Qualcomm announced that it was developing an ultrasonic fingerprint technology that allows manufacturers to integrate a fingerprint sensor directly into the display of a phone. Under-display fingerprint scanning won’t be ready until early 2019, but Chinese manufacturer Vivo showed off the tech in action on a prototype unit of the Xplay6 at Mobile World Congress…
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The Samsung Note 7 Batteries Factory Caught On Fire
Samsung just can’t catch a break. Last year, its flagship Note 7 smartphones started exploding — and now one of the factories responsible for making them has caught fire. Waste products, including faulty batteries, caused the fire at the Chinese factory, owned by Samsung affiliate company Samsung SDI. It described it as a “minor fire,”…
Watch This Demo of Japan VR From 1990
With Google, Facebook and Samsung all making forays into VR and AR technology, virtual reality is on the brink of breaking into mainstream culture. But long before it was available to the masses, VR was just another experimental technology only few had access to – and it goes all the way back to the 1990s,…
The iPhone 8 May Be Easy Breakable
Apple and Samsung are both reportedly working on all-screen new smartphones for next year. Samsung will be the first to market with such a design, as the Galaxy S8 is already rumored to feature a display that occupies more than 90% of the phone’s front side. Apple’s iPhone 8 is also expected to ditch the…
This Mod Puts The Samsung Note 7 As An Exploding Bomb in GTA V
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is the new bomb. It has exploded in large numbers, causing a considerable amount of damage to Samsung’s brand reputation. It has become a new laughing stock. This Mod Puts Samsung Note 7 As An Exploding Bomb in GTA V. Instead of creating memes, modder HitmanNiko decided to go one step…
Samsung’s New Foldable Smartphone
It’s no secret that Samsung wants to make more advanced flexible mobile devices in the future, including foldable smartphones. But such products require advanced manufacturing techniques that would guarantee the integrity of the product while it’s being bent. Samsung, therefore, invented an artificial muscle whose mission, should it choose to accept it, would be to…
Samsung’s New Smart Glow notification ring
Only last week, we detailed the previously leaked Smart Glow notification feature that will bring complex notification features to future Galaxy phones. Though we expect it on more devices in the future, the first phone to launch with Smart Glow is the Galaxy J2 (2016). Now, we can show you what it looks like on that device. The image…
Galaxy Note 7: 6GB RAM and up to 512GB of storage
The successor of the Galaxy Note 5 will be called Galaxy Note 7, recent leaks have shown, as Samsung is going for a uniform naming scheme – the same number in its Galaxy S and Note flagships is supposed to enforce the idea that both devices represent last-generation smartphones and the best handsets in Samsung’s…
Samsung and Sharp Said to be Ramping up OLED Production for 2017 iPhone
Up to this point, the iPhone lineup has used an LCD panel for its displays. But Apple isn’t completely against OLED. That fact was proven back when the Apple Watch launched, which uses an OLED panel. And if the Rumor Mill is any indicator, Apple plans on making a bigger adoption of the technology at…
Samsung: “Don’t Install Windows 10 Because We Suck At Making Drivers”
Short : Samsung, one of the world’s largest PC-makers is asking its customers to avoid Windows 10 upgrade. The company isn’t doing so due to some Windows 10 privacy concern or spying issue. Instead, Samsung is unable to provide the updated drivers for Windows 10 operating systems and advising its users to stay away from…