Is Samsung faking moon photos with Galaxy S21 Ultra’s 100x Space Zoom?

The Galaxy S21 Ultra has the most versatile smartphone camera on the market right now. Thanks to its dual-telephoto cameras (3x zoom and 10x zoom) and the Zoom Lock feature, it is well-equipped to take clear images of faraway subjects. However, some consumers and experts have expressed doubts over its ability to take real photos of the moon. It was being alleged that Samsung is using AI trickery to...

Samsung’s Chromebook shipments grew 4x in 2020, driven by the pandemic

The demand for affordable laptops and tablets was through the roof during 2020, thanks to the pandemic. Samsung managed to ship close to 10 million Galaxy Tab devices in Q4 2020 and over 31 million tablets over the course of the whole year. Now, the South Korean tech giant’s Chromebook shipment numbers have been published. The company managed to ship a million Chromebook devices in Q4 2020 according...

Samsung Display is building a new OLED manufacturing line for laptops

Samsung Display is reportedly getting ready to increase its OLED production capacity in anticipation of high demand. According to reports from the local media, Samsung is building the new production line at the A4 plant in Asan, or rather, it’s converting the existing A4 line to be capable of producing 30,000 medium-sized OLED sheets every month. Interestingly, Samsung Display isn’t building this new line in preparation of higher OLED demand from...

Samsung’s gearing up to unleash five new Galaxy phones on the market

Samsung is getting ready to unleash a handful of new low-to-mid-range Galaxy smartphones, and support pages for five new models have already gone live in various regions. Samsung India’s portal now includes support pages for the Galaxy F12 and the Galaxy F62, indicating that the two new devices that were supposedly developed in collaboration with Flipkart will be released soon. Meanwhile, the Galaxy A52 5G support page went live in Austria,...

Samsung confirms rollable, slidable smartphones are coming

Samsung’s foldable smartphone experiments will soon extend to at least two novel form factors based on rollable and slidable designs. The tech giant confirmed the said plans indirectly earlier today. I.e., its sister company Samsung Display did. Samsung Display’s tech was at the heart of every foldable Galaxy smartphone released to date. It should hence come as no surprise that this trend will continue moving forward. After all, it’s not like third-party...

Samsung shipped close to 10 million tablets in Q4 2020

A lot of business took a hit during the COVID-19 pandemic, but Samsung has a reason to be happy. Thanks to social distancing norms around the world and a sharp rise in demand for work-from-home and remote learning tools, Samsung saw increased profits in Q3 and Q4 2020. The South Korean tech giant shipped not only memory and storage chips for PCs, laptops, and servers, but also millions of tablets...

[List] Galaxy devices that have received Android 11/One UI 3.0 update

Only four months after officially announcing the One UI 3.0 update, Samsung already brought its custom Android 11 implementation to quite a few of its Galaxy devices. At least compared to the pace of its Android 10-based One UI 2.x deployment efforts which have been ongoing until this very month. And assuming we’re counting Android 11 beta builds, which we are. As Samsung is expected to begin ramping up the development and release of various One...

It’s finally happening: The Galaxy S21 flagship series goes on sale today

Galaxy S21 pre-order customers may have been feeling like time was slowing down on them but it’s only been a couple of weeks since the flagship series was unveiled at Unpacked 2021. Now the waiting is over, as today — January 29 — is the day when Samsung starts shipping the latest flagship phones to customers. Meanwhile, those who haven’t pre-ordered the Galaxy S21 can now purchase the phone outright...

Galaxy S21 series receives HDR certification from Netflix

The Galaxy S21 series was unveiled a couple of weeks ago during the Galaxy Unpacked 2021 virtual event, and the new phones are going on sale worldwide starting today. Now, Samsung is making sure that the phones are fully ready out of the box for its customers. Samsung’s latest flagship smartphones—Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21+, and Galaxy S21 Ultra—have now received HDR certification from Netflix. This...

Here’s your first real look at the Galaxy A72 5G

Samsung is expected to launch its 2021 mid-range smartphones, the Galaxy A52 and the Galaxy A72. Some of the specifications of these two devices have leaked over the past few weeks, and earlier today, the Galaxy A52 5G’s press renders made it to the internet. Now, we have our first look at the Galaxy A72. Leakster Evan Blass published the first press render of the Galaxy A72 5G on Voice. The image shows the smartphone from the front, and it looks...

Leaked official render shines a spotlight on the Galaxy A52 5G design

Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy A52 5G is back in the headlines in full force thanks to a new leak that reveals the phone’s exterior design. This time around, it’s an official press render as opposed to a fan-made CAD image based on leaked specifications, but the new leak essentially confirms what we already suspected: the Galaxy A52 5G has a quad-camera setup with a rectangular housing and an Infinity-O...

Samsung was India’s 2nd-largest smartphone vendor by the end of 2020

2020 was an odd year for the Indian smartphone market for a few reasons. Things weren’t looking great in the first half of the year because of the pandemic and the lockdowns that followed, but the smartphone market picked up in the second half of 2020 to the point where H2 shipments have surpassed the 100 million mark for the first time ever, reveals Counterpoint Research. In the middle of all this,...

