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Launching new tablets with AMOLED screens is among the most exciting things Samsung is about to do this year, and it looks like we just got one step closer to seeing the company launch an AMOLED tablet. According to ETNews, Samsung will begin to mass produce AMOLED displays for tablets next month, starting off with […]
Samsung’s UK website has listed the Wi-Fi only version of the Galaxy Note Pro tablet, with an official launch scheduled for February 4th. Interested customers can pre-order the 12.2-inch tablet by paying £649 ($1,071). While that is an exorbitant sum, Samsung is including a free Gamepad for all customers who pre-order the tablet. The Wi-Fi […]
Earlier today, a Tizen device bearing a model number SM-Z9005 was ousted by @evleaks. Along with the leak, a press render of the alleged SM-Z9005 was also leaked. While no official launch date is available for the device, it has been confirmed that Samsung will showcase a few Tizen devices at the Mobile World Congress […]
North America's biggest carrier has finally made the Rose Gold color version of the Galaxy Note 3 official on its website. For some reason, the phone is on backorder despite having gone live on the carrier's website only a few hours back, but if you do want to grab one, you can expect it to […]
Prolific leaker @evleaks tweeted an image of what could be Samsung’s first Tizen-based device. The device leaked by @evleaks is codenamed SM-Z9005, which we've already seen on video, and if press renders ousted earlier today are any indication, the device could carry the ZEQ 9000 name. In addition, Korean site MovePlayer published images of a […]
Samsung has confirmed, at the Semiconductor and Display Technology Roadmap Seminar, that it is working on a smartphone with a QHD (2560 x 1440) AMOLED display, according to the Korean media. It's not a confirmation we needed since it's fairly certain at least one of the Galaxy S5 models will sport a QHD (2K) display, but […]
After sealing a ten-year patent licensing deal with Google earlier this week, Samsung has buried another hatchet by agreeing to pay $650 to Swedish networking manufacturer Ericsson. Ericsson sued Samsung in 2012 over patent infringements relating to its voice transmission, touchscreen functions and network efficiency technologies. The case was filed by Ericsson in November 2012 […]
An Android 4.4.2 KitKat firmware for the AT&T Galaxy S4 was leaked yesterday, but as we later found out, it was accompanied by a KitKat firmware for the carrier's Galaxy Note 3 as well. Carrying build number N900AUCECMLG, the Note 3 firmware has a build date of January 4, and seems to have most of the […]
Well, it looks like Samsung is going to be taking its model number scheming to the next level with the launch of the Galaxy S5. We've already seen three possible Galaxy S5 variants, the SM-G900A (likely the AT&T variant), SM-G900F, and SM-G900S, and now a fourth one has shown up in Indonesia as the SM-G900H, […]
Samsung has been hosting a Developer Day at the Mobile World Congress since 2011, and this year's event will see Samsung introducing new SDKs for its applications. Samsung announced these SDKs at its first independent developer conference in San Francisco last October. At MWC, the South Korean manufacturer will launch newer versions of the Samsung […]
When we first revealed the existence of the Galaxy Grand Lite Neo, we had been told by our insiders that the device would be launched sometime in the fifth week of 2014, and it seems that schedule has been followed by at least one retailer. The folks over at GSMInfo stumbled upon the phone's listing […]
If you've been fuming with anger and frustration after updating to Android 4.4 KitKat on your Galaxy Note 3 and being unable to use your third-party accessory, well, Samsung has heard your cries. After saying that the update didn't have anything to do with breaking accessories compatibility, Samsung has now backtracked and said that a […]
An Android 4.4 KitKat firmware has leaked for the AT&T variant of the Galaxy S4 on the XDA forums. Released by designgears, the firmware has build number I337UCUFMLD and a build date of January 2nd, which means it's not as new as the latest KitKat firmware that leaked for the international version of Samsung's flagship. However, it […]
Just a few years back, Nokia was a word synonymous with mobile phones. Prior to 2012, for more than a decade, Nokia was the undisputed leader in the mobile market by a huge margin. During this period, Nokia’s dominance of the world mobile market was so commanding that it was beyond anyone’s realm of logical […]
The Galaxy S4 isn't the latest and greatest smartphone in the world anymore, and that might have led some to believe they could import fake copies of the device and try to sell them in Germany. Well, whatever the plan was, it didn't work, as customs authorities in the country found and destroyed 250 fake […]
The Galaxy Gear, unlike what the critics say, is a rather nice smartwatch, but when it comes to the design, it is rather uninspired. Samsung has acknowledged that they could have done better and are working on making the Galaxy Gear 2 more fashionable, and according to ZDNet, the Gear 2 will also feature a […]
Samsung has been rumored to be working on wearable glasses similar to Google Glass, supposedly under the Gear Glass name, and according to a report from The Korea Times, Samsung will unveil Gear Glass this year at IFA in September. According to the report, the smart glasses are tentatively called “Galaxy Glass” – a Samsung official recently […]
Another week just passed us by, and Samsung managed to push out almost 300 updates to various devices. So here’s the Weekly Samsung Firmware Update List, Volume 1, Issue 4 from SamMobile, which you can download at the link below to check out which device got which update and in which country in the last seven days. For […]
Google and Samsung have signed a global patent cross-license agreement to license their patent portfolios to each other, in a move that the two companies hope will drive innovation in an industry that has seen far too many patent disputes (though Google and Samsung have never gone to court against each other.) The deal is good […]
Tizen may be running into obstacles and staying away from the consumer market at the moment, but whenever it does make its way to market, developers will be the major force deciding how Samsung's home-brewed OS does in the extremely competitive mobile operating system landscape. If you're one of the developers who are already dipping their […]