Samsung Care+ could bring theft and loss insurance coverage

Samsung’s premium after-sales service plan Samsung Care+ currently covers accidental damage, including cracked screens, drops, and accidental liquid damage. It currently doesn’t cover burglary or theft of a device. However, that could soon change as newly uncovered information suggests Samsung could add theft cover at an additional cost. The folks over at XDA Developers did a teardown of the Samsung Shop app’s APK file and found that the South...

Samsung to shut down S Translator service next month

Samsung has shut down various apps and services over the past couple of years, including Find My Car, MirrorLink, S Voice, and PlayGalaxy. Now, the company has announced that it will shut down one more service: S Translator. However, there’s a replacement that you can use for language translation. The South Korean firm will shut down the S Translator service on December 1, 2020. Samsung announced...

Samsung adds 25 artworks from Etsy artists to The Frame Art Store

Samsung’s been constantly enriching the user experience of The Frame owners with new digital art pieces every half a year or so. The platform introduced works from the State Hermitage Museum exactly one year ago, and back in May the company ran the #StayAtHome with Arts campaign which added 30 renowned works to the collection. Now, the latest addition to the Samsung Art Store brings 25 new works of nature-inspired art, in partnership with global...

Poor Galaxy Note 20 sales force Samsung to revise production plans

The Galaxy Note 20 series isn’t performing as well as Samsung had hoped, reveals a new report stating that sales figures in the month of October fell below expectations and the company was forced to revise its manufacturing plans. Samsung was expecting demand for the Galaxy Note 20 series in October would be high enough to warrant the manufacturing of 900,000 units, however, poor sales figures have...

Samsung accidentally mentions Galaxy Note 20 FE on official landing page

Samsung is now planning to normalize the concept of FE (Fan Edition) smartphones and, at Unpacked 2020 in September, the company confirmed its latest plans to release new Galaxy FE devices every year. This change in strategy had made us wonder if this means that the Galaxy Note 20 series will be joined by a FE variant in the coming months, and it could very well be so. The existence of a Galaxy Note...

Report: The Galaxy S21 might go on sale in early February at the latest

The Galaxy S21 series may have already entered production and the reason for this is because Samsung might be preparing the flagship for an earlier-than-usual release. Samsung’s usual launch schedule suggests that the Galaxy S21 should be unveiled in February before going on sale in March, however, a recent report from South Korea lends more credibility to an early release. As some of our readers will let you know, SamMobile was the first to break...

Samsung Daily feed will soon be replaced by Samsung Free

Last year, Samsung replaced Bixby Home with Samsung Daily. The change was brought along with the Android 10 update for Galaxy smartphones. Now, the company is replacing Samsung Daily with Samsung Free. The company has sent a notice to its users, notifying them of the change to the Samsung Daily feed. Samsung Free will be placed on the leftmost homescreen, and it will offer a streamlined design. It...

Galaxy S10, Galaxy Note 10, and Galaxy Note 20 pick up November security update

It’s raining updates for Samsung’s flagship phones today. The Galaxy S20 series started getting an update with the November 2020 security patch earlier today, and a similar update is now rolling out to the Galaxy S10, Galaxy Note 10, and Galaxy Note 20 lineups. Well, similar as in all these phones are picking up the latest security fixes as part of the update, but with different changelogs and firmware...

Galaxy Home Mini just got an update, and it’s raising some questions

Bixby, for all intents and purposes, has fallen by the wayside as far as Samsung’s priorities are concerned. It still exists on Galaxy phones and tablets and keeps getting updates, such as the UI makeover it received recently, but it’s clear that Samsung’s initial fervor for Bixby has turned lukewarm. Perhaps the biggest indication of that is the fact that Samsung’s smart Bixby speaker is still limited to select customers in the company’s home country,...

Early Galaxy S21 launch hinted at yet again

Since the launch of the Galaxy Note 20 and the Galaxy Z Fold 2, we have come across numerous Galaxy S21 leaks and reports. We had exclusively reported a couple of weeks ago that the Galaxy S21 series will be launched as soon as January 2021. Now, another report seems to confirm the earlier-than-usual launch time frame for Samsung’s next-generation flagship smartphone. Roland Quandt, who has published some accurate leaks related to Galaxy devices...

Galaxy S20 getting another update, come check out what’s new

Samsung’s making headway toward the eventual release of the heavily anticipated One UI 3.0 and Android 11 update for the Galaxy S20 series later this year, but the company is simultaneously working on standard updates for its 2020 flagship lineup. To that end, Samsung is rolling out a new update for the Galaxy S20, S20+, and S20 Ultra for everyone who is still using Android 10 and One UI 2.5. This update, featuring firmware version G98xxXXS5BTJ4,...