Samsung is a Korea based company that was founded in 1938, and is one of the most popular and successful electronics companies in the world. Like its most businesses, Samsung's mobile division creates products that are widely sold all over the world. Today Samsung smartphones are powered by Google's Android OS and Samsung's own BADA OS. Some popular Samsung devices include Nexus S, Galaxy S series, and more. Read our Samsung coverage for the latest news, reviews and videos about Samsung smartphones:
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by Jaime Rivera | June 18, 2013 2:19 AMRead OnThe Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 has proven to be the tablet that many of us dreamed, but that sadly hasn't made the dent that many of us expected in the market. If you think about it, it's the perfect form factor for S-Pen functionality by offering a display size that's not too big, nor too small to actually be used with one hand as you write on it. A big reason for its lack of success had to do with its focus on mainly launching ti as a Wi-Fi only model in a US where the carriers rule distribution. This is fortunately about to change for all those interested. AT&T has just made it ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 17, 2013 2:19 PMRead OnVerizon was in no hurry to get started with sales of Samsung's Galaxy S 4, but after taking its sweet time, we finally saw the carrier begin carrying the Android last month. Presumably, that was going to be it, and our attention started turning to other Verizon launches, like its similarly delayed interest in the HTC One. However, it looks like the carrier could still have another trick or two up its sleeve, and a new leak attempts to reveal plans for a line of limited edition GS4 designs. The leaked screenshots reveal GS4 case designs from firms like Kid Robot, Undefeated, KAWS, and ...
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by Jaime Rivera | June 17, 2013 7:58 AMRead OnIt seems that the "new thing" for 2013 is celebrity endorsements, as we've seen Alicia Keys join BlackBerry and Jessica Alba join Windows Phone, among others. For all of those curious as to what Samsung and Jay-Z had in store for us after some teasers last week, well, let the rumors reach a halt as of today. It turns out that Jay-Z's new album, "Magna Carta Holy Grail" is slated for a launch on July 4th, and as a benefit to current owners of the Galaxy S III, Galaxy S 4 and Galaxy Note II, Samsung will be offering an app on the Google Play store on June 24th that will give Jay-Z's new ...
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by Jaime Rivera | June 17, 2013 7:29 AMRead OnEven though Samsung is already selling millions of units of their flagship Galaxy S 4, that also hasn't stopped the company from releasing a truckload of variants of the same device in the last couple of weeks, along with some that we're expecting for their event on Thursday. Now an interesting note that was revealed today by the company's CEO JK Shin, is that even the basic Galaxy S 4 is slated for a minor but significant change in the near future. LTE-Advanced is currently being deployed in certain parts of Russia, and it offers data speeds that are almost twice as fast as the current 4G ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 15, 2013 10:53 AMRead OnThe Nokia Lumia 925 vs Samsung Galaxy S 4 question might have a more difficult answer than you'd think. Let's take the Nokia phone. It is, undoubtedly, the best Windows Phone money can buy at the moment. For how long? Most probably until Nokia's next Windows Phone, the rumored EOS, becomes available. It also happens to be among the best camera-phones on the market. The Samsung Galaxy S 4 needs no introduction. It is among the best three Android devices you can get today (depending on who you ask). It also happens to have one of the best cameras on a phone today. So it is just normal we did ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 14, 2013 5:14 PMRead OnSamsung's Galaxy S 4 Mini, announced late last month, may not pack the raw power of its larger sibling, but for users sick of how big smartphones have been getting, it could be a decent compromise between size and performance. Since then, we picked up some early hints about how the phone might be priced, but we were still wanting for additional launch details. Now there's a theory going around this afternoon that the GS4 Mini could be looking to make a home at Verizon in the States. The evidence for that idea is a little light, but hear us out. The Bluetooth SIG has a new listing up for a ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 14, 2013 3:34 PMRead OnWhat evidence have we seen so far for Samsung's next high-end phablet, the Galaxy Note III? There's been plenty of talk, sure, but some of the recent pictures purporting to be the Note III raised enough questions to have us doubting what they really showed. We also saw the name "Galaxy Note III" appear in a document on a Kazakhstani Samsung site, tied to a model number, but Samsung quickly edited that away. Now that model number – or at least something close to it – is surfacing again, this time attached to an image on Picasa. That doc referred to the GN3 as Samsung's model SM-N9000. ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 14, 2013 2:49 PMRead OnPlenty of companies involved in the smartphone game can be referred to synonymously with the turf they occupy; when we talk about big news coming out of Cupertino, Mountain View, or Redmond, it should be readily apparent just which entities we mean. That's what we call a "metonym." Certainly, it's just as true for Nokia and Espoo, Finland, which is why we're finding it just a bit cheeky to learn that Samsung has set up its first R&D facility in Northern Europe right in Nokia's backyard. Indeed, of all the places Samsung could choose to set up camp, it decided to move on in to Espoo. ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 14, 2013 2:03 PMRead OnTopic Pocketnow Live kicked off twenty Fridays ago. We can't even believe it ourselves that we're at the twentieth installment of a show that is highly popular not only among our viewers, readers, audience in general, but also among members of the team. Episode 20 is also the Season Finale. We're wrapping up Season One with the team that kicked it off. Worry not, we're not only planning on Season Two, but thinking way ahead. So, before we take a break from the Live, let's have a great casual conversation one more time. Plenty of things going on, from the Galaxy Mega and HP TouchPad Go ...
