Samsung's AirDrop Clone 'Quick Share' Debuts With Galaxy S20 Series

Following the launch of its Galaxy S20-series in San Fransisco, Samsung has now officially announced its file-sharing feature chosen Quick Share. This feature makes its debut in the latest S20 smartphones.

Quick Share enables users to share files from their Samsung smartphones with upward to five other Samsung devices simultaneously without having to go through a gruesome pairing procedure, unlike standard Bluetooth transfers. In a way, that makes information technology more capable than Apple's AirDrop, which limits users to merely one recipient at a time.

The new feature will merely be available with the Milky way S20, S20 Plus, and S20 Ultra 5G to outset with, but co-ordinate to Samsung, support for other devices is 'coming soon'. There's no give-and-take on which devices volition get the functionality just one should expect all the relatively recent flagships, including the Milky way S10 and Notation 10 series, to get this feature. Many of the Galaxy A-series handsets should also be on the list.

Quick Share was first detailed by XDA's Max Weinbach, who discovered the feature final month while going through a Galaxy S20+ unit of measurement from one of his sources. He reportedly managed to install the Quick Share APK on multiple Samsung devices but failed to go it to work on whatever of them. It is not available with One UI 2.0, if you were wondering, but should reach more than devices with I UI 2.i and afterwards, although, the exact list of devices remains a mystery for at present.

Samsung's AirDrop Clone 'Quick Share' Debuts With Galaxy S20 Series — Screenshots Courtesy: Max Weinbach / XDA

As for the app itself, it volition enable users to transfer photos, videos, audio files, and more between uniform Samsung smartphones. That existence the case, information technology volition be interesting to come across how it performs vis-à-vis Apple tree's AirDrop, which remains the fastest, near reliable implementation of the technology in comparing to Realme Share and Xiaomi'due south Mi Share. Also, Google is said to exist working on its own AirDrop alternative dubbed Nearby Sharing, and then information technology will be interesting to see how that plays out going forrard.