Probe against Samsung heir Lee-Jae yong could be reviewed by outside committee

An outside committee could review the ongoing probe that’s looking into corruption allegations against Samsung Group’s Vice President Lee Jae-yong. A civilian panel will decide today whether it is necessary for the prosecution to assemble a panel of outside experts to review the validity of the ongoing case against the company’s heir.

Seoul’s Central District Prosecutor’s office said that it will create a panel of civilians, consisting of 15 ordinary citizens, to look into the written opinions submitted by Lee and the prosecutors. The civilian board includes a taxi driver and a teacher, and the decision will be taken within a day. If the committee of experts is formed, the decision regarding the validity of the investigation and a possible indictment will be made within two weeks.

Earlier this week, the court rejected the prosecution’s request for Lee’s arrest citing “insufficient explanation on the need and validity to arrest the defendants against the principle of trial without detention.” Arrest warrants for two other Samsung employees—Choi Gee-sung and Kim Jong-joong—who were working in the company’s Future Strategy Office, which has now been disbanded.

The South Korean tech giant has claimed that Lee Jae-yong was not involved in any wrongdoing and did not order any illegal transaction. The outside review system was introduced in 2018 to improve the neutrality and fairness of prosecution in cases that are of public interest. Kim and Lee had requested the court for a public assessment of the investigation.

Samsung Group’s heir has been accused of playing a role in the controversial merger of Cheil Industries and Samsung C&T. The merger is said to have been designed to increase Lee’s control over Samsung Group from his ailing father Lee Kun-hee. Lee has already served one year in prison for bribing former South Korean president to force the merger to happen.

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Samsung’s R&D center in Korea closed after COVID-19 case was confirmed

Samsung has already faced a lot of delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic over the past few months, and its profits have plunged. Now, its research center in Suwon, South Korea, has been temporarily closed after a confirmed case of COVID-19 was detected. The company has directed all of its 1,200 employees who work there to work from home.

It is being reported that a woman in her 50s, who is an employee of the service company that is in charge of cleaning the manufacturing plant, contracted the deadly virus. When she was informed on June 9 that her son was infected with the virus, the woman reported it to Samsung. On June 10, she was also found to be infected with the coronavirus. The South Korean firm immediately closed the two-story building where the woman worked.

Samsung has around 1,200 people working at the facility, including 1,000 researchers and about 200 visitors. The first and second floors of the building would be closed until tomorrow. The city’s health authorities would conduct an epidemiological investigation on the infected woman to search for her close contacts and then perform tests on those people.

Around 230 workers at the facility have been tested already, and nine people working with the infected woman have been tested negative for the virus. A Samsung Electronics official said that everyone at the facility has maintained strict precautions and kept themselves safe by using masks and keeping a distance at the cafeteria. Work could resume at the facility very soon.

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How to record videos on a Galaxy S20 at any (even 100x) zoom level

Samsung’s Galaxy S20 series offers some amazing zooming capabilities, with the Ultra model going up to a whopping 100x zoom. However, if you’re using a Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20+, or Galaxy S20 Ultra, you will have noticed that those zooming capabilities are not fully available when you’re shooting videos.

The camera’s video recording mode maxes out at 20x zoom on the Galaxy S20 Ultra and at 12x on the Galaxy S20 and Galaxy S20+, which can feel pretty limiting compared to what’s possible when you’re shooting still images. But did you know that it is actually possible to record videos at any zoom level – at up to 30x on the S20 and S20+ and 100x on the Galaxy S20 Ultra?

The camera app on the Galaxy S20 series (and on other Samsung phones running One UI 2.1) allows you to hold down the shutter button to quickly start recording videos, and this shortcut also makes it possible to record videos at any zoom level. Basically, if you manually zoom in to the desired level and then press and hold down the shutter button, the phone will start recording a video at that level of zoom.

This method has a couple of disadvantages. It has to be used in Photo mode, as the camera app simply does not allowing zooming past 12x and 20x (depending on which phone you have) in the Video mode. You also have to keep the shutter button pressed to keep recording, so you can’t just put the phone down and let it record as you would in the Video mode. Finally, you cannot change the level of zoom on the fly while the video is being recorded.

However, if you’ve been wondering if there’s any way to get around the zooming limitation in the Video mode on your Galaxy S20, S20+, or S20 Ultra, well, this is it.

