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Shane McGlaun - Tue, Jan 29, 2019
The smartphone market is hurting right now with fewer and fewer people upgrading their devices each year as changes tend to be minimal. Smartphone makers are more likely to get users to upgrade if they have a key differentiating features...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Jan 28, 2019
Samsung has long reigned supreme as the world's top smartphone maker, but the company's seat at the throne is continually coming under attack from Chinese OEMs like Xiaomi and Huawei. Both companies have been offering budget-minded...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 28, 2019
Maybe one day we won't have to worry about charging our mobile phones—they'll just simply always turn on and work, with batteries that never run out of juice. Until that day arrives, charging is still an everyday occurrence for most of us...
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Jan 24, 2019
On this episode of HotHardware’s Two And Half Geeks, Marco, Chris and Dave will be talking about Samsung's hot new SSD 970 EVO Plus solid state drive, Dell's sweet, refreshed XPS 13 laptop, some WD external storage goodness, the supposed...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Jan 24, 2019
When it comes to Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S10 family of smartphones, we've hit the jackpot today. In two separate leaks, we're getting looks at both the Galaxy S10 and the Galaxy S10+ from multiple angles.
The first leak comes courtesy...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jan 24, 2019
As is common in the tech industry, Apple has poached a key employee from its main competitor in the mobile space. Specifically, Apple recently hired Soonho Ahn, Samsung's former senior vice president of its battery business (Samsung SDI)...
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Shane McGlaun - Tue, Jan 22, 2019
OLED panels have taken over the high-end of the smartphone market, and Samsung Display wants to spread those same vibrant colors and inky blacks to the premium notebook sector as well. OLED displays are a rarity in the laptop market, and...
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Shane McGlaun - Tue, Jan 22, 2019
Samsung has announced that it has updated Samsung Health on the Gear S3 and Gear Sport wearables to help users of those smartwatches be smarter about wellness. The update to Samsung Health features 20 indoor workouts that allow the...
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Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Jan 22, 2019
Although its SSD 970 EVO and 970 Pro solid state drives are widely considered to be some of the best currently available for the PC, Samsung is at the ready with a brand new line of drives dubbed the SSD 970 EVO Plus. As its name suggests, the Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus is similar to the...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Jan 22, 2019
Samsung today officially announced its latest ISOCELL camera sensor, which was specifically designed with "punch hole" displays in mind, or in Samsung parlance, Infinity-O. The problem with the tiny holes cut into the display to make room...
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Shane McGlaun - Tue, Jan 22, 2019
We have talked about plenty of rumors that focus on the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S10 smartphone family. The last rumor came only a few days ago when a leak exposed the triple rear camera array and punch hole displays. The fact that the S10 family will use an in-display fingerprint reader was...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 21, 2019
It is very likely that Samsung engages in controlled leaks of upcoming products, a strategy that has worked well for Apple over the years. Some intentional leaks are more blatant than others. For example, the South Korean electronics maker...
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Brandon Hill - Sun, Jan 20, 2019
Samsung is set to officially unveil its Galaxy 10 family of smartphones on February 20th, but that isn't stopping the leaks from dripping out of the company's faucet. In the latest leak to hit the internet, we are getting a glimpse at...
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Shane McGlaun - Fri, Jan 18, 2019
Things aren't looking great for the smartphone market overall in 2019. J.P. Morgan is predicting that the biggest impact in the sagging smartphone realm will be felt by high-end device makers like Apple and Samsung. A note from J.P. Morgan...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jan 16, 2019
In the coming weeks and months, smartphones wielding Qualcomm's flagship Snapdragon 855 processor will start to hit store shelves, and we'll start to get a better idea of the chip's performance. In the meantime, a new benchmark entry on...
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Dave Altavilla, Michael J. A. Sexton - Tue, Jan 15, 2019
The Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, is one of the biggest events in the Tech space each year. We typically see a dizzying array of new products launch during the week of CES; more than we are likely to see in the following few months...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Jan 14, 2019
Late last week, Samsung announced that it would be holding an event on February 20th to mark the launch of the Galaxy S10 smartphone. The invitations that were sent out left no doubt of Samsung's intentions with a big stylized "10"...
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Shane McGlaun - Mon, Jan 14, 2019
Samsung Pay has been a mainstay for Galaxy smartphone users in the U.S. market, as the digital payment service first launched back in 2015. However, a new problem has now surfaced for some Android users that has to do with actual the...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 14, 2019
We have been talking about Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S10 for about a full year now, and at long last, a launch is only about a month away—Samsung is expected to debut the handset during its Unpacked event on February 20. As we get closer...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Jan 10, 2019
We now have an official reveal date for the upcoming Galaxy S10 family of smartphones: February 20th. That date is roughly a month and a half away, which is plenty of time for channel leaks to start filtering out before for the big...
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Shane McGlaun - Wed, Jan 09, 2019
Samsung has been upfront about its work on a smartphone that has a folding screen. We got our first glimpse at the device back in November; granted it wasn't a finished device and the phone shown off was said to be inside some sort of...
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Shane McGlaun - Wed, Jan 09, 2019
Reports are making the rounds that some Samsung Galaxy smartphone owners who are fed up with Facebook after privacy blunders that leaked pictures and its history of sharing data without permission can't uninstall the app on their device...
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