الثلاثاء، 2 أغسطس 2016

Analyst expects Samsung to ship 12 million Galaxy Note 7 units this year

The Galaxy Note 7 is finally official and Samsung can now get down to the business of selling this flagship smartphone. This means that analysts can now get their predictions in for the year and forecast how the handset is going to perform in the market. The first such forecast comes from an analyst at Hyundai Securities who believes that Samsung could ship as many as 12 million units of the Galaxy Note 7 in the second half of this year.

If this figure is anything to go by it suggests that analysts might not expect the Galaxy Note 7 to perform as well as the Galaxy S7 edge did. Recent market data estimates that Samsung shipped an impressive 13.3 million units of the Galaxy S7 edge in the first half of this year making it the best selling Android smartphone in the world during this time. Sure enough, the Hyundai Securities analyst Kim Dong-won expects the Galaxy S7 to continue selling strong and also suggests that we might see a modest decline in Samsung’s overall smartphone sales for the remainder of 2016 even as he agrees that the Galaxy Note 7 will occupy demand for premium smartphones because Apple’s new iPhone is released next month. He has also forecasted a 10 percent decrease to 3.9 trillion in the third quarter operating profit of Samsung’s mobile business.



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Samsung releases the Rio 2016 Official Application to connect you to the Olympics

Samsung is the Worldwide Olympic Partner in the Wireless Communications Equipment category and it’s going all out to promote the games this year. It has even released the Olympic Games Edition Galaxy S7 edge in limited quantities to commemorate the games. The company today announce the release of the Rio 2016 Official Application, an app it created in collaboration with the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee.

It will enable you to better enjoy the games this year as it will provide relevant information such as Olympic Games schedule, venue and event information. The app will also feature results, medal counts as well as real-time updates across all Olympic and Paralympic sport. Aside from up-to-the-minute updates, users can also check Olympic and world records and specific details about sports, teams, athletes, venues and more. Official news from the International Olympic Committee will be featured in the app as well.

The app is customizable so users can focus on the information that matters to them the most. They can configure it to get results and push notifications based on the countries, sports or even the athletes they want to support. The Rio 2016 Official Application also includes a Samsung Zone which provides information about the company’s activities at the Olympics this year. This app is now available for download in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Korean from Galaxy Apps, Google Play Store, Apple App Store and the Windows App Store.

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[Poll] What Galaxy Note 7 color shoud you pick?

The Galaxy Note 7 is an impressive smartphone, chock full of the latest technologies and software features. A lot of you are probably waiting for the moment you can pre-order Samsung’s latest flagship in your country; some of you might already have decided on the color you want, but we’re sure some of you are wondering which Note 7 color would be the best to go with. Well, we’re here to help.

The Galaxy Note 7 will be available in silver, gold, black and blue. Let’s start with black. This is probably the most traditional color option for any smartphone; I’m not sure about others, but I find black to be the sexiest color of them all. Plus, with a device like the Note 7, which many will use for watching videos, black is the only color that will recede into the background and let you put full focus on Samsung’s beautiful Super AMOLED panel. Since there is no white color option this time around, black is also the best bet to make sure those fingerprints on the phone won’t be easily visible.

Gold and silver are the worst when it comes to showing you your fingerprints in all their glory, and blue is probably going to be similarly bad. But while the black can be sexy, gold, silver and blue are what you should get if you want a phone that looks beautiful (of course, what is sexy and what is beautiful can be a subjective thing). In fact, that Blue Coral Note 7, which comes with a golden metal rim, is just amazing to look at when you talk about the beauty factor. For those who want their phone to look both stylish and a thing of beauty, the silver color would be the right pick.

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What about scratches, those little annoyances that Samsung’s glass and metal build picks up quite easily? Well, the black Note 7 should be the worst at bringing those scratches to the fore, but conventional wisdom doesn’t always work when it comes to phones. The black Galaxy S7 edge was less impervious to visible scratches than the silver, and that will probably be the case with the Note 7 as well. Of course, no color will let you hide those scratch marks if light is hitting the phone at the right angles.

Choosing the right color for a new phone can be confusing, and in the end it all comes down to your preferences. But each color has its own pros and cons, so here’s the basic gist: Grab the black Note 7 if media consumption is your top priority, Blue Coral if you want a unique color that really brings out the beauty of Samsung’s premium glass design, or the silver for a futuristic look. I’m not sure what to say about the gold version. It will make for a flashy color as tradition would dictate, but I think the blue Note 7 makes the case less compelling for the gold Note 7.