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Limited Edition Galaxy S20 Ultra in white launched in Vietnam with freebies

The Galaxy S20 Ultra is available in Vietnam in only two color options, black and gray, but this will change by the end of the month once Samsung introduces the white Galaxy S20 Ultra to customers in the country.

Samsung Vietnam just revealed the launch details of the white Galaxy S20 Ultra model, calling it a Limited Edition device/color. It will be available for pre-order between June 12-18 for the price of VND 29,990,000 ($1,291) and it will ship to customers from June 19.

Early white Galaxy S20 Ultra adopters get hefty gifts and cashback

Customers in Vietnam who will be quicker to pre-ordering the white Galaxy S20 Ultra than others will receive a free Harman Kardon Aura Studio 3 speaker worth VND 6,900,000 ($297) and get VND4,000,000 ($172) immediate cashback. Interestingly, customers who will be getting the white Galaxy S20 Ultra a couple of days after the pre-order period ends on June 19 will also be eligible for a discount of an additional VND 3,000,000 ($129).

Spec-wise, the white Galaxy S20 Ultra is the same as the original black and gray models. However, it is rarer to find in Vietnam and elsewhere, or at least it’s rare enough to be labeled a Limited Edition device by Samsung Vietnam, which could also suggest that stocks might not be replenished as quickly as usual. Aside from the more exclusive color, buyers will get a large 6.9-inch AMOLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate and a quad-camera setup boasting a periscope-type lens, just to name a few of the flagship’s features that make it stand out.

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Why I feel I will skip the Galaxy Note 20+/Ultra

One of the perks of having a job that involves writing about phones is being able to frequently use new devices as soon as they launch. And, as far as working at SamMobile is concerned, that means the privilege of using a new Samsung flagship every six months, even if it’s on a temporary basis.

I have used every Galaxy flagship launched in the last few years (except the Fold, which was never sent out to the media here in India). I usually go for the top-end model in each lineup when I buy one, like the Galaxy S10+, Galaxy Note 10+, or the Galaxy S20 Ultra. And usually, each new Galaxy Note flagship usually brings a few upgrades over the Galaxy S flagship launched six months before it.

The Galaxy Note 10+, for example, had a bigger display with smaller bezels, more base internal storage and RAM, a bigger battery with faster charging speeds, and a more efficient Exynos processor compared to the Galaxy S10+. The Galaxy Note 9 wasn’t as big a step-up over the Galaxy S9+, but it still did offer some upgrades, like a bigger battery and more internal storage and RAM. All that’s on top of the S Pen, which still has no competition in the smartphone industry.

However, things look set to be different this year. With Samsung calling the top-end Galaxy S20 the Galaxy S20 Ultra and packing it with some crazy specs, like a 108MP camera, 100x zoom, and a 5,000 mAh battery, the company can’t exactly do much to make the Galaxy Note 20 lineup stand out. In fact, there’s even some confusion over whether the larger model is going to be called Galaxy Note 20+ or Galaxy Note 20 Ultra.

The phone’s Bluetooth certification suggests the latter, but Bluetooth certifications were also listing the Galaxy S20 as the Galaxy S11 for the longest time, so they can’t exactly be considered solid evidence. But, in my opinion, whether it carries the Ultra tag or not, the larger Galaxy Note 20 model could end up being disappointing in several ways.

Galaxy Note 20+/Ultra will have some inferior specs vs the Galaxy S20 Ultra

It all comes down to the fact that we expect a new Note flagship to be better than the most high-end Galaxy S flagship model launched in the same year. And the Galaxy Note 20+/Ultra is certainly going to be better in some regards. It’s rumored to have laser autofocus to overcome the focusing issues of the Galaxy S20 Ultra, an improved ultra-wide camera, a more efficient 120Hz display, and a more optimized Exynos processor, all of which will go a long way in improving the user experience.

But, unfortunately, it’s also going to have a few downgrades when compared to the Galaxy S20 Ultra. Its battery capacity is more or less confirmed to be 4,500 mAh, which is 500 mAh less than the Galaxy S20 Ultra. The 100x zoom capability is reportedly cut in half to a maximum of 50x. The zoom camera is also expected to be a 13MP sensor instead of a 48MP sensor.

