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Another Samsung smartphone that was released in 2019 is now getting its last major Android OS update. The company is rolling out the Android 11 and One UI 3.1 firmware update to the Galaxy S20e in Europe, and it has accompanied this new release with a more recent security patch. The update can be identified […]
Introduction After the Galaxy Buds+, Live, and Pro, Samsung finally decided to release an actual sequel to the original Galaxy Buds. Well, in name at least. The brand-new Galaxy Buds 2 borrows elements from Samsung's previous wireless earbuds, and Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) technology wasn't left out either. Despite this, Samsung announced the Galaxy Buds […]
Samsung is partnering with British auction (power)house Sotheby's after someone over in London realized they're a few TVs short for their upcoming exhibit. Also, just of the brand value at play. And the occasion? Called Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale, this has got to be one of the most unique-looking art portfolios in the history of […]
Samsung could soon launch two Galaxy A series smartphones, the Galaxy A22 and the Galaxy A22 5G. Earlier today, we had published the images and complete specifications of the Galaxy A22 5G. Now, the pictures and specifications of the LTE variant of the Galaxy A22 have been leaked ahead of the launch. The Galaxy A22 […]
Samsung became the first Android OEM in the world to release the June 2021 security update. The rollout started last week with the Galaxy Z Flip 5G, and the update then reached the Galaxy S21, Galaxy S20, Galaxy Z Flip, and the Galaxy A50. Now, a three-year-old smartphone, the Galaxy A8 (2018), has started getting […]
Introduction Android 10, the tenth major version of Android, was made official by Google at its Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco on May 7, and many Galaxy smartphone owners will now be wondering if their device will be updated to Android 10. Samsung is still rolling out Android Pie to its devices, so […]
Introduction Samsung's mid-range smartphones tend to utilize the company's own mobile processors. For this very reason, the company makes quite a few of them every year. The Exynos 880 is the latest addition to Samsung's lineup of mid-range processors. Launched in May 2020, it's essentially an underclocked version of the Exynos 980. The Exynos 980 […]
Introduction Samsung announced the Exynos 9810 in January 2018 and promised that the new chip brought significant improvements compared to its predecessor, the Exynos 8895. It was manufactured on Samsung's second-generation 10nm FinFET fabrication process and featured a faster gigabit LTE modem with advanced image processing and machine learning functionality. The company's third-generation Exynos M3 […]
Introduction Announced in November 2018, the Exynos 9820 had a lot to make amends for since its predecessor, the Exynos 9810, hadn't been that impressive when compared to its Snapdragon counterpart. Samsung tried to address that with a new design and new CPU configuration for the Exynos 9820. It did bring some promising improvements. However, […]
Only the 4G LTE version of the Galaxy A71 seems to have started transitioning to the May 1st, 2021 security patch level as of today.
Introduction Samsung introduced the Exynos 9825 SoC in August 2019 to rectify a major shortcoming of the Exynos 9820, the processor that shipped with the Galaxy S10. The Exynos 9820 was manufactured on the 8nm LPP process node from Samsung and since the company kept the split between Exynos and Snapdragon processors for its flagship […]
Introduction Announced in October 2019, the Exynos 990 was Samsung's premium chipset for 2020, debuting with the Galaxy S20 series and likely earmarked for the Galaxy Note 20 as well. Samsung manufactured this chipset and the accompanying 5G Exynos Modem 5123 on its 7nm EUV process technology. The Exynos 990 will likely go down in […]
Introduction Samsung wasn't going to wait for its next flagship smartphone to release the latest iteration of its custom Android skin. The company is going to release One UI 3.0 with Android 11, the next major Android OS upgrade that's now out. Prior to that, Samsung conducted a beta program for its own custom skin […]
Introduction Samsung releases a new iteration of its custom Android skin with every new flagship smartphone. The Galaxy S20 lineup brought One UI 2.1 in early 2020, it further refined the improvements that Samsung had introduced with One UI a couple of years ago. Therefore, when it does arrive later this year, One UI 2.5 […]
Introduction One UI 2.0 further refined the user interface overhaul that Samsung introduced with One UI 1.0 two years ago. The company continues to improve its custom Android skin and normally introduces new features alongside its latest flagship devices. So it wasn't a surprise to see the Galaxy S20 flagship lineup ship with One UI […]
Introduction Samsung One UI 1.0 drastically changed the user interface on the company's mobile devices, and that too for the better. Some great new functionality was added as part of Samsung's custom skin for Android. The company also made some incremental updates to it with the launch of the Galaxy S10 and the Galaxy Note […]
Introduction Samsung introduced its One UI skin for Galaxy smartphones and tablets with Android Pie in 2018, bringing a radical change to what its user interface looks like and how it operates. One UI 1.0, introduced alongside Android Pie, was followed by One UI 1.1 on the Galaxy S10 lineup, and with the Galaxy Note […]
Introduction Samsung One UI 1.0 was the most substantial makeover the company's proprietary user interface received in the last couple of years. One UI 1.0, introduced with Android Pie, brought plenty of useful new features to Galaxy devices. One UI also makes day-to-day use more intuitive and convenient by putting the necessary information inside menus […]
Introduction The Galaxy Buds+ that Samsung launched in February 2020 weren't all that different from the Galaxy Buds, even though people had expected that it would bring significant changes. Samsung reserved those changes for an entirely new pair of wireless earbuds that it would go on to launch later in the year. The Galaxy Buds […]
Introduction Samsung unveiled its second pair of wireless earbuds equipped with ANC (Active Noise Cancellation) at Unpacked 2021. Known as the Galaxy Buds Pro, the new earbuds combine the best characteristics of the Galaxy Buds+ and the Galaxy Buds Live in a single package while adding new features and improving upon existing ones. The use of […]