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Adnan Farooqui

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Samsung ranks fourth in global wearable device shipments

Samsung ranks fourth in global wearable device shipments

Latest data from market research firm IDC shows that wearable device shipments increased significantly in the final quarter of 2015, registering a 126.9% increase from the same time last year. Some 27.4 million units of wearable devices were shipped in the last quarter of 2015 while year-on-year improvement clocked in at 171.6% or nearly 78.1 […]

  • By Adnan Farooqui
  • 9 years ago
Samsung starts mass producing industry’s first 256GB flash storage for high-end devices

Samsung starts mass producing industry’s first 256GB flash storage for high-end devices

Samsung Electronics today announced that it has started mass producing the industry's first 256GB embedded memory based on the Universal Flash Storage 2.0 standard, for next-generation high-end mobile devices. The company says that this newly introduced flash memory provides performance that exceeds that of a conventional SATA-based SSD for PCs. Samsung's new UFS memory provides […]

  • By Adnan Farooqui
  • 9 years ago
Canada gets the Exynos 8890-powered Galaxy S7

Canada gets the Exynos 8890-powered Galaxy S7

As expected, Samsung is going to sell two variants of the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge depending upon the market, one powered by its Exynos 8890 processor and the other by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 which it happens to be mass producing. Naturally there has been some confusion about what markets get which variant. There's […]

  • By Adnan Farooqui
  • 9 years ago
Facebook orders 8000 Gear VR headsets from Samsung

Facebook orders 8000 Gear VR headsets from Samsung

Facebook has made it pretty clear that it wants to be a major player in the VR arena. It acquired Oculus for precisely this purpose and the company will soon release its own virtual reality headset. Oculus also has a relationship with Samsung and has helped it out with the Gear VR. Facebook is going […]

  • By Adnan Farooqui
  • 9 years ago
Samsung prepared 5,000 Gear VR units for the Galaxy S7 presentation

Samsung prepared 5,000 Gear VR units for the Galaxy S7 presentation

Samsung used virtual reality for the first time to unveil its latest products. The company had prepared 5,000 Gear VR units that enabled all event attendees to get an up-close look at the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge. Obviously this is easier said than done and Samsung had to work around several obstacles to […]

  • By Adnan Farooqui
  • 9 years ago
Samsung Display will decide on mass production technology for OLED TV panels in May

Samsung Display will decide on mass production technology for OLED TV panels in May

It has been a while since Samsung pushed OLED TVs, the company did introduce some OLED TV models which were later removed from the lineup, but it was reported last month that the company is expected to reintroduce OLED TVs next year. A new report out of Korea claims that Samsung Display is going to […]

  • By Adnan Farooqui
  • 9 years ago
Samsung expects the Galaxy S7 to surpass the Galaxy S6 in sales

Samsung expects the Galaxy S7 to surpass the Galaxy S6 in sales

Two days ago Samsung took to the stage in Barcelona to unveil the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge. The new flagships are a significant improvement over the predecessors and Samsung is counting on them to perform better than last year's flagship. Samsung's mobile chief DJ Koh has said that the company expects the […]

  • By Adnan Farooqui
  • 9 years ago
Samsung demonstrates world’s first end-to-end 5G solution at MWC 2016

Samsung demonstrates world’s first end-to-end 5G solution at MWC 2016

A few days back Samsung announced that it will showcase technologies at the Mobile World Congress 2016 that pave the way towards a 5G future. In partnership with Deutsche Telekom, it announced today that they have successfully showcased the world's first end-to-end 5G demonstration at Mobile World Congress 2016. The end-to-end 5G demonstration involved two […]

  • By Adnan Farooqui
  • 9 years ago
Verizon starts taking pre-orders for the Gear S2 classic 3G from tomorrow

Verizon starts taking pre-orders for the Gear S2 classic 3G from tomorrow

It was only a few days ago that Samsung announced that the Gear S2 classic 3G will be available from major wireless carriers in the United States. Carriers are supposed to individually confirm pricing and availability for this variant of the Gear S2 smartwatch. Verizon has confirmed the pricing and release date for the Gear […]

  • By Adnan Farooqui
  • 9 years ago
T-Mobile unboxes the Galaxy S7 underwater

T-Mobile unboxes the Galaxy S7 underwater

Now that the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge have been officially unveiled I'm sure many of you will be heading over to YouTube to watch hands-on reviews and unboxings of the new flagships. There's an entire community built around unboxing handsets as that's one of the things people like to see before they […]

  • By Adnan Farooqui
  • 9 years ago
Galaxy S7 Always On display feature not coming to existing Galaxy handsets

Galaxy S7 Always On display feature not coming to existing Galaxy handsets

Samsung confirmed yesterday that the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge features an Always On display. The features allows the device to show ambient information on what would otherwise be a black screen when the display is turned off. The Always On display is capable of displaying a clock, calendar or even a background […]

  • By Adnan Farooqui
  • 9 years ago
T-Mobile entices Galaxy S7 customers with a free year of Netflix

T-Mobile entices Galaxy S7 customers with a free year of Netflix

Samsung's new flagship handsets have been announced and now people will start making up their minds where they want to purchase the Galaxy S7 or the Galaxy S7 edge from. Carriers in the United States are trying to do their best to get a leg up on their competition. T-Mobile thinks that the best way […]

  • By Adnan Farooqui
  • 9 years ago
Customers in the United Kingdom will get the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge before everybody else

Customers in the United Kingdom will get the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge before everybody else

Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge today. It has also been confirmed when pre-orders will open for the new handsets and when the release will take place in launch markets. Customers in the United Kingdom appear to be getting the best deal because Samsung promises that it will deliver the […]

  • By Adnan Farooqui
  • 9 years ago
The entire Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge announcement can now be rewatched on YouTube

The entire Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge announcement can now be rewatched on YouTube

If you accessed the internet at any point in the past few hours then it would have pretty hard to miss the fact that Samsung unveiled its new flagship handsets in Barcelona earlier today. The Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge are now official. Samsung streamed the event live on YouTube and even provided a […]

  • By Adnan Farooqui
  • 9 years ago
Glympse brings easy location sharing to the Galaxy S7

Glympse brings easy location sharing to the Galaxy S7

Glympse today announced a collaboration with Samsung to provide location technology for driving apps and services on the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge. The feature will enable users to temporarily share their current location and estimated time of arrival with anyone in their contact list with recipients being able to watch as the […]

  • By Adnan Farooqui
  • 9 years ago
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