Every now and then, the universe hands you a story on a silver platter, served with a whopping huge side of situational irony. On Wednesday, 19 fire engines and 110 firemen reported to a fire at Samsung SDI’s Chinese manufacturing facility in Tianjin. The fire was put out without widespread …
Read More »New leak points to release dates for Samsung Galaxy S8 and LG G6
It’s getting to be that time of year when the big Android device makers release their flagship phones in quick succession. Hometown South Korean rivals Samsung and LG have been duking it out in recent years with near-simultaneous releases, but this time LG may have a few weeks all to …
Read More »Samsung Galaxy S8 will probably let you change the navigation button order
You can usually recognize a Samsung phone, even from a distance. Well, or a phone that’s trying really hard to look like a Samsung phone. Starting with the Galaxy S3, Samsung standardized its button design with a large physical home button and two backlit capacitive navigation keys below the screen. …
Read More »Samsung’s Exynos 8895 features custom CPU cores, first 10nm chip to market
Mobile World Congress doesn’t start for a few days, but Samsung has already jumped the gun to announce its own SoC. The Exynos 8895 will be the first 10nm chip produced in commercial volume, and it’ll feature a new custom CPU core of Samsung’s own design. We’ve discussed Samsung’s M1 …
Read More »Samsung Galaxy Tab S3: finally a worthy successor to the Note 10.1
For those of us who rely on using an Android tablet for serious note-taking, it has been a sad last couple years. There hasn’t been a really good 10-inch Android tablet (or really even 8-inch tablet) with an active stylus since the Samsung Note 10.1 2014 edition. As much as …
Read More »Samsung’s de facto leader indicted on bribery charges
The de facto head of Samsung, Jay Y. Lee, is facing the potential of years behind bars after South Korean prosecutors said today that they intend to indict him on bribery charges, the Wall Street Journal reported. Lee was arrested earlier this month on bribery, embezzlement, and perjury charges related to giving $37 million …
Read More »Samsung expected to unveil Galaxy Tab S3 at Mobile World Congress
Android tablets (and tablets in general) are not the hot sellers they once were. Cheaper Windows laptops, Chromebooks have, and larger phablet-style phones have all eaten into tablet sales. Samsung has released a few budget tablets, which do still sell in appreciable numbers. It’s not done with premium tablets, though. …
Read More »Full details, photos of the Samsung Galaxy S8 just leaked
It’s never easy keeping a lid on the various details of a smartphone, but some companies try much harder than others. Apple, even in the post-Jobs era, tries to keep some upcoming features on lockdown. Samsung, in contrast, tends to leak like a sieve — and the full details and …
Read More »Samsung’s foundry business, upcoming 10nm designs offsets its catastrophic Note 7 losses
Ever since Samsung recalled the Note 7, it’s been obvious the downturn would whack its finances (and the mobile phone division has, indeed, been hit hard by the double recall and sales loss). Despite these losses, however, Samsung just posted its best operating profit in three years. That’s mostly thanks …
Read More »Samsung reveals root cause of Galaxy Note 7 failures, fires
Ever since Samsung recalled, reissued, and double-recalled the Galaxy Note 7, there’s been curiosity and contention over what, exactly, killed the phone. This has ranged from the conspiratorial (Apple is paying the media to manufacture reports of fires) to the prosaic explanation that whatever battery failure killed the first round …
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