Are affordable 5G Galaxy phones really worth it? It depends on what you want

Samsung’s done a pretty good job at bringing 5G to lower and lower price points ever since it started making 5G phones back in 2019. You can get a 5G Galaxy phone at prices ranging from as low as $300 to as high as $2000, and Samsung is launching these phones even in markets where 5G networks are still yet to go live and, in many cases, won’t do so for at least another couple of years. Yet, using this Galaxy M42 5G that Samsung sent over to us for...

ARM’s powerful new cores for Samsung’s next flagship Exynos chip unveiled

Semiconductor company Arm has announced its new CPU and GPU designs that will power next year’s flagship Samsung Exynos chip. Arm’s core architecture is getting a major upgrade for the first time in a decade – the ARMv8 architecture that’s been seen in pretty much every Android chipset over the last ten years is being replaced by ARMv9, which brings with it more powerful and efficient processor cores. The...

Samsung signs contract to build a 5G network for Japan’s OPTAGE

Samsung has won another 5G project in Japan. The company announced today that it has partnered with Japanese telecommunications company and service provider OPTAGE to implement a dedicated private 5G network and a real-time video monitoring system at one of its factories. Samsung will provide OPTAGE with its industry-leading end-to-end 5G solutions including 5G radios, baseband unit, and Compact Core, the latter of which was designed precisely to...

New evidence shows Samsung is preparing the Galaxy M32 for release

New evidence found on Samsung’s India portal suggests that the company is preparing to release the Galaxy M32 soon. Support pages for the Galaxy M32 (SM-M325F) went live on Samsung India’s website, and while they don’t include any technical details, their existence could mean that the device is about to go on sale. There’s never a clear indication as to when a product’s release will happen once its...

Samsung maintained lead and broke TV sales revenue records in Q1

Samsung’s winning streak over the global TV market continued in the first quarter of the year, which is to be expected given that the company has been the world’s top TV manufacturer since 2006. It’s difficult to imagine that one of Samsung’s rivals could turn the tables in a single quarter, so if anyone can breaking any records, it’s going to be Samsung. Indeed, the company did break its own sales revenue records in the January-March period, topping...

Galaxy A7 (2018) update brings support for Google RCS

The Galaxy A7 (2018) is more than two years old at this point, but it is still getting updates that bring more than just new security fixes, probably because it was not just your usual mid-range phone when it launched (it was the first Galaxy phone with three rear cameras). One such update is now rolling out to the Galaxy A7 (2018), and it brings an important feature: Google RCS (Rich Communication Services) support. For those wondering what...

Samsung hides Galaxy Tab S7 FE listing, but the cat’s out of the bag

In a surprising move, Samsung quietly made the Galaxy Tab S7 FE 5G tablet official yesterday on its German website, or did it? It seemed the “announcement” was a fluke, as the link to the Tab S7 FE listing on the Samsung Germany website now redirects you to a page where you can see all of the company’s actually available tablets. However, what’s interesting here is that Samsung hasn’t removed the Galaxy Tab S7 FE page. You can see it for a second...

Which is your favorite Samsung app from your Galaxy device, and why?

Samsung has an insane number of apps for doing all sorts of things on Galaxy smartphones and tablets. These apps run the whole gamut. From basic apps like Clock, Calendar, Messages, and Voice Recorder to big ones like Samsung Internet, Health, Email, Music, Good Lock, Pay, and Notes, there’s a lot to choose from. While not all of them manage to achieve milestones like crossing a billion installs off the Google Play Store or are available...