New Disney and Pixar Wallpapers Released for the Galaxy S10’s Infinity-O Display

Smartphone wallpapers are frequently something the usual person doesn’t actually think about. Well, unless you’re extremely particular with what you see on your home screen or lock screen. And when you have a phone similar to the Samsung Galaxy S10 and its Infinity-O display with that front camera punch hole, you have room to play around with the wallpaper that you opt. The Korean OEM has partnered with Disney to release the latest range of background wallpapers featuring characters from The Incredibles, Frozen, and Zootopia.

Even if not everybody is a fan of that notch at the higher right corner of your Galaxy S10, some have found a workaround, either by coming up with wallpapers and yet apps to hide the notch or, as with these fresh ones from Disney and Pixar, they have just played approximately with the design and incorporated the hole in the real wallpaper. They’re pretty creative so it may make you less annoyed with that punch hole.

The Infinity-O display of the Galaxy S10 gives you a roughly 100% full screen understanding as it covers the whole front side of your smartphone. Well, we say almost because as we said, there’s that punch hole there which you require to take selfies of course. But Samsung says the “precise laser cutting techniques” has made it probable to put it there and not distract you from having a “cinematic viewing experience”.

The latest wallpapers from Disney and Pixar feature Olaf’s head coming away of the hole, Jack Jack trying to laser eyes the hole out of survival (which a lot of people want to do), Mickey Mouse’s ears “covering up” the hole, Flash in frontage of the DMV with the hole part of the signage, and Violet holding up the hole or something.

If you don’t like the Disney ones, there are plenty of other Samsung wallpapers for the Galaxy S10 on the Galaxy Store, although not all of them are at no any cost. At least the Disney ones are free of charge for Galaxy S10 users.

 

Samsung Galaxy S10 Carnival Red version surfaces online

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Samsung may be prepping for the Galaxy Note 10 as its next top flagship but the South Korean tech giant still has the Galaxy S10 series to the marketplace. The 5G variant has been added previously and it’s anticipated to make waves because of the fast mobile Internet connectivity and the enhanced camera performance. We don’t have the newest numbers but we know the S10 phones are selling although not as accepted as previous models. Even in its home country, Galaxy S10 1st day sales were not as remarkable as its predecessors.

A latest color for the Samsung Galaxy S10 and S10+ is impending soon. Master Leakster Roland Quandt (@rquandt) has shared photos of the red edition of the Galaxy S10 and S10+. It’s officially called ‘Cardinal Red’.

The fiery red tells us Samsung is prepared to “fire up” mobile experiences. It’s not precisely a perfect phone but the S10 line can be measured as one of the best. A Galaxy S10 teardown exposed it is hard to fix. Screens can be repaired but may charge a lot.

Some issues and problems have been noted counting the burnt Galaxy S10 5G said to have been caused by an outside impact and the 5G variant not switching to 4G LTE in South Korea. The Galaxy S10’s fingerprint scanner was still tricked with a 3D print copy and the intermittent white pixel.

The Samsung Galaxy S10 series has also been the topic of several good reports counting the addition of a 25W fast charger; landscape forever On Display, toughness tests, optional virtual bezel to hide the camera cutout, and adding up of Vision, Routines, Voice, and Key Customization via Bixby.

We learned Samsung Galaxy S10 screens can be repaired but will price a lot. If you’re not so pleased with the mobile familiarity, a complete One UI Project can further get better it. Another software update has improved fingerprint recognition. For several lucky Galaxy S10 owners, their units came with finest YouTube Music and Spotify.

Samsung Galaxy S10, S10+ and S10e to soon obtain support for 25W quick charging

Samsung Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+, and Galaxy S10e to soon obtain 25W fast charging support. This was confirmed by Samsung’s Greater China President Quan Guixian throughout a meeting with the fans at a Samsung store in China. It was established that this will be an over-the-air (OTA) update according to a report by ITHome.

According to the report, the OTA update will begin rolling out to all users sometime next month. To recall, the feature was previously present inside of the Galaxy S10 5G variant at the time of launch. It is also obtainable on the recently launched Samsung Galaxy A70.

