People scoffed and moaned when the iPhone 7 ditched the headphone jack, but it seems like the trend could continue. The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S8 may become the next popular phone to forgo the headphone jack, according to SamMobile. A lot is riding on Samsung’s next Galaxy S flagship. After this fall’s Galaxy Note 7 …
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Now playing: Watch this: Samsung wins in Supreme Court battle against Apple 1:14 The US Supreme Court on Tuesday handed Samsung a victory in its long-running patent dispute with Apple. The nation’s highest court said in a unanimous opinion that damages for design patent infringement can be based only on the part of the device that infringed the patents, not …
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Apple CEO Tim Cook said the Apple Watch had a record week of sales during the first week of holiday shopping. But it’s hard to know just what that means — Apple doesn’t report sales numbers for the wearable. Cook talked up the smartwatch in a Tuesday email to Reuters as technology research firm IDC noted that Apple shipped 71 …
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Samsung fans, get ready to take better selfies. The Korean company plans to bring a new automatic focus feature to the Galaxy S8 ($180 at eBay)‘s front camera, according to a report by Korean news site ETNews. Enlarge Image Front-facing cameras can result in some pretty dismal selfies in low light, such as this one taken with the Galaxy S7. …
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Samsung is desperate to brick your Galaxy Note 7 and it’s trying one last trick to make the faulty phone all but completely useless. The company has announced that it’s partnering with Australian telecommunications providers to shut down network access for the Note 7, in a bid to get those hold-out Note 7 users to return the recalled device. The …
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iPhone diehards swarmed when Apple announced its new jet black color — they plain sold out. Samsung may have picked up the trend that “shiny black is the new black” and could be planning to reveal a glossy black version of the Galaxy S7. Korean news site The Investor first reported that the S7 would get new shade on Monday, …
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Samsung customers are still “fiercely loyal” to the brand, despite the company’s recent troubles with exploding phones and a global recall of the Galaxy Note 7. A Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll published Sunday reveals the scandal hasn’t appeared to have as much of an adverse effect on customer opinion as initially expected. Of those aware of the recall, 27 percent of …
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When it comes to the processor that powers your phone, size matters. And Qualcomm and Samsung are going smaller than ever. The two companies on Thursday showed off the Snapdragon 835 chip, the first mobile processor to lean on a 10-nanometer manufacturing technique from Samsung, which packs millions more transistors — the engines for processing power — into a tinier …
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What do you get for the person who has everything? How about an entirely different reality — like, say, the virtual kind? Don’t worry, I’m not about to suggest you spend $600 for an Oculus Rift ($290 at Amazon), $700 for a PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR or $800 for an HTC Vive ($479 at Amazon) — excellent gifts though …
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The texts you send from your Galaxy phone may soon look a lot like Apple’s iMessages. Samsung said Tuesday it has acquired a Canada-based Rich Communications Services business from NewNet Communication Technologies. Called NewNet Canada, it will continue to operate independently as a unit of Samsung Electronics Canada. RCS essentially is the standard for the next generation of SMS text …
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