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  • Samsung announced a new version of Galaxy Note 4 with Snapdragon 810 processor and Advanced LTE-band

    Samsung announced a new version of Galaxy Note 4 with Snapdragon 810 processor and Advanced LTE-band

    Samsung announced a new version of it’s Phablet ‘Samsung Galaxy Note 4’ which promises some awesome power churned into the rectangular box. According to the company, Galaxy Note 4 (2nd version) will have superior LTE radios as well as Snapdragon 810 processor, which certainly makes us want it to be there in the original version released earlier this year.

    The new Advanced LTE radios doubles the bandwidth, extending the data transfer rates from 150 Megabits per second to whopping 300 Megabits per second. This is pretty significant, a step into the better and more reliable network performance for smartphones in a whole where spectrum and radio hands-offs don’t always go smoothly.

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    What is the most amazing part of the new version of Note 4 is the new Qualcomm’s processor, which is not being featured in any smartphone available right now. The Snapdragon 810 is a 64-bit octa-core chipset that fully supports ARM’s big.LITTLE configuration. It’s loaded up with quad-core Cortex-A57 and quad-core Cortex-A53 cores and an Adreno 430 GPU that’s 30% faster than its predecessor.

    Unfortunately Samsung didn’t have any hard details to share about availability, though history tells us that we can at least expect a South Korean launch to kick things off.

  • Samsung to discontinue Galaxy Alpha for cheaper alternatives

    Samsung to discontinue Galaxy Alpha for cheaper alternatives

    If you want to grab Samsung Galaxy Alpha for yourself, it is the right time to have one because it will disappear from the market soon — why? Samsung has decided to discontinue it’s one of the prettiest phone for cheaper alternatives.

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    It’s about time when Samsung realised that just because it is company’s first metal frame smartphone, it can’t compete with other smartphones in high-end segments while housing the inferior specs and poor battery life than the competitors.

    Just after a few brief months of introduction, the Alpha is reportedly being supplanted by its successor Galaxy A5, which will take over as the leading Samsung handset for the mid-range market.z 00013

    Samsung says these are the slimmest smartphones it’s ever made. Despite housing a 5-inch display, the A5 is just 6.7mm (0.26 inches) thick, enough to best the iPhone 6. The A3 matches Apple’s latest flagship at 6.9mm (0.27 inches), though it’s got a smaller 4.5-inch qHD screen.

    Both phones are powered by a quad-core 1.2GHz processor; the A5’s got 2GB of RAM inside, but the A3’s got half that. The A5 also wins out with a slightly better 13-megapixel camera compared to the 8-megapixel rear camera on the A3. Both phones have a plethora of selfie modes and Samsung’s even built in a mode that can automatically churn out GIFs.

    The 5-inch A5 is a continuation of the Alpha’s design philosophy, emphasizing thinness and higher-quality metal construction, though it opts for a tamer spec sheet that will allow it to be priced at a more competitive 400,000 won (roughly $360). The report states that the A5 will be arriving in Samsung’s home country in January or February, while the Galaxy Alpha will be phased out as production ramps down once the current inventory of materials is exhausted.

  • Tech Giant Samsung, devours another SSD-related I/O caching company, Proximal Data!

    Tech Giant Samsung, devours another SSD-related I/O caching company, Proximal Data!

    The whole market is shifting and just as everyone is thinking of getting ahead in the tech race, why would anyone assume that Samsung will stop. Recently the company acquired a new company called Proximal Data, which is a software developer related to the server market.

    Proximal was one picked for the honor by Samsung’s ownership, because the software is unique in the way it caches Input/Output  in the virtual part of the server and thus helps in boosting  the SSD market response. Seems samsung is really excited to earn its name in the solid state device market along with Servers.

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    All the other financial details of this deal were kept private. Proximal which is centrally based in San Diego, California has really developed something new here. According to a product briefing, the software works in collaboration with other server virtualization softwares like the VMware. Its AutoCache service program attatches itself into the softwares and keeps a constant eye on all the input and output. Out of these, the most used ones are cached directly in the local PCIe flash card or the SSD, to provide faster access to data.

    rory boltBut jst doing tht is not enough. Now the hot I/O are stored, there is the need of an intelligence embedded in the circuitry to read and thus provide the server with required data streams directly from cache without any storage access permissions.

    CEO of Proximal Data, Rory Bolt is taking the high road with this deal as he positively hopes that the this deal will enhance the Autocache software in the future along with more products on the enterprise storage side. Rory is a big name in the storage and software market, as he has been previously involved in three startups including the enterprise class data protection software company named Avamar technologies, sold to EMC in 2006.

    autocacheThere is no doubt that this deal with help Samsung expand its SSD business since the software mainly addresses to the I/O Bottleneck problems which is a very big problem in virtual server environments. AutoCache very efficiently manages all the cache I/O with minimizing the use of Guest OS resources, which is really good thing in the business. Proximal works with standard flash cards or SSD in the virtual servers such as Microsoft Hyper-v or VMware ESXi.

    This is not allegedly the first time that Samsung has applied the same strategy as other tech giants are using like Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc. which simply includes buying out the companies and services who could be used for company’s future. Samsung bought “Nvelo”, another company based in Santa Clara, California  in 2012 which is specialized in SSD caching and for the better part of the year all its new SSD have been using its technology.

    For Samsung, as the history shows, all the other software seem like a big key factor in differentiating which company is better than others, as basically Samsung belongs to the hardware market, and yet the company is also focusing at the same time on  newer chip level technologies.

    ssdIt even made it clear that they have started the mass production of its 3 dimensional vertical NAND flash memory to be used in the SSDs, which provided much higher storage density (32 vertically stacked cells) almost up to a total of 128 GBs per chip.

    Awesome! seems not that much of a surprise with the way the company is looking forward to newer and newer technologies. What comes out of this new deal, time will sure show us, till then Good luck to Samsung.

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