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Quick Check: Samsung One UI 5.0 Phone Call features on Galaxy S21
Calling is the most common feature of any smartphone and this is what phones were developed for. The old calling feature should not be abandoned in front of many other new features, so with One UI 5.0, Samsung has also brought some new Phone Call features as well, let’s have a quick look at those functions on Galaxy S21 running the beta version.
Samsung smartphones already come with a bunch of features that other brands’ phones don’t have. Meanwhile, One UI 5.0 introduces some more Calling features to further provide users with more control over their phones. Integration of these features is really admirable.
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Samsung Galaxy S21 Phone Call features: One UI 5.0
Custom caller background
For the first time on the stock dialer app, Samsung is bringing the ability to fully customize the call background on a contact-by-contact basis. You can add both images and videos as well as select your favorite picture from the Gallery.
Improved mini pop-up UI:
The mini pop-up menu that appears on your screen when you are using other functions of your phone, to let you answer or reject calls, sees improvements with the new software. The answer and decline buttons are now moved off to the side with no text labels and animated icons, which looks quite good.
Bixby Text Call:
Bixby Text Call is a completely new feature to One UI 5.0. If you are receiving a phone call during a meeting or a place where you can’t take calls, the Bixby Text Call will allow you to receive calls in any environment without being disruptive or missing a beat.
New Zealand’s new Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced that he would promote the ban on phones in primary and secondary schools across the country. This initiative aims to improve the quality of education for primary and secondary school students in New Zealand.
According to New Zealand education sources, the literacy skills of New Zealand primary and secondary school students have been declining in the past few years, and have even reached a “crisis” level. Over 1/3rd of the country’s 15-year-old students have poor literacy levels, which has aroused concern from all walks of life.
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In order to solve this problem, New Zealand’s new Prime Minister Lacson decided to take action. Within 100 days after taking office, he push for the ban on mobile phones in primary and secondary schools across the country to reduce students’ distractions so they could concentrate on class.
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Nintendo is in talks with Samsung Display for supply of the next-generation OLED panels, following Valve’s SteamDeck. Both companies initially considered China’s BOE as a supplier but changed way to Samsung due to the burden of the risk arising from the patent infringement lawsuit.
According to the report, Japan’s Nintendo is known to have requested the supply of OLED panels from Samsung Display, following Valve. These companies negotiated with China’s BOE to lower device prices, but it is said that they chose Samsung Display panels.
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In June 2022, Samsung Display filed a patent infringement lawsuit against China’s BOE in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The technology that Samsung Display claims to be infringing on is five OLED display patents for all products released after the iPhone 12.
Last December, Samsung Display filed a complaint with the ITC against 17 US parts wholesalers to keep BOE in check, asking the ITC to stop using parts and panels that infringe on the company’s ‘Diamond Pixel’.
Accordingly, BOE filed a countersuit in Chongqing’s First Intermediate People’s Court in May against Samsung Display China and Samsung Elec China, claiming patent infringement.
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Similar to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, TSMC is exclusively producing Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset. While the new processor has just started to debut with smartphones, a new leak suggests that TSMC will continue to produce Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, while Samsung orders shelved until 2025.
According to tipster Revegnus, Qualcomm will rely solely on TSMC for producing the 3nm-based Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 processor in 2024. The company has reportedly decided to bet on Taiwanese chip manufacturer again as it’s aiming to use custom Oryon CPU cores.
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It’s worth noting that a dual chip sourcing strategy is still on the cards for 2025 when the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 comes out, while the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 for Galaxy will be produced at Samsung’s foundry 3GAP, reports Taiwan’s TechNews.
In a multi-core scenario, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is said to surpass 10,000 points on Geekbench 6, while the Adreno 830 GPU offers the same level of power draw as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 while offering excellent performance gains. The whole SoC is rumored to consume just 8W.