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by Taylor Martin | June 13, 2013 6:05 PMRead OnWhen Anton didn't immediately scowl at the thought of using an 8-inch tablet as a phone replacement, I called him crazy. I literally thought he'd lost it. The point of a cell phone – for portable communication – is completely negated by substituting it with a device that doesn't fit in your pocket. And when he got the Fonepad by ASUS, actually liked it and didn't change his mind like I thought he would, and scored it as an impressive (for a tablet) eight out of 10 in the review, I was fully convinced Tony had gone off the deep end. Exactly one week ago, I received an email from ...
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by Taylor Martin | June 13, 2013 4:28 PMRead OnWhile the Galaxy Mega 6.3 and HTC One have very little in common, both are symbolic of their respective makers' current financial status and recent market performance. HTC is currently struggling and put every ounce of effort and know-how into a single smartphone. And the Galaxy Mega 6.3 is only one of many Samsung smartphones that have few realistic reasons to exist other than the fact that Samsung can afford to experiment to see what sticks. The Galaxy Mega 6.3 towers over pretty much every other smartphone on the market. And the HTC One packs one serious wallop with BoomSound, ...
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Pocketnow Weekly 048: Galaxy S 5 rumors meet Nokia EOS leaks in back alley, nasty knife fight ensuesby Michael Fisher | June 13, 2013 2:43 PMRead OnBefore we begin, we'd just like to say something to everyone who's going to call us out for click-baiting with that "Galaxy S 5" title: your allegations are completely founded and true. But look here: even though Galaxy S 5 rumors are (to say the least) premature and indicative of a serious problem with our nasty-fast industry -an issue we discuss on the air- they're also important. That's because, as unreliable and, frankly, stupid as they are, they also give us an opportunity to discuss the future of Samsung industrial design. And any opportunity we get to talk about the Galaxy family in ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 13, 2013 2:33 PMRead OnYesterday, waterproof phones were all over the news, and part of that was due to a teaser video AT&T produced showing what sure looked like it might be a Samsung Galaxy S 4 Active, along with the promise that the carrier would have more news for us today. Sure enough, this morning AT&T came through with its announcement, revealing plans to start selling the GS4 Active on June 21. AT&T will get the phone in Urban Gray and Dive Blue (none of that Metallic Orange) and sell the handset for just about $200 on-contract. Pre-orders for the handset will begin tomorrow. The carrier ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 13, 2013 12:29 PMRead OnSo far, if you've wanted a Samsung Galaxy S 4, that's meant the choice between a phone running an Exynos 5 Octa and a Snapdragon 600. That Exynos chip may still be the top dog in Samsung's SoC family, but the 600 is about to give way to the Snapdragon 800 this summer. Rather than letting that new chip only power brand new phones, we're wondering if Samsung could be planning to release new GS4 models with Snapdragon 800s at their core, after seeing a few phones with that chip get their DLNA certifications. Three SHV-E330 variants – the SHV-E330L, K, and S – show up in DLNA paperwork ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 13, 2013 11:31 AM
Read OnWith last year's Galaxy Camera, Samsung managed to marry the guts from one of its Galaxy-series Androids with the hardware from a stand-alone digital camera. The result, while interesting, ended up falling in an odd middle ground, where it wasn't extremely useful as a smartphone, nor as capable as more traditional digital cameras. This year, Samsung's hoping to do things a little better, and we've already learned of the Galaxy S 4 Zoom, which looks to be a more phone-focused version of the Galaxy Camera. What about going the other direction? Samsung's J.K. Shin has been talking about a ...