Samsung Developer Conference 2018 early bird registration open today

Samsung confirmed the dates for its upcoming developers’ conference last month. The company conducts its own annual developers’ conference to highlight the advancements it has made in software. It also conducts a variety of workshops for developers to teach them how to take full advantage of Samsung’s software. Samsung Developer Conference 2018 The company confirmed today that the official Samsung Developer Conference 2018 website is live now. It...

Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ get August security patch update

Is the software update scene for flagship phones undergoing a change at Samsung, or is it just a one-time thing? We really can’t say, but Samsung has now released an update with the August 2018 security patch for two more of its flagship devices. These are the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge+, which are being updated in South Korea at the moment. The Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge were also updated with the August patch earlier this week. August 2018...

[Poll] Is Samsung placing the fingerprint sensor so high on its phones on purpose?

As a loyal Samsung fan, I have a problem with the company’s flagship phones. That’s the placement of the fingerprint sensor. I don’t have big hands, and I can’t reach the fingerprint sensor easily on the Galaxy Note 9. I have the same problem with the Galaxy S9+ and even more so with the Galaxy S8+. The regular Galaxy S9 is fine in this regard, but overall, Samsung is placing the fingerprint sensor a little too high compared to other manufacturers...

Check out Samsung’s foldable phone renders based on patents

Enough has been written about Samsung’s foldable phone, but no one exactly knows how it looks or works. Relying on Samsung’s foldable screen patents, folks at Nieuwemobiel and concept phone designer Jonas Dähnert have come up fleshed out renders of how the foldable Galaxy smartphone might look like. Though the renders are based on Samsung patents, they are still very much unofficial and may not be...

Galaxy Note 8 gets another update with the August security patch

The August 2018 security patch was released for all of Samsung’s flagships from (and including) the Galaxy S8 very early, before Google had the chance to publish details about the patch (and just before it released Android 9.0 Pie). The Galaxy Note 8 is now receiving another software update with the August patch. It has been released in United Arab Emirates with software version N950FXXU4CRGA. Galaxy...