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Trading in a smartphone is not exactly rocket science, especially at this stage of the game where it has become a fairly common practice. For Samsung, however, it might as well be. Several customers have reported frustrating experiences in their attempts to trade in a handset for credit towards brand-spanking-new...
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Samsung is losing customers to the competition in the Android space. According to new data from Counterpoint Research, over a third of Pixel 3 and OnePlus 6T owners in the fourth quarter of 2018 came from Samsung Galaxy devices. In stark contrast, less than one in five Pixel 3 and OnePlus 6T owners defected from Apple...
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Samsung dazzled tech enthusiasts when it first unveiled the production version of the Galaxy Fold in late February, and now we’re getting a firm launch date for the smartphone in the United States. Third-place U.S. wireless carrier T-Mobile announced this morning that the Galaxy Fold will be available on its network...
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Samsung wasn’t kidding when it said that it would look to its mid-range family of smartphones to drive innovation. The company made the comments back in September 2018 after sales of the Galaxy S9 family were tracking well below expectations. Today, the company has unveiled the Galaxy A80, and it’s a solidly mid-range...
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Samsung is taking somewhat of a risk by releasing the Galaxy Fold, one of the first smartphones with a folding display. From Samsung's vantage point, however, it is not so much a risky proposition as it is a building stone for the company's future, especially in light of the global smartphone market slowing down as of...
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When Samsung launched its Galaxy S10 family of smartphones in late February, it introduced no less than four variants (Galaxy S10e, Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+, Galaxy S10 5G). All four models vary in screen sizes, features and most importantly, price.
With the release of the Galaxy Note 10, it appears that Samsung...
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One of the hallmark features of Samsung’s new Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+and Galaxy S10 5Gsmartphones are their use of in-display ultrasonic fingerprint readers. These newfangled sensors replace the tried and true optical fingerprint sensors that have been positioned on the backs of Samsung flagships for the past few...
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Samsung will need its recently launched Galaxy S10 family to sell like gangbusters in order to rebound from a Q1 slump. The South Korean handset and electronics maker warned investors that its profit in the first quarter will be in the neighborhood of 6.1-6.3 trillion Korean won (~$5.36-$5.4 billion in US currency), which in a vacuum is pretty
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Samsung is now producing its previously-introduced Exynos Modem 5100 and a new single-chip frequency transreceiver, the Exynos RF 5500, on a mass scale, the company announced on Thursday. In addition, it is also begun large scale manufacturing of a supply modulator solution, the Exynos SM 5800, for a complete 5G...
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What good is it to own a 5G-capable smartphone if there are no 5G networks? That is not a question owners of Samsung's Galaxy S10 5G handset will have to answer, if they live in South Korea. That's because SK Telecom is getting ready to flip the switch on its 5G network, making South Korea the first county to...
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Late last month, we heard reports that Samsung would make its Galaxy S10 5G smartphone available starting on April 5th. Today, Samsung confirmed that information and said that the launch is indeed on track for this Friday in South Korea.
It should be noted that the first 5G network became operational in South Korea...
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At this point, the Samsung Galaxy Fold and the Huawei Mate X are known quantities in the folding Android smartphone realm. But one other top Android OEM, Xiaomi, is also looking to throw its hat in the race. We’ve previously seen the company’s folding smartphone on video, and now the device has returned in newly...
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Samsung’s Galaxy Fold is one of the most highly anticipated smartphones for 2019, and it’s been reported that the device will land early next quarter in the United States. The Galaxy Fold’s claim to fame, of course, is its 7.3-inch Infinity Flex display.
In the leadup to the smartphone’s retail release, Samsung has...
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Now that the Galaxy S10 series launch is in the books, what comes next? That would be the Galaxy A70, a mid-range phone with some high-end features, slated for April. But after that, Samsung will take the wraps off its big daddy, the Galaxy Note 10, and rumor has it the next-gen phablet will launch during a press...
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If you are interested in owning the best Android phone on the market, Samsung's Galaxy S10 lineup deserves strong consideration, and especially the Galaxy S10+. The caveat, of course, is price—the Galaxy S10+ starts at a grand. What if you are not interested in plunking down that kind of cash for a smartphone? Well...
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By all accounts, the Galaxy S10 is an excellent smartphone. It has one of the best displays—if not THE best, based on DisplayMate's testing—on the market, it is plenty fast, and the phone's camera performance is worthy of a flagship handset. But like anything else in this world, it's not perfect. One of the phone's...
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Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Fold features more than an outlandish design. It is also outfitted with some serious horsepower. The Galaxy Fold is packing Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 855 SoC, 12GB of RAM, and a whopping half-terabyte of internal storage. This is the same SoC found in all of the new Galaxy S10 variants...
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Samsung pulled the wraps off its Galaxy S10 family of smartphones in late February, and the Galaxy S10e, Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10+ went on sale earlier this month. One member of the family that hasn’t yet launched, however, is the Galaxy S10 5G.
We’re now learning that this smartphone is expected to launch in South...
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One of the most hyped smartphones that was unveiled earlier this year was the Samsung Galaxy Fold. It represented the first entry from a mainstream smartphone OEM into what’s sure to be a hot category over the next few years: folding smartphones.
Today, we’re getting a closer, real-world hands-on look at the Galaxy...
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Samsung's recently launched Galaxy S10 series represents the best of the popular smartphone line yet, with a gorgeous display, an excellent camera system, and some nifty features. There is that punch-hole cutout, though, which some people find annoying. If you are one of them, you can turn the eyesore into a showpiece...
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In a relatively short period of time, we’ve gone from relatively thick bezels at the top and bottom of our smartphones, to increased real estate courtesy of a central notch, to punch hole displays. Samsung’s most recent Galaxy S10 family of smartphones (read our review here), which were announced last month, fully...
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Samsung Electronics has launched the highest capacity mobile DRAM for smartphones promising it will power next-gen experiences for devices. Samsung's new memory tech is the industry's first 12GB low-power double data rate 4X, or LPDDR4X, package that is optimized for premium smartphones. The new chips provide higher...
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