UK Galaxy Watch 4G pre-orders now open at EE

The UK Galaxy Watch 4G pre-orders are open starting today. This variant of Samsung’s latest wearable device is exclusively available from EE in the country. EE has got dibs on Samsung’s new 4G smartwatch in the United Kingdom. Samsung launched the Galaxy Watch three months ago. It comes with an Exynos 9110 Dual core 1.15GHz processor with 4GB of storage. The smartwatch works with Samsung and non-Samsung Android devices running version 5.0 or later....

Galaxy S9 Android 9 update adds ‘Tap to Show’ for Always On Display

Samsung has recently been working on the Galaxy S9 Android 9 update. It’s expected to launch the official beta program for Pie in the near future. Fresh builds continue to surface online prior to the release and the latest reveals a new feature that Samsung has added for the Always On Display. Always On Display is a very useful feature that Samsung introduced with the Galaxy S7. It displays time, date, notifications, battery status and more when...

Why tease your foldable smartphone endlessly when you still can’t be the first?

This week, Royole, a display manufacturer, introduced the world’s first foldable smartphone. Called the FlexPai, the device is based on Android Pie with a custom interface. YouTube videos reveal the FlexPai is rather slow, but it does look futuristic. After years of Samsung teasing a foldable device, a new brand has stolen its fame. Companies trying to one-up each other is normal, but it feels quite disappointing. Samsung lost the race to be the...

Samsung feels pressure from the Chinese as phone shipments decline

Chinese smartphone manufacturers like Huawei and Xiaomi are giving Samsung a tough time particularly in key markets. The decline in the Korean giant’s smartphone shipments started late last year. That has remained the case throughout this year. Strategy Analytics reveals that Samsung’s phone shipments have declined 13 percent in Q3 2018 YoY. The shipments declined by 4 percent in Q4 2017. This year,...

Additional Samsung foldable display phone details surface

We have been hearing about the Samsung foldable display phone for the past few years. The company only recently acknowledged that it’s developing this device and as a result, it’s going to show a sneak peek of the device’s unique user interface at SDC 2018 next week. A new report from South Korea brings some additional details about the device. Samsung has apparently finalized the display specifications for its foldable smartphone. Samsung’s...

Samsung said to ditch the Galaxy S10 iris scanner

The Galaxy S10 iris scanner might be on the chopping block. This biometric authentication technology was first introduced by Samsung in 2016 with the ill-fated Galaxy Note 7. It has been a staple on all flagship Galaxy S series and Galaxy Note series handsets since then. The company will presumably be doing away with the iris sensor for the reason that it can stretch the display even further. Seems like the idea here would be to achieve a more impressive...