Renders show what the Metal Gold Edition of the Samsung Gear A (aka Orbis) could look like

The Samsung Gear A aka codename Orbis is well and truly in the prepping for a launch this year, and enthusiasts are already going head over heels about the upcoming smartwatch which is expected to be the best yet. Renders from designer xplash just happened to land here at the SamMobile offices, and we think they’re pretty cool. The renders are what xplash calls the Metal Gold Edition of the Gear A,...

Galaxy S6 Active gets listed on Samsung’s website, could be announced very soon

The Galaxy S6 Active seems very near to an official announcement, as the device went live on Samsung’s US website briefly before its page was taken down. It was only a few hours ago that we saw a render of the phone leak, and we now have all the official details right from the horse’s mouth. As expected, the Galaxy S6 Active has been listed with AT&T branding, and it will feature...

Samsung Galaxy S6 now available for as low as INR 40,000 in India

Earlier today, we reported about an attractive Galaxy S6 deal through eBay, where its 32GB international unlocked variant  is retailing for just $579.99. Looks like the price of the Galaxy S6 is dropping throughout the world, including India. Now, the 32GB variant of the Galaxy S6 is available for as low as INR 40,000 (~ $626) in India through various online stores. As you can see in a price...

Exclusive: Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge Android 5.1.1 preview

It’s proving to be a pretty long wait for Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge owners when it comes to the Android 5.1 update. It has been almost two months since the flagships went on sale around the world, and while Samsung has released quite a few minor updates, there’s no question about the fact that Android 5.1 is the update we have all been waiting for. Samsung is expected to push out the update sometime this month, and we have been playing around...

Samsung retakes the lead from Apple in India’s premium smartphone market

A new report from Counterpoint Research shows that after several quarters Samsung has once again taken the lead from Apple in India’s premium smartphone market. The report points out that Samsung now has 46 percent market share in the above Rs. 30,000 ($450 approx.) segment of the smartphone market. Samsung was able to achieve this position in the first four months of this year while Apple took second place with 42 percent. The research...

Google Photos’ new unlimited storage partly solves the Galaxy S6′s storage problem

I take a lot of pictures. Also, I take a lot of photos of the same scene to be sure I capture it in the best possible manner. I never delete any image unless it’s really bad and useless, and that means I have a considerable amount of photos stored on my Galaxy S6 edge. This takes a lot of storage on the phone since the 16-megapixel camera takes pictures that are pretty big in size. To free some of the storage on a phone, saving photos on the...

06-03-2015 Firmware Updates: Galaxy J1, Galaxy S4 Zoom, Galaxy Note 4, and more

Samsung has a plethora of phones and tablets in its lineup, and regularly releases firmware updates for various devices. These can include major updates, which bring a newer version of the OS to a particular device, or minor ones that improve performance and stability and fix bugs. Software updates for Samsung devices roll out in various regions every day, and you can find out which firmware updates were pushed out by the company over the last...

Samsung has been awarded 2,589 patents so far in 2015 – that’s over 17 patents per day!

Samsung has been into patent wars with Apple and Microsoft, and has been able to defend itself. That’s because Samsung itself has a large portfolio of patents. According to a new study by Quartz, Samsung has been awarded 2,589 patents so far in 2015. That’s over 123 patents per week, or over 17 patents per day! Mind boggling, isn’t it? Samsung is second only to IBM when it comes to the number of patents...

A brand new octa-core Exynos chipset leaks through GFXBench

Samsung has made huge strides with its Exynos chipsets for smartphones and tablets. The company had enough trust in its Exynos 7420 chipset so as to completely remove Qualcomm from its flagship smartphone duo. Now, a brand new Exynos chipset has surfaced online, and no, it’s not inside an unannounced Samsung device. The new chipset dubbed Exynos 7580 has surfaced through GFXBench in what appears to be a phablet from TCL. As per the information...

Samsung Galaxy S6 (G920F) now available for just $579.99 through eBay

It has been almost two months since the Galaxy S6 went on sale. We have already seen some price drops for Samsung’s flagship device. Now, the Galaxy S6 is available for just $579.99 through eBay, and it is the best deal we’ve seen till date. The device is an international factory unlocked variant (SM-G920F), and is listed under today’s eBay Daily Deals. It is a 32GB variant, and is available in black...

Samsung Z3 to be the next Tizen phone, launch expected in H2 2015

The Tizen powered Samsung Z1 may have received a lukewarm response in the beginning, but it seems like Samsung is betting big on the Tizen OS. A natural guess would be that a Samsung Z2 would succeed the first-gen Z1, but it appears as though Samsung will give it a skip to jump directly on to the Samsung Z3. According to what we’re hearing, the phone is expected to launch in the early part of the second half of 2015. It’ll obviously be more powerful...