The Note 20+/Ultra is even going to be inferior to the Galaxy Note 10+ in one area: Samsung’s upcoming Note duo are both being developed with a 128GB storage variant, half that of what you get on the Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10+ (though the 5G Note 20 and Note 20+ will probably start at 256GB). If you shoot a lot of 8K videos or even 4K videos for that matter, it doesn’t take long for 128GB storage to fill up, something many Galaxy S20 owners would probably have realized by now.

Granted, 100x zoom feels like a gimmick (though you can capture excellent photos of the moon and read far-off text clearly at 60x-70x zoom), and with a more efficient display and processor, the smaller battery may not be too much of an issue in real-world usage. There’s also the fact that the periscope lens that makes the high zoom capability possible takes a lot of space. Combined with the space required for the S Pen, it was probably impossible Samsung to add a 5,000 mAh battery into the mix, not without making the device too big and thick.

The improvements will be offset by major regression in some areas

Still, it won’t be a good look that the plus-sized Galaxy Note 20 will regress in some areas compared to the Galaxy S20 Ultra. It would go against what we typically expect from each new Note series. I say typically because this isn’t the first time something like this is happening. The Galaxy Note 8 was infamous for having a smaller battery than the Galaxy S9+, but after the Galaxy Note 7 hit Samsung’s prestige because of a faulty battery, it was somewhat easy to forgive the company’s decision to play it safe for the next device in the Note lineup.

This year, however, Samsung may simply have aimed too high and backed itself into a corner. Some of the Galaxy S20 Ultra’s specs are so over-the-top — there’s a reason we called it “too exceptional for most users” in our review — that it seems Samsung had nowhere to go but down. Again, there will be some improvements, and the software will probably have many new tricks, but for me, the larger Galaxy Note 20 is simply looking too unexciting at this point.

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Galaxy A20e, Galaxy A41 get June 2020 security patch with new update

The June 2020 security patch has been out for nearly a couple of weeks. Throughout this time, Samsung updated numerous Galaxy devices from budget to flagships and foldable phones. Circling all the way back to the lower-end segment, Samsung’s latest update to hit the waves brings the June 2020 security patch to both the Galaxy A20e and the relatively fresh Galaxy A41.

The new update doesn’t include any new features aside from the latest security patch level but that’s to be expected. The Galaxy A20e got updated to Android 10 and One UI 2.0 two months ago so it will take some time before another major release arrives. Meanwhile, the Galaxy A41 was first released in May, so this is essentially its first firmware update.

Speaking of, the latest updates for the budget Galaxy duo carry firmware versions A202FXXU3BTE2 and A415FXXU1ATE5. Samsung is now releasing the update for the Galaxy A20e in various European countries, while the Galaxy A41 rollout is presently taking place in Russia. Availability will expand in the coming days.

You can try to install the latest update on the Galaxy A20e or Galaxy A41 by tapping the notification when it arrives or by opening Settings, accessing Software update, and tapping Download and install. As always, you can also check SamMobile’s firmware archive where you can verify if the update is available for your phone in your region. You can check these links to download the latest firmware for the SM-A202F and/or SM-A415F. Once done, you can install the firmware on your device using a Windows PC.

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Samsung and LCS partner to find the best League of Legends players

Samsung is seemingly getting more and more involved in the gaming and esports scenes. The Odyssey gaming monitors became the T1 esports team’s official displays a couple of weeks ago, and Samsung recently explained why its QLED TVs are the best choices for gamers. Now, Samsung is promoting its SSD solutions in partnership with League of Legends developer, Riot Games, and one of North America’s most popular esports leagues, the LCS.

Samsung’s new partnership with the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) will see players compete on PCs equipped with Samsung’s latest NVMe M.2 SSDs from the 970 series. The SSD lineup consists of the 970 EVO, 970 EVO Plus, and 970 PRO.

According to Riot Games, every millisecond matters in our broadcast, in our players’ performances, and […] in Samsung, we found a partner who holds that same commitment to top quality.

Launching a new LCS segment to find the best players: Samsung SSD Fast Five

As part of this new collaboration, Samsung is helping LCS launch a new segment called Samsung SSD Fast Five. The company will track the performance of players every week throughout the summer to see how quickly they reach key benchmarks.

