| Developers: | Samsung Electronics |
| Last Release Date: | 2022/03/28 |
| Technology: | Tablets and smartphones |
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2024: Samsung unveils flagship smartphone. He translates speech into different languages during a telephone conversation
On January 17, 2024, Samsung announced the next generation flagship smartphones - the Galaxy S24 series. One of the features of the new products is the ability to translate speech into different languages directly during a telephone conversation. Read more here.
2023
Massive screen burnout after software upgrade
At the end of November 2023 smartphones Samsung , Galaxy owners began to receive numerous complaints about the display burnout. It is reported that the problem is associated with the distribution of a new version of the proprietary shell for Android the One UI 6 add-on.
One UI 6 includes a large number of changes and innovations that increase the convenience of working with mobile devices. At the same time, some users faced an atypical problem: after downloading the update, traces of burnout began to appear on the OLED screens. This occurs when a still image is displayed on the display for a long period of time. In such a situation, the organic materials used in the production of OLED panels degrade. Burnout is especially noticeable if the static image has high brightness.
In the case of the One UI 6, the problem is said to be related to the Pixel Shift feature, or "pixel shift." It shifts the image at some time interval to avoid the appearance of a residual image on the screen. This prevents premature burnout and extends the life of the display.
In One UI 6, some users claim Pixel Shift is disabled. In order to check this, you need to take a screenshot with the status bar. Next, you need to turn the smartphone several times in landscape orientation and back into portrait orientation. After that, you need to open the previously taken screenshot in the Samsung gallery. If the current status bar and the line in the screenshot are horizontally spaced by several pixels, then the Pixel Shift function works properly. If the lines are completely the same, then the "pixel shift" is disabled, and the display is subject to burnout. In the future, the problem can be fixed by software correction.[1]
Samsung's flagship smartphones are sold with crooked screens. There are more and more complaints
Owners of the flagship smartphone Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra complain about the strange deformation of the display. Reports of this began to arrive in the second half of February 2023. Read more here.
2022
50 million Samsung smartphones remained in stock after stopping their sales in Russia
On June 20, 2022, it became known about 50 million unsold items smartphones Samsung that were stuck in the warehouses of distributors. The South Korean company cannot realize the planned volume of mobile phones after the cessation of exports of products in. The Russia overall weak demand for also affects. smartphones
The large batches of pipes that are gathering dust in the warehouses of suppliers were written by The Nec. According to him, most of the unsold devices are models of the Galaxy A. 50 million devices correspond to 18% of the volume of smartphones that Samsung planned to deliver in 2022.
The publication says that from January to February 2022, Samsung produced about 20 million smartphones per month, but in May, production fell to 10 million units per month. Obviously, the company reacted this way to large stocks and low demand. In addition, according to The Nec, the South Korean manufacturer in April-May 2022 reduced orders for the purchase of components for smartphones by 30-70%, depending on the components (compared to the same period in 2021), which also indicates weak demand for Samsung phones.
The fall in demand for Samsung smartphones is associated with many factors, including a lockdown due to COVID-19 in China, the situation in Ukraine (the beginning of a special operation of Russia in this country) and an increase in prices for raw materials. In addition, Samsung stopped selling smartphones in the Russian market, where the company was among the leaders.
Against the background of the military conflict in Ukraine, the problem of global inflation has intensified. Due to rising prices, consumers have less free funds for purchases of non-essential goods, which means that they will update their smartphones less often, TrendForce analysts say.[2]
20% of smartphones imported in Russia for parallel imports cannot be activated
smartphones Samsung Russia You cannot activate a part delivered in as part of a parallel import. This was reported on June 17, 2022 "" News with reference to a source close to one of the retailers. Mobile Research Group analyst Eldar Murtazin, in a conversation with the newspaper, confirmed the existence of the problem and clarified that it concerns about 20% of devices imported into the Russian Federation. The expert estimated the parallel import of Samsung smartphones at 45-50 thousand units in May 2022.
According to the publication, to activate Samsung, a SIM card of the region for which the device was originally released is required. If you insert a Russian SIM card into a smartphone that has not been released for the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union, you will not be able to activate the device.
One of the buyers of the Samsung smartphone, which Izvestia refers to, reported problems with the inclusion of the device purchased in the EU country. The situation was resolved with the help of a tourist SIM card purchased in a Russian communications salon.
