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Samsung is working to use biometric sensors in its mobile security system which the company expects to be available even for low-end smartphone models, an executive said Monday.“We’re looking at  various types of biometric [mechanisms] and one of things that everybody is looking at is iris detection,”  Samsung’s senior vice president Rhee In-jong told analysts Continue Reading →

After three full days of deliberations, a jury in San Jose, California found that Samsung had infringed upon two Apple patents, and that it owed the Cupertino company $119,625,000 in damages. But it also found that Apple had infringed on one of Samsung’s two patents, and owed $158,400 as a result. In a decision, the Continue Reading →

“This is a phone. With cool camera stuff.” That’s how Samsung’s Philip Berne describes the Galaxy K zoom (“K is for camera… if you’re German”), the company’s latest attempt to figure out how to fully marry an excellent smartphone with an excellent camera. It’s a technological achievement, with a retractable 10x zoom lens and 20.7-megapixel Continue Reading →

When it comes to smartphones, Samsung has been on a tear since the fourth quarter of 2009, growing its global market share since then to become the top seller. Amid smartphone saturation in some regions, however, the company’s growth has stalled: According to Strategy Analytics, Samsung’s global smartphone market share has fallen for the first Continue Reading →

In a somewhat unusual move, Samsung is rumored to be planning a premium version of their already high-end Galaxy S5 Android smartphone. That device could arrive as early as June, according to a new report from Asia Todayand might include a 2560×1440 display (better than the full HD screen on the GS5) as well as Continue Reading →

Samsung’s newest flagship phone, the Galaxy S5, has been on store shelves for a few weeks. But is it worth your money? It’s a very nice smartphone with excellent features, but it’s more of an enhanced version of the S4 than a new “rock the house” device. I’m a big fan of the phone’s nutrition-tracking Continue Reading →

Some owners of the Verizon version of the Galaxy S5 are running into problems with their new phone’s camera: after throwing up a “Warning: Camera Failure” message, the phone’s camera becomes completely unusable even if you totally reset the phone. Verizon has acknowledged the problem on its official Twitter account, saying that the company will Continue Reading →

When Samsung introduced its first Internet radio service Milk Music in March, one of the things that stood out was that it was available free and without ads. That may change soon, according to information disclosed by Samsung. Nestled away in an infographic about Milk Music is a pricing plan which suggests that the free Continue Reading →

As Samsung’s best-selling smartphones face increasing competition from a horde of Chinese lookalikes, one of the South Korean giant’s key goals has been to translate demand for its devices into interest for Samsung’s homegrown software and services. But a new study shows how far the company still has to go. Strategy Analytics, a Newton, Mass.-based Continue Reading →

In the South Korean industrial town of Gumi, about a 45-minute helicopter ride southeast of here, Samsung Electronics factory workers, nearly all of them young women, are methodically applying the finishing touches on Galaxy S5s. The launch of Samsung’s newest flagship smartphone on April 11 was a little over a week away, and though most Continue Reading →