No Android Oreo for Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge after all, and no more security updates either

Not only will Samsung's Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge stay on Nougat for all eternity after all, but the two spring 2015 flagships have had their security updates terminated as well.

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AT&T is back doing the BOGO dance for select Samsung and LG phone buyers

What, you didn’t really think the big, bad, purportedly greedy and obsolete carriers would sit idly by as the “Uncarrier” once again reaps the rewards of extremely bold and aggressive marketing? The first to hit back at T-Mobile’s “best deal ever” is Tuesday freebie rival AT&T starting tomorrow, Friday, July 15.Through August 31, i.e. right on time for back to school and fall ...

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Well, that didn’t take long: AT&T updates Galaxy S6 Active to Marshmallow

While Samsung has been dishing out Android 6.0 goodie packs left and right lately, including for old, low-end and just not very popular Galaxy phones and

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Yes, you will be able to BOGO the AT&T-exclusive Galaxy S7 Active off the bat

As hard as Samsung’s many US retailer and carrier partners might be trying to make the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge feel affordable with frequent BOGO deals, various freebies and outright ...

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Blass on Galaxy S7 Active: beefier body coming to AT&T June 10

If Kyocera just isn’t doing anything for your rugged phone needs, perhaps you’re just a few weeks away from getting your hands on a Samsung solution. For the fourth consecutive year, we’re looking forward to an AT&T co-opted Galaxy S Active device, tacky as it may ...

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Galaxy S7 edge, LG G5, HTC One A9, Lumia 950 part of AT&T BOGO craze

You could play whack-a-mole with the number of buy-one-get-one-free deals the carriers are pulling off these days. But that AT&T, though. Yeah, it’s got everyone beat right ...

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When fashion meets ruggedness: gold Samsung Galaxy S7 Active rendered

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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Samsung Galaxy S7 Active specs revealed to include 5.5-inch Quad HD screen

Perhaps fearing its outdoors-loving fans will not feel compelled to go the Galaxy S7 Active route if the ruggedized phone simply bulks up the exterior of the standard flagship model while replicating all its features to the letter, Samsung apparently has at least one other major change in the pipeline.Namely, GFX Bench shows, the SM-G891A is set to measure 5.5 inches in display diagonal, up from 5.1 on the S7, S6 and

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Samsung Galaxy S7 Active shows up in the wild, fingerprint scanner likely on board

Although they’re clearly not for everyone, Active variations of flagship Samsung phones must have carved out a solid outdoor-friendly powerhouse niche, reaching their fourth generation this year.Well, not just yet, but soon. The imminence of a Galaxy S7 Active was directly (and likely, unintentionally) confirmed by the handheld’s maker itself back in March, with live pictures at last spilled on the web today, starring an AT&T-branded model dressed in camouflage attire.It feels weird to see a ...

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Samsung Good Lock goes official with custom lockscreen and notifications

A few weeks back, Samsung quietly introduced a new app for Galaxy smartphones, offering users an alternate, highly customizable lockscreen along with new notification controls: Good Lock. While users were free to seek it out on Galaxy Apps and give it a spin for themselves, Samsung hadn’t really drawn any attention to it yet, so it was understandably flying under the radar of many potential users. Today the company seeks to do something about that, formally announcing Good ...

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Samsung Galaxy S7 Active name inadvertently confirmed on Google Play

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’s new in-testing Galaxy Active may be known as the Samsung Poseidon

No smartphone comes together without the manufacturer having to make a few compromises, but this year with the Galaxy S7, Samsung sure manged to deliver a flagship that many users are finding to hit all the right notes. Those include include the return of a water-resistant build, helping the GS7 withstand the wrath of the elements. But what does an already-dunk-surviving Galaxy S7 mean for the chances of us seeing Samsung deliver ...

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Samsung appears to be working on a new Galaxy Active phone – but what is it?

Was Samsung’s flagship smartphone lineup ever that predictable, or do we just remember it that way? Sure, we’ve had the reliable pairing of a Galaxy Note in the summer and Galaxy S in the winter for the past several years, but after that all bets are off. Will one or both of those models get Edge variants? What about Mini models? And can we expect any Active editions this time around? Just a few days back, we tackled that latter question in terms of the Galaxy S7,

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AT&T will give you a free Galaxy S6 or S6 Active if you buy any Samsung flagship

Sprint recently kicked off a trade-in promotion aimed squarely at Galaxy S6 and Note 5 prospective buyers, T-Mobile supports love with a free LTE tablet, among others, and Verizon just bumped up its prepaid data allotment, so it was about time AT&T joined this surprising pre-spring sales ...

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Low-cost Samsung Galaxy Active Neo goes official in Japan with mixed specs

Samsung has recently taken the wraps off a new member of its rugged Galaxy Active smartphone family, and to our knowledge, the Active Neo is the smallest and cheapest of its kind. It’s also by far the least gifted in the screen resolution department, although the rest of the specifications aren’t anywhere as bad.In fact, the 4.5-incher runs Android 5.1 Lollipop out the box, and packs 2GB RAM, which is remarkable given the Japanese price tag of 20,000 Yen converting to around $165. It goes without saying at least one ...

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