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The Galaxy A55 appears to be just around the corner, but you're using the Galaxy A53 and don't intend to upgrade this year. Your phone is eligible for two more major OS upgrades to Android 16. And you intend to take full advantage of Samsung's four-year firmware support policy. That's all great, but there's one […]
One of the most striking changes in One UI 6.0 is the revamped quick toggle panel. It's different visually and functionally compared to previous versions of One UI, and it is the first sign that Samsung might be moving away from one of its core design principles upon which it built its proprietary mobile interface: […]
In case you haven't heard by now, since late 2022, Google's Project Zero discovered eighteen 0-day vulnerabilities in Exynos Modems, leaving numerous Samsung devices vulnerable to Internet-to-baseband remote code executions. The good news is that Samsung already addressed some of these vulnerabilities with the March 2023 security patch. On the other hand, some vulnerabilities remain. […]
Google released the stable and complete version of Android 13 for Pixel devices a while ago, and it continues to release incremental updates (called Quarterly Platform Releases, or QPRs) with new features, including giving users the option to beta test those features ahead of their global rollout. One of the new features in the latest […]
Did you know the Samsung Gallery Android app comes packaged with a (not-too-)secretive Galaxy Labs menu? More importantly, enabling this array of impressive and entertaining features on your end shouldn't take more than a literal minute. Largely on account of the fact that Galaxy Labs support has been built into every single one of Samsung's […]
Here's a fun fact: One UI comes bundled with Samsung One, the custom typeface Samsung both designed and uses on its website, retail packaging and on software and hardware spread across several different product lines, including its TVs. And now customers with a Galaxy smartphone that comes running with Android Pie, and therefore One UI […]
The Galaxy S10 comes with an option that lets users change the screen orientation for Always On Display (AOD). Samsung's latest flagship was the first to come with One UI 1.1 out of the box, and compared to One UI 1.0 that we find on every device that was updated to Android Pie from Android […]
Samsung launched its AI-powered digital voice assistant with the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8+. It even added a dedicated hardware button for summoning Bixby. A lot of people were left unimpressed by Bixby and many of them wanted to an option to either remap the Bixby button to open some other app or to […]
The new Galaxy A (2017) devices offer an impressive feature set for their price tags, and the 16-megapixel selfie camera is perhaps one of the most notable attractions, at least on the Galaxy A5 and A7 (the A3, meanwhile, makes do with an 8-megapixel camera). Well, we thought we would remind you that should you […]
As Samsung puts ever more upmarket specifications into its mid-range Galaxy devices, one nifty little feature remains exclusive to the expensive, high-end side of its portfolio. Amazingly, we're not talking about fingerprint readers here, nor about cameras with optical image stabilization. If you've read our Galaxy A5 (2016) preview, you know those are no longer exclusive […]