Samsung finally lifted the covers off the Galaxy S20 series early last month after weeks of leaks and speculation about her flagships for 2020. Like last year, as a part of the series, the company launched three devices including the Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20+, and Galaxy S20 Ultra. As you would imagine, with the high-end Galaxy S20 Ultra featuring a 100x Space Zoom feature, the smartphones sport top-of – the-line specifications. Samsung also rolled out One UI 2.1 along with the Galaxy S20 series— their latest Android-based software update 10.
While One UI 2.1 is largely the same as One UI 2.0, some additional features that are not yet available on older devices are packaged. These include features such as Quick Share, which is an alternative for Samsung to Apple’s AirDrop which allows you to easily share images or files with other users with a supported device. The update to One UI 2.1 also includes redesigned AR Emoji, a new feature of Music Share, and simplified integration with Google Duo. This isn’t all that is fresh in One UI 2.1 though.
Samsung has also updated its stock Clock app in One UI 2.1 and it now gives users the ability to choose “Spotify” as the alarm sound. As you’d expect, choosing the streaming service as your alarm will allow you to wake up to your favorite songs, which is always better than using the stock alarm sounds included on the device. The new feature can be found in the “Alarm sound” settings within the Clock app on all Galaxy S20 devices. It goes without saying that you’ll also need to install the Spotify app on your device in order to use this feature.
Samsung will bring the M31 to the Indian market through Amazon just like its immediate predecessor, the Galaxy M30s. This site is currently teasing the phone as one that would in many ways mimic the famous “battery monster,” including its 6000mAh battery. The camera features, however, are somewhat improving.
The Samsung Galaxy M30s was well-received as they paired triple cameras with an AMOLED FHD+ screen and a 6000mAh battery. According to new teasers released by Amazon.in, their immediate counterpart, the M31, won’t be much different-except that this time the number of cameras is 4. A’ best-in-class’ 64MP sensor is also the main shooter here.
Amazon also notes that it will be joined by others for ultra-wide angle, macro and depth-sensing functions, but its resolutions or other specs are not yet revealed. Similarly, it reveals that the Galaxy M31 will display the same quality (at least on paper) as the M30s but not its size. It will however have a U-shaped knot, a featurethat
Samsung, which once led India’s smartphone market, fell into third place in the quarter that ended in December, even as the South Korean giant continues to make big bets on the still-growing rare handset sector. According to research firm Counterpoint, 158 million smartphones shipped in India in 2019 up from 145 million the year before.
Vivo, a Chinese company, surpassed Samsung in Q4 2019 to become India’s second-largest smartphone vendor. Xiaomi, with command over 27% of the market, maintained its top spot in the nation for the tenth consecutive quarter.
In 2019, Vivo’s annual smartphone shipment increased by 76 per cent. The aggressive positioning of the Chinese company’s budget S series of smartphones— priced from $100 to $150 (the sweet spot in India)—in the brick and mortar segment and acceptance of e-commerce sales helped it beat Samsung, Counterpoint analysts said.
Vivo’s market share jumped 132% between Q4 of 2018 and Q4 of 2019, according to the research firm.
Realme, who spun out of Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo, took the fifth place. Oppo took fourth position. Samsung has dramatically lowered some of its handsets prices in the country and also introduced smartphones with local features, but is struggling to compete with an army of Chinese smartphone manufacturers. The firm has not responded to a request for comment. Realme took Indian market by storm. The two-year-old firm has reproduced the country’s strategy for Xiaomi and has so far concentrated on aggressively low-cost Android smartphones being sold online. Vivo and Oppo, on the other hand, have spread over the years to smaller towns and cities in the region, and have inked deals.
Samsung used to launch its Galaxy S flagship series during MWC but it shifted the announcement long before the trade show to a separate event. Samsung finally took off the wraps of its Galaxy S20 series consisting of the Galaxy S20, the S20+ and the S20 Plus after months of leaks and a very revealing Galaxy Z Flip commercial during the Oscars.
