Adnan Farooqui

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AT&T’s new promotion offers customers Samsung devices for free

AT&T has announced that it's bringing back its Christmas promotions for a limited time, customers who opt to purchase a handset from the second largest wireless network in the United States will receive a free Samsung devices under this promotion which is available to the carrier's consumer and business customers. Customers who purchase a new Galaxy […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 years ago

Gear S2 arrives in Rose Gold and Platinum for customers in The Netherlands

Samsung announced two new editions of the Gear S2 smartwatch at the International Consumer Electronics Show 2016 earlier this month, customers can now also get the Gear S2 in Rose Gold and Platinum. The new editions are gradually being released in markets across the globe and now customers in The Netherlands can put money down […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 years ago

Samsung Pay will soon allow payments using South Korean cards in the US and China

A new report reveals that Samsung Pay will soon allow users with credit and debit cards issued in Korea for transactions in the United States and China. It's said that Samsung is going to link up the foreign payments system with Samsung Card, Lotte Card, KB Card and Hana Card, and enable Samsung Pay to accept […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 years ago

New Samsung Pay ad takes a direct swipe at Apple Pay

Samsung is no stranger to taking swipes at Apple in its advertisements and it's sticking with that strategy in the latest ad for its mobile payments service Samsung Pay. The ad follows comedian Hannibal Buress to New York's iconic Katz's Deli where he purchases the infamous pastrami sandwich and things get interesting when he asks […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 years ago

Galaxy S7 specs appear on Geekbench

Another model of the Galaxy S7 appears to have made its way to the benchmarks, the Galaxy S7 (SM-G930W8) has been spotted on Geekbench, possibly revealing some specs of the Galaxy S7. The benchmark result shows that this model is also powered by Samsung's own Exynos 8890 processor instead of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, which […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 years ago

Samsung has launched a partner app for BBC’s mini-computer

The BBC will soon be delivering its micro:bits mini-computer, that's quite similar to Raspberry Pi, to all 6th-grade students in the United Kingdom. As they wait for the mini-computer to arrive, teachers can take this time to get familiar with a new partner app that Samsung has released for micro:bits. It's part of Samsung's mission to […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 years ago

Tech companies and even farmers want Supreme Court to decide Samsung vs Apple patent lawsuit

Samsung wants to end its patent lawsuit once and for all by trying to get the US Supreme Court to take up the matter. It has already been through a very lengthy legal process that involved lawsuits, payment of about half a billion dollars in damages and also a sales ban on some of its […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 years ago

Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) benchmark reveals more details

It has only been about six months since the Galaxy J5 was released but from the looks of it, the successor is already in the pipeline. We reported about a week ago that the Galaxy J5 (2016) is being tested at Samsung's R&D facilities in India and now the handset as appeared on GFXBench, reiterating […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 years ago

Apple wins a sales ban on Samsung smartphones infringing on its patents

Samsung and Apple's patent lawsuit has been ongoing for several years now, some of Samsung's devices were found to be infringing on Apple's utility patents, and even though the company is still trying to fight its rival despite agreeing to pay over half a billion dollar in damages this time around it's a win for […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 years ago

Investigation reveals Samsung suppliers might be employing child labor in Africa

An investigation conducted by Amnesty International and Afrewatch, a non-govermnet organization based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has revealed the possibility that suppliers of some of the biggest tech companies and car manufacturers might be employing child labor in Africa. Cobalt, believed to be mined by children as young as seven, might be entering […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 years ago

Samsung Galaxy A3, Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A7 (2016) pricing for the UK confirmed

Two months ago Samsung launched the Galaxy A3, Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A7 (2016), sequels to its Galaxy A series, and the handsets were released only in China initially but it was confirmed that they will be released in other markets as well gradually. The new Galaxy A handsets provide a respectable package of powerful hardware, […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 years ago

Samsung appears to have fixed the Galaxy Note 5’s S Pen issue discreetly

There's only one correct way to insert the S Pen back into the Galaxy Note 5 but soon after the handset was launched last year it was discovered that inserting it the other way around ended up damaging the pen detection feature of the Galaxy Note 5. It was the first time that a Note […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 years ago

LG won’t let the Galaxy S7 steal the spotlight at MWC 2016

A day before Mobile World Congress 2016 kicks off next month in Barcelona the two biggest conglomerates from South Korea are likely to unveil their new flagship handsets, according to a report out of Korea this time around LG isn't going to let Samsung's new flagship steal the spotlight, it's going to unveil the G5 […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 years ago

Samsung releases its own Wi-Fi Transfer app on the Play Store

There are many apps available for Android that allow you to transfer files between devices using a Wi-Fi network, but Samsung has felt the need to release one of its own, which is why it has released an app aptly called Wi-Fi Transfer on the Google Play Store. As the name suggests the app will let […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 years ago

Samsung could launch the Z3 in several European countries early this year

Last year we exclusively reported that with its upcoming Tizen-powered smartphone Samsung is going to bring its homegrown mobile OS to Europe. The Samsung Z3 has already been released in multiple emerging markets and now it's expected that this handset will arrive in several European countries early this year. According to a new report, Samsung […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 years ago

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