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Samsung seems optimistic about how well the Galaxy S8 will sell this year. So much so, in fact, that they’ve set a goal of shipping 60 million units for the 12-month period starting around mid-April, when the new smartphones will start shipping out. Until now, Samsung has only crossed the 60 million sales mark with…
Earlier this week a leaked photo of a slide from a supposed Samsung presentation for the Galaxy S8 coming out this year made its way into the news. The photo shows a slide titled “Samsung Desktop Experience: Next Mobile Workspace”, with a graphic of a desktop computer with keyboard and mouse, tethered to a Samsung smartphone, and…
2017 is shaping up to be the year everyone goes wireless as far as the personal music experience goes. Wireless headphones made the news quite a bit towards the end of 2016, and Apple finally launched its AirPods in “limited” quantities before the New Year. Now, we’ve learned the Samsung may include wireless in-ear headphones…
The Note 7 is dead. Long live Note 7. We’ve just heard that next year’s Samsung Galaxy S8 could be coming with S Pen support for the 6-inch display variant of the Galaxy S8. The Galaxy S8 plus-sized phone is rumored to carry over a lot of features from the Note 7 which, if not…
According to rumors floating around on social media and elsewhere, next year’s Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone could support the latest Bluetooth 5 wireless technology that has double the speed, four times the range and eight times the data broadcasting capacity of the current Bluetooth standard, Bluetooth 4.x. Can we validate this in any way considering…
Two more pieces of information – currently considered to be rumors – have emerged about the Galaxy S8 flagship phone for 2017. The first is the removal of the 3.5 mm audio jack, but Samsung’s reasons are different. While on iPhone 7 the change was intended to create a sort of moat against other players by…
2016 has certainly been a year of ups and downs for smartphone makers as well as the smartphone industry as a whole. While Samsung was hit hard by the double-recall and subsequent pull-out of the ill-fated Galaxy Note 7 from the market, Google made its self-made smartphone debut with the Google Pixel and Google Pixel…
The Samsung Galaxy S8 scheduled for launch next year may not be a full-on copy of the iPhone 8, but from what we’ve seen and heard, it looks like Samsung will pack some very critical features to help them compete on an even level with the tenth anniversary edition of iPhone, presumptuously being called iPhone…
The Samsung Galaxy S8 is the next big smartphone in the lineup that witnessed the launch of the Note 7, iPhone 7 and Google Pixel this year. Disillusioned by the mass recall and still-present problems with the Galaxy Note 7, users are now hoping the Galaxy S8 will make its appearance sooner rather than later. The…
It’s been more than a week since the launch of iPhone 7 and its larger sibling iPhone 7 Plus. The buzz is still happening, but seems to be dying down now that the first batch of iPhone fans are already fondling their “upgraded iPhone 6” and dreaming of a single-glass iPhone 8 that promises to…
Until recently, it was thought that Samsung would scrap the Note 8 and stop work on all future Note models. The massive fail of Note 7 after multiple issues even with replacement units, Samsung was forced to pull the model off the shelves. It was inevitable after so many problems, which was why everyone thought there…
The Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus are among the best offerings from Samsung this year. The new pair comes with what’s best of Samsung’s software and hardware and serves as the company’s latest attempt to take on the iPhone XS and XS Max that Apple announced on September 12. The Samsung Galaxy S9 did not…
Samsung is the number one smartphone maker in the world. In the first three months of the year, the South Korean firm shipped more than 330 million smartphone units, a slight drop compared to the same period in 2017. Samsung still grabbed more than 20 percent market share in the first quarter of the year…
Purple might be the new black for the 2018 Samsung Galaxy S9, according to a report from SamMobile. The purple hue was originally slated for the Galaxy S8 from this year, but that obviously didn’t make it into production. 2018 might be the year Samsung gives us an aubergine-tinged Galaxy S phone. Samsung will release…
Samsung is expected to tease several features from the new Galaxy S9 and S9+ for 2018 at the Consumer Electronics Show, CES 2018, in Las Vegas next January. The information is from expert leaker Evan Blass of VentureBeat, who has revealed that an official launch is still slated for March 2018, but says that sources…
