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Samsung retakes the lead from Apple in India’s premium smartphone market
A new report from Counterpoint Research shows that after several quarters Samsung has once again taken the lead from Apple in India's premium smartphone market. The report points out that Samsung now has 46 percent market share in the above Rs. 30,000 ($450 approx.) segment of the smartphone market. Samsung was able to achieve this position in […]
- By Adnan Farooqui
- 9 years ago
Google Photos’ new unlimited storage partly solves the Galaxy S6’s storage problem
I take a lot of pictures. Also, I take a lot of photos of the same scene to be sure I capture it in the best possible manner. I never delete any image unless it's really bad and useless, and that means I have a considerable amount of photos stored on my Galaxy S6 edge. This […]
- By Abhijeet Mishra
- 9 years ago
06-03-2015 Firmware Updates: Galaxy J1, Galaxy S4 Zoom, Galaxy Note 4, and more
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 These can include major updates, which bring a newer version of the OS to a particular device, or minor ones that improve performance and stability and fix bugs.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 […]
- By Abhijeet Mishra
- 9 years ago
Samsung has been awarded 2,589 patents so far in 2015 – that’s over 17 patents per day!
Samsung has been into patent wars with Apple and Microsoft, and has been able to defend itself. That's because Samsung itself has a large portfolio of patents. According to a new study by Quartz, Samsung has been awarded 2,589 patents so far in 2015. That's over 123 patents per week, or over 17 patents per […]
- By Asif Iqbal Shaik
- 9 years ago
A brand new octa-core Exynos chipset leaks through GFXBench
Samsung has made huge strides with its Exynos chipsets for smartphones and tablets. The company had enough trust in its Exynos 7420 chipset so as to completely remove Qualcomm from its flagship smartphone duo. Now, a brand new Exynos chipset has surfaced online, and no, it's not inside an unannounced Samsung device. The new chipset dubbed Exynos […]
- By Asif Iqbal Shaik
- 9 years ago
Samsung Galaxy S6 (G920F) now available for just $579.99 through eBay
It has been almost two months since the Galaxy S6 went on sale. We have already seen some price drops for Samsung's flagship device. Now, the Galaxy S6 is available for just $579.99 through eBay, and it is the best deal we've seen till date. The device is an international factory unlocked variant (SM-G920F), and […]
- By Asif Iqbal Shaik
- 9 years ago
Samsung Z3 to be the next Tizen phone, launch expected in H2 2015
The Tizen powered Samsung Z1 may have received a lukewarm response in the beginning, but it seems like Samsung is betting big on the Tizen OS. A natural guess would be that a Samsung Z2 would succeed the first-gen Z1, but it appears as though Samsung will give it a skip to jump directly on […]
- By Yash G.
