It’s official! Flagship Exynos chip with AMD RDNA2 GPU is coming later this year

Samsung had unveiled earlier this year that it will bring AMD graphics to its flagship Exynos processors. However, the company had not revealed any time frame or details regarding the launch of its next flagship Exynos chipset. Now, AMD has confirmed some of those details during its Computex 2021 keynote event. AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su made it official during the company’s Computex 2021 launch event today that the next flagship Exynos processor will...

International Galaxy S20 series is receiving the new June security update

Samsung began rolling out the June 2021 security update last week, with the Galaxy Z Flip 5G being the first device to receive it. A new firmware update is now hitting the waves for another Samsung flagship that was released in 2020, and it’s none other than the Galaxy S20. The latest firmware update doesn’t seem to include any new features aside from improved security, and because Samsung hasn’t...

Galaxy S21 June update with camera lag fix rolling out internationally

What could be one of the most important updates for the Galaxy S21 series for many customers is rolling out internationally starting today, after it was released in Samsung’s home country a few days ago. This is the June 2021 security update that brings a fix for the lag issues in the Galaxy S21 phones’ camera app, as Samsung revealed earlier today. As we reported a few days back, the camera app on...

Galaxy Tab S7 FE vs Galaxy Tab S6 Lite: Which tablet did it better?

Samsung borrowed a page from its smartphone business this year and has created its first-ever Fan Edition tablet, called the Galaxy Tab S7 FE. It’s just as large as the Galaxy Tab S7+ and it comes with an S Pen as well as a very similar suite of productivity apps. The Galaxy Tab S7 FE isn’t quite a flagship tablet killer, but when viewed next to the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite, Samsung’s new tablet is a much...

Does the Galaxy Tab S7 FE have a 3.5mm headphone jack?

The Galaxy Tab S7 FE is official but it’s not yet available for purchase, and while we will be preparing a full review in the future, we didn’t have any hands-on time with the tablet when it was unveiled last week behind closed doors. Samsung did share a lot of information with us regarding the tablet, but between the Galaxy Tab A7 Lite, the Galaxy Tab S7 FE, and the numerous leaks that have preceded both tablets, we have erroneously reported on...

Samsung rescues Google once again by using Wear for smartwatches

Rumors over the past few months claimed Samsung would be ditching Tizen for its new smartwatches. The company apparently wanted to make Wear OS (Android) smartwatches again. This would have been a big decision for the company. Samsung did make Android-powered smartwatches in the past. However, it switched over to Tizen in 2014 and hasn’t looked back since. Until now. Samsung confirmed two weeks ago that it’s dropping Tizen for its upcoming Galaxy...

Galaxy S21 camera lag issues will be nuked soon

It turns out that we weren’t the only ones to experience issues with the Galaxy S21 camera app, and Samsung has now acknowledged the problem via the Members forums. As some of you might recall, we talked about the Galaxy S21 camera app being frustratingly laggy a few weeks ago, and we posted a video to prove it. Well, other users are experiencing the same problem, and Samsung has now addressed it. According...

The Vietnamese government has asked Samsung to help finding vaccines

Vietnam is one of the unfortunate countries that have experienced a surge in the number of COVID-19 cases this month, and the local government is now asking foreign companies, including Samsung Electronics, to secure vaccines for their workers. Bui Hoang Mai, head of the industrial park management board in the province of Bac Ninh, told Bloomberg over the phone that ‘the government is encouraging companies to find COVID-19 vaccines for their workers.’...

The Galaxy Tab S6 at Sprint is now joining the Android 11 / One UI 3.1 club

Another US carrier is pushing the Android 11-based One UI 3.1 firmware update to the Galaxy Tab S6. The tablet first got the update in March, and Verizon began distributing it earlier in May. Now, the Galaxy Tab S6 at Sprint is receiving a similar treatment as the carrier is rolling out the Android 11 firmware update for the 2019 flagship tablet model. This is as big of an update as firmware updates get. One UI 3.1 introduces performance improvements...

Samsung could supply OLED screens to Apple for next year’s iPads

Earlier today, it was reported that Samsung Display has started making 120Hz LTPO OLED panels for the iPhone 13 and the iPhone 13 Pro. In addition to those, the South Korean display manufacturing giant could also supply OLED screens for some iPad models that are expected to be released next year. According to a report from ETNews, Apple will switch from LCD and Mini-LED screens to OLED screens for some iPad models starting next year. Samsung Display...

Samsung smartphone sales rise in Africa, Europe, Middle East in Q1 2021

Samsung has been under fierce competition from Apple and Xiaomi in the smartphone segment. The South Korean firm had just three devices in the list of top ten best-selling smartphones globally in terms of revenue. In developing markets like India, Samsung has dropped back to second place after Xiaomi, but there’s some good news. The South Korean firm has seen its smartphone shipments rise in the EMEA...

Sprint’s Galaxy Z Flip 5G finally gets the May 2021 security update

The international version of the Galaxy Z Flip 5G has already received the June 2021 security patch, but not all variants of the foldable phone have been so lucky. The Galaxy Z Flip 5G’s carrier-locked versions in the US have been stuck with the April 2021 security patch. Just one day before the start of June, the Sprint version of the phone has started receiving the May 2021 security update. The Galaxy Z Flip 5G’s Sprint variant is now receiving...

