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An Alleged Galaxy S4 Explosion Completely Destroyed This Apartment

It’s one thing if your phone bursts into flames and cooks up your leg-meat real bad, but that’s nothing compared to losing your whole apartment in an inferno. That’s exactly what a Hong Kong man claims happened to him while he was just plugging away at Love Machine (an app, not a euphemism) on his…

Samsung’s Beautiful Curved OLED TV Comes to the USA for a Mere $15,000

Back at CES we were floored by Samsung’s crazy/beautiful 55-inch curved OLED television. They were an eyegasm of light-emitting diodes with a subtle but enticing cinematic bend. Secretly, we never thought we’d ever see one in real life since they just reek of CES flashiness that never turns into real-life anything. We were so wrong.…

This Samsung SSD Runs at a Blistering 3,000MB/s

If you think your SSD is speedy, think again: this new Samsung SSD is capable of reading data at a frankly obscene 3000MB/s. Sadly, there are some caveats. First up, it won’t run with a normal SATA-6 port—instead, it requires a PCIe hook-up. Second, it’s actually intended for enterprise customers. But hey, we all do…

17 Reasons Smartwatches Won’t Work (Yet)

The cascade of smartwatch rumors—be they iWatch, Surface, or other—increases daily. By this point, smartwatches of every shape and stripe seem inevitable. But there are so, so many reasons why they shouldn’t happen. Not any time soon, at least. To get a sense of the sheer volume of smartwatches on the horizon, you can look…

Report: Apple’s Next-Gen Chips Will Be Made By Samsung Again

Apple’s had a turbulent time with Samsung, both in the courtroom and the marketplace—which in part helped inspire Cook and co’s recent move away from Sammy as a chip supplier. But according to a new report, Apple is hopping back into the silicon bed with South Korea’s finest. The Korea Economic Daily reports that Apple…

Idiot iPhone Thief Leaves His Samsung Galaxy at the Scene, Gets Caught

Irony’s a bitch. Alleged iPhone thief Travis Montgomery Snyder knows first hand. His smash-and-grab plot to liberate a whole slew of iPhones from a Virginia retailer went of mostly without a hitch. Expect for the part where he left his own phone behind. The robbery occurred back on February 19, when police were called to…

Samsung’s New R&D Office Will Be a San Jose Beacon

Another day, another gleaming Silicon Valley headquarters. Today, it’s Samsung, which broke ground on this dazzling 650,00-square-foot office in San Jose this morning. How does it stack up, so to speak, with its nearby peers? The building (which is actually just one of four projects Samsung has going on nearby) will serve as a research…

Samsung’s Sci-Fi Visions of Future Phones

Samsung’s put together a sci-fi vision of the mobile phones of the future, showing us fold-out models, bendy tech, weird orange things and wearable sensors that scan our bodies to see if we’re unwell. We’d settle for a battery that could last more than a day. The video, shown off by Samsung strategy chief Young…

The New York Times has confirmed that Samsung has acquired streaming TV company Boxee. It’s not a monumental deal, but if anything the purchase will probably help Samsung slightly improve its connected TV interface.

Apple Is Finally Going to Ditch Samsung’s Chips

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has finally signed a deal with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co to make its guts for future iPhones and iPads. Specifically, TSMC will start mass-producing 20 nanometer chips for Apple in 2014, paving way for longer battery life in Samsung-less iPhones and iPads. The Apple pact with TSMC…

Apple isn’t allowed to add the Galaxy S4 to its ongoing Samsung patent lawsuit… because, apparently, there’s just not enough time. There’s a lesson to learnt there, we suspect.

Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Edition Hands-On: The Best Got Better

For years, one of Android’s biggest problems has been Android skins that weigh down the best hardware the platform has to offer. But now the two best Android phones in the world—the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S4—come in pure, stock Google Editions. And after spending some time with both, we can confirm that…

A Tokyo court has ruled that Samsung infringed Apple’s patent for “bounce-back” at the ends of pages scrolling screens—which disagrees with the US Patent and Trademark office’s call that the patent is invalid.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini and S4 Zoom Hands On: Funky Alternatives

It’s no secret that a smaller version of the Galaxy S4, known as the Galaxy S4 Mini, is on its way. Nor is it hush-hush that a camera/phone hybrid known as the Galaxy S4 Zoom is coming. While there’s still no information about when these will make these over to the States, we just got…

Samsung Galaxy NX Hands-On: I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You (Should I?)

The first thing that strikes you about Samsung’s new Android-powered interchangeable-lens camera is how big that 4.8-inch AMOLED screen looks on the back of a camera. Even when it’s turned off, the blackness stares back at you like an enrapturing abyss. Then, when you flip the camera on, the TouchWiz Android UI is right there…

Samsung Book 9 Plus Is the Latest Dope Ultrabook

At its event in London, Samsung added two new laptops to its lineup: The Samsung Ativ Book 9 Plus and the Samsung Ativ Book 9 Lite. The current ATIV Book 9 (formerly the Series 9), is basically an improved keyboard away from being the best ultrabook. So we’re looking forward to see where Samsung would…

Samsung’s Galaxy NX Is Loaded: Big Sensor, Lenses, Android UI and LTE

If last year’s Samsung Galaxy Camera looked like Dr. Frankenstein had sewn a point-and-shoot camera onto the back of a Galaxy S3, the new Galaxy NX is the opposite. It takes the Android UI 3G/4G/LTE connectivity of a smartphone, and slaps it onto the back of an interchangeable-lens camera. As we learned from last year’s…

A leaked Samsung user manual seems to suggest that there’s a Galaxy S4 variant on the horizon which will pack the new Snapdragon 800 chip. Speedy.

Samsung’s Giving Away a Million Copies of Jay-Z’s New Album

Jay-Z’s modestly entitled Magna Carta Holy Grail drops on the similarly nondescript Fourth of July. But despite his clear lowering of expectations for the album, he’s somehow found it within his heart to muster up some publicity by letting Samsung give away a million copies for free three days early. Galaxy owners only need apply.…

Watching Samsung Torture Galaxy S4s Is Weirdly Satisfying

No matter how careful you try to be, you’re going to do some damage to your phone. Accidents happen, especially when you try to avoid them. So to emulate your tender, loving care, Samsung took its Galaxy S4 through hell and back before it got to shelves. Somebody has to prepare that phone for you,…