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Samsung unveils Galaxy A34 5G with 4 Android upgrades, Nightography camera
On March 15, Samsung officially launched its powerful mid-range smartphone – Galaxy A34 5G. The device offers a sleek design, object eraser tools for picture editing, improved nightography, 4 Android upgrades, and much more.
The new smartphone comes in four stunning color options, such as Lime, Graphite, Violet, and Silver. It will be available to purchase in select Europe and Southeast Asia markets, starting this month itself. The company didn’t reveal the exact date of the sale.
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Below you can check out the specifications of the new Samsung Galaxy A34 5G smartphone:
Display:
The new mid-range smartphone features an immersive Super AMOLED 120Hz display, measuring 6.6 inches. Samsung has upgraded the screen for astounding outdoor visibility, even under bright sunlight, and integrated the Vision booster feature.
Processor:
Galaxy A34 features an Octa Core processor. The company has not named the name of the processor but it’s confirmed that the device is powered by MediaTek Dimensity 1080 processor.
This chipset is paired with 6GB or 8GB RAM and 128GB or 256GB internal storage. If you need more storage, you can expand it up to 1TB through a microSD card.
Software:
The new device drives the latest Android 13-based One UI 5.1 software. Samsung claims that it will get four major Android OS upgrades and five years of security patch updates.
Camera:
Samsung Galaxy A34 equips a triple rear camera setup, consisting of a 48MP OIS primary camera (F1.8, AF), an 8MP ultra-wide angle camera (F2.2, FF), and a 5MP macro camera (F2.4, FF). On the front, it has a 13MP selfie shooter (F2.2, FF).
The company says that it has significantly improved Nightography on the Galaxy A34 smartphone. Also, it produces video with amazing clarity, combatting shakiness and blur with improved optical image stabilization (OIS) and video digital image stabilization (VDIS).
Battery:
The device features a massive 5,000mAh battery with 25W wired fast charging capability. It supports USB Type-C for charging.
Security features:
The smartphone supports Samsung Knox security to keep your data secured on your phone. At the same time, it features Private Share which lets you share files only to designated recipients within time limits and with screenshots disabled.
Due to sluggish chip and energy sectors amid a global economic slowdown, South Korea’s major companies performed far worse than their US counterparts in the first half of 2023.
According to FKI report, South Korea’s top 100 nonfinancial firms listed on the main local bourse saw their combined sales edge up 0.3 percent on-year to $746.3 billion in the January-June period.
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Samsung saw its sales, operating profit, and net profit dip 21.5%, 95.4% and 86.9% on-year, respectively. Comparable figures of its US counterpart, Apple, dropped 4.2%, 10% and 9.2%.
The FKI stressed the need for South Korean big businesses to establish stable profit sources as they remain more vulnerable to external shocks than big U.S. companies.
The combined operating profit of the Korean companies tumbled 63.4 percent on-year to $24.8 billion won in the six-month period, while that of the U.S. corporations shrank 3.9 percent to $638.5 billion.
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Biased camera ranking puts iPhone 15 Pro Max 2nd and Galaxy S23 Ultra 15th: DXOMARK vs Practical Triumph
Camera evaluation firm DXOMARK has recently published its Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max review. In the global ranking, Apple’s hottest (LOL!) iPhone is listed second, after Huawei’s P60 Pro, while the real winner – Samsung’s Galaxy S23 Ultra is 15th.
The new iPhone 15 Pro Max comes with a 40-megapixel primary, a 12-megapixel ultrawide, and a 12-megapixel telephoto camera. Besides, the A17 Pro chipset gives a further boost to the device, enhancing the camera capabilities and photography skills.
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DXOMARK blessed the iPhone 15 Pro Max with 154 points and praised vivid brightness and contrast, accurate exposure, pleasant and natural color rendering, and skin tones, excellent detail in bright light, fast and accurate autofocus, and effective video stabilization.
iPhone 15 Pro Max Camera Specs
Primary
- 48MP sensor, 2.44µm quad pixels, 24mm equivalent f/1.78-aperture lens, Dual Pixel AF, OIS
Ultra-wide
- 12MP sensor, 13mm equivalent f/2.2-aperture lens, Dual Pixel AF
Telephoto
- 12MP sensor, 1.12µm pixels, 120 mm equivalent f/2.8-aperture lens, Dual Pixel AF
At the same time, reviewers listed some cons of the latest Apple phone such as noise in low-light photos, unwanted artifacts, including flare, ghosting, and aliasing, slightly limited dynamic range in photos, and inconsistent detail across all zoom ranges.
Galaxy S23 Ultra secured 140 points, and no one cared about DXOMARK numbers. The device is equipped with 200-megapixel primary, 12-megapixel ultrawide and a dual 10-megapixel telephoto sensor setup. In practical, S23 Ultra is miles ahead of the iPhone in overall capabilities and use of technologies.
Galaxy S23 Ultra Camera Specs
Primary
- 200MP 1/1.3″ sensor, 0.6 μm pixels, f/1.7-aperture lens, PDAF, AF, OIS
Ultra-wide
- 12MP 1/2.55″ sensor, 1.4 μm pixels, f/2.2-aperture lens, PDAF, AF, OIS
Telephoto 1
- 10MP 1/3.52″ sensor, 1.12 μm pixels, f/2.4-aperture lens, PDAF, OIS, 3x optical zoom
Telephoto 2
- 10MP 1/3.52″ sensor, 1.12 μm pixels, f/4.9-aperture lens, PDAF, OIS, 10x optical zoom
Samsung has reportedly tried to make changes in the Galaxy smartphones’ internet browsers design, as part of making it easier to pick the preferred Seach Engine (browser) as default. The company ultimately backed down as Google reminded it about the breach of the agreement.
According to WallStreetJournal, Samsung had attempted to tweak the way of altering the default Galaxy Browser (search engine) for consumer convenience. Meanwhile, Google had opposed the move and emphasized to Samsung that such a move would be a breach of the agreement.
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In the past, it was rumored that the South Korean tech giant was considering Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing as the default search engine on Galaxy devices. However, Google assured it to enhance the search engine as well as bring AI capabilities for competition.
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ChatGPT to power Samsung AI Chatbot: Samsung’s Strategic Leap into AI Development with Microsoft
According to a recent report from Korean media outlet, Samsung is developing a “Samsung AI Chatbot” that will assist with tasks such as translation and document summarization using the Large Language Model (LLM) developed by OpenAI.
Edaily disclosed that the company is using Microsoft’s “Azure OpenAI Service” to create an AI chatbot for work assistance to be used within the company. If Samsung tries to develop its own generative AI using OpenAI’s LLM, it must use MS Azure Cloud.
- Samsung Electronics is known to have linked OpenAI’s LLM to this service and is undergoing a technology verification (PoC) process.