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Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Galaxy S8: The good, the bad, the beautiful 4:41 Once again, Samsung and LG’s rival phones come face to face. And once again, we’re here to help you figure out which is best for you. Both the Galaxy S8 and G6 are excellent high-end phones with slim bezels, waterproofing and …

Dual-cameras are quickly becoming a regular feature on smartphones. Last fall, Apple released the iPhone 7 Plus which notably had not one but two rear cameras. Other phone makers like LG, Huawei, Asus and ZTE also have phones with dual-cameras, and this makes me wonder: Will phone makers stop at two? Just the 2 of us I rolled my eyes …

Samsung’s facial recognition unlock lets you activate your Galaxy S8 just by looking at it. But it could be a more than four years before it’s secure enough to be used for Samsung Pay, reported The Korea Herald, citing a source within the electronics giant. Today, fingerprint readers (and in Samsung’s case, the iris scanner) secure mobile payment services like …

Love the curved display on the Galaxy S8? That could just be the beginning. Samsung is reportedly working on curving its now-signature display on all four sides of its phones, according to Android Authority, citing Korean publication ETNews (Korean) — not just the left and right sides, but also the bottom and top. If 83 percent of the S8 is …

Every year Samsung announces its new hero Galaxy phone in the spring, half a year before the new iPhone comes out in the fall. And every year, a few pundits write articles about how it might be the right time to switch from iPhone to Galaxy — or really from iOS to Android. The problem with writing this article is …

The edge-to-edge OLED screen of the Galaxy S8 may seem one-of-a-kind now, but other phones might be soon to follow. Samsung’s Korean rival LG is allegedly ramping up its production of curved OLED displays and may be planning to put one on its LG V20 successor, which speculators refer to as the LG V30 for now, according to a report …

Samsung, the biggest TV maker in the world, is also the only one that doesn’t support Dolby’s high dynamic range format. Its solution, this year at least, is to introduce yet another competing HDR format. HDR10+ is its name. And only Samsung’s 2017 HDR TVs are compatible as of today, including QLED models such as the Q7. A software update …

We’ve speculated that Samsung was holding back a two-camera setup on the Galaxy S8, so it can introduce the design on the upcoming Galaxy Note 8. And apparently, we’re not alone. Apart from the Note family’s stylus, the dual camera mount on the Note 8’s back could be the most significant design difference from the S8 and larger Galaxy S8 …

Sling TV, the streaming service from satellite company Dish, will now be available as an app on LG Smart TVs, Sling said earlier this week. Sling TV starts at $20 per month for about 30 live TV channels, including ESPN, AMC, Disney and the History Channel. You can pay more for additional or different channels, like regular cable. This is …

There’s a new smartphone in the works by Andy Rubin, the father of Google‘s Android operating system. Rubin tweeted a teaser picture of the “Essential” phone back in March, but besides that not much is known about the device. However, Russian site Mobiletelefon recently dug up a Geekbench test dating back to late December with the code name Essential FIH-PM1. …