Samsung SSD Fast Five will culminate at the Summer Playoffs when LCS and the Korean tech giant will announce the Fast Five all-star team made up of the best League of Legends players in each position. Check the LoL Esports page from June 12 to watch the competition online.

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Samsung working on 8TB 870 QVO SSD, lists it on Amazon prematurely

Samsung appears to have developed a new consumer-grade high-capacity SSD called the 870 QVO. The unannounced product had briefly popped up on Amazon where Tom’s Hardware was able to gather a bit of information before it got pulled.

According to the now-removed listings, the Samsung SSD 870 QVO should have at least two storage options of 1TB and a whopping 8TB. Additional options for 2TB and 4TB could also be in development but there’s no evidence for this yet. The SSD 870 QVO appears to have an U.2 form factor.

How much do 8TB of Samsung SSD storage cost?

Samsung’s unannounced 870 QVO SSDs were listed on Amazon along with prices and expected shipping dates. Assuming that they remain unchanged, Samsung will release the 1TB 870 QVO for $130 from June 30. Meanwhile, the 8GB 870 QVO should cost $900 and ship to customers from August 24.

These prices are not surprising at all given that the existing 860 QVO SSD with 1TB and 4TB of storage cost $130 and $480, respectively. The 8TB 870 QVO SSD should offer a bit more value/storage for money compared to two 4TB 860 QVO SSDs put together.

Other specs are unknown, but the 870 QVO SSD is seemingly a direct sequel to the 860 QVO so it will likely use the same QLC (quad level cell) 3D V-NAND technology. Presumably it will achieve similar 520MB/550MB sequential write/read speeds, but nothing is set in stone.

It’s unclear when Samsung will make this new SSD official but we should find out more soon, assuming that the Jun 30 and August 24 tentative shipping dates stick.

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Daily Deal: 31% off the Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite

The Galaxy S10 Lite can either be described as a flagship phone with mid-range elements or a mid-range phone with flagship elements, depending on your perspective. What cannot be argued is that it is an excellent smartphone. It packs a ton of attractive features, like a beautiful AMOLED display, Snapdragon 855 processor, amazing battery life with 25W super fast charging, and a camera with unique GoPro-like stabilization. Need to know more? Check out our review, and then head over to Amazon to get the device at a massive 31% discount!

Hit the Buy Now button below to order one before the price goes up again!

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Galaxy Fold 2 doesn’t support the S Pen but there’s hope for the future

It was rumored for the longest time that Samsung will bring S Pen support to the Galaxy Fold 2. For many, it makes perfect sense for a device like the Galaxy Fold to work with a stylus. It would open up new use cases for the device and allow users to get the most out of the large foldable display.

It’s more or less confirmed now that the Galaxy Fold 2 isn’t going to come with the S Pen. A report has provided some insight as to why that is. Samsung has indeed been working on this but has decided to not offer it with the Galaxy Fold 2 due to durability concerns.

Durability concerns prevented S Pen support for the Galaxy Fold 2

Samsung has reportedly been developing digitizers for foldable smartphones for over a year in collaboration with printed circuit board specialists in South Korea. A digitizer is what allows for the display to recognize input from the stylus. It’s placed underneath the display panel. Without it, the S Pen just won’t work on the device.

Samsung can crank out digitizers for the Galaxy Note and Galaxy Tab devices without breaking a sweat. There’s added complexity when trying to do the same for a device that has a foldable display. Not only does the Galaxy Fold 2 need a display that can essentially fold in half, but it would also need the digitizer to be foldable.

The company has certain durability standards for foldable smartphones. They should be able to withstand at least 200,000 folding and unfolding motions without any part or material issues. It appears that the digitizers haven’t been able to meet that standard. The digitizer performance reportedly deteriorates after 100,000 folds which means it can’t meet Samsung’s durability standard.

With just two months to go until the Galaxy Fold 2’s launch, it’s hard to imagine that Samsung will be able to scale this hurdle. It does provide hope for future iterations of the Galaxy Fold, though. Samsung’s work on foldable digitizers will continue and it will eventually create one that’s able to meet the durability standard.

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June 2020 security update hits Galaxy Note 8 units on Verizon, Xfinity

The June 2020 Android security update started rolling out to select Galaxy Note 8 models in the United States on Tuesday. Identified by build number N950USQS7DTE5, the latest software update is now reaching the SM-N950U models on Verizon Wireless and Xfinity Mobile. The arrival of the new firmware version comes mere three days after the June 2020 security patch first began making its way to international variants of the Galaxy Note 8 (SM-N950F), i.e. the ones utilizing Samsung’s own Exynos 8895 SoC as opposed to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835.

