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Patent and trademark filings often indicate what our favorite technology companies are up to and like other companies Samsung also makes filings on a regular basis. Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published 12 brand names for mobile/smartphones that Samsung is seeking trademarks for. These names have been published ahead of the Mobile World Congress 2015 […]
Last week a sentence in Samsung's Smart TV privacy policy got everyone worried. It basically warned users that they should not talk about sensitive or personal information in front of their Samsung Smart TV because “that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition.” It […]
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 These can include major updates, which bring a newer version of the OS to a particular device, or minor ones that improve performance and stability and fix bugs.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 […]
A report published today claimed that Samsung is contemplating a complete withdrawal from the Japanese smartphone market. It tried to increase its hold over this market last year by launching the Galaxy Note Edge there first last year but apparently that didn't do much to improve Samsung's position in Japan. This wouldn't really be a […]
It seems Samsung is extremely busy testing out the Galaxy S6 Edge. The curved device made an appearance on AnTuTu benchmark with an impressive score, and it is now repeating that by making it to the GeekBench benchmark database with similarly great performance. According to GeekBench, the Galaxy S6 Edge – powered by the Exynos […]
Even though Samsung wasn't the first smartphone brand to roll out Android 5.0 Lollipop update to its existing devices, it is at least making sure that enough devices get the update. After rolling out the Android Lollipop update for the Galaxy S5 and the Galaxy S4 in some markets, Samsung has started seeding the Android 5.0.1 Lollipop […]
We haven't seen an official announcement of the Galaxy J1 yet, but the first device in Samsung's Galaxy J series recently went live in the Malaysian market. Now, the Galaxy J1 is making its way to India – Amazon India has revealed that the J1 will be going up for sale in the country on […]
With each passing day, we're inching closer and closer to the event where Samsung will unveil what is possibly its best flagship smartphone till date. The company is gearing up to announce the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge at MWC on March 1, and the latter has now made an appearance online on […]
Talks that were rumored to have begun more than six months ago might finally have come to fruition, as Samsung and Microsoft have announced that they have come to terms in a settlement out of court in the patent royalty lawsuit the two have been embroiled in for almost a year now. The lawsuit was […]
A product innovation team has been established by Samsung Electronics which will focus entirely on hi-tech projects which will include, but will not be limited to, 3D printing, drones, robots, robotic telepresence, virtual reality and even unmanned vehicles. Shin Jong-kyun, the Samsung mobile chief, is going to lead the team inside the mobile division. This team […]
Folks who own the Galaxy S5 Active on AT&T will today receive a notification about a software update. The carrier has released Android 4.4.4 for this device. Unfortunately it is not the Android 5.0 Lollipop update that many have been waiting for. AT&T hasn't even released Lollipop for its Galaxy S5 variant, which was also […]
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 […]
It's not something the average consumer usually thinks of when deciding on which smartphone to buy, but the SAR rating of a mobile device is still an important feature. It's the rating that denotes the radiation levels (radio frequency energy) of a smartphone, and all smartphones need to have a SAR value less than or below 1.6 […]
As we speak about the expected hardware specifications, exterior design and the software features of the Galaxy S6, Samsung has already started updating its websites with support pages for its upcoming devices. It is well ahead of time, but Samsung has already published support pages for the upcoming smartphones, the Galaxy S6 (SM-G920X) and the Galaxy S6 Edge (SM-G925X), […]
Samsung's Smart TV privacy policy is taking a lot of criticism since the last couple of days ever since a reddit user found out a few sentences in the policy which essentially warn users not to talk about personal or sensitive information in front of their smart TV because it would pick that up. Comparisons are being drawn […]
Last week a report from research firm Canalys claimed that in Q4 2014 Micromax had dethroned Samsung to become India's largest smartphone vendor. The data in the report suggested that Micromax's market share had grown to 22 percent in India against Samsung's 20 percent. Samsung was quick to refute Canalys and it presented a report from […]
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 […]
Samsung is currently working on multiple new tablet lineups, both in the Galaxy Tab and Galaxy Note series, as we exclusively revealed last month. Today, we have information on the specs of two new tablets – the Galaxy Tab A and the Galaxy Tab A Plus. While being mid-range tablets, the latter is notable for […]
Samsung has been working on Tizen for a long time, in order to break away from its dependence on Android and have its own ecosystem that it can offer across a range of products, including smartphones, TVs, cars and more. After numerous delays, the Korean manufacturer finally managed to launch a phone running Tizen in […]
What's that you say? Another device getting the Lollipop update? That's right, yet another Samsung smartphone, the Galaxy S4 LTE-A (GT-I9506), is being updated to the latest version of Android as we write this, a week after the standard Galaxy S4 received the update. What's notable about the Lollipop update for this device is the […]