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 partner up with local retailers to provide discounts while providing people a great opportunity to try out Samsung Pay for themselves.

“Where better to showcase the most widely-accepted mobile payment service than at merchants and retailers in some of America’s most vibrant and iconic cities,” says Narayanan Murugesan who is the vice president of strategy and operations, Samsung Electronics America. The tour will start off in Austin at the Austin City Limits Music Festival, Samsung Pay is the official mobile payment partner for the festival, enabling attendees to pay for food, drink and other items using Samsung Pay. The service also brings for them a 50% discount on any ACL gear at Samsung Pay Stands in the Galaxy Experience and Galaxy Owners Lounge set up on festival grounds. The tour’s next stop is Dallas between October 9-11, it will be in Atlanta during October 16-18, in New York during October 23-25, October 30-November 1 in Chicago before heading off to the West Coast for San Francisco between November 6-8 and Los Angeles on November 13-15.

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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 be thinking to slowly phase out devices that don’t offer high margins at least in select markets.

The report claims that Samsung’s low-end budget smartphones priced lower than €150 will slowly be phased out from the country’s smartphone market, It’s also claimed that Samsung is making this change because it wants to improve its image as well, make sure that it’s associated more with premium quality high-end and robust mid-range handsets instead of cheap budget devices. Samsung has not yet confirmed or denied the claims of this report so it can’t really be said for sure right now whether or not the company plans on implementing this strategy in some other markets as well.

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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 version of Gear S2 costs CAD$399.99 whereas the more dressier Gear S2 Classic is priced at CAD$429.99.

If you are interested in purchasing this smartwatch it would be in your best interest to check out our full review of the Gear S2, it breaks down everything from the design to the performance and features, and really makes it easier to decide whether not or the smartwatch is worth your money. Many Samsung fans are going to get one though, Samsung has nailed it with the design of its first round smartwatch.

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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 its specifications. According to the information available on the website, the Galaxy View (SM-T670) runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop, and features an 18.5-inch display, a 64-bit octa-core Exynos 7580 processor with Mali-T720 GPU, 2GB RAM, 32GB onboard storage, a 2-megapixel secondary camera, and it is expected to feature a 5,700 mAh battery.

The webpage lists the rear-facing camera as “not supported”, but as per the information, the device should feature an 8-megapixel primary camera and a microSD card slot. Moreover, the device is expected to be 451.8 mm wide, 275.8 mm tall, and 11.9 mm thick. The device recently passed SIG and RRA certifications, so we think that the tablet might be announced very soon.

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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 classic, the variant that resembles an analog wrist watch, comes in a black circular box that is similar to regular wrist watch packaging. The box also includes an additional strap, the wireless charging adapter, and the wall charger. However, we are not sure whether the Gear S2 and the Gear S2 3G will come in a similar package.

The Gear S2 features a 1.2-inch circular Super AMOLED display with a rotating bezel, a 1GHz dual-core processor, 512MB RAM, 4GB storage, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, 250 mAh battery, and a bunch of sensors. If you are looking forward to purchase any variant of the smartwatch, please read our in-depth video review of the Gear S2.

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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 – Free

A Drowsy Panda – Paid

Balance – Paid

Blue Topaz – Free

Clarity – Free

Ethereal Tiger – Paid

Ethereal Wolf – Paid

Goma Bluck – Free

Halloween BEAR – Paid

Okcheori Coffee – Paid

Paper Display – Paid

Sharp – Paid

StrawberryBear – Paid

Thanks – Paid

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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 a ‘scrolling screenshot’.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Open up the web page you want to take a scrolling screenshot of.
2. Eject the S Pen and suspend it over the screen to launch Air Command.
3. Tap ‘Screen Write’ from the mini-menu that will suddenly appear in the right-hand corner of your handset.
4. The screen will flash to indicate that a standard screenshot has been saved. Now you need to tap the Scroll Capture button in the bottom left-hand corner and hover the pen in the direction you would like the screen to scroll.
5. You will notice that the screen will blink again. This signifies that an extended screenshot has been saved. If you’d like to scroll down even more, hit the Capture More button. If not, tap the Done button.

Voilà! You have successfully taken a scrolling screenshot on your Galaxy Note 5. If you happen to run into any issues along the way, do be sure to let us know in the comments section below, and we’ll do our very best to get you back on track. It’s worth noting that this feature works with applications too, but sadly it’s not always as accurate as it is when it’s being used on the Internet.

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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 the company’s co-founder Carl Pei is looking towards one of the leaders in the mobile industry for wisdom and experience.

In a post on his personal blog OnePlus co-founder and head of global Carl Pei has presented an interesting idea, he wants to be an intern at Samsung. Pei says that it’s an astounding fact that Samsung has been around for over 77 years and has shipped hundreds of millions of phone across the globe, “you can’t help but admire their operations,” he writes. Pointing towards Samsung’s recent less than spectacular quarters and talk of how startups like OnePlus are disrupting the mobile landscape, Pei argues that even though the industry is evolving there’s room of all to compete and learn from each other. “Let me be your intern,” Pei implores Samsung, adding that the would be honored to learn from the team how they have managed to scale, run and manage their business so successfully. He even goes on to propose an intern swap, Pei at Samsung HQ and one of Samsung’s executives over at OnePlus.

Carl Pei wouldn’t be out of place as an intern at Samsung, he’s had stints in marketing over at Nokia, Meizu, Oppo and even served as a director of new markets at Oppo for about nine months before founding OnePlus. Despite its stumbles OnePlus has demonstrated that it has what it takes to compete against the giants in the smartphone market and that it’s not going anywhere anytime soon, but it certainly needs to learn a thing or two from the big boys to take its business to the next level. Whether or not Samsung will agree to this proposal remains to be seen, the company has not yet responded to Pei, at least publicly.

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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 white balance and color reproduction not being up the mark, so this time around the Nexus team went for the best supplier to source displays for the flagship handset. The Nexus team confirmed in a Q&A session over reddit that the Nexus 6P features a WQHD AMOLED panel from Samsung, moreover the team has spent some time tuning the white-point and color gamut for these panels to ensure that the Nexus faithful no longer complain about the display.

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