Replace it every year

Samsung  is rolling out a rental phone service which will replace a phone that is been used for a year with the latest model.

Copies Apple again 

It seems that Apple is not the only one which is being hard hit by a fall in interest in smartphones. its rival Samsung is reporting the same sort of problems, only it has the advantage of other products it can fall back on and a big R&D budget for future products.

Different sizes too

AU Optronics ,LG and Samung are planning to bring out more panels with different resolutions and specifications this year.

While others suffer

While other smartphone makers, including the fruity cargo cult Apple see their sales dry up, Huawei is predicted to do rather well.

According to @evleaks

Although Samsung might announce its newest flagship Galaxy S7 smartphone at Mobile World Congress 2016 (MWC 2016) next month, it appears that it won't go on sale until March 11th, at least in the US.

Finally wakes up

The Tame Apple Press is starting to report what we have been saying for months, iPhone sales have slumped for the first time in ten years.

Mid-February if you pre-order for $100 below launch price

Back at CES 2016 in Las Vegas earlier this month, we were able to take a glimpse at Samsung’s very first consumer 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player, the UBD-K8500, and the small selection of 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc launch titles to go along with it.

256GB/s with four 8Gb stacks, seven-fold increase over GDDR5

Roughly six months ago, AMD launched the first graphics cards packed with first-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). Today, Samsung has just announced production of the industry’s first 20nm 4GB DRAM package based on second-generation High Bandwidth Memory 2 (HBM2).

Seven year olds mining for Cobalt

Apple, Samsung and Sony have been named and shamed in an Amnesty International report for not doing enough to prevent child labour crimes in the production of products.

Using new second-gen 14nm FinFET low-power plus (LPP) process

On Thursday, Samsung announced it has begun mass production of the company’s second-generation 14nm 3D FinFET low-power plus (LPP) process technology.