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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 leaked details

Samsung Galaxy is working on a next generation foldable smartphone named Z Fold 4. The new leaked photos have hinted that the battery capacity of Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 will be same to its predecessor Samsung Galaxy Z fold 3. Earlier it was reported that the batteries of these new generation Samsung fold able smartphones will be thinner as per design but the leaked photos suggests otherwise.The battery will be dual cell with total capacity of 4270mAh meaning the bigger one with 2268mAh and smaller one 2002mAh capacity.

The tipster IceUniverse has also hinted that the new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold will miss built-in S pen. It will make it a little smaller and thinner. According to Phone arena Fold 4 will feature 108MP camera.and TheGalox has reported that the hinge mechanism of Samsung Galaxy Z Fold will also have a major change.

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Samsung to announce Galaxy S4 phone in Monaco in February,2013

After Samsung announcement of major revelations on its annual Forum day the speculations of launch of new Samsung Galaxy S4 phone in Monaco in February,2013 are on rise.

S4

The current model Samsung Galaxy S3 was launched just few months back in May this year. Samsung has previously denied the rumors of launch of Galaxy S4 at CES in Las Vegas in January.

The Samsung Forum event is going to take place next year from 4-6 February in Monaco and sources say that in event some major announcements by Samsung are expected.

So far no specifications of Galaxy S4 have been revealed, although the name S4 has benn confirmed by a Samsung executive.

Although Samsung has revealed flexible displays but so far these displays are not ready for mass production. However main features expected for S4 are an HD display and a high resolution 13MP camera with phone supporting the wireless charging and mobile payment options.

Even if Samsung announces its next smartphone S4 in February the mass production will only be possible in second quarter of 2013.

Samsung at CES, will mainly focus on televisions rather than smartphone business as it did last year at European Forum in Prague focusing on Smart TV and network devices.

In 2011, Samsung Electronics achieved high sales of $143 billion beside achieving top market share in ten product categories.

 

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Samsung Galaxy S III hit by new Android malware exploit

Alephzain of XDA Developers claims that they have discovered vulnerability in a number of Samsung devices that can gives access to physical memory of these devices. The potential flaw hackers can completely wipe out Samsung devices data or get access to complete data using different tools.

Samsung SIII exploit

The first device which was subjected to test by Alephzain was Samsung Galaxy S III and he found flaws in it. He says that flaw also exists in other Samsung devices like Galaxy S II, Galaxy Note II and the Meizu MX. He also hinted that other potential devices with flaw are those that feature Samsung kernel or an Exynos processor (4210 & 4412).

So far Samsung has issued no official statement on this critical security vulnerability. However the flaw has already being exploited. A moderator called Chainfire has already created an APK file using Alephzain’s exploit to gain root access on any Exynos4-based device.

The post shows a list of following compatible Samsung devices
Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9100
Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE GT-I9305
Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300
Verizon Galaxy Note 2 SCH-I605 (with locked boot-loaders)
Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 GT-N8000
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 GT-N7100
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 GT-N8010.