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AT&T will begin pre-orders of the recently announced Samsung Galaxy S5 tomorrow, March 21st. The beastly device will cost $199.99 with a two-year contract, and that’s for the 16GB version of the smartphone. Customers can also pay for the device using AT&T’s monthly device payment plan, Next, which spreads the cost of the GS5 out…
Samsung is apparently working to cram the cellular connectivity to its Galaxy Gear 2 smart watch. According to a Korea Herald report, the company may launch a USIM-equipped Gear 2 in the future. This unit wouldn’t require Bluetooth connection with a smartphone, and could even allow phone calls. Such model, the story suggests, could be…
Earlier we’ve told you that the government of South Korea is considering to designate the Galaxy S5 as a medical device. Well that ain’t gonna happen with the country’s Food and Drug Safety Ministry deciding to change the law instead. The current regulation says that any device that can “diagnose, treat or prevent diseases” must…
Vodafone UK has managed to score exclusive launch rights for the Gold Galaxy S5. The Big Red carrier will get an exclusive launch window after which the gold version of the smartphone will also be available on other operators. Sammy’s flagship will be available in four different colors, including the mentioned gold version, black, white…
It came as a surprise when Samsung announced that the company’s newest smartwatches, the Galaxy Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo, would be running Sammy’s Tizen OS instead of the oft-used Android platform. Now that the Gear 2 is out in the wild, Samsung has announced today the release of the Tizen Software Development Kit,…
In two separate tweets, EVleaks has shown us two of the upcoming Verizon Wireless phones – Samsung ATIV SE and LG Lucid 3 (VS876). The first of the two is a Windows Phone device that will presumably come with a 5-inch full HD screen, 2GB of RAM, Qualcomm’s quad-core chip and dual cameras. As for…
Samsung has launched yet another Galaxy S3 variant in Brazil, without any special announcement. The “newly unannounced” Galaxy S3 Slim is everything but remarkable device and in that sense, we can’t imagine the Korean company asking a premium for it. Quite the contrary, this will be a rather affordable handset. Specs wise, the Galaxy S3…
Many folks expected the Galaxy S5 to sport a metal (uni)body. Alas, that hasn’t happened and what we have today is yet another plastic phone from Samsung. Truth to be told, it’s still an awesome device with few novel features such as the built-in heart rate monitor. Alas, we’ve heard that this won’t be the…
A new, still unannounced Samsung device has been spotted while getting approval from China’s Telecommunication Equipment Certification Center, which is known as Tenaa. What you can see here is a low-to-end smartphone that comes with a twist. Actually, there are two things about this phone that make it an interesting product. First, it has a…
Like that was the case with the Galaxy S4, this year’s model will also be available in multiple “variants,” Galaxy S5 Zoom being one of them. At least we have something like that on the GFXBench website, where the Samsung phone marked as SM-C115 has recently passed through the tests. The specs of this phone…