Samsung is offering 20% off select gift cards as part of its Father’s Day promotion

With Father’s Day right around the corner, Samsung has launched a ’20% off’ promotion on select gift cards purchased through its mobile payment platform, Samsung Pay. Although the choice of cards available as part of the deal isn’t overly extensive — it’s limited to American Eagle Outfitters, Best Buy, Domino’s, GameStop, P.F. Changs and Regal Entertainment Group — you should be able to...

The Washington Post’s Gear S2 watch face provides you with live updates from the US presidential election

The Washington Post has just released its first ever watch face for Samsung’s latest Tizen-powered smartwatch, the Gear S2. The face has been designed to provide political junkies with the most recent information from the US presidential election, including up-to-the-minute polling results and a live numeric countdown to election day. “What we’ve learned from being on wearable devices is that users want to glance at their watches and get information...

Samsung’s Always On Display updated with time range settings

Samsung has pushed out an update to Always On Display on the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge, with users now having the option of setting the duration for which the feature stays enabled. It’s a useful addition that means you can limit Always On Display to a custom time range and save battery life. Hopefully, the next update will bring the option to keep the feature enabled only while charging, which...

Turn up the volume in Gear VR without turning off the game

You’ve been a good follower of Samsung’s Gear VR tutorial, and you’re fascinated with your Gear VR settings. Yet and still, you find yourself pressing the back button to access these settings whenever you want to raise or lower the volume. It gets tiring, particularly when you’re relaxing on your executive jet in vTime, wanting to just enjoy the scene, but you suddenly remember that your volume is too loud (the airplane is making too much noise,...

Samsung advancing chip-making technology to better compete with TSMC

The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is perhaps the biggest rival for Samsung’s chip-making business and the company recognizes the need to effectively compete against TSMC in the market. Reports out of Korea reveal that Samsung is working to compete more effectively against TSMC by advancing its chip-making technology. According to the report, Samsung has signed a deal with Dutch-based ASML to purchase the latest extreme ultraviolet equipment...

Samsung SM-G880 spotted in import database, could it be the Galaxy S7 Sport?

Indian import listing database, Zauba, is popular for leaking out devices ahead of their scheduled arrival. One such Samsung handset has now made it to this import database packing the model number SM-G880. Now it’s anybody’s guess as to what this device could be, but one theory floating around is that this could be a variant of one of the upcoming S7 series smartphones. Could it be another variant of the Galaxy S7 Active? The import listing reveals...

Samsung’s new commercial shows how you can relive memories using the Gear VR and the Gear 360

Samsung not only bundled its virtual reality headset for free with every Galaxy S7 and S7 preorder but also announced exclusive Gear VR content for customers who bought its flagship smartphone. The South Korean tech giant is now trying to show how amazing virtual reality can be when captured using the Gear 360 camera and experienced through the Gear VR headset. The latest video commercial from the company shows how a dad makes her sick daughter happy...

T-Mobile offering the Galaxy Grand Prime for free with the Galaxy S7 or the S7 edge

Samsung was offering the Gear VR at no cost with initial pre-orders of the Galaxy S7 and the S7 edge. The company has now teamed up with T-Mobile to offer the Galaxy Grand Prime for free along with the purchase of either smartphone. The deal is valid “for a limited time” with the carrier not specifying a date as of yet. Keeping that in mind, we suggest you hurry. The free handset will be offered to the customers through a prepaid MasterCard...

Samsung announces exclusive Gear VR content package for new Galaxy S7 customers

Samsung today announced an exclusive Gear VR content package for new Galaxy S7 owners in Europe. For a limited time, customers who purchase a new Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 edge will be able to purchase the Gear VR headset at a special price. They will also get free access to exclusive premium games and experiences available on the Oculus Store. This content package includes some of the most popular paid content available on the store such as Anshar...

Samsung rolls out Marshmallow to the Galaxy S5 LTE-A in South Korea

Samsung’s first smartphone with a Quad HD display, the Galaxy S5 LTE-A, is now getting updated to Android 6.0 Marshmallow in South Korea. This follows the Marshmallow update for the Galaxy S5 Plus, the European variant of the Galaxy S5 LTE-A. The three major carriers in the country are rolling out the update; the Android version is 6.0.1 as expected, with build number G906KKTU1CPE1 for all three models. Like other pre-2015 Samsung devices, Marshmallow...

User finds Sprint Galaxy S6 edge+ on fire shortly after charging

Devices catching fire is nothing new. We’ve seen multiple isolated incidents of Samsung flagships supposedly burning up spontaneously. A new report is now talking about a Galaxy S6 edge+ that has apparently seen the same fate and the findings are rather interesting. When a situation like this arises, the first question on our minds is if the user was charging the device with a third-party or...

You can now register to beta test Samsung Pay in Singapore

After revealing plans to bring its mobile payment platform to seven additional markets this year, Samsung has today launched a pre-registration page in Singapore enabling eager customers to sign up for an opportunity to test Samsung Pay before it goes live for all compatible smartphones in the region. Unfortunately, it’s unclear how close the company is to rolling out the service to the masses, but if the time frame put in place for testing in South...