Samsung starts making 120Hz LTPO OLED panels for iPhone 13

Ever since Apple switched to OLED displays for its high-end iPhones in 2017, Samsung has been the company’s biggest OLED panel supplier. It was rumored last year that Apple might bring 120Hz displays with the iPhone 12 series, but that didn’t happen. It is now being reported that Samsung has already started making 120Hz OLED displays for the iPhone 13 series. According to a report from TheElec, Samsung Display has started the mass production of OLED...

Samsung’s next ultra-cheap Galaxy A series phone leaks, specs and all

It seems Samsung’s got a new ultra-cheap Galaxy A series handset in the works. It’s the Galaxy A03s, according to the folks over at 91Mobiles, and it’s a successor to last year’s Galaxy A02s, as you may have already guessed. We hadn’t heard anything about this phone until today, but we’re now getting both a look at its renders and some of its specs all at once. The renders reveal a standard budget-minded...

Weekly SamMobile Quiz 75 – Come test your Samsung knowledge!

Fancy yourself as a Samsung superfan? Take our quiz and see how many answers you can get right! This is a fun activity that we do with our readers every week to test their knowledge of the Korean giant. The quiz has a mix of easy and difficult questions that most fans should be able to answer without turning to Google. We make a new quiz for you every weekend so we hope that you’ll participate and learn a thing or two about Samsung in the process!...

Samsung fans’ next favorite Snapdragon chip gets benchmarked

The Exynos 2100 may not be a disaster like the Exynos 990, but many people still want to be able to buy the Snapdragon 888 variant of the Galaxy S21 smartphones. That isn’t surprising, as Qualcomm’s chip continues to lead in important parameters such as power efficiency. That desire for the Snapdragon processors is likely to continue to be a thing going forward, and today, the next Snapdragon chip that many Samsung fans will drool over has emerged...

BREAKING: Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra could be the Android tablet to rule them all

Samsung launches a flagship Android tablet every year. We got the Galaxy Tab S7+ last year. It was accompanied by a more affordable version in the form of the Galaxy Tab S7. Samsung has just added another model to that lineup, the Galaxy Tab S7 FE. Perhaps this third model of the Galaxy Tab S7 was a sign of things to come. It appears that Samsung will be launching three new high-end Galaxy Tab S8...

Galaxy Tab S7 FE seems like a poor excuse for a Fan Edition device

It’s a little unclear right now when Fan Edition really means for Samsung. The company hasn’t told us exactly who these fans are and how it decides which features these fans love the most when it sets out to make Fan Editions of flagship phones and tablets. It probably does some internal polling that we will never see the data on, and it makes us wonder if there’s really a proper goal Samsung has in mind. After all, take a look at the Galaxy S20...

Galaxy Note 8 gets new update with more than security fixes in tow

Samsung’s software support keeps finding new ways to shine. From pushing future security patches ahead of time to promising three generations of OS updates for many devices, the Korean giant is doing all it can to show customers that it cares about them after they have paid for the hardware. In the latest such move, Samsung has released yet another new update for the Galaxy Note 8, nearly four years after it hit retail shelves. And this isn’t...

‘Hey, Google, turn off Android purism and order Galaxy S21… erm, Pixel 6’

If you haven’t been keeping up with the news lately, you might have missed this week’s terse, but credible report about how Samsung scored a deal to supply even more Pixel 6 parts. That would be in reference to the Pixel 6 Pro – supposedly the next Android flagship Google has in the works for… gee, this is hard. People who happen to adore every third smartphone by Google? Low-demand users who’d be content with any device not outright malicious toward...

Samsung Galaxy users: Google Photos’ unlimited backup service is ending soon

Google Photos is the most popular and widely used cloud photo storage service out there, mainly thanks to the fact that it has provided free unlimited photo backups to the cloud to everyone with a Google account for the last couple of years. More than 4 trillion photos are stored in Google Photos, as Google announced last year, and 28 billion new photos and videos are uploaded each week. All good things come to an end eventually, though, and soon,...

Galaxy Buds 2 design leaks, might come with a compromise

Samsung’s Galaxy Buds lineup has been a success. After the modest launch of the Galaxy Buds two years ago, the company has upped the game by launching the Galaxy Buds+, Galaxy Buds Live, and the Galaxy Buds Pro. Now, the company is looking to launch the successor to the original Galaxy Buds and the Galaxy Buds+. The Galaxy Buds 2 (SM-R177) design has been leaked ahead of the official launch, thanks...

Galaxy A80 joins the May 2021 security update party

Samsung is continuing to update its older smartphones and tablets. It released the June 2021 security patch to the Galaxy S21 series yesterday and to the Galaxy Z Flip 5G earlier today. Now, the company has started releasing the May 2021 security patch to its two-year-old rotating-camera smartphone, the Galaxy A80. The Galaxy A80 has started getting a new software update with the May 2021 security patch in Spain. The new software, which bears firmware...

These are some of the Galaxy Tab S7 FE’s best features

The Galaxy Tab S7 FE was officially announced as Samsung’s first-ever FE (Fan Edition) tablet, and although it doesn’t have a flagship-grade chipset or an AMOLED display, it has a lot of other qualities that make it stand out a bit more than it would have otherwise. Some of the best Galaxy Tab S7 FE features are actually borrowed directly from the Galaxy Tab S7 flagship series. It even has one feature...