Milk Music Premium arrives, offers unlimited skips – and then some

Shortly following its launch in March of this year, Samsung’s music streaming app began attracting reports that a paid subscription would soon be integrated into the project. With its most recent update, this option is now available. For the $3.99 per month you’ll be paying, you get: unlimited song skips, the ability to play without a network connection, an automatically-pausing Sleep Timer feature, and a toggle for whether or not you hear the Station DJs.

The free version of the app will still be available, but will cap song skips to six per station and will also continue featuring occasional advertisements. As far as comparing this offer to some other popular music streaming services we can see that Samsung is striving to be the low cost alternative. Spotify, Google Play Music, and Beats Music all charge $9.99 per month and provide many of the same features, albeit with a slightly larger music library. Pandora One costs $4.99 per month but Milk Music Premium remains the least costly option for satisfying your streaming needs.

In order to upgrade, open the Milk Music app and access the menu tab. From there, tap on Settings (noted with the gear icon) and immediately under your Samsung Account details you should see the option to “Learn More” about upgrading to Premium for extra features. At the moment it does not appear that there is a free, trial period of the Premium version but we would love to hear what you all think of the new option.

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Galaxy S5 mini gets a teardown, at par with Galaxy S5′s repairability score

Teardowns are always interesting and the fine folks at iFixit have got the new Samsung device under the knife. The site imported Galaxy S5 mini and reveals every component that powers the smaller sibling of Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S5 phone. As for the components, the Galaxy S5 mini boasts a Samsung K3QF5F50MM 1.5 GB DRAM, 1.4 GHz quad-core Exynos 3 Quad, Wolfson audio chip amongst other things.

The site also notes the display is “held in with a significant amount of adhesive and requires very careful and persistent prying” but it’s fairly easy to replace other components once you get past the display.

In short, the Galaxy S5 mini is same as the original Galaxy S5 when it comes to repairability.

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Samsung’s smartphone market share takes a hit in Q2 2014

Samsung has already warned analysts about an impending decline in profits in the second quarter this year, and now market research firm IDC has revealed that Samsung’s smartphone shipments took a considerable hit during the same period. According to IDC’s data, Samsung’s Q2 market share saw a year-on-year decrease from 32.3 in Q2 last year to 25.2 percent – Samsung still leads other OEMs in shipment volume, but the reduced market share is a telling sign that the company’s phone sales are starting to suffer, mainly in the low and mid-range segment due to Chinese manufacturers offering better value at rock bottom prices.

Samsung is no doubt expecting to bounce back in the coming months with devices like the Galaxy Note 4 and the new Galaxy Alpha lineup, but it remains to be seen just how much change those will bring. As recent trends have shown, growth in the smartphone market is to be had mostly in the budget and mid-range segment, and unless Samsung can come up with more feature-packed devices at attractive prices, the next few quarters might see the company’s market share continue to decline.

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