Tag: Samsung
Samsung dishing out free S6 handsets to dedicated fans in South Korea
As part of a special promotion, Samsung will apparently be giving its most loyal fans a free Galaxy S6, if they're able to show up with all of the previous phones. According to Chosun, customers will need present SK Telecom with everything from the original Samsung Galaxy S to last year's S5. That's 13 phones…
Samsung announces series of posh Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge phone covers
With the release of Samsung's new flagship phones just around the corner, perhaps unsurprisingly the company has announced the first cases and covers for the devices. Samsung has partnered with a bunch of fancy brands for its "Rich Accessory Collection". Here's the details: Burton: Burton has fuelled the growth of snowboarding worldwide through its ground-breaking…
Ex-Samsung engineer slags off Samsung’s Galaxy design process
Samsung's phone software is "horrible" and the company only cares about revenue at the expense of making good products - that's the verdict of someone claiming to be a former engineer at the Korean smartphone giant. This post on Quora has the details, which are posted by Rezaur Rahman - who after a quick Google,…
Samsung slowing production of smartwatches
Surprising news out of Samsung today as one of the company's executives has apparently said that the company won't be releasing fifty billion new smartwatches, each ever-so-slightly different, like you might expect. According to Trusted Reviews, Young-hee Lee, Executive VP for marketing at Samsung Mobile, said "We’ve been introducing more devices than anybody else. It’s…
Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge: All the details
Samsung has FINALLY announced the Galaxy S6 at Mobile World congress in Barcelona. Read on for all of the details. Spec-wise, both the S6 and the Edge have a 5.1" screen running at Quad-HD (4x720p, basically). The S6 has a curved edge on both sides, of course. There's a 16MP camera on the rear, 5MP…
Here’s what the Samsung Galaxy S6 looks like… sort of.
We're now mercifully less than a week away from the final reveal of the Samsung Galaxy S6 - and the Samsung marketing machine is continuing to generate hype by drip-feeding fans images like the above. The latest, which you can see above, which shows off the S6 Edge variant with a curved screen, was posted…
Will the Samsung Galaxy S6 ship with Microsoft apps pre-installed?
Intriguing rumours about the software line-up on the Galaxy S6 could point towards an Android future for Microsoft. MS office running on non-Microsoft devices. According to SamMobile, Samsung has been working hard at optimising the Android software for the forthcoming phone - with the phone shipping with very little Samsung bloatware…
Samsung hints at the Galaxy S6 camera
Samsung's Mobile division has posted a video hinting at the capabilities of the camera on the Galaxy S6, which we're expecting to hear more about at Samsung's next "Unpacked" event in March. This isn't the Galaxy S6, but we're expecting it to look similar to this, the Galaxy A7. The video…
Samsung Galaxy A5 and A3 available on O2 from today
O2 has announced that it is "ranging" Samsung's two newest mid-range, metal-cased phones from today. Here's how the press release describes the handsets: "The A3 has a 4.5” adaptive display, 8 megapixel rear camera and is available in Midnight Black, Pearl White and, exclusively on O2 at launch, Platinum Silver. Customers buying the A3 before…
Don’t worry about Samsung’s Smart TVs listening in… worry about all of our gadgets listening instead.
Over the last few days everyone has been losing their minds over the revelation that Samsung's smart TV privacy policy lets the company retain and transmit your voice data when you use voice commands. For some reason, this has become a really big story, despite voice technology like this being nearly ubiquitous nowadays. When you…