The new phones all feature the same understated style of glass-sandwich with humongous camera bumps on the back and curved displays on the front, varying only in size and quantity of outside lenses. We are packed with the latest hardware which gives them substantial jumps in performance compared to their predecessors.
They all support 5 G out of the US box and come with at least 128 GB of (expandable) storage and 12 GB of RAM, with some versions of the Galaxy S20 Ultra going up to 16 GB — that’s the amount of regular storage that many smartphones used to ship with in 2013. The phones will arrive in the US with the Snapdragon 865, which can be considered one of the greatest technological advances in long-term mobile chips. Many regions are having the Exynos 990, which need not be afraid of contrast.
On the imaging front the new Galaxy series also impresses. The base S20 quadruples the megapixel count of any S10, going from a maximum of 16MP on a single camera to a new high of 64MP for the main camera. The Ultra goes a step further and sports the same 108MP wide-angle sensor already producing high-resistance images on the Xiaomi Mi Note 10 from Samsung.
Combined with the other lenses (three in total on all plus a fourth S20+ and S20 Ultra Depth Vision sensor) and Samsung’s new image processing algorithms, these cameras should be able to produce great images in a variety of situations. As for video, the phones will capture 8 K footage.
Turning to the front of the device, we see on all of them Samsung’s new Infinity-O display style, which places the front-facing camera cutout in the middle of the notification bar. This could make it more noticeable when watching videos, but the default refresh rate of 120Hz that is available across all three phones will make up for that.
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The HD+ AMOLED displays of the S20 series, together with support for HDR10+, will render videos and images beautiful to look at. Samsung also opted not to include a biometric face unlock feature but, despite the anachronistic top bezel of the Pixel 4 and the enormous notch of the iPhone, different aesthetic preferences undoubtedly played a role in that decision.
A device bootloader is a code which packs in an operating system to run every time we turn on our device. It basically tells the operating system and kernel to whether run recovery mode or initiate the boot process.
Because Android is open-source, it’s quite easy to unlock the bootloader. By unlocking it, you will be able to flash any third-party Custom ROM, Root, Mod files, Custom Recovery,etc ….
This is a simple access to you to tweak your device. Don`t worry, you can even lock the bootloader again.
Before you proceed to unlock the bootloader of your device, you should do a complete back-up of the system. The unlocking process will sweep all the data of Android. So it is important to backup any photos, videos, app data or other files on your device to a computer, an SD card or the online cloud. Backup everything you want to keep, then continue to the next step.
Let`s unlock!
Enable Developer options and OEM Unlock at first on your handset.
Then you need to enable the USB Debugging as well from the Developer options to connect with your PC.
Once the device is connected, switch off your phone and open the fastboot mode. You can do this by opening the command prompt pressing Shift Key + Right Mouse Click on a blank area in the ADB & Fastboot folder on your PC and typing: “adb devices” and then “adb reboot bootloader” (without quotes).
You may get a pop up to allow USB Debugging on your phone. Just tap on OK button.
Please Note: this will delete all the device data completely.
Once your phone is recognized follow the next command: fastboot oem unlock
You’re done. To reboot your device into the main system, type the following command and hit enter button: fastboot reboot
Your phone will reboot into the system. Wait for the complete boot process and enjoy.
But until now, the country was lacking one thing: the Samsung Galaxy Fold. I have no idea how the people of Canada managed to survive without access to Samsung’s latest flagship, but now the phone has officially arrived in the country.
While the elusive Galaxy Fold is now available for purchase in Canada, it’s even harder to get there than in the US. While those of us in ‘Murica have a chance at finding it in a local carrier store or Best Buy, the Galaxy Fold in Canada will only be available from a handful of Samsung Experience Stores:
CF Sherway Gardens
CF Toronto Eaton Centre
Metropolis at Metrotown
West Edmonton Mall
Yorkdale Shopping Centre
That means unless you live in Toronto, Edmonton, or Burnaby, you’ll have to go on an expedition if you want Samsung’s latest and greatest. Pricing starts at $2,599.99, which is fairly close to the ~$2,000 pricetag in America after currency conversion.
