We know that the Galaxy Tab S3 is probably going to be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress next month and now we have an idea about its specifications from a reliable source. GFXBench has given us info on unreleased handsets and tablets before and they have mostly been true. Going by that standard, what you see below is possibly going to be the specs that the Tab S3 will be sporting in Barcelona at the MWC 2017.

Display: 9.6-inch with 2,048×1536 pixel resolution
SoC: Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 clocked at 2.1GHz/1.6GHz with Adreno 530 GPU
RAM: 4GB
Internal Storage 32GB (24GB available for the users)
Camera: 12-megapixel rear camera
Android OS: Nougat 7.0
OpenGL API: OpenGL ES 3.2
OpenCL API - GPU: Open CL 2.0

Samsung, along with the rest of the OEMs have clearly minimized the number of tablets which they release now, so it can be arguably assumed that they hav no plans to release a smaller version of the Tab S3 next month like it did with the Tab S2 in certain regions. This strategy may change in the future though. Check out the screenshot below to get detailed information on what was revealed.

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The Korean tech giant has made its financial report for Q4, 2016 public now and it shows how strong the company is as a whole. The total revenue acquired by Samsung in the last quarter of 2016 was 53.33 trillion Won/$45.72 billion, with an operating profit of 9.22 trillion Won/$7.9 billion. Considering that these figures show a hike of 50% as compared to Q4, 2016, as well as being the most impressive figures for Samsung since 2013, one has to wonder where did the losses incurred by Samsung after the Note 7 disaster go?

As it turns out, Samsung's semiconductor business, with assistance from its display business has more than made up for any losses that its Mobile department may have suffered due to the unfortunate incident. In fact, even the Mobile department does not seem to have suffered too much due to the Note 7's discontinuation. Samsung claims that the continuing excellent performance of the S7 and S7 Edge, in combination with better performance from its mid-range and low-range handsets have kept its mobile department profitable. As detailed in the report, Samsung expects a decline in sales and profits in the first quarter of 2017 as compared to Q1, 2016. This would be brought on as a result of marketing expenses and apparently a dip in the sale of television sets.

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In what was quite a shocking revelation, it has been speculated that the LG G6 won't feature this year's flagship chipset, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835. Keep in mind that this is just a rumor at this point of time and may not hold true. However, the implications of such an event are devastating for LG, should it turn out to be true. The LG G-series of smartphones have traditionally been a rival of Samsung's Galaxy S-series every year. If it misses out on the most powerful upcoming smartphone chip for Android phones which its arch-rival will be sporting, LG will lose the competition even before the sales begin.

As you know already, this year's SD 835 chip is made on Samsung's 10nm process. Rumor has it that any phone which comes out before April will not be sporting the flagship SoC as the chips will all be used in the Galaxy S8 first, before being delivered to any other smartphones in 2017. What this means is that the S8 will be the first phone to have the Snapdragon 835 inside. As the LG G6 is scheduled to be showcased at the MWC next month and the S8 has been confirmed to be delayed indefinitely, facts are suggesting that the G6 will be sporting the Snapdragon 821 SoC from 2016. Make no mistake though, the SD 821 is still the most powerful chip for Android phones right now, but by the time the G6 is released, it may just be playing second fiddle to the more powerful and power-efficient SD 835.

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The press conference which was held to reveal the details of Samsung's probe into the reasons behind the Note 7's fire hazards, turned out to be quite revealing in certain other areas as well. Apart from stating that the batteries were indeed the culprits behind the disaster, Dong-jin Koh also confirmed that a Note smartphone will indeed be released (hopefully in 2017). This revelation came in alongside the declaration that the S8 will be withheld from the MWC in February.

If you are wondering whether or it will be called "Note 8," consider the fact that Dong-jin Koh himself stated this; "I will bring back a better, safer and very innovative Note 8." Keep in mind that the final name on release can be very different and Koh could only be using the name to make his point in a direct manner. Just in case you are wondering as to why "Note 8" may not be chosen for naming the Note 7's successor, know that Samsung already has an old tablet with the same exact name. Additionally, some experts have predicted that Samsung could go with something different in order to get away from the bad reputation which its predecessor acquired for the Note series.

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After what has been roughly three and a half months since the Galaxy Note 7 was discontinued, Samsung has finally disclosed its findings regarding the cause behind the exploding smartphone. Just like previously thought, Samsung blames the batteries used inside the Note 7 for causing the safety hazards that the phone did, back when it was still being sold.

700 engineers worked with 200,000 Note 7 smartphones and 30,000 batteries used in those phones to reach the following conclusions.

1. The first batch of batteries which were supplied by Samsung SDI had curved corners which resulted in the electrodes inside the casing to bend. As they bent and came into contact with each other due to heat or pressure, fire and explosion became inevitable in certain cases.

2. After the first recall, Samsung equipped the next batch of Note 7s with batteries supplied by Amperex Technology Ltd. In a bizarre coincidence, these batteries also turned out to be faulty and began to catch fire as a result of inadequate welding and subsequent internal short-circuits. This was probably brought on due to the tremendous pressure of manufacturing millions of batteries in an impossibly short time.

As Dong-jin Koh, the chief of Samsung Mobiles explained all this in a press meeting, he also confirmed that the Galaxy S8 will indeed be delayed this year, and therefore, we will not see the device at the MWC next month.

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