[Update: New camera design] Samsung Galaxy S11+ renders show off huge camera bump and quad curved display

Update (12/127/19 @ 10:20 AM ET): A new leaked render shows off a much neater camera arrangement on the Samsung Galaxy S11+.

We’re getting close to the time of year when Samsung announces its latest devices in the Galaxy S line. The Galaxy S10 series was considered one of the best releases from Samsung, so they have a lot to top this go around. We’ve already seen renders of the Galaxy S11 and Galaxy S11e, but now we’re getting our first look at the Galaxy S11+.

The Samsung Galaxy S11+ has a lot in common with the other family members. Like the non-plus model, the Galaxy S11+ features five cameras and 2 sensors on the back in a large camera bump. The placement of the cameras is slightly different, however, as they are in an “X” shape (the placement of the flash is not final). Rumors suggest that the Galaxy S11+ will have a 108MP primary camera with 5X optical zoom, which would mean QHD+ photos and 8K videos.

Another similarity with the other devices is the center punch hole camera on the front. The resolution of this front camera is not yet known, but it looks like Samsung will be going with one single front camera this year. Speaking of the display, the Galaxy S11+ is said to have a 6.9-inch display (previously rumored to be 20:9 aspect ratio) with curves on all four edges. It will be a Dynamic AMOLED panel with an in-display fingerprint scanner.

The frame of the Galaxy S11+ is metal with glass on the front and back. The dimensions are said to be 166.9 x 76 x 8.8 mm (10.2 mm with camera bump). Some of the other details we can grab from the renders include a USB-C port (at least 25W charging), volume and power buttons on the right side, and a single speaker on the bottom. What do you think of the look of Samsung’s new generation?

 

Source: CashKaro | Via: @OnLeaks

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Update: New camera design

Next up, the #GalaxyS11Plus…
It appears the renders I shared one month ago were based upon a first stage prototype which had different rear camera layout.
Here an updated render based upon the latest prototype I got and which depict what I assume is the final configuration… pic.twitter.com/IhUWdQh9JN

— Steve H.McFly (@OnLeaks) December 27, 2019

One of the strange things about the previously leaked renders of the Samsung Galaxy S11+ was the camera arrangement. There are a whopping five sensors on the back (plus flash), yet the renders showed them in a randomly scattered arrangement that looked very odd. Many people assumed this wasn’t the final placement and it appears that was correct.

@OnLeaks has shared a new render that shows the sensors oriented in a much neater fashion. There are three sensors aligned vertically on the left and two aligned vertically on the right. There are also two small holes near the top right sensor. The exact specs for all of these sensors are still a bit unknown, but there should be a 108MP camera, telephoto, wide-angle, TOF, flash, and something else.

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[Contest] Join HONOR Watch Face Global Design Contest! Big Prizes Are Waiting For You!

HONOR is looking to expand their selection of watchfaces for their products like the Honor Band 5. To do this, they are holding a watchface design contest. Anyone can enter and submit multiple designs, for their chance to win some awesome prizes. Using Honor’s design guidelines, you can get as creative as you want with your watchface designs. The more designs you submit, the more chance you’ll have to win.

Prize Details

1. HONOR Master Award (x2) $2000 USD
– Homepage banner displayed for awarded work (3 days)
– Contest Design Album displayed according to rank
– Homepage of Health App displayed (3 days)
The HONOR Master Award will select one band design and one watch design according to selection criteria.

2. HONOR Creative Award (x30)
HONOR MagicWatch 2 (random color; prize value based on the local price)
– Homepage banner displayed for awarded work (3 days)
– Contest Design Album displayed according to rank
– Homepage of Health App displayed (3 days)
HONOR Creative Award will be selected from all band and watch designs according to selection criteria.

3. HONOR Brilliance Award (x50)
HONOR Band 5 (random color; prize value based on the local price)
– Homepage banner displayed for awarded work (3 days)
– Contest Design Album displayed according to rank
– Homepage of Health App displayed (3 days)
HONOR Brilliance Award will be selected from all band and watch designs according to selection criteria.

4. HONOR Most Likes Award (x3)
HONOR Band 5 (random color; prize value based on the local price)
– Contest Design Album displayed according to rank
– Homepage of Health App displayed (3 days)
HONOR Most Likes Award will be selected from all band and watch designs according to selection criteria.

Timeline: 

December 5th 2019: Submit your design

January 5th 2020: Submission deadline

January 8th 2020: Review complete

January 9th 2020: Winners Announced

Visit the official contest page to learn more about this exciting event.

