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Samsung’s VR Headset Just Went On Sale For $200

Samsung’s virtual reality headset, the Samsung Gear VR, is available online today for $200. You’ll need a Galaxy Note 4 to actually use the headset, since it uses the smartphone as its screen. Samsung’s Oculus Rift competitor is a comfortable, easy-to-use VR option, and while the company is stressing that this “Innovator Edition” is aimed…

Milk Video: Samsung’s Beautiful New Video Hub For Its Huge Phones

If you own a recent Samsung phone you’re about to get Milk Video, a new app that pulls in some of the best content from around the web into a beautiful, streamlined interface. It’s hardly the only video app out there, but it sure is pretty. In the vein of the Milk Music, the streaming…

​Samsung Gear S Review: But I Don’t Wanna Be Dick Tracy

Samsung started the smartwatch push in earnest with its over-the-top Galaxy Gear just last year. Now, some six smartwatches later, Samsung is releasing one that can make its own calls. The Gear S is a tiny phone on your wrist. But is that really a good idea? What Is It? A watch with its very…

Samsung Reportedly Investing In Original Short-Form Video

According to a report in The Information, Samsung is planning on dipping its toes in the world of original short-form video content. Think Netflix, but lower-budget and probably without Kevin Spacey. The report says that the service will be code-named ‘Volt’, and cost subscribers a couple bucks per month, in return for access to short-form…

Galaxy Note Edge Review: This Crazy Smartphone Ain’t Half Bad

You’ve never seen anything quite like the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge. The phone looks like it’s melting. The entire right edge of the device is a second screen. And though it feels like a gimmick at first, that extra, angled real estate can be surprisingly cool. What Is It? The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 all…

Samsung’s Gear VR Headset Will Cost $200

How much cash will you need to spend to turn your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 into a bonafide virtual reality headset? Now, we finally know: the Samsung Gear VR will officially cost $200. There will actually be two versions: the standalone $200 Gear VR headset, and a $250 bundle that comes with Samsung’s Bluetooth gamepad.…

Samsung’s “Flow” Is a Continuity Clone for Samsung Devices (Hands-On)

Samsung wants to let you sling things across all your devices. Webpages, phone calls, and plenty more. Wouldn’t it be great if you seamlessly hop from one device to the next? And doesn’t that idea sound familiar? The concept is basically torn from Apple’s Yosemite playbook, specifically “Continuity,” that family of inter-device features that includes…

Samsung Project Beyond: A 360° Camera For Streaming Virtual Reality

Samsung’s serious about virtual reality, and not just with a fancy headset accessory for the Note 4. The company’s also built its own lightweight 360-degree camera, dubbed Project Beyond. Though details are scarce, Samsung says it can give you a full 3D, 360 degree view of anywhere it films, and it won’t just be a…

Samsung’s bizarre Galaxy Note Edge will be available on AT&T, Spring, T-Mobile, and Verizon beginning November 14th. Pricing is TBD. The huge 5.6-inch curved quad-HD display caught our eyewhen it was announced two months ago. Now we’ll finally know if all of that weird comes with any wow.

Here’s Two More Samsung Phones You Probably Shouldn’t (And Can’t) Buy

The latest things to dance out of Samsung’s hyperactive R&D department are the A5 and A3, a pair of all-metal, super-thin phones aimed at teenagers. However, they’re also “optimized for social networking” and feature a “5MP Camera For Unmatched Selfies”, which probably mean that they’ll be terrible. On the face of it, the A5 and…

Data for Your Watch Could Cost As Much As Data for Your Tablet

The Galaxy Gear S, another Samsung wearable among many, will be available in the U.S. on Nov. 7 and unlike its other Gear siblings, the S can have its own data connection. Unfortunately, it looks like carriers will make you pay for this thing (and potentially any other data-enabled smartwatch) as if it were a…

Fake LED Flames Indicate How Hot Samsung’s New Induction Stove Gets

Induction stove tops might be more energy-efficient than electric or gas burners, but many chefs miss the obvious visual cues about what temperature they’re cooking at—a red-hot burner is hard to misinterpret. So for its new Chef Collection Induction Slide-in Range, Samsung is introducing a clever new feature that uses LEDs to project fake flickering…

Inside The Galaxy Note 4’s Virtual Reality Ambitions

The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is now the best big phone you can buy, but it’s also something more. It’s the first smartphone designed with virtual reality in mind — just slot it into the Gear VR headset and a whole new world opens up. I say “the first” because I learned something intriguing at…

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Review: The Best at Being Big

While Apple has only just released its first huge phone, Samsung’s gargantuan Note is already on its fourth iteration. In a lot of ways, it’s the big phone that started this runaway screen-size race. But even though it’s facing an ever-growing army of up-sized competitors, the Note 4 is the only giant phone that gets…

Report: Samsung’s Made Rollable Batteries That Bend Into a Hoop

Wearables: great, apart from the fact that batteries last about five minutes. Samsung, though, may have a solution: it’s just announced a new type of battery which is so flexible that it can be rolled up into a hoop. The announcement, made at InterBattery 2014 in Seoul—how about that for an expo name?—claims that the…

Samsung Has Made Wi-Fi That’s Five Times Faster, Due 2015

Samsung has announcedthat it’s developed new technology that boosts Wi-Fi data speeds by five times compared to current hardware standards—and it could feature in devices as soon as next year. The company claims that the the new Wi-Fi standards allows it to boost speeds from 866 Mbps up to 4.6 gigabits per second. If you…

Remember how Samsung announced it was getting Nokia’s Here navigation software for its Android devices? Well, the app has just gone live on Samsung’s Galaxy app store so now you can try it out for yourself (if you have a Samsung Galaxy device).

Samsung Galaxy Alpha Review: Beautiful, Comfortable, Flawed

Technology obsession can border on the pornographic. Extreme close-ups capture every detail, gush over every curve. People describe soulless bits of plastic and metal as “attractive” and “stunning.” (We draw the line at “sexy.”) For a premium smartphone to make it in this vain consumer world, it needs to look the part. That’s what Samsung’s…

Check Out Android L in Action on a Samsung Galaxy S5

It’s been months since Google first gave us a glimpse of Android L and the Material Design manifesto. But now, the slick-looking operating system is finally getting close to primetime. At least that’s how this new video from SamMobile of a Samsung Galaxy S5 running Android L makes it seem. This is hardly the first…

Samsung Galaxy Alpha Teardown: Lots of Glue Makes For Tricky Repairs

The master disassemblers at iFixit have applied their expertise at turning gadgets into piles of raw components to the Samsung Galaxy Alpha. And while not chock full of surprises, the lack of an official waterproof IP67 rating—like the Galaxy S5 boasts—didn’t stop Samsung from being generous with the glue, which makes repairing the Galaxy Alpha…