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Samsung’s Awesome All-in-One Soundbar is Now Available
Samsung had a lot of good stuff at CES this year, but it was one of their soundbars that really grabbed our attention. Their MS750 Sound+ Soundbar is pretty awesome for anyone living in an apartment — the sleek bar can produce quality bass without the need for an external subwoofer, making it a solid space-saving […]
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Samsung Might Make More Money Than Apple This Quarter – Thanks to Apple
Remember when the Note 7 fiasco was supposed to leave a serious dent in Samsung’s bottom line? It probably did cost them billions in the end, but don’t take that to mean that it’s lean times for Samsung right now — if their projections of quarterly revenue prove accurate, they’ll have pulled in more profit than […]
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The Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus is Getting a Pink Paint Job, but Only in Some Countries
Prefer pink on your smartphones? Well, you’re going to need some help if you want the new pink Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus — it’s coming soon, but only to a handful of countries worldwide. Starting tomorrow, Samsung will start selling the phone in South Korea and Taiwan, calling it a rose pink model — it’s high time […]
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We Finally Know How Much the Samsung Family Hub 2.0 Refrigerators Will Cost
Remember those souped up new Family Hub refrigerators Samsung showed off at CES? Well, they’re finally ready to be purchased this week, with Samsung confirming the feature set and how much they’ll cost in an announcement yesterday. Maybe the most important change in store for the Family Hub 2.0 refrigerators is that you’ll be able […]
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The Stunning Samsung Frame TV is Available Now
Every year at CES, Samsung surprises with a designer TV set — there was the pedestal set in 2015, followed by the TV that looked like an ‘I’ in sans serif font from last year. The pedestal set was designed by Yves Behar, and for this year’s set, Samsung worked with him again to create the […]
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Samsung Brings Their New QLED Display to This Humongous Gaming Monitor
Samsung came to CES earlier this year with a brand new set of premium panels using their QLED technology. QLED isn’t quite like OLED, but it does offer something approaching that level of performance, guaranteeing a wide color gamut and high contrast while being much cheaper and more durable. If that sounds awesome for PC […]
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Mophie Launches Wireless Charging Juice Pack Cases for the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+
After introducing their wireless charging Juice Pack cases with the Samsung Galaxy S7 last year, Mophie is getting into a rhythm. This week, they released wireless charging Juice Pack cases for both the Galaxy S8 and S8+, both of which will work with their Charge Force charging pads and mounts. Actually, it should work with […]
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Harman Kardon’s Invoke Speaker with Cortana is a Challenge to Amazon’s Alexa
Microsoft’s getting a little closer to making Halo real today. Cortana is making the leap from Windows 10 to being a fully fledged smart home assistant thanks to a new intelligent speaker made in partnership with Harman Kardon. The Invoke speaker will combine premium audio with smart home control, although there are a few puzzle pieces […]
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13 Samsung Galaxy S8 Cases You Can Buy Right Now
Bad battery jokes aside, the biggest threat to the new Samsung Galaxy S8 is still going to be the pavement. If you’re planning to throw down major cash on what once again looks to be one of the top picks in the Android world, here are 13 ways you can protect the S8 from those […]
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Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ Review: Masterful
For several years now, Samsung’s been dominating the world of smartphones. Multi-billion dollar marketing campaigns have made the company wildly successful with the general public, but us tech journalists haven’t always been impressed with Samsung’s handsets. While we universally praised the Galaxy S II for raising the bar, we generally found the S III and […]
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Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 Review
With tablet sales plateauing and lots of decent low-cost options to choose from, premium tablets have become tough sells. Increasingly, we’ve seen tablets billed as creative tools, combined with styluses and keyboards to become good sketchpads in addition to being solid home entertainment devices. Some even go as far as to call themselves PC replacements — what […]
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Samsung Galaxy S8 Launches April 21st for $720+ [Hands-on]
The highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S8 has landed, and it’s everything the leaks made us hope it would be. To that effect, Samsung has thrown out the Edge moniker, but they’ve brought over the Edge’s beautiful curved display to the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+. To that effect, the Samsung Galaxy S8 is sporting a […]
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Samsung is Going to Resurrect the Note 7 by Selling Refurbished Units
At Samsung’s January press conference revealing the cause of the Note 7 battery fires, some Greenpeace protesters sneaked in and shouted the company down for how they were disposing of the unused phones. Well, maybe they got into the heads of Samsung’s leadership — somewhat surprisingly, the company now plans to start selling refurbished Note 7 […]
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Samsung’s New Voice Assistant Bixby Will Debut on the Galaxy S8
Time to say hello to another digital assistant. Ahead of the Galaxy S8 launch announcement coming at the end of this month, Samsung has announced Bixby, a new voice assistant that will go far beyond what the company had done with S Voice. Like other digital assistants from Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft, Bixby will […]
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Samsung’s Frame TV That Resembles a Picture Frame Arrives This Spring
Samsung’s new super bright QLED TVs were the company’s crown jewels at CES this year, improving on their SUHD LED TVs from the year before. Samsung believes that they’ve been able to push the LED/LCD combo to a place competitive with OLED TVs, and that’d be a big deal if they’re right — LED-backlit LCD TVs […]
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Samsung and Oculus Introduce a Touch Controller for the Gear VR Headset
The Samsung Gear VR headset has always been a bit ahead of other mobile VR headsets — created in a partnership with Oculus, it’s one the few headsets that uses a physical connection to the phone, enabling extra controls like a touchpad and buttons. Still, fumbling around for those headset controls wasn’t optimal, so the two […]
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The Samsung Galaxy Book is a Surface-Like 2-in-1 With a Superpowered Stylus
Samsung has never gone too hard into laptops, and while that’s not necessarily changing at Mobile World Congress this weekend, they do have a pretty cool 2-in-1 for artists to consider. While the Galaxy Book can’t compete with the Surface Pro on specs alone, some cool S Pen tricks make the latest tablet-style 2-in-1 device […]
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Galaxy Tab S3 Is Pretty Much a Note Tablet
The last time we saw the S Pen, it was being jettisoned from shelves along with the Note 7. Fortunately, you can’t keep a good stylus down — Samsung is announcing the Galaxy Tab S3 at Mobile World Congress this weekend, and in addition to some helpful changes from the previous generation, it’s coming with support […]
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The Samsung Galaxy S8 Will Most Likely Get a 6.2” Model
Late last year, rumors coming from an analyst in South Korea indicated that this year’s Samsung Galaxy S8 would be much bigger than previous entries in the line, getting 5.7″ and 6.2″ models. That rumor seems to be all but confirmed today, with noted leakmaster Evan Blass tweeting out what appears to be the spec […]
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Lutron Adds Samsung SmartThing Compatibility to Their Caséta Wireless Smart Home Devices
CES 2017 bore good news for anyone who has bought into Lutron’s Caséta Wireless smart home devices. In addition to Apple HomeKit and Amazon Alexa, Lutron now works with Samsung SmartThings and the Nest Cam, making for a very impressive list of compatible devices and services. There are some hurdles. Caséta Wireless uses a proprietary wireless connection […]
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Samsung Galaxy S8 Delayed to April, Possibly to Implement New Safety Checks
Over the past few years, most smartphone makers have fallen into a regular yearly release schedule for their flagship phones. Apple does their big iPhone launch in September, and most Android smartphone makers launch during or close to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, usually in late February or early March. That won’t be the case […]
