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Samsung’s Smartwatch Live Blog Bonanza Starts Right Now

This afternoon, Samsung will kick off its Smartwatch Era with the introduction of the Galaxy Gear. It’s a watch but it’s smart in that it will know when someone is calling you and can take pictures with it and it will have apps. But can it love? Join our liveblog right here—and/or watch the stream…

Galaxy Gear: Everything You Need to Know About Samsung’s Smartwatch

Samsung just took the lid off its long-rumored Smartwatch. Here’s everything the Android-powered arm computer—officially known as Galaxy Gear—has to offer. Galaxy Gear is a lot like a pared down smartphone you wear on your wrist. On the home screen you’ll see the time, and shortcuts to access essential apps like the camera and your…

Is This The Samsung Galaxy Gear?

We’ve heard some rumblings about Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Gear smartwatch and what it may or may not be. But VentureBeat got its hands on what it claims is a real prototype ahead of the gadget’s likely September 4th release, and apparently it comes complete with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, a 4-megapixel camera, and even speakers. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-smartwatch-leak-suggests-itll-be-a-dashboard-f-1224003655 According…

Is Your Terrible Laptop Posture Ruining Your Back?

Thanks to super-light laptops, you’re not killing your back carrying a computer around any more. But, man, the terrible things we’re doing to our bodies anyway. This Samsung ad is just perfect. Oh the contortions of our spines. How are we destroying our backs thanks to our super-portable computers. Let us count the ways? Working…

Samsung Smartwatch Leak Suggests It’ll Be a Dashboard for Your Phone

The frequently reliable Ev_Leaks Twitter account just posted a pair of screenshots that give us a peek at the setup app for Samsung Galaxy Gear, which Samsung is set to announce on September 4th. If these Gear Manager shots are real, the smartwatch will likely rely heavily on your phone do anything. If we believe…

Samsung Galaxy Mega Review: A Big Phone, a Small Tablet, a Bad Buy

Hey, look at this phone, I say to my girlfriend. That’s not a phone. That’s a tablet, she says. Exactly. What Is It? No, really, what is it? The Samsung Galaxy Mega bills itself as a smartphone, despite its 6.3-inch screen. That puts it closer in size—by a good margin—to a Nexus 7 tablet than…

Remember Samsung’s crazy Android-powered Galaxy NX interchangeable-lens smart camera? It’s going to cost $1600—$1700 if you want the 18-55mm kit lens. And you still need to find a way to pay for a data plan. No carriers are on board to sell the camera just yet either. Oof.

A Samsung official has officially confirmed that the Galaxy Gear smartwatch is indeed arriving on September 4th as we thought — and that it won’t have the flexible display Samsung’s been experimenting with. The Galaxy Note III phablet will also be unveiled alongside the wrist device. [Korea Times via TechCrunch]

Samsung has been denied a new trial over the long-standing dispute of Apple’s ‘bounce back’ scrolling patent. Finally!

Mark Zuckerberg Explains How He Plans to Get the Whole World Online

Having teamed up with Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm and Ericsson, Mark Zuckerberg has plans to make the Internet available to the entire world (of course he does). If you were in any doubt about how Internet.org plans to do that, you should watch this video interview from CNN’s New Day show. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-wants-to-get-everybody-in-the-world-on-the-int-1175829249 If you wanna read…

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Vevo has signed a big deal with Samsung and Apple—and may make a big announcement about an arrival on new platforms this week.

Rumour: Samsung Smart Watch Has Camera, Speakers, NFC, Bluetooth, More

Some supposed hardware specs regarding Samsung’s forthcoming Galaxy Gear smartwatch have come to light online, revealing that it’s a surprisingly powerful unit that should arrive featuring everything you’d expect of a modern smartphone. But in tiny watch form. According to GigaOM, the Samsung Galaxy Gear will come with a 2.5-inch touchscreen display and will be…

Samsung’s Galaxy Gear Is Almost Definitely Coming on September 4th

This morning, Bloomberg reports that Samsung Samsung is poised to unleash and Android-powered timepiece at its Unpacked event on September 4th ahead of IFA. Are you ready to wear a gadget called Galaxy Gear? Additional details are lacking on the product, but as with Samsung’s never-ending parade of smart gadgets, Galaxy Gear, if it’s real,…

You Can Buy Samsung’s 55-inch Curved OLED TV Today for $9,000

The painfully-expensive yet admittedly awesome 55-inch curved OLED TV from Samsung is finally available to the public for $9,000—a full $6,000 less than previously thought. This curving, technological marvel, dubbed the Samsung KN55S9C, is supposed to offer a more “life-like viewing [experience],” which seems to come from the fact that the rounded form gives you…

Apple Wins Again Against Samsung: ITC Bans Some Samsung Phones

Word is trickling in through the wire that Apple just scored another court victory over Samsung. What does that mean? For now it looks like the United States International Trade Commission has ordered Samsung to stop selling and distributing devices that infringe on two Apple patents. According to FOSS Patents, the ITC found that Samsung…

Obama Just Vetoed a Proposed Ban on Apple Products

Back in June, as part of the never-ending Samsung vs Apple patent war, Samsung won a skirmish that could have ultimately lead to a ITC sales ban on certain Apple products including the iPhone 4 and 3G iPad 2 in the US. Well the victory was short lived; the WSJ is reporting that Obama just…

How to Root Your Nexus, HTC One, or Samsung Galaxy S4

Android offers a wide variety of advanced customization options, but that’s only scratching the surface of everything you can do with Google’s open source operating system. With root access you can get down to the system level and tweak things to your liking, even going so far as completely replacing the OS. This is not…

WSJ: A Retina iPad Mini Is ‘Likely’ to Arrive This Year

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple suppliers have been gearing up their production lines in order to churn out a new iPad mini with a high-resolution display—and it could, apparently, arrive sometime this year. According to “people familiar with the matter”, Apple has been working with LG, Sharp and Samsung to source high-res…

Samsung Denies Trying to Artificially Inflate Its Benchmark Scores

Yesterday, it was reported that Samsung had rigged the Galaxy S4 to perform better in benchmarks. Today comes Samsung’s terse response, which answers some questions, but leaves others flapping in the wind. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-rigged-the-s4-to-unnaturally-perform-better-in-971577921 In part, the reason reporters thought that Samsung was goosing the benchmarks was because the phone’s GPU operates at 533MHz in tests…

Samsung Rigged the S4 to Unnaturally Perform Better in Benchmark Tests

The Samsung Galaxy S4 is a damn fine phone. It’s fast, it’s big, it’s thin and it’s completely deserving to be in most people’s pockets. But apparently that’s not enough for Samsung. Samsung has gotten caught cheating benchmark tests to make itself look better. Basically, the S4 is specifically tweaked to be better at benchmarking…