Samsung’s new 256GB EVO Plus microSD card pushes storage into the future with 4K and VR

One year ago, Samsung announced its EVO Plus and PRO Plus microSD card series, even as it took an opposite direction with its high-end smartphones. Later on, the Korean giant brought out the 128GB PRO Plus microSD card, which was driven by an increase in 4K UHD video shooting from both action cameras and smartphones. Now, after hearing that Samsung had started mass-producing higher storage, the company is back to announce its first 256GB EVO Plus microSD card that is designed to give power users the data storage they need for the content they want.

The 256GB EVO Plus microSD card can provide up to 12 hours of 4K video recording, 33 hours of Full HD video recording, and allows users to store and view virtual reality and gaming content. The 256GB EVO Plus microSD card is available for smartphones and tablets (no surprise here) but can also work for 360-degree video recorders (we’re thinking of the Gear 360 here) as well as action cameras and drones — with read speeds up to 95MB/s and write speeds of up to 90MB/s.

“Our EVO Plus 256GB microSD card, will provide consumers with large capacity, and high read and write speeds. We are excited to offer our customers convenient and seamless multimedia experiences when they access, store and share all of the content they create and capture,” said Brand Product Marketing and Memory Business Senior VP Un-Soo Kim.

There’s been a floating rumor that the Galaxy Note 6 could see its microSD card storage rise from 200GB to 256GB, so Samsung’s release of this new EVO Plus microSD card has interesting timing, to say the least. And yet, at this point, a 256GB-capacity Galaxy Note 6 is still a rumor in the never-ending rumor mill.

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Would you like to see microSD card capacities expand to 256GB in the Galaxy Note 6, or would you rather have 256GB accessible out of the box?

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Exclusive: BlackBerry Hub-like Samsung Focus app to debut with the Galaxy Note 6

BlackBerry 10 might have failed to stay relevant in the mobile industry, but the BlackBerry Hub was undoubtedly one of the best features of the gesture-heavy operating system. BlackBerry Hub acts as a communication hub that integrates various services like email, social networks, and instant messengers to give users a central location from which to access and respond to incoming messages, manage calendar invites, and more.

With the Galaxy Note 6, Samsung seems to be working on a similar feature. This feature is dubbed Samsung Focus, and it will integrate functions like email, calendar, contacts and memos. The aggregation of emails will be one of the major features, with Focus offering options for viewing and responding to emails from various accounts, similar to Google’s Inbox app. We’re unsure if this will include Gmail or only work with Android’s default email app, which went defunct with Android 5.0 but continues to be present on Samsung’s smartphones and tablets.

The main screen will be where all the important events are found, with a list of your plans for the day, for the coming days, and even for the days already gone by. For example, you could see a reminder for a meeting later in the day, followed by an email sent by one of your contacts over the last few days. Users will be able to add calendar entries and manage invites, and also create memos to remind them of tasks they need to complete. A dedicated contacts page will put all the emails, messages and calendar invites from a particular contact under their contact details. There will also be an option to mark some contacts as priority and set priority notifications for the same in addition to manually selected keywords.

From what we have seen, Samsung Focus has a clean and modern interface, unlike any previous Samsung app, although there’s no telling if the same interface will be used in the final version. The UI abides by Google’s Material Design guidelines, and there doesn’t seem to be any hint of the experimentation that permeates the Good Lock lock screen alternative Samsung introduced earlier this year.

Could Samsung Focus mean the company will do away with the individual Calendar, Email and Contacts apps? Probably not, though the app would certainly give many users a good excuse to not open each individual apps for their communication needs. It will likely be made available to existing Samsung devices after the launch of the Galaxy Note 6, and we’ll be doing our best to get more information on what could be the Korean giant’s solid answer to the BlackBerry Hub.

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Leak confirms hardware specifications of the Galaxy S7 Active

The Galaxy S7 Active was spotted in a recent image leak, formally confirming its arrival on AT&T. A GFXBench listing has now surfaced, revealing the hardware specs of the smartphone in its customary fashion.

It is shown that this rugged Samsung flagship will sport a slightly larger 5.5-inch Quad HD display (the Galaxy S7 has a 5.1-inch display) accompanied by the quad-core Snapdragon 820 chipset, 4GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, a 12-megapixel rear camera, a 5-megapixel front camera and Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow.

