Vimeo Samsung Smart TV app set to land in a few weeks

Earlier this year, Samsung introduced its Made For Samsung Program that would bring the best and most popular app brands to its mobile devices (including its Tizen-powered Smart TVs). Now at year’s end, the Korean giant is still doing that, with a new HTML5-based Vimeo Smart TV app for its Tizen-powered TVs in the works. “We’ve built brand new native experiences for Apple TV and Android TV, and are introducing our first-ever HTML5-based TV app to...

Oukitel U15S draws inspiration from Samsung’s Scroll Capture

With the arrival of the Galaxy Note 5, Samsung introduced a feature called Scroll Capture that lets you take a screenshot of what’s on your page and then scroll to capture the rest of the page. It’s a feature that finally eliminated taking multiple screenshots of the same page. Well, a new mid-range smartphone announced back in October draws inspiration from Samsung’s Scroll Capture...

Daily Deal: Save $29 on SmartThings Home Monitoring Kit from Amazon

Samsung offers a wide range of smart home products under its SmartThings brand. If you want to get started with equipping your home with some smart home products, you can have a look at the Home Monitoring Kit from SmartThings. It is currently being sold for $219.99 through Amazon, which is a discount of $29 over its regular price. The Home Monitoring Kit consists of one SmartThings Hub, two multipurpose sensors, one motion sensor, and...

Exclusive: Samsung Pay could be launched in India in the first half of 2017

Samsung is trying to launch its mobile payments solution in as many markets as possible. Samsung Pay is currently available in Australia, Brazil, Canada (currently limited to CIBC customers), China, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, and the US. Now, the company is working on its way to launch Samsung Pay in India. We’ve received information that Samsung is testing its mobile payment service for the Indian market, and that it could...

Samsung explains all the features of its Level series headsets in a new infographic

Samsung has launched quite a few headphones in its Level series, and there is something for everyone. Whether you want a wired headphone or wireless, with active noise cancellation or without one, in-ear or over-the-ear, you can get Level headphones that suit your needs. Now, Samsung has released an infographic which showcases the features of all the headphones in its Level series. The Level U Pro...

Samsung Display’s flexible OLED sales top $1 billion

Samsung Display saw its flexible OLED panel sales cross $1 billion for the first time in its history in the third quarter of this year. The conglomerate’s display-making affiliate supplied panels not only to Samsung Electronics which accounts for a big chunk of its business but also to top Chinese manufacturers like Huawei, Oppo, and Vivo. Sales to Chinese companies helped Samsung Display cross this major milestone. Data from market research institute...

WSJ: Samsung’s $8 billion bid to acquire Harman may not be enough

Samsung’s $8 billion all-cash bid to acquire car tech manufacturer Harman may be approaching its first hurdle. The Wall Street Journal‘s reported that Atlantic Investment Managment, which has a 2.3% stake in the firm, plans to vote against the deal, saying that it’s worth a lot more than the $112 per share the South Korean company is offering. Granted, Atlantic Investment Management doesn’t have a large enough stake in Harman to sway the votes...

Samsung’s mobile chief calls for tightened security ahead of the Galaxy S8′s release

Samsung’s mobile business chief Koh Dong-jin has urged employees to “tighten security” ahead the release of its next flagship smartphone, reveals The Korea Herald. It’s believed that the call for improvement comes as speculation about the upcoming Galaxy S8‘s design is becoming increasingly accurate. “I feel deeply regretful to hear news of the recent attempts at data breach and prototype leak,” said Koh in an email sent to employees on December...

Android 7.0 for Galaxy devices could bring fingerprint gesture functionality

Samsung has been promising a lot of features for the final version of Android 7.0 Nougat based on customer feedback and requests that it has been receiving during the beta program, and it looks like the company could be making the fingerprint sensor on its devices more useful by adding gesture functionality with Nougat. A beta tester asked Samsung if it would be implementing fingerprint gestures...

Galaxy S8 fingerprint scanner might be placed on the back

There have been countless rumors so far suggesting that the Galaxy S8 is going to be the first smartphone to feature optical fingerprint recognition. This means that the display would incorporate fingerprint scanning technology. One of Samsung’s suppliers recently launched a component that makes that happen and it’s believed that Samsung might source it for the Galaxy S8. However, if a new report is to be believed, Samsung might actually place the...

Samsung reveals details about two new virtual reality headsets

Samsung’s Gear VR is a relatively affordable way to experience virtual reality and the company has improved the headset over the past couple of years to provide an even better experience. Speaking at the Virtual Reality Summit in San Diego on Thursday, Samsung Electronics vice president Dr. Sung-Hoon Hong revealed that the company is working on two new virtual reality headsets. He mentioned that the...