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For that reason, as prices have risen, smartphone owners have increasingly pushed back against manufacturers who insist that they have no responsibility to supply spare parts and replacements for owners whose devices suffer post-purchase damage. That is unless they’re the ones doing the repair work (or it’s done through some authorized channel like uBreakiFix in Samsung’s and Google’s case). But all around the world, there’s a growing chorus of voices that are now calling for laws to be amended that would force smartphone manufacturers to give owners the right (and access to the tools and parts) to repair their phones....

Just a few weeks ago, Samsung launched their OneUI 5 update for all eligible Galaxy devices. This update brought a bunch of changes to Samsung devices and is still rolling out to more devices across the globe. Despite the features this software upgrade came with, its manufacturer thought it wise to integrate the back tap gesture in some devices. This gesture setup is made available thanks to the Samsung Good Lock (an application accessible via the Samsung Galaxy App Store)....

According to Samsung, Bixby is now 35 percent faster than before, thanks to on-device voice processing. Bixby now “detects and processes your voice all on-device, without having to go through the server,” said Christina Burton, who was one of the presenters at the event. That’s pretty much it when it comes to Samsung talking about Bixby at the just concluded Galaxy Unpacked event, which largely focused on the new Galaxy Z Fold 3, Galaxy Z Flip 3, and Galaxy Watch 4....

Samsung explains its 200-megapixel ISOCELL HP1 smartphone camera Samsung explains its 200-megapixel ISOCELL HP1 smartphone camera The video features Minho Kwon of Samsung’s image sensor design team talking about how ISOCELL HP1 can capture photos and videos with unprecedented detail on a smartphone. This sensor features 200 million 0.64μm-sized pixels to capture the “minute detail” in every scene, details that naked eyes sometimes may not see. It uses the company’s re-mosaic algorithm with deep learning to produce crisp and clear photos that let you see a whole world of detail when cropped or zoomed in....

According to the Geekbench entry, the Galaxy M52 5G (SM-M526B) will feature an octa-core Qualcomm processor with a dual-cluster CPU core arrangement: four cores clocked at 2.40GHz and four other at 1.80GHz. Numerous leaks in the past, including a previous Geekbench listing, have suggested that it’s the Snapdragon 778G SoC. But this chipset features one Cortex-A78 core clocked at 2.4GHz, three Cortex-A78 cores clocked at 2.2GHz, and four Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 1....