Samsung Galaxy J2 (2018) launched in India

Samsung has launched a new smartphone to target the entry-level market in India today. The Galaxy J2 (2018), which launched earlier this year as the Galaxy J2 Pro (2018) in Vietnam, is set to go on sale in India starting tomorrow, April 27, with a price tag of Rs. 8,190. Despite the removal of the Pro tag from the phone’s name, the Indian version of the 2018 Galaxy J2 is better equipped in one...

Samsung Pay may have quietly gone live in France

Samsung seems to have made Samsung Pay available for some users in France without an official announcement. One of our readers has sent in screenshots showing Samsung Pay working for a Caisse d’Epargne card, and Google Play is apparently letting users in the country download the Samsung Pay app instead of saying it’s incompatible. Caisse d’Epargne is one of two banks (the other is Banque Populaire)...

Samsung plans to launch MicroLED TVs in the second half of this year

Samsung announced Q1 2018 earnings today, and they beat market expectations due to the stellar performance of the company’s semiconductor business.  Samsung’s display division, however, suffered a decline in earnings due to the weak demand for flexible OLED panels and increased LCD production by the competitors. Samsung’s earnings from TVs also suffered a year-on-year decline, which Samsung attributes...

Early Galaxy S9 release paid dividends for Samsung this past quarter

It was first rumored late last year that the Galaxy S9 might be launched earlier than its predecessor and that’s precisely what happened a couple of months ago. Since it was launched early, Samsung also released the Galaxy S9 almost a month before the Galaxy S8 came out in 2017 and it doubled down on that by ensuring that the handset was released in many of its markets across the globe on March 16. That strategy has paid dividends for Samsung in...

Galaxy A7 (2017) Oreo update is rolling out in more regions

Unlike the Galaxy A3 (2017) and Galaxy A5 (2017), the Galaxy A7 (2017) Oreo update didn’t debut in Russia. Vietnam was the first market to get the A7 (2017) Oreo update, but it looks like Samsung Russia wasn’t too far behind and is also rolling out Android 8.0 Oreo for the largest of Samsung’s 2017 A series phones. That’s not all. The update is also available in Trinidad and Tobago, which suggests the Galaxy A7 (2017) has the highest priority right...

Galaxy Note 7 Fan Edition Android 8.0 Oreo update is now available in South Korea

The Galaxy Note 7 Fan Edition (FE) has started receiving the update to Android 8.0 Oreo in South Korea today, following a certification for the device by the Wi-Fi Alliance with the new version of Android on-board earlier this week. The Galaxy Note 7 isn’t getting the update, of course, even if it was also submitted to the certification process, but now that Oreo for the Fan Edition is available, it should only be a matter of time before it comes...

[Poll] Should Samsung start using stock Android for budget phones?

Samsung didn’t stick around long for the Google Play Edition program that the maker of the Android OS envisioned a couple of years ago, and neither did other manufacturers. What was the Google Play Edition program? Well, it was what many had always dreamed of: Samsung’s flagship hardware running a stock version of Android and software updates coming directly from Google. The manufacturers still were in charge of pushing out the updates, but they...

Samsung Q1 2018 earnings beat market expectations

The market was expecting Samsung to forecast an almost 50 percent increase in profit for Q1 2018 when it released its earnings guidance earlier this month. It even beat market expectations in the forecast when the company predicted a 57.6 percent surge in profit for the January-March 2018 period compared to the first quarter of last year. The full Samsung Q1 2018 earnings have been posted today. Samsung’s operating profit hiked 58.03 percent to 15.64...