- 9 years ago
App Focus: FingerSecurity for protecting apps using your fingerprints on supported Samsung Galaxy devices
Recent high-end smartphones and tablets from Samsung come equipped with fingerprint sensors, which is being considered as an important feature by consumers as it increases the security of data as well as the device itself. Prior to the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 edge, the South Korean smartphone giant used swipe-based fingerprint sensors in […]
- By Asif Iqbal Shaik
- 9 years ago
Galaxy J5 and Galaxy J7 will have the same UI as the Galaxy S6, official manuals confirm
The Galaxy J5 and Galaxy J7 are yet to be officially unveiled by Samsung, but the company Chinese arm has pretty much done the needful by uploading the user manuals for both devices. The manuals are in Chinese and are hence impossible to decipher without the use of translation, but the included images do show something […]
- By Abhijeet Mishra
- 9 years ago
Samsung Galaxy S6 goes to space, comes back safe and sound
Can your Galaxy S6 survive a trip to the edge of space? That's a question that can't really be answered by the normal consumer, but smartphone skin maker Slickwraps decided to test things out by sending a Galaxy S6 up to 122,264 feet (37,266 m) and making it come crashing down to the blue planet. The result? […]
- By Abhijeet Mishra
- 9 years ago
Samsung Pay will be expanded to China and Europe
Samsung Electronics confirmed today that it's going to expand its Samsung Pay mobile payments service to China and Europe after the service's initial launch in the United States and South Korea later this year. This was confirmed by Rhee Injong, an executive vice president at Samsung, during the company's event for investors today in Seoul. Samsung […]
- By Adnan Farooqui
- 9 years ago
The Galaxy E5 and Galaxy E7 will be updated to Android 5.0 Lollipop in Q3 2015
The Galaxy E5 and Galaxy E7 are two of the best mid-range smartphones Samsung has made in the history of its smartphone business, and have been doing pretty well in terms of sales, at least in emerging markets like India. The biggest draw of the two devices, as we noted in our review, is the fast and […]
- By Abhijeet Mishra
- 9 years ago
Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 LTE clears the FCC
If recent certification documents are anything to go by then it seems that the launch of Samsung's new tablets is quite near. We exclusively reported a few weeks back that Samsung will launch the Galaxy Tab S2 in June and with the tablet going through FCC and TENAA, that certainly seems plausible. Shortly after the TENAA certification […]
- By Adnan Farooqui
- 9 years ago
Rumor: Samsung to cut Galaxy S6 and S6 edge production by 16 percent
Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and S6 edge have the praise of many tech analysts and journalists, and provide the premium look and feel that many have yearned for from the Korean manufacturer. Sales are high, and the S6 edge is in high demand (a great contrast from the Note Edge released last Fall). At the same […]
- By Deidre R.
- 9 years ago
Yet another Galaxy S6 Active render leaks out
The Galaxy S6 Active has been confirmed numerous times in the past few weeks, thanks to leaked specifications (which we were the first to exclusively reveal), pictures and certifications, and it's only a matter of time before the device will go official. Now, yet another render of the Galaxy S6 Active has appeared online, giving us another teaser […]
- By Abhijeet Mishra
- 9 years ago
Galaxy Note 4 leads iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in US customer satisfaction survey
Results of a new survey conducted by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) reveal that 70,000 US customers believe that the Galaxy Note 4 is currently the most satisfying handset available on the market. Survey participants were asked to score the devices on a scale of 0 to 100. Galaxy Note 4 scored 86 points on […]
- By Adnan Farooqui
- 9 years ago
New Samsung video shows design objects being made out of charging cables because Galaxy S6 has wireless charging
Samsung's marketing efforts for the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 edge won't be slowing down anytime soon. The company has steadily been releasing new promotional material over the past few weeks to highlight various features of its latest flagship smartphones, or to simply tell people how they're better than what's available in the market. The […]
- By Adnan Farooqui
- 9 years ago
Galaxy Tab S2 8.0 pictures surface online
We have known for a while now that Samsung is working on two new high-end tablets that it's going to unveil in the near future. The tablets, Galaxy Tab S2 8.0 and Galaxy Tab S2 9.7, will be the new flagship Android tablets from Samsung and also two of the thinnest tablets that it has […]
- By Adnan Farooqui
- 9 years ago
Render The Metaverse entries can now be viewed without Gear VR
In April the OTOY studio which makes rendering software for virtual reality announced a new contest called Render The Metaverse that was sponsored by Oculus. The idea behind this content was to get the community involved in creating immersive 360-degree panoramas using OTOY's software. The finished images were then viewable on Oculus development kits and […]
- By Adnan Farooqui
- 9 years ago
Verizon releases first Galaxy S6 and S6 edge update
Verizon Galaxy S6 and S6 edge customers, congrats on your first update on Samsung’s latest and greatest devices. Verizon decided to drop a little maintenance update to the new device customers this morning, with some saying as early as 6:00AM that they had a new update on their devices (both the S6 and S6 edge). […]
- By Deidre R.
- 9 years ago
