Samsung today announced that it estimates to lose mid-3 trillion won ($3.1 billion approx.) in operating profit from the fourth quarter of 2016 through the first quarter of 2017, due to the discontinuation of Galaxy Note7. Continue reading “Samsung expects $3 billion impact in profits up to Q1 2017 after killing Galaxy Note7”
Earlier this week Samsung said that it has permanently killed the production and sales of Galaxy Note7. Now, the company is offering incentives to Note 7 customers in the U.S.
Apple and Samsung have been locking horns over patent dispute that goes back to 2012. Yesterday, the US Supreme Court heard appeal from both the smartphone giants over the patent row. Continue reading “Apple, Samsung patent dispute reaches Supreme Court”
On August 2nd 2016, Samsung introduced what it called as it’s very best smartphone ever. Right on cue, as the embargo lifted, we saw rave reviews and in fact FoneArena too praised it as an excellent smartphone. The ensuing two months however have been a continuous series of unfortunate events leading to the company canceling the product. From product recalls to flight bans due to multiple burnt devices, a faulty battery and an inability to fix the issue has wiped off over $17 billion from the company’s market cap. Here’s a quick timeline of what all happened between the life and death of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. Continue reading “A Timeline of the Rise & Fall of the Galaxy Note 7”
Earlier today, Samsung stopped sales and exchanges of Galaxy Note7. Now, according to two new reports from Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal, Samsung has permanently killed its flagship Galaxy Note7 smartphone less than two months after its launch.
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Yesterday, it was reported that Samsung has halted production of Galaxy Note7. Now, the South Korean smartphone smartphone maker has announced that it is stopping sale and exchanges of the Galaxy Note7.
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Samsung has announced that is has started mass production of Exynos 7 Dual 7270 processor for wearables that is based on 14nm FinFET process technology. It also has LTE modem integration, making it the first in class with built-in LTE. It recently started mass production of Exynos 7 Quad 7570 14nm processor for budget smartphones and IoT devices. Continue reading “Samsung starts mass production of Exynos 7 Dual 7270 14nm processor with built-in LTE for wearables”
Samsung has rolled out a new update for the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge smartphones in India that brings stability improvements and bug fixes and further improvements to the performance, in addition to performance improvements rolled out in the update back in August. This update was actually rolled out at the end of September for Galaxy S7. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge update in India brings WiFi calling, better performance and more”
Samsung has released a teaser for a new smartphone in China that says The next big thing is coming. The image in the teaser shows a phone with metal body. The camera is present in the centre and there are antenna lines are seen above it. This could be the rumored Galaxy C9 that surfaced in benchmarks recently.
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Samsung has halted production of Galaxy Note7 smartphone temporarily, according to Korea’s Yonhap News, amid new reports that more replacement units have caught fire. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note7 production reportedly halted, AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon stop sales”
Samsung launched the Galaxy A9 Pro (SM-A9100) in India last month for Rs. 32490. We recently brought you the unboxing of the smartphone. Here we have the benchmarks. It is powered by an Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 (MSM8976) 64-bit 28nm processor that has four ARM Cortex A72 cores clocked at 1.8GHz per core and four ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.4GHz per core with 600 MHz Adreno 510 GPU. It has 4GB LPDDR3 RAM, packs a 6-inch 1080p Super AMOLED display, runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) with Samsung’s own UI on top. Check out the synthetic benchmark scores.
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A replaced Samsung Galaxy Note7 reportedly caught fire on a US flight on Wednesday. The latest incident comes weeks after Samsung said it had replaced over half of the recalled Note7 devices in the US. Continue reading “Replaced Samsung Galaxy Note7 catches fire on a US flight”
Samsung has acquired artificial intelligence (AI) platform developer Viv Labs. The company will integrate Viv’s platform into the Galaxy smartphones and expand voice-assistant services to home appliances and wearable technology devices.
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The Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has lifted the ban on using the latest Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in flights. It has issued an advisory to the travelling public and airline companies to allow the usage of Note 7 smartphones, purchased after September 15.
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Samsung has announced Galaxy A8 (2016), successor of last year’s Galaxy A8 smartphone in Korea. It has the same 5.7-inch 1080p display has the predecessor, but this is powered by an Octa-Core Exynos 7420 processor instead of Snapdragon 615 SoC on the A8. It runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow), has a 16-megapixel with LED flash and an 8-megapixel front-facing camera. It has metal unibody design with 7.2mm slim frame and a fingerprint sensor on the home button. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A8 (2016) with 5.7-inch 1080p display, metal body, fingerprint sensor announced”
