The Consumer Product Safety Commission is assisting Samsung in its recall of the Galaxy Note 7

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has stepped in to assist Samsung in its recall of the Galaxy Note 7 following the firm’s discovery that a faulty battery was to blame for at least 35 handsets randomly exploding while on charge. Earlier today, the CPSC published a statement on its official website revealing that it’s working closely with the South Korean company to determine whether a simple exchange program is a sufficient solution to the problem. Stop...

Exclusive: Samsung is in talks with Nvidia and AMD for GPU technologies

There have been multiple reports in the past stating Samsung’s efforts to develop an in-house GPU for its mobile processors. The company’s Exynos chipset with a GPU developed internally was expected to be ready in time for the Galaxy Note 5, but the plan didn’t materialise. We’ve now received additional information regarding the matter. Currently, Samsung is using ARM’s Mali series of GPUs in its Exynos...

[Poll] Do rumors about Samsung only releasing an edge version of the Galaxy S8 surprise you?

It’s increasingly being rumored these days that Samsung is only going to release an edge version of the Galaxy S8 next year. One might say that this is inevitable given that both the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S7 saw the edge version outsell its flat counterpart by a significant margin. There were rumors this year that Samsung will launch a flat and edge version of the Galaxy Note 7 but it only came out with one which has a dual-edge...

Samsung’s upcoming mid-range smartphone enters testing in India

We told you about a week ago that Samsung has two new mid-range smartphones in the pipeline bearing model numbers SM-G5510 and SM-G5520. Both handsets have already been spotted on websites of GFXBench and Wi-Fi Alliance respectively and the former has now also been spotted on import tracker Zauba. The tracker shows that Samsung has imported multiple units of the SM-G5510 into India for testing and...

Here’s how you identify a Galaxy Note 7 with a battery that won’t explode

It’s going to take Samsung a week or so to start supplying its carrier and retail partners across the globe with replacement inventory so that it can start replacing existing Galaxy Note 7 handsets with new units. Samsung has already confirmed that it’s going to voluntarily replace each and every Galaxy Note 7 unit that has been shipped across the globe after the handset’s release on August 19. In...

AT&T finally updates the Galaxy Note 4 and the Galaxy Note Edge to Marshmallow

It has been over a year since Google released Android 6.0 Marshmallow. A couple of weeks ago the company actually released Marshmallow’s successor – Android 7.0 Nougat – and yet those who own the Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Note Edge on AT&T are just now getting a taste of Marshmallow. AT&T has finally released Android 6.0 Marshmallow for the Galaxy Note 4 and the Galaxy Note Edge. Even though this update has been released in the first...

Galaxy A7 (2017) may have a bonkers 16-megapixel front camera

We exclusively reported about two weeks ago that Samsung is now working on the 2017 iteration of the Galaxy A3, Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A7. It has been nearly nine months since the existing models of these handsets were launched so it’s about time that the Galaxy A series was refreshed. We have already shared some details about specifications of the Galaxy A5 (2017) and if you believe everything...

Samsung updates S Health app with more health related content

Samsung has updated the S Health app today with some new features. Version 5.1.1.0005 of the app, which can be downloaded from Google Play Store, now comes with a larger variety of health content in some countries. You can now save records of step challenges, which were introduced in the last update. The step challenges will be saved using your Samsung account. Other new features include an option...

FAA warns passengers not to use the Galaxy Note 7 while on board an airplane

Two days ago, we reported that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was in the process of deciding whether to ban the Galaxy Note 7 from being taken on board aircraft after Samsung decided to recall the device following its discovery that a malfunctioning battery was to blame for some handsets exploding while on charge. The FAA has today revealed that it’s decided not to prohibit the Galaxy Note 7...