Zauba listing may hint at Galaxy S7 Sport for Sprint

A Galaxy S5 Sport ain’t no Galaxy S5 Active. The Sport was Sprint’s first try at commissioning Samsung for an exclusive phone that appealed to the fitness or rugged crowd. So far, though, it’s been Now Network, one; AT&T, three.Well, we may have to chalk up another point between yellow and blue here as Indian ...

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AT&T LG V10, Sprint Galaxy Note Edge and S5 Sport all jump on the Marshmallow bandwagon

Could we be looking at double-digit share for Android 6.0 in distribution numbers before long? You’d think it’s about time, with the first Marshmallow OTA packages available for Nexus devices as far back as October 2015, and build N inching closer and closer to its own release.Unfortunately, last we heard from Google, there were still less than 5 percent of the world’s Androids on the newest OS flavor, so getting to 10 might ...

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Sprint Galaxy S5, S5 Sport hit with Android Marshmallow

Hey, it’s 2014 again! Remember that? Those were fun times with the Galaxy S5 and the Galaxy S5 Active — or, if you’re on Sprint, the Galaxy S5 Sport. ...

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Pocketnow Black Friday deal roundup: smartphones, tablets, wearables galore

It’s that time of year again: bargain-hunters bundle up for a long night out in the cold, armed with a vacuum flask full of coffee and a checklist of the stores they’ll be hitting. Retail employees let out a resigned sigh as they prepare to begin a single shift that starts somewhere around Wednesday afternoon and lasts through Saturday morning. And if you’re anything like us, you’re staying warm at home, probably watching way too much Netflix, and hoping to snag a few good deals online.That’s right – it’s

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It’s time Samsung gets creative once again

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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Samsung Galaxy S5 Sport review: running on empty (Video)

There was a time, here in the States, when each wireless carrier boasted its own variant of almost every flagship Android smartphone. Verizon had its DROID line, Sprint pushed the Evo series, AT&T thought up names like “Galaxy S II Skyrocket” and the pre-Legere T-Mobile USA … well, it basically took whatever manufacturers decided to give it. This was the time of ridiculous customization for customization’s sake, of top-tier devices segregated by features and design at the fickle whim of carriers, of ridiculous brand names like the Samsung Galaxy S5 Sport review: running on empty (Video) appeared first on Pocketnow.

Samsung Galaxy S5 Sport Unboxing (Video)

Remember that AT&T Galaxy S5 Active we inadvertently destroyed a few weeks back? We felt pretty badly about that (despite the fact that it wasn’t our fault) and we’ve been itching to give the whole notion of a ruggedized Galaxy S5 another go.As luck would have it, Sprint recently landed its very own beefed-up Galaxy S5 in the form of the Samsung Galaxy S5 Sport Unboxing (Video) appeared first on Pocketnow.

Sprint announces Galaxy S5 Sport, and it’s not quite another Active

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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