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According to Phone Arena, Samsung and AT&T are offering some relief to Galaxy S4 Active owners with water-damaged phones. Sources claim there is a memo in AT&T’s internal system that instructs representatives to offer customers a replacement for their water-damaged Galaxy S4 Active. Customers must have purchased their S4 Active from AT&T, and they can…
Samsung is anxious for the world to know that it is bringing the upcoming BlackBerry Messenger for Android to its Galaxy smartphones. Though RIM has been silent on the launch of the pending BBM mobile applications, Samsung is at the forefront, announcing that the app is coming to the Google Play store and Samsung App…
Samsung has started mass production of the industry’s first 3D Vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash memory, which can scale the limit of existing NAND flash technology and gain in performance and area ratio. Today’s flash memory planar structure has a scaling limit due to cell-to-cell interference, while that shouldn’t be the problem with 3D V-NAND, plus…
Hopefully you haven’t rushed out and bought that shiny new version of the Nexus 7 yet, because Office Max has a sweet deal on the revamped tablet. A 20% off coupon is available towards the purchase of any tablet in the store. The only catch is that customers must purchase the devices in an Office…
Samsung has just announced the introduction of a new interactive live-stream reality series as part of a marketing campaign to promote the Galaxy S4 Zoom and Galaxy NX cameras. The reality series, titled ‘SOS Island: Survival of the Smartest’ features survival expert Les Stroud training 16 global contestants who will be chosen via social media…
While we’re still waiting on an official release date for BlackBerry Messenger (or BBM as the kids are calling it) Samsung has announced that it will be available on all of its Galaxy devices across the continent of Africa. BBM will be available for Galaxy device owners through the Samsung and Google Play Stores for…
Samsung is sending out invites to an Unpacked event scheduled for September 4th. The invites hint the event will introduce the next Galaxy, which is presumably the Note III. The Note II was introduced at the end of August last year at a similar event. The main event will take place in Berlin, ahead of…
Samsung Taiwan’s latest ad for the Galaxy S4 uses some Harry Potter-inspired magic to showcase the features of the Android smartphone. The commercial kicks off with Dumbledore-like figure addressing students while they sit in a lecture hall at in a building resembling Hogwarts. A female student one ups Harry Potter with her own flavor magic,…
Korean ad agency Fllu is at the center of a controversial promotion in which developers were offered money to mention Samsung’s upcoming app challenge on developer website Stack Overflow. According to The Verge, Samsung claims the ad agency was acting on its own and asserts it was not aware of the cash for content scheme.…
The Samsung Galaxy Folder, which we’ve mentioned a few days ago, have been leaked and now you can see how it looks like, while feeling sorry for not being able to get one. That, at least, is the case if you’re not living in South Korea where this handset will go on sale soon. And…