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Tech NewsSamsungWhich Is a Better TV Screen, LCD or OLED?
It’s an age-old question, like cats or dogs, Kirk or Picard, PlayStation or Xbox? All tough questions with equally tough answers, and the same can be said for LCD versus OLED televisions. An impressive new generation of TVs with the very latest advanced display technologies launching in 2015 include the newest state-of-the-art large screen OLED … Continued
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Tech NewsSamsungSamsung’s New “Serif” TV Is More About Design Than Technology
There’s no other company that likes to muck around with form factor than Samsung. The Korean company applies strange curves, slopes, and even folds on lots of its gadgets, but for its latest television, it teamed up with one of the world’s best furniture designers to create Serif, a TV that’s more posh than the … Continued
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Is the World’s First Foldable Smartphone Finally Ready?
Samsung is known for being a little weird when it comes to smartphones. There are strange curves and slopes on Samsung devices. It even made the first super-sized smartphone which, at the time, was pretty weird. Perhaps its weirdest device, a folding smartphone years in the making, has long only been a rumor—but now, it … Continued
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The Gear S2 Smartwatch Is a Good Idea, Racked With OS Growing Pains
Samsung has always, for the most part, marched to the beat of its own drum when it comes to smartwatches, making wearables with cameras, LTE, and weird rotating bezels—all powered by its own OS, called Tizen. Although that first-party software allows Samsung to get creative with its wristputers, it also comes with unfortunate side effects. … Continued
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An Extra Door On This Front-Loading Washer Lets You Add Last Minute Additions
They’re more eco-friendly than top-loading machines, but front-loading washers don’t let you add forgotten garments once the wash cycle has started. With the addition of a second smaller door, though, Samsung’s new WW8500 AddWash lets you toss in that missing sock you just found. The extra door, located at the top of the washer’s main … Continued
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Samsung’s New Sleep Tracker Liberates Your Wrist By Hiding Under Your Mattress
Sleep tracking gadgets and apps can be invaluable, health-boosting tools. The trouble is that you need to remember to use them, which often involves wearing a wristable to bed. Samsung’s new Sleepsense tracker helps fix this problem by hiding the tracker under your mattress. It appears to be just that simple. Put the little puck … Continued
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The New Gear S2 Doesn’t Sound Like an Apple Watch Killer
In a wearable preamble to the gadget onslaught that will flood Berlin this week, Samsung’s just outed its latest attempt to win over your wrist-puter heart. It’s the Gear S2, an update to last year’s Galaxy Gear S, which was just too weird to love. Almost nothing is visually similar between the two watches—the Gear … Continued
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Amazon Echo takes one more step to becoming the benevolent central hub (or Hal 9000) to your future smart home. After connecting with Belkin’s WeMo smart devices this past May, a web-cached blogpost shows Amazon’s Echo now controlling SmartThings devices, Samsung’s acquired smart home division. Neat. [TechCrunch]
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Go Test-Drive a Samsung Phone For a Month, For Free
Are you an iPhone user with even a slight curiosity about The Dark Side? Because if so, Samsung has one hell of a promotion going on. Samsung’s ‘test drive’ will let you try a Galaxy S6 Edge, S6 Edge+, or Note 5 for 30 days, free of charge. The company will even throw in a … Continued
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Samsung Made the World’s Best Smartphone Display Even Better
If there’s one thing Samsung is good at—its displays. Those OLED panes of glass that are our pocket-friendly window into the internet keep improving with every generation. Even though Samsung didn’t pack in more pixels this year, the new Note 5 and S6 Edge+ displays are the best yet. The key element for a great … Continued
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Tech NewsSamsungSamsung’s Mysterious Gear S2 Smartwatch Looks Downright Wearable
Samsung showed us two jumbo phones today that were, you know, more or less what we were expecting—and frankly not all that interesting. At the end of the show, though, Samsung teased the Gear S2 smartwatch, set to be announced on September 3rd at IFA in Berlin. Now that’s what I’m talking about! We know … Continued
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Wow, Samsung’s New 16 Terabyte SSD Is the World’s Largest Hard Drive
Gone are the days when you have to sacrifice size for speed with an SSD drive in your laptop. At the Flash Memory Summit in California, Samsung just revealed a new 2.5-inch SSD drive with an incredible 16 terabytes of storage. It’s not only the world’s largest SSD—it’s actually now the world’s largest hard drive, … Continued
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Tech NewsSamsungGalaxy Note 5 Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know
Samsung is set to debut the fifth iteration of the generously-sized Note later this month, but this is the internet—why wait in patience, when we can piece together rumors and half-truths instead? Here’s everything we think we know. The Galaxy Note has long been the trend-setting Big Android Smartphone: Samsung basically invented (don’t-call-’em) phablets when … Continued
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Samsung’s Next Galaxy Smartphone Will Be Announced August 13th
That’s right. Samsung’s next smartphone is coming in less than three weeks. Given the time of year, it’s probably a new Galaxy Note. And we’re pretty sure you can expect a new version of Samsung’s Gear VR virtual reality headset attachment to go with it. Here’s what the new phone will probably look like, if … Continued
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A Monitor With Built-In Wireless Charging Actually Makes A Lot of Sense
In the ‘interesting new technology’ stakes, new PC monitors normally rank just above updated versions of power strips. But when a monitor includes a built-in Qi wireless charging pad? Now we’re talking. Samsung’s latest monitor, the catchily-named SE370, is a pretty run-of-the-mill desktop monitor: 24” or 27”, and 1080p PLS panel are not exciting specs. … Continued
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Want MicroSD in Your Galaxy S6? Consider This Battery Boosting Case
We called the Galaxy S6 the best smartphone you can buy. Some would consider that a betrayal. After all, the S6 doesn’t have removable batteries or SD card slots anymore—it’s completely sealed. But you know what? There’s a new case that might solve at least one of those problems. The $90 Incipio Offgrid not only … Continued
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Someone Is Finally Suing Samsung Over Its Bloatware
For years, Samsung (and other Android manufacturers) have been crapping all over Google’s simple software design with layers of gratuitous bloatware. So, in the proud American tradition, a Chinese consumer protection group is suing Samsung and Oppo for ruining everyone’s lives. As the Shanghai Daily reports, the Shanghai Consumer Rights Protection Commission has filed two … Continued
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Samsung Will Stop Breaking Windows Update With Its Crappy Bloatware
Earlier this week, a Microsoft security researcher wrote a scathing account of how Samsung’s SW Update tool (installed by default on all Samsung PCs) is disabling Windows Update, potentially leaving millions of computers vulnerable to critical security flaws. Thankfully, Samsung’s crack bloatware programmers have seen the light, and are pushing an update. Samsung provided the … Continued
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