This basically means that the handset is nothing but the Galaxy S7 edge (sans the edge display) in terms of internal hardware. Since this is the ‘Active’ model, fans can also expect to find rubberized buttons on the front and a plastic/polycarbonate body, in addition to an Active key. Unlike previous Active models, Samsung will be using a standard home button on the front, possibly with a fingerprint scanner underneath. The handset should be an exclusive via AT&T, with a launch expected soon.

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Gawk at these stunning images of Taiwan captured using the Galaxy S7 edge

Samsung has been able to set new benchmarks regularly for smartphone camera image quality. Its recently released flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, offer brilliant image quality even under low-light conditions. Samsung recently invited Thai photographer Theerasak Saksritawee to capture various sceneries in Taiwan using the Galaxy S7 edge.

You can see all the stunning images captured using the Galaxy S7 edge. The device features a 12-megapixel primary camera with ƒ/1.7 aperture, OIS, and dual-pixel phase-detection autofocus mechanism. It can capture brilliant images even in low-light conditions, and it also comes with Pro Mode that lets users tinker with camera settings to capture best possible images.

All the images captured by Theerasak Saksritawee in his POPUMON 2016 series showcase the gorgeous sights and views of Taiwan’s cultural and ecological characteristics. The photographer has also used the Lens Cover for the Galaxy S7 edge and the telephoto lens as well as the wide-angle lens to capture some of these images.

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Samsung confirms price and release date for new SUHD TVs in UK

Samsung announced its new quantum dot 4K TVs earlier this year and almost a month after confirming the price and release date of these TVs for the United States, it has come out with the same information today for the United Kingdom. Samsung’s 2016 SUHD TVs start from £1,299 in the UK. Samsung launched five new series of SUHD TVs this year all of which feature 4K resolution, quantum dot panels as well as native support for HDR content.

Customers in the United Kingdom can pick up the new SUHD TVs from online retailers as well as brick-and-mortar outlets of Currys, John Lewis, etc. The new models start at £1,299 and prices are considerably higher for the larger models. The new TVs are available in a variety of display sizes all the way up to a massive 88-inches. These TVs have native support for Samsung’s SmartThings connected home platform so they’re a logical choice for those who have already adopted the Internet of Things. Expect more models to come in the future as Samsung has already said that it’s going to aggressively push quantum dot TVs this year.

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This is the Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1

The Galaxy Tab A 10.1 has leaked out before, with the tablet even being listed on Samsung’s website a couple of months ago. A reputed source has now outed the tablet in all its glory, revealing press images in the process. As expected, this is the company’s new mid-ranged offering and will be available in both Wi-Fi only (SM-T580) and LTE (SM-T585) variants.

As far as the design is concerned, we don’t see any drastic changes barring one i.e. the speaker placement. The company has opted to use stereo speakers here, which can be spotted at the bottom. This means that there would be no muffling of audio if the tablet is placed on a flat surface (but it would pose a problem if the tablet is placed in portrait orientation on your lap).

In terms of internal hardware, we’re expecting a 10.1-inch Full HD or 1920 x 1200 resolution display as well as an octa-core 1.6 GHz Exynos 7870 chipset. In the camera department, the Galaxy Tab A 10.1 is sporting an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front camera, which is fairly decent for a mid-range offering. Rounding off the specs sheet is 16GB of internal storage (expandable), 2GB of RAM, Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow, and a 7,300 mAh battery.

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Samsung explains how to get started with the Gear 360 using a step-by-step tutorial

Along with the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, Samsung had unveiled its first consumer-grade 360-degree camera, the Gear 360. The device comes with dual 15-megapixel camera sensors with 180-degree fisheye lenses and they work in tandem to shoot 360-degree still images and videos. However, it could be confusing for a user to setup and use a 360-degree camera since it is a fairly new concept, so Samsung has released a step-by-step tutorial that helps users in getting started with the Gear 360.

The tutorial explains how to connect the Gear 360 to a compatible Galaxy device using the Samsung Gear 360 Manager app from the Galaxy Apps store. After the camera is connected to the app on your Galaxy device, it can be used to click 360-degree still images, 360-degree videos, 360-degree time lapse videos, and 360-degree looping videos using the dedicated physical button. The camera can also shoot 180-degree wide-angle images or videos using either the front-facing or the rear-facing camera.

After capturing perfect 360-degree memories, they can be viewed on a mobile device or edited using the Gear 360 Action Director app on the desktop. Images and videos can be directly shared on social media websites using a Galaxy smartphone. It’s a fairly simple process which you can also see in the video that was released a couple of weeks ago. Hit the source link to read the complete step-by-step tutorial.

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