App Focus: FingerSecurity for protecting apps using your fingerprints on supported Samsung Galaxy devices

Recent high-end smartphones and tablets from Samsung come equipped with fingerprint sensors, which is being considered as an important feature by consumers as it increases the security of data as well as the device itself. Prior to the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 edge, the South Korean smartphone giant used swipe-based fingerprint sensors in its devices, which was relatively harder to use. Now, Samsung...

Galaxy J5 and Galaxy J7 will have the same UI as the Galaxy S6, official manuals confirm

The Galaxy J5 and Galaxy J7 are yet to be officially unveiled by Samsung, but the company Chinese arm has pretty much done the needful by uploading the user manuals for both devices. The manuals are in Chinese and are hence impossible to decipher without the use of translation, but the included images do show something very notable – the Galaxy J5 and Galaxy J7 will feature the same TouchWiz...

Samsung Galaxy S6 goes to space, comes back safe and sound

Can your Galaxy S6 survive a trip to the edge of space? That’s a question that can’t really be answered by the normal consumer, but smartphone skin maker Slickwraps decided to test things out by sending a Galaxy S6 up to 122,264 feet (37,266 m) and making it come crashing down to the blue planet. The result? The phone survived the ordeal, and didn’t have any noticeable damage. The phone was wrapped in Slickwraps’ bamboo skin, and managed...

Samsung Pay will be expanded to China and Europe

Samsung Electronics confirmed today that it’s going to expand its Samsung Pay mobile payments service to China and Europe after the service’s initial launch in the United States and South Korea later this year. This was confirmed by Rhee Injong, an executive vice president at Samsung, during the company’s event for investors today in Seoul. Samsung Pay was formally announced back in March alongside the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 edge. It will...

The Galaxy E5 and Galaxy E7 will be updated to Android 5.0 Lollipop in Q3 2015

The Galaxy E5 and Galaxy E7 are two of the best mid-range smartphones Samsung has made in the history of its smartphone business, and have been doing pretty well in terms of sales, at least in emerging markets like India. The biggest draw of the two devices, as we noted in our review, is the fast and smooth software, especially when you compare it to how non-flagship phones from the Korean manufacturer have performed in the past. We...

Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 LTE clears the FCC

If recent certification documents are anything to go by then it seems that the launch of Samsung’s new tablets is quite near. We exclusively reported a few weeks back that Samsung will launch the Galaxy Tab S2 in June and with the tablet going through FCC and TENAA, that certainly seems plausible. Shortly after the TENAA certification revealed pictures of the Galaxy Tab S2 8.0, the FCC certification...

Rumor: Samsung to cut Galaxy S6 and S6 edge production by 16 percent

Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and S6 edge have the praise of many tech analysts and journalists, and provide the premium look and feel that many have yearned for from the Korean manufacturer. Sales are high, and the S6 edge is in high demand (a great contrast from the Note Edge released last Fall). At the same time, however, it seems that the rumor mill continues to churn out decline for Samsung. The latest rumor says that Samsung is cutting its Galaxy S6...

Yet another Galaxy S6 Active render leaks out

The Galaxy S6 Active has been confirmed numerous times in the past few weeks, thanks to leaked specifications (which we were the first to exclusively reveal), pictures and certifications, and it’s only a matter of time before the device will go official. Now, yet another render of the Galaxy S6 Active has appeared online, giving us another teaser of a device that will take the S6′s awesome hardware and sprinkle ruggedness on top. The...

Galaxy Note 4 leads iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in US customer satisfaction survey

Results of a new survey conducted by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) reveal that 70,000 US customers believe that the Galaxy Note 4 is currently the most satisfying handset available on the market. Survey participants were asked to score the devices on a scale of 0 to 100. Galaxy Note 4 scored 86 points on average for overall satisfaction, leading the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus both of which share second place with the Galaxy S5 and...

New Samsung video shows design objects being made out of charging cables because Galaxy S6 has wireless charging

Samsung’s marketing efforts for the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 edge won’t be slowing down anytime soon. The company has steadily been releasing new promotional material over the past few weeks to highlight various features of its latest flagship smartphones, or to simply tell people how they’re better than what’s available in the market. The latest promotional video from Samsung shows the company creating design objects out of charging cables...

Galaxy Tab S2 8.0 pictures surface online

We have known for a while now that Samsung is working on two new high-end tablets that it’s going to unveil in the near future. The tablets, Galaxy Tab S2 8.0 and Galaxy Tab S2 9.7, will be the new flagship Android tablets from Samsung and also two of the thinnest tablets that it has ever made. Pictures of the Galaxy Tab S 8.0 (SM-T715) have surfaced online today, giving us our first glimpse...