Samsung loses out to Apple in Q4 but maintains the lead throughout 2020

Samsung’s decision to release the Galaxy S21 series earlier than usual had something to do with wanting to bring the fight closer to Apple and the iPhone 12, or at least this is what a few reports have previously suggested. And it’s probably a good thing that Samsung has released the new flagship in January, seeing how Apple already enjoyed massive success in Q4 2020 thanks to the iPhone 12 series. Apple...

Samsung Electronics to pay out record dividends until 2023

Samsung Electronics today confirmed plans to pay out record dividends to shareholders over the next three years. The equivalent of $11.8 billion will be returned to investors for the fiscal year 2020 which ended on December 31st. That’s $1.73 per ordinary share. Pretty sweet, right? Wrong. As idiosyncratic as that might sound, the range of shareholder reactions to this move will likely vary from indifference to angry disapproval. And the average...

Galaxy A02 vs Galaxy A02s: The newer model is once again less powerful

The Galaxy A02s was Samsung’s most affordable smartphone for 2021 up until the Galaxy A02 got introduced. The latter budget device was quietly revealed in Thailand this week and it will go on sale for the equivalent of $99. It’s missing the ‘s’ in the moniker, and this means it’s missing a few features as well. Some characteristics were left unchanged but for the most part, the two devices are very...

Early Galaxy Tab S8 rumors hint at basic upgrades, slower fast charging

Samsung is expected to continue building upon its Android tablet legacy with a couple of high-end Galaxy Tab S8 models later this year. The company has yet to acknowledge this but there’s no strong reason to believe that the Galaxy Tab S7 and the Galaxy Tab S7+ won’t get any direct sequels in 2021. So then, the Galaxy Tab S8 and the Galaxy Tab S8+ will likely be unveiled in the second half of the year, and now, the first bits of information regarding...

Samsung Galaxy SmartTag review: Only for the truly committed

Samsung’s latest accessory is the company’s own take on a Bluetooth-powered tracker. It hasn’t broken any new ground with the Galaxy SmartTag. This isn’t the first tracker of its kind but Samsung has made one now to further expand its ecosystem of connected devices. In this Samsung Galaxy SmartTag Review, we look at the features of this Bluetooth tracker and see if it’s as capable as the company makes...

Samsung is going to help the Chinese make foldable smartphones

Samsung Display had been working on foldable panels for quite some time. This enabled Samsung’s mobile division to be the first to launch a foldable smartphone in 2019. It later launched Ultra-Thin Glass foldable panels that were used for the Galaxy Z Flip and the Galaxy Z Fold 2. These display panels weren’t supplied to any other company previously but that may soon change. According to a new report, Samsung Display will begin supplying foldable...

Galaxy M21 Android 11 update is live, starting with India

The One UI 3.0 update for the Galaxy M21 is now live, as Samsung’s custom implementation of Android 11 was already sighted in India earlier this week. Given how India’s by far the largest market in which this particular smartphone released, it’s also an obvious choice to prioritize for the deployment of such a major software upgrade. And it’s not like Samsung hasn’t already shown its hand in December when it demonstrated great urgency in how it approached...

Android 11 update now rolling out to Galaxy Note 10 Lite

The One UI 3.0 update based on Android 11 is now rolling out to select Galaxy Note 10 Lite units. Samsung started the deployment within the last 48 hours, bundling the update with the January 2021 security patch, which was to be expected. The next series of vulnerability fixes for the Galaxy Note 10 Lite almost certainly won’t arrive so late in a given month than what’s been the case here. In the meantime, the Android 11 update at hand, designated...

Galaxy S20 series already being updated with February 2021 security patch

Samsung’s superb run with software updates continues with the release of the latest security patch to the Galaxy S20 series. It is not even February yet, but the company has already started releasing the February 2021 security patch to the Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20+, and the Galaxy S20 Ultra in various countries. The February 2021 security update with firmware version G98**XXS6CUA8 is now rolling...

Samsung hints at Galaxy M02 pricing, specifications, launch date

After silently unveiling the Galaxy A02 in Thailand yesterday, Samsung appears to be ready for the launch of the Galaxy M02. Since the Galaxy A02 and the Galaxy M02 are extremely similar in terms of design and specs, we are not sure if we would see them in the same markets at the same time. Samsung has started teasing the Galaxy M02 for the Indian market. It published the phone’s design, launch date,...

Samsung to acquire more companies in the next three years

Samsung announced its Q4 2020 earnings earlier today. During its conference call with investors, the company mentioned that it is eying more mergers and acquisitions over the next few years to fend off challenges from rival brands and to beef up its future growth. The South Korean tech giant’s CFO, Choi Yoon-ho, said that the company will actively use its cash to expand its production facilities and for M&A (merger and acquisition) deals....