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Samsung has announced that the company's mobile payment service, Samsung Pay, is now available in Australia. Samsung Pay will be available in the country starting today on compatible Samsung smartphones including the Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 edge, Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 edge, Galaxy S6 edge+, and Galaxy Note 5. Samsung Pay works almost anywhere credit […]
We've known for a little over a month that Samsung is working on a new Tizen-powered smartphone for the Indian market, which has been dubbed the Samsung Z2. Unfortunately, details with regards to a launch date have been non-existent, but it looks like the handset is one step closer to seeing the light of day […]
Either the Galaxy Note 4 is extremely vulnerable to security threat since it received Marshmallow or Samsung is simply making up for all the time it ignored its fourth Galaxy Note flagship. Either way, the Korean giant seems to be focusing on the Galaxy Note 4 when it comes to monthly Android security updates – the […]
Samsung has a plethora of phones and tablets in its lineup and regularly releases firmware updates for various devices. These can include major updates, which bring a newer version of the OS to a particular device, or minor ones that improve performance and stability and fix bugs. Software updates for Samsung devices roll out in various regions […]
According to a report out of Korea, Samsung is going to extend production facilities in Hwasung for 3D NAND flash memories, an endeavor that's going to cost the company around $2.13 billion. Samsung is looking to do this in order to further cement its position in the memory market by significantly increasing production capacity starting […]
US President Barack Obama has long been known to love BlackBerry handsets. When he first claimed the White House in 2009 he pushed to keep his BlackBerry but the agency that provides communications to the White House handed him a special BB 8830 with extra security features for unclassified email and calls. The world has come […]
Samsung has just announced that it is present at the ongoing E3 2016 entertainment expo that's happening in Los Angeles as a part of its focus on mobile gaming. The company will be showcasing its efforts in the mobile gaming segment using the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, and in the mobile virtual reality space […]
Younghee Lee, Samsung's EVP of global marketing for the mobile communications business, isn't shy to admit that not long ago consumers thought of the company as “boring and monotonous” in a market dominated by companies like Apple who have achieved global stardom for their creative marketing campaigns. Yet things have changed. Samsung has come a […]
ZeroLemon released an extended battery case for the Galaxy S6, a 3,500mAh battery case for the Galaxy S6 edge+ and Galaxy Note 5, and an 8,500mAh battery case for the S6 edge+ and Note 5, so ZeroLemon is no stranger to providing battery accessories for Samsung's high-end handsets. The company is back to offer an […]
Samsung is in the midst of rolling out a nifty firmware update for its first 360-degree camera, the Gear 360. Unfortunately, the upgrade, which carries the build number C200GLU0APE4, doesn't bring anything by way of added functionality to the device. Instead, it bundles a plethora of bug fixes and stability optimizations that are said to […]
Samsung has retained its title of being the world's largest smartphone vendor and when it comes down to numbers, the South Korean giant is far ahead of the competition. A new report from IC Insights shows that Samsung led the pack in smartphone shipments in the first quarter of this year with Apple predictably coming in […]
One benefit of Samsung's latest mobile experiment, Good Lock, is that the company is revolutionizing how users interact with the utilitarian notification shade that has become, for many users, nothing more than just a way to see notifications and alarms at a glance (or to access settings when you need to use them). The Korean giant's new […]
Almost eight months after Google officially released Marshmallow, Samsung is bringing the update to its affordable smartphone lineup. Android 6.0.1 is rolling out to the original Galaxy J5 in India; it's an 874.17 MB update that is available over the air and carries build number J500FXXU1BPF. According to the changelog, the update brings a “new […]
The Galaxy S7 and S7 edge come with 5-megapixel front-facing camera with ƒ/1.7 aperture and a wide-angle lens, which is expected to be much better than the 2-megapixel front-facing camera with a ƒ/2.4 aperture on the Galaxy S5. However, consumers in Thailand are complaining about Galaxy S7 and S7 edge's front-facing camera. According to a […]
Pickup is a company based in France that produces and distributes VR content. It has recently opened an immersive VR cinema in Paris called PickupVRcinema, it's the first movie theater in the city that's offering VR screenings powered by the Samsung Gear VR headset. The idea is to make VR a truly collective experience by bringing […]
Samsung Display is the world supplier of OLED panels, and the rise in OLED panel adoption on smartphones, coupled with a possible Apple deal for flexible OLED screens, is giving Samsung a financial boost in a smartphone market that analysts say has reached levels of saturation that make it nearly impossible to churn a profit. […]
Samsung's latest flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, have been more successful than their predecessor. It was reported in April that the South Korean smartphone giant was able to ship more than 10 million units during the first month of its release. Now, it is being reported that sales of the Galaxy S7 and S7 […]
Market analysts have high hopes for Samsung's second quarter, they expect the company to post positive earnings for the quarter. They're convinced that Samsung's investment in research and development will pay off, the company invests about 8 percent of its annual sales in R&D to better compete against rivals particularly in 3D NAND flash, OLED, […]
Earlier today, an unannounced dual-SIM Galaxy-branded smartphone made a pitstop at the Bluetooth Certification HQ in the United States. Unfortunately, the documentation assisting the device didn't include a name, but it did state the model number as being SM-J210F, which leads us to believe that this is, in fact, the same Galaxy J2 (2016) that […]
Samsung has today announced that it will hold its annual Investors Forum at the Conrad Hotel in Yeouido on Monday, June 20. This year's topics of discussion are IoT, global technology trends and packaging solutions. The firm will have executives from each field on hand to deliver a detailed explanation of their sector and to […]