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Samsung’s battery making (among other things) arm, Samsung SDI, has used the InterBattery 2014 exhibition in Seoul to show the world one of its latest products – the flexible, rollable battery made for the next generation of wearable devices. What’s especially cool is that the demo The company used “structural design and improved materials” to…
Samsung is apparently planning to release a successor to its Galaxy Golden clamshell. According to GSMarena’s report, the Korean company’s next flip phone will be the most powerful such device ever. Specs are rumored to include a pair of 4.6-inch Super AMOLED screens with WXGA resolution (1,280 x 768 pixels), Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 quad-core chip…
For one reason or another, Samsung and AT&T haven’t found time (or whatever) to launch the KitKat update for the Galaxy Note 8.0. That’s changing now with users getting their goodies as we speak. The new firmware, version JZO54K.I467UCANI2, comes with all the latest bells and whistles included in Android 4.4 (security and usability improvements…
Sprint may be inching closer to launching the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge, with such device getting the FCC regulatory approval needed to be sold on the U.S. soil. However, chances are Now Network won’t be the only one offering Sammy’s unique phablet — unique in that sense that it has the two-sided screen where one…
Samsung announced its latest chip, the Exynos 7 Octa. However, this is not really the all-new offering; rather, the Korean company decided to rebrand its new Exynos 5433 SoC, which happens to power some Galaxy Note 4 variants. We can understand the thinking behind this move. For one thing, the Exynos 5433 / Exynos 7…
Yesterday, the media reported that Facebook’s CEO met with Samsung’s top executives, including the company’s vice chairman Lee Jay-yong, Sheryl Sandberg, as well as Shin Jong-kyun, head of mobile at Samsung. That, obviously, prompted another slew of rumors that we’ll be seeing another Facebook phone, this time coming to the market with the help of…
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 4 is coming to the U.S. soon, landing on U.S. Cellular on October 17th. Pre-orders have already begun with a few ways of paying for the beefy device. If you want to buy the phablet outright, get ready to shell out $770.16. With a two-year contract the price becomes a little more…
Remember the time when Samsung was Nokia’s archenemy? Well, those days are behind us and today we’re looking at a very different mobile market in which Samsung is the king while the Finnish company doesn’t make phones any longer. In this new reality where Nokia got to keep its maps division, we’re not surprised to…
The Samsung Galaxy A series should be unveiled in the next few days, or weeks, boasting the same (great) build quality as the Galaxy Alpha smartphone. This line-up will, at least initially, consist of three models, the Galaxy A3, Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A7. Thus far we’ve heard a ton about the Galaxy A5, and…
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