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The Galaxy S21 Ultra is interesting in many ways and actually not because of its specs. Of course, it has the latest and greatest that Samsung can offer but the new design and the surprisingly lower price tag make it even more unlike its predecessors. New designs, however, may sometimes bring some unforeseen consequences when it comes to structural integrity, and, fortunately for us, we have JerryRigEverything putting Samsung's latest flagship through the usual rigors to check if that is indeed the case here.

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Samsung has announced a low-power OLED display for smartphones, the same one found in the company's new Galaxy S21 Ultra handset. The company says this new smartphone display features its 'just-developed' organic material that offers an a drastically improved luminous efficiency when compared to Samsung's past OLED offerings.

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Samsung has revealed that it'll soon be bringing the Samsung Health Monitor app to a whopping 31 new countries. When it arrives in those countries, it'll be compatible with the Galaxy Watch 3 and the Galaxy Watch Active 2 (assuming you have a Galaxy smartphone running Android 7.0 or higher to connect those smartwatches too). The Samsung Health Monitor app is used primarily for measuring users' blood pressure and tracking electrocardiogram data.

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The Genie Company delivers Aladdin Connect smart garage door openers and retrofit kits to the public. Samsung has a smart home system called Samsung SmartThings. Today, the two companies announced that Aladdin Connect smart garage door openers and retrofit kids are now "Works with SmartThings" certified. This means that your Samsung SmartThings app can open your garage door - or your connected SmartThings devices of all sorts could, potentially, make your garage door open when you flip the right set of switches.

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Samsung's Exynos has been the subject of much controversy and drama in the past months, especially as its performance gap with Qualcomm's equivalent Snapdragon chips became more prominent. The company's semiconductor business has been trying to turn that ship around quickly, especially with a favorable outlook for the new Exynos 2100. That said, the real highlight might still be coming later this year, especially if the combined powers of Samsung and AMD are indeed able to run circles around Apple's 2019 A12 Bionic chip.

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We're still waiting for iFixit to do its usual in-depth investigation into the innards of Samsung's early 2021 racehorses but, in the meantime, we're getting a preview of what it will take to repair them. Following PBK Review's teardown of the Galaxy S21 and the Galaxy S21 Ultra, we're now being treated to the same process for the "in-between" model. And for better or worse, the Galaxy S21+ definitely mixes its siblings' features, making it only slightly easier to repair than the Galaxy S21 Ultra.

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Back in November, reports claimed that Samsung would take a more cautious production approach with its Galaxy S21 models, something that followed the Galaxy S20 series' lackluster sales last year -- which, no doubt, was due in part to the pandemic. A new report out of Korea reinforces these leaks, claiming that Samsung expects to ship around 26 million Galaxy S21 units in 2021.

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Samsung has announced an update for its latest tablet devices, the Galaxy Tab S7 and Tab S7+. The One UI 3 update adds new productivity and connectivity features to help users stay connected and be more productive. The software update was announced at the recent Galaxy Unpacked 2021 event.

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Smartphone hardware has become crazy powerful in the past years, sometimes comparable with lower-end or older desktops and laptops but with better energy-efficiency. Of course, there's always room for more improvement, especially when it comes to trying to maximize processing power without sacrificing energy, heat, and size. Lately, it seems that the ball is being played in the graphics court and Samsung's biggest gamble in that game might be coming sooner than initially expected after all.

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While smartwatch makers have struggled for years to find a proper place for smartwatches, Apple pretty much created that space with a focus on health-related features that mere smart fitness bands couldn't offer. That has mostly revolved around functions for measuring and detecting heart-related conditions but a new report suggests that Samsung and Apple may be moving on to a much-needed functionality that will save potentially thousands of users from having to painfully draw multiple times a day.

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There are always a number of rumors about Samsung products that refused to die. Most of those, like under-display cameras, revolve around features to be added or products to be launched. One undying rumor, however, is all about the death of one rather popular product. For years, Samsung has been believed to be retiring the Galaxy Note or at least the S Pen. We know that the latter is far from coming true yet but the launch of the Galaxy S21 Ultra has provided fodder once more to talk about the Galaxy Note 21's absence this year.

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It almost feels like a distant dream or nightmare, depending on where you stand, but it wasn't really too long ago when smartphone makers played around with designs with a singular purpose in mind, banishing the inescapable top bezel. While most have now embraced the punch-hole cutout, there was a time when phones sported eccentric mechanisms like popup cameras and sliding displays. Samsung wasn't exactly immune to that trend and it might be making bringing back the past with the Galaxy A82 5G.

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