After a Samsung Galaxy S10 owner in Britain reported this week that the fingerprint sensor on her phone could be fooled simply by adding a screen protector to the phone, Samsung has acknowledged the issue and promised to fix it with an upcoming software update. The Galaxy S10 is Samsung’s first smartphone to feature an […]
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Lilbits 351: More multi-camera phones
Phones with three rear cameras are becoming common. Even that weird Energy Power Max 18K that was unveiled today has three rear cameras. But right now there’s only one smartphone with five rear cameras: The Nokia 9 PureView. It probably won’t be the last though. Nokia developed the phone using multi-camera technology from Light, and […]
Samsung Galaxy S10 Bixby button can also launch other apps
Samsung really wants its customers to use its Bixby assistant software, which is why the company keeps putting dedicated Bixby buttons on its smartphones. Now the company is finally giving users a way to remap the Bixby button so that it can do something other than launch the company’s assistant software. Sort of. The Verge reports […]
Samsung Galaxy S10 5G has 6 cameras, a big screen, and a big battery
Samsung’s Galaxy S10 series smartphones may pack a lot of features… but there’s one feature that most of them don’t support: 5G wireless networks. That makes sense, since those networks are just now starting to come online. But if you do live in an area with 5G coverage, you might want a 5G-ready phone… and […]
Samsung Galaxy S10e is a (slightly) cheaper, smaller Galaxy S10
Samsung’s newest flagship phones go up for pre-order on February 21st, and they’ll be available in stores on March 8th. But if the $900 starting price for a Samsung Galaxy S10 (and $1000 for a Galaxy S10+) seems a little too high for you, there is a cheaper option. The Samsung Galaxy S10e features the same Qualcomm […]
Samsung launches Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10 Plus (for $900 and up)
Samsung’s newest flagship phones feature big screens, small bezels, and a bunch of cameras. The Samsung Galaxy S10 is a 6.1 inch smartphone with three cameras on the back, an in-display fingerprint sensor, and a hole-punch display with a front-facing camera in the upper right corner of the screen. The Samsung Galaxy S10+ is a […]
This could be the Samsung Galaxy S10+ (leaks) (Update: S10 too)
Samsung is holding an event on February 20th where the company is expected to unveil the Galaxy S10 and S10+ smartphones, among other things. Thanks to a few recent Samsung announcements, we’re already pretty sure that the phones will ship with an Exynos 9820 processor in some market (and most likely a Snapdragon 855 chip […]
Samsung unveils a 1TB storage chip for smartphones
My laptop only has 256GB of built-in storage. But you can already find smartphones with twice as much storage capacity. Soon you may be able to buy one with four times the storage space. Samsung has announced it’s begun mass production of the first one terabyte UFS 2.1 flash storage chip for mobile devices. Odds […]
Samsung’s Exynos 9820 is an 8nm chip that can handle 8K video
Samsung’s latest mobile processor is set to enter mass production by the end of the year, which means there’s a good chance you’ll see the Samsaung Exynos 9820 in at least some of the company’s flagship phones in 2019. It’s no surprise that the new chip is Samsung’s most powerful mobile processor to date. But it […]