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Smartphones have long been treated as disposable objects — use them for two years, and then it’s time to upgrade to a new model. As phones have gotten more capable, users have started to expect longer support and better repair options. But repairing a phone by yourself? That can be …

Samsung’s latest flagship phones are fast, but they might not be as fast as they could be. Last week, owners of the new Galaxy S22 discovered that Samsung was throttling performance across almost all apps, with the notable and misleading exception of benchmarking apps, which showed the full speed of …

Samsung released the Galaxy S22 family last week, and the early response has been good. The more technical among Samsung’s fans have noted something troubling, though. The phones use a “Game Optimizing Service” almost constantly to throttle apps — if you can think of an app, it’s probably throttled. The …

Samsung’s newest batch of Galaxy devices went on sale last week, and while most coverage focused on the S22 smartphone family, Samsung also has new flagship tablets. For years, Android tablets have been afterthoughts even for Google, which confirmed it was stepping away from tablet hardware after the Pixel Slate …

Try as it might, Samsung just can’t stop its phones from being leaked left and right prior to the official announcement. Thus, we knew a great deal about the Galaxy S22 series before it was unveiled today. There are still some new details, and naturally, you can pre-order one of …

Samsung unveiled its latest foldables several weeks ago, and the price tag is a bit more reasonable than last year. The Galaxy Z Flip3 retails for $999, several hundred dollars less than Samsung’s previous foldables, and it would seem that consumers are responding. Samsung has reported that pre-orders for the …

(Photo: Samsung)If hopping on a plane in the middle of a pandemic isn’t nerve-wracking enough, imagine the terror of those aboard Alaskan Airlines flight 751 this week when a Samsung Galaxy A21 randomly caught fire. The phone combusted just after the plane reached the Seattle-Tacoma airport on Monday evening. The …

Big things are happening in the world of Android wearables, and not a moment too soon. Apple is only getting further ahead with the Apple Watch, but Samsung could have a chance to catch up a bit now that it’s working with Google on smartwatch software. The company’s Galaxy Watch …

Samsung is currently expected to announce its upcoming Exynos SOC with an AMD-designed GPU at some point next month. Benchmarks that have leaked out ahead of the launch suggest that the company’s new mobile GPU could be much faster than anything the Korean manufacturer has previously fielded. This leak is …

Samsung is currently expected to announce its upcoming Exynos SOC with an AMD-designed GPU at some point next month. Benchmarks that have leaked out ahead of the launch suggest that the company’s new mobile GPU could be much faster than anything the Korean manufacturer has previously fielded.This leak is from …