Samsung's plans for the future with the Galaxy S10 are coming on quick - even before the Galaxy Note 9 is fully revealed. What we're looking at today is a set of plans for a Galaxy smartphone with the potential for more than one display. And before you say it - no, this isn't the Galaxy X with a folding screen and another screen on its back, this is a completely separate device with two displays - because why not?
Today we're exploring the latest leak of the Samsung Galaxy Note 9, but we're also having a chat about why this phone inspires such ravenous behavior in info-seekers and fans. Today we're seeing confirmation of a double-block of elements on the back of the Galaxy Note 9, that bringing on perhaps the largest change between generations - acknowledgement of the finger-smudge on the camera lens cover glass situation.
We put almost everything inside our phones, from our personal data to our money. So why not our car keys as well? After all, smart homes can already be locked or unlocked using our mobile devices anyway. That’s the future, frightening or otherwise, that car manufacturers are already building. Now the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC) is working together to create an open standard around that, called the Digital Key specification, which is now marking its 1.0 release on the road towards seamless mobile device-to-vehicle connectivity.
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 had a new leak this morning that showed the size and shape of the smartphone. This screen protector was one of several similar sorts of accessories revealed over the past week, each of them showing a device that's essentially a Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus with a shape that's closer to the Samsung Galaxy Note 8. This device will have several different iterations, the most impressively massive of these heading exclusively to South Korea and China.
Today we're having a peek at a device which might well be very much LIKE the Samsung Galaxy S10 - in spirit, if not in literal photo-realistic reality. What we're likely looking at here isn't necessarily a photo of the Galaxy S10 itself, but a mock-up made to look photorealistic in basically all ways. Given the track record of the person or people behind Ice Universe, I'd be shocked if they were just guessing at the design, and decided to try to trick everyone with a single Tweet. That wouldn't be worth destroying months and/or years of solid behind-the-scenes reporting.
Samsung may have the Note 9 on the horizon, but it's biding its time with a new color version of the Galaxy S9 and S9+ being announced today. Sunrise Gold will be headed to the US from June 24, adding a fourth color option to the existing line-up of Lilac Purple, Coral Blue, and Midnight Black.
Anyone and everyone have a notch these days that it’s easier to actually count who doesn’t. There’s Oppo with its new Find X “slider”, Vivo with its elevating Nex, Sony, HTC, and, of course, Samsung. Despite being called out time and again for being an Apple copycat, it seems that this is one area where Samsung is stubbornly refusing to budge. This latest leak simply confirms what we’ve seen so far: the Galaxy Note 9 won’t have a notch.
Be cautious when you see the headlines for this device - most people want to say one of two things. One, this is the device that will bring VR mainstream! Two, this device isn't any different than any smartphone VR system, and isn't worth your time. Today we're going to be real about this situation: If you've got $200, you want to own a VR headset, but you don't want to pay $400 for a full-powered PC headset plus full-powered PC (probably a thousand more dollars, or more), then this is your key: Oculus Go.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 had an information leak this morning with details on final release colors as well as size. The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 won't have any mind-blowing changes compared to last year's model - because if it ain't broke, don't fix it. But we will see a few new colors - because that's what's important, after all: appearances! This means Silver, of course, but it also means Black and Blue - but no yellow! Because Batman should never have started using Yellow in his costumes - that was nonsense.
A leak this morning showed us the latest in Samsung tablet technology - a device called Galaxy Tab Advanced 2. The name doesn't suggest it, but this is just about as close as any company's gotten to a real competitor for the latest round of Apple's iPad. Not that they'll be running iOS apps or anything, but Samsung's most certainly not going to give up the tablet game any time soon.
Given the box office success of the Incredibles 2, you’d think Samsung and new partner Disney would promote it to no end. You might, however, be a bit late to the news because that already happened late last month when The Incredibles, including the beloved Jack-Jack, were transported to Galaxy S9 and S9+ smartphones and transformed into AR Emojis. This time, Samsung and Disney are going old school and are adding classic characters instead.
This morning a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 leak showed the release date-level details of the device in three distinct editions. One, the smallest version of the device, was shown with 64GB of internal storage. The next of these devices rolled with 256GB internal storage, and the largest of these showed 512GB of internal storage. These three models were promptly removed from the site in SK where they were listed.