However hard it might be to contain your indignation in regard to Samsung’s Android 6.0 upgrading sluggishness, it’s important to remember the Korean device manufacturer never actually issued any public deadlines or timelines.Besides, things are finally starting to fall into place, as select Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, Edge+, and
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Samsung’s first rumored Android 6.0 update roadmap hinted at three phases, but only tackled device names for two, and release timelines for one. A second chart expanded on the list, also switching a few due dates, while the latest schedule once again restricts the Marshmallow-ready phone and tablet roster, turning vaguer as far as deadlines are concerned.The good news? There are apparently a bunch of Galaxy handhelds ...
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Motorola, HTC, LG, Sony, even Huawei and BlackBerry have tackled the issue of Marshmallow updates and timelines in public statements of ...
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Some mobile devices really do end up with preposterously short lifespans. For manufacturers like Sony, where it makes a point of getting out its new Xperia Z models as quickly as possible, we expect such things, but other times we’re taken by surprise. A few years back, we saw the Motorola Droid 4 land just seven months after the Droid 3, or more recently the iPad 3 was replaced by the iPad 4 after a similar seventh months on the market. Samsung launched its metallic Galaxy Alpha back in August, and it ...
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The best-kept secrets are ones that have been in our phones for months, it seems. After all’s been said and done in our full review of the Samsung Galaxy Alpha, we’re now just learning some details about one crucial component, the display. Corning, makers of the Gorilla Glass line of products, has thrown us a curveball today, letting us know about the ...
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Samsung has been up to a lot of changes in order to make a comeback. Some of these changes include reducing its smartphone lineup to the bare essentials, something that we highly praise at a time when the Galaxy lineup has diluted more than the folks at Korea would like. There are some negative changes as well, mainly to do with the company Samsung might be working on yet another smartphone lineup appeared first on Pocketnow.
When it comes to cellular phones, removable batteries are nothing new, even the very earliest phones had a battery that you could remove and replace. Historically, this was more a necessity than a convenience. Until the last few years, battery technology suffered from various limitations that necessitated their ability to be removed and replaced fairly frequently.For their size, energy capacity wasn’t all that great. Charge times were slow, and discharge rates were fast. Over the years, these batteries even developed a “memory” that reduced their capacity due to the ...
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Samsung’s Galaxy Alpha lineup has proven to be one of the oddest products of the year. While we do praise the company for boosting the quality of its hardware with these devices, we still can’t understand why the company has decided to pull back from including some flagship specs. If you thought the Samsung Galaxy A5 press renders leaked, launch imminent appeared first on Pocketnow.
“It’s not necessarily unattractive … it just kind of exists.”Thats how we described Samsung’s Galaxy S5 in our full review back in April, lamenting the lack of aesthetic flair in a flagship ostentatiously marketed as a “glam” device. While we appreciated its durability and top-notch spec sheet, what we wanted was a product that actually felt like a $650 smartphone – and the Galaxy S5 ...
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If you saw our hands-on coverage of the Galaxy Alpha from IFA, you know that Taylor Martin and I were quite taken with the little device. Though it packs only a 4.7-inch display and none of the waterproofing or expandable specs of its bigger sibling, I was starstruck by its far superior looks. Standing on the show floor in Berlin, I found myself wishing the Galaxy Alpha would come to the US – and wondering whether I’d pick one up for myself.The latter question is still up for debate, but the former isn’t. AT&T
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Samsung sure seems to be taking the metal-edged look from its new Galaxy Alpha and running with it, bringing the same design to a series of additional Androids tipped to arrive as the Galaxy A3, A5, and A7. Last week we got to take a look at some leaked pics that appeared to show off the A5, as well as talking specs on both the A3 and A5 (with the A7 remaining cool and mysterious). Now the latest gossip on this bunch is out, and ...
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It feels like lately, when we’re talking about Samsung’s new metal-rimmed Galaxy Alpha, that our attention is focused on all these other A-series phones Samsung appears to be preparing in the Galaxy Alpha’s image, phones like the Galaxy A5 we saw in pictures last week. And while phones like that may be the future of the ...
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Late last month, while we were still gearing up for Samsung’s Unpacked IFA announcements, a rumor came in about some models other than those new Notes it had in the pipeline, suggesting that we’d be seeing a bunch of new devices arrive in the same vein as the Galaxy Alpha. A few model numbers were dropped for this supposed A-series of devices, and just the other day we got our first look at one of them, the ...
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We’ve been catching wind of the possibility of a successor to the Samsung Galaxy Alpha as of late, with the model number SM-A500 being repeatedly tossed around. Thanks today to the Chinese regulatory body TENAA, we have a clear look at what could be Samsung Galaxy Alpha 2 images.There’s nothing much to be said about the design of the phone, aside from the fact that it bears much resemblance to the current Galaxy Alpha. The phone is supposedly just 6.7mm thin, and weighs 126 grams as well.As for specs, the current rumor mill has it that this SM-A500 will have a 5-inch Super ...
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While neither of these two devices is an actual IFA 2014 device per se, we couldn’t resist the urge of putting Samsung’s flagship (correction: S-flagship, as the Note 4 can easily take the crown now) against the metallic-frame rocking Galaxy Alpha, announced by Samsung on August 13. This is actually the first time we’re seeing the Alpha in person, so we also had to go hands-on, to see exactly what that ...
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