Emerald Green color variant of Samsung Galaxy S6 edge now available in India

Samsung had announced during the official unveiling of the Galaxy S6 edge that it would be available in four colors – Black Sapphire, Gold Platinum, Green Emerald, White Pearl – worldwide. However, the Emerald Green color variant was nowhere to be seen in most of the markets. Looks like the company has now decided to make it available, at least in India. The largest smartphone...

Samsung Z1 launch in Sri Lanka nears

Samsung has only released the Tizen powered Samsung Z1 in a handful of markets but it appears that it’s not quite done yet with this device and may launch it in a new market. There have been reports recently that it’s lining up a launch of the Samsung Z1 in Sri Lanka and there’s now even more reason to believe that this is going to happen in the near future. The Z1 was first released in India and later on in Bangladesh, according to unofficial...

Video shows how easy it is to pay with Samsung Pay

Samsung confirmed its new payments service when it unveiled the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge back in March, at that time it said that Samsung Pay would arrive over the summer. Much has already been said and written about the technology that powers Samsung Pay but the average user will not be concerned with it, the average user would want to know just how easy it is to pay with this service, and this video published online today shows just that. Samsung...

Samsung’s latest ad campaign extols the Galaxy S6′s virtues over the iPhone 6

It has been a while since Samsung released an iPhone bashing advertisement, some of the latest ads for the Galaxy S6 have not even mentioned the arch rival but the company is going back to its old ways with two new ads that it has released today. The new ads are part of the company’s “6 > 6″ campaign which aims to show all of the things the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge are better at than Apple’s flagship smartphone. The first ad highlights...

Tizen to soon get native Facebook, Messenger and Instagram clients?

Tizen’s success as a viable mobile operating system depends primarily on how good its app ecosystem will come to be, and until now, we haven’t seen much that would inspire confidence in its success. WhatsApp was probably the most important release for the OS, and it seems Tizen is now in line to get native clients of three very popular apps – Facebook, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram. An XDA user...

Themes Thursday: Samsung releases seven new themes in the Theme Store today

We have received immense response on our last version of Themes Thursday, our new section where we write about new themes released in the Galaxy Theme Store. In today’s version of Themes Thursday, we will introduce seven new themes that Samsung has released this week – Dream Girl, Dum Maro Dum, Little Red Riding Hood, Soft Cloud, Space Odyssey, Stamps, and Vacation. Personally, I liked Dum...

Samsung signs graphics technology agreement with ARM for ARM’s Mali GPUs

Samsung has long been using ARM’s Mali line of mobile GPUs in its Exynos processors, and the Korean giant has now made a commitment of continuing to do so in the future. Samsung has signed a “long-term graphics technology agreement” with ARM, which will give the former access to all of the semiconductor company’s Mali GPUs, including high-end ones like the Mali-T860 and T880. The Exynos 7420 processor used in the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge employ...

Exclusive: Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo to come with a newer Exynos processor and an upgraded front-facing camera

Samsung generally releases cut-down variants of its flagship smartphones about a year after the release of the original models. The Galaxy Note 3 Neo and the Galaxy S3 Neo are some of such examples, and now, Samsung is readying yet another cut-down variant of its last-generation flagship smartphone in the form of the Galaxy S5 Neo. The Galaxy S5 Neo (SM-G903F) will feature a 5.1-inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, 16GB...

Galaxy Note 5 September launch accidentally confirmed by Samsung executive

We know that the Galaxy Note 5 will be released after the summer, traditionally Samsung has opted for IFA to unveil this high-end handset and it looks like the company is sticking with tradition this time around as well. During a conference call with investors Samsung executive vice president Injong Rhee let the Galaxy Note 5 September launch timeframe slip. Then again, it wasn’t surprising at all since Samsung has previously released new Galaxy...

Samsung Galaxy S6 edge Plus images purportedly leak

If you have been holding on for a bigger version of Samsung’s Galaxy S6 edge, then you might be interested in the images that have leaked online today, courtesy of popular YouTuber Marcus Brownlee. As you can see in the pictures below, what we’re looking at seems to be a Galaxy S6 edge with a larger screen, something the extra column of icons on the homescreen also hints at. Rumors have said that...