Samsung has not, in fact, sold one million Galaxy Fold smartphones, with the company forced to deny reports that it hit an unexpected milestone with its folding flagship. The $2,000 Android phone had a troubled launch earlier in 2019, with Samsung forced to abort sales only days before early-adopters were expecting to receive their handsets.
In typical Samsung fashion, the smartphone maker develops its own suite of mobile apps as stand-ins for Google apps. This includes Samsung Internet, a browser that's based on Chrome but also competes with it. Samsung Internet would have normally flown under the radar, just like any other Samsung Android app, if not for how Samsung's developers seem to be very active in developing new features like an upcoming Web Extensions support that could make it one of the more interesting browsers on Android.
When Samsung unveiled its first foldable phone, the biggest question was whether people would pay $2,000 for an unproven technology. The answer to that was pushed to the side when an even bigger question appeared: would it survive long enough to be worth that $2,000. At an event in Berlin, Samsung finally answered the older question by revealing just how many units it was able to sell. That said, Samsung was unsurprisingly mum on other factors that would determine a smartphone's long-term success.
Some people at Samsung might be having a grand time trying to get the company's smartphone models straight, especially when marketing the phones. Things get even more complicated when talking about the Galaxy A series, which has graduated from using a single digit and a year to double digits, with or without a year qualifier. And perhaps to spice things up, Samsung may be announcing a new phone in just a few days that will further blur the lines between its tiers, making it resemble what the Galaxy S11 could look like next year.
There's a new leak about the next Samsung smartphone that'll probably make you happy, given its content. The Samsung Galaxy S11 is what we're calling it, for now, until Samsung decides to reveal its official name. The latest leak suggests that the phone - and likely the Galaxy Note 11, too - will feature a camera that can take far larger photos than any previous Samsung phone. That's good news, right?
The Galaxy S11 may be Samsung's crowning glory for the beginning of 2020 but it won't be a measure of success for at least one Samsung business. Just like in years past, the flagship will have two versions differing only in the mobile processor used. This year, however, might be the writing on the wall for Samsung's own silicon as the models using the new Snapdragon 865 will reportedly be used in more markets compared to the Exynos 990.
If you were hoping to have a new phone that combined the S Pen and a headphone jack this year, better put your plans on hold. For reasons still unknown, Samsung is reportedly delaying the launch of the Galaxy Note 10 Lite as well as the Galaxy S10 Lite from December 2019 to mid-January 2020. And that's for India, the first market where these two will debut, which suggests that global launch will come a bit later, putting it dangerously close to the expected unboxing of the Galaxy S11.
The next Star Wars movie will be released on the 20th of December, and Samsung has a special edition smartphone to sell in celebration. Naturally, Samsung's made the phone available before the release of the film, with a pre-order option starting tonight. Because what better way to celebrate a movie than with a smartphone that'll cost over 100x the cost of a ticket to said movie?
We're near the end of the year so, unsurprisingly, companies and news have started to become more "forward-looking" in preparing for 2020's products. Next year is going to be a busy one for the mobile market not only because of 5G but because of an insistent push by manufacturers to thrust foldable phones into consumers' hands. After an almost catastrophic first attempt, Samsung will seemingly swing the opposite way and make the Galaxy Fold 2 more accessible less conspicuous than its predecessor, starting with the hinge.
If you haven't noticed it yet, the big news this week is the announcement of Qualcomm's premier mobile platforms for 2020 premium and flagship smartphones. To be honest, there is almost no surprise there as the Snapdragon 865 and Snapdragon 765 showcase the natural evolution of their predecessors based on market trends. That said, Qualcomm may have indirectly helped confirm one detail about Samsung's early 2020 flagship, suggesting that the Galaxy S11 may indeed have 8K video recording capabilities.
Today we're taking a peek at a list of devices that won't run Netflix by the end of the year 2019. Earlier literature from Netflix suggested that many of these devices would no longer run Netflix as of December 2, 2019. Some of these devices seem to have a big of lag in the cutting of this proverbial cord - but rest assured, they won't work without some hacking by the end of this month.
As if it'd never been removed in the first place, the headphone jack is back, appearing in the latest major Samsung phone leak. The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite appears to share a design language with the device leaked just yesterday with the name Samsung Galaxy A91. Samsung appears to be moving forward with sharper corners, a slightly flatter display panel, and punch-hole displays for front-facing cameras. On the back, a camera array in the shape of a rounded-corner rectangle.