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Samsung Vs Apple, Again: A Duel For Top Spot In Upcoming Smartphones
Today, according to the media reports, Samsung Electronics will go head-to-head with Apple in the premium smartphone segment in 2H22.
Samsung will unveil the Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Galaxy Z Flip 4 along with the long-awaited Galaxy Watch5 series.
This is most likely to happen at the Samsung Unpacked event on August 10, although not officially confirmed.
Samsung has held its unboxing event for new devices online-only for the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This time Samsung is expected to harbor an offline unboxing event for the new Galaxy Z series in New York this
upcoming month.
A Samsung spokesperson declined to confirm whether the company will indeed announce the devices on August 10 and hold offline or online or both events.
“Nothing has been decided yet.”
-Anonymous Samsung Official.
Industry Anticipations :
In recent reports, Samsung’s top models made up just 22% of its total sales.
While Apple took 62% of the premium market in Q1 2022 via sales in April 2022, with the Apple models in the top 10 accounting for 89% of its total sales for the month, due to iPhone 13,iPhone 13 Pro Max,iPhone 13 Pro & iPhone 12 grabbing the top 4 spots in terms of market sales shares.
Although, The sales volume for Foldable grew 184% YoY in the premium segment, acquiring 3% of the total sales volume in the premium segment.
This is why Industry analysts predict that Samsung is paying attention to the foldable smartphones market to catch up with the iPhone as it has lagged behind the US phone maker.
“Samsung will lower its sales target of the Galaxy A and the Galaxy S series and focus on selling new foldable phones to be released in August,”
“Inflation has a more negative impact on the sales of low-priced phones than on high-priced ones.”
He further added,
“In May, the proportion of phones costing more than $600 was the same as the previous month at 19 percent, but low-priced phones worth less than $100 accounted for 26 percent, similar to the lowest level of those products last year. This is disadvantageous for Samsung, which lags behind Apple in the premium phone market.”
-Kim Ji-san, head of research at Kiwoom Securities.
Apple vs. Samsung: Upcoming devices
According to foreign media outlets, Apple is also expected to announce the iPhone 14 series on September 13.
- The new iPhone may come in four variants with different colors.
- Among the versions, some models, which will likely be the most expensive, are said to have no notch, the part located at the top of the screen that houses some of the sensors.
However, Industry watchers believe the Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip will be more avant-garde than previous models.
As For Galaxy Z Fold,
- The expected internal display is a 7.6″ QXGA+ AMOLED having a refresh rate of 120Hz.
- With the external one constituting a 6.2″ size and an HD+ resolution, i.e., making it wide and short, resulting in a 6:5 aspect ratio from 6:2:5.With adjusting the outer screen aspect ratio 23:9 from 24.5:9.
As the company has captured the natures of young consumers with its sleek design, the Galaxy Z Flip 4 is expected to be similar to its predecessor but will feature a larger battery capacity and thinner hinge.
This will be an epic duel to witness, especially after the current Apple marketing chief Greg Joswiak called out Samsung and implied that the Smartphones from Samsung were just a “Poor Copy” of the iPhones.
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The Korean brand – Samsung has recently announced its two mid-range Galaxy smartphones – Galaxy A55 5G and Galaxy A35 5G. A new benchmark listing has a spot for Samsung’s affordable smartphone, Galaxy35 5G.
Samsung is now gearing up for its next affordable Galaxy smartphone, the M35 5G, as the reports are unvunveilhey have found a new benchmark listing for Samsung the Galaxy M35 5G.
The smartphone has been spotted with the model number as an identification code – SM-M356B on the Geekbench 6.2.2 database. Not only this, but it also confirmed the presence of 6GB of RAM and Android 14 OS. The chipset also came to know which is the latest Exynos 1380.
The codename for the motherboard is also mentioned, which is ‘s5e8835.’ The reports say that it has scored 656 and 1967 points in performance scores on the benchmarking platform. Exynos 1380 is the latest chipset of the Korean brand, which is a 5 nm processor. It consists of 4 Cortex A78 cores, which clock at 2.4GHz, and 4 Cortex A55 cores, which clock at 2.0GHz. It is coupled with a Mali g68 MP5 GPU. It also has an AI Engine.
This also offers connectivity options, which include the latest Bluetooth version 5.3 and Wi-Fi 802.11 ax with three bands. It supports a camera resolution of at least 200MP for capturing images, and for video recording, there is support for up to 30fps 4K recording. The storage supported is UFS v3.1, and RAM will be of the LPDDR4x/5 type.
Samsung has recently debuted its two smartphones, Galaxy A55, and Galaxy A35; the Galaxy A35 5G smartphone is powered by Exynos 1380 chipset. From this perspective, Galaxy M35 5G could be a variant of Galaxy A35.
At the moment, no specs and features of the device have been revealed or leaked. Still, since Galaxy M series smartphones usually have a bit higher battery power of at least 6000mAh, the forthcoming Galaxy M35 5G smartphone also arrives with the same battery power.
Firmware
Verizon rolls out the March 2024 security patch update for the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 devices
Verizon has rolled out the March 2024 security patch update for the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 devices. Earlier, these devices had received the same update outside the US, but now they are gradually expanding to the US.
The Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 are spotted getting new updates with the firmware version numbers F926USQS5HXBD and F711USQS6HXBD, respectively. It is worth noticing the update is currently available for the devices locked to Verizon, but it will soon be available on more carriers.
For your information, the latest update for Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 doesn’t bring any significant changes, but as it is the latest security patch, it will provide some internal fixes to maintain the security of the devices.
If you are getting some other issues from the last update, you should also update the device to the latest update, as it may also address some issues. Along with the update, other improvements may also be made to enhance the overall performance of the devices.
Suppose you use the Galaxy Z Fold 3 or Flip 3 device in the US. In that case, you can update the device to the latest version by simply going to the system settings and then to the software update. If you haven’t received the update, you should wait for some time, as it may arrive in the next few days.
Firmware
Samsung rolls out the March 2024 security patch update for the Galaxy S23 FE devices in the US
Samsung has rolled out the March 2024 security patch to almost all devices but still needs to complete the update distribution to all eligible devices. So, gradually expanding the update to remaining devices, the company has started rolling out the update for the Galaxy S23 FE in the US.
Notably, the Galaxy S23 FE devices are getting a new update in the carrier-unlocked version with the firmware version number S711U1UES2BXBF. The update has already been rolled out to almost all carriers, including AT&T, Bluegrass Cellular, C-Spire, Cellular South, Comcast, Cricket, DISH, MetroPCS, T-Mobile, Tracfone, US Cellular, Verizon, and Xfinity Mobile.
According to the official changelog, the March 2024 security patch is one of the standard maintenance updates that provides some internal improvements for the device, and there will be no visible changes available. In other words, users may experience some improvement in the functioning of devices, but it doesn’t particularly bring any specific changes for the device.
Going to the details, the March 2024 security patch includes more than 40 fixes, 37 of which are provided by Google and address the issues found in the Android OS, while 9 more features are introduced by Samsung that enhance the performance of Galaxy devices exclusively.
Suppose you are using the Galaxy S23 FE in the US. In that case, you can update the devices to the latest version by following the simple steps: first, go to the system settings, tap on the software update, and tap on the download and install button; if it shows a new update available, tap on the download button.