Samsung has a new 1200 PPI AMOLED display for virtual reality

While Samsung hasn’t said anything about a standalone Gear VR that would work with a built-in display instead of requiring a smartphone’s screen, the company has certainly been very active in making AMOLED displays for virtual reality. At the SID 2018 exhibition last week, Samsung unveiled its most pixel-dense VR display yet: a 2.43-inch panel with a resolution of 3840×2160 pixels, which amounts to a pixel density of 1200 PPI. Standalone Gear VR...

Galaxy S9 May update seems to have fixed the black crush (color banding) issue

Since launch, the Galaxy S9 and S9+ have been plagued with minor issues that angered a lot of users. Most prominent among them are the call glitches and display color banding issues. While Samsung has issued multiple updates to fix the calling problems, the Galaxy S9’s color banding issue hasn’t been addressed so far. Thankfully, with the May update, Samsung seems to have fixed the Galaxy S9’s color banding issues as well. Though Samsung hasn’t officially...

Galaxy A3 (2017) Oreo update might be causing random reboots and bootloops for some users

For all the time Samsung has taken to get the Android 8.0 Oreo update for its devices out the door, it’s rather unfortunate that it hasn’t been an entirely smooth ride. The Galaxy S8’s Oreo update was halted because of a random reboot issue encountered by some users, and the same problem was later discovered in the Oreo update for the Galaxy S7. While Samsung has since resumed the updates for both its 2016 and 2017 Galaxy S flagships, it turns out...

Galaxy S7 Oreo update rolling out in Nordic countries

The Galaxy S7 Oreo update has been taking its sweet time to make its way to Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge owners, who have been getting more and more impatient as the months have gone by. Samsung released the Oreo update for the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge a month ago in the UK, halted its rollout to fix a serious issue, then resumed soon after, but the company has been quite slow at expanding availability...

Exclusive: Samsung Galaxy A9 Star may be launched in these markets

It has now been confirmed that the Samsung phone with the iPhone-like rear camera placement is called the Galaxy A9 Star, and it will be launching in China at some point. The Galaxy A9 Star isn’t just different when it comes to the design, though. It has 24-megapixel and 16-megapixel sensors in the dual camera setup at the back, which is higher than anything Samsung has put out before. There’s even a 3,700 mAh battery that drives the Super AMOLED...