Naresh Nekkanti

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Samsung Health will stop syncing data with third-party apps

Samsung Health is one of the better-designed and feature-rich apps from the Korean company’s stable. The health and wellness-focused app is capable of collecting a wide variety of activity related data through the built-in smartphone sensors and dedicated wearables such as the Gear S3, Gear Sport, Gear Fit Pro, etc. In an attempt to make […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

Samsung India steps forward to help the flood victims in Kerala

If you haven’t been following the news, Kerala, one of India’s southern states, has been hit by heavy floods, resulting in the death of more than 350 people already. Various governments, celebrities, the public, and companies have come forward to contribute to the relief work in the state. Being a major player in the country, […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

Samsung plans to revamp its midrange smartphone lineup in India

Samsung may be staring at complete decimation in the Chinese smartphone market, but the company is doing reasonably well in India. After briefly losing the momentum to Xiaomi for a few quarters, the company fought back hard with the refreshed Galaxy J series models to regain some of the lost market and mindshare in Q2 […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

Samsung was the third largest R&D spender in 2017, says Ernst & Young

A report of the top 500 R&D spenders in 2017 by Ernst & Young has placed Samsung Electronics third on the list. The Korean company invested 13.1 billion euros into R&D, which was below Amazon’s 20.1 billion euros and Alphabet’s (Google’s parent company) 14.8 billion euros – the top two firms in the rankings, respectively. […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

Samsung’s new Exynos i S111 IoT chip can communicate over long distances with very little power

Being a dominant force in the semiconductor market, Samsung sees a huge potential in the IoT space. The company has been launching many IoT-specific solutions to cater to a wide range of customers and use cases. The newest in these launches is the Exynos i S111 NB-IoT chip that can communicate over long distances with […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

A new video from Samsung shows how the Galaxy Note 9 is made in its factories

The Galaxy Note 9 may be an incremental upgrade, but it still packs a ton of tech inside. It has specs that are comparable to even many laptops. Yet, all of this comes in a sleek and shiny package that fits into your pocket. Have you ever wondered how Samsung makes millions of these sophisticated devices […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

Samsung bringing 8K QLED TVs to IFA 2018

Samsung may be banking on the superior MicroLED tech for its future TVs, but the company’s QLED TV lineup is not going to disappear anytime soon. The company has been aggressively developing and marketing its new QLED TV offerings, including an 8K version. Samsung has already shown an 8K QLED TV at CES 2018 earlier […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

Samsung gearing up to launch the Galaxy A8 Star in India

There were reports in Indian media a few days back stating that Samsung is planning to launch a new Snapdragon 660-powered Galaxy smartphone in the country. In line with the reports, Amazon India is teasing a new Galaxy smartphone on its website. The “Here comes the star!” wording and other hints on the teaser page […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

Samsung adds a new ‘affordable’ model to its curved monitor lineup

At Gamescom 2017, Samsung launched the feature-packed CHG90 curved monitor. The high-end monitor was aimed at gamers and boasted a long list of features and certifications to appeal to the target segment. At the same event this year, the company is adding a new ‘affordable’ model CJG5 to its curved monitor lineup. The new model […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

China replaces America as the biggest market for Samsung

Samsung’s smartphone market share in China has dropped below 1% in the recent quarters. The company has been struggling to compete with the value-for-money Chinese brands which operate on wafer-thin margins. It has vowed to fight back in the world’s largest smartphone market, but none of its efforts have yielded any results so far. Despite […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

Caviar’s Galaxy Note 9 Fine Gold Edition costs $58,000

Starting at $999 for the base variant, the Galaxy Note 9 is already an expensive device and out of reach for many users, but it still appears ‘cheap’ when compared to the Galaxy Note 9 Fine Gold Edition from the Russia-based Caviar Royal Gift firm. Clearly aimed at the super-rich who like to flaunt their […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

Samsung leads the premium smartphone segment in India, says CMR

Towards the end of last month, a report from Counterpoint Research crowned OnePlus as the largest premium smartphone vendor in India with a 40% market share. A new report from CyberMedia Research (CMR), however, says Samsung dominated the premium smartphone segment in the country with 48% market share in the first half of 2018. Though […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

Check out Samsung’s foldable phone renders based on patents

Enough has been written about Samsung’s foldable phone, but no one exactly knows how it looks or works. Relying on Samsung’s foldable screen patents, folks at Nieuwemobiel and concept phone designer Jonas Dähnert have fleshed out renders of what the foldable Galaxy smartphone might look like. Though the renders are based on Samsung patents, they […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

[Update: Appears to be fixed] Android 9.0 Pie update brings troubles for some Gear smartwatch users

With every major Android update, it’s common for some apps to misbehave, and the same thing happened with the Samsung Gear app when Google released the Android P Developer Preview back in March. Gear device users who installed the beta software faced compatibility and performance issues with the Samsung Gear app. The app apparently suffered […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

Contradicting other reports, IDC puts Xiaomi at the top in the Indian smartphone market

When IDC, Strategy Analytics, and Canalys published their Q2 2018 global smartphone shipment numbers, all their findings were in sync in spite of minor differences in data. When it comes to the Indian market, however, the figures from IDC tell an entirely different story from that of Canalys and Counterpoint Research. Both Canalys and Counterpoint […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

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