New Galaxy S22 phones, the end of the era of the note, a new iPhone next month, Warcraft coming to the store, and other exciting news for this week in the sidelines!

News on the sidelines: Week 4-10 February


New Galaxy devices

Yesterday, Samsung announced the new Galaxy S22 series of devices. The announcement included the following devices:

My phone Galaxy S22 and S22+

The two phones come with a design that is very similar to last year’s design, but with the screen being completely flat in both, the design also comes with a renewal in the edges of the device and a slightly smaller size, and finally Samsung got rid of the “chin” in the front edge of the phone to become the edges completely the same in size like the iPhone -fone. As for other innovations, the phones come with a Snapdragon 8 generation 1 processor in North America and a new Exynos 2200 processor in the rest of the world. We do not yet know its performance compared to the Snapdragon processor, as it usually comes with worse performance and battery…

The company’s focus at the conference was largely on cameras and build quality, as it rearranged the cameras, increasing the size of the main camera sensor to 50 megapixels, and reducing the size of the zoom camera sensor, in addition to the presence of violent zoom known from the past year, and the company also says that Gorilla Glass Victus+ will add a layer Significantly stronger protection for the screen and the back of the phone. The changes generally come like Apple's "S" updates. It is very similar to last year's device.

The price of the Galaxy S22 starts from 3200 AED or 16,200 EGP for 128 GB and 8 GB RAM, while the Plus version starts from 3800 AED or 20,200 EGP.

Galaxy S22 Ultra

This device finally comes to eliminate the Galaxy Note series, it comes with a design very similar to what we are used to from that series with edges and a round screen on the edges, and it comes with the S pen inside the device with all the features of the pen that were in the Note devices before. As for the other differences for his two brothers, he has a brighter screen and the ability to increase the RAM to 12 GB when increasing the storage space. The cameras also come with a better ability to shoot video at night, except that it is very similar to the other two devices from the inside.

The price of the device starts from 4700 AED or 25,700 EGP.

Tab S8 Ultra

Finally, Samsung announced several tablets of the type Tab S8, the most exciting of which is the Ultra, which has a 14.6-inch screen! That is, it is larger than my computer screen. Want a tablet this big?

The device comes at a price of approximately 8000 AED.


RealityOS for augmented reality from Apple

A developer found in the software store code hints of a new system from Apple called RealityOS, which is likely to be used to power the new augmented reality glasses from Apple that the tech community has been waiting for for some time. It is worth noting here that there are leaks from Bloomberg that the glasses will not be issued before 2023 due to problems related to regulating the temperature of the glasses processor.


Everyone wants Apple devices at work

Khandji conducted an opinion poll in the United Kingdom (Britain) and the result was that a third of employees said that providing jobs for Apple devices (MacBook and iPhone) for work would increase their acceptance of work significantly. This percentage has also increased by half among workers of a relatively younger age.


Facebook's mess with the European Union

Several newspapers circulated an internal advertisement in Meta (Facebook), saying that the company may “have to” not provide the Facebook and Instagram applications in the European Union due to the recent European Union security requirements related to the request to save user data on servers within Europe. Everyone received this line as a threat of some kind, and many responses came in the type of “Bye ” as a response. However, Meta later announced that it did not intend to threaten the European Union and that it did not plan to withdraw its applications from the European Union.


Phone sales growth in the Middle East and Samsung is losing the region

Sales of smartphones in general in the Middle East and North Africa, i.e. the Arab region, have grown by 13% for the year 2021, and major companies have enjoyed this increase, including Apple, Xiaomi and Oppo. But the biggest loser was Samsung, whose market share decreased due to several factors, including manufacturing and inventory problems.


Samsung beats Google in updates

With the release of the new Galaxy S22 devices, Samsung pledged Android updates for four years. It is new in the world of Android phones, which have less frequent updates. The interesting thing about this news is that Samsung with this announcement beat Google, which guarantees only 3 years of updates for its Pixel devices. The update here means the operating system and not security updates.


Don't worry, Call of duty will still be on PlayStation

Microsoft soon purchased Activision, the developer of the famous Call of duty game, and there were fears that the company would make its most popular game exclusively for Xbox, but the company made it clear this week that it intends to keep the game on all systems, including Sony’s PlayStation.


Apple achieves a miracle in India

The new earnings reports came that Apple achieved profits in the Indian market for the past year, exceeding all other companies, although not long ago in 2018, Apple's share in the Indian market was only 1%.


iPad orders may be delayed

Because of Apple's focus on increasing iPhone shipments for the next period and shifting the capacity of factories and the shipping chain to it, reports say that iPad orders may be delayed for up to two months in some markets.


Legislation may allow apps from outside the Store

Despite Apple's continuous attempt to pressure US decision makers, a draft bill has been completed in the US Senate to force Apple to allow users to download apps outside of the App Store. Do you see the project completed? Or will Apple succeed in eliminating it? What do you think, my friend? Do you want to download apps from outside the App Store?


Warcraft is coming to the App Store

I still remember my childhood days in Al Dhaid, Sharjah, when I used to visit an internet café to find everyone playing World Of Warcraft together on computers, and since then I know that this game has a huge audience. It seems that this audience is about to increase their happiness, as the developer confirmed that the smartphone version of the game is in the midst of development and is expected to be released during 2022.


Apple conference a month from now?

Despite the absence of official confirmation so far, it has been reported that Apple's next event will be on March 8, and this event plans to release a new iPhone SE with 5G technology and A15 processor, and leakers also report the possibility of releasing a new iPad and MacBook Air with The new generation of Apple's M2 chip.


Face ID technology was planned for the Mac

Many have wondered why there is a bump in the screens of the new Mac devices without the presence of the face print technology, but the remnants in the Mac system code indicate that Apple was already planning to add a face print to these devices and it seems that the plans have been canceled, perhaps due to technical problems of some kind.


Nvidia's deal collapses losing ARM processors

Nvidia is the largest manufacturer of graphics processing chips in the market today, and the company has been trying to buy ARM, which is responsible for the technologies used in phone and Macbook processors, for a while. But lawmakers did not allow the deal to go through for fear that Nvidia would try to influence rivals such as Apple, Microsoft, Google, Intel and others by acquiring this core technology for today's processors.


Apple announces touch payment feature

The most prominent news of the week was Apple's announcement of a feature in the iPhone to support contactless payments through bank cards and cooperation with Stripe, one of the largest companies in this field, andYou can read our full article on the property here.


iOS 15.4 will fix a security flaw in Siri

Digital assistants like Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa usually send recordings of your voice commands to companies to help them develop the product, and even Siri does that, and in 2019 Apple added an option that allows you to cancel this transmission. But it seems that in iOS 15 there was a software bug that could allow Siri to send your recordings to Apple even if you turned off the feature, and the iOS 15.4 beta finally comes with a fix for this problem.


macOS 12.3 fixes battery problem

Last week we talked about a problem in the Mac update 12.2 that leads to battery wasting when connecting to Bluetooth devices, and the good news comes this week that this problem is fixed in the macOS 12.3 update, and this update is expected to be released to everyone soon.


This is not all the news on the sidelines, but we came to you with the most important of them, and it is not necessary for a non-specialist to occupy himself with all the wandering and incoming, there are more important things that you do in your life, so do not make devices distract you or distract you from your life and your duties, and know that technology is there to make life easier for you And help you, and if I robbed you of your life and preoccupied you with it, then there is no need for it.

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