Samsung breaks new 5G upload speed record in Texas

Samsung broke another industry speed record for 5G, the company announced today. Specifically, Samsung collaborated with Verizon and Qualcomm to conduct a 5G demonstration in Plano, Texas, where a record-breaking data upload speed of 711 Mbps was achieved. In practical terms, an upload rate of 711 Mbps would allow a user to upload a 1GB video file in roughly 10 seconds. The transfer rate is fast enough to allow high-definition videos to be recorded...

Samsung led the market in Q3 but the shopping season is looking grim

The global semiconductor shortage has hit the smartphone market hard in the third quarter of the year, reveals a preliminary market report from Canalys. Worldwide smartphone shipments dropped 6% year-on-year, but not much has changed for Samsung regarding market share. In the 3rd quarter of the year, Samsung held a global smartphone market share of 23% based on shipments — unchanged from a year ago....

You can still buy the Galaxy Buds+ for cheap in the USA to this day

Samsung seemingly discontinued the Galaxy Buds+ a couple of months ago. Although the Cosmic Black variant continues to be listed on Samsung’s website in the USA, it’s no longer in stock, and it hasn’t been for a while now. However, if you are looking to buy a pair of wireless earbuds, the Galaxy Buds+ can still be yours for the low price of $99, as long as you buy them from Amazon. The Galaxy Buds+...

Samsung Galaxy becomes Team Gullit’s first shirt sponsor for FIFA 22

Samsung is no stranger to the world of eSports. The company managed its own team for a few years, and it continues sponsoring various other eSports teams and events every year. Samsung recently found another eSports partner in the Team Gullit FIFA academy, whose jerseys will now have a sponsor for the first time. The sponsor — Samsung Galaxy — will be featured on Team Gullit’s FIFA 22 kit, as seen in the promotional video below. Samsung Galaxy is...

Unpacked 2 teaser video hints at more colors for 2021 Samsung foldables

Samsung will host Galaxy Unpacked 2 on October 20. Although the company hasn’t outright specified what we’ll be seeing on stage next week, Samsung did publish a Galaxy Unpacked 2 teaser video earlier today. It suggests that the event will be focused on foldable devices and the idea of personalizing one’s smartphone with a much wider range of color options. The video is entirely CGI and depicts three...

WhatsApp can now make your Google Drive backups more secure

It’s been a few years since WhatsApp began encrypting messages sent between users, and recently, the company announced that it would soon add the option to encrypt chat backups stored in the cloud, as well. That feature has been available to beta testers for some time and is now arriving on the public version of WhatsApp worldwide. The process of backing up chats and media to Google Drive on the app isn’t changing, but WhatsApp will now show an additional...

iPhone 13 helped Samsung sell a lot more of its OLED panels

Supplying components to other companies is a big part of Samsung’s business. As far as mobile OLED panels are concerned, there’s no one that can match Samsung’s quality and production capacity. So it’s no surprise to see that even Apple sources the OLED panels for its iPhones from Samsung. The two companies are otherwise tough competitors in the smartphone market, but they do have a symbiotic relationship. Samsung’s foldable OLED panel shipments...

Carrier-locked Galaxy S20 starts getting October 2021 security update in the US

Samsung released the October 2021 security update to the carrier-locked and unlocked Galaxy S21 series smartphones in the US yesterday. The company had also started rolling out the new security patch to the unlocked units of the Galaxy S20 series. Now, the carrier-locked Galaxy S20 phones have started getting the latest update. The carrier-locked versions of Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20+, and Galaxy S20...