3. Scroll down to the Videos section and tap Front video size.
4. Select 16:9, then tap Resolution and select the UHD (60 fps) 3480×2180 option from the drop-down menu.
5. You can now go back to the viewfinder and start recording your selfie videos.

Note: The 4K 60 fps selfie video recording mode is only available in the 16:9 aspect ratio. Therefore, if you change the selfie aspect ratio from the viewfinder, the camera will also automatically change to a different resolution in the aforementioned drop-down menu. However, the 16:9 option you chose from the settings menu will be preserved, meaning that you can change back to the 16:9 aspect ratio from the viewfinder itself and your selfies will once again be recorded in 4K resolution at 60 frames per second.

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Samsung not shifting phone production to Vietnam as Korea overcomes COVID19

When the COVID19 pandemic first began, South Korea was the country hit the hardest after China. The virus has since caused havoc across the globe while strict measures taken by the South Korean government have enabled the company to put a lid on the situation.

Samsung’s manufacturing facilities had to suffer shutdowns due to confirmed coronavirus cases. At one point, it was reported that the company was planning to shift premium phone production to Vietnam to offset delays at its Gumi plant in South Korea. However, Samsung appears to have given up on that idea as South Korea is now one of the few countries where the COVID19 situation is under control.

Samsung abandons plan to shift premium phone production

The Gumi plant in South Korea is where Samsung’s premium smartphones like the Galaxy Fold and Galaxy Z Flip are manufactured. It had to be shut down for a couple of days due to confirmed COVID19 cases. The bulk of its smartphone manufacturing is still done in Vietnam and the company was thinking about temporarily moving the production of these devices to the country as well.

The COVID19 situation in South Korea was much worse at that time so it would have made sense for the company to do that in order to ensure that it could continue to put these phones on the market. The virus had struck not long after the Galaxy Z Flip was launched so it was important for Samsung to ensure a steady supply of its new foldable smartphone.

Reports out of South Korea suggest that Samsung has withdrawn this plan because the situation is now under control in its home country even as the virus causes disruption across the globe. Earlier this week, South Korea reported no locally transmitted cases of the virus, a highly commendable achievement.

If anything, there’s now the expectation that the Gumi plant will be able to plug the production gap for other markets should the pandemic cause disruption at some of Samsung’s other manufacturing facilities across the globe.

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With wearing masks now a daily routine, I miss Samsung’s iris scanner

Samsung gets a lot of things right with its flagships, but in recent years, biometrics haven’t been one of them. The capacitive fingerprint sensor on Galaxy flagships changed positions a few times between the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S9, and it failed to be as convenient as the front-facing sensor that Samsung had been using before. Samsung then switched to an ultrasonic in-display fingerprint reader with the Galaxy S10, and we all know that sensor is not as amazing as the company had made it out to be.

Facial recognition is the other biometric solution we find on Galaxy flagships today. However, it’s not something that works all of the time. It also can’t be used for security inside apps because facial recognition with a regular camera is easy to fool. And in our current times, when you can’t step out of the house without a mask on, facial recognition is turning out to be quite useless and making me miss the iris scanner Samsung’s flagships used to have back before the Galaxy S10 came around.

Facial recognition doesn’t work with masks, and that’s quite inconvenient

India has been under lockdown since March 25. Unless you need to buy medicine, grocery, and other essential items, it’s not recommended to step out. But my father had fallen ill a couple of months ago, and though he is almost back to full health now, his recovery phase over the last couple of weeks has necessitated quite a few trips to the hospital. I have been out of the house a lot in recent weeks as a result, both for grocery shopping and for those hospital trips, and wearing a mask has become almost a daily routine for me.

And, well, you probably know where I’m going with this. With facial recognition failing to work with a mask on, I’ve had to fall back to using the fingerprint sensor on my Galaxy S20 Ultra all the time, at least when I’m out. That wouldn’t have been a problem if Samsung was still equipping its flagships with an iris scanner. Sadly, that isn’t the case, mainly because every manufacturer is chasing the dream of truly bezel-free displays, which leaves no space for anything but a regular front-facing camera in our smartphone screens.

The ultrasonic fingerprint sensor works well most of the time, but having an iris scanner would have been a lot more convenient. It would be great if Samsung could implement an option that allows facial recognition to register your face and work with a mask on. That wouldn’t be very secure and could be very, very easy to fool. But desperate times call for desperate measures – we can’t get those iris scanners back, so how about a middle-of-the-road solution that makes unlocking our phones with masks on less of a hassle?

What do you think?

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