We had already seen the new Samsung Galaxy A7 (SM-A7100) smartphone in several benchmark listings, now the smartphone has been certified on TENAA (Via) in China. It shows the design of the smartphone for the first time, which is similar to the Galaxy S6 series with a glass back and curved sides with a metal frame. Even though it has the same 5.5-inch 1080p Super AMOLED display present in first Galaxy A7, the successor has a slightly curved glass on the front.
A new report suggests that future iPhones from Apple will use OLED displays manufactured by Samsung in 2018. The report is more of a rumor than a confirmed agreement between the two companies.
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A new low-end Samsung smartphone has been leaked online through various sources. The handset in question is the Samsung Galaxy J1 mini, a smaller and lower end version of the Galaxy J1.
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FCC, the certification agency in USA has listed two new smartphones on its website. The smartphones are the successors of the Samsung Galaxy A3 and the Galaxy A5.
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The Samsung Galaxy A9 (SM-A9000) has just surfaced online in a new GeekBench benchmark. The listing reveals that the device is powered by a Snapdragon 620 processor.
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Samsung has introduced the W2016 (SM-W2016), the company’s latest premium flip phone in China, after it got certified on TENAA earlier this month. It packs dual 3.9-inch (1280 x 768 pixels) Super AMOLED displays, so that you can use the phone even when it’s closed. You can flip open to use the other screen with a keyboard. Continue reading “Samsung W2016 flip phone with dual 3.9-inch HD Super AMOLED displays, 3GB RAM announced”
Samsung has introduced the most rumored Galaxy J3 (SM-J3109Z) smartphone finally in China. It packs a 5-inch HD Super AMOLED display, compared to 4.7-inch qHD AMOLED screen on the Galaxy J2 that was launched in India in September. It is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) OS with Samsung’s own UI on top, comes with a 8-megapixel auto focus rear camera and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy J3 with 5-inch HD Super AMOLED display, 4G LTE goes official”
Samsung launched the Galaxy On7 in India earlier this month, priced at Rs. 10,990 exclusively on Flipkart. We already brought you the unboxing of the smartphone, here we have its benchmarks. It powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 410 (MSM8916) SoC that has four ARM Cortex-A53 CPUs clocked at 1.19 GHz per core and Adreno 306 GPU clocked at 400 MHz, similar to most of the A and E series smartphones. It has 1.5GB RAM, 5.5-inch HD (1280 x 720 pixels) display and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores and also check out the gaming review, in which it scored 4/5 stars. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy On7 Benchmarks”
Up until now, the upcoming update to the Samsung Galaxy A7 was believed to be packing a Snapdragon 615 processor, similar to the first version that was launched earlier this year. Now, a new listing on AnTuTu shows that there could be another version, one that is packing an Exynos 7580 processor.
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Samsung launched the Galaxy On5, its latest ‘On series’ smartphone with 4G support in India earlier this month, priced at Rs. 8990 exclusively on Flipkart. We already brought you the unboxing of the smartphone, here we have its benchmarks. It is powered by a quad-core quad-core Exynos 3475 28nm processor with four ARM’s Cortex A7 CPUs clocked at 1.3GHz and has Mali-T720 GPU. It packs 1.5GB of RAM, has a 5-inch HD display and runs on Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop) with Samsung’s own UI on top. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores and also check out the gaming review, in which it scored 3.5/5 stars. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy On5 Benchmarks”
Samsung introduced the first 16MP camera sensor with 1.0 micron pixels for smartphones back in July. The sensor is just 5mm high, about 20 percent thinner than current 1.12 micron-pixel based 16MP sensors, hence it has minimal camera protrusion without compromising on resolution. At the Samsung Electronics 2015 Investors Forum earlier this week, it introduced (Via) new BRITECELL or Bright cell technology, which replaces traditional green pixel in the RGB, a value pattern with a white pixel to create RWB for brighter images even in low lighting conditions. Continue reading “Samsung introduces BRITECELL camera technology”
Most of us would probably know that Apple make huge profits from their smartphone sales. But what is shocking is the amount of profit they make when you compare it to the entire smartphone industry. Apparently, Apple received 94% of all the profits generated in the smartphone industry during Q3 2015.
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Just yesterday, we reported the leaked roadmap for the Android 6.0 Marshmallow upgrade path for Samsung phones. In the roadmap, the Galaxy Note5 along with the S6 edge+ was scheduled to receive an update to Marshmallow in December 2015. However, one lucky user has apparently already received the update to Marshmallow on his T-Mobile Note5.
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A software update roadmap for Samsung devices has just appeared online and it lists out 2 phases of updates for phones to Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The Samsung Galaxy Note5 and S6 edge+ will be the first to get it as they are scheduled for an update in December 2015 itself.
After several leaks Samsung has made the Exynos 8 Octa 8890 official. It is based on 14nm FinFET process technology, similar to the Exynos 7 Octa that was introduced earlier this year, but this uses the company’s first custom designed CPU cores based on 64-bit ARMv8 architecture. Instead of ARM Cortex-A57 cores and Cortex-A53 cores in the Exynos 7 Octa, this uses four custom cores and four ARM Cortex-A53 cores. It also uses heterogeneous big.LITTLE structure for efficient usage of the eight cores, similar to its earlier Exynos Octa processors. Continue reading “Samsung Exynos 8 Octa 8890 14nm 64-bit processor with custom CPU cores, Mali T880 GPU official”
