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) …
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Now playing: Watch this: 5 Galaxy S8 features you should change immediately 2:14 There’s a lot the Samsung Galaxy S8 ($180 at eBay) can do. Enough to make you spin in circles trying to figure it all out. But two things: 1) Not all the features are useful, and 2) Stop trying to figure it all out and read this …
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For very specific AT&T users, things are about to get much faster. The telecommunications giant announced the next step in its “5G Evolution” on Tuesday, offering faster internet speeds at twice the pace of its current 4G LTE network. Just as long as you live in one of the 20 major cities where it’s offering the trial run. Oh, and …
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Samsung‘s new flagship phones, the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus, ship with its new assistant software, Bixby. But there’s a problem. Bixby isn’t fully functional yet. Bixby Home, sort of like Google Now with cards displaying information relevant to you, and Bixby Vision, a feature that can recognize and search for things you point the camera at, are available. However, …
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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 …
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Samsung has more preorders for its Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus phones than for last year’s Galaxy S7, the company says. “The market has responded — with a more than 30 percent year-over-year growth in preorders versus the record preorders we had with Galaxy S7, making it our best ever,” Tim Baxter, Samsung Electronics America’s chief operating officer, said Monday …
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Many South Koreans received their Samsung’s Galaxy S8 phones earlier this week, and soon after some people began reporting that their phones had odd, red-tinted displays. But fret not, Samsung fans, the company will release a software update to fix the issue, reported ZDNet. Samsung said earlier in the week that the red tint was a software matter, not a …
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Samsung’s new flagship phone is undoubtedly beautiful. But beauty comes at a cost. The Galaxy S8 costs $307.50 to build, which includes the cost of materials and manufacturing, according to an estimate released Thursday by analytics firm IHS Markit. That’s more than Samsung’s previous Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge, which cost $255.10 and $271.20 to make respectively, said IHS …
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You can use up to three different methods to unlock your Galaxy S8 phone using nothing more than your body. The front-facing camera can scan and identify your face, or you can use the embedded iris scanner to read your eyes like a fingerprint. Oh, and of course there’s an oddly placed fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone. …
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Everyone likes free stuff. And if you’re a Samsung Galaxy S8 owner, you’re about to get a lot of stuff, gratis. Google Play Music Alina Bradford/CNET Samsung has nixed the Milk Music player on all Samsung devices. Now the default is the Google Play Music service. That’s not the exciting part, though. What will get you revved up is that …
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