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Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 Will Be On Floor In October, which will power to Galaxy S25
Qualcomm is setting up for the next generation chipset, named Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, which will reach the floor in October equipped with an Oryon CPU.
This is being speculated by the announcement of Chief Marketing Officer of Qualcomm Don McGuire, present at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona. He stated a few key details regarding Qualcomm’s future plans, including the stars from the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is coming out next after the 8 Gen 3. It’ll be the top-of-the-line chip for phones from Qualcomm. Most new fancy phones from different companies will probably use this chip. If Samsung wants to put the 8 Gen 4 in their Galaxy S25 phones, they’ll likely get a special version from Qualcomm that’s even faster. This special chip will have a faster “clock speed” which means it can do more things at once.
It is revealed that the next-generation flagship SoC of the Californian chipmakers will be able to count on Oryon CPUs, customized by the brand. Plus, the brand will be officially announced during the Snapdragon Summit 2024, which will take place this year in October 2024.
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The transition from ARM cores to custom CPU cores should give a worthy competitive advantage to Qualcomm, which, in addition, should be capable of accessing the second-generation 3nm production process of TSMC, a fundamental step in trying to compete with Apple Silicon Chips.
The new flagship SoC for mobile devices will be officially presented in October 2024, during the classic appointment with the Snapdragon Summit. It was officially confirmed by the brand itself that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 has already been the upholder of the first benchmarks, which have shown literally interesting results, even compared to the most recent Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which was found on most Android flagships in 2024, suggesting the use of Oryon cores.
It is expected that the CPU of the new SoC should boast a paradigm shift in the structure of the clusters, which leads to a definite saying goodbye to the efficiency cores and proposing exclusively “Prime” cores and performance cores. Here the indication is directly towards the 2+6 structure, along with clock frequency pushed up to 4 GHz for the two “Prime” cores. In addition to enhancements on the CPU front, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 should also be able to count on an improved neural processing unit (NPU) that is necessary to better compete in the AI race. However, it will be interesting to see whether Qualcomm will be able to compete with Apple.
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.
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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.
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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.