Samsung Galaxy S5 sales has failed to pick up and meet company’s expectations. The sales of Galaxy S5 have been 40% less than what the company had expected, as per a latest report from The Wall Street Journal.
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The Galaxy Note Edge will NOT go on sale in the UK on November 28 as originally planned with Samsung confirming the handset’s launch has been delayed until December 12. Alongside the delay in the launch, Samsung have pushed back the pre-order period and shortened it to a week meaning you won’t be able to order it from Samsung or Carphone Warehouse before December 5th. Continue reading “Galaxy Note Edge UK launch delayed until December 12”
Samsung has launched a WiFi only variant of the Gear S in Japan for ¥38,880 ($330). The WiFi-only version of the Gear S is currently offered by Japanese carrier KDDI au while the and NTT DoCoMo is selling the SIM card slot equipped Gear S.
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Samsung has filed a complaint with a US International Trade Commission asking them to block imports of NVIDIA’s computer graphic chips in the U.S. markets.
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Chinese manufacturer Huawei have been producing handsets for many years (both as white-label for companies and under their own name) but one area where the company has particularly struggled is adoption of devices bearing its name in European and American markets. Earlier this year they announced the new Honor 6 smartphone for Europe and whilst it shares many hallmarks of other Huawei devices such as the Ascend P6, it does drop the Huawei branding. How does this smartphone designed for Europe compare with the phablet behemoth that is the Samsung Galaxy Note 4? Continue reading “Huawei Honor 6 vs Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Photo Gallery”
Samsung announced the Gear S smartwatch in August and it went on sale in India earlier this month for Rs 27,900. We have already seen the unboxing and the photo gallery of the smartwatch and also went handson with it at IFA Berlin. Now lets compare the smartwatch to Samsung Gear Live that was announced at Google I/O conference in June. It launched in India in July for Rs 15,900.
The Gear S runs on company’s homegrown OS Tizen. It sports a 2 inch (360 x 480 pixels) curved Super AMOLED display and is powered by a 1GHz Dual-Core processor. While the Gear Live runs on Android Wear and has a 1.63 inch touchscreen with a 320×320 resolution and is powered by a 1.2 GHz processor. Both the smartwatches have 512MB RAM and 4GB of internal storage.
The Gear S has sensors like Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass, Ambient Light, UV, Barometer. On the other hand the Gear Live has a heart rate sensor, pedometer, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass. Both the devices are IP67 Certified for dust and water resistance. Both the devices have the heart rate sensor and charging pins below the device. The Gear S comes with a built in SIM Card slot while the Gear Live does not have one.
The Gear S measure 23.4 x 57.4 x 11.95 mm and weighs 27g while the Gear Live is 8.9mm thick and weighs over 60g. Both the devices have 300mAh battery. In terms of connectivity Gear S supports 3G and Bluetooth 4.1 while the Gear Live supports Bluetooth 4.0.
Gear S has a signature home button below the display and the ambient light sensor is present next to it and has a stainless steel body and blue, black and white changing straps. The Gear Live also comes with a stainless steel body and a usual rubbery strap.
Samsung introduced its first version of Simband a while ago and the company revealed new details about its health monitoring wearable at its recently concluded annual developer conference in San Francisco.
Samsung at their keynote presentation announced that they are opening up the platform to developers. The global market leader in association with some early partners previewed a fully functional Simband. We had a chance to spend some time with the device and here’s our first impressions. Continue reading “Samsung Simband hands on”
Samsung has launched a new service that allows users to share videos easily. Dubbed as Milk Video, the service is an expansion of the Milk Music service that was rolled out by Samsung earlier this year in March.
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Samsung has lost its bid to a US Judge about putting the Microsoft smartphone patent royalties suit on hold. The U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff said the lawsuit would proceed despite the arbitration.
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Samsung is said to be supplying 80% of Apple’s future processors, according to a latest report from the Korean Times. Apple will use these processors for upcoming iPhone and iPad models in 2016.
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We know that Samsung is working on a low end smartphone that is powered by Tizen OS. The company is planning to launch this phone in India by end of this year. A new report from SamMobile has got some info and photo of the upcoming smartphone.
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Carphone Warehouse is set to join Samsung, Vodafone and online retailers in stocking the new Galaxy Note Edge in the very near future. A snap of the company’s internal intranet – as leaked to Pocket-Lint shows the company plans to stock Samsung’s unique curved display but doesn’t confirm when it will launch. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note Edge heads to Carphone Warehouse”
Samsung announced the Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3 smartphones with unibody full metal build last month. At that time the company did not reveal any details regarding its dual SIM variant, but it confirmed that the smartphones would roll out in China in November. Now the dual SIM variant of the Galaxy A5 (SM-A5000) has surfaced on the official Samsung China website, which hints that the Galaxy A5 might go on sale in China before the A3. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A5 Dual SIM shows up on official website in China”
The Galaxy Note Edge will land in Germany in January after the company asked its customers whether they wanted the niche handset or were happy with the Galaxy Note 4. As it turns out, they wanted the curved edge smartphone and Samsung has obliged by offering both the standard and the Premium Edition of the Galaxy Note Edge. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Premium Edition headed to Germany”
Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 4 in September at IFA Berlin and it went on sale in India last month for Rs 58,300. We already went hands on with the Note 4 at IFA and also seen the photo gallery, now lets compare the Note 4 with Galaxy Note 3 that was priced at Rs 49,900 at the time of launch in September last year. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note 4 vs Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Photo Gallery”
