New render envisages the Galaxy S10’s dual camera

It has been renders galore this week for Samsung’s upcoming flagship smartphone. The latest envisages the Galaxy S10’s dual camera. At least one variant of the Galaxy S10 is expected to come with a dual camera system at the back. If earlier reports are any indication, this might be the entry-level Galaxy S10 model. It will be cheaper than the rest with lower specs. This model is thus believed to have...

Galaxy S10 Snapdragon variant beats Exynos variant in AnTuTu benchmark

The Snapdragon variant of the Galaxy S10 may end up offering better performance than the Exynos model, if the AnTuTu benchmark scores for both variants are anything to go by. Both models were benchmarked on AnTuTu and managed to trump the Snapdragon 845 and Kirin 980, but the Snapdragon Galaxy S10 had a noticeable lead over the Exynos variant. The Galaxy S10s tested were not the final retail units,...

Alpine White Galaxy Note 9 and Polaris Blue Galaxy S9+ launched in India

Samsung launched an Alpine White color variant of the Galaxy Note 9 late last month in Taiwan, where it is called “First Snow White”. The company also announced a dual-tone Polaris Blue variant of the Galaxy S9 and S9+. Samsung has now launched these two new color variants of its latest flagship phones in India. It’s worth noting that only the Galaxy S9+ will be available...

Samsung Exynos 9820 vs the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

Yesterday, Qualcomm announced its flagship chipset for 2019, the Snapdragon 855. Naturally, this new Snapdragon chip will be employed on some variants of Samsung’s next Galaxy S flagship, the Galaxy S10. How do overall specs and capabilities of the Exynos 9820 and Snapdragon 855 compare? Well, this year, Qualcomm has a leg-up over Samsung in the manufacturing process, as the Snapdragon 855 is built on a 7nm process and not an 8nm process like the...

Samsung SM-A505F (Galaxy A50) benchmarked with Android Pie, Exynos 9610

Samsung has a slew of new Galaxy A smartphones under development alongside a new Galaxy M lineup, as we had revealed in our exclusive report. One of those new Galaxy A smartphones has now shown up on the Geekbench benchmark database. The Samsung SM-A505FN, which may launch as the Galaxy A50, runs Android 9 Pie and is powered by the Exynos 9610 SoC. Android Pie on a mid-range Galaxy Both of those specs...

Samsung is finally changing the earpiece design on Galaxy smartphones

Not everyone has taken kindly to Samsung finally embracing the notch (or at least a form of obstruction in a phone’s display) in an attempt to get the highest screen-to-body ratio possible. The Galaxy A8s will be the first Galaxy phone with Samsung’s Infinity-O display, which has a hole in the left corner for the front camera. Now, this hole-in-a-display solution may not be an ideal one, but...

Galaxy J5 (2017) gets December 2018 security patch

Samsung’s security updates have picked up considerable pace in recent months. Earlier this week, Samsung updated the Galaxy Xcover 4 with the December 2018 security patch in Luxembourg. The company has now released an update for the Galaxy J5 (2017), bringing the latest security patch to the device. Galaxy J5 (2017) gets December security patch in Austria The latest update for the Galaxy J5 (2017) seems to include only the...

We missed Samsung’s biggest hint at Galaxy Note 9 Android Pie beta program

For a long time, Galaxy Note 9 owners had been wondering whether Samsung would be including the device in the One UI/Android Pie beta program. Samsung has never offered beta testing for a Note flagship before so there was no precedent for it. The first hint we received at the possibility of a Galaxy Note 9 Android Pie beta was through test firmware discovered on Samsung’s servers, but we realize the...