Verizon Galaxy Note 7 will get a software update on release day

Samsung has announced today that the Galaxy Note 7 has been released in these countries and customers will now be able to find its new flagship in stores. The United States is a launch market and the Galaxy Note 7 will be available today from retailers as well as brick-and-mortar locations of all of the four major mobile carriers. If you’ve bought your Galaxy Note 7 bear in mind that the carrier is going to send out a software update for the...

Samsung is getting dedicated space in US Cellular stores

Samsung’s “store-within-a-store” concept has largely been limited to big retail partners which provide some space to the company in their stores where it can set up a mini-store of sorts that deals exclusively in Samsung products. US Cellular has now become the first wireless carrier in the United States to offer this concept in its company-owned stores. The carrier unveiled its first Samsung...

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has been released today in these countries

Samsung unveiled its new flagship smartphone – the Galaxy Note 7 – on August 2. It confirmed at the event that the handset is going to be released in select markets on August 19. Samsung today announced that the Galaxy Note 7 has been released in the US, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, the UAE and Korea. Pre-order customers in these countries will receive their units today if they haven’t already and the handset...

Teardown shows the Galaxy Note 7 is hard to repair, still does better than the Galaxy S7

The folks at iFixit have got their hands on the Galaxy Note 7 and they have done what they do best. The Galaxy Note 7 teardown shows that the device is hard to repair, however, it got a better repairability score than the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge. Opening up the Galaxy Note 7 isn’t exactly easy since there are no external screws. An adhesive heater and suction cups have to be used. Teardown...

SamMobile Shop offers you a lifetime subscription to Sticky Password Premium for 83 percent off

Do you find it hard to remember long and complicated passwords? I wouldn’t hold it against you. We all use so many different services and since using one password for all of your accounts is a recipe for disaster, many of us have multiple passwords that we are sometimes just not able to recall. Fortunately, many services have cropped up which help users in such a time of distress. Sticky Password is one such password management solution and if you...

Themes Thursday: Here are this week’s best themes

Samsung has released 93 themes this week in its Theme Store, and we’ve selected eight themes that you might be interested in. That’s what we do every week with Themes Thursday. We think that the MossUI and Good UI themes are the best themes of the week, thanks to clean and colorful wallpapers as well as well-designed icons. Diving Space and [HIO] Martion are space-related themes, and might interest...

Samsung starts rolling out its first firmware update for the Galaxy Note 7

Samsung has just started pushing out its first firmware update for the factory unlocked model of the Galaxy Note 7 (SM-N930W8) in Canada. The upgrade itself weighs in at approximately 96MB and brings a handful of essential bug fixes, stability improvements and software enhancements to the device that have been designed to ensure it’s running smoothly when it makes its way into the hands of customers...

Galaxy Note 7 with 6GB of RAM to go up for pre-order in China on August 26

We first heard that Samsung was working on a variant of the Galaxy Note 7 that sports 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage two weeks ago when the handset surfaced in a listing on the official Geekbench website. A couple of days later, the device was spotted in an online database belonging to the Chinese Industry and Information Technology Ministry, which led many people to believe that the unit would launch exclusively in China. Then, one week...

Samsung declares UFS as the Excalibur of the future mobile world

Samsung unveiled the world’s first Universal Flash Store (UFS) lineup of microSD cards about a month ago. UFS is the next-generation memory standard for mobile devices and Samsung is aiming to be a leader in this sector. The company talked about its future strategy for UFS at the Mobile & IoT Forum 2016 in Seoul. Senior research fellow at Samsung’s memory division Cho Hee-chang said that “As King Arthur subjugated the whole nation with the...

Samsung wins multiple design awards at IDEA 2016

The Industrial Designers Society of America has recognized Samsung in its prestigious International Design Excellence Awards competition by awarding the company a total of five design awards which include one gold, two silver and two bronze awards. It also selected 21 other Samsung products from categories such as printers and home appliances as finalists. Design innovation is integral to IDEA which is one of the most influential competitions...

Galaxy Note 7 durability test highlights questionable scratch resistance

You’ve heard it said that the Galaxy Note 7 is even the best phone on the planet, and that proves true in many ways. And yet, no matter how great the handset, there are always flaws and imperfections. This doesn’t take away from the best handsets on the market, but it does educate consumers on how to protect their financial investment(s). YouTuber JerryRigEverything is no stranger to most diehard tech enthusiasts, as he tends to be behind most...