Shara Tibken

Samsung videos give in

Samsung introduced the Gear Fit at MWC 2014. Andrew Hoyle/CNET Samsung’s giving us a closer look at its newest smartphone and wearables. The Korean electronics giant released a couple videos for the Galaxy S5, Gear 2, and Gear Fit to give users an in-depth look at some features of the new devices. Samsung frequently crams …

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The chips of Samsung’s Galaxy S5

BARCELONA, Spain — Qualcomm and Samsung are back in the newest Galaxy device, the Galaxy S5. The Korean electronics giant on Monday unveiled its newest flagship phone with a slightly tweaked design and updated specs. The Galaxy S5 has a 5.1-inch display HD screen and a 16-megapixel rear-facing camera with a bunch of bells and whistles that are supposed to …

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Samsung: We’re working on 64

BARCELONA, Spain — Samsung likely will join the 64-bit processor club this year, but it doesn’t have the technology ready just yet, CNET has learned. “64-bit is very important … in the sense that there’s a real demand, whether you need it or not,” Kyushik Hong, vice president of marketing for Samsung’s system LSI business, told CNET at Mobile World …

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Samsung wants you to make Gear 2 apps, ASAP

BARCELONA, Spain — Samsung on Wednesday introduced tools that will allow developers to create apps for the company’s new wearables and flagship Galaxy S5 smartphone. The company, speaking at a developer day at Mobile World Congress, released a software development kit for its Gear 2 smartwatch, which is based on the Tizen operating system, and an SDK for its S Health application. …

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Samsung’s Gear Fit doesn’t run Android or Tizen

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Gear Fit gets its curve on 1:18 BARCELONA, Spain — As if Samsung didn’t already have enough operating systems to worry about, it’s now adding another. Well, kinda. The Korean electronics giant loaded its new fitness band, the Gear Fit, with a real-time operating system instead of the Android software used in its phones or …

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Intel launches new Atom processors, touts mobile wins

Hermann Eul, the head of Intel’s smartphone business, provides details about its Merrifield and Moorefield Atom chips. Shara Tibken/CNET BARCELONA, Spain — Intel on Monday launched its new Atom processor for smartphones and talked up its progress in mobile as it tried to alleviate worries about its continued struggles in the market. The Santa Clara, Calif., company unveiled two new …

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Intel LTE poised to join upcoming Galaxy S5 family

BARCELONA, Spain — At least one device in Samsung’s Galaxy S5 family of smartphones could ship with Intel inside. The Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker is close to signing a deal with Samsung to provide LTE chips for one of the variations of the Galaxy S5 that will hit the market in the coming months, an Intel spokesman told CNET. Hermann …

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Galaxy S5: Hardly Samsung’s be all and end all

BARCELONA, Spain — The Galaxy S5 may be Samsung’s flashiest device of the year, but it won’t be the only important one. The Korean electronics giant on Monday unveiled its newest flagship phone with all — or at least most — of the bells and whistles that consumers have come to expect. The device, with a fingerprint scanner and heart …

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Samsung still ‘evaluating’ a Tizen phone for this year

BARCELONA, Spain — Don’t hold your breath for a Samsung Tizen smartphone anytime soon. The Korean electronics giant has been working on such a device for months, but the product continues to face delays. The company most recently said it would release a phone in February. But instead, Samsung made its first Tizen push with wearables. It’s still working on …

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Qualcomm launches 64

BARCELONA, Spain — Qualcomm just made things a little harder for its mobile chip rivals. The San Diego wireless chipmaker on Monday introduced two new processors for high-end mobile devices — the quad-core Snapdragon 610 and the octa-core Snapdragon 615. Both chips integrate Qualcomm’s third-generation 4G LTE modem, 3G technology such as HSPA+ and CDMA, and 802.11ac Wi-Fi, the fastest …

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