Samsung announces seven-city tour to celebrate Samsung Pay’s US launch

Samsung Pay was launched in the United States a month after it first arrived for the public in South Korea, the new payments service can certainly do with all of the publicity it gets, so Samsung has decided to take a break from publishing ads and actually going on a seven-city tour of the United States to celebrate the launch of Samsung Pay. Consumers in each city will get special offers and prizes via Samsung Pay during the tour, at each city...

Samsung will reportedly stop selling budget smartphones in The Netherlands

According to a new report Samsung has decided that it’s going to stop selling low-end budget smartphones in The Netherlands and focus on the mid-range and high-end segments of the market instead. This is going to be a major strategy shift on Samsung’s part, as far as The Netherlands is concerned, the company has long had a habit of flooding the market with devices aimed at every segment. For it to fine tune its approach shows that Samsung might now...

Pre-orders for the Gear S2 go live in Canada with shipments starting October 16

When Samsung unveiled its first round smartwatch the company said that it would start shipping units by October, just yesterday the company confirmed when the Gear S2 will be available in the United States and now it has confirmed the release date for customers in Canada. The Gear S2 has already been listed on the Canadian Best Buy website and pre-orders are live, those who place an order today will get their units on October 16. The normal...

Samsung Galaxy View appears on GFXBench, specifications confirmed

During Samsung’s keynote event at IFA 2015, where the Gear S2 smartwatches were officially announced, the company teased an upcoming tablet. Dubbed Galaxy View, the device features a large display, and is targeted to be used in classrooms, offices, and living rooms as we reported exclusively about a month ago. Today, the device has appeared on GFXBench benchmark database, confirming...

Here is the retail packaging of the Samsung Gear S2 classic

Samsung’s will start selling its first smartwatches with circular displays in the US starting tomorrow, but the company didn’t display the retail packaging of these devices when they were officially unveiled. Now, the guys over at TizenCafe.net have uploaded the images of the retail packaging of the Gear S2 classic through their Twitter account. The Gear S2...

Themes Thursday: Fourteen new themes released today, but most of them are paid

Themes Thursday is back! After releasing more than a couple of dozen themes every Thursday for the past few weeks, Samsung has released more than a dozen themes today, fourteen to be exact. Out of the fourteen themes released today, only four are free, and the rest of them are paid. We personally liked the Balance, Gona Bluck, Halloween BEAR, and Sharp. Which themes did you like? [MINU] Zero White...

Here’s how you take a scrolling screenshot on your Galaxy Note 5

If you frequently browse the web on your smartphone or tablet, I’m pretty sure you’ve found yourself in the position of wanting to take a screenshot of the page you’re on, but don’t seem quite able to fit it all into the frame. As a result, you end up rolling off several shots in order to capture the information you require. However, if you own a Galaxy Note 5, Samsung has incorporated a nifty little feature into the software that allows you to take...

OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei wants to be an intern at Samsung

OnePlus is a relatively new kid on the block, the company has only released two handsets up till now but it has been able to create a lot of hype for them through PR stunts. It employs an arduous invite system to sell smartphones which has been criticized at length, OnePlus also botched the release of its latest flagship smartphone, a fact that the company acknowledged and apologized for. It’s safe to say that OnePlus has a lot to learn and...

Nexus 6P features an AMOLED panel from Samsung

Samsung has shown time and again that it’s a market leader in display technology, no wonder many other companies seek to source their displays from Samsung and that’s precisely what Huawei has done with its new Nexus handset. Nexus 6P was announced recently, the device is a collaboration between Google and Huawei, and it fixes one of the biggest issues that Nexus 6 owners had. The Nexus 6′s AMOLED panel wasn’t that great, there was complaints about...