Google officially released the Wear OS 7 update for Pixel Watch models. The new wearable platform introduces a battery life boost, Live Updates, Gemini Intelligence, and cross-device connectivity.

Samsung will bring the new wearable operating system to its Galaxy devices through the One UI 9 Watch update. A Beta Program was assumed to have already started, but users are still awaiting an announcement.

Meanwhile, Samsung is more widely rolling out its May 2026 security patches. In the latest expansion, the fresh security patches have started to arrive on 8 Samsung Galaxy Watches in the US.

The May 2026 update’s changelog clearly states that the OTA includes the most up-to-date Android security patches. However, the OTA has even more to offer, which Samsung hasn’t even mentioned in the changelog.

Samsung users reported a broken app launch bug on Galaxy Watches in the US. Every time they launch/open an application from the app drawer, it shows a dark black glimpse on the screen and then returns to the app drawer.

Galaxy Watch users found that the problem had been resolved after installing the May 2026 security update. It was initially dropped in South Korea, and a major expansion brought it to users in the United States.

Samsung may have also included system optimization inside. System cache and junk data will also be cleared during installation, which would provide an enhanced user experience.

Software version information:

• Galaxy Watch 4 – R865USQS2JZE1 (40mm) / R875USQS2JZE1 (44mm)
• Galaxy Watch 4 Classic – R885USQS2JZE1 (42mm) / R895USQS2JZE1 (46mm)
• Galaxy Watch 5 – R905USQS2DZE1 (40mm) / R915USQS2DZE1 (44mm)
• Galaxy Watch 5 Pro – R925USQS2DZE1 (45mm)
• Galaxy Watch 6 – R935USQS2CZE1 (40mm) / R945USQS2CZE1 (44mm)
• Galaxy Watch 6 Classic – R955USQS2CZE1 (43mm) / R965USQS2CZE1 (47mm)
• Galaxy Watch FE – R866USQS2BZE1

The updates are available on Verizon-bound Galaxy Watches in the US. You can get the latest software on your smartwatch using the Galaxy Wearable app.

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Your Samsung phone has two great features to safeguard your data and privacy under the Theft Protection section. This intelligent feature kit provides a necessary shield to your Galaxy phone in case it gets stolen while you use it.

Think you are roaming outside and using your phone for surfing or attending an important phone call. You suddenly come to know that someone snatched your device from your hands, leaving you shocked at the moment.

Smartphones are no longer just communication devices. They have become a crucial part of our lives as they store credentials, digital keys, banking apps, and digital identity. Losing the phone means you are losing almost everything you digitized.

Samsung phones have a Theft Detection feature, but it must be enabled manually. When enabled, it ensures your phone locks itself if a possible theft is detected. It has been designed brilliantly and works the way it should.

Smartphone theft can happen unexpectedly, but taking a few minutes to enable Theft Protection can help safeguard your data and privacy.

The suite of these intelligent security tools can automatically lock your Samsung smartphone when theft is detected, lock a phone when it goes offline for an extended period, and even allow users to remotely lock their device.

Technically, Theft Detection Lock can identify motion patterns commonly associated with theft, such as a device being suddenly snatched away from a user. If suspicious activity is detected, the smartphone screen automatically locks.

Here’s a step-by-step guide to enable the Theft Detection feature:

Step 1: Open Settings and tap Security and privacy
Step 2: Tap Lost device protection
Step 3: Select Theft protection
Step 4: Tap Theft Detection Lock
Step 5: Tap Turn on
Step 6: Tap Offline Device Lock
Step 7: Tap Turn on
Step 8: Tap Remote Lock and select Use Remote Lock to enable the feature

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Samsung is showcasing an upcoming Galaxy phone that looks so attractive in its first teaser. The company is set to unveil the Galaxy M47 mid-range smartphone in India, and the product page has also gone live on Amazon.

From what we’re seeing in the first teasers, the Galaxy M47 is gearing up to be one of the most attractive Samsung phone models in the segment.

The phone’s Red/Maroon color variant has a matte backpanel, pairing a Black chassis. The color combination itself looks so catchy and something new that everyone has been waiting for.

The side frame also boasts a key island design to house volume buttons. The vertical island features three camera sensors on the back. It’s not as gorgeous as the flagship phones, but still decent.

If you have a desire to own a Samsung phone with a design that stands out, the Galaxy M47 should be your bet. What makes it more appealing is the camera island, inpired from the Galaxy S26 flagship phones.

Samsung hasn’t revealed the launch date or timeline of this phone. The company is just highlighting it as a device that is “coming soon.” India debut is confirmed and expansion may cover certain markets in the Asia region.