Samsung Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+, and Galaxy S10e all arrive with support for fast charging, however, at the moment that is limited to 15W. It is unknown if customers will have to purchase aftermarket 25W power bricks or the company will start shipping them with the latest lot of these smartphones. Consumers who have previously purchased the device will be capable to purchase a 25W compatible charger to charge their devices faster.
The report mentions that the update will be bringing a long-exposure camera mode and compatibility to use NFC access cards.

Samsung Galaxy S10 is priced at Rs 66,900 for the 128GB edition, whereas, the 512GB variant is priced at Rs 84,900. The Galaxy S10+ is obtainable in three storage variants – 128GB, 512GB and 1TB priced at Rs 73,900, Rs 91,900 and Rs 1,17,900, respectively. Finally, the Galaxy S10e is priced at Rs 55,900 for the 128GB edition.

Galaxy S10 lets you use Always On Display in landscape orientation

While most of us perhaps have our devices in vertical direction when we’re not using it, there are still those who for one reason or another would desire to have another option for that. If you have a Samsung Galaxy S10 which shipped out running on One UI 1.1, then you truly have an alternative. One of the minor changes that came with the latest UI is that you can now select to have your Always On Display in the landscape orientation.

Aside from having big new-fangled features like Digital Wellbeing and Bixby Routines, the One UI 1.1 brings you other things like the aforementioned landscape direction for when you want your AOD to reflect your phone’s arrangement as well. This is handy for those times when you’re lying in bed with your phone or when you’re charging your phone on a wireless charger and it is positioned horizontally. Or if you just feel like having your phone in that position.

To try out the horizontal orientation for the first time, go to your settings from the app drawer or from the notification shade. Tap on Lock Screen then forever On Display then AOD settings. You’ll find the Screen Orientation option towards the bottom. Then select from the millions of options there. Kidding. You can only pick between Portrait or Landscape of course.

After that, if you require changing your orientation yet again, you just have to tap on the AOD display and then the rotation icon. Or if you still wish for the long way, do all the steps we mentioned before. This horizontal orientation alternative is also on hand the Galaxy A30 and Galaxy A50 that are previously on One UI 1.1. No word yet if this will be obtainable in other devices once they’ve updated but that’s what will maybe happen.

These clever Galaxy S10 wallpapers embrace the hole-punch camera

Samsung has out a series of high-quality and mostly intelligent wallpapers for the Galaxy S10 and S10+. The new illustrated wallpapers not only accommodate the hole-punch camera cutout on the phone’s display, but actively incorporate the visual constituent into the overall wallpaper design, transforming it into a telescope lens, light hinge, periscope head, and more.

Samsung Mobile US tweeted the wallpapers on Thursday, saying, “Big shoutout to our community for stirring us and bringing the laughs.” The company released three wallpapers for the Galaxy S10 model, counting one that features the cutout as a void down what appears to be an ice cave, as the lens for a telescope looking at the nighttime sky, and as the hinge of a lamp shining a bright light on the wallpaper’s character.

Galaxy S10+ device owners also get a treat, namely two wallpapers, one featuring a periscope coming out of the water (with the camera lenses as its head, of course), and one more incorporating the lenses into a UFO pictured abducting a person. Samsung also shared the innovative files and invited its Galaxy owners “to use” them.

If you'd like to use these 👆 for your own, we're giving you the original files to download. Galaxy S10. 👇 pic.twitter.com/I3kKsm8JzW

— Samsung Mobile US (@SamsungMobileUS) March 14, 2019

The wallpapers were enthused by the Galaxy S10 community, which has previously produced a number of wallpapers based around the cutout. Users interested in adding up their own creative work to the content can download templates with the camera cutouts from the /r/S10Wallpapers subreddit.

Galaxy S10 face unlock isn’t only pointless, it’s also a liability

 

When Samsung was rumored to be leaving with an Infinity-O hole-in display, there was one effect that wasn’t talked about as much. The shift to a more constrained design meant that Samsung could no longer present the face and iris recognition systems it had been working on for years, something it officially established at Unpacked 2019 last month. Instead, Samsung is an evasion to a more basic Face Unlock functionality that, judging by reports, is possibly better left disabled anyway.

There’s a reason why Apple was forced to consume its pride and go away a notch on the iPhone X’s face. The hardware it wants to execute its protected Face ID won’t fit in a waterdrop notch, much less a punch hole cutout. Android phones have previously been criticized for having less than protected face recognition systems but the Galaxy S10 might be taking it to an absurd level.

