Renault Samsung is making the world’s first electric light commercial vehicle

It was only a few months ago that the Samsung Group announced its intention to pursue other avenues for growth, the company also announced that it was setting up a new team for the advancement of its automotive business. While that part of the company continues to forge partnerships to create the car of the future, a lesser known Samsung business concern has announced that it’s going to build the world’s first electric light commercial vehicle. Renault...

Samsung announces the first commercial installation of its mirror OLED display

We’ve known for a while now that Samsung has been working tirelessly to kickstart production of its much-anticipated mirror OLED displays, and today marks the day that the panels have been installed in their very first retail environment. The lucky store to receive the 55-inch screens is the LEEKAJA HAIRBIS hair salon located in Seoul, Korea. It has been revealed that the staff working in the establishment will use the mirror displays to provide...

Samsung uploads its S Note application to the Play Store for easy updating

In an effort to make updating the platform easier than ever, Samsung has today uploaded its S Note application to the Play Store. Unfortunately, the note-taking app remains exclusive to the most recent Galaxy Note-branded devices, but this move means that the South Korean company can now push out timely standalone upgrades for the program without having to bundle the changes into a new firmware build, which has to be distributed as a maintenance...

AT&T Galaxy S6 gets Marshmallow at last

AT&T was the only major carrier left in the United States that didn’t release Marshmallow for the Galaxy S6. The carrier updated the support page for this device two weeks ago to show that the update will soon be rolling out. One would have expected that it wouldn’t take more than a couple of days but it has actually taken a couple of weeks, nevertheless, AT&T Galaxy S6 has received the Marshmallow update at last. Since it’s a major update...

The Galaxy S7 edge and Game of Thrones: can you watch an entire season on a single charge?

These devices are incredibly powerful, but they also require a lot of power. We know battery life is a big deal; that’s why we say our phone is ‘about to die.’ I mean, that’s how grim it feels. With these devices, we’ve broken new ground: we engineered batteries that were incredibly large in terms of amps (mAh), but incredibly small in terms of size…so they fit perfectly into your slimmed-down phones...

EyeSight brings gesture control to Gear VR

Virtual reality technology is gradually getting better with time but more work still needs to be done to improve on aspects like gesture control. Currently gesture control in virtual reality requires specialized sensors or powerful PCs so there aren’t a lot of solutions for phone-based VR solutions made possible with devices like the Gear VR. EyeSight Technologies has come up with a solution for that, it uses the phone’s rear camera to enable...

Galaxy S7 Active leaks in ‘desert camo,’ launch likely on June 10

We have known for a while now that Samsung has the Galaxy S7 Active in the pipeline and as with previous Active handsets, it’s likely going to be exclusive to AT&T in the United States. The Galaxy S7 Active has leaked again today in a rather interesting gold hue that’s apparently called “desert camo,” and it appears that this handset will be announced on June 10. Previous leaks show...

Galaxy Note 4 gets another huge software update in India following Marshmallow

The Galaxy Note 4 was surprisingly the first Samsung device to get the security patches for the month of April, even before the month had come to an end. The security fixes came in a rather large update following Android 6.0 Marshmallow, and Samsung India is now pushing out an even bigger update to the Note 4. It is sized at 523.36 MB and features build number N910GDTU1DPE1, but the changelog...

Samsung might supply 60 percent of AMOLED panels for the upcoming iPhone

Newer OLED panels are more color accurate and power-efficient than ever, and they are expected to reach the power efficiency levels of LCD panels by next year even while displaying whites. So, Apple has finally seen the sense in opting for OLED displays for its upcoming iPhones. We’ve already heard rumors about Apple ordering 100 million OLED panels from Samsung. According to Lee Choong-hoon, president and chief analyst of UBI...