Samsung tops global smartphone sales in Q1 2016

Samsung appears to have had a pretty successful start to the year with its latest flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge, taking the world by storm, which is likely due to an innovative marketing campaign that saw the manufacturer give away a complimentary Gear VR headset with a pre-order of the handsets. According to the Yonhap News Agency, the South Korean company sold 81.18 million smartphone units around the globe in...

These two Samsung Chromebooks will be able to run Android apps when the functionality launches later this year

Earlier today, Google took to its official blog to share a list of Chromebooks that’ll be able to run native Android applications when the newly-announced feature arrives on Chrome OS later this year. The Chromebook 2 11″ (XE500C12) and Chromebook 3 (XE500C13) are the only two Samsung-branded laptops to find their way onto the index. However, we find it somewhat difficult to imagine how apps will run on these devices seeing as neither model features...

Samsung Pay customers can pay for goods using their Alipay account in China

As expected, Samsung has today announced a partnership with China’s second-largest online marketplace, Alibaba, which permits new or existing Alipay customers to pay for goods using their account from within the Samsung Pay application in the region. Using the service couldn’t be easier. All you have to do is swipe up from the lock screen or home screen to toggle Samsung Pay, select Alipay from the payment options menu, then scan the QR...

Add RSS feeds to the Edge RSS panel on the Galaxy S7 edge

The Galaxy S7 edge is perhaps the most beautiful smartphone on the market currently, but many consumers buy the device because of the edge. Yes, the edge alone, sans functionality, is a pretty aesthetic that should be implemented on other smartphones (with Samsung getting credit for it, of course), but the functionality of the edge is another of its appealing factors. The edge provides settings...

Samsung reportedly in talks to develop its own online TV streaming service

A new report claims that Samsung is in talks to develop its own online TV streaming service. The over-the-top streaming market has been gaining steam rapidly over the past couple of years and services like Sling TV and PlayStation Vue are already jostling for position. Apple is expected to come out with a similar service in the future while AT&T’s DirecTV launches one later this year. As one of the biggest manufacturers of TVs in the world, it...

Themes Thursday: Here are six good themes from this week

Welcome back to Themes Thursday! Samsung has released a whopping 127 themes for its Galaxy smartphones this week, and we’ve shortlisted six themes that you might like. The [Kendi] Material UI has a Material design wallpaper with squircle icons. [V] Candy Pop, Diamond Light, and Summer themes have minimalistic circular icons. The [Walk On Mars] Walk On Z theme has stock TouchWiz icons but a beautiful...

Samsung S Note to get scrolling screen off memo, fingerprint lock, recycle bin, other features

In addition to the new Samsung Focus app, Samsung is also working on bringing new functionality to the S Note app with the Galaxy Note 6. Well, we’re not sure if the new functionality will arrive with the Note 6 or as a separate update – the latter is possible as S Note is now available for Samsung devices on the Play Store, but S Note is set to get a few useful features at some point later this year. The Galaxy Note 5 introduced Screen off memo,...

Samsung Germany offering the Gear VR for just €9.90 with the purchase of the Galaxy S7 or S7 edge

The Gear VR was initially offered for free along with pre-orders of the Galaxy S7 and the S7 edge. But this was just a limited period promotion, which meant that customers had to shell out its full value shortly after the promo period ended. Samsung Germany has now started a new promotion in order to push more units of the Gear VR. As per the company, customers who purchase the Galaxy S7...

Exclusive: Samsung flagships could get Android N in Q4 this year

The early reveal of Android N excited many, but for users of Samsung’s flagship smartphones, it was almost a slap in the face as Google gave us a preview of the next iteration of Android while Samsung still hadn’t pushed out Marshmallow to its flagships in many regions. But the company has slowly and surely increased the availability of Android 6.0 in the last month or so, and we now have word from our sources that the final Android N update...