Content transfer: Using manufacturers’ applications
To transfer your content from an old mobile device to a new one, you can use specially designed manufacturer applications. From the following applications offering this feature, choose the one that matches your new device: Google Samsung Smart Switch Huawei Phone Clone Apple: Switching from Android to iPhone Apple: New iPhone device Pro tip: Transferable content may vary from one company to the next. With some transfer methods, you may have to download the application on your old model or use transfer material. While most manufacturers provide the equipment you need, make sure you have everything you need before starting the transfer. Content transfer can be convenient when you haven’t synchronized your content in the cloud and are in a bit of a hurry. This will also help if you switch from Google to Apple. Most phone manufacturers thought to create an application enabling you to transfer your content from one device to the other to make things easier. Here’s a quick look at what these applications can do. Wireless transfers Wireless transfer is the most common option available to manufacturers thanks to Bluetooth, NFC and Wi-Fi Direct technologies. Generally, you just need to have the app on both phones and follow the instructions. You will first be asked to identify the old device and then the new one. You can then choose what you want to transfer to your new phone. Cloud transfers This is very similar to a Google or iCloud account transfer. It’s very effective when you want to transfer your data from an Apple product to an Android one. Make sure you’re connected to a Wi-Fi network or have sufficient data to proceed without exceeding your limit. USB cable transfers This method usually helps speed up the transfer. Most manufacturers provide an adaptor with their product to connect the devices together. The application will help you connect everything properly. As you can see, it’s getting easier to transfer data from one device to another. Even if you want to switch platforms or manufacturers, you can still find a solution that will allow you to keep what matters most to you! Check out our other pro articles on data backup 101 and transferring content through the cloud.Discover the brand new S20 5G series
Samsung unveiled its new product line, the S20 5G devices, as well as its new foldable Galaxy Z Flipconcept phone in San Francisco. A few days before the big launch, I had the chance to try the S20 5G, S20+ 5Gand S20 Ultra 5Gphones. The new generation of Galaxy features powerful mobiles, amazing cameras and video images with 8K resolution. It's a new world to discover and explore! Here are some of the features I had the chance to test in Toronto, where I filmed this capsule with the S20 Ultra 5G. Check out other articles by our technology correspondentMathieu Roy.Samsung’s new foldable smartphone: the Galaxy Z Flip
We were looking forward to the latest of Samsung’s foldable devices: the Galaxy Z Flip. Having had the opportunity to try it out for a few days, here are my impressions after about 40 hours of use. Curious about this technology, as well as the device’s features and unexpected components? Here are all the details for this new foldable phone. I look forward to your thoughts on this new technology and how you envision its use in the future. Check out other articles by our technology correspondent Mathieu Roy.The NOTE is dead, long live the NOTE!
On August 19, 2016, Samsung released its now-famous Galaxy NOTE 7. Within 10 days, users were reporting that the device was overheating and in some cases catching fire. Pictures of charred Galaxy Notes started circulating on social media. Now that’s the sort of thing that makes people sit up and take notice. The media picked up the story and on September 12 Samsung announced the first of a series of recalls. The problem turned out to be the battery. And it was so serious that at the beginning of October, after a string of worldwide recalls, Samsung took the phone off the market. It was small consolation that the NOTE 7 was considered best phone around for about 10 days. Now the time has come to turn the page. Samsung did not kill off the NOTE brand or even rename it. Instead, Samsung decided to stay the course, and on August 23 it unveiled the Galaxy NOTE 8 at a launch in New York. Within two minutes after taking the stage, DJ Koh, the head of Samsung’s mobile division, brought up the Galaxy NOTE 7 fiasco himself: "Of course, none of us will ever forget what happened last year. I know I won’t. But I’ll never forget how many millions of loyals stayed with us. Let me express my gratitude to the incredible Note community around the world.” Once the apologies and thank-you’s were out of the way, they got down to business: the new phone’s hardware. Introduction This is how the NOTE 8 shapes up: Huge 6.3” (16 cm) screen with no bezel on the sides Dual-lens 12 MP rear camera (wide-angle lens and 2x optical zoom) Optical image stabilization Front-facing 8 MP camera 6 GB RAM 64 GB internal memory Micro-SD slot, expandable to 2 TB Water resistant: rated IP68 (1.5 m for 30 min) Biometric authentication (iris scanner, fingerprint scanner, face recognition) Earphone jack Available in 2 colours: black and blue (in Canada) What’s in the box: Phone and S Pen Pen nibs and tweezer USB power adapter Micro USB connector USB connector (type C) USB cable Ejection pin Harman AKG earphone Time will tell whether Samsung has made a bold enough move with the NOTE 8. It’s not all that different from the Galaxy S8, which has been available for a while. To be sure, the S8 is a tad smaller, has no stylus or dual rear-facing cameras, but is a stylus a decisive factor for most users? Surprising sales success In 2011, Samsung popularized a new product category with the NOTE, a giant phone almost as large as a tablet. For some people, it was much too big; it felt like putting a slice of bread