How to avoid incoming telemarketing calls on your Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge

If you cast your mind back to Samsung’s Unpacked event last month, you may recall that the South Korean company announced it had teamed up with the call screening service White Pages to develop an exclusive software tweak for its latest flagships that analyses every incoming call and compares it to a comprehensive database. It then provides users with a caller’s identity even when the number is not saved in their contact list, thereby making...

Samsung handed out 2,600 Gear VR units to developers at Facebook’s F8 conference

Samsung’s revealed that it handed out a whopping 2,600 Gear VR units to developers attending Facebook’s F8 conference at Fort Mason in San Francisco yesterday morning. The Virtual Reality headsets were neatly packaged in a Facebook-branded box, which also contained a customized Galaxy smartphone. It’s not clear what handset was included in the bundle, but seeing as the device is compatible with the Gear VR, it can only really be either the Galaxy...

[Poll] Do you use Always On Display on your Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 edge?

Samsung has been using AMOLED displays on its flagships since the first Galaxy S, but it took the company seven years to introduce a feature like Always On Display, which shows the time and notifications when a device is sitting idle. OLED displays are most suited to such a feature, as these displays only power up the pixels needed and turn off everything else. Since Always On Display is essentially a bit of information with the screen mostly black,...

NCAA March Madness on Samsung’s Gear VR takes virtual reality court side, makes for two interesting games

I was excited to see the Oculus Store on Samsung’s Gear VR release an NCAA March Madness app for the NCAA Men’s College Basketball Tournament (US), and I was all too excited to download it. I didn’t really know what to expect from the experience, seeing that I’d never watched a sports game in virtual reality before. I’ve played a few games on Gear VR, and those games varied in terms of graphics. Of...

Snag yourself a Verizon-branded Galaxy Note 4 for just $300

Online retailer Daily Steals has just kicked off a great little deal on Big Red’s variant of the Galaxy Note 4. While stocks last, you can bag yourself a Verizon-branded model of the handset for just $300, which is pretty good when you take into account that the device retailed for $699.99 when it launched back in October 2014. Don’t go thinking that the Note 4 has passed its sell by date as it’s two years old because you couldn’t be more wrong....

Samsung Milk VR app lets you view VR content without a headset

Samsung sells a very affordable virtual reality headset. It has literally been handing out the Gear VR for free to customers who pre-ordered the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge, and there were millions of pre-orders for the new handsets. It certainly wants to sell as many Gear VR units as possible but it also appears to be interested in giving people without a headset a taste of VR so that they...

Samsung might just have leaked Android N’s version number (no prizes for guessing)

Google I/O takes place next month; it’s an event where Google unveils new software and this time around it’s going to properly announce the next major Android update. It has already released a developer preview of Android N but hasn’t confirmed what this iteration will be called or what version number it will be. It appears that Samsung has confirmed the latter through the release notes for the...

4-12-2016 Firmware Updates: Galaxy Tab 3, Galaxy Alpha, Galaxy J5, 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...