Samsung leads AMOLED panel market share as demand grows

Remember the claim made by an analyst that Samsung will exit the smartphone market in 5 years? Here’s a new piece of evidence that shows the 5-year claim to be far from the truth. Over double the number of mobile display panels shipped in Q3 2015 as opposed to a year earlier, with 79 million mobile display panels shipped in the Q3. Panel shipments were up 35% from Q2, in part due to Samsung’s own Galaxy Note 5 (August 13th) and Gear S2 smartwatch...

Samsung design patents hint at possible future camera phones

It has been a while since Samsung released its last true camera phone, if you can call the Galaxy K Zoom that. Perhaps because of the Galaxy S6‘ outstanding camera, Samsung felt no need for such device in 2015. Nevertheless, a slew of freshly published design patents offer a glimpse of camera phone devices to come in the future. Earlier this year Samsung filed a long list of design...

Official KLM app now available for Gear S2

If you are the proud owner of Samsung’s Gear S2 or Gear S2 Classic smartwatch, and plan to fly with Royal Dutch airline KLM, their new app could come in handy. With the just-released KLM app for the Gear S2, you get easy access to all kinds of practical information such as flight status, gate, and flight time, as well as your online boarding...

This is the future of your Gear watch (according to new Samsung patents)

While smartwatches have been around for some time, they mainly function as a convenient notifications platform the use of which is not directly evident to a large group of consumers. Naturally, therefore, manufacturers are looking to extend the functionality of their watches, be they Tizen, Android, Apple or otherwise. A couple of recently published patent filings reveal some of the directions Samsung is considering for its own Gear...

Samsung Pay users can now pay with gift cards

We reported recently that Samsung Pay will soon allow users to pay with gift cards and that’s precisely what the company has announced today. Gift cards from more than 50 popular merchants are now supported by Samsung Pay, these gift cards can now be stored in the app and used as and when required to be shared or for making purchases. “With the support of more than 50 major retail gift cards and the launch of the in-app gift card store, Samsung Pay...