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Google Chrome to get a feature that Samsung has had since 2015

Screenshots are a wonderful thing. They let you quickly take a snapshot of whatever's on your screen. So you can use them to save something you might find useful in the future or to have dirt on your enemies, assuming you're the kind of person that has enemies. Scrolling screenshots are even more wonderful. A […]

By Adnan Farooqui
4 years ago

TouchWiz Home update for Galaxy S8 and S8+ promises to fix the lag

Yesterday we wrote about lag and UI fluidity problems on the Galaxy S8 and S8+, and how Samsung needs to fix those problems on its flagship smartphones. It seems like the company had already been working to fix some of those issues. The company has now released an update to its TouchWiz Home launcher to fix the lag. […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
7 years ago

Samsung’s UI fluidity problem needs fixing

The Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8+ are two of the most feature-packed and powerful smartphones released this year. It is powered by a 10nm, 64-bit octa-core processor (Exynos 8895 in most markets and Snapdragon 835 in China and Norther America), 4GB/6GB of RAM, and 64GB of fast UFS 2.1 internal storage. Both chipsets come […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
7 years ago

TouchWiz will henceforth be known as Samsung Experience

The skin that Samsung slaps on top of core Android OS is commonly referred to as TouchWiz but that's going to change with Android 7.0 Nougat. The company rolled out a new beta of Android 7.0 Nougat for the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge today. The latest update quietly rebrands the user interface […]

By Adnan Farooqui
8 years ago

Samsung patent envisions Galaxy phone running Android and Windows simultaneously

There's something fascinating about mobile devices that are capable of switching between different operating systems. In practice, those hardly ever work out, though. For example, Samsung's dual boot tablet Ativ Q was introduced, but never made it to the market. Still, Samsung has not given up on the idea, as testified by the publication of […]

By Michel G.
8 years ago

Samsung has relocated the brightness bar on the Galaxy Note 7

You've probably already heard that the Galaxy Note 7 ships with an updated version of Samsung's TouchWiz user interface, which has been internally codenamed Grace UX. We first caught wind of the UI when it surfaced in a relatively lengthy video last month showing it off from all angles, and, to be completely honest, we were […]

By Josh L.
8 years ago

Not alone: the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge, along with the LG G5, have a notification shade shortcut

LG has for years let users add a fourth soft button (along with the standard set of three navigation buttons) to bring down the notification shade. Huawei's P9 has that feature too. But you still can't do this one [sic] a myriad of phones, from the HTC 10 to Samsung Galaxy S7. So if you're on those […]

By Deidre R.
8 years ago

Video compares Galaxy Note 7 ‘Grace UX’ beta with TouchWiz on the Galaxy S7

Last week, a relatively lengthy video surfaced online showcasing the long-rumored updated version of TouchWiz that's expected to make its debut appearance on the upcoming Galaxy Note 7, and now we're getting our second in-depth look at the interface thanks to early adopter who has pitted the beta build of Grace UX running on his […]

By Josh L.
8 years ago

Video details new TouchWiz UX for the Galaxy Note 7

We have heard multiple times that Samsung is going to introduce a new Grace UX with the Galaxy Note 7. It's basically an updated version of TouchWiz that we are all used to by now. The video offers us a look at this user experience in detail and shows us that the new UX looks […]

By Adnan Farooqui
8 years ago

Samsung is testing a power-efficient TouchWiz launcher

Samsung has been trying to address TouchWiz-related issues since the launch of the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge by dialing down on software customization. The company is now trying to leverage Vulkan APIs to optimise the TouchWiz launcher. The Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge were the first smartphones in the world to use Vulkan APIs for improved graphics performance. […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
9 years ago

The Galaxy S7 and S7 edge provide an opportunity to live out Google’s new slogan

The Galaxy S7 and S7 edge are the best of the best Samsung smartphones to have been announced in world history so far (though we’re sure the future looks even brighter than these beauties), but, as usual, the discussion among Android users remains the same, no matter how many “Galaxies” or TouchWiz iterations have come […]

By Deidre R.
9 years ago

Samsung Galaxy S7 edge (SM-G935F) with Exynos 8890 surfaces on Geekbench

We've already reported that Samsung is gearing up to announce the Galaxy S7 edge alongside its flagship Galaxy S7 at its Unpacked 2016 event on February 21, which incidentally is intentionally the day before Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona. Fortunately, the rumor mill has been spinning at a rate of knots, and we've […]

By Josh L.
9 years ago

Samsung working to make TouchWiz more ‘fluent’ than iOS with the Galaxy S7?

We recently heard that Samsung might be teaming up with Google to optimize TouchWiz, and a new rumor today is lending further credence to that possibility. According to ITHome, Samsung will be focusing on improving the user experience with the Galaxy S7, with Google engineers helping the Korean company optimize the underlying code on its […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
9 years ago

Crazy rumor: Google to help Samsung optimize TouchWiz?

Samsung has made major strides this year in optimizing TouchWiz, its proprietary user interface seen on all of its Android smartphones and tablets. But has it done enough? Not exactly, with the biggest example of the fact that there is work to be done being the RAM management issues that continue to plague even the […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
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

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