Slide-out, expandable displays join foldable smartphones in latest Samsung patents

We know the foldable smartphone era is soon to dawn upon us, seeing that Samsung has been filing foldable smartphone patents for some years now and continues filing them to this day: patents that are considering biometric ID forms as well as changing the face of its budget-friendly smartphone lineup. Well, just when you thought foldable smartphones were the only “next big thing,” Samsung takes...

Samsung brings Tizen Store access to 41 additional countries

Samsung has made Tizen a long-term investment, and apps have been considered to be the main priority: get as many as you can on the platform so that users can feel more at home with the novel OS. And yet, at the same time, having a good number of apps without access to those apps is another obstacle that could hinder adoption of Tizen OS for the long haul. Samsung realizes this, which is why the Korean giant has decided today to open Tizen Store...

Rumor: Samsung could switch to a PowerVR GPU for the Exynos 9810 SoC

The 10nm-based Exynos 8895 chipset was unveiled two days ago. The new chipset is expected to debut with the Galaxy S8 and the S8 Plus. However, that’s not the only high-end SoC Samsung has been developing. The South Korean electronics component giant is also working on the Exynos 9810 processor, and details regarding its existence were revealed earlier this week. Of late, Samsung has been using ARM’s Mali GPUs inside its...