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Samsung Incentivizing Galaxy Note7 Owners To Stay With Brand
As part of its expanded recall of original and replacement Galaxy Note7 phablets, Samsung is offering a total bill credit of $100 to customers...
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Samsung Pulls The Plug On Galaxy Note7
Samsung’s Galaxy Note7 is no more. A Samsung spokesperson confirmed to TWICE that “For the benefit of consumers’ safety, we stopped sales and exchanges...
Appliances
Smart Majaps On The Cusp Of Consumer Acceptance
Smart appliances have been a long time a comin,’ but now that they’ve more or less arrived, consumers will still need a chance to...
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All Samsung Appliances To Be Wi-Fi Enabled
Going forward, all Samsung white-goods will have Wi-Fi functionality in order to support the company’s smart-home platform, the Electronic Times reports. “Samsung Electronics is...
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Samsung Galaxy Note7 Recall: Replacement Devices Now Available
Consumers waiting for their Samsung Galaxy Note7 replacement need not wait any longer. Samsung released a statement that said over 500,000 new Note7 replacements...
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360 Video: Virtual Reality’s Path To The Mainstream
Video has proven to be an early driver of Samsung’s Oculus-powered Gear VR. Immersive and interactive games tend to get top billing at this...
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A Tale Of Two Sevens: Samsung Galaxy Note7 And Apple iPhone 7
Updated! It’s been the best and worst of times for two of this season’s most anticipated and, for different reasons, hottest mobile phones. Apple’s latest iPhone iterations...
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HP Buying Samsung’s Printing Biz For $1.05B
The deal, announced today, will give HP access to Samsung’s laser printing technology and a larger chunk of a shrinking printer market. HP is...
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Samsung Announces Trade-In Program For Faulty Note7
Samsung released more details on its worldwide recall of the Galaxy Note7 phablet. The company has offered consumers two choices under its U.S....
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Samsung Halts Worldwide Sales Of Galaxy Note7
Samsung announced it has stopped all sales of its Galaxy Note7 worldwide because of battery cell issues. The full statement is as follows: “Samsung...
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IFA: Samsung Debuts New AddWash & 10-Year SUHD No Burn-In Warranty
At its IFA press conference this morning, Samsung announced its quantum dot LED LCD SUHD TVs will be protected by a 10-year warranty against...
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Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Shipments In Korea Amid Reports Of Exploding Batteries
Samsung has delayed shipments of its flagship Galaxy Note 7 phablet to South Korea’s top mobile carriers pending further QC testing amid reports of exploding...
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Samsung Unwraps Gear S3 Watch At IFA
Samsung today unveiled its third-generation Gear S3 watch at IFA, including the company’s first smart watch to include full LTE connectivity, which will enable...
Appliances
Samsung Buying Dacor
Updated! Looking to tap into the high-margin, ultra-premium majap market, Samsung Electronics America (SEA) is snapping up Dacor, the family-run, luxury kitchen-appliance business. The...
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Samsung Skips Ahead To Note 7
Samsung took the wraps off its latest phablet, the Galaxy Note 7. (No, you’re not imaging things: The last Note was the Note 5,...
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Samsung Provides Major Experience At PGA Championship
Jimmy Walker may have won the 98th PGA Men’s Golf Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey last weekend, but Samsung, a sponsor...
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Samsung Brings Two New Washers To Retail
Samsung Electronics America is rolling out two new feature-rich washers to retail sales floors, and broke a new pair of commercials to support them. The...
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Gwen Stefani Celebrates New Samsung Wearables
Samsung Electronics unveiled its latest sports band, in-ear Bluetooth headphones whose ear buds aren’t connected by a cable, and a marketing campaign to promote...
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Samsung Electronics To Skip OLED TV And Go Straight To QLED TV
QLED technology is said to combine the strengths of LED and OLED, featuring self-illuminating technology like OLED and quantum dots. Samsung believes it can’t...
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Fitbit Still On Top But Losing Share To Apple
Global wearable-device shipments, including basic wearables and smart watches, rose more than 67 percent in the first quarter to 19.7 million units, with Fitbit...
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Samsung Closes Offices To Dedicate Day Of Service
Samsung employees in the U.S. today are holding their fourth semiannual Day of Service — a day dedicated to improving lives in their communities...