The Galaxy M47 is expected to come with a Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 processor. It would run Android 16-based One UI 8.5 software. The chipset could be paired with 8GB of RAM as standard to offer seamless experience.

Watch the teasers here:

The wait for the next level is almost over.#GalaxyM47 5G is coming soon. Stay tuned for the #NextLevelMonster.#ComingSoon #LoveforMonster #Samsung pic.twitter.com/Aas3qojhEf

— Samsung India (@SamsungIndia) June 19, 2026

You have seen what a Monster can do.
But this is THE NEXT LEVEL MONSTER.

Gear up for 4X!
More multitasking.
More hours of endless gaming.
More strength for the outdoors!

This is the 4X Monster upgrade.
The new #GalaxyM47 5G is arriving soon.
Stay tuned!
#NextLevelMonster… pic.twitter.com/OTrHEqqikA

— Samsung India (@SamsungIndia) June 19, 2026

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Samsung is showcasing the Galaxy A37 and Galaxy A57 cameras in collaboration with South African creators. Samsung South Africa teamed up with one of Mzansi’s leading film production companies to drop a short film.

The Korean tech giant has been quietly building something in the Galaxy A series for years. The Galaxy A57 5G and Galaxy A37 5G are the latest proof that AI-powered photography isn’t just for flagship phones anymore.

The short film is less product advertisement and more of a cultural document.

Director Lindo Langa helmed the project, and the result is genuinely cinematic. The film opens frozen, moments suspended just before the shutter clicks, then accelerates into the full kinetic energy of South African youth culture.

It’s the kind of brief you don’t expect from a mid-range phone launch. Content creators Dee Koala, Sine Madondo, Coachella Randy, and Jaedin Rhodes appear as themselves, doing exactly what they do in real life.

Designed to make everyday experiences simpler, smarter, and more intuitive, the new Galaxy A57 5G and A37 5G reflect Samsung’s ongoing commitment to democratising artificial intelligence.

By expanding AI capabilities across more accessible devices, Samsung continues to empower users to do more with the technology in their hands, from capturing meaningful moments to enhancing everyday productivity.

Samsung is pushing AI camera capabilities down into devices that real people can afford. Not everyone is buying an S-series phone, and pretending otherwise is how you lose the next generation of customers.

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Pope Leo XIV is officially a Samsung guy; he rocks a Galaxy phone and wears a Galaxy Watch. When South Korean President Lee Jae-myung visited the Vatican earlier this week, he came away with more than diplomatic goodwill.

During their meeting, Pope Leo XIV held up a Black smartwatch and quizzed the President: “Do you know what this is?” It was a Samsung Galaxy Watch. The Pope then mentioned he also carries a Galaxy smartphone and drives a Hyundai.

For a man who could have his pick of any device, the choice is telling. While Silicon Valley’s flagship products dominate the pockets of most Western leaders and public figures, the leader of Catholics is running on Korean tech.

The Pope’s device preferences emerged as something of a lighthearted footnote to a substantive meeting that covered Korean Peninsula peace efforts, next year’s World Youth Day in Seoul, and a potential papal visit to North Korea.

Samsung’s Galaxy lineup has long held its ground as a premium alternative to Apple, and apparently, that reputation reaches all the way to the Holy See.

Whether by personal preference or happy coincidence, the first American Pope seems to have gone Korean when it counts.

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A new market report reveals that the global smartwatch market has returned to growth, with major brands gaining momentum. Samsung took a different path in Q1 2026, with smartwatch shipments facing a steep decline.

According to Counterpoint Research, the global smartwatch shipments grew 4% YoY in Q1 2026. Analysts believe Apple was the key driver given its newest Watch portfolio, along with growing demand for premium devices.

Samsung was the only smartwatch brand that flagged a massive downturn in its shipments in Q1 2026. The company’s market share declined from 7 percent in Q1 2025 to 5 percent in the first quarter of the year.

The shipment data reveals that Galaxy Watch shipments declined 28 percent YoY. It signals that the company’s wearable strategy requires revisions. A new set of watches is coming next month, and market share is expected to rise.

Apple led the worldwide smartwatch market with 23 percent market share. The US tech giant flagged a steep growth of 21 percent year-on-year. The momentum will continue as Q3 is set to welcome the next-gen wearables.

Huawei also grew 12 percent, with the company’s market share jumping from 16 percent in Q1 2025 to 17 percent in Q1 2026. The Chinese brand ranked second, thanks to aggressive marketing and push from key markets.

The growth of the Chinese market, led by Huawei’s ecosystem push and government subsidies, encouraged consumer upgrades and strengthened overall demand.