But if the device was originally bought, for example, from India, the SIM card will have to be taken from there, an employee of one of the retailers warned. However, there are no problems with devices imported through Kazakhstan, he confirmed. According to the interlocutor, the current situation has already led to the fact that Samsung has appeared in some retail outlets, activated in countries where they are sold officially - with opened packaging.
 | Buying such devices is dangerous not only because the persons who activated them can preinstall malicious software on them to steal funds and data. Realizing that the account is made by one person outside the Russian Federation, and the device operates another person in Russia, the vendor can simply block it, - said Eldar Murtazin. |  |
According to the press service of Samsung, if the user has not activated a smartphone intended for another market in the country of purchase, he can apply for non-warranty service in the country of use.[3]
Experts have found a way to bypass TrustZone in smartphones
On March 28, 2022, it was reported that researchers Tel Aviv university and the company Samsung are recommending smartphones that Galaxy owners update their devices as soon as possible, as they discovered a bug in the TrustZone implementation allowing disclosure. user data
Researchers discovered the problem last year and reported it to Samsung in May. The company released the fix in October.
Experts intend to present the results of their study in August 2022. They were also pre-published on the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) website.
| | "For protection smartphones OS Android , there is a special component called TrustZone. This component is a combination of and, hardware software and its purpose is to protect the most sensitive - information keys and. We enciphering identifications found an error in the implementation of the Samsung TrustZone code, which allowed to hackers us to extract encryption keys and gain access to, " protected information explained study leader, professor at Tel Aviv University's School of Electrical Engineering Avishai Wul. | |
According to one of the researchers Eyal Ronen, smartphone manufacturers, including Samsung, are making great efforts to secure their products. TrustZone should serve as a kind of internal safe that even an advanced hacker cannot hack.
| | "If I confirm a bank transfer with a fingerprint, this fingerprint goes to TrustZone, and hackers have no way to use it to transact from my bank account. In the article, we talk about problems in Samsung code that allow you to access these sensitive encryption keys, "- reported Ronen. | |
One of the authors of the study, Alon Shakevsky, worked for several months to extract the code from the device so that the team could study it. However, a few weeks ago, hackers hacked into Samsung's database and published the code, Wool explained.
| | "Information that used to be confidential is now available to everyone, including researchers like us. Therefore, phone manufacturers should learn a lesson and publish the code in advance. Let experts and researchers check the architecture, and do not rely too much on the closeness of the code. There is no guarantee that the code will remain closed for a long time, since in the end it will leak anyway. In the end, we helped Samsung after all, "- reported Wool. | |
Announcement of the flagship smartphone Galaxy S22 Ultra
In early February 2022, Samsung unveiled the flagship Galaxy S22 Ultra smartphone. The model is available for pre-order and will go on sale on February 25, 2022 at a price of 125 thousand rubles. Read more here.
2021: Court bans Samsung from selling 61 smartphone models in Russia due to patent infringement
In October 2021, the City Arbitration Court Moscow banned Samsung the import, Russia sale and storage of 61 models into the territory. smartphones More. here
2020
Samsung smartphone screens turn green en masse after software update
At the end of June 2020, it became known that the screens smartphones Samsung are massively green after the update. software This has become massive, as evidenced by the numerous complaints on the forums.
According to SamMobile, Galaxy smartphones have a strange drawback - their displays color any images in a swampy shade. The problem has been identified in all flagship Galaxy models. Screen greening began after the installation of the new One UI 2.1 software. Built over two years for Galaxy flagships, this shell contains a host of features including new fast sharing, AR functionality, filters, emoji and more.
Affected models include the Galaxy S8, Note 8, Note 9, Galaxy S9, S9 Plus, Note 10 Lite, S10 Lite, S10 Plus and all modern Samsung flagships: Galaxy S20, S20 Plus and S20 Ultra. Around the world, more than 100 million people use these smartphones, and although the scale of the problem remains unclear, the storm that erupted on technical support forums shows that the problem has affected dozens of countries. It is worth noting that the problem affected only those smartphones that are still supported by the company, and this can serve as direct evidence that the error is related to one of the latest updates and is of a software rather than hardware nature.
A similar situation has already arisen with smartphones of the Samsung Galaxy S20 series, and in response the manufacturer released an update that fixed the problem. It is possible that this time too Samsung will be able to quickly release a special patch. However, by June 25, 2020, Samsung does not officially comment on the problem, and users themselves have found a temporary solution. Since the greens appear best at low screen brightness, users simply increase this indicator in order to get rid of the swamp shade or reduce its severity.[4]
Return to removable batteries
At the end of May 2020, it became known about the decision of Samsung Electronics to return to removable batteries in smartphones. The company will start with budget devices.
According to SamMobile, the first removable batteries in many years belong to the EB-BA013ABY series and have a capacity of 3000 milliampere hours. In which models smartphones such batteries will appear, it is not reported.
According to the portal, we are talking about a Samsung Galaxy phone with the designation SM-A013F. It will receive 16 and 32 GB of permanent memory, several body colors to choose from (black, blue and red). The device will be sold in Europe and Asia.
By the end of May 2020, all Samsung smartphones are equipped with batteries that are not intended for dismantling by users. The exception is the Galaxy Xcover series phones, the last representative of this line - Galaxy Xcover 4s - was released in the summer of 2019.
