After several users pointed out that the Smart Lock option was missing from their devices, Samsung acknowledged the issue and has now come up with an answer. Samsung has confirmed that the Smart Lock feature will return via a Google Play Services update. The update is all set to start rolling out next week. According […]
Read MoreSamsung has dominated the Android smartphone market for a long time. The company first started making Android phones in the late 2000s, and its first proper flagship, the original Galaxy S, came out in June, 2010. The Galaxy S was a big hit, thanks to its combination of high-end specs, the rare-at-the-time AMOLED display, and […]
Read MoreSamsung has released an updated version of the Samsung Calendar app for Galaxy smartphones and tablets. It brings several improvements to stickers, search history, repetition options, and color options for reminders. Right now, the update is available in South Korea, but we expect it to become widely available soon. Samsung Calendar update brings option to […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Google has lucrative “default search engine” deals with both Apple and Samsung. According to a new report, Samsung is considering ditching Google for Bing. Bing has resurged over the past year, owing to integration with OpenAI’s powerful ChatGPT AI conversation systems. Read on for more! The AI wars are […]
Read MoreThe race to bring the best abilities of AI to web search has heated up. After ChatGPT-powered Bing was recently launched, Google is having a tough time. Now, even Samsung is considering moving to Bing on its Galaxy phones and tablets. So, Google is scrambling to introduce and upgrade its existing search engine with AI […]
Read MoreSamsung started rolling out the April 2023 security update last week, and the Galaxy S23 series was the first to get it. Since then, some high-end and mid-range phones have started getting the new security update. Today, the Galaxy A04e has started getting the April 2023 security update, and surprisingly, it has received this update […]
Read MoreThe April 2023 update for the Galaxy S23 Ultra was chock-full of camera improvements, but Samsung’s journey is far from complete. The company has just confirmed that it plans to release even more camera and gallery updates to older high-end phones. The Samsung Community moderator in charge of camera updates shared a feature list containing […]
Read MoreSamsung is bringing two more cost-conscious phones and one tablet to Brazil. After announcing the Galaxy A34 5G earlier this week, Samsung is now introducing the Galaxy M14 5G and the Galaxy M54 5G to customers in Brazil. And to top it all off, the company is launching the revamped Galaxy Tab S6 Lite (2022) […]
Read MoreWith the launch of Android 12L in late 2021, Google promised to bring better app support for large-screen Android devices like foldable smartphones and tablets. Since then, the company has been improving its first-party apps to better support big-screen devices. Now, the company has released a new Google Keep feature that makes it more productivity […]
Read MoreWith the Galaxy S22 series, Samsung released the Camera Assistant app that offered more granular control over the stock Camera app’s behavior and performance. Later, the Camera Assistant app was released to more high-end Galaxy smartphones in the Galaxy Note, Galaxy S, and Galaxy Z series. However, the Auto Lens Switching feature was limited to […]
Read MoreA massive Mali GPU security flaw that virtually affects millions of Samsung phones running on Exynos chipsets was confirmed last year in November. Since then, this Mali vulnerability became a part of a chain that hackers successfully exploited to lead unsuspecting Samsung Internet users to malicious websites. And although that particular exploit chain was broken, […]
Read MoreSamsung’s One UI 5.1 update, introduced alongside the Galaxy S23 series, added a handful of new features to the Gallery app, such as the Image Clipper, which so far remained exclusive to the latest flagship phones. But not for long. The Image Clipper will supposedly land on older Galaxy phones soon. The Galaxy S22 and […]
Read MoreThe demand for premium phones is increasing significantly, with Apple leading the way and Samsung coming in at a close second. Counterpoint Research recently released statistics regarding the 2022 premium smartphone market. Interestingly, despite global smartphone sales dipping 12% year-over-year, the premium segment witnessed an increase of 1% in the same period. That brought the […]
Read MoreArm Holdings (ARM), the UK-based firm responsible for semiconductor chip designs utilized in over 95% of all smartphones worldwide, including Samsung’s, is looking to change how it charges brands for its chip designs. This change in business strategy comes ahead of the company’s preparation for the IPO (Initial Public Offering) in New York this year, […]
Read MoreSecurity researchers have discovered a bug in the Snipping Tool in Microsoft’s Windows OS that poses a threat to privacy. If exploited, the bug can be used to partially or fully recover cropped or blurred-out images. If you’ve used the Snipping Tool on your Galaxy laptop running Windows to crop or blur out images before […]
Read MoreSamsung has unveiled its first UWB chip, the Exynos Connect U100. And with this new chip, the South Korean firm has also announced its Exynos Connect branding for semiconductor chips that offer short-range wireless connectivity such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and UWB. We expect more such wireless connectivity chips to be added to the Exynos Connect […]
Read MoreWhen Apple removed the headphone jack and bundled earphones from iPhones seven years ago, most Android OEMs laughed it off, only to remove those things from their own phones just a couple of years later. The same happened with the smartphone charger bundled in the box. Now, almost all high-end Android smartphones lack a headphone […]
Read MoreMeizu has had an interesting history and after several turbulent years it pulled out of the smartphone market. Now that it is under the wing of car-maker Geely, the company is poised to make its return with the launch of the Meizu 20 series on March 30. As that’s still a couple of weeks out, […]
Read MoreIntroduction Here at GSMArena, we’re shutterbugs above anything else. Camera upgrades are probably the single biggest reason we get excited about new flagship phone releases, and when it comes to those, we’ve definitely been spoiled in the last couple of years. We’ve seen so many great phones come around, with each outdoing the next in […]
Read MoreQualcomm just announced its Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 chipset for upper-midrange phones and now Xiaomi and Realme have confirmed their first phones set to utilize the latest SoC. The official Weibo pages for both brands confirmed their upcoming devices will be the Redmi Note 12 Turbo and Realme GT Neo5 SE. In addition, tipster Yogesh […]
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