… The "About phone" page also seems to have gotten a redesign, with a smaller device image in the corner and details like model name, serial number, IMEI, and phone number grouped more compactly, Sammy Guru reports . …
… This is much faster than Samsung's update timeline in years past. Google's OS improvements like Treble and Mainline have made updates easier to develop, and Samsung has stepped up its software support as a way to differentiate itself from other smartphone makers. …
… A previous listing for 128GB on Samsung's site was an error. Both phones do use super-fast UFS 2.0 NAND storage, though. Software and everything else The Note series refresh is usually an opportunity for Samsung to experiment with crazy features that may or may not work out. …
… Samsung has always tried to make Android its own. It wants you to feel like you're using a Galaxy phone that happens to run Android, not an Android phone with some extra Samsung stuff. …
… Samsung is selling a 16GB phone that should be labeled as a 9GB phone -- there's just no other way to slice it. Maybe Samsung is hoping to sucker customers into buying micro SD cards? Which Samsung also makes. …
… This phone runs the same version of TouchWiz that we saw on the Galaxy S8, but it's based on Android 7.1.1 now. The GS8 is still running 7.0, but Samsung hasn't made any other notable changes to the software. …
In the lead up to the official launch of the Galaxy S4 tonight in New York, a series of leaks from China mean that we now know almost all of the hardware and software specs of Samsung's new superphone. …
… It is not too early to think about whether Android will be as dominant on smartphones as Windows has been on the desktop. And time will also tell whether Samsung becomes the IBM of the smartphone space. …
… The addition of this software to a phone already swollen with bloatware isn't really a positive as far as Verizon's customers are concerned. …
… Samsung is far from the first hardware vendor to be terrible at building software, but is it strictly Android's fault that the only company actually making a profit in the Android phone business hasn't managed to create its own customized software versions that its customers actually want to use? …