Samsung sold 2 million 5G smartphones, expects 4 million by year’s end

2 million 5G-enabled Samsung smartphones have been sold by the company this year, revealed JuneHee Lee, senior vice president and head of the company’s technology strategy team, during Qualcomm’s presentation at IFA in Berlin. With the advent of the Galaxy Fold 5G and the Galaxy A90 5G, the company now expects the figure to double by the end of the year. This is quite an accomplishment considering the fact that Samsung doesn’t have a lot of 5G smartphones...

Daily Deal: 34% off the Samsung T5 Portable SSD – 1TB

Here’s a good deal for those looking for a portable external drive with fast transfer speeds: the 1TB Samsung T5 Portable SSD is available at a 34% discount right now. Solid-state drives (SSDs) are considerably faster than traditional hard disk drives and can be the best upgrade one can make for their desktop or laptop PC, and the T5 Portable SSD gives you SSD-like speeds on a disk (up to 540 MB/s over a USB 3.1 connection) that you can carry...

Galaxy Note 10 KlaytnPhone edition launches in South Korea

Kakao Corp’s cryptocurrency smartphone ‘KlaytnPhone’ is real and it’s now available for purchase in South Korea. As reported yesterday, this is essentially a Galaxy Note 10 / Note 10+ edition that embraces Klaytn’s KLAY crypto tokens. The phone comes with 2,000 KLAY tokens pre-loaded in Samsung Blockchain Keystore. It ships with various Klaytn BApps (Blockchain Applications), which are technically...

Galaxy A90 5G hands-on: Like a Galaxy A70 with 5G and more power

With the Galaxy A90 5G, Samsung is hoping to give consumers a cheaper point of entry into the 5G world. The Galaxy A90 5G is the Korean giant’s first non-flagship phone with a flagship processor – it is powered by the Snapdragon 855, the same chip that sits inside the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Note 10 (in markets where the Exynos variants aren’t available). We were able to go hands-on with the device...

New Galaxy Fold hands-on: Rising like a phoenix from the ashes!

Many were quick to write off the Galaxy Fold when Samsung decided to delay the launch. They felt that Samsung had rushed the product in order to beat Huawei to the market. Much like the death knell was rung for the Galaxy Note series after the Galaxy Note 7, the critics called on Samsung to dump the Galaxy Fold for good and start all over again. Personally, I was quite sad to return the Galaxy Fold...

September security patch rolling out to the Galaxy A30 and A7 (2018)

Samsung kickstarted the rollout of the September 2019 security patch earlier this week, beginning with the Galaxy Note 10/10+. It has now released the same update to the Galaxy A30 and A7 (2018) as well. If you’re wondering what about the Galaxy S10 and other top-end models, do note that It is not uncommon for Samsung to push security updates to some of its budget and mid-range devices before seeding...

Galaxy Note 8 September security update rolling out

The Galaxy Note 8 is now receiving a software update that brings the September 2019 security patch to the device. Samsung was quick to push out the September patch to the Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10+, and it seems the Galaxy Note 8 has managed to grab a seat on the express update train alongside the company’s newest Note flagships. The Note 8 update is available in Germany and sports software version N950FXXS7DSHC. Galaxy Note 8 owners will find nothing...

The Galaxy Fold has already sold out in South Korea

It seems that Samsung is seeing quite the response for the Galaxy Fold in its home country. South Korea is the first market to get the Galaxy Fold. The device has gone on sale there today and it appears that the first batch has already sold out. Samsung Electronics told Korean media outlets today that the first batch of the Galaxy Fold has already sold out. The company didn’t give a precise figure of the number of units that were in this first batch,...

Galaxy A90 5G will not receive monthly security updates

The Galaxy A90 5G is the first non-flagship 5G smartphone from Samsung. That being said, it’s not exactly cheap either. It’s at the top end of Samsung’s Galaxy A series. If you thought that this meant it would receive monthly security updates, think again. Samsung has made it clear from the get-go that the Galaxy A90 5G is not going to receive monthly security updates. It has been put on the quarterly...