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Best Buy Black Friday deals offer great incentive to purchase Samsung mobile devices

The holiday shopping season has much to offer to customers and retailers both, customers get great discounts while retailers get unprecedented sales, it's a win-win for everybody. No wonder people start researching Black Friday deals in November as they gear up to get their holiday shopping done, there are plenty of deals to be had between November and […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 years ago

Samsung and LG smartwatches aren’t really keeping your data secure

Researchers based at the University of New Haven have demonstrated how a user's personal information can be extracted from the Gear 2 Neo by Samsung and LG's G Watch. From the Gear 2 Neo the researchers were able to extract email, messages, health and contacts data, none of which was encrypted on the smartwatch. Director […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 years ago

Samsung’s Gear smartwatches now have more than 1,000 apps in the app store

Samsung has been at the forefront of the smartwatch race, having launched three smartwatches in a span of a year. Getting developers to make apps for its smartwatches has been a huge focus for the company, and that focus seems to be slowly paying off – according to Samsung, there are now more than 1,000 apps […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
10 years ago

PayPal app released for Samsung Gear 2

PayPal has finally released their official app for the Gear 2 (and the Gear 2 Neo.) The app was originally announced during the launch of the Gear 2 at Mobile World Congress earlier this year. It can be used to manage PayPal payments and recent transactions right from your wrist, without a need to take […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
10 years ago

Fleksy Keyboard makes responding to a message on your Gear 2 more intuitive

For all of the functionality and efficiency that today's smartwatches promise, there is the innate problem of composing any body of text on a screen that is smaller than 2 inches in diameter. Samsung has actually provided a fairly effective “system” to address this issue on their Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo; at least when […]

By Daniel G.
10 years ago

Samsung infographic aims to help you decide which Gear wearable you should buy

At Mobile World Congress this year, instead of just a single successor to the Galaxy Gear, Samsung announced three new wearables — the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches and the Gear Fit fitness tracker. If you are, for some reason, confused about which of the three wearables would be best for you, then […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
10 years ago

Samsung shipped 500,000 Galaxy Gears in first three months of 2014

Samsung shipped almost 500,000 units of smartwatches in the first three months of 2014, capturing 71 percent of the global smartwatch market, according to data published by Strategy Analytics. As the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo launched in April, the data includes only the first-generation Galaxy Gear and is therefore not that impressive, but Samsung's […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

SamMobile Recap: Galaxy S5 Prime news, 10 million Galaxy S5’s shipped, Samsung’s AMOLED tablet pictured

There’s a lot of stuff that happens in the tech industry, something that is especially true when it comes to giants like Samsung. If you missed out on some (or all) of what happened in last Friday, well, here’s a recap of all the big things that went down. It was a day full of […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

Turn-by-turn navigation comes to Samsung’s Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo

Your Gear 2 just got a lot more useful, especially if you use navigation frequently in your day-to-day life. Symphony Teleca has released its TurnByTurn navigation app for Samsung's second-generation smartwatch, an app that was made available for the original Galaxy Gear earlier this year and was promised for the Gear 2. Using Nokia's HERE […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

Samsung releases Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo open source files

Samsung has just posted what is the first Tizen-based source code that has been made public. The company has released the kernel source for the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo, its second-generation smartwatches that run its in-house OS instead of Android. The kernel source, as usual, will come in handy for developers and tinkerers […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

Review: Samsung Gear 2 (SM-R380) and Gear 2 Neo (SM-R381)

The battle for wearables seems to have really exploded this year. Samsung seems fully committed to this new market and already has put four wearables on the market till date. There has been said and written a lot on their first attempt to create the true smartwatch, with common complaints including a poor design and a […]

By Danny Dorresteijn
11 years ago

Samsung announces list of devices the Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo and Gear Fit are compatible with

Samsung announced a comprehensive list of devices the Gear 2, gear 2 Neo and Gear Fit are compatible with. One of the major drawbacks with last year’s Galaxy Gear was that the smartwatch only worked with the Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition, thereby limiting its customer base. This time around, Samsung […]

By Harish J.
11 years ago

PayPal announces fingerprint-based payment support for Galaxy S5, dedicated apps for Gear 2

Being able to use the fingerprint scanner on the Galaxy S5 to make PayPal payments is one of the handset's most useful functions, and today, PayPal has announced that their fingerprint-based authentication system has gone live in 25 countries, on the same day as the Galaxy S5 was launched worldwide. Users will be able to swipe […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

Samsung Galaxy S5, Gear 2, Gear Neo and Gear Fit now on sale worldwide

Samsung is no stranger to big smartphone launches, and today, the company is breaking all records by launching the Galaxy S5 and its three new wearables, the Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo and Gear Fit, in more than 125 countries simultaneously. All four devices should now be available for purchase at popular online retailers and […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

New Gear Manager and Gear Fit Manager apps rolling out ahead of Gear 2 and Gear Fit launch

A few hours before the Galaxy S5, Gear 2 and Gear Fit's global launch is scheduled to commence, Samsung has started pushing out an update to the Gear Manager app and has released the Gear Fit Manager app as well. The Gear Manager update bumps the app's version number to 2.0.14040401 and brings over the new […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

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