Samsung’s Tizen-powered smartphones soon to receive Line and WeChat

Samsung’s Tizen OS is a fledgling mobile operating system, and the key to any OS’s survival in the mobile space is “apps, apps, apps,” as the app-hungry among us continue to drill. Samsung has heard this message, and the company intends to make Tizen as formidable an OS as Android and iOS. To this end, the Korean manufacturer is partnering with free voice, video chat, and messaging company Line and Tencent to bring Line Messenger and Tencent’s messaging...

Samsung expands chipset business to support progress over competition

Samsung is trying to expand its influence in the chipset industry by expanding to California and targeting an expansion in logic chips to complement memory chips. According to Kim Ki Nam, head of Samsung’s logic chip business, the tech giant will try to sell more chipsets to other companies rather than prioritize its own, which basically means that they’re going to focus on technological advancements rather than be more competitive. Right now, the...

Samsung owns mobile and global smartphone shipments in Q2 2015

Samsung has yet another reason to smile. The Korean manufacturer owned mobile and global smartphone shipments in Q2, having placed first in mobile marketshare with 19% to Apple’s 10% overall, first in Asia with 13% to Apple’s 8%, first in Europe with 31% as compared to Apple’s 14%, first in Latin America with 24% to Apple’s third place (behind Alcatel, tying with LG, Motorola, Huawei, and ZTE), and...

Samsung Z3 will come with support for the Gear S2

The Gear 2 saw Samsung switch its smartwatch software to Tizen, and the company also updated its original Gear smartwatch to its home brewed operating system. When the Samsung Z1 was released, it was rather ironic to see the company’s Tizen phone didn’t support its smartwatches, but given the extremely low-end nature of the Z1, it wasn’t surprising that smartwatch support wasn’t a part of the feature list. Fast forward to 2015, and Samsung made a...

Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 Review: Best tablet display, just not fit for videos

Here at SamMobile, we had something of a love-hate relationship with the Galaxy Tab S, Samsung’s second tablet with a Super AMOLED display. The tablet had a good design and the display was stunning, but a weak processor made the experience on the software side rather irritating at times. With the Galaxy Tab S2, Samsung set out to fix all the shortcomings of the original, while also opting for a 4:3...

Samsung’s Gear VR now has official Netflix app, Vimeo and Hulu coming soon

Samsung finally announced a consumer version of its virtual reality headset yesterday, bringing the experience to the public at an affordable $99 price tag. Now that the Gear VR will be widely available, demand for good content will also increase, and Samsung has armed it with a couple of important weapons. The company announced that the Gear VR will get official apps for Netflix, Hulu, Twitch and Vimeo. The Netflix app is already available on the...