Xiaomi maintained its third spot and 10 percent market share in Q1 2026’s smartwatch market. The company’s overall smartwatch shipments grew 9 percent year over year.

imoo was the fourth largest smartwatch vendor in the first quarter, retaining 7 percent market share with 2 percent YoY growth.

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Thanks to the AI momentum, Samsung has just surpassed Bitcoin in terms of market value. Samsung Electronics is sitting at a $1.522 trillion market cap while Bitcoin is at $1.276 trillion; it is a $246 billion gap, and it has widened fast.

The KOSPI cracked 9,000 intraday for the first time ever, dragging semiconductor stocks higher while Bitcoin quietly bled out. SEDaily reports that Samsung climbed to 12th among global assets, while Bitcoin slipped to 15th.

Samsung surpassed Bitcoin on November 1, then lost ground after shares cratered on November 8. Meanwhile, AI chip demand and high-bandwidth memory optimism have since pulled Samsung back ahead.

The gap isn’t shrinking

MarketWatch columnist Mark Hulbert ran the numbers on a fair-value model and surfaced something brutal: Bitcoin converging around $120,000 by 2140 implies an expected annual return of roughly 0.6% over 120 years.

Apart from this, SK Hynix is also running up 6.51% in a single session, its market value reached $1.248 trillion, placing it just $28 billion behind Bitcoin at 16th globally.

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Samsung and a startup called Claros have quietly locked in one of the more technically precise collaborations to surface from the AI infrastructure arms race.

Claros will produce its IVR designs using Samsung Foundry’s US-based 14nm FinFET process. The company’s CEO, Daniel Kultran, has been direct about the friction, saying data center operators keep hitting the same wall because they want integrated voltage regulation but won’t move without volume certainty.

“Samsung’s FinFET process is the manufacturing foundation our IVR needs, and now our customers have a production timeline they can plan around,” said Claros Co-Founder and CEO Daniel Kultran.

Samsung’s Margaret Han, who runs US Foundry operations, signaled that the company sees applications beyond data centers, including industrial and automotive applications.

“Processor-level power delivery is one of the most critical challenges facing AI infrastructure, and Claros is tackling it with a truly forward-looking approach,” said Margaret Han, Executive Vice President and Head of US Foundry at Samsung Electronics.

AI workloads don’t just demand power; they waste it. The industry has been pushing 800 VDC architecture at the rack level, which helps, but stops short.

Without voltage regulation happening millimeters from the actual processor, a significant slice of that efficiency disappears as heat. Claros’s integrated voltage regulator closes that gap, cutting energy loss by up to 30 percent.

This is Claros’s first manufacturing agreement. The company closed a $30 million seed round recently and is now positioned to actually ship at scale.

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Samsung is already preparing Galaxy devices for the quantum security era with the latest Android 16-based One UI 8.5 update. Quantum computers capable of cracking modern encryption aren’t here, but the people building them are working fast.

Most of the encryption protecting your banking apps, your Wi-Fi sessions, and your private messages relies on mathematical problems that traditional computers can’t solve in any reasonable timeframe.

Quantum machines could solve them in minutes. Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is the field that is developing replacement algorithms designed to withstand that kind of computational power.

One UI 8.5 brings quantum-resistant encryption to Secure Wi-Fi, which protects connections on public and shared networks.

Among the security initiatives presented by Samsung are:

• New advanced encryption mechanisms for personal data;
• Intelligent threat monitoring among connected Galaxy devices;
• Preventive features capable of identifying suspicious activities in real time;
• Expansion of Knox Enhanced Encrypted Protection (KEEP), an architecture developed to protect personalized AI features.

Samsung has also expanded Knox Matrix and strengthened Knox Enhanced Encrypted Protection, the architecture built specifically to guard personalized AI features as they process increasingly sensitive behavioral data.

Meanwhile, the Korean tech giant has not published deep technical documentation on exactly which PQC algorithms are being deployed or at what layer, but the direction is right.

Samsung launched One UI 8.5 with the Galaxy S26 flagship phones. The official rollout began in May 2026, and dozens of Galaxy devices have received the update to date.

Beyond that, Samsung embarked on the One UI 9 journey, based on Android 17. The software is available in Beta for the Galaxy S26 series in Germany, India, Poland, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Researchers at Counterpoint Research published the worldwide smartphone sales report for Week 20 of 2026. Samsung maintained its smartphone sales in that period, while Apple and Huawei secured solid growth.