Owners of eligible Galaxy Note 8 models on Verizon and Comcast’s networks will soon be notified about the new update’s availability via a push notification. Those who are feeling particularly imaptient can always attempt triggering the over-the-air download manually from the smartphone’s Settings app. Alternatively, SamMobile’s firmware archive contains the latest official Android images made for this particular Galaxy Note 8 iteration.

Galaxy Note 8 nearing its end-of-life line

The Galaxy Note 8 is quickly approaching its third full year on the market, meaning its after-sales software support is now coming to a definitive end, as well. Like all major Samsung flagships released in recent memory, this particular lineup has been enjoying monthly security patches for almost three years. Its last such update should arrive in September, following which it will start receiving security updates on a quarterly basis.

All things considered, the Galaxy Note 8 had a rather good run, especially given its unenviable task of making up for the disaster called the Galaxy Note 7. Today, nearly three years following its debut, the Galaxy Note family has completely shaken off its ghosts of combustible past and appears to have a guaranteed place in Samsung’s mobile plans – both near-term and in the long run.

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Key Galaxy Fold 2 display specs, 120Hz refresh rate revealed

Samsung is due to launch the Galaxy Fold 2 in a couple of months. Many are looking forward to seeing what improvements have been made. Earlier reports have suggested that Samsung will increase the display size and may also opt for Ultra-Thin Glass.

A new report out of South Korea has revealed some key Galaxy Fold 2 display specs. It also mentions that the internal foldable display is going to have a 120Hz refresh rate. If true, this would be quite a massive improvement compared to the original Galaxy Fold.

Galaxy Fold 2 to have a 120Hz refresh rate display

We’ve heard the numbers before and today’s report reiterates them. The Galaxy Fold 2 will feature a 7.7-inch internal display, which is only 0.4-inch larger than the Galaxy Fold’s 7.3-inch display. However, the external cover display will jump from 4.6-inch on the Galaxy Fold to 6.23-inch on the Galaxy Fold 2.

This will be a very welcome change. As we pointed out in our Galaxy Fold review, the cover display was too small to get any meaningful use out of it. A 6.23-inch display would be more than enough to get stuff done and even consume content without having to unfold the device.

When you do unfold the device, the Galaxy Fold 2 will greet you with a 7.7-inch 120Hz refresh rate display. Samsung first introduced 120Hz displays with the Galaxy S20 lineup and once you shift to the higher refresh rate, it’s not easy going back down.

The 7.7-inch display will have a 2213×1689 resolution with an 11.8:9 aspect ratio. The notch will be replaced in favor of punch holes for the front-facing cameras. The 6.23-inch cover display will have 2267×819 resolution with 24.9:9 aspect ratio. It will have a 60Hz refresh rate and a punch hole as well for the front camera.

The Galaxy Z Flip came with Ultra-Thin Glass, making it the world’s first smartphone with a foldable glass display. Samsung is bringing over the same display technology to the Galaxy Fold 2. The transparent polyimide layer it used for the Galaxy Fold is gone so its successor will be more durable as well.

The report goes on to mention that Samsung is planning to produce around 3 million units of the Galaxy Fold 2. It has begun ordering parts for the device and it’s expected that production will begin in July. Samsung will reportedly be aiming to manufacture 300,000 units of the Galaxy Fold 2 per month.

The Galaxy Fold 2 is going to be unveiled alongside the Galaxy Note 20 on August 5 in a virtual Unpacked event. According to another report, both devices will be available on August 20.

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Galaxy M51 could come with Snapdragon 730, up to 8GB RAM

Samsung is working on multiple mid-range smartphones in the Galaxy A and Galaxy M series. We had exclusively reported last month that the company is working on 128GB variants of the Galaxy M31s and the Galaxy M51. Now, the latter has been spotted on Geekbench, revealing certain aspects of the device ahead of the launch.

