Leak partially confirms hardware specs of the Galaxy Note 7

Yesterday, a leak from @evleaks suggested that the Galaxy Note 7 will be available in a new Blue color variant, while also introducing iris scanner for the very first time in the Note series. The latest leak from China has now substantiated some of the previously leaked hardware specs of the Galaxy Note 7.

This new leak has mentioned the presence of a Snapdragon 821 SoC (2.3 GHz quad-core) along with Samsung’s own Exynos 8893 chipset (2.6-2.7 GHz octa-core). We expect the Exynos models to be focused on the developing markets while regions like the U.S. will probably end up getting the Snapdragon model of the Galaxy Note 7.

The leak also reiterates that the Galaxy Note 7 will feature a 5.7-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED display, 6GB of LPDDR4 RAM, 64/128/256GB of internal storage with a microSD card slot, a 12-megapixel dual-pixel phase-detection rear camera, a 5-megapixel front camera, a 4,000 mAh battery with fast-charging support and Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow with the new Grace UX. This will be Samsung’s first mobile device to feature a USB Type-C port, thus ditching the micro USB port for good.

The Note 7 is also expected to debut an all-new S Pen stylus with Samsung Pay. The handset should be water/dust resistant as well (IP68 certified). The flagship is expected to be announced by early August, so the wait shouldn’t be too long from now.

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Samsung’s ‘culture innovation’ is now underway

Earlier this year in March, Samsung said that it wants to ditch the corporate bore and feel like a young and trendy startup again. The “culture innovation” drive is spearheaded by Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong who is particularly willing to shed the conglomerate’s rigid, top-down management culture to promote horizontal communication and increase work efficiency.

In the first phase Samsung is going to implement a comprehensive reshuffle of work positions by simplifying seven job titles into four. It’s also going to add the Korean suffix “nim” to every employee’s name regardless of their job title in a bid to promote horizontal communication. The suffix “nim” can be used with names and titles as an expression of politeness and respect. Existing job titles like daeri (assistant manager), gwajang (manager), and bujang (team leader) will be replaced with four levels based on the employee’s job competency. The change does not apply to job titles of executives.

Samsung is also going to change its existing briefing and meeting culture by recommending employees to hold meetings that last less than an hour and only absolutely necessary personnel will be required to attend these meetings. Employees will be discouraged from remaining at work just because their boss is still in the office and they may also be allowed to wear shorts during the summer starting this year.

“To improve Samsung’s global competitiveness and to create a creative and horizontal work culture, we are shifting from a seniority-based personnel management system to a job- and role-based system,” an official for the company confirmed.

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Samsung wins Creative Marketer of the Year award at Cannes Lions 2016

Samsung won 27 awards at the Cannes Lions last year and this year it’s taking it a step further. Samsung Electronics has won a total of 29 awards, including Creative Marketer of the Year, at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2016. The awards highlight Samsung’s focus on consumer-centric campaigns as well as its contributions to creativity in marketing.

Eleven of the company’s unique marketing campaigns were recognized at the global marketing awards show. Each campaign was designed to demonstrate Samsung’s vision of enriching people’s lives and creating a better world through technology and products. These campaigns also helped Samsung become the first Korean company to be awarded Creative Marketer of the Year. One of the festival’s major winners was brainBAND, a wearable solution developed by Samsung to prevent and monitor the impact of concussions in high impact sports. Voices of Lives, an application solution which allows premature babies in an incubator to listen to the mother’s voice also won an award.

“Wining “Creative Marketer of the Year”, the world’s most acknowledged award for marketing, is the outcome from the close collaboration of all marketing employees at Samsung and agency partners” said Younghee Lee, Executive Vice President of Global Marketing, Mobile Communications Business at Samsung, adding that the company will remain focused on expanding Samsung’s brand through human-centric marketing campaigns.

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Samsung may opt for iPhone-styled Home button to improve fingerprint scanning

Two Samsung patents have been discovered which show that the company may be looking at a new approach to improve fingerprint scanning on its smartphones. The first patent details the use of an iPhone-styled round Home button under which the fingerprint scanner will be placed. That’s exactly how it has been ever since fingerprint scanning came to the iPhone. Since the company has long been accused of copying Apple even though it has patented such a solution it may be unlikely for Samsung to replace the oblong Home button on its handsets with one that’s clearly synonymous with the iPhone, despite the fact that it’s not technically illegal for Samsung to opt for this solution.

The second patent points to a solution that we’ve seen on several other Android handsets. It doesn’t put the fingerprint scanner under the Home button, the scanner is placed on the back of the device instead where there’s more space to install a larger sensor to improve fingerprint scanning. We’ve seen this solution even on handsets from the likes of Huawei so it won’t be surprising if Samsung does this as well. Whether or not Samsung does this is another question because it patents lots of inventions and not all of them see the light of day.

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New patent details Samsung’s multi-camera iris recognition system

It has long been rumored that Samsung is going to introduce iris recognition in its mobile devices and a few weeks ago it released a tablet for the government and businesses in India that features an iris scanner. It’s also more or less confirmed that the Galaxy Note 7 is going to have an iris scanner onboard. Samsung has been working on this biometric technology for some time now and a new patent filed by the company details its multi-camera iris recognition system.

The patent on this Samsung invention is still pending, it details that the system may generate an image signal by capturing images of the face and eyes of the user and that it uses three lenses to capture the image signal before checking the iris of the user based on the image generated. It also looks at other factors before providing access to the device. The patent also notes that if the system does not recognize the person trying to access the device it will issue a voice message guiding them to retry the iris scan. Even though the Galaxy Note 7 is likely to be the first consumer device from Samsung to feature this technology the patent mentions that the iris scanning system may be used in a laptop computer, a wearable computer, an Internet of Things device, a tablet, and other products.

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Galaxy On5 (2016) may be in the pipeline as well

A few weeks ago data from import tracker Zauba revealed that Samsung has imported bits and pieces for the SM-G610F into India for testing and evaluation. The SM-G610F was also spotted on Geekbench where it revealed the handset’s specifications as well, it’s likely that this model number corresponds to the Galaxy On7 (2016). Latest data from Zauba shows that the Galaxy On5 (2016) may be in the pipeline as well.

Samsung has imported several units of the SM-G5700 into India for testing, R&D, and evaluation. Since the Galaxy On5 has model number SM-G550 it’s likely that this corresponds to the Galaxy On5 (2016). Samsung launched the Galaxy On series in November last year so it will be due for an update in a few months. From the looks of it, we might see both the Galaxy On5 (2016) and the Galaxy On7 (2016) in the near future.

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