Level by Samsung // Beats by Dr.Dre ???

Samsung is a really big company, They have mostly every single consumer product you can think of. This being said, not all the products that they get into are top-tier products. One of the many examples is the “Headphone” division. There are many earphones that they make but none of them are in the upper tier in-terms of actual sound quality. This is about to change as Samsung just unveiled their line up of headphones and a Bluetooth Speaker basically aiming at each and every type of the portable music listening experience known as the “LEVEL”.

The LEVEL Line-up is basically 4 devices right now

1. Over the ear – Level Over
2. On the ear – Level On
3. In-Ear – Level In
4. Bluetooth Speaker – Level Box

Higher end Samsung Galaxy S5 Prime might be in the works

It’s been 2 weeks since the launch of the Galaxy S5 and the rumors suggest that there might be a higher end “PRIME” version in the works that might be sporting a 2K or QHD Display.In the beginning of April a mysterious device dubbed SM-G906S appeared online which initially made us wonder if this might be the even higher end Prime.

Another hint was when SM-G906 model has cropped up on Indian import site Zauba. According to a manifest, four examples of this mysterious phone were shipped from Samsung’s native South Korea for the purposes of “R&D”. 

The rumored specs for this phone are,

• 5.2-inch 2560 x 1440 display
• 2.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon 805 CPU
• Adreno 420 GPU
• 3GB of RAM

Samsung however have shunned all questions about this mystery phone aside and it seems like we will have to wait a bit longer to find what the PRIME is.

 

Samsung Galaxy S4 in India receive Android 4.4.2 !

After a more than 5 months Samsung has decided to update the Exynos 5 Octa 5410-powered variant of the Galaxy S4 via an OTA update of Android 4.4.2. The update will include features such as music album art on the Lock Screen, improved UI, new launcher settings menu and stability updates. After using the phone I can say for sure, Damn the phones much smoother. It would take some time before we can be sure of how the update has improved the overall UX ! That will be covered maybe in a week or two.

The update is a 353.59MB download and do think about downloading it ASAP !

 

Samsung ISOCELL technology [EXPLAINED]

This short, animated video takes a look into the key features of Samsung’s ISOCELL image sensor technology. ISOCELL is an improved pixel architecture that enables cameras to deliver amazing images, even in low light.

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Malicious pre-installed apps sending credit card info and passwords to Russia

David Jevans, CTO and founder of Marble Security recieved some feedback on the app stating that Marble security is claiming that the Netflix app pre-installed on the customers phone was malicious.

“They basically said ‘Your stuff doesn’t work’,” Jevans said. “It thinks Netflix is malicious.”

The customer suggested that the security app must be broken as Netflix couldn’t have been malicious… He was wrong ! After some inspection, Jevans revealed that the app installed was in fact not the real Netflix app and was found that the app’s network traffic to see if it is communicating with known malicious servers in Russia.

“We’re like, yeah, this isn’t the real Netflix,” Jevans said “You’ve got one that has been tampered with and is sending passwords and credit card information to Russia.”

Many have stressed the importance of downloading apps from the Google play store or the App store on iOS , where apps are less suceptibe to be infested with malware due to Google and Apple’s strict policies. But the customer claimed that the app was preinstalled and after Jevan’s and his team looked into it he found that what the customer said was tru and it was more widespread

“We suspect for most of them, it is preinstalled,”

“It is possible that somewhere in the supply chain, a bundle of applications that were not vetted well were installed on hundreds of thousands of devices”

The applications in those bundles “are rarely run through anti-malware or privacy leak detection software,” he said.

Affected devices were from the following

Samsung stop cheating on benchmarks starting Android 4.4 – Turning over a new leaf

Samsung was widely known for it’s cheating on the Android Platform. This became evident from the time the Galaxy S4(Exynos variants of the Galaxy S 4 and Note 3) came out. Although others did follow or others were caught after Samsung was, it was still criticized and even banned from many benchmark applications.

Samsung seems to have had a change of heart and stoped cheating on benchmarks. The new Android 4.4 update that is to follow will not lock frequencies at max or turn off thermal throttling in benchmarking applications.

Samsung debuts Galaxy S5 ad during the Oscars [video]

While people were happy celebrating the Oscars, Samsung decided to debut the first official ad for the Galaxy S5. Samsung also got more attention while the Galaxy S5’s bigger brother the Note 3 captured the most retweeted image ever !

Galaxy S4 prices slashed in INDIA by 10 Grand !

 

The Galaxy S4, One of Samsung’s best sellers last year seems to going down in terms of price. The phone that cost nearly Rs.42,000 ($680) at the time of launch is now cut down to Rs30,000 ($485) in the Indian market. While this seems to be a compelling value, it could also point to the fact that the newer Galaxy S5 that was announced at Mobile World Congress 2014 might not be prices as high as expected. There seems to be a good possibility that the phone may cost along the $700 price tag rather than the rumored $1000 price tag.

April 11 will be the day that we can expect to see the phone in the market and it might have some value after all. HOPEFULLY

Galaxy S5 Price revealed

It’s almost a week since the Galaxy S5 has been launched and it’s simple to say that it would be expensive. Well, looks like Samsung isn’t reducing prices of previous generation devices and putting this up at the price of the S4 or the Note3. Acceptable I guess.

 

According to Amazon.en the price of the Galaxy S5 is said to be €730 ($1000) ! That’s like a GTX Titan’s price… Well I see no reason to upgrade my S4 ! NONE AT ALL !