To remove or replace a non-removable battery, device owners need to contact a service center or use special tools. In the latter case, the user needs to have certain technical skills.
The disadvantages of non-removable batteries also include the fact that if the device freezes, you cannot quickly reboot it by pulling out the battery. In addition, after moisture enters the case, drying a smartphone with a non-removable battery is much more difficult. But smartphones with non-removable batteries have a one-piece body, which allows you to make waterproof gadgets. The removable battery allows you to quickly remove it from the device by simply removing the back cover.
Samsung confirmed the upcoming use of removable batteries, but refrained from further comment on requests from Western media. A photo with a removable Samsung battery was published on the regulator's website.
Devices fail after Android update
In mid-April 2020, it became known about problems with the Android update in Samsung smartphones. Installing a new firmware disables devices, and forever.
The installation of Android 10 was discontinued for Galaxy M31 smartphones due to technical problems. Although anyone can still update their Galaxy 31 manually using a computer, given that the firmware turns smartphones into a "brick," such an experiment seems rather dubious.
The problem became widespread, since the update under the designation M315FXXU1ATD1, released on April 3, 2020, was distributed over wireless networks, and to install it, users were only required to press the confirmation button on the phone itself. The situation affected primarily the inhabitants of India - in this country a dangerous update came out earlier than in others. Users began to complain about unstable firmware on forums, social networks and even in the proprietary Samsung Members application.
Owners of the Galaxy M31 were indignant, including because the company's service centers were closed due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Samsung has refrained from commenting on the problem by April 15, 2020, so it is not yet clear whether the manufacturer will exchange or repair broken devices for free. Also, the manufacturer did not name the release dates for the revised version of Android, which eliminated a serious error.
It is worth noting that the M315FXXU1ATD1 update does not contain significant innovations and was released mainly to eliminate some security flaws.
According to SamMobile, owners of Galaxy A70 smartphones have previously faced a similar problem. Users complained that the devices stopped working after the update on Android 10.[5]
2019: Sales of 2 billion smartphones
On February 20, 2019, the head of Samsung's mobile division, Dong Jin Ko (DJ Koh) , at the 2019 Unpacked conference, said that since the release of the Galaxy line in 2010, a total of more than 2 billion smartphones related to it have been sold.
The Samsung Galaxy family includes both the flagship Galaxy S and Galaxy Note models and less expensive devices like the Galaxy A, Galaxy C and Galaxy J. The Galaxy line accounts for almost the entire range of Samsung smartphones.
Samsung managed to reach the mark of 2 billion phones sold later by Apple. In September 2018, the American corporation reported on the implementation of 2 billion iOS devices for the entire time. True, this indicator most likely included sales of the iPad, so it may be incorrect to compare with Samsung, notes The Verge.[6]
Huawei, which marks the leaders in the smartphone market at the end of 2019, at the end of 2018 announced the overcoming of the milestone of 4 billion phones sold (smartphones and conventional push-button tubes). What is the share of smartphones in this volume has not been specified.
According to analysts, Gartner Huawei Apple almost caught up with smartphone sales in 2018 - the companies' shares amounted to 13% and 13.4%, respectively. Samsung remained the leader (19%), but sales of gadgets from the South Korean corporation are declining, as is the market share.
Gartner senior research director Anshul Gupta, speaking to CNBC, noted that Apple and Samsung are losing the race to Huawei in the smartphone market due to the high cost of their products.
According to the expert, with each new cycle of the Apple line, the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy are updated "gradually and slightly," as a result of which the flagship smartphones of these brands and Chinese manufacturers by 2019 practically do not differ from a functional point of view, but at the same time the devices of vendors from the Middle Kingdom are cheaper.
Samsung Galaxy lines
- Galaxy XCover Pro
- Samsung Galaxy A-series
- Samsung Galaxy M-series
- Samsung Galaxy S6 Active
- Samsung Galaxy S7
- Samsung Galaxy S8
- Samsung Galaxy S9
- Samsung Galaxy S10
- Samsung Galaxy Note 7
- Samsung Galaxy Note 8
- Samsung Galaxy Note 9
- Samsung Galaxy Note 10
- Samsung Galaxy Fold
- Samsung Galaxy S20
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip
Notes
- ↑ Galaxy Users Are Reporting Screen Burn-In After The Recent One UI 6.0 Update
- ↑ Samsung apparently has a huge stockpile of 50 million devices due to low demand
- ↑ Some Samsung smartphones have become impossible to activate in the Russian Federation
- ↑ Samsung Update Warning For Millions Of Galaxy And Note Users
- ↑ Samsung stops rolling out the Galaxy M31 update that bricked phones
- ↑ Samsung has sold 2 billion Galaxy phones in less than a decade
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