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The Galaxy S8 has been on the market since April, enjoying quite the success as Samsung’s flagship smartphone. Unfortunately for some users, however, something seems to be playing havoc with sending and receiving SMS messages. Users across the world have been affected by a bug that seems to be causing …

Samsung has had a difficult time of things the past couple of months. Despite a much publicised recall, the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone it released just kept overheating and exploding. Ultimately it had to scrap the entire launch and call in millions of handsets, costing it billions. Looking to rebound …

Quite a few smartphone makers are jumping over to USB Type-C, leaving Micro-USB behind and it looks like Samsung might be the latest to do so as rumours surrounding the Galaxy Note 6 have begun circulating, suggesting that Samsung will be adopting the new standard later this year. This is …

Samsung's new pair of flagship smartphones for 2016 are going on sale today. From today, you should be able to get hold of a Galaxy S7 or a Galaxy S7 Edge in the US, UK and Australia. If you have been following news on both devices, then you will likely …

Where you buy your smartphone from doesn't usually matter, but when it comes to the Samsung Galaxy S7, it does. That's because the UK's version will come fitted with an Exynos 8890 processor, while U.S. buyers will have the same handset fitted with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. While that wouldn't matter …

Samsung was the first smartphone company to jump into consumer VR with its GearVR headset and now it seems that the company is hoping to get its headset into more hands as it will now come bundled with pre-orders of the Galaxy S7, which was officially announced this week. The …

With the release earlier this month of the Vulkan API, many have been wondering just how effective it could be in improving in-game performance on current-gen hardware. It turns out quite a lot and not just on high-powered desktops either. In a new demo crafted by Epic Games, we get …

Samsung was the first smartphone company to jump into consumer VR with its GearVR headset and now it seems that the company is hoping to get its headset into more hands as it may come bundled with pre-orders of the Galaxy S7, which is set to be unveiled at an …

Last year, Samsung decided to not release the Galaxy Note 5 here in the UK, instead opting to focus its marketing push on the Galaxy S6 Edge+. However, this year that will apparently change, with the Note 6 coming to the UK but instead, Samsung won't be bringing over the …

We now know that the Samsung Galaxy S7 will be launching on the 21st of February as the device maker has begun sending out invites for its event. Alongside this, the very first official images of the smartphone have leaked, so we know exactly what the phone will look like …

While we are currently expecting to see Samsung's 2016 flagship, the Galaxy S7, make an appearance at the Mobile World Congress at the end of February we haven't heard much word about a solid release date. However, that may have just changed this week as the release date for the …

With Samsung currently expected to launch the Galaxy S7 at the end of next month, now seems like just the right time for a full specification leak for the upcoming flagship. This week, new reports popped up claiming to reveal the specifications for the Galaxy S7, which will include a …

It looks like Samsung might be preparing to launch the Galaxy S7 a little earlier than expected as a Chinese network provider has leaked images of an internal presentation, revealing slides for the Galaxy S7's release. According to the slides, we can expect the Galaxy S7 to be revealed in …

If the last year or two have taught us anything about the way Samsung operates, it's that we can expect a new flagship device announcement around March or April, so we can expect plenty of leaks and insider information to surface for the next few months, one of the first …

It seems that Samsung and Apple may have something new to fight about as it is being reported that the next flagship from the Korean device maker, the Galaxy S7, will use a pressure sensitive display, similar to the one found on the iPhone 6S for Apple's new ‘3D Touch' …

It is getting to the point where smartphone chips are getting so powerful, that they simply can't stay as cool as they used to at all times. Qualcomm knows this issue all too well, with wide reports of the Snapdragon 810 suffering from heating issues over the past year. However, …

Today, we have a fairly interested rumour to talk about regarding Samsung's future smartphone plans. We already know that Samsung had to ditch the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 due to overheating issues with the Galaxy S6, causing the company to rely on its own Exynos chips. However, it seems that Samsung …

Samsung has revealed that it is going to start mass producing its brand new image sensor for smartphones, the industry's first 1.0μm pixel 16-megapixel CMOS image sensor, making it 20 per cent smaller than the current sensors in use in smartphone cameras today. This means that the camera module on future …

It is not a secret that Samsung Electronics is developing its own 64-bit ARMv8-A-compatible general-purpose processing core. This month the full-custom core from the company gained support from developers of tools used to create software. The latest versions of GNU Binutils, a collection of binary tools, as well as GNU …

Samsung has been experimenting with flexible displays for a while now and has even included them on some of its high-profile smartphones, including the Galaxy Note and Galaxy S6 Edge. However, Samsung is tipped to be expanding its curved display offerings with the Galaxy Note 5 and later next year, …

In an attempt to lower its dependence on Qualcomm, the world’s largest developer of application processors for mobile devices, Samsung plans to integrate baseband capabilities into its advanced Exynos system-on-chips. Such SoCs will emerge next year and will power devices the company will release in 2016. For years flagship smartphones …