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Three years ago, Google debuted Cardboard, a clever sub-$20 DIY kit that turned nearly any phone into a VR viewer. It was brilliantly simple — so cheap and universal that The New York Times eventually gave it away for free to its print subscribers. And it worked as a smart counterpoint to the high-end PC-based …

Android phones have always had one big advantage over iPhones: expandable storage. Unfortunately, not all Android phones have a microSD expansion slot, which makes that advantage a lot tougher to leverage. Does that mean owners of slotless Android phones — like, say, the Samsung Galaxy S6 ($99 at Amazon) — are stuck with a fixed amount of internal space? Thankfully, …

Here we thought the next cool screen tech would be foldable displays. Turns out, they could be stretchable. Samsung this week showed off new display technology that looks kind of like a trampoline. The 9.1-inch stretchable OLED display prototype, which Samsung called the first of its kind, can be flexed in two directions, unlike conventional flexible OLED displays that can …

You won’t believe your eyes. But maybe the Samsung Galaxy S8 will. In the month since Samsung released its flagship device, hackers in Germany have figured how to break the phone’s iris recognition lock. Samsung has touted the biometric technology as “one of the safest ways to keep your phone locked,” claiming that a person’s iris patterns are “virtually impossible …

There’s no need for the Supreme Court to get involved in Apple v. Samsung again, at least according to Apple. The iPhone maker on Monday filed its response to a Samsung petition for the nation’s highest court to consider yet another aspect of the two companies’ long-running patent dispute. Samsung in March asked the Supreme Court to look at a …

The Hilton Union Square Hotel in San Francisco was busier than normal as people hustled to grab boxed sandwich lunches. The food was provided by Samsung, which played host to a developer conference last week to promote its homegrown Tizen operating system. With a turkey sandwich in hand, I struck up a conversation with a photographer who has never made …

Samsung Pay finally launched in the UK on Tuesday, just shy of two years after it was first announced. The mobile-payments platform is Samsung’s rival to Android Pay and Apple Pay and lets Samsung phone owners use their device at contactless payment terminals instead of a debit or credit card. The UK is the 18th country globally to get Samsung …

Now playing: Watch this: The LG G6 gives the people what they (mostly) want 2:41 LG‘s flagship of the year, the G6, is now available unlocked for purchase at online retailers and for preorder at LG’s site. Though Amazon currently lists it for about $630, others like B&H and LG are selling it for $700. The phone marks LG’s return …

Now playing: Watch this: Make GIFs easily on the Galaxy S8 1:28 Phones are essentially computers, and, like computers, get stuck or freeze once in a while. It’s frustrating, especially if you don’t know how to soft reset — or restart — your phone. To soft reset a frozen Galaxy S8 or S8 Plus you need to hold the power …

If you are a Galaxy S8 owner, you have one of the most beautiful phones ever made. But all that beauty comes with one flaw — and no, it’s not the placement of the fingerprint sensor. Some owners are experiencing audio problems with their handsets On Samsung’s community discussion forums, many users have complained about audio cutting out on their …