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Samsung just announced prices for its Gear S2 smartwatch, the twisty-turny circular bezel one running the company’s own Tizen wearable software. If interested, you’ll be parting with $300-$350 for the S2 and the S2 Classic. They’ll be available in stores and online on October 2.

Samsung’s Milk Video streaming service is shuttering on November 20th. The free service is less than a year old… and clearly not very successful.

I Shopped With Samsung Pay All Over NYC But It Couldn’t Kill My Credit Card

Paying with your phone has always been a confusing experience thanks to competing standards and scattered compatibility. Samsung Pay is a new payment system that it says works everywhere you can swipe a credit card—but only on Samsung’s newest phones. In this video, we took a Galaxy S6 Edge+ out on the town equipped with…

Take a Look Inside Samsung’s New U.S. R&D HQ

Yesterday, Samsung opened a brand-new 1.1 million-square-foot building in San Jose. Home to its American R&D teams, it will house 2,000 employees. Why not take a look around? The new 10-story building was designed by architecture firm NBBJ and began construction in 2013. It will house the South Korean company’s west-coast R&D teams, and Samsung…

The $100 Samsung Gear VR Is Going to Change Everything

Oculus announced a lot of cool stuff at its developer conference today, like a set of new streaming apps, including one for Netflix that’s available now. But there was a verifiable Oprah moment at the Dolby Theater in LA when it was announced that Samsung’s new Gear VR headset will be sold for $100 this…

Samsung’s New Gear VR Only Costs $100

Samsung has been an early adopter of virtual reality, creating headsets that use its massive smartphone screens as VR displays. Now, the company has announced its third iteration of Gear VR, compatible with the S6, S6 Edge, S6 Edge+, and the Note 5, for only $100. For the most part, it looks just like the…

Which Is a Better TV Screen, LCD or OLED?

It’s an age-old question, like cats or dogs, Kirk or Picard, PlayStation or Xbox? All tough questions with equally tough answers, and the same can be said for LCD versus OLED televisions. An impressive new generation of TVs with the very latest advanced display technologies launching in 2015 include the newest state-of-the-art large screen OLED…

Samsung’s New “Serif” TV Is More About Design Than Technology

There’s no other company that likes to muck around with form factor than Samsung. The Korean company applies strange curves, slopes, and even folds on lots of its gadgets, but for its latest television, it teamed up with one of the world’s best furniture designers to create Serif, a TV that’s more posh than the…

Is the World’s First Foldable Smartphone Finally Ready?

Samsung is known for being a little weird when it comes to smartphones. There are strange curves and slopes on Samsung devices. It even made the first super-sized smartphone which, at the time, was pretty weird. Perhaps its weirdest device, a folding smartphone years in the making, has long only been a rumor—but now, it…

The Gear S2 Smartwatch Is a Good Idea, Racked With OS Growing Pains

Samsung has always, for the most part, marched to the beat of its own drum when it comes to smartwatches, making wearables with cameras, LTE, and weird rotating bezels—all powered by its own OS, called Tizen. Although that first-party software allows Samsung to get creative with its wristputers, it also comes with unfortunate side effects.…

An Extra Door On This Front-Loading Washer Lets You Add Last Minute Additions

They’re more eco-friendly than top-loading machines, but front-loading washers don’t let you add forgotten garments once the wash cycle has started. With the addition of a second smaller door, though, Samsung’s new WW8500 AddWash lets you toss in that missing sock you just found. The extra door, located at the top of the washer’s main…

Samsung’s New Sleep Tracker Liberates Your Wrist By Hiding Under Your Mattress

Sleep tracking gadgets and apps can be invaluable, health-boosting tools. The trouble is that you need to remember to use them, which often involves wearing a wristable to bed. Samsung’s new Sleepsense tracker helps fix this problem by hiding the tracker under your mattress. It appears to be just that simple. Put the little puck…

The New Gear S2 Doesn’t Sound Like an Apple Watch Killer

In a wearable preamble to the gadget onslaught that will flood Berlin this week, Samsung’s just outed its latest attempt to win over your wrist-puter heart. It’s the Gear S2, an update to last year’s Galaxy Gear S, which was just too weird to love. Almost nothing is visually similar between the two watches—the Gear…

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ Review: Buy It For Bragging Rights

Some people prefer practical tools. Others would gladly buy gadgets dipped in gold. In a nutshell, that’s the choice between the new Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 Edge+. They’re two sides of the same coin. They’re both cutting-edge phones. The question is whether you’re willing to sacrifice comfort to make people’s heads turn.…

Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Review: The Best Android Phone That Spares No Expense

The original smartphone-with-a-stylus is all grown up. It’s easily the best smartphone Samsung has ever made, and it looks and feels the part. The Galaxy Note has been through five years of changes. Better screens, better processors, better software. And like any new smartphone, the Note 5 represents the very best of what’s come before.…

This Is How the S-Pen Can Break Your Brand New Note 5 [Update]

Samsung’s latest Note 5 is out and about. It’s a nifty little device, except it has one Achilles’ heel: Inserting the stylus backwards can break the damn thing. It seems ludicrous. The pen slides in just as easily backwards, clicker first, as forwards, point first. Now, 99 times out of 100, this will never happen.…

Amazon Echo takes one more step to becoming the benevolent central hub (or Hal 9000) to your future smart home. After connecting with Belkin’s WeMo smart devices this past May, a web-cached blogpost shows Amazon’s Echo now controlling SmartThings devices, Samsung’s acquired smart home division. Neat. [TechCrunch]

Samsung Might Be Making a Huge, Absurd 18.4-inch Android Tablet

Big tablets. So hot right now. Much like the “big smartphone” revolution from 2011, tablets seem to be undergoing something similar. Apple’s got its own in the works—which we’ll most likely see in a few weeks. But not to be outdone, Samsung’s planing to go bigger. According to the reliable rumor site SamMobile, the Korean…

Go Test-Drive a Samsung Phone For a Month, For Free

Are you an iPhone user with even a slight curiosity about The Dark Side? Because if so, Samsung has one hell of a promotion going on. Samsung’s ‘test drive’ will let you try a Galaxy S6 Edge, S6 Edge+, or Note 5 for 30 days, free of charge. The company will even throw in a…

Samsung Made the World’s Best Smartphone Display Even Better

If there’s one thing Samsung is good at—its displays. Those OLED panes of glass that are our pocket-friendly window into the internet keep improving with every generation. Even though Samsung didn’t pack in more pixels this year, the new Note 5 and S6 Edge+ displays are the best yet. The key element for a great…