Rumors point Samsung’s transition to USB-C on the Galaxy Note 6

Remember the Galaxy S5? Remember that weirdo Micro-B connector port that supported USB 3.0?That was a funky aberration, right? Since then, Samsung has decided to keep with plain ‘ol Micro-B for juicing up your phone and delivering data to and from other places. Even as many other OEMs slide over to USB Type-C connectors, the

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Galaxy Note 6 prototypes reportedly include 5.8-inch curved model with 4,000 mAh battery

Flooding the smartphone market with two more flagship models by fall after recently releasing the wildly successful Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge doesn’t sound like a very wise prospective move from Samsung.But that can’t stop the world-leading OEM from testing both the flat and curved Galaxy Note 6 waters. Insiders claim only one of the two variants currently considered will ultimately hit retail stores, and you shouldn’t rule out the Note 6 being “edgy” as standard, since these types of ...

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HTC 10 round up, Galaxy Note 6 rumors, and longer phone upgrades? | Pocketnow Weekly 197

The HTC 10 makes us wonder if any phone can really be perfect. Galaxy Note 6 rumors are building steam. What might we see on Samsung’s next phablet? With the flagship phone market maturing, we’ll take a look at why people are waiting longer to upgrade their phones?We’ve been hard at work covering news stories and producing the next generation of phone reviews. We recently started a new series of videos delving deeper into camera performance and

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Rumored Samsung Galaxy Note 6 specs reiterated: 6GB RAM, 5.8-inch screen

Although it’s a little early to have any sort of guarantees regarding Samsung’s “next big thing”, even if we choose to believe its speculated mid-July ETA, the list of main Galaxy Note 6 features is slowly but steadily coming together.Thanks to a screenshot of a popular CPU identification tool called CPU-Z, we now have “confirmation” the SM-N930F will ...

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Galaxy Note 6 model number leak hints that a European release is back in the running

With this week’s launch of the HTC 10, we wrapped up the usual group of early-year smartphone flagship announcements. That means we’ve probably got a couple months of comparative down-time before we start seeing some serious summer-launch action, all ramping up in anticipation of IFA. One of the more significant handsets we expect to be part of that summer lineup is Samsung’s next ...

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Next batch of Android flagships could jump to Snapdragon 823 with up to 8GB RAM

Since the spring lineup of Snapdragon 820 mobile powerhouses is almost complete, with the Galaxy S7 duo, LG G5, Sony Xperia X Performance and Xiaomi Mi 5 all either announced or commercially launched, and

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Samsung Galaxy Note 6 tipped to withstand water interaction, sport iris scanner

Learning from past mistakes that led to disappointing Galaxy S6 sales despite the 2015 flagship’s unanimously praised design revolution, Samsung seems to have played all its cards right for the S7 introduction, bringing back water resistance and microSD support.But this time, the ruler of the smartphone world will ...

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How long can phablets stay on top?

It wasn’t that long ago that we were making jokes about how small cellphones could get. From Zoolander’s tiny flip phone, to Amy Wong in an early season of Futurama, the mobile tech trends convinced us that future phones would be the size of one of our nostrils.Then smartphones happenedAs mobile devices began tackling more duties than phone calls and texts, the demands on displays grew. Email drove the design of Blackberrys. Multimedia became ...

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Samsung Galaxy Note 6 predictably rumored for mid-July announcement

We know what you’re thinking. How can a July Note 6 release be predictable when its predecessor saw daylight in mid-August 2015, the Note 4 before it in September 2014, the Note 3 exactly a year earlier, and so on? Wouldn’t it be more logical for the first 6GB RAM-packing GNote to go official in August or even ...

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Galaxy Note 6 spec rumors already incoming, suggest lofty 6GB of RAM

If you don’t believe that smartphones will one day (soon) pack 6GB of system memory, you’re just not paying attention. We moved from 2GB, to 3GB, to 4GB in just a few years, and component manufacturers like Samsung have already announced chips ready to give the phones of the future a massive 6GB of RAM. But when will someone go and actually build such a model? None of the

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Samsung Galaxy Note 6 could sport an S Pen capable of doubling as a kickstand

Bet you weren’t expecting to hear whispers about Samsung’s next-gen non-edgy phablet before the Galaxy S7 is even official. But it’s not like we’re already in possession of live Note 6 pics or anything.We just suspect the S Pen-enabled big guy will go global in the fall, which appeared a no-brainer after

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Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge+ reportedly scrapped in the UK, Galaxy Note 6 coming to Europe

There are many possible explanations for Samsung’s declining smartphone sales numbers, including a general market saturation and stagnating worldwide demand, but at the same time, the Korean giant’s powers that be clearly made a few strategic mistakes of late.Most notably, the Galaxy Note 5 was kept exclusive to Asia and

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