Both the Galaxy S5 and the Galaxy S5 Active on AT&T have gotten their Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow updates this weekend.The build is MMB29M and has the August 1 security patch level. The OTA weighs in at just a tad over 900MB for the S5 Active and about 945MB — give or take — for the regular Galaxy S5.About a week from today, it’ll be
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Both the Galaxy S5 and the Galaxy S5 Active on AT&T have gotten their Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow updates this weekend.The build is MMB29M and has the August 1 security patch level. The OTA weighs in at just a tad over 900MB for the S5 Active and about 945MB — give or take — for the regular Galaxy S5.About a week from today, it’ll be
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Don’t believe the songs and motivational quotes. In real life, especially in the competitive mobile tech scene, you can’t have the best of both worlds in one package. Granted, the Samsung Galaxy S7 is stylish, lightweight and water-resistant, but it easily shatters when dropped on a hard surface.Meanwhile, we’ve always expected an eventual Galaxy S7 Active on AT&T (and perhaps an
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When evidence first cropped up of an in-development new Samsung Active phone, we couldn’t help but consider the possibility this wasn’t actually an extra-rugged variant of the Galaxy S7. After all, the GS7 offers water and dust protection as standard, and the SM-G891A model number didn’t seem to fit the designation of an S7 Active anyway.Are we looking at an S6 Active Plus then? Probably not, based on information supplied directly and most likely ...
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Samsung has long been the king of Android.Its Galaxy S smartphone has far outsold any of its competitors’ Android handsets by the millions, quarter after quarter, year after year. It’s aided in pushing mobile hardware and Android as a platform forward, and has even attempted to fork the Android ecosystem by instilling its own ecosystem within Android, selling movies, music, and other digital content through its own store.Samsung has, for the better part of its smartphone career, largely steered the direction of smartphones and led the industry. That is, until recently.Over the ...
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An unadulterated, high-end, rugged, flagship smartphone. That’s the sort of thing that makes some tech enthusiasts weak in the knees, including our own Michael Fisher.Inherently, smartphones have become more fragile over the years as priorities have changed – both within the walls of the manufacturers and the personal preferences of the average consumer. We want bigger screens, thinner chassis, better cameras, faster CPUs, more memory and storage, larger speakers, longer battery life, and more connectivity ...
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Galaxy S5 Prime. Galaxy S5 LTE-A. Galaxy S5 SUPREME. Whatever you call it, we’ve spent the week getting to know Samsung’s most polarizing Quad-HD flagship, and we know you’ve got questions. So we’ve got our review unit all charged up and ready for an on-air “live Galaxy S5 Prime review” of sorts, along with some compelling Samsung topics a few eager readers have already sent in, on today’s Pocketnow Weekly podcast!But there’s more to life than Samsung, so we’re mixing in a whole lot more mobile tech talk for your expectant eardrums. ...
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The Galaxy S5 Active launched for AT&T late last month, and while we’ve gone hands-on to bring you a review of that model, we’ve been interested in learning about increased availability for the phone; would it go up for sale internationally? What about on other North American carriers? Well, at a Sprint press event this morning, the company announced that it would start carrying the Galaxy S5 Sport, ...
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We’ve said it before: durable smartphones shouldn’t have to be crappy ones. After all, these things are supposed to be “life companions.” You want a device that can keep up with you no matter how muddy, wet, or bumpy your slog through life becomes – and you shouldn’t have to sacrifice specs for that level of durability.Samsung gave us a taste of that best-of-both-worlds experience with last ...
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Last year’s Galaxy S 4 Active brought water resistance and an electric blue paint job to Samsung’s then-reigning flagship, but it compromised in some pretty notable areas: the display took a sidestep from AMOLED to LCD, and the camera accepted a demotion from 13 megapixels to 8. Despite our positive review, the S 4 Active also earned its share of enemies thanks to the tendency of water to Samsung Galaxy S5 Active unboxing & hardware tour (Video) appeared first on Pocketnow.
iOS 8 is here –in Beta form, at least– and (surprise, surprise) we’ve got some opinions. For the last Weekly podcast to begin with a “0,” we bring in the big guns to discuss Apple’s new platform: a four-man team that includes our resident iOS experts, one of whom joins in from the blazing heat of a car baking in the North Carolina sun just to tell us his take on the iPhone 6 and how it will/won’t/might end up being a phablet.Of course we don’t stop with Apple: a panoply of mobile devices, from the LG G3 to the Galaxy S5 Active to the Motorola X+1, ...
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With the water-resistance of the Galaxy S5, many were wondering if a Galaxy S5 Active would happen this year. Of course, those doubts were silenced when a series of solid rumors and very convincing leaks made their way around the Web.As of this morning, the Galaxy S5 Active is official and available for purchase from AT&T here ...
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New York City is a fine place to sneak a peek at some unreleased devices, and that’s just what we did this week with the LG G3 event (streamed from London to an airy presentation room in a Chelsea skyscraper) and AT&T’s ASUS PadFone X announcement (held on a posh rooftop lounge near the Flatiron). At one of those events, Daniel Bader of MobileSyrup was our seat neighbor, so we thought we’d invite him on this week’s podcast to discuss the more globally significant of these high-profile launches.Join us as we share our impressions of the LG G3: how it stands on ...
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There was little doubt that the Galaxy S5 Active exists, thanks to all the leaks we’ve seen recently. But, with water resistance already present on the Galaxy S 5, many were wondering about the purpose of an Active phone. As a reminder, last year’s Galaxy S4 Active brought IP57 over the standard build of the S4, but in 2014, Samsung wants you to be (more) active.The Samsung Galaxy S5 Active is now also shock ...
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There are no hard-and-fast rules when it comes to how news of pre-release smartphones arrive. Sometimes it’s a months-long process, wherein new information arrives little by little, and the whole time we’re unsure what’s trustworthy and what’s not. Sometimes we’re left guessing all the way up until the very end. And then there those times when the normal progression all goes awry, and we’re seeing leaks all out of order. Such is the case with Samsung’s Galaxy S5 Active, as we check out the first render of the phone to leak, as it gets ready for ...
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