against your ear. Many regarded it as an oddity, a niche product. Today, almost all phone-makers have come out with a similar device. Even Apple has 5.5” “PLUS” phones. The 5” to 7” category has also spawned a new term: “phablet,” a cross between a phone and a tablet. The main distinguishing feature of the NOTE series is the stylus. It’s still there in the NOTE 8 and now fits into the base of the phone for easy storage. Many of the apps available for the NOTE line are designed to work with the “S Pen.” The sales numbers prove that being able to draw and write on glass with a pen has wide appeal. The stylus concept is not new and Samsung doesn’t have a monopoly on it but relatively few manufacturers have entered the “digital pen” market. Even after the NOTE 7 disaster, no other phone-maker was able to move into the space left vacant by Samsung. The NOTE is a special phone designed to meet special needs. It’s hard to compare it with other devices but comparisons will be inevitable because Apple, LG, Google and other manufacturers will be releasing their latest products in the next few weeks. Whether or not you’re a NOTE fan, you have to respect the fact that it is still there, despite the bumps on the road, and still setting the pace for Samsung’s competitors. Over the past 6 years, Samsung has popularized the “XL” size and now it is taking the lead by eliminating the side bezel to make room for more screen real estate. Other manufacturers will probably be forced to follow suit. Samsung has thrown down the gauntlet. Let’s see what the competition does. Pre-order the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 here! Photos: www.samsung.ca Want to have your say on the Forum? Feel like Liking or commenting on this article? Registerhere. It’s fast and it’s free!Test run: the new Samsung Galaxy Note10+
Summer’s end means back to school for thousands of students and a return to work for more than a few adults. It’s also the time when many tech companies release new products, and Samsung is no exception. Now available on the market are its Galaxy Note10 and Note10+ phones. I’ve had the pleasure of giving the Samsung Galaxy Note10+ a test run over the past few days. Here are my first impressions. The Note10+ awes from the outset with its 6.8-inch (diagonal) display, which is 0.4inches bigger than the Note9 display. My first reaction: “No way, it’s too big! Will it still even fit in a jeans pocket?” To my pleasant surprise, the device measures less than one millimeter more in height and width than the Note9. Even better, the Note10+ is thinner and, at 196grams, lighter than its 201-gram predecessor. The increased display-to-device size ratio was achieved by reducing the edges as much as possible, eliminating them on the sides and making them barely perceptible at the top and bottom. Attention to design detail is also seen in the fine screen bezel on the sides as well as the minimalist camera hole. The speaker is very well-hidden on the microscopic upper edge of the device, somewhat like on Motorola’s Moto Z4. With displays taking up more and more space on devices, this will undoubtedly become the new standard. Samsung has also included the digital fingerprint reader in the display developed for the S10, but dropped the Note9’s iris reader along the way. If you still want to unlock the phone display with your face, you can always use the facial recognition option. One important camera addition should be mentioned: a third, ultra-wide angle camera lens on the back of the device. This lens provides a 123⁰ viewing angle and 16-megapixel resolution. Samsung has also made considerable efforts to improve the Note10+’s artificial intelligence with the inclusion of practical new features: impressive video image stabilization, audio zoom that amplifies sound when approaching its source, 4KHigh Dynamic Range (HDR), an impressive night mode, and more precise augmented reality, all in addition to the automatic adjustments we already know. In short, this is an excellent effort in terms of both software and hardware. The Note10+ would not be what it is without its SPen stylus, which has also benefitted from an upgrade. It still connects through Bluetooth, but now includes a more accurate six-axis motion sensor. The SPen is more than just a writing tool: It also works as a remote to manage the camera, scroll through presentations, or control music playback, all without having to touch the phone. Combined with the above-mentioned augmented reality, the SPen lets you draw on your physical environment, with your doodles staying where you put them. The new SPen features may seem frivolous to the average user, but you can well imagine their utility in various professional applications. It may seem like a gadget right now, but it will soon become a new tool that will give full and free reign to the creative potential of developers. Like its predecessor, the Note10+ is DeX-mode compatible. This means it can be used to sync the phone with a display and keyboard, thereby turning it into a computer. This is an option I really like that deserves to be used. This Samsung exclusive is starting to make sense and has already been adopted in several milieus. For example, the Note10+ will soon be installed, along with displays and keyboards, in police cars in Chicago’s 11th District as a replacement for their current unwieldy computers. According to a Samsung study, this change will save the police department around 30% compared to the previous system. With the Note10+, Samsung enters the high-end phone market. This little marvel is powerful, elegant and extremely well equipped. While the suggested retail price (CAD$1,500) is likely to turn away more than a few buyers, those who take advantage of its full potential as a work tool will have no problem justifying the expense… As long as they can forgive the lack of a headphone jack! Check out other articles by our technology correspondentMathieu Roy.
