Jul 06, , AM. Samsung Electro-Mechanics will be supplying the lenses for the iPhone 12 cameras, more specifically 6P lenses, while next year it will provide 5P to 7P ones for the iPhone 13 series.
Famed Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo already tipped that it will be an iPhone 14 model that will get periscope zoom lenses at the earliest, and the Korean report confirms that they will be provided by Samsung, too.
After acquiring the Israelis from Corephotonics, Samsung apparently inherited a superior folded optics zoom technology, too, with "ball instead of spring voice coil motors," whatever that means. The details of the contract weren't disclosed, but it reportedly included a sales target guarantee for Samsung. Apple's iPhone X and XS devices, which both sport Samsung's OLED screens, didn't sell well due to the saturation of the smartphone market, long upgrade cycles, a lack of compelling new features, and competition from the cheaper iPhone XR , which used a cheaper LCD screen.
Apple repeatedly cut orders for the two higher-end devices, which recently caused Samsung to demand compensation for unfilled OLED orders. The report was supported by a footnote in Samsung's earnings guidance for the second quarter, which included "a one-time gain related to the display business.
It's unclear if Apple's one-time payment squares things with Samsung, but it highlights two issues with its hardware business. First, Apple is too dependent on smartphone rivals like Samsung and LG for displays.
It's reportedly developing its own microLED displays to cut them out of the loop, but Samsung -- which has much more experience in the display market -- is also producing its own microLED screens. If Apple's first-party displays fail to match Samsung's quality, it could be a costly and humbling mistake. Second, Apple's sluggish iPhone sales weaken its clout with suppliers.
In the iPhone's heyday, Apple could easily secure sweetheart deals from smaller component makers. But with a company like Samsung, which dominates the display and memory chip markets, Apple is in a weaker position -- especially if it can't even meet its own sales targets. That's why Apple is constantly touting the expansion of its services ecosystem as its hardware sales decelerate. The amount of flash memory used in an iPhone depends on the model; the 4S, for example has 16, 32 or 64 GB.
The iPhone stores its apps, music, video and other data in flash memory. Samsung also manufactures some of the random-access memory used in the iPhone 4S. An iFixit teardown of this model revealed Samsung RAM in one unit and Elpida memory in another; RAM is much more of a commodity than processors such as the A4, so it appears that Apple has multiple suppliers.
The 4S has MB of RAM, which the iPhone uses to store temporary app data such as for intermediate results of calculations and video processing.
Every time someone here at ZDNet -- or an industry media site -- writes something positive or negative about either of the two leading smartphone vendors, the usual fan debates erupt in the forums and comment sections. Of course, what is "better" can be a highly personalized consideration; what's better for me is not necessarily better for you, depending on the use case and a lot of other stuff. But what we can do is measure by key performance indicators or KPIs.
The best Samsung phones. Samsung offers a range of smartphones -- with the A-series, S-series, Note line, and new foldables. Read More. What I have done, along with my Jason Squared colleague Jason Cipriani and several other ZDNet writers, is try to boil this comparison down to 10 KPIs and score the two companies based on how they perform on those performance indicators along a point scale. A perfect score would be 10 points for each indicator, with a total score of which none received.
For additional context, we also scored Google. We could argue about this all day long because it is a highly subjective topic. Both Cipriani and I prefer iOS. Objectively, however, Samsung has made significant improvements with One UI 3. However, if we track the development of both mobile operating systems over the last several years, it feels a lot like Android and iOS are becoming very similar platforms from a user experience perspective.
For that reason, we ranked them dead-even in terms of UX: 7 -- because, while they are both excellent user experiences, I think they also could use some considerable improvement in several areas; they are both getting long in the tooth.
Samsung does an excellent job with taking raw Android and improving it with their value-added stuff. As it is implemented on the Pixel with Google's platform enhancements, pure Android gets a 6.
Yes, design is yet again a personal preference. If you want a smaller phone in Samsung's lineup, the company removed some features from the larger devices. On the other hand, Apple launched four different iPhone 12 models, all of which have the same basic features, except the larger sensor on the 12 Pro and IBIS-stabilized main camera sensor on the iPhone 12 Pro Max. Nevertheless, both Apple and Samsung have some of the best product designs in the entire industry, so they both get very high marks -- both are ranked a 9 in this area.
Historically, I would say both of these companies scored relatively low in terms of product durability -- that's why I have housed these things in OtterBoxes for so long. But, in recent years, Apple and Samsung have upgraded their phones to IP67 and IP68 ratings to make them waterproof and much-improved glass tensile strength, so I would say their products are much more durable.
However, I'm still using cases until someone proves to me they are indestructible. The best iPhone in It trounced it in every conceivable area that was quantifiable.
However, right now, for S21 devices in the North American market, Samsung uses Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs that are faster in some raw benchmark areas than the A14, such as memory bandwidth. It also integrates 5G on the die. In contrast, the A14 Bionic is paired with an older X55 modem chip made by Qualcomm and has to go through interconnects for its data communications pipeline.
Apple is a year behind Samsung in 5G systems integration; there's no getting around that.
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