Samsung Korea starts offering custom skins for Galaxy Z Flip

Have you ever used a custom skin on your Galaxy smartphone? Well, some users feel the need to customize their devices with custom colors and materials, and third-party brands like Dbrand and Slickwraps offer such custom skins for Galaxy smartphones. Now, Samsung has announced that it has started its own custom skin service for the Galaxy Z Flip in South Korea. Samsung Korea says that it is now offering...

This is the Galaxy Z Flip 5G in Mystic Bronze!

The Galaxy Z Flip 5G is expected to go official sometime next month alongside the Galaxy Note 20 and the Galaxy Fold 2. The design and specifications of the Galaxy Z Flip 5G were revealed yesterday, thanks to TENAA certification. However, the leaked images weren’t very clear. Now, a clear 360-degree look at the foldable smartphone has been leaked on the internet. Thanks to Evan Blass (@evleaks), we...

The first real Galaxy Note 20 Ultra leak is finally here and it’s glorious

It’s about time that we started seeing actual renders of the Galaxy Note 20 surface and the one that’s leaked online today actually comes from Samsung itself. Samsung Russia appears to have uploaded a render of the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra on its website, giving us our first and best look yet at the upcoming flagship phablet. As most of you would be aware by now, Samsung is going to launch two variants...

Samsung offers amazing incentives to customers who buy its 5G phones

2020 is supposed to be the year of 5G for Samsung. The company has launched multiple handsets compatible with the next-gen network standard already and has a few more up its sleeve. It has also launched mid-range 5G smartphones to lower the barrier of entry for customers looking to hop on the 5G bandwagon. In order to further increase the adoption of its 5G smartphones, Samsung today announced some amazing incentives for customers. It’s calling this...

Galaxy Watch 3 models casually leaked alongside first price details

As the Galaxy Watch 3 series draws closer to launch, some key pieces of this wearable puzzle are now finally falling in place, painting a clearer picture of what one is to expect from Samsung’s next-generation smartwatches. More specifically, well-known industry insider Evan Blass (@evleaks) casually disclosed not just the Galaxy Watch 3 pricing information, but also the exact list of distinct configurations that are in the works for the lineup....

New Samsung UV sterilizer disinfects your phone while charging it

Dear diary, it’s been 112 days since WHO declared a coronavirus pandemic: sales plummeted across nearly every industry, many economies are verging on collapse, and LG somehow still hasn’t given up on smartphones. Stranger still, Samsung keeps reemerging from its lab with a new quirky contraption every other day. Today, it launched something called a “UV Sterilizer” in Thailand, touting it as an antibacterial...

Samsung India discounts the Galaxy A31

The Galaxy A31 has received a couple of discounts in India, just a month after it was launched in the country. The A31 now has an instant cashback of INR 1000 attached to it, which brings its effective price down to INR 20,999. Those who own an ICICI credit card can get an additional INR 1000 cashback, but only if they buy the phone on an installment plan. The Galaxy A31 is still a costly proposition in India, since the Samsung also sells the...

Galaxy S8/S8+ start receiving June 2020 security update

The Galaxy S8 series may be pushing four, but it’s still doing a rather decent job at keeping up with its (much) younger siblings in terms of software support. Case in point: the timely arrival of the June 2020 Android security update to the 2017 flagships. Samsung started deploying the said firmware to unlocked, Exynos variants of the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ on Tuesday. While it remains to be seen how long the gradual rollout will take to be completed,...

‘There will be no future’ if Samsung stops, chief says ahead of AI hiring spree

As the world keeps suffering the effects of a historic pandemic, Samsung is embarking on a major hiring spree because it dreads any other alternative, a top executive said. “There will be no future” in the event Samsung stops pushing forward, Vice Chairman and heir apparent, Lee Jae-yong, said earlier today. Lee gave the dramatic announcement during a scheduled visit to SEMES, the chaebol’s industrial equipment arm. Samsung aims to add as many as...

Samsung accelerates its transition from LCD to QLED display panels

Earlier this year, Samsung Display has announced that it will end the production of LCD panels by the end of 2020. The company said that it will switch to the QLED technology, and to help with the transition, it tied up with Sharp. Now, it is being reported that Samsung has acquired additional equipment that’s required to speed up the migration process. Samsung Display has announced that it has brought in Quantum Dot display manufacturing equipment...

Galaxy M01s specifications leak via Google Play Console

Samsung launched the cheapest Galaxy M series smartphone ever, the Galaxy M01, in India last month. Now, the company is working on more entry-level smartphones in the Galaxy A and the Galaxy M lineups. We had exclusively revealed last month that Samsung will launch the Galaxy M01s with 32GB of internal storage. Now, specifications of the upcoming phone have surfaced. Information acquired from the...

Sprint’s Galaxy Note 9 now being updated to One UI 2.1

The One UI 2.1 update started rolling out to the Galaxy Note 9 a few weeks back, and more and more countries have received it since then. One UI 2.1 has also reached Note 9 owners in the US, where T-Mobile became the first carrier to release the coveted update for its customers. Now, Sprint is following suit. Sprint’s Galaxy Note 9 is being updated to One UI 2.1, with firmware version N960USQU4ETF3...