Study finds that over 40% of Dutch users have a Samsung smartphone

A study conducted by Deloitte found that more than 40% of smartphone users in The Netherlands own a smartphone made by Samsung, the same study puts Apple is second place, accounting for just 23% of the country’s smartphone users. The study’s participants were asked about the make of the smartphone they currently own as well as the one they had before it, results put Samsung on top with 40.5% and 31% of participants said that their...

Oculus launches Arcade for consumer Gear VR headsets

Oculus just launched a pretty interesting Arcade project which is currently in beta for the Gear VR and the arcade already has 21 classic titles like Pac-Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, and many others. While you can try out a trial of 20 minutes for every game, you will need to pay a certain fee for full gameplay, varying between $0.99 and $2.99. It’s sort of like a time machine where you can just step in the past and play the classic titles from Sega...

Samsung Galaxy A8 detailed screen measurement

Today we will be kicking off a new category on SamMobile: Screen Measurements. This will allow you, our readers, to get a detailed overview of what Samsung’s smartphone displays are capable of. We all know that Samsung’s AMOLED displays are among the best (or the best, depending on who you ask) screens in the industry. With our screen measurements, we will...

[Poll] Is your Samsung phone rooted?

Root. It’s a powerful word when it comes to Android, giving users full access to the underlying system. Rooting a device can offer many advantages. You can block ads (and sadly reduce the revenue earned by app developers as a result), delete unused system apps and other files, improve the device’s performance by installing custom kernels, and even use various hacks that make a lot of advanced functionality possible. But over the last year or...

Samsung NX500 review: the best affordable system camera

The Samsung NX500 was announced in February this year, and has been available for a few months now. We haven’t been publishing about Samsung cameras so far, but we’re starting with a post by our Dutch colleague tech-blogger Marc Wielaert, sharing his experience with the Samsung NX500, possibly the best affordable system camera – his first after using dozens of smartphone cameras. Introduction:...

Themes Thursday: Most of the 21 themes released this week are badly designed

Welcome back to Themes Thursday! Samsung has released 21 themes this week, but most of them are badly designed. We’ve tried to select three themes that are acceptable. We are surprised as to why so many themes with below par design are being released. Out of these 21 themes, twelve are paid, and almost all paid themes have bad designs. Some have bad wallpapers while others have horrendous looking...

Samsung launches world’s first virtual TV channel service ‘TV Plus’

Samsung has launched a virtual TV channel service dubbed TV Plus in its homeland South Korea. This smart TV services is first-of-its-kind in the world as it lets users browse videos by flipping channels just like a regular TV service. It has quickly become a sensation in the domestic market, especially with users who are not used to video on demand (VoD) apps. The TV Plus service...

Samsung Galaxy A9 gets Bluetooth certification

The Galaxy A9 is expected to be the largest smartphone in Samsung’s premium mid-range Galaxy A lineup, and recent leaks and appearances of the device suggest it could go official at any moment. Today, we’re getting another indication that the A9 is inching closer to an official launch, as the phone has been certified by the Bluetooth SIG. The model number of the device is listed as SM-A9000, and the...

Gear S2 may get iOS support later this year

The Tizen-powered Gear S2 smartwatch works with all Android smartphones, not just the ones made by Samsung, so the possibility exists that at some point the company might even enable it to work with iOS devices as well. Samsung did say back in September that it was looking at the possibilities to open up the Gear S2 to iOS and according to the new report this might happen in the near future. Apparently Gear S2 owners will be able to use their smartwatch...