Happy Medium: the Gear S2 and Android compatibility

Samsung’s Gear S2 is another great smartwatch to continue the company’s commitment to a field it dabbled in starting in the late 1990s and even six years ago before the Galaxy Gear’s entrance in 2013. The company’s Gear smartwatch offerings have been well-crafted, but they’ve always been criticized from vanilla Android fans who want Samsung’s smartwatches to have Android Wear (or AW) compatibility. Each year brought the same criticism from AW advocates:...

Samsung is relocating its Europe headquarters to Poland

In an attempt to restructure its business strategy, both home as well as abroad, Samsung has decided to relocate its Europe headquarters from its initial location in London to Warsaw, Poland. The relocation will be finished within the year and it is a strong indicator of a business strategy shift after its sales have fallen 22.7 percent in Europe. It seems Samsung has completely lost hope in this region since the Galaxy Note 5 wasn’t meant for...

Samsung’s Game Tuner app lets you alter a game’s resolution and frame rate

Samsung has released a really useful app in the Google Play Store today. Dubbed Game Tuner, the app allows a user to scale a game’s native resolution as well as provides an ability to set its frame rate. Given the app’s features, it will be really handy to mobile gaming enthusiasts as they can downscale the resolution or the frame rate to reduce the strain on the GPU, which also saves...

Samsung receives Best in Product Carbon Footprint award for Galaxy S devices

Samsung has brought home another award today, and this time, it’s from Carbon Trust. Carbon Trust has been working since 2001 to certify carbon footprints of products, and it has done so with all the Galaxy smartphones released since 2012. The agency’s Best in Product Carbon Footprint award is one of the most prestigious environmental sustainability awards that can be obtained, having been presented annually for the past four years to Galaxy...