Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge screen sizes confirmed! Here are the details

There has been a lot of confusion regarding the screen size of the upcoming flagship smartphones from Samsung – the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge – as the South Korean smartphone giant has been testing a lot of prototypes with varied specifications. A variant of the Galaxy S7 was revealed through Geekbench yesterday, which hinted towards a 5.1-inch QHD display. Now, the screen sizes of...

Dual SIM Galaxy S7 edge gets certified in Taiwan

Certification checks are always taken as an indication that an unreleased device is just around the corner, we do tend to see upcoming devices get certified weeks before they’re due, which is why it’s not surprising to see Samsung’s next flagship pop up in these checks. The dual SIM Galaxy S7 edge has now been certified by Taiwan’s National Communications Commission, that’s the country’s version of the FCC, it bears model number SM-G935FD. It merits...

AT&T’s new promotion offers customers Samsung devices for free

AT&T has announced that it’s bringing back its Christmas promotions for a limited time, customers who opt to purchase a handset from the second largest wireless network in the United States will receive a free Samsung devices under this promotion which is available to the carrier’s consumer and business customers. Customers who purchase a new Galaxy handset from the carrier on its AT&T Next plan will receive a free Galaxy Tab 4 8.0,...

Gear S2 arrives in Rose Gold and Platinum for customers in The Netherlands

Samsung announced two new editions of the Gear S2 smartwatch at the International Consumer Electronics Show 2016 earlier this month, customers can now also get the Gear S2 in Rose Gold and Platinum. The new editions are gradually being released in markets across the globe and now customers in The Netherlands can put money down to get one for themselves. The Gear S2 is now available for pre-order through an online retailer in the Netherlands, both...

Themes Thursday: Worst week ever!

Welcome back to Themes Thursday! Samsung has released 23 themes in the Theme Store this week, and we’re afraid to say that none of those are good-looking. If we can remember correctly, there has never been a week when we couldn’t find even a single good-looking theme, and we hope this isn’t something that will be repeated too often in the future. Just have a look at some of the themes from this week,...

Samsung might start mass producing chips based on third-generation 14nm FinFET technology

Samsung was the first to release a mobile processor, the Exynos 7420, based on 14nm FinFET technology, and now its already competing with TSMC to mass produce chips based on third-generation 14nm semiconductor process. Improved technology brings reduced power consumption as well as production cost. Samsung recently started mass producing chips based on second generation 14nm FinFET process known as Low Power Plus (LPP), which is claimed to...

Samsung delivers three immersive episodes of GONE VR along with behind the scene clips

Have you watched the first two episodes of ‘GONE’ on your Gear VR? It’s a movie that is available through Milk VR, and involves a mother and her nine-year-old daughter who goes missing. It’s been about six weeks since the first episodes were released, but the Korean giant is starting the year off right by bringing more of this specific experience to Milk VR users. While the next three episodes of GONE are more than sufficient...

Samsung Pay will soon allow payments using South Korean cards in the US and China

A new report out of Korea reveals that Samsung Pay will soon allow users to use their credit and debit cards from issuers based in South Korea for transactions in the United States and China. It’s said that Samsung is going to link up the foreign payments system with Samsung Card, Lotte Card, KB Card and Hana Card and enable Samsung Pay to accept these cards at foreign merchants in the aforementioned countries by the end of this month. The aforementioned...

Samsung launches the Gear S2 and the Gear VR in India

As we reported earlier this week, it was expected that Samsung would launch its latest smartwatches and its virtual reality headset in India before the end of this month. Today, the South Korean smartphone giant has launched the Gear S2, the Gear S2 Classic, and the Gear VR in India. The Gear S2 and the Gear S2 Classic will be available online exclusively through Flipkart for INR 24,300 (~ $357) and INR 25,800 (~ $379), respectively....

New Samsung Pay ad takes a direct swipe at Apple Pay

Samsung is no stranger to taking swipes at Apple in its advertisements and it’s sticking with that strategy in the latest ad for its mobile payments service Samsung Pay. The ad follows comedian Hannibal Buress to New York’s iconic Katz’s Deli where he purchases the infamous pastrami sandwich and things get interesting when he asks to pay with his phone. “You mean like Apple Pay?” asks one of the employees at the deli, “We don’t have that,” he says....