Samsung regains number two position in Indian smartphone market in Q3 2020

India is the world’s second-biggest smartphone market, and it is quite important for Samsung. Although the South Korean firm has been the number one brand globally for years, it has been slipping in the Indian market over the past few years. After losing its second position to Vivo in the previous quarter, Samsung has been able to regain it in Q3 2020. According to the latest report from market research...

Samsung lags behind LG in TV consumer survey in Australia

In a TV consumer satisfaction survey done in Australia, Samsung slipped by one spot and gave away its number one position to LG this year. In the annual survey done by Canstar Blue, a market research agency, TV brands were rated on various factors, including picture quality, sound quality, ease of use, smart compatibility, and value for money. While Samsung received four stars in all the aspects mentioned...

Samsung intros 85-inch Flip 2 fit for the work / study from home era

Samsung USA has announced a new addition to its interactive display/whiteboard lineup known as the Flip / Flip 2. A new 85-inch variant is joining the existing 55-inch and 65-inch models in the USA. It’s now listed online at Samsung.com but it is not yet available for purchase through the company’s e-shop, so pricing details are missing. The 85-inch Flip 2 is actually being referred to as the 85-inch Interactive Display in Samsung’s latest press...

Report: Galaxy Z Fold 3 to feature thicker UTG, AES digitizer, and S Pen

The Galaxy Z Fold 2 was released last month but industry watchers are already attempting to uncover the secrets of its sequel. A new report by UBI Research cited by The Elec claims that Samsung is now considering adopting AES (Active Electrostatic Solution) digitizer technology to bring the S Pen to the next Galaxy Z Fold in the series. At the same time, the company is reportedly working on making UTG (Ultra-Thin Glass) thick enough to withstand...

Samsung USA donates $76,000 worth of Galaxy A10e units for telehealth

Samsung Electronics America and Meridian have joined forces to help families and individuals living in rural and underserved communities in Michigan get telehealth with more ease. Telehealth is the distribution of health-related services using telecommunication technologies, and surveys show that even before the COVID-19 pandemic, residents of rural areas in the USA have exhibited higher mortality rates than people living in urban areas because they...

Samsung is giving away free paint that matches your lifestyle TV

Samsung UK has launched a new promotional campaign for its lifestyle TVs called LivingColour. Samsung’s lifestyle TVs boast a stylish exterior design and they’re meant to blend in with their surroundings, so the company is now addressing the latter part with its LivingColour collection of paint hues created in partnership with color expert Karen Haller. LivingColour is a promotional campaign hosted...

Google Pay seemingly refuses to work on some Galaxy Note 20 Ultra units

Google Pay isn’t playing nicely with the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra for some users who have revealed that they are faced with an error whenever they try to perform mobile payments using Google’s service on Samsung’s latest S Pen flagship. Although this doesn’t seem to be a widespread issue, affected users can reportedly set up the service and add their cards to Google Pay, but they are greeted with a red exclamation mark that prevents them from completing...

Samsung improves Galaxy S20 FE touchscreen with two firmware updates

As many of you can probably recall, last week we discussed about one flaw that marrs the Galaxy S20 FE user experience, and it has something to do with touchscreen responsiveness or lack thereof. The good news for affected Galaxy S20 FE owners is that Samsung has acknowledged the issue and has released a couple of firmware updates meant to address it. In case you’re unaware of this, some Galaxy S20...

Samsung Smart Call now protects the Galaxy Note 20 against robocalls

Robocalls are a major problem in the United States. As many as 58 billion spam calls were made in 2019. Samsung developed the Smart Call feature to protect users against spam calls, enabling them to block and report robocallers. Clearly, this problem isn’t going to go away. So Samsung is further improving the feature and expanding it to the Galaxy Note 20 series. The latest flagship will now be protected...

Galaxy S20 One UI 3.0 Android 11 beta released in India today

Samsung is gradually expanding the One UI 3.0 beta for the Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20+ and Galaxy S20 Ultra in more markets. The company has started releasing the beta firmware for users in India today. The beta has already been released in a handful of markets across the globe. They include the United States, United Kingdom and Poland. It’s now India’s turn to get in on the action. Registrations for the beta have been opened up today. There’s no...

Galaxy Note 20 One UI 3.0 beta program live in India and Germany

Samsung is now taking registrations for the One UI 3.0 beta program for the Galaxy Note 20 and Galaxy Note 20 Ultra in India and Germany, following the launch of the program in the US just yesterday. While Galaxy S20 owners outside the US and South Korea had to wait a few weeks before they got access to the beta, Samsung isn’t making Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra owners wait that long, which is...

Samsung’s boss now on trial for accounting fraud, manipulation charges

The legal troubles of Samsung vice chairman and de facto head Lee Jae-yong seem to have no end. Over the past year, his role in a highly controversial merger between Chiel Industries and Samsung C&T has been probed in addition to alleged accounting fraud at Samsung Biologistics. It’s alleged that the merger enabled the Lee family to cement their control over the Samsung Group. Following the probe, Lee was charged with accounting fraud and stock...

Verizon wants Samsung to exclude Chinese components from $6.6B deal

Samsung announced last month that it had secured a major contract from Verizon. It would be supplying network equipment to the largest mobile carrier in the United States. The $6.6 billion deal was a major win for the company’s networks division as it capitalizes on Huawei’s absence from the market. Huawei has been locked out of the US market and due to the country’s concerns regarding its practices, it appears that companies don’t want non-Chinese...