Official Contest Page

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Share Your Christmas Tree to Help Improve Our World, In Huawei’s Charity Event

Huawei is teaming up with Rainforest Connection in a Holiday Charity Event. You can participate by taking a photo of a Christmas tree and sharing it on instagram. For each Christmas tree shared, Huawei will donate to the organisation. You will also be entered to win prizes! See how you can participate.

Official Thread

The Goal of this Charity Event

Huawei has promised to donate $1 for every Christmas tree photo uploaded to instagram, with the tag #ChristmasTree4Earth. With a goal of $20,000 in donations, Huawei is hoping to inspire enough people to participate in the event, that we can get to the 20,000 Christmas tree mark. All donations will go to Rainforest Connection, with the intent to help protect the rainforest.

#ChristmasTree4Earth

How to contribute

Step 1. Follow the Huawei Instagram account (@Huawei)

Step 2. Create a new post on Instagram or Facebook about your Christmas tree, and add the hashtag #ChristmasTree4Earth to the post.

Step 3. Reply to this thread with a screenshot of your social media post, if you want to win an extra gift card!

Step 4. Submit your post by the deadline [December 31st, 2019]

Prizes

• Special Prizes: Two Name right of Guardian installed in the forest with access to the audio stream coming from their own Guardian.
• Three Huawei products as surprise gifts to three winners
• Ten Community-exclusive prizes: Amazon gift card of US$20.

How Winners Will Be Selected

Huawei will invite Influencers to takeover Huawei’s official IG account and do a live stream on Dec 31st. During the live stream, the Influencers will screenshot randomly and pick three audience members for Huawei products. The Influencers will also select the two best Christmas tree posts tagging #ChristmasTree4Earth for the special prize.

For the Community-exclusive prizes: The ten winners will be drawn out based on the calculations. The valid contestant comments whose comment numbers are 4%, 14%, 24%, 34%, 44%, 54%, 64%, 74%, 84%, and 94% of the total comments will be the winners.

Sound like fun? Get started over at the official thread so help contribute to this great cause.

Official Thread

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This IT Certification Course Will Help You Launch a New Career in 2020

One of the great things about IT is that you don’t need a degree to succeed. Recruiters value skills and experience over time spent in college. However, the best jobs usually require you to have certain professional certificates. The Complete 2020 IT Certification Exam Prep Mega Bundle helps you earn your credentials, with nine courses preparing you for multiple IT exams. You can get the training now for only $39 at the XDA Developers Depot.

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Google’s Messages app tests floating conversation bubbles in Android 10

Earlier this year in April, Google rolled out Android 10 Beta 2 for the Pixel devices introducing a new bubbles notification feature. The feature, which works quite a lot like Facebook Messenger’s chat heads, brings up a floating bubble for ongoing conversations. While the feature didn’t make it to the stable release of Android 10, the bubble notification system is expected to completely replace the overlay API in a future release of Android. As of now, the Bubbles API is in development and Android 10 users can manually enable it from within the Developer Options (Settings > Developer Options > Bubbles). Google has urged developers to test the API in their apps, so that the supported apps are ready when the feature is enabled, most likely, in Android 11.

In a bid to prepare its apps for the Bubbles API, Google is also testing it on its messaging apps. Earlier this year in October, we learned that the company was prepping up the Google Messages app for the new bubble notification support. And now, we’ve managed to successfully enable it in the latest release of the app. Our Editor-in-Chief, Mishaal Rahman, enabled the Bubbles functionality in the Messages app, which makes all incoming text messages appear in a bubble. As you can see in the attached screenshots, the notification bubbles appear at the edge of the display with a photo of the contact, the app icon, and a preview of the message. If left untouched, the preview disappears shortly thereafter and is replaced by a notification dot.

Tapping on the notification bubble opens up the conversation in an overlay, allowing you to quickly reply to the message without the need to switch to the Messages app. To dismiss the chat bubble, you can tap and hold on it and drag it to the ‘x’ icon that appears towards the bottom much like what you’d do with a widget or an app icon on your phone’s home screen. You even get the option to completely disable chat bubbles for the app from within the app settings, where you’ll find a new Bubbles setting with a toggle to turn it on or off for the app.

As of now, there’s no word from Google regarding the official release for the feature. But we expect the company to reveal more details when the feature is closer to launch. Until then, if you wish to get a similar feature on your device, you can download Tasker and follow the instructions in this tutorial to enable bubble notifications for any messaging app.

