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A new Wi-Fi certification document published by the Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) shows a mysterious Samsung smartphone with the model number SM-G888N0. While the N0 represents a model intended for the South Korean market, speculation is rife about it referring to the Galaxy X, a foldable smartphone that Samsung earlier confirmed that it is working on. Galaxy…
Samsung hasn’t yet started shipping out the first of its flagship phones for 2017, and the numbers are already looking impressive. Publishing actual figures, Samsung is highlighting the fact that the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ are already being pre-ordered at a much faster rate that their predecessors, Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge. Although…
When the Samsung Galaxy S8 and its bigger brother Galaxy S8+ ship out on April 21, 2017, they will not have the smart voice assistant Bixby enabled, according to reports. The Siri competitor will be silent until an OTA update of the firmware that will come later on, but several other Bixby features will be live on…
A new photo of a device reported to be Samsung’s next 2018 flagship device, the Galaxy Note 8, is now making the rounds. The device looks suspiciously like the Galaxy S8 Plus, however, leading to a possible conclusion that the image is likely a fake. Although Samsung may be following a similar design approach to the upcoming Galaxy…
A recent tip received by NokiaPowerUser shows that HMD Global and Nokia are working on a new flagship phone possibly dubbed Nokia 9. One look at the leaked specs and the Galaxy S8 suddenly looks like something you’d buy as a first smartphone for your 13-year-old. The 5.5-inch QHD OLED display and iris scanner might…
Japanese media house Nikkei has reported that Apple Inc. has placed an order with Samsung Electronics for 70 million flexible OLED panels for the 2017 iPhone – the device’s 10th anniversary edition, which may be called iPhone Edition according to an earlier report. Unnamed sources also told Nikkei that there will be three models – something…
The Samsung Galaxy S8 that launched last week and ships out later this month has all the makings of a fantastic flagship phone. The massive screen in a not-so-massive body, the curved AMOLED display, the new iris recognition biometric feature and even Bixby promise a delightful experience, but one of the most significant features on…
We’ve see the Samsung Galaxy S8 in all its glory, and we’ll soon have the LG G6 in our hands as well. Not many people have hands-on experience with either, but from a features perspective, how do these two smartphones stack up against each other? The Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galax S8+ are, of course,…
The new facial recognition feature on the Samsung Galaxy S8 is not yet foolproof, according to Marcianophone bloggers, who managed to get their hands on an S8 and then succeeded in fooling the security feature using a selfie of the authorized user. While Samsung has already acknowledged the fact that facial recognition technology on the Samsung…
Samsung yesterday launched the much anticipated and highly leaked Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus. We don’t have a unit in hand to give you a hands-on report, naturally, because it only ships next month. However, here’s a first look at why the larger Galaxy S8 Plus might not be the phablet you’re looking for….
Today is March 29, the 88th day of the year 2017, and the day Samsung unveils its primary flagship smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S8 and its larger sibling, the Samsung Galaxy S8+. As Samsung waits with bated breath for public response to the new smartphone, an old failure comes to the forefront yet again, in the…
2016 was a bad year for most smartphone manufacturers, but two of the most hard hit companies were Samsung and Apple, the global leaders in smartphones. While Samsung’s fiasco with the Galaxy Note 7 was an impediment in many ways, Apple didn’t fare that well either, experiencing its first year of negative sales growth. The Galaxy…
A very short video leaked by Slashleaks on YouTube shows what is reportedly the real Samsung Galaxy S8 in action. Though short, the video shows all the elements we’ve been talking about for the past several weeks – curved screen on the S8, no physical Home button, slimmer bezels, no SAMSUNG branding at the top, fingerprint…
Samsung Galaxy S8 and its larger sibling, the S8+, have been getting a tremendous amount of attention ever since the Note 7 fiasco last year. It’s almost like an iPhone pre-launch frenzy. This year, the U.S. versions of the Galaxy S8 and S8+ will likely get the Snapdragon 835 processor from Qualcomm, while the models for…
You can be forgiven for not knowing that Samsung has its own powerful browser, because Samsung Internet isn’t as widely known – or used – as the more familiar ones like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Apple’s Safari, Mozilla Firefox or even Microsoft Edge. But it’s coming on the new Samsung Galaxy S8 that’s launching on…