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Samsung 4K Blu-ray Player Gets UHD Alliance Certification
Samsung’s UBD-K8500 Ultra HD Blu-ray player, the only 4K Blu-ray player available in the U.S., has become the industry’s first 4K Blu-ray player to...
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Samsung, LG Escalating OLED Battle
Samsung will take on LG in the OLED panel market later this year, according to a report by Sammobile. Samsung, which has a 95...
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Samsung, Roku Eliminating Need For Comcast Cable Boxes
Consumers with Samsung smart TVs, Roku players, and Roku TVs won’t need a Comcast cable box to get all of their Comcast content, including...
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Samsung 4K SUHD TVs Roll Out As Company Plays 4K Blu-ray Catch-Up
Samsung has begun rolling out an expanded lineup of 16 SUHD-technology 4K Ultra HD TVs with a mix of flat and curved screens, all...
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AT&T Expanding Samsung Galaxy Selection With Express Prime, Express 3, Express J3
AT&T continues to expand its selection of Samsung smartphones with the launch of two prepaid GoPhone smartphones and a value-priced postpaid smartphone, all said...
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Samsung Developing Foldable Phablet With 7-Inch OLED Display
Samsung is developing a phablet with an OLED display that turns a tablet-size 7-inch screen into a 5-inch smartphone screen when folded, a Korean...
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Samsung’s Windows 10 Galaxy TabPro S Is Now Available
Samsung has begun shipping the Windows 10 Galaxy TabPro S two-in-one, first announced at CES 2016. The device, which carries an $899 suggested retail,...
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Verizon Adds 18.4-Inch Samsung Galaxy View Tablet
Verizon joined AT&T in offering an LTE-equipped version of Samsung’s 18.4-inch Galaxy View tablet, whose large screen and built-in carry handle and stand are...
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SquareTrade Rates Galaxy S7 Phones ‘Medium Risk’ For Breakage
Extended-warranty supplier SquareTrade tested Samsung’s new water-resistant Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge flagship phones for durability vs. that of Apple’s iPhone 6s and 6s...
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Samsung 837 Marks Return Of Brand’s Big Apple Showcase
Five years after closing its public showroom at New York’s Columbus Circle, Samsung Electronics America has opened its downtown office facility to consumers with...
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Samsung Warns of Competition as Investors Vote on Board Changes
“We expect core products of our company, such as smartphone, TV, and memory, will face oversupply issues and intensified price competition,” Samsung’s CEO said...
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Samsung Likely to Shutter Milk Music Service
Samsung offered Milk Music on select Samsung smartphones and opened it up to the Web and to Samsung smart TVs, but apps were never...
Industry
Tech Companies Ready For SXSW Festival
Tens of thousands of music, film and tech enthusiasts will mingle next week during the city-wide SXSW 2016 festival and trade show in Austin,...
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Samsung, Six Flags Team For Virtual-Reality Rollercoasters
Riders on virtual-reality-equipped rollercoasters at nine Six Flags theme parks this year will fly with Superman or battle space aliens while wearing Samsung’sGear VR...
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Samsung Asks ‘Why’ At The Oscars
Instead of an Ellen-wrangled selfie at this year’s Academy Awards, Samsung brought a new star-studded commercial to the Oscars. The 90-second commercial, titled “Why”...
Industry
Samsung 837 Marks Return Of Brand’s Big Apple Showcase
Five years after closing its public showroom at New York’s Columbus Circle, Samsung has opened its downtown facility to consumers with an even more...
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MWC16: Facebook To Boost 360 Video Quality On Samsung Gear VR
Facebook will quadruple the resolution of 360-degree streaming Facebook videos to Samsung’s Gear VR virtual-reality headset in the next few weeks, Facebook founder Mark...
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2016 MWC: Samsung S7, S7 Edge Focus On Cameras, Gaming
Samsung upped the camera and gaming performance of its new Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge smartphones, brought back a removable memory-card slot, and added...
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Smart TVs Turn Into The Hub Of A Smart House
Three major TV companies – LG, Samsung and Sony – are launching TVs that serve as home-automation hubs or connect to a hub to...
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Who’s Trying To Ban iPhones Now?
Samsung didn’t succeed in getting a ban on the importation of select Apple products in 2013, but haptic-feedback company Immersion thinks it can get...
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Everybody’s Doing It: How People Use Their Smartphones
Smartphones owners can’t keep their content on their phone, a Parks Associates survey of broadband households found. Thirty-five percent of smartphone owners stream music...