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Dear Samsung: A ‘Fonblet’ Is Not a Thing

During its Analyst Day today in Seoul, Samsung has been trying to coin a new term. Brace yourselves, because if you thought ‘phablet’ was bad, then the ‘fonblet’ is something else entirely. Tech in Asia reports that the Korean manufacturer wants to establish the term to refer to “a large-display phone with a stylus and…

Samsung: 2014 Phones to Have Twice the Pixels, Folding Displays by 2015

The future is slowly arriving, with the advent of phones with radically curved screens—but Samsung isn’t yet content. In fact, the company insists that the displays of its devices will be foldable by 2015. https://gizmodo.com/why-samsungs-curved-smartphone-display-isnt-just-hype-1453993230 Speaking at Samsung’s Analyst Day this week, the company announced that it’ll bring fully-foldable screens to the market “some time…

A Galaxy S4 Active Mini Might Be on Its Way

This phone here appears to be yet another miniature version of a popular full size model, with official filings revealing something we suspect might end up being known as the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active Mini. Could do with a smaller name, too. The phone popped up in regulatory filings on Chinese site Tenaa, which describes…

Samsung Just Got Fined $340,000 for Paying People to Bash HTC Online

Sometimes companies do stupid things to market their products. A silly commercial here. A ridiculous junket there. That’s all fine and good, but sometimes companies overdo it, companies like Samsung who just got slapped with a $340,000 fine in Taiwan for illegally paying people to trash talk HTC in forums. https://gizmodo.com/kohler-spent-1-500-for-me-to-take-a-bath-in-wisconsin-5904836 The fine comes after…

Samsung’s new Android 4.3 update will bring Galaxy Gear compatibility to the S3, S4 and Note 2, instead of just the Note 3. Good news if you enjoy looking like Inspector Gadget.

Samsung Smart Media Player: An Expensive Roku Alternative

Samsung has just announced its Smart Media Player, a Roku or Apple TV alternative that runs the company’s Smart TV interface to provide all the streaming you need. Sadly, though, it seems to have priced itself outta the market. Samsung’s software allows the set-top box to run apps like Netflix, Hulu Plus abd HBO Go,…

The Galaxy Round Is Just a Prototype–But Samsung Will Sell It Anyway

We now live in a world in which you can buy a smartphone with a curved glass screen, with Samsung’s Galaxy Round hitting South Korean stores. But, in the eyes of its creators, it’s just a prototype. Still, whack it on the shelves, eh? According to insider sources speaking to SamMobile, the device is just…

If you’re a Galaxy S4 user desperate for an update, then you might want to grab SamMobile’s latest leaked build of Android 4.3. If you don’t mind the faff of installing it, that is.

You Can Run Full Android Apps on the Galaxy Gear If You’re a Masochist

The Samsung Galaxy Gear is basically a tiny phone on your wrist. It already has its own apps like Snapchat and Pocket (whyyy?) but if you’re really insane,you can make it run real Android apps too. Ron Amadeo showed off the trick over at Ars Technica and while it’s certainly impressive, it comes with a…

That Curved Screen Samsung Galaxy Round Is a Real Thing

If you’re looking to get weird with your phone, the curved screen of the official Samsung Galaxy Round is a good start. Well, sort of. The curved 5.7-inch screen—same as the uncurved Note 3—is a real thing that Samsung is actually making but it’s only launching on SK Telecom in South Korea. There doesn’t seem…

Is This Samsung’s New Curved Screen Phone?

We’ve seen rumors that Samsung is bringing a curved screen phone to market, thanks to new bendy screen tech. Now @evleaks, a leaker with a pretty solid record, has dug up this supposed press shot. Man, if this is real, it’s real weird. What would be the purpose of this kind of rounded screen? Who…

Samsung ad celebrates the history of people talking to their watches

What would scifi be without all those glorious telecommunication wristwatches? This amazing new Galaxy Gear commercial from Samsung — which features clips from Dick Tracy straight through to Predator — reminds us that the future is already here. Of course, if you were being uncharitable, you could say it’s a touch derivative of the first…

Samsung’s First Galaxy Gear Spot Looks a Whole Lot Like an iPhone Ad

Sure, tech ads repeat the same tropes over and over and over. But as The Week points out, Samsung’s first ad for Galaxy Gear is strikingly similar to Apple’s first ad for the iPhone. Samsung’s spot premiered yesterday during Sunday’s NFL games. It walks you through all the times we’ve seen fancy watches crop up…

According to Reuters, Blackberry is asking Google, Samsung, LG, Cisco, basically anybody with money to buy BlackBerry entirely or at the very least, certain parts of the company. This is seen as an alternative in case the finances don’t work out in going private.

Samsung Shape M7 Wireless Speaker: A Sonos by Any Other Name…

This is the Samsung Shape M7 wireless speaker, a $400 streaming device that lets you play music all over your home or office. It looks like a Sonos, smells like a Sonos, is priced like a Sonos. All that’s left is to find out if it sounds like one, too. The Shape—which features a foam-core…

The State of Cheating in Android Benchmarks: Everybody’s Doing It

Samsung has been blamed before for fudging the Galaxy S4 and the Galaxy S3 in order to make the phones perform faster than it does naturally in benchmarks. But Anandtech has run the numbers and found that pretty much every smartphone maker is cheating. Based off of extensive research, Anandtech concludes: We started piecing this…

The Galaxy Note 3 Has a Hidden Tiny Screen Mode For Your Tiny Hands

If, like many of us, your hands are too small to to comfortably use the Galaxy Note 3’s giant 5.7-inch display, you’re in luck. Android Central has uncovered a hidden tiny screen mode for your tiny baby dwarf hands. It may look a little silly, but tiny screen mode is actually pretty darn useful. To…

Ugh, Samsung Rigged the Note 3 to Perform Better in Benchmark Tests

After pulling the same dirty trick with the Galaxy S4, Samsung has been caught rigging the Galaxy Note 3 to perform better in benchmark tests than it does anywhere else. It’s like all Samsung phones are on performance enhancing drugs or something. Ars Technica found that the Note 3 can inflate benchmark scores by as…

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Display: How Much Better Is It?

The OLED display on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is the best-performing mobile OLED display to date in every way. But its most impressive achievement? It’s the brightest mobile display we’ve ever tested. The Samsung Galaxy Note and Galaxy S Smartphones are flagship products for Samsung to show off its latest and greatest OLED display…

Galaxy Gear Smartwatch Review: A Pain in the Wrist

The Galaxy Gear wants desperately to be the vanguard of a new era of wearable computers. But while it promises more than the rest of the pack, if anything it makes absolutely clear that the future’s still a long ways off. What Is It? The Galaxy Gear is a watch with above-average brains. It runs…