Samsung rumoured to be working on an all-screen Galaxy S8

By tech2 News Staff /  09 Dec 2016 , 12:05

After the whole Note 7 debacle, Samsung’s mobile division is under tremendous pressure. It needs to bounce back with a device that will be far more interesting than the Note 7. While we have been hearing rumours about the upcoming Galaxy S8, the latest scoop reveals that the company might go in for a crazy-looking display.

According to a source, the Korean tech giant is planning on creating an all-screen front for the upcoming Galaxy S8. With that it will completely remove the physical home button as well.

By an all-screen design, we mean that the display on the smartphone will essentially be bezel-less offering a bigger screen real estate. As for the home button, it could be embedded in the lower section of the glass. It could very well look like the recently launched Mi Mixonly with a more curved finish. Of course, the display tech will be AMOLED, but it will be interesting to see how strong that glass covering the whole front would be. This rumour also goes in favour of a previous leak that said a 6.2-inch bezel-less variant is also in the works.

Expect Samsung to announce the smartphone around February and a launch date soon after that. Going back to the previous leaks, we can tell you that the smartphone could feature the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 as well as an Exynos based variant. RAM could go as much as 6GB with storage options going up to 256GB. Samsung could also say goodbye to the 3.5mm audio jack in favour of audio routing from a USB Type-C port.

Recently Samsung acquired audio company Harman and is expected to utilise their audio expertise to incorporate a high-end audio experience in new smartphones from next year.

Samsung will start testing the Galaxy S8 in January 2017 and might actually ship the device by March

By tech2 News Staff /  09 Nov 2016 , 11:45

It’s not been a good year for Samsung, what with their other flagship, the Note 7, going up in flames the world over and even its washing machines punching through walls.

Samsung needs a win and it needs it badly. As far as the Note 7 is concerned, the company decided to swallow the bitter pill and just can the product. Shifting their focus to the Galaxy S8 and a potential Note 8 does seem like the right move.

It’s now come to light the company intends to begin testing the Galaxy S8 smartphone in January. A report on The Investor says, “Key suppliers are required to provide an initial batch of their parts for the Galaxy S8 from January.” The report also quoted a supplier as saying that “full volume” shipping will start in February.

It was earlier rumoured that Samsung would forgo its traditional MWC announcement and launch the phone in April, but suppliers apparently think that the phone will make its MWC debut in February and ship soon after, in March.

As far as the device itself is concerned, the most prevalent rumours describe a phone with a Snapdragon 830 SoC, a 5.1-inch 2K display, a dual-camera setup on the rear and a screen to body ratio of a whopping 90 percent. Another highlight is expected to be the debut of Samsung’s own AI assistant, a la Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant. This assistant is also rumoured to get a button all to itself on the S8.

Leaks and rumours: OnePlus 4, MacBook Pro 2017, Huawei Mate 9 and more

Image: iChagezone, Weibo

By Kunal Khullar /  03 Nov 2016 , 14:26

Just a couple of days back we reported leaks around the Samsung Galaxy S8, the iPhone 8 and other devices that would be released or hitting the market soon. Today we have a new set of leaks which have popped up in less than two days. That is bound to happen considering the competition and high consumer demands.

Without further adieu let’s see some of the new leaks.

OnePlus 4

Shown above is the OnePlus 3.

The OnePlus 3 proved to be a successful product for the company and now various sources on Weibo suggest that the OnePlus 4 will be launched in June or July next year. Expect a Snapdragon 830 SoC clocked at 3GHz with an Adreno 620 GPU, 8GB of RAM and 32/64/128GB storage options. The battery could be in the 4,000-4,200mAh range and that the front and rear camera units will be 8MP and 24MP units respectively. The display is said to be a 5.5-inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 2K (2560×1440).

Huawei Mate 9 Pro

Image: iChagezone, Weibo

We know that Chinese smartphone maker Huawei will be launching the Mate 9 today in Berlin, Germany. There has been a speculation of a higher end smartphone, the Mate 9 Pro. It is expected to arrive with a 5.9-inch display with a 2560×1440 resolution, an octa-core Kirin 960 processor, Mali-G71 MP8 GPU, 6GB RAM and 256GB of flash storage. The rear camera will have a dual-lens setup with 20MP and 12MP sensors. It will run on Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box.

LeEco LEX850

LeEco recently announced the third generation of its smartphone range, the Le Pro 3 and Le S3. It seems that the company is not yet done for 2016 as a new phone was seen online. Sporting the model number LEX850 it is said to feature a 5.7-inch 2K display, a Snapdragon 821 processor clocked at 2.34GHz, dual 13MP rear cameras. There is 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage on board and a 3900mAh battery.

Apple MacBook Pro 2017

Okay, we know that Apple just refreshed the MacBook Pro series with a neat looking function OLED strip, but speculation for the next year’s model are already coming in. According to KGI Apple will launch another refresh of the MacBook Pros in the second half of 2017 which will support 32GB of RAM. Of course that is dependent upon whether or not Intel releases its Canonlake processors. The Canonlake CPU with LPDDR 4 RAM will consume 15 percent to 25 percent less power than existing CPUs,allowing that power saving to be allotted to additional RAM.