Marriott and Samsung team up to offer in-room virtual reality travel experience

Global hotel chain Marriott today announced the launch of “VRoom Service,” a first-of-its-kind service which allows guests to order virtual reality experiences straight from the comfort of their rooms. VRoom Service has been created in collaboration with Samsung Electronics America and it’s certainly a first in the industry. At select Marriott properties guests can call the dedicated VRoom Service...

Samsung gets another patent for a foldable smartphone

Samsung holds many patents related to foldable devices and flexible displays, it has built this collection of patents over several years and the company doesn’t appear to be slowing down any time soon. It was reported late last year that by the end of 2015 Samsung will launch a foldable device to breathe new life in its mobile business but there’s no indication as yet that such a product could arrive...

Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Play edition gets Android 5.1 update

Google started the Google Play edition initiative to offer consumers regular non-Nexus smartphones with stock Android and quick access to the latest updates, and Samsung participated by launching the Galaxy S4 Google Play edition (GPe) back in 2013. Everything was well and good until earlier this year, when the Galaxy S4 GPe became the only GPe device to not have received the Android 5.1...

Native video calling comes to the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge with latest update from T-Mobile

T-Mobile has released a new software update for the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 edge today, the new update adds a couple of features to both handsets, one of those features was announced soon after the Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 edge+ were launched. That feature is native video calling, with this update T-Mobile will allow users who have the aforementioned devices to make a video call directly from the dialer app on their handset provided that...

Themes Thursday: Three dozen themes made their way into Samsung’s Theme Store today

Themes Thursday is back! Samsung has released no less than 36 themes in the theme store today, and some of them are quite good. All these themes should be compatible with recently released high-end smartphones such as the Galaxy S6, the Galaxy S6 edge, the Galaxy S6 edge+, and the Galaxy Note 5. However, a lot of themes must have been released for the Galaxy A8, the Galaxy J5, and the Galaxy J7 as...

Samsung Galaxy J2 (SM-J200) has passed the FCC certification

It looks like the Galaxy J2′s announcement is imminent as the device has just passed through the FCC, and it has also made an appearance on Samsung’s support page as the SM-J200H. The device was brought to India for research and development a month ago and it looks like things went smooth and we might be seeing the device out in the wild soon. We have no idea what the phone will look like in terms...

Exclusive: First Galaxy S7 details emerge, codenamed Project Lucky

We heard rumors that Samsung was opting for a new development method to fast track work on the Galaxy S7, and the early launch of the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ certainly enhanced the possibility that we might see the next Galaxy S flagship make an early appearance as well. A Samsung smartphone with the name “Lucky-LTE” appeared on the Geekbench benchmark database recently, and we can now confirm that this device is the Galaxy S7, which...

TripCase will soon launch its travel app for the Gear S2

TripCase first launched rich notification support for Samsung’s first Tizen-powered smartwatch the Gear S and at that time the company said it was working on a full-fledged app for Samsung’s Tizen smartwatches. With Samsung unveiling the Gear S2 earlier this month it’s a good time for TripCase to follow through on its promise, TripCase has announced that it’s full travel app will soon be available...