There’s also the fact that some of these colors might not launch in every market. This actually makes the choice easier; if your favorite color doesn’t show up in your region, you will, however, have to first get over the disappointment that would bring. We have heard the Blue Coral option will launch worldwide, but at this point we’re not going to be too happy unless Samsung confirms the same.

What do you think? What paint job will you be going with when you buy the Galaxy Note 7? Let us know through the poll and do leave a comment down below.

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Galaxy S7 edge ruled the Android smartphone market in the first half of this year

Everything has been about the Galaxy Note 7 today and rightly so, it’s one of the best Note flagships that Samsung has ever released, but I would ask you to turn your attention to the Galaxy S7 edge for a moment. You may have already heard that the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge performed spectacularly well in the market after launch and allowed Samsung to post its most profitable quarter in two years. Latest data shows that the Galaxy S7 edge actually ruled the global Android smartphone market as it was the best selling Android smartphone in the first half of this year.

Data from Strategy Analytics shows that Samsung shipped more than 13.3 million units of the Galaxy S7 edge during the first half of 2016. That’s not all. Samsung handsets actually took the top three positions with the Galaxy J2 coming in second place with 13 million units shipped and the Galaxy S7 coming third with shipments of 11.8 million units. The Galaxy S7 edge remains popular in countless markets across the globe even though it has been out for over six months now. Samsung forecasted in its earnings release that the Galaxy S7 series’ momentum will continue in the second half of this year and that its mobile business will also be aided by the Galaxy Note 7 which may very well prove to be one of the best selling Android handsets in the second half of 2016.



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Samsung and Amazon make Galaxy Note 7 the first smartphone to support HDR streaming

The Galaxy Note 7 is a phone of many firsts. It’s the first handset to feature Corning’s Gorilla Glass 5 and it’s also the first Note that’s completely water resistant. That’s not all though as the Galaxy Note 7 is also the first smartphone to support content streaming in High Dynamic Range or HDR. To make this possible Samsung teamed up with Amazon which owns and operates one of the few online streaming services that offer HDR content streaming.

Content streaming is one of the biggest uses of smartphones these days and customers keep demanding a better viewing experience on mobile. Even though HDR is the gold standard for TV picture quality it’s still limited to expensive TVs like the ones Samsung makes. To make this possible, Samsung took its powerful TV chipsets and adapted them to mobile. Samsung’s new mobile DNIe chip optimizes battery life while HDR video is being played on the Galaxy Note 7 and powers Samsung’s most advanced imaging processing engine to date. With hardware out of the way, Samsung needed a partner that could provide HDR content streaming and it found that in Amazon. The retail giant’s Amazon Prime video streaming service has a growing library of HDR content which can be streamed on-demand by Prime subscribers in all its HDR glory on the Galaxy Note 7.



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Galaxy Note 7′s Galaxy Game Pack features four Vulkan API-ready games

The Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge happen to be the first smartphones in the world to support Vulkan APIs from the get go. Samsung did a good job in tuning its flagship smartphones for mobile gamers and has often reminded the public just how good this year’s flagship handsets are at mobile gaming. This is why it’s not surprising to find out that the Galaxy Note 7 supports Vulkan APIs as well and that the Galaxy Game Pack being offered with this handset features four Vulkan API-ready games.

The Galaxy Game Pack is being offered exclusively to all buyers of the Galaxy Note 7 from August 20 all the way up to January 2017. The pack includes games and in-app purchases worth $400 in the Google Play Store, it features more than a dozen titles. Need for Speed No Limits, Hit, Vainglory, Olympus Rising, Nonstop Knight, Empire: Four Kingdoms, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, MARVEL Contest of Champions, Asphalt 8: Airborne, Hungry Shark World, Angry Birds Pop Bubble Shooter, Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes, Sims City Free Play and Clash of Kings are included in the Galaxy Game Pack.

Only Need for Speed No Limits, Hit, Vainglory and Olympus Rising are the Vulkan API-ready titles. Users will immediately notice the improved graphics quality and performance as well as the stability of frame rates in these games as opposed to the others.



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Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2016 live stream replay now available on YouTube

Samsung talked about all of the different ways people could tune into the Galaxy Unpacked 2016 event in a blog post yesterday with one of the easiest being the live stream on YouTube. However, when the event kicked off a few hours ago, the live stream crashed. Quite a lot of people were unable to follow the proceedings live in New York because either they could not get the live stream to work at all or they just kept seeing an error soon after the stream start playing. Social media was awash with complaints from Samsung fans who just couldn’t tune in. Well, you’ve probably heard about everything that was announced at the event by now, but if you’re still curious to see how the Galaxy Note 7 was announced you can now watch the replay of the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2016 live stream on the company’s official YouTube channel. The video has been posted below for your convenience.



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