There are now three high-profile confirmations on the Internet proving how simple it is to unlock the Galaxy S10. AndroidWorld.it performed the most ordinary test, that of holding a photo of the owner’s face in front of a locked Galaxy S10+. And not an easy flat, physical photo but one from a smartphone where the light coming off the photo should already clue Face recognition sensors in.

But it isn’t just motionless photos even. Unbox Therapy even tried using a YouTube with his moving face in close up and it unlocked the Galaxy S10 three times out of three tries. Not everybody may have a YouTube video of themselves but we bet any video will do too.

Almost everyone does have a relation though, and some might share some family similarity too. Jane Manchun Wong, well-known for unearthing investigational features from social networks, discovered that the Galaxy S10+ doesn’t even care about gender. She was capable to unlock her brother’s phone with no complexity.

To be fair, Samsung does warn users when enabling Face Unlock that it could be anxious and is more a matter of convenience. It is handiness, however, that comes with a steep price. Almost anyone who can figure out the owner’s identity could potentially unlock the Galaxy S10 and, agreed how much of ourselves we post online, that perhaps isn’t that difficult these days.

I unlocked my brother's Galaxy S10+ with my face

— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) March 9, 2019

Galaxy S10 1st day sales in Korea not as exciting as predecessors

While there was a palpable enthusiasm leading up to the official statement of Samsung’s latest flagship line, apparently this did not straight away translate to sales. Samsung still hasn’t given us the official numbers but reports coming out of Korea are saying that first day sales of the Galaxy S10 are weak compared to the Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S10. There were only 140,000 pre-orders this time around but there’s most likely a valid reason why the numbers are that way.

The three major mobile carriers in Korea, SK Telecom, KT, and LG Uplus, only received 140,000 pre-orders from the period of February 25 until they shipped out preliminary March 4. Compared to Galaxy S9 (180,000 units) and the Galaxy Note 9 (200,000 units), this seems an attractive low number, despite the anticipation generated when they officially announced the latest Galaxy S10 device.

The good news for Samsung is that there might be a completely reasonable explanation for this dip in the numbers. People may really be holding out for the 5G version of the Galaxy S10 that will be released later this month. Or they might even be coming up for the Galaxy Fold and its foldable display which is predictable to hit the stores in May.

The bad news is that the low numbers may also indicate a universal downturn in smartphone sales which all OEMs have been experiencing. People are holding on to their devices longer since they’re not convinced there’s many dissimilarities between their current smartphone and the innovative ones being released by their brand or also other brands.

Korean carriers are trying to lift up sales by offering marketing schemes. Some have accessible an exchange program so that if they buy the Galaxy S10 right now, they’ll be able to swap it for the 5G version when it lastly comes out. Let’s see if this scheme can help perk up sales.

Galaxy S10 could include “swipe to selfie” feature

One of the highlights of Samsung’s imminent flagship will possibly also be it is most contentious. Never mind the notch, Samsung has moved out with a punch hole for the Galaxy S10 instead. Of course, it will do the whole thing it can to sell that feature, or misfeature if you will, like a spinning light or glow to indicate its attendance and activity. It turns out, it might also have another feature that apparently makes use of that dead space to immediately launch the camera app into Selfie mode.

This information isn’t exactly a leak, even though it comes from the @Ice universe. It is, instead, more conjecture based on such a feature that previously exists on the Galaxy A8s. And since that is Samsung first punch hole phone and supposed to be the Galaxy S10’s precursor, chances are the latter will have it too.

Although the hole for that camera is dead when it comes to pixels, it apparently still touches responsive. A less known feature of the Galaxy A8s is that you can swipe down from that punch hole to launch the camera app instantly in Selfie mode.

It’s definitely an expedient trick but doesn’t expect to execute it with one hand only. Depending on how you hold your phone, you’ll have to stretch out your thumb to perform the gesture. At best, it reduces what would usually be at least two to three taps into one swipe.

Is it leaving to help sell the punch hole design? Probably not. This hidden feature is less of justification and more of a compensation. But just as with the notch, perhaps users will finally get used to it and mentally become blind to it, particularly if more and more smartphone makers adopt the same design.