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Samsung and OPPO’s A-series smartphones were the respective brands’ best selling smartphones in Q3 2019

Even though Samsung saw a significant decline in sales in Q1 2019, the company seems to have picked up the pace with its Galaxy A series in Q3 2019. According to the latest report from Counterpoint Research, three smartphones from the company’s Galaxy A series have made it to the top-selling list in the third quarter of this year.

The Market Pulse report reveals that the Samsung Galaxy A10 captured a total sales market share of 2.6%, taking the second spot right behind the Apple iPhone XR at 3%. The Samsung Galaxy A50 took the third spot at a sales market share of 1.9%, while the Galaxy A20 took the seventh position with a total sales market share of 1.4%. The increase in sales could be attributed to the company’s move to discontinue the Galaxy J series and bring the A series to lower price tiers. Since the Galaxy A series has had a more premium perception than the J series, it seems to have boosted sales for the company.

But it wasn’t just the public perception of the devices that boosted sales. Unlike older devices, Samsung offered great specifications and design features in the Galaxy A series at an affordable price point, which also played a major role in the boost in sales. However, Samsung failed to gain similar sales figures for its flagships and none of them feature in the top 10 list released by Counterpoint Research.

Along with Samsung, Chinese smartphone OEM OPPO managed to secure three spots in the top 10 list with its A series. The OPPO A9, A5s and A5 took the fourth, sixth, and eighth spot, achieving sales market shares of 1.6%, 1.5%, and 1.3%, respectively. Despite recent setbacks, Huawei also managed to secure a spot in the top 10 with the Huawei P30. The device took the tenth spot with a total sales market share of 1.1%. Xiaomi also featured in the list at the ninth spot with the Xiaomi Redmi 7A with a market share of 1.2%, while the fifth spot was taken by the recently launched Apple iPhone 11 (1.6%).

The report further reveals that the volume contribution in total sell-through for the top 10 devices increased by 9% YoY to capture a total of 17% of sales compared to 15% in Q3 2018. However, the combined wholesale revenue of the top 10 models declined by 30% YoY as more mid-range and budget devices made an appearance on the list. This increased adoption of budget and mid-tier products has led to setbacks in revenue for key smartphone manufacturers during the quarter with the overall global handset profits declining 11% YoY in the quarter. For more details from the report, you can follow the source link below.

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Source: Counterpoint Research

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Flow Desktop is the first launcher built for Android 10’s hidden Desktop Mode

Android Q betas gave us our first look at an experimental Desktop Mode on Android smartphones. Enabled through a setting in Developer Options, this Desktop Mode brought up a new Android interface that resembled a more conventional desktop launcher, with the ability to launch apps in freeform multi-windows. Google has even provided more information for app developers to adapt their applications to work harmoniously with a secondary display. Curiously, Google has not really introduced Desktop Mode with much fanfare just yet, as the experimental setting is quite barebones in its approach, needing a lot of fixes and playing around to make it more useful. However, Flow Desktop goes a step ahead in this direction as a launcher, adding more utility to the hidden Desktop Mode.

Flow Desktop builds on Android 10’s Desktop Mode to give you a better experience on a secondary display with a connected keyboard and mouse. At the outset, it is worth mentioning that Android’s Desktop Mode is still considered experimental, and Flow Desktop is also in a preview state with bugs expected throughout the experience. The app provides a very short trial period for you to check out what it is about and then requires purchasing premium in order to support further development. You already need to have enabled Developer Options on your device and enabled the Freeform Windows and Experimental Desktop Mode toggles as well for the launcher to work.

There is a brief device setup to undertake for the first time, so you will need a computer too. The developer has shown off the experience in the video below:

Flow Desktop comes along with several options, including support to change the resolution on the secondary display, as well as the density on it. The launcher enables a more traditional desktop and Windows-like experience on the secondary display, complete with a Start Menu for displaying all apps, the ability to add apps to the bottom Taskbar, and more. Due to inherent limitations with Desktop Mode, right clicks on the mouse are treated as touch long presses, so the context menu is displayed accordingly.

Again, there are bugs to be found in the entire experience, even on officially supported devices. Flow Desktop officially supports the OnePlus 7T Pro, and officially considers the Essential Phone PH1 (no support for display settings adjustments) and Samsung phones (with DeX pre-installed, as they need further tweaking) as unsupported for now.

You can check out Flow Desktop on the Google Play Store. For discussion, you can check out the developer’s thread on Reddit.

Flow Desktop launcher (Preview test release) (Free⁺, Google Play) →

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