Items tagged with 'Samsung'
Samsung Showcases Dizzying Array Of High-Res Panels At SID 2013
Remember than 1366x768 was "good enough," even for flagship notebooks? No longer, and we couldn't be more pleased about the raised expectations. Consumers far and wide are growing used to seeing high-res panels, with "Retina-level" quality becoming more of the norm and less of the exception. Toshiba's Kirabook is one of... Read More
Fitbit Adds Sync Support With Galaxy S 4, More Phones Coming Soon
Some would argue that the modern day cellular phone killed the watch. After all, who needs a wristwatch when you can just glance at the time on a display that never leaves your side? But on the other side of the equation, the phone revolution has seemingly jump-started fitness. While a certain segment of the population... Read More
Samsung Galaxy S4 Races to 4 Million Shipments in Five Days
Unofficially speaking, Samsung's Galaxy S4 device boarded a rocket ship and blasted off to four million shipments in just five days, qualifying it as the South Korean handset maker's fastest-selling smartphone to date. Why unofficially? Well, news of the spectacular shipment numbers comes from The Chosun Ilbo, a daily news... Read More
Samsung Galaxy S4 Hits Verizon Wireless on May 23rd for $199.99
Samsung’s latest and greatest flagship phone, the Samsung Galaxy S4, is gradually landing at various retailers; AT&T was first, and now a host of retailers are selling the phone, including Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular, Walmart, Staples, Best Buy, and Radioshack. Although it’s a little late to the game,... Read More
Samsung Researchers Test First 5G mmWave Mobile Network, Break 1Gbps
The race towards gigabit Internet continues as Google Fiber slowly proliferates and other ISPs work to catch up, but Samsung announced that it’s actually looking at gigabit speeds--for mobile devices. Indeed, Samsung says it has been testing a 5G mobile communications system, the eventual successor to 4G LTE that... Read More
Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 Review
The Galaxy Note 8.0 was first introduced at Mobile World Congress as a multifaceted device; it was part tablet, part mobile phone. Indeed, the global variant of the Note 8.0 is equipped with a cellular radio that can handle both data and voice transmission. But the Note 8.0 that shipped in the U.S. market is a simpler device,... Read More
Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 Review
Samsung introduced the original Galaxy Tab in late 2010 and Samsung's line-up of Galaxy-branded products has simply exploded since then. Even for those who avidly follow consumer technology, it's getting tough to track. There's the Galaxy Tab line of tablets, the Galaxy S line of smartphones, and then... Read More
Samsung's SideSync Technology Detailed On Video
Truth be told, it's kind of astounding to think about how long Android has been around, yet there are very few syncing solutions on the market that have reached critical mass -- perhaps none at all. Backing up and syncing the iPhone is nearly instinctive; just plug it into iTunes and watch the magic happen. Most people... Read More
Samsung's Sitting on a Post-Debt Mountain of Cash Worth $28.5 Billion
Many working stiffs find themselves with too much month at the end of the money and staring at a pile of debt, but how nice would it be to have that work in reverse? If you really want to know the answer to that question, just ask Samsung, which is generating more money than it can spend each month. Of course, that's what... Read More
Samsung Acquires MOVL To Bolster Smart TV / Apps Ecosystem
The battle for the living room has become a war, and if Apple really does introduce a television-style product, you can bet that grenades are going to be lobbed from every direction. Samsung isn't wasting any time stocking up on munitions, with a TechCrunch report suggesting that it has just purchased MOVL in order to build... Read More
Cyanogenmod Offering Nightly Builds For Samsung Galaxy S4 Owners
Are you the sort of person who, despite owning one of the newest and hottest smartphones on the market, would prefer to waste no time in modding it? Well, if you're a Canadian owner of Samsung's Galaxy S4 or a US owner with the phone through T-Mobile, you're in luck. The Cyanogenmod team have begun releasing nightly builds... Read More
Samsung Announces Galaxy Core Midrange Android Smartphone
With so much attention being paid to the high-end smartphone market, is anyone paying attention to mid-range and entry-level devices? You betcha. Samsung on Monday introduced the Galaxy Core, a lower-end (by today's standards) handset with a 4.3-inch TFT LCD display (480x800) and 1.2GHz dual-core processor. Other features... Read More
Samsung Knox Approved For Use In U.S. Government
Security sure has been in the news a lot lately, and for good reason. Samsung's not getting left out, either, as it recently introduced Knox (like Fort Knox, get it?) in order to bring additional security measures to its phones and tablets. And now, Knox has a major stamp of approval. In a first for Android powered devices,... Read More
Samsung And Apple Nearing Government Security Clearance
When does a company know they've "made it?" We'd say that differs for each company and situation, but when you're Apple and Samsung, this might just be it. While both phone makers have amassed a huge following of consumers, there's one area where secure handsets like BlackBerrys still rule: government. But according to... Read More
Samsung Begins Producing Industry's First Four Gigabit LPDDR3 Mobile DRAM
With all the attention paid to smartphones and tablets, it's sometimes easy to forget that Samsung also produces some of the parts that end up in these mobile devices. In fact, the South Korean company announced that it's begun pumping out what it claims is the industry's first ultra high-speed, 4Gb (gigabit), LPDDR3 mobile... Read More
Samsung Waits on Google's Approval to Build Octa-Core Nexus 11
Samsung is reportedly itching to release a Nexus 11 tablet built around its Exynos 5410 Octa-Core SoC (System-on-Chip) architecture. All that's needed at this point is the green light from Google and then Samsung can begin producing a successor to the Nexus 10 and what would technically be the world's first eight-core tablet.... Read More
Samsung Reveals 7" Galaxy Tab 3 With 1.2GHz Dual-Core CPU
At this point, one has to wonder if the Galaxy family is simply becoming diluted. It's honestly difficult for even those who follow consumer technology to tell you without hesitation where the Galaxy range is at right now when it comes to phones, phablets, tablets, computers, and even more tablets. That said, it seems that... Read More
Samsung Galaxy Note III Leaked, Galaxy Tab 3 Announced
The hits from Samsung just keep on coming. With the ink barely dry on press releases announcing the long-awaited Samsung Galaxy S4, we already have leaks concerning the Galaxy Note III. A Chinese website leaked the image of a (very greasy-looking) alleged Samsung Galaxy Note III, which boasts a large 5.9-inch (1080p) display,... Read More
Samsung Launching TecTile 2 With Support For Galaxy S 4
For all of the flack that Apple gets each time it changes something with a new iPhone that renders an old technology obsolete, it's only fair to take a hard look at similar moves being made by Samsung. With the introduction of the Galaxy S 4, one piece of tech that Samsung was pushing fairly hard is being rendered incompatible.... Read More
Samsung Reports $6.39 Billion Profit Last Quarter, Warns of "Stiff Competition" in Mobile
Business operations are sizzling over at Samsung, the South Korean handset maker that just announced a consolidated net profit of 7.15 trillion won, or about $6.39 billion, for its first fiscal quarter of 2013. That's up more than 40 percent from the same quarter a year ago and also marks six quarters of consecutive profit... Read More
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