Earlier this Year, Samsung released its flagship Galaxy S6 with a New TouchWiz UI with a little Material Design touch. At the same time HTC released its latest flagship HTC One M9 with the New HTC Sense 7 UI with a more flat design.

 

Both User Interfaces has different features, look, icons, wallpapers, notifications, lockscreen, menus and fonts. It's hard to decide which is better! So we will show you some screenshots from both Interfaces as a comparison... Leaving the final decision to you!

 

TouchWiz [Left] vs. Sense 7 [Right]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Which is Better in your Opinion ?

 

 

You might know about Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 which is included on all new flagships this year, you even might be running it now. Today, we got some leaked details about the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 818 high-end SoC that will also offer a 10-cores processor, new and powerful Adreno 532 GPU, and LTE Cat.10 connectivity.

 

Snapdragon 818 is rumored to pack a 10-core processor with 4x Cortex-A53 cores at 1.2GHz, 2x Cortex cores clocked at 1.6GHz and 4x Cortex-A72 ticking at 2.0GHz. The Cortex-A72 core is supposedly the most powerful processor in mass production right now. In addition the Snapdragon 818 chip will also come with a new Adreno 532 GPU, LPDDR4 RAM and LTE Cat.10 connectivity.

 

 

Snapdragon 818 is rumored to be manufactured at 20nm process. We expected to see devices running the SD 818 by the end of 2015.

 

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Last Year, Apple CEO Tim Cook decided to stop the bloodshed and started to initiate peace efforts with Samsung. The two had been going at each other with patent infringement suits that made the first page of major newspapers. Now, both tech titans are teaming up on certain components which will take business away from the competition.

 

According to Bloomberg, Samsung will be responsible for most of the Apple A9 chips that will be found in the next iteration of the iPhone. We've gone back and forth on this with some swearing that TSMC will get the A9 business and others insisting that the chip will be coming out of a Samsung factory. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo from KGI Securities, TSMC will get 30% of the business which could leave Samsung with the balance. Last year, with Apple and Samsung on the outs, TSMC was responsible for the Apple A8 chip.

 

A third manufacturer that has been mentioned this year, Global Foundries, has a yield of 30%, well under the 50% required for mass production. With Apple and Samsung working together, the latter has been showing improvement in its Q1 component sales. Samsung is optimistic enough about the future of the business to expand its chip making capacity. On the other hand, TSMC has announced a cutback in its spending.

 

 

Another company that is feeling the financial heat from Apple and Samsung's new found love for each other is SanDisk. The latter produces chips for mobile devices like the Apple iPhone and Apple iPad. While Apple was once SanDisk's largest customer, accounting for 19% of its revenue, those days are apparently gone. On April 15th, SanDisk said that it expected to report lower than expected sales for the year as its loses customers for its chips. Apple would certainly be on that list.

 

For Samsung, its resurgence in chip sales came at a perfect time. 2014 was a poor year for the company's smartphone business as it dropped from contributing 75% of Sammy's profits in the first quarter of 2014 to 37% by the fourth quarter of last year. Meanwhile, chip profits went from accounting for 20% of the company's profits in the third quarter of 2013 to contributing 55% of the profits a year later. Since then, Samsung's chip business has been outperforming its phone business. Although that might change with the success of the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Samsung Galaxy S6 edge, it doesn't take away from the fact that Samsung is growing its semiconductor profits.

 

Together, Samsung and Apple control 40% of the smartphone market. With Apple turning back to Samsung for its component needs, and Samsung using its home grown chips for its flagship phones (a practice that will continue with the Samsung Galaxy Note 5), there could be dark days ahead for more chip makers that once relied on Apple and Samsung for business. Besides TSMC and SanDisk, Qualcomm is another name that might belong on that list.

 

Source [Bloomberg]

 

Two roommates, one with the Apple iPhone 6 and the other sporting the Samsung Galaxy S6, had a heated argument over which model is the better smartphone. The fighting intensified until both men smashed beer bottles and used the jagged edges to stab each other. One of the men received a beer bottle blow to the back of his head.

 

The police investigation found that alcohol was involved as both roommates had been drinking. The incident took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma before 1am early this morning, and the cops initially weren't sure if there would be charges filed. Both of the men involved were taken to an area hospital for treatment.

 

Local television station KTUL reported that its photographer asked the cops which phone was better, a question most likely met with an icy stare. Luckily for the cops and the neighbors, no BlackBerry or Windows Phone users joined the fray.

 

News Video [KTUL]

Samsung has mostly finished updating most of its latest flagship smartphones to the Android 5.0 Lollipop. Now, the Korean giant is looking for its Mid-range devices. Today, We got confirmations regarding the official Android 5.0 Lollipop update for some mid-range devices on the market currently.

Confirmed Samsung Mid-range devices to get Official Lollipop Update:
- Samsung Core Prime
- Samsung Grand Prime
- Samsung Galaxy Mega 2
- Samsung Galaxy K zoom
- Samsung Galaxy S5 mini
- Samsung Galaxy S5 mini duos
(Lollipop updates are currently In-development for these devices, no ETA).

 

 

Galaxy Grand Prime Lollipop Update

 

 

Currently, Galaxy Grand Prime official Android 5.0 Lollipop update is under development, it's expected to start rolling-out by late Q2,2015 (June - July) but this Date is still not confirmed. The update will bring an updated TouchWiz UI with Material design along with some new features.

Galaxy Core Prime Lollipop Update

 

 

The Galaxy Core Prime official Android 5.0 Lollipop update has already been confirmed before by Verizon, but now we confirm it's coming to the unlocked variant worldwide, probably by the end of this Quarter. The Update will bring a Material Design TouchWiz UI, new lockscreen, new notification menu, bug fixes and performance enhancements.

UPDATE: Core Prime Lollipop 5.0.2 is Rolling-out HERE.

 

 

Keep checking the Samsung Official Android Lollipop updates page for latest updates.

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