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Samsung might be touting the 800,000 shipment figure for the Galaxy Gear as something impressive, but the truth of the matter is that adoption of the Galaxy Gear just hasn't been as great as the company might have expected. To help turn things around a bit, Samsung Canada has announced that it will be discounting […]
While most simply wait around for a company to unveil its next flagship device, some make themselves busy with cooking up concept designs for those devices, often giving us a look at drool-worthy designs and concepts that are never actually realized by manufacturers. Well, the folks over at O2 Guru TV have released a Galaxy S5 […]
Back in October, when the rumor mill was only just kicking off its endeavor to offer us speculation on the Galaxy S5, a rumor cropped up suggesting that Samsung's next flagship might feature eye-scanning technology instead of a fingerprint sensor. At the time, we didn't give much thought to this rumor, but a patent application […]
Early this year, Samsung announced that they would come out with a phone with a flexible OLED screen, and showed off several prototypes at CES 2013. Then, in early November, the company announced the Galaxy Round, the world’s first smartphone with a curved screen, which is now in stores in limited quantity. We took the […]
The Galaxy Gear hasn't been what you'd call a successful product for Samsung, reportedly selling only around 50,000 units worldwide since its launch, but that hasn't stopped the development community from working on the device to make it better, and now the first proper custom ROM has appeared for Samsung's smartwatch. Called Null, the ROM […]
The Galaxy S4 was the first Samsung device that had a focus on health-related features, and the Galaxy Gear also comes with a pedometer to help users track various physical parameters. It was rumored that the company is working on numerous wearable devices, and it looks like a portable fitness accessory could be one of […]
The tablet market is where Samsung is expected to focus a large part of its resources in the coming year, including tablets with 12.2-inch and larger screens and even those with AMOLED displays. Last we heard, the Korean firm was targeting shipments of 42 million tablets in 2014, but according to the latest report out […]
Back in early October, Samsung announced the Galaxy J for Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo, as something of a cross between the Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 3 – namely, the device was a Galaxy S4 but with a Snapdragon 800 processor, 3GB of RAM, and Android 4.3 Jelly Bean out of the box. Now, a […]
A few days ago, we told you about the ATN Manager app developed by an XDA developer, which enabled viewing the full content of a particular notification on the Galaxy Gear for almost any app. Well, you won't be needing ATN Manager anymore, as an update to the Gear Manager app has brought official support […]
Android is continuing to take over the mobile market as the months go by, with the latest figures putting its market share at nearly percent. While Samsung still holds the lion's share of the Android market, according to the latest data released by Gartner for worldwide smartphone sales, Samsung lead over total smartphone sales remained […]
Right when we had almost pushed Samsung's regional lock policy – which debuted on the Galaxy Note 3 – out of our minds, we're getting a nice little refresher that will keep it haunting us for some time to come. Yes, Samsung isn't backing down and throwing the whole practice of regional locking down the […]
That Samsung dominates the Android (and mobile) market is not something anyone can doubt today, but the latest numbers coming from Localytics show just how far things have progressed for the Korean manufacturer – today, Samsung has a 63 percent share of Android mobile devices, including smartphones, phablets (or “fonblets”, as Samsung likes to call […]
It recently came to light that Samsung is expecting to sell more than 40 million tablets this year, gaining considerable tablet market share, and also hopes to focus its efforts on tablets a lot more next year, including those with 12.2-inch displays and larger ones. Now, a report suggests that Samsung plans to dominate the […]
Back in mid-August, when the Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Gear were still unannounced, four unknown Samsung models appeared in the wild but were unaccompanied by any meaningful details. Today, one of them – the SM-G7102, a 5.2-inch smartphone – has reared its face again, and this time a few of it specs have been […]
Yesterday, Samsung gave us a lot of details about its plans for upcoming smartphones and tablets at its Analyst Day event, and confirmed that its flagship devices would all use 16-megapixel cameras next year, including the Galaxy S5 and Note 4. Now more details are coming in on the matter, and it seems like Samsung […]