May 20, 2013
What happens when you take the Galaxy S4, make it waterproof, dustproof, and bump the camera down to 8 megapixels from 13 megapixels? You get a device called the GS4 Active. This thing has been
Samsung is where they are today because they make a majority of the components needed to make a smartphone. Screens, batteries, processors, you name it, they make it. This year however, the company stretched themselves
Infrared blasters, which smartphones used to have in the late 90s and early 00s, are back with a vengeance. HTC put one in the One, Samsung put one in the S4, and we'll likely
May 18, 2013
Let’s get this out the way from the very start. The Samsung Galaxy S4 is the most powerful, most flexible, most adaptable, most all-round functional smartphone in the world, bar none. It’s
May 17, 2013
Late last month, Samsung announced a new tablet called the Galaxy Tab 3. I guess it's an OK product, but the specs just aren't for me. You're looking at a 7 inch
J.K. Shin, one of the co-CEOs of Samsung, told reporters in South Korea today that sales of the Galaxy S4 will pass 10 million next week. He doesn't mention a specific day,
May 16, 2013
Yesterday Google announced the unthinkable. They announced the impossible. They announced that they're going to start selling a Samsung Galaxy S4 running stock Android. Before I jump to the details, I'd like to
May 15, 2013
Samsung's 2013 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4, launched in Japan today. Earlier this week I covered a rumor saying the Japanese operator would be getting a new "Blue Arctic" color variant. Well, it's
According to the Korean newspaper Chosun, who quotes an unnamed Samsung executive, sales of the Galaxy S4 hit four million as of the end of April. The executive goes on to say that as of
According to Geek.com, one of the things we'll today at Google I/O is a "Google Edition" Samsung Galaxy S4. It's technically not a Nexus device, it's just Samsung's flagship
May 14, 2013
According to an article published on SamMobile in early April, Samsung is working on a third generation Galaxy Ace called the GT-S7272. The site said the device will have a 4 inch screen, dual
I tend to shy away from operator specific news, but I'll let this one slide. Verizon, America's largest operator, is going to start selling Samsung's 2013 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4, on
The Korean IT publication ET News recently published an article saying that the GS4 Mini isn't going to launch in South Korea. Buried in that article was this little nugget: "The Galaxy S4 Mini,
If you own Samsung's Galaxy S4, the one that uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600, then there's a small chance you may have heard some distortion coming out of your headphones. According to Android
According to Google+, Shahriar Hossain is a Samsung employee. And according to the Dutch website TechTastic, he posted a photo to Google+ using a device known as the SM-C101, which is better known as
May 13, 2013
Sundar Pichai, the guy who replaced Andy Rubin as the head of Android, was recently interviewed by Wired. It's not a long piece, but long enough that most of you probably aren't going
Around the time Samsung announced the Galaxy S4, SamMobile said the company would release a ruggedized version of it later in the year. At first I didn't believe them, but a few weeks later
When Samsung announced the GS3 last year, they launched it in two colors: blue and white. Over time, the company added several more hues, including black, red, and even purple. This year the South Korea
