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ANDROID PHONES

Oct 1, 2013

Galaxy Note 3 review round-up: What do some of the best sites think about the new phablet?

Today is Galaxy Note 3 review day. Almost all of the big websites (we'll get there, some day) have published their reviews of Samsung's new phablet. I've been promised that I will

ANDROID PHONES

Oct 1, 2013

Not Again: Samsung caught cheating at benchmarks with the Galaxy Note 3

Several months ago, it was discovered that Samsung's Exynos powered Galaxy S4 could detect what applications were being run on the device, and that when a handful of benchmark programs were detected, the phone

COMPONENTS

Oct 1, 2013

Samsung’s flexible screen factory can only make about 1.5 million panels per month

Later this month, Samsung has promised that they'll unveil their first phone to use the company's new flexible AMOLED technology. They haven't provided any details about the device, so for all we

ANDROID PHONES

Sep 30, 2013

Galaxy Note 3 to hit AT&T this Friday for $299

The Samsung Galaxy Note 3, which has already launched in multiple countries all over the world, is going to hit America's shores this Friday courtesy of AT&T for a cool $299 and a

SAMSUNG

Sep 30, 2013

Save the date: Samsung hosting a European Developers Conference on November 18th

Back in July, Samsung announced that they're going to hold their very first developer focused event in San Francisco on October 27th. Today, the South Korea handset maker is announcing that a similar event

SAMSUNG

Sep 27, 2013

Samsung becomes the founding member of a consortium dedicated to benchmarking phones

Smartphones today remind me of computers in the 90s. By that I mean every successive generation blows the previous generation out of the water. While it may be hard to believe, there was a time

GALAXY NOTE 3

Sep 27, 2013

An update on the Note 3 region lock fiasco

Samsung's new flagship phone, the Galaxy Note 3, is (as far as I know) the first phone to hit the market with a region lock. What exactly does that mean? If you shell out

GALAXY GEAR

Sep 26, 2013

Galaxy Gear to work with the GS4 next month, Note II and GS3 at some point in December

Samsung's first smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, has numerous problems. It only lasts a day, the user interface is laggy, but the most egregious issue is compatibility. Out of the box, the Gear works with

GALAXY NOTE

Sep 26, 2013

The Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition finally gets a release date and a price: October 10th for $549

When Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 3 and the Galaxy Gear at IFA earlier this month, there was also another device they was unveiled that didn't get a ton of attention: The Galaxy Note

GALAXY S4

Sep 26, 2013

Samsung Galaxy Trend 3 launched in China, it’s pretty much a Galaxy S II that looks like a GS4

Ask any tech journalist which Samsung device made them start paying attention to the South Korean handset maker, and you'll universally get the same answer: The Galaxy S II. When it was launched a

ANDROID PHONES

Sep 26, 2013

WTF: Samsung region locking the Galaxy Note 3, even if you purchase a fully unlocked unit

Are you sitting down? Because I have some news for you that will make you want to shove your first through a wall. About an hour ago, David Meyer from GigaOM filed an article saying

ANDROID PHONES

Sep 25, 2013

Reminder: The Galaxy Note 3 comes out today

When Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note 3 at IFA in Berlin earlier this month, they did something that usually only Apple does: They announced when it was going to come out. That day is today,

COMPONENTS

Sep 25, 2013

Samsung has no interest in fingerprint scanners, says they’re not developing the tech

Most of whatever Apple does, Samsung quickly copies. Sometimes their implementation of an Apple idea is actually better than the original, but most of the time they stumble. Case in point, today's announcement of

samsung confirms theyll unveil a curved phone next month doesnt provide any further details

COMPONENTS

Sep 25, 2013

Samsung confirms they’ll unveil a curved phone next month, doesn’t provide any further details

For as long as I can remember, Samsung has been demoing bendable OLED screens at various tradeshows. A video my old colleagues from IntoMobile uploaded in January 2011 (see below) is proof of that. Now

COMPONENTS

Sep 24, 2013

Samsung unveils 8 megapixel ISOCELL camera sensor, mass production slated for Q4 2013

Samsung is one of the few companies out there that have the benefit of producing a bunch of their components in-house. Samsung phones use Samsung chips, Samsung screens, Samsung batteries, Samsung cameras, you get

COMPONENTS

Sep 24, 2013

Samsung racing to start making 20 nm chips

The cycle of the computer industry can best be described as this: hardware gets faster, which lets software do more, but then hardware gets even more faster, so again, software improves. We all say that

SAMSUNG

Sep 24, 2013

Rumors about Samsung switching to metal for their 2014 Galaxy devices are cropping up again

Every Samsung review, regardless of which media outlet publishes said review, always mentions the incredibly poor choice of materials that the Korean handset maker uses for their devices. As someone who has had years of

ANDROID PHONES

Sep 23, 2013

Cheaper Galaxy Note 3 coming in November, said to cost 30% less than the original

Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 is going to go on sale later this week in over 140 countries. It's a phone that's pretty much unrivaled in the specification department. You're looking at