Sprint scores another flagship Lollipop update, with GS5 incoming

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Who’s the best provider to be on in the United States if you’re interested in timely access to Android updates? Sure, the manufacturer in question matters just as much as which carrier you’re on, but this afternoon there seems to be one clear winner for scoring the latest Android Lollipop updates for big-name flagship phones: following word that the HTC One M7 is about to make its Lollipop debut with Sprint tomorrow, confirmation has arrived that another high-profile Android model will ...

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Exynos-based Galaxy S5 models start joining the Lollipop club

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Android 5.0 Lollipop went official all the way back in October – well, earlier even, if you count its days as “Android L” – before going public with the release of the Nexus 9 in early November. In the weeks since, manufacturers have been working to get their own Lollipop updates ready for their respective Android families. More often than not, that means delivering updates for flagship models first, and Samsung’s work with the Galaxy S5 was no exception: following

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Galaxy S5 Lollipop updates descend upon the US, with Verizon leading the pack

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

When it comes to Android 5.0 Lollipop updates for flagship devices, the HTC One M8 had found itself getting most of our recent attention: the update spread to more nations in Europe, Canada over here on the other side of the Atlantic, and most recently we heard HTC talking about what was taking so long for the update to start coming down through carriers in the States. But maybe even more hotly anticipated than the One M8’s Lollipop update has been the Android 5.0 update for Samsung’s Galaxy ...

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Samsung and Apple tied in smartphone global market share for Q4/2014

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

Apple and Samsung may be out of the court room with all the patent disputes, but it seems that both companies continue to compete at something. For the longest time, Samsung has overshadowed Apple in smartphone sales, and that does make sense since Samsung serves every single market segment, while Apple only focuses on the higher-end. That being said, even with all the logic behind Samsung’s success, it seems that reality is about to change very soon.Both Strategy Analytics and even the IDC are already revealing their worldwide smartphone figures, and it turns out that ...

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Samsung reports more quarterly losses on Apple’s record-breaking quarter

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

A few years ago, anybody would’ve believed that Samsung’s growth momentum was invincible. The Korean giant not only managed to make more profit than many of its competitors combined, but it is still the biggest cellphone seller in the world. That said, we do know that the company has struggled in its sales figures over the last couple of quarters, and it seems things aren’t getting better.A day after Apple

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Apple is eating Samsung’s market share even in South Korea

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

It’s regularly common for the citizens of many countries to show a certain degree of pride and nationalism for the products made in their respective territories. That has slowly changed though, as the whole concept of “Made In America” stopped being important in the US many years ago. You’d think that this would be important in countries like South Korea, and especially with Samsung’s world dominance ...

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Samsung reminds us water resistance means snow resistance in new winter video

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Did you pick up a new smartphone in 2014? If so, the odds are the good that you might have at least considered – if not ended up purchasing – a handset that offered protection against the elements. Whether that meant something like a Sony Xperia Z3 or a Samsung Galaxy S5, more flagship models than we’ve ever seen before hit the market this year offering varying degrees of waterproofing. And that’s a great ...

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Samsung starts seeding Galaxy S5 Android 5.0 update to users in Europe

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Back in October, before even Nexus phones had Android 5.0 updates available, we heard rumors about Samsung’s update timetable for its flagship models. Among the details mentioned there was the idea that the Galaxy S5’s Lollipop release could be ready sometime in December. More recently, we’ve seen an Android 5.0 GS5 ROM leak, but still no official distribution. Well, we’re only a few days ...

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Android 5.0 for Galaxy S5 leaked and available, sort of

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

OEMs are still hard at work to bring Android 5.0 Lollipop to existing flagship handsets. We already know that HTC is a few weeks away from sharing some love with us all, and we’ve already seen OEMs like Motorola beat Google to the punch in some cases. That said, we know that the Android space is full of ...

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

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

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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Android Lollipop for Galaxy S5 gets rumored ETA

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Back near the start of the month, before Google launched its latest Nexus models and confirmed the name Lollipop for its Android 5.0 release, we took a look at an early video previewing Samsung’s work towards bringing what was then known only as Android L to its Galaxy S5. It was great to get an advance glimpse of how TouchWiz would make the transition to Android 5.0, but previews are one thing – when can we expect ...

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Samsung Galaxy Note 4 vs Samsung Galaxy S5 (Video)

Posted on by Michael Fisher

Every six months, Samsung drops another contender into the bloody phablet-vs-flagship slugfest. This contest is one of Samsung’s own making, a result of alternating annual Galaxy S installments with annual Galaxy Note upgrades in the spring and fall of each year. With each new chapter, two things are guaranteed: there will be much indecision among buyers as to which is the better buy, and much confusion in the comments about which comparisons are and aren’t worth doing.For the former group –the cash-flush consumers biting their nails and wondering which of these high-end ...

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Sony Xperia Z3 Compact vs Samsung Galaxy S5 (Video)

Posted on by Taylor Martin

The Samsung Galaxy S5, while not a showstopper or ground-breaking piece of hardware, is a great smartphone, designed to appeal to a very large demographic. However, its size is simply too large for some.What if there were a device with almost the exact same specifications in a smaller package? Would that phone be as good – or even better – than the Galaxy S5?That phone does exist but, unsurprisingly, it isn’t made by Samsung. Instead, Sony makes it, and it’s the smaller version of its newest hero device, the Xperia Z3. It’s called the Xperia Z3 Compact and it’s ...

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Samsung delivers extended warranty plan for flagship Androids

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Nobody wants a broken smartphone, but accidents happen, hardware fails, and all it takes is some bad luck to leave us high and dry without a functional handset. In order to protect themselves against such disaster, plenty of phone users pick up insurance, replacement plans, extended warranties – any sort of service that helps cushion the blow of repair or replacements costs and gets a working phone back in their hands as soon as possible. Apple’s got its AppleCare+, and today we learn of ...

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