Samsung got a lot of flak when they were caught rigging the benchmark scores by artificially enabling the CPU cores to run at full speed. Futuremark even went on to delist some Samsung devices for boosting 3DMark scores. Now Ars Technica reports that Samsung has stopped rigging the tests in devices running Android 4.4. The […]
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Samsung announces Galaxy Note 3 Neo in South Korea
Samsung is expanding the availability of its Galaxy Note 3 Neo smartphone. Samsung has announced to bring the device for its home market, South Korea and interestingly it comes with a different processor. The South Korean variant will come with a 2.3GHz quad-core processor, which we assume is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor. Apart from this change, […]
KNOX-enabled Galaxy devices receive MDFPP Common Criteria certification
Hot on the heels of KNOX 2.0 announcement, Samsung confirmed that their KNOX-enabled Galaxy devices have received Common Criteria certification for its security. The Common Criteria is considered as the “gold standard” for security and Samsung devices are actually the first in the mobile industry to receive such certification. Common Criteria certification assures that certified […]
Galaxy S5 might have an Exynos octa-core variant [Updated]
UPDATE: Samsung has removed the post with the infographic but the one with the Korean language is live here. Have uploaded the original image below. Samsung announced Galaxy S5 yesterday and it was interesting to see that Samsung didn’t really emphasise on the processor, which according to the official press release is a 2.5GHz quad-core […]
Samsung unveils Galaxy S5
At the Samsung Unpacked event today, Samsung announced the Galaxy S5. The phone is the same as we saw few hours back but we’ve got more details on the hardware, software and availability. The design is still plastic with a perforated pattern on the back cover but Samsung deems the “design with modern trends to […]