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Is Samsung the latest Android device maker throttling apps?
Some of Samsung’s smartphones include software that appears to be artificially limiting, or throttling, the performance of thousands of popular apps, Android Authority reports. Reports about the behavior have been gathering steam on Twitter, as well as Samsung’s Korean community forums.
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Samsung Galaxy Note series being discontinued
Everyone is hoping the year 2022 will be better. We have no idea what tomorrow will bring but for Samsung, it is going to be another big year. The top mobile OEM is expected to release the Galaxy S…
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Samsung Galaxy S22 Plus review: Avoiding the Ultra Note trap
In terms of pre-release chatter, the Samsung Galaxy S22+ is the phone least likely to inspire much conversation. Below it, you have the affordable, shrunken Galaxy S22 that's the closest Samsung has come to a powerful Mini phone. Above it, you have the reincarnation of the Note lineup disguised as an Ultra flagship. Compared to those, the S22 Plus plays it safe, sticking close to what we saw in its 2021 predecessor.
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Samsung’s giant 14.6-inch Android tablet has a Macbook-style display notch
Android tablets might be showing new signs of life thanks to Google's push with Android 12L, but Samsung never left the Android tablet market. Alongside Samsung's announcement of the Galaxy S22, the company is also revving its tablet line, and for the first time ever, it's supersizing Galaxy tablets with the Galaxy S8 Tab Ultra.
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Apple takes Q4 global smartphone shipment crown, but Samsung wins 2021
New research from IDC says that Apple and the iPhone 13 secured the number one spot for global smartphone shipments in Q4 of 2021, as the market declined slightly year over year. In a release this week IDC states vendors shipped some 362.4 million phones in Q4 of 2021, down about 3.2% on the same quarter in 2020 but better than predicted. With the release of the iPhone 13, Apple's best iPhone to date, IDC says that Apple jumped ahead of Samsung...
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Samsung built a fingerprint security chip for payment cards, employee IDs and more
Samsung has revealed what it calls the "industry's first" all-in-one fingerprint security chip (IC) for payment cards. The S3B512C chip reads biometric information via a fingerprint sensor, stores and authenticates data with a tamper-proof secure element (SE) and analyzes it with a secure processor. While primarily designed for payment cards, it could also be used for "student or employee identification, membership or building access," the company said.
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Samsung Falling Behind Apple in AR/VR Space Due to 'Obsession' With Foldable Smartphones
Samsung is significantly falling behind in the rush to bring augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) devices to market, partially due to the company's "obsession" with foldable smartphones, The Korea Herald reports.
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Samsung Demonstrates the World’s First MRAM Based In-Memory Computing
Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced its demonstration of the world’s first in-memory computing based on MRAM (Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory). The paper on this innovation was published online by Nature on January 12 (GMT), and is set to be published in the upcoming print edition of Nature.
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Samsung’s new TV remote uses radio waves from your router to stay charged
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LG makes the best TVs? Maybe not after Samsung's QD-OLED TV appeared at CES 2022
Get ready for a new OLED TV player. Samsung is the top-selling TV brand worldwide, but its QLED televisions have never performed as well as OLED TVs made by rivals like LG. At CES 2022, Samsung tackled those rivals head-on with its new QD Display, a new kind of big screen that relies on OLED technology.
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Samsung says its foldable shipments increased four-fold in 2021
Samsung wants you to know its foldables haven’t flopped. In a recent blog post, the company said it sold four times more foldable devices in 2021 than 2020. It attributes this success to the arrival of the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3, which, in our own reviews, we hailed as a step toward mainstream usability thanks to their refined designs and lower prices. Samsung says sales for these two devices in their first month alone exceeded “total accumulative sales of Samsung foldable devices in 2020.”
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Incentive package to lure Samsung to Taylor is biggest in Texas history
Samsung's plan to build a $17 billion next-generation semiconductor factory in Taylor is being called the largest direct foreign investment in Texas history. The amount of publicly funded incentives that sealed the deal for the small town northeast of Austin is of similar historic significance.
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Samsung Is Setting up a 1200-Acre Chip Plant in Texas
South Korean electronics giant Samsung is set to announce a $17 billion advanced chip plant spanning 1,200 acres of land in Taylor, Texas. The plant, which will make advanced logic chips used in mobile phones and autonomous vehicles, will add 1,800 jobs to the U.S. economy and is part of a $205 billion investment fund, according to the Wall Street Journal. The factory isn’t expected to go live until 2024.
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Samsung to use Qualcomm’s chips for near half of 2022 smartphones and tablets
Samsung is planning to use Qualcomm’s chipsets for near half of the smartphones and tablets it launches in 2022, TheElec has learned.According to Samsung’s smartphone shipment plan for 2022 seen by TheElec, the tech giant is planning to launch a total of 64 models of smartphones and tablets.
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These are the best and worst countries in which to buy a Samsung or Apple phone
If you want to buy a Samsung phone (or Apple phone), you're going to have a better time of it in some countries as compared to others.
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First real-life photos of alleged Galaxy S22 Ultra emerge
In a first, we have some alleged real-life photos of the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra. Once again, the photos show a Galaxy Note clone.
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Russian court bars sale of Samsung phones over patent lawsuit -report
A Russian court has barred Samsung Electronics from importing and selling 61 models of smartphones in Russia over an intellectual property lawsuit pertaining to its Samsung Pay system, the RIA news agency reported on Thursday.
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Texas city to offer Samsung large property tax breaks to build $17bn chip plant
The city of Taylor, Texas - one of two locations in the state under consideration by Samsung Electronics for a $17 billion chip plant - plans to offer extensive property tax breaks if it is chosen by the South Korean tech giant.
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Samsung Teases Its Wild Multi-Folding Phone Prototypes
Several years before Samsung ever released the first Galaxy Fold, we saw prototypes of the device at events. And now that we’re on the 3rd generation Z Fold, Samsung Display is back and teasing us with a few more wild designs. Only this time, the phone folds twice and has even more screens.
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Samsung unveils a crazy new 200MP camera sensor for smartphones
Samsung's new ISOCELL HP1 is the first 200MP camera sensor for smartphones. It features Samsung's all-new ChameleonCell pixel binning technology for impressive low-light performance.
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