According to the report, the global smartphone sales declined by 8% YoY in Week 20 of 2026, marking the ninth consecutive week of negative growth. Overall, demand remained sluggish during Week 20, despite some promotional events in China and India.

Apple and Huawei were the only phone makers that flagged positive growth. Samsung, at the same time, managed to keep its sales momentum consistent in a declining smartphone market.

Brands with stable supply chains and high visibility into key components such as memory were able to maintain more consistent pricing and promotional strategies. Apple is in an advantageous position in this regard.

Apple grew 10 percent year over year, while Huawei grew a huge 23 percent. Samsung managed to prevent a sales slump, but ended up facing a sales decline of 1 percent year over year.

Chinese vendors, such as Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi, declined 10%, 19%, and 17%, respectively. The phone makers are getting hurt by the rising component costs and the memory price hike.

With supply chain stability emerging as a key differentiator this year, brands with higher supply stability for core components, particularly AI memory, competing with data center demand, widened the gap with their competitors.

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Samsung smartwatches reportedly failing to open apps on Wear OS 6. A bug appears to be preventing certain apps from opening on the device. Users are frustrated as a key functionality of their wearable has stopped.

Users of Samsung smartwatches have been posting about a frustrating issue where apps like Gmail, Google Calendar, and WhatsApp simply refuse to open.

You tap the icon, the splash screen flashes for a second, and then you’re dumped right back into the app drawer. Similar reports are posted as complaints across various social media platforms, including Reddit.

One Galaxy Watch 8 Classic owner brought it to Reddit, and the replies confirmed this isn’t an isolated incident. Meanwhile, someone in that Reddit thread (via AndroidAuthority) dug into the cause, and it’s a Wear OS 6 kernel problem.

A zombie process, meaning a process that’s technically finished but still sitting in the system’s memory, creates a deadlock when the app tries to close. When you try to relaunch the app, the OS spots that old process, can’t kill it, and aborts the whole startup.

The fix is the May 2026 security patch. A Galaxy Watch 7 owner installed it and reports the bug hasn’t resurfaced since. Although the May patch’s rollout has begun, it’s still not widely available on Galaxy Watch models globally.

A kernel-level bug is making apps unusable on Galaxy Watches; the only potential fix requires a security update that not everyone may have received yet.

If your Galaxy Watch has been eating app launches lately, check your software update settings immediately.

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Samsung Galaxy S26 5G starts at $899 in the US, thanks to rising memory costs that caused a price hike of $100. The company offered decent deals at launch, which ended as preorders closed, but Amazon has an even better offer right now.

As part of Father’s Day deal, Samsung is offering a $100 cash discount on the base Galaxy S26 model with 256GB storage. Meanwhile, Amazon has a limited stock of the Galaxy S26 5G available for as low as $775 in the US.

Amazon listed the Galaxy S26 5G for $785, down $125 from the launch price of $899. Meanwhile, the platform is offering an additional $10 instant discount as an Amazon Store Card, taking the price down to a sizzling $775.

• Buy Galaxy S26 5G from Amazon

The best part: you are getting $125 off with no strings attached. The 256GB variant is enough to store your photos and videos alongside useful apps. There’s a 512GB model as well, which is currently $934 on Amazon US.

Samsung Galaxy S26 comes with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, paired with 12GB of RAM. The phone features a triple camera setup that includes a 50-megapixel main, a 12-megapixel ultrawide and a 10-megapixel Telephoto.

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WhatsApp is testing a series of UI changes and feature adjustments. Recent beta releases reveal that the messaging giant is focusing heavily on home screen accessibility, streamlined group management, and cleaning up underutilized features.

Here is a breakdown of the three major changes currently rolling out or under development.

Widget for voice messages

WhatsApp is expanding its Android home screen shortcuts to streamline daily interactions.

A new resizable 3×1 widget allows users to record voice notes with a single tap directly from their home screen, bypassing the need to open the app and locate specific chats.

Once recorded, the audio can be sent to individual contacts, multiple recipients at once, or shared as a status update.

Redesigned group chat info screen

WhatsApp is reorganizing the group chat info interface by introducing two dedicated hubs at the very top of the screen:

• Preferences: Consolidates personal choices like Chat Themes, Media Visibility, and storage management tools.
• Privacy: Houses security configurations, including Chat Lock settings and end-to-end encryption details.

You may like: WhatsApp is redesigning its About section with a live preview screen

Privacy setting for avatar stickers

WhatsApp is discontinuing its avatar feature due to low user engagement. Users can no longer create, edit, or send new custom avatar stickers from the keyboard.

The application is also removing the associated privacy settings that controlled collaborative sticker pairing. Notably, past avatar stickers remain saved in old chats or personal favorites.