Going by a new Geekbench listing, the Galaxy M51 (SM-M515F) features an octa-core Snapdragon processor and 8GB of RAM. The processor carries the model number SM6150, so it could either be the Snapdragon 730 or the Snapdragon 675. Since the Galaxy M40 features the Snapdragon 675 SoC, there’s a chance of the comparatively costlier Galaxy M51 using the Snapdragon 730 processor.

The Galaxy M51 also seems to be running Android 10, so it will most probably come with One UI 2.0 or One UI 2.1 out of the box. The upcoming smartphone scored 546 points in Geekbench 5.1.1’s single-core CPU test and 1,784 points in the multi-core CPU test. The phone is also rumored to come with a quad-camera setup, consisting of a 64MP ISOCELL Bright GW1 image sensor for the primary camera.

We can also expect the Galaxy M51 to sport a Super AMOLED screen with Full HD+ resolution, an in-display fingerprint reader, a 16MP or better selfie camera, GPS, dual-SIM card slot, LTE, Wi-Fi b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 5.0, a USB Type-C port, and a 5,000mAh or bigger battery with fast charging. However, accurate specifications can only be confirmed closer to the phone’s launch.

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Exclusive: Galaxy Buds Live, Galaxy Watch 3 to be announced in July

From the Galaxy Fold 2 and Galaxy Note 20 to the Galaxy Z Flip 5G, Galaxy Watch 3, Galaxy Tab S7, and new wireless earbuds, there’s a lot Samsung is going to be launching in the second half of the year. And, owing to the lack of any solid info, everyone has assumed most of these products will be made official at Samsung’s Unpacked event in August.

However, we have now learned that Samsung’s upcoming wearables will be announced sometime next month, ahead of Unpacked. We’ve also been told the Galaxy Watch 3 and Galaxy Buds Live — yes, that’s indeed going to be the name of the next Galaxy Buds — will go on sale around the same time as the Unpacked event (which is reportedly going down on August 5), though we don’t currently have a specific date to tell you.

Naturally, we can expect the bean-shaped Galaxy Buds Live to be offered for free or at a reduced price as part of pre-order bonuses for the Galaxy Note 20 and Galaxy Fold 2. Their retail price is rumored to be under $150, which would be impressive if they do end up supporting Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) and will allow Samsung to undercut Apple’s AirPods pricing by a considerable margin.

Pricing for the Galaxy Watch 3 hasn’t been rumored yet, but we do know that it could be the costliest smartwatch from Samsung yet, as it’s going to be made available in a Titanium variant. It will also sport a physical rotating bezel, which was last seen on the Galaxy Watch and was replaced by a software implementation on the Galaxy Watch Active and Galaxy Watch Active 2.

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Galaxy Note 9 One UI 2.1 update is now rolling out!

Galaxy Note 9 owners are in for a treat this week, as Samsung has released the One UI 2.1 update for its 2018 Note flagship. It was expected that One UI 2.1 would hit both the Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy Note 9 in Korea first, but the update has made its debut in Germany, where it is rolling out with firmware version N960FXXU5ETF5 and the June 2020 security patch.

Developing…

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Galaxy S21 to continue using Samsung displays, BOE OLED panels reportedly fail testing

We had reported last month that Samsung Electronics is testing OLED panels from BOE as a cheaper alternative to OLED screens from Samsung Display. These displays were meant to be used in some phones in the Galaxy S21 series next year. However, it is now being said that the South Korean smartphone giant will continue to use OLED panels from Samsung Display.

Media report coming out of South Korea states that OLED displays from Chinese firm BOE failed to pass Samsung’s testing process. Apparently, OLED displays from BOE were unable to pass the South Korean smartphone giant’s first testing stage. Display market research firm DSCC had reported earlier that BOE intended to supply 6.67-inch OLED panels to Samsung, but that doesn’t seem to be happening anymore.

Earlier, Samsung had requested BOE to send a quotation for OLED screens with a 90Hz refresh rate that could be used in Galaxy S21 series smartphones. There were also rumors of Galaxy S21 featuring OLED screens with under-display selfie cameras. Usually, quality testing and mass production testing are performed before displays are used in final products. However, BOE seems to have failed the first stage of display tests.

It is also being reported that BOE OLED panels have failed the testing phase for the iPhone 12, which is slated to be launched later this year. BOE, LG Display, and Samsung Display were meant to supply OLED screens for the iPhone 12 series. A report had later claimed that Samsung would provide 80 percent screen orders for the next iPhone.

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