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This Magical Tech Could Make Mobile Keyboards Suck Way Less

It’s pretty much a given that laptops are going to get thinner and thinner. Take Microsoft Surface for example. It’s got that tablet keyboard-cover that’s alllmost but not really usable. The problem with it is that is there’s no haptic feedback. The raised keys help a little, but without any movement, you just can’t get…

Samsung’s Got a Nanny Cam That’ll Survive Outside Your House

When you’re talking about nanny cams—AKA internet connected monitoring cameras—Dropcam is by far the leader. If people have one consistent complaint it’s that the company doesn’t make a camera designed to withstand the elements while it watches over your home outdoors. Samsung to the rescue. Meet the new Samsung SmartCam HD Outdoor surveillance camera ($229)…

​Samsung Galaxy Camera 2: The Android Franken-Camera Gets Better Brains

It’s been more than a year since Samsung released its Android powered Galaxy Camera. And despite our initial skepticism, we were actually impressed that the merger of a mobile device and point-and-shoot camera was so well executed. The weird thing was wonderful, and according to Samsung, it sold pretty well! Which is why the Galaxy…

Samsung NX30: Can Sammy’s Mirrorless Shooters Catch On?

The new Samsung NX30 is an improved reboot of the company’s NX20, a mirrorless interchangeable-lens camerathat took beautiful photos but came with its share of foibles as well. The new camera adds a new autofocus system, and some improved hardware. Samsung’s introducing a bunch of new lenses as well. Is it enough to make Samsung’s…

Samsung’s Shape M5 Speaker: A Smaller Sonos Clone

Just a couple of months back Samsung launched the M7 streaming speaker, a device which was strikingly similar to a Sonos. Now, it has a smaller version called the M5, which is… also strikingly similar to a Sonos. With just three drivers inside rather than five, the speaker is somewhat more portable, and certainly easier…

Samsung’s New Chips Could Put 4GB of RAM Into Every Phone

There’s an inherent trade-off when designing a phone, between pure power and respectable battery life. Fortunately, Samsung’s latest memory chips are so efficient that they could make 4GB of RAM in phones an industry standard—and make 4K phones a very real thing indeed. The company’s first 1GB low-power DDR4 memory chip uses a higher bandwidth…

This 110-Inch Monster Is the World’s Largest Ultra HDTV

At last year’s Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung unveiled the world’s largest 4K TV. But its paltry 85-inch size is now dwarfed by a bigger brother, which offers up 110 inches of screen real estate. This things is crazy big. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-giant-amazing-ultra-hd-tvs-are-imprisoned-in-h-5973925 Indeed, Samsung promised a larger version of the TV almost a year ago now, and…

Researchers say Samsung’s Knox security software for the Galaxy S4 could be vulnerable enough to allow email tracking and data interception. Bad timing for Samsung’s pitch to compete with Blackberry as the US Department of Defense device of choice. [WSJ]

Samsung’s 2014 Smart TVs Will Be Controlled By Your Pointed Finger

Kinect may have been at it for years, but it’s taking most companies a fair old while to really get to grips with gesture control. Now, Samsung is planning to offer more fine-grained, finger-sensitive functionality in its 2014 smart TVs. https://gizmodo.com/leap-motion-controller-review-waiting-for-the-future-t-817895912 Its new hardware will support single-finger gestures, in contrast to this year’s rather granular…

This Bewildering Samsung Ad Shows How Cool Galaxy Gear Isn’t

Do not take dating advice from this 2.5-minute Samsung ad for Galaxy Gear. It’s a hot mess of social interactions and it inadvertently proves the exact myth it’s trying to dispel: smartwatches are still in their early, awkward years. https://gizmodo.com/galaxy-gear-smartwatch-review-potential-miles-from-re-1431208144 If your smartwatch is significantly improving your love life that’s awesome, but you’re probably in…

Every Android Phone, Ranked

There are something like one million Android phones for every person on the planet right now (plus or minus one). Most of them suck. Many are great. Here’s the definitive list that tells you which is which. Here are the ground rules. Every Android phone available on the websites of the big four US carriers…

Samsung’s GamePad Gives Galaxy Phones Portable Console Powers

If sketchy on-screen controls have limited your smartphone gaming sessions to puzzles and tap-to-play titles, Samsung wants you to expand your horizons and embrace your smartphone’s inner console. The company has officially released the redesigned version of its Smartphone GamePad, complete with an accompanying app that lists what games are immediately compatible with the controller…

The World’s First 1TB mSATA SSD: So Much in So Little

If you feel like your ultrabook is limited in capacity, that won’t be the case much longer: Samsung has just announced the industry’s first 1TB mSATA SSD, which’ll give any ultra-thin laptop a shot in the storage arm. Slim devices—not just ultrabooks—make use of mini-Serial ATA drives to squeeze storage into their delicate frames, as…

The Best Black Friday Deals of 2013

Update: Looking for 2014’s best Black Friday Deals? Head over to this year’s post. Welcome to our coverage of all the best Black Friday deals. Deals are continuing to pour in, and this post will be constantly updated right up to the point when our Cyber Monday guide goes live. Follow us on Twitter, keep…

Samsung is fixing a big drawback of the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, allowing it to display notifications from third-party apps. This week, Gear wearers will get to read Gmail, Facebook Messenger, Twitter and other notifications on their wrist, rather than having to fish out their phone. [Engadget via 9to5Google]

The Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play editions are both scoring an Android 4.4 KitKat update today.

Samsung’s Galaxy Grand 2: A Monster Phone With Limp Specs

You’re looking at the monstrous Samsung Galaxy Grand 2. With a screen that measures 5.25 inches on the diagonal, it’s got plenty of display real estate—but not, perhaps, quite the guts to support it. Firstly, despite the huge screen, it only packs 800 x 480 pixels—that’s just 178 ppi. Elsewhere, there’s 8GB of storage, a…

A federal jury ordered that Samsung must pay Apple $290 million for copying iPhone features. This is far less than the original ruling by a judge for $1.05 billion but probably won’t be the final figure as Samsung is expected to appeal. Again.

Patent Reveals How Samsung Would Use That Three-Sided Phone Screen

Last week, Bloomberg reported that Samsung has plans to produce a phone with a curved OLED screen which wraps around three of its sides. Now, a patent reveals how Samsung would make use of that kind of hardware. https://gizmodo.com/bloomberg-samsungs-planning-a-three-sided-wraparound-d-1465070515 Filed back in May but just made public, the patent describes “operating functions of a portable…

Bloomberg: Samsung’s Planning a Three-Sided Wraparound Display Phone

If your phone is lacking one thing, it’s a display that covers multiple sides of its boring little rectangular frame. At least, that’s according to Samsung, because Bloomberg is reporting that the company has plans to produce a phone with a curved OLED screen which wraps around three of its sides. The idea is similar…