Related articles:

• WhatsApp rolling out smooth message bubble animations

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Samsung is internally testing Android 17-based One UI 9.0 software for various Galaxy devices. This activity is running in parallel to the Open Beta Program. The public beta update is exclusively available for the Galaxy S26 series.

One UI 9.0 update will bring Android 17 to Samsung devices. The official debut is set for late July, while the rollout will take a few more weeks to start. Samsung will first prioritize new devices rather than sharing software advancements.

Samsung picked mid-May as the timeline to announce and start the One UI 9 Beta Program. As of the third week of June, the company has already rolled out three Beta builds to Galaxy S26 users in six countries around the world.

Open Beta Program

1. Galaxy S26
2. Galaxy S26+
3. Galaxy S26 Ultra

Samsung will keep the Beta Program limited to its latest flagship devices. Meanwhile, the internal testing has already started for plenty of models. It includes phones from the S series, foldables from the Z series, and tablets from the Tab series.

What’s more, some Galaxy A Series phones have also joined the party. The internal testing is expanding to unexpected models, including the budget ones. The pace is fast, and Samsung is gearing up for a faster rollout.

Internal Testing Stage

Galaxy S Series

1. Galaxy S25
2. Galaxy S25+
3. Galaxy S25 Ultra
4. Galaxy S24
5. Galaxy S24+
6. Galaxy S24 Ultra
7. Galaxy S24 FE
8. Galaxy S23
9. Galaxy S23+
10. Galaxy S23 Ultra

Galaxy Z Series

1. Galaxy Z Fold 7
2. Galaxy Z Flip 7

Galaxy A Series

1. Galaxy A57
2. Galaxy A56
3. Galaxy A34
4. Galaxy A17
5. Galaxy A16

Galaxy Tab S Series

1. Galaxy Tab S11
2. Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra
3. Galaxy Tab S10+
4. Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra

The list is broad enough yet incomplete. Samsung will add even more Galaxy models to its internal software testing streak. Beta Program may open for more users, but it would only happen after the Summer Galaxy Unpacked event.

Updated on June 20, 2026.

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Samsung’s System LSI division just delivered its best-ever first-quarter revenue. Sounds like great news, right? But there’s a catch – the company still expects to end the full year with losses in this part of its chip business.

President Park Yong-in recently talked about the challenges. He said Samsung needs bigger structural changes because demand is soft in several key areas. Even with strong memory (HBM) chip sales, thanks to AI demand, the non-memory side (foundry and System LSI) continues to struggle.

“We achieved the highest level of sales in the first quarter of this year” Park said at the briefing. Park said, “The System-on-Chip (SoC) business is difficult to convert into a surplus in the short term, but we will strive to improve the business body and improve profitability.” “We will create an environment where structural problems can be solved by management and members can focus on technology.”

The one chance? Development of the next flagship Exynos 2700 processor is moving along steadily. Samsung is expected to use it in the next Galaxy S-series phones.

Samsung is clearly treating its foundry business (making chips for other companies) and System LSI (mobile processors and more) as key parts for the entire company.

What’s the real issue? The mobile SoC market is super competitive, and AI demand has not helped every segment the same way. While memory chips are printing money, fixing the logic and foundry side will take serious time and effort.

For long-term success, Samsung is trying to balance its memory and non-memory chip businesses. Investors are watching closely to see if these changes start delivering real results soon.

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Samsung is working on the Exynos 2700 processor, which would power the Galaxy S27 series next year. The prototype version of this chip has already appeared on benchmark platforms, revealing its potential direction.

On June 18, Park Yong-in, President and Head of Samsung Electronics’ System LSI Business, shared the progress of the next-gen Exynos chipset, the Exynos 2700, which is being developed to be used in the Galaxy S27 series.

President Park revealed that the development of Exynos 2700 is on track. The LSI Division is aiming to secure supply for the Galaxy S27 series. Samsung’s MX Division will assess the SoC before approving it for the smartphones.

Park stated (via NewsIS), “We are developing the Exynos 2700 without any setbacks, aiming for its inclusion in flagship models.”

Samsung used Exynos 2600 in the Galaxy S26 series and plans to expand it to the Galaxy Z Flip 8 this year. Meanwhile, the chip designing division may flag an annual deficit due to market shifts and contracting demand.

Galaxy S27 and S27 Plus may get the Exynos 2700 chip, while the S27 Pro and S27 Ultra may prioritize the Snapdragon SoC. Adoption of Exynos 2700 is expected to grow as the Exynos 2600 is doing a better job than its predecessors.

Samsung is gradually gaining trust for its in-house mobile platform. Snapdragon is still ahead in terms of real performance, but the gap is narrowing. Exynos 2700 may grab an even larger share in the Galaxy S27 series next year.

The Korean tech giant is preparing to hold the next Unpacked event in July 2026. It will be focussed toward new foldable phones and smartwatches. Meanwhile, the Galaxy S27 series may land sometime in February 2027.

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Samsung may have a total of eight chip choices for the Galaxy S27 series, with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro alone coming in six configurations.

A closer look at the leaked data (via Reptalica) reveals Qualcomm is testing a diverse mix of hardware samples for the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro chipset. That said, Samsung would have a total of eight chip options for its upcoming flagships.

The structural breakdown of the processors could be as follows:

• Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro: 6 configurations
• Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 (Standard): 1 configuration
• Exynos 2700 (in-house): 1 configuration

This heavily diversified approach indicates that Qualcomm is moving away from a one-size-fits-all model for its premium tiers. Instead, the chipmaker is exploring a multi-variant strategy to combat the soaring costs.

The upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro is shaping up to be an absolute powerhouse built on an advanced 2nm architecture. This next-generation hardware is primarily engineered to power next year’s elite “Ultra” flagships.

By offering multiple tiers of the same chip, device makers can keep their component expenditures under control without completely sacrificing premium performance.

Qualcomm is actively testing prototypes designed for the upcoming LPDDR6 RAM, alongside the current LPDDR5X standard. Specifically, the leak outlines three primary model tiers, each split into two distinct sub-variants:

• “AC” Version: Fully optimized for the next-generation LPDDR6 RAM. Top-tier flagships will likely pair these variants with ultra-fast UFS 5.0 storage.
• “BC” Version: Configured for the existing LPDDR5X standard. Budget-conscious phone manufacturers can opt for these versions to save costs.

Beyond memory differences, these six configurations point to a silicon-binning strategy similar to Apple’s approach. By adjusting CPU and GPU clock speeds across different variants, Qualcomm can sell slightly dialed-back versions.

Final retail configurations could surface before an official launch event, but it gives us an exciting glimpse into how Samsung and Qualcomm plan to tackle future flagships.

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Samsung is changing how we think about home construction by launching the Samsung AI Modular Home. The company is collaborating with Space Workshop (Kongan Jajakso) to bring AI to homes even before the homeowner takes charge.

Partnering with wooden modular housing specialist Kongan Jajakso, the tech giant is moving directly into the detached housing market with a brilliant twist: the artificial intelligence is built straight into the walls before the house even leaves the factory.

Kongan Jajakso utilizes automated systems to prefabricate over 80% of these wooden structures indoors. This factory-first approach slashes construction times, guarantees uniform quality, and drastically minimizes material waste.

What sets this project apart is the deep integration of Samsung’s SmartThings ecosystem.

Buyers can choose from roughly 20 types of compatible devices, including AI air conditioners, refrigerators, and security cameras, which are pre-installed and pre-registered during the factory phase.

When homeowners move into their new 33 to 132-square-meter space, they completely bypass the frustration of setting up a smart home network from scratch.

Samsung is already eyeing the future, planning to expand this technology to mid-rise buildings and global markets. By blending precision manufacturing with ready-to-use tech, the two companies are delivering a frictionless lifestyle.

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Soaring memory prices due to the AI boom affected every electronics manufacturer. The industry assumed Apple was unaffected, but the myth has been debunked by Tim Cook himself, who has just teased a potential price hike across products, including the iPhone 18 Pro.

In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Tim Cook dropped a major bombshell: price increases for Apple products are becoming “unavoidable.”

While Apple braces for these unsustainable supply chain pressures ahead of its rumored iPhone 18 Pro and foldable launches, a massive window of opportunity is opening up for its biggest rival: Samsung Electronics.

iPhone 18 price hike to be the next Samsung opportunity

The company faced its own backlash in the US market after implementing selective price hikes across the Galaxy S26 lineup, which saw the base model jump to $899 and the Plus variant climb by a steep 10% to $1,099.

However, Apple’s upcoming pricing shift gives Samsung a perfect clean slate to rewrite the narrative with the future Galaxy S27 series.

If Apple passes these massive memory expenses directly onto US consumers, the iPhone 18 Pro series risks pricing itself out of the comfort zone for average buyers.

Samsung can strategically exploit this by aggressively stabilizing or subsidizing its Galaxy S27 launch pricing. Rumors suggest Samsung is also making a Galaxy S27 Pro, which should open up a broad consumer base in the US.

Tim Cook didn’t specifically highlight iPhone 18 Pro price hike, but the timing makes it the strongest victim. Rising memory prices aren’t leaving any consumer electronics item and Apple can no longer absorb the cost shock.

If the Galaxy S27 series offers superior on-device AI integration, next-gen hardware, and a lower or equivalent price than the iPhone 18 Pro Max model, Samsung stands a massive chance to capture frustrated premium buyers across the US.

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Samsung TV Plus has officially dropped the trailer for Hooligans: The ARCH Racing Project with Keanu Reeves & Gard Hollinger.

This high-octane, six-part docuseries is set to debut on Sunday, July 12 at 9 PM ET on the Samsung TV Network flagship channel, with new episodes rolling out every Sunday through August 16.

The series follows Reeves and Hollinger, the founders of ARCH Motorcycle, as they transition from crafting world-class custom machines to competing in MotoAmerica’s intense Super Hooligan National Championship.

What to expect:

• • The Underdog Journey: An inside look at a lean, scrappy team pushing innovation and determination to the absolute limit.
  • Behind-the-Scenes Access: Capturing everything from precision engineering in the garage to the adrenaline on the starting grid.
  • A Growing Network: This launch marks a major milestone for Samsung TV Plus Exclusives as it expands its original, culturally resonant content.

Made for everyone and every moment, Samsung TV Plus Exclusives brings bespoke experiences like must-see originals, live concerts, and creator-led content that are culturally resonant and fuel connection.

Samsung TV Plus also recently launched the MotoAmericaTV Channel, a 24/7 destination featuring more than 200 hours of North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series, including coverage of the Super Hooligan National Championship.

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Samsung officially launched the Galaxy A37 5G in South Korea, with the smartphone being available for purchase starting on June 19, 2026. It can be purchased at Samsung Stores, Samsung Shop, and online/offline stores.

The Galaxy A37 5G offers great value for this price. The device sports a 6.7-inch sAMOLED screen with FHD+ resolution and 120Hz refresh rate.

Camera capabilities are also solid, thanks to its triple camera setup, which consists of a 50-megapixel primary with 1um pixel sensor size for decent light absorption, an 8-megapixel ultrawide, and a 5-megapixel macro lens.

The main camera is also supported by the Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) feature. It reduces shaking during shooting, helping to capture various moments more sharply.

Under the hood, it packs a 5000mAh battery and supports 45W wired charging. Samsung says the device supports up to 60% charging in just 30 minutes. The phone also features better IP68-rated water and dust resistance.

Awesome Intelligence

The Galaxy A37 5G is equipped with Awesome Intelligence, a mobile AI dedicated to the Galaxy A series, allowing users to utilize various AI functions more conveniently.

Editing captured photos is simple. With AI Eraser, users can easily remove unwanted subjects or objects within a photo. The AI-powered Edit Suggestion feature analyzes the image and suggests various enhancements.

Voice Transcription is a feature that converts recorded voice into text, making it useful for reviewing meeting contents, reviewing lectures, or organizing phone call details.

Offered in three Awesome colors, Charcoal, Lavender, and White, the Galaxy A37 5G smartphone comes with a price tag of 598,400 KRW (translates to around $392).

The Galaxy A37 5G supports up to 6 generations of OS upgrades and up to 6 years of security updates to maintain continuous performance and security.

Samsung is offering:

• 2-Month Willa Subscription
• 20% refund of the payment amount in Digital Onnuri Gift Certificates

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Samsung may have been planning a new display setup for the Galaxy S27 base model, as well as a familiar camera setup. New supply chain rumors shed light on the potential specs of the company’s next-gen flagship smartphone.

Korean tipster yeux1122 reports Samsung’s spec selection for the Galaxy S27 display and camera hardware. The screen may not see changes in terms of the organic material set, saving Samsung millions in production.

The source also revealed that the camera setup might be familiar. The difference in camera hardware between the Galaxy S26 and Galaxy S27 could be negligible. The supply chain saw no major developments in S27 camera hardware.

Display and camera have always been Samsung’s most stalled upgrades. The company keeps shipping its new flagship phones with excessively mature components. There’s an immediate need for updated sensors on Samsung flagships.

However, it seems buyers may end up spending more to get the S27 Pro or S27 Ultra for better display, battery, and camera. The top-tier models would be focusing more on these crucial aspects to solidify their appeal in the market.

Samsung is also considering BOE as its display supplier for the base Galaxy S27 model. After BOE executives visit Samsung, TM Roh is reportedly set to visit BOE this month, which could settle a display supply deal.

That said, Galaxy S27 could be the first flagship to get Chinese OLED. It was reported that BOE is offering OLED panels for the next flagship model at a $5 cheaper price than Samsung Display, which is attracting Samsung Mobile.

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Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 is still weeks away from its official unveiling, but the Android 17 release handed us a feature demo. The new OS went live on Pixel devices yesterday, and a significant chunk of what it does is built specifically for foldables.

Since the Galaxy Z Flip 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8, and Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra launch with One UI 9 on top of Android 17, what you’re seeing on Pixel right now is a preview of what’s landing on Samsung’s most premium device next month.

Foldable Gaming Mode

Google built a dedicated gaming mode into Android 17 for foldables. It splits the inner display 50/50 game on the top half, with virtual gamepad controls on the bottom.

The gaming mode isn’t fully live yet, even on Pixel. Google confirmed it’s arriving via OTA in the coming months. Given the Fold 8 launches in late July, Samsung has time to ship One UI 9 with this already in place. Timing works in their favour.

Multitasking bubbles

The biggest new thing in Android 17 is Bubbles, a system-wide floating window mode. Long-press any app icon, and it opens as a resizable overlay on top of whatever you’re already doing.

Google says it’s useful for keeping maps, notes, or a sports score up while you work in another app. Combined with the inner display real estate on the Fold 8, Bubbles turns the phone into something that starts closing the gap with a desktop setup.

The Galaxy Z Fold 8 is widely expected on July 22 at Unpacked in London, shipping out of the box with One UI 9 on Android 17. Samsung has confirmed that the stable One UI 9 release on new foldables will include advanced AI features.

Hardware upgrades on the Fold 8 are substantial: a 200MP main sensor, 5,000mAh battery, 45W charging, and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. The software story is just as important this cycle, and Android 17 makes a real case for it.

Everything Google showed off on Pixel yesterday is what Samsung could be selling next month.

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Samsung has reportedly achieved a 3D transistor design milestone, which could reshape and improve future chip performance. The company continues to expand its technological footprint, along with nurturing the Foundry and LSI divisions.

According to ZDNet (via SemiconductorsX), Samsung walked away from VLSI 2026 with the Best Paper award after presenting a 3D Stacked FET design that squeezes more transistors into less space than anything the industry has managed before.

Samsung’s design piles transistors on top of each other, slashing the footprint in half and theoretically doubling density in a single architectural move.

The score was 8.29 out of 10 across a pool of over 1,000 submissions. The company also pushed the gate pitch, the horizontal width of each transistor, down to 42nm from 48nm.

Samsung’s own V-NAND flash and HBM memory both live in three dimensions. The company’s Foundry business has taken serious hits over the past two years.

Yield problems, lost clients, and a general sense that the gap between Samsung and TSMC was widening rather than closing. A Best Paper at VLSI doesn’t fix a fab, but it signals that the engineering talent is still in the building.

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Samsung is bringing the Galaxy XR headset to the UK, with preorders opening today. The company has also confirmed that the extended reality headset will be available for purchase, starting on July 8 in the country.

The Galaxy XR headset first landed in the US as a limited release product. The Korean tech giant is now expanding the availability of the new form factor. The segment is slated for consistent growth over the next few years.

Samsung’s first Galaxy XR headset is set to retail for £1,699 and will begin shipping on July 8, 2026, in the United Kingdom.

To give consumers an early look at the technology, Samsung UK has kicked off hands-on demo sessions across several locations, including Manchester, Westfield London, Westfield Stratford, and the Samsung KX flagship store, starting today.

Samsung’s XR headset features dual 4K micro-OLED displays, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 platform, advanced hand and eye tracking, passthrough mixed reality, spatial audio, and support for Android XR experiences.

The device integrates Galaxy AI capabilities, offers lightweight ergonomics for extended use, and enables immersive productivity, entertainment, gaming, and communication experiences within a connected Samsung ecosystem.

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June 17, 2026 | Samsung has recently released the third One UI 9 Beta update for the Galaxy S26 series. While everyone’s busy finding new features buried in the huge ~ 2GB update, our team discovered a silent design reversal.

The glow-up that Samsung’s Finder icon has in One UI 9 Beta has been lost in the One UI 9 Beta 3 version. The icon has returned to the design state it had in One UI 8.5, probably due to a bug, as the reversal doesn’t look fine at all.

Original story as follows

Samsung is Beta testing One UI 9 firmware, which brings big and small changes across the user interface. In particular, the Samsung Finder icon had also adopted a small tweak, which actually made a big visual impact.

Galaxy’s home screen brings a Samsung Finder icon tagged with page dots. It stays on the home screen to let you search