Samsung to showcase experimental C-Lab projects at SXSW 2016

Samsung showcased three Creative Lab (C-Lab) projects for the first time ever earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show 2016. C-Lab is the company’s innovation program that allows its employees to develop their own business ideas. Samsung has announced today that it’s going to showcase three experimental C-Lab projects at South by Southwest 2016. The latest trio of projects includes an app...

Best Buy Canada discounts the Gear VR for customers who missed out on the pre-order incentive

Samsung enticed customers to place a pre-order for the Galaxy S7 or the Galaxy S7 edge by promising to give them a free Gear VR headset as a pre-order incentive. Any customer who placed a pre-order before March 11 was eligible to receive a free headset. Best Buy Canada is running a promotion for customers who missed out on this pre-order incentive. It’s discounting the Gear VR by $40 for customers...

The Galaxy View is now available from Verizon

It has been a few months since Samsung came out with the Galaxy View. Even though it looks like a giant tablet with an 18.4-inch display Samsung actually wants you to call it a movable display instead of a tablet. Customers in the United States can easily pick one up from Amazon but there’s another option available for them now. Verizon has started selling the Galaxy View, the cellular version to be precise which is compatible with Big Red’s 4G LTE...

Samsung might use advanced laser technology to monitor health vitals in future devices

The US Patent & Trademark Office has published a patent application from Samsung which reveals that future mobile devices from the company might use advanced laser speckle interferometric technology to monitor health vitals of the user such as heart rate, blood pressure, blood flow velocity, pulse rate and skin conditions. The patent mentions that this technology can be used in future smartphones,...

Samsung rolls out stability update for the Exynos-powered Galaxy S7 edge

Samsung has just started rolling out an over-the-air (OTA) stability update to all unlocked variants of the Exynos-powered Galaxy S7 edge located in Europe. The firmware doesn’t bring anything new to the table by way of added functionality, but it does bundle a plethora of much-needed bug fixes, stability improvements and speed optimizations, which are all geared at improving a user’s overall experience. Firmware...

Galaxy S7 edge gets the teardown treatment

Hot on the heels of its standard Galaxy S7 teardown, the folks over at iFixit have now published its deconstruction guide for the curved variant of Samsung’s flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S7 edge. Just like its non-rounded counterpart, the S7 edge earns a rather meagre repairability score of just 3 out of 10, with 0 being the most difficult to fix. The team claims that the reason behind the scanty...

I think I want the IR blaster back on Samsung devices

If you have never used an IR blaster on a smartphone, you might often be shocked and wonder why so many folks love the feature and don’t want a device without one. Samsung flagships started offering an IR blaster a couple of years ago, but the company dropped it with the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ last year and it is also missing on the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge. Our recent poll asking our readers what they think shouldn’t be...

Goldgenie launches 24K Gold Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge

Luxury gold plating specialist Goldgenie has unveiled its incredibly-opulent 24K Gold versions of the recently-released Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge. These handsets have been coated in the precious metal utilizing the same technique the company used for its lavish Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge. The device’s frame, buttons, camera module, flash and backplate have all received the gold treatment, leaving only the glass at the front in its original black...

Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge owners can get a free $30 gift card for making a purchase using Samsung Pay

If you’ve bagged yourself a gorgeous new Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 edge, live in the United States and have never used Samsung Pay before, you may want to listen up as we have some fantastic news for you. Samsung recently announced that it will be awarding all new users of its mobile payment platform who own either of the two aforementioned flagships a complimentary $30 gift card to be redeemed at Best Buy, eBay, Nike Store, Regal Cinema or Whole Foods...