Exynos chipsets rumored to feature Samsung GPUs in a couple of years

Samsung is quite capable of making its own processors, the biggest endorsement of this came from the company itself when it decided to use its own Exynos chipset in the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 edge as opposed to the Snapdragon 810. There have been rumors that in the future Samsung will also develop its own GPUs or graphics processor, according to a new rumored roadmap Samsung is going to start using its own GPUs with Exynos chipsets by 2017...

Verizon confirms Samsung Pay support

Samsung Pay was launched in the United States last month, the payments service requires carrier support to work and naturally it raised a few eyebrows when it was confirmed that Verizon will not be supporting the service at launch. This means that Verizon users are unable to use Samsung Pay on their carrier-branded devices, even though it’s the largest mobile carrier in the country, it was hinted recently that Verizon might confirm supporting the...

Samsung struggling to bring back once stellar smartphone profits

Even an year after tidying up its smartphone lineup and ditching plastic for metal in its high-end smartphones, Samsung seems to be struggling in bringing back its once stellar profits, which is clouding the company’s growth outlook. The world’s largest smartphone brand (by marketshare) is expected to showcase its first profit increase in two years, but the smartphone profits are expected to shrink on a sequential basis. The company’s showed...

Samsung’s flagship launches are something of a joke

Being a fan of the Galaxy Note lineup, I went out to buy the Galaxy Note 5 the day it launched in my country. I was sure I wanted the 64GB variant, but I was undecided between the black and silver color options. But unfortunately, I was made to choose between getting more storage or the color option I wanted – here in India, only the gold version of the Note 5 is available with 64GB storage, and the black version isn’t available at all....

Samsung’s Mongoose SoC benchmarks leak, shows incredible performance

As we reported earlier, Samsung is working on a new Exynos processor that has a new CPU architecture dubbed Mongoose (also called Exynos M1). Similar to Qualcomm and Apple, Samsung is developing custom CPU cores for better performance and efficiency. It could be the Exynos 8890 processor, but we are not too sure about the model number at this moment. New benchmarks of this SoC have...