Exynos-powered Galaxy S7 appears to be faster than its Snapdragon 820 counterpart

As I’m sure you’re well aware, Samsung launched two variants of the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge — one with a Snapdragon 820 CPU and the other with the South Korean manufacturer’s homegrown Exynos 8890 chipset. The former is only available in Asia while the latter can be found on shelves in Australia, Europe, North America and South America. Early benchmarks revealed that the Snapdragon 820 model was, in fact, more powerful than the Exynos 8890-powered...

How to activate and customize the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge’s Always On display mode

One of the most talked about features Samsung’s flagship smartphones of 2016, the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge, are their Always On displays. For those unaware of this new functionality, it’s a low-energy software tweak that empowers a small part of the screen to stay on at all times in order to provide users with easy access to notifications, time, date and battery statistics without physically having...

3-15-2016 Firmware Updates: Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy Tab E, Galaxy Tab S2, and more

Samsung has a plethora of phones and tablets in its lineup, and regularly releases firmware updates for various devices. These can include major updates, which bring a newer version of the OS to a particular device, or minor ones that improve performance and stability and fix bugs. Software updates for Samsung devices roll out in various regions every day, and you can find out which firmware updates were pushed out by the company over the last...

How to save photos to the microSD card on the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge

If you didn’t buy any of Samsung’s flagships from last year because they didn’t have expandable storage, we don’t blame you. Having the option to add more storage to a phone is an extremely important feature, and thankfully the microSD slot has returned with the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge. Saving photos is what a microSD slot is used most for, and we’re here to help you and nudge you in the right...

Grab the TouchWiz 6.0 theme if you haven’t received Android 6.0 on your Galaxy yet

The Android 6.0 updates have been going out to Samsung flagships from last year in various markets since the end of the February, but there are still a lot of regions where the update is yet to show up. If you’re among the many that are still using Android Lollipop on a Galaxy flagship that isn’t a Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 edge and want the Android 6.0 version of the TouchWiz interface, there’s a nice...

Samsung devices running Marshmallow let you expand all quick toggles with a single swipe

On Samsung devices, you get a constantly visible row of quick toggles in the notifications shade, with the option to swipe to the left to access additional toggles. To see more than just the ten toggles that can be present in the quick toggles bar, you would need to press the Edit button to both see more options and to change what options you usually see. On Android 6.0 Marshmallow, Samsung has tweaked...

Samsung is now the third most valuable global brand

Samsung is a renown brand name, and one that is hard to not notice in the world (even in the US), but brands are also about money. Valuable brands are expected to make money (otherwise, what’s the point?), and the Korean giant is right up there with the very best worldwide brands. How valuable of a brand is Samsung? So valuable that it’s now the third most valuable brand in the world. The results from Brand Finance show that Samsung is third only...

Samsung SM-J210 gets imported to India for testing, could be the Galaxy J2 (2016)

The 2016 editions of the Galaxy J1 and Galaxy J3 have already gone official (though there never was a previous iteration of the J3), and the Galaxy J5 and Galaxy J7 (2016) are in the pipeline as well. It looks like a Galaxy J2 (2016) is also in the works, as an SM-J210 was recently imported to India for testing. The original Galaxy J2 was far from an impressive budget smartphone, and it...