Samsung replaced its mobile division design chief, Chang Dong-hoon with Lee Min-hyouk – its vice president of mobile design. The personnel shift takes place amidst criticism about the design of Samsung’s latest flagship – the Galaxy S5. Mr. Chang will not be leaving Samsung. He will move to the Korean manufacturer’s corporate design center where he will be head of the Design Strategy Team. The latter is responsible for the long-term design…

An updated Samsung catalog for South Korea has revealed two new color choices for the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo. The phablet will soon hit its home market in pink and red flavors, but there’s no further information on when exactly that will happen. It also highly probable for the new hues to be part of an upcoming Galaxy Note 3 Neo La Fleur line-up. Sadly, we don’t know if the new…

Having Google Play Editions of all popular flagships has become somewhat of a tradition. Now that the Samsung Galaxy S5 has been around for a while many fans are wondering if it will also get the GPE treatment. Apparently, Samsung and Google are working on such edition and Google has just spilled the beans. The device popped up briefly on the Play Store among the others GPE devices. Well, it didn’t appear…

There have been some murmurs that Samsung, in an effort to grab some of HTC’s premium phone market share (and undoubtedly the upcoming iPhone 6’s), release a high-end version of their Galaxy S5 phone, called the S5 Prime. The upgraded version of the Korean manufacturer’s latest flagship is supposed to have an aluminum encasing, 2K screen, and 3GB RAM. Now Samsung has been mum on their plans with the Samsung Galaxy S5…

Tizen is alive, but unfortunately delayed yet again. However, there might be a light at the end of the tunnel for the joint Intel-Samsung developed OS, as according to a TizenIndonesia, Tizen is going to get its smartphone debut some time in May. The first official smartphone running Tizen would launch in Russia next month, with Brazil and other developing markets coming next. Additionally, Yoon Han-kil, senior vice president of Samsung’s product…

We already know that Samsung is going to release the mini version of its Galaxy S5 flagship, just like it did for the Galaxy S4 last year. The upcoming Galaxy S5 mini has already been leaked via a case maker, and today Samsung has confirmed one of the features of the device. Samsung New Zealand on its website has affirmed that the Galaxy S5 mini will come out with IP67 certification. The…

The Samsung Galaxy Core 2 has leaked in dual-SIM form over in Russia and carries the product codeSM-G355H. We got two images that show the device with a physical home button along with a capacitive recent apps and back buttons. According to the leak the Galaxy Core 2 Dual SIM has a 4.5″ WVGA (480 x 800 pixels) display on the front, quad-core 1.2 GHz processor, a lowly 512 MB of RAM,…

Smartphone screens keep getting bigger and bigger. Phablets push the boundaries of pocket-friendliness (let’s be honest, that threshold has been crossed a long time ago), but now Samsung is looking to create a 7″ handset to usher us into an era of mobile screen size ridiculousness. Welcome the Samsung SM-T2558, the cell phone with the largest display size to date. The monstrous handset was spotted on the Chinese site TENAA, which delineates…

The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is going to be the first smartphone from the company to pack its YOUM flexible OLED display technology, a new report says. The information comes from Korean media citing insider sources and further elaborates that the display is going to be three-sided. Three-sided implicates that the display has its left and right sides bent to create additional zones where notifications from messages, email, incoming calls can appear….

According to a report in The Telegraph, more than a third (38% to be precise) of the users who upgraded to a Samsung Galaxy S5 switched from an Apple iPhone. The data has been gathered from the mobile trade-in website CompareMyMobile. The majority Apple users who made the switch to Samsung’s latest smartphone flagship traded an ancient by today’s standards iPhone 4s. CompareMyMobile saw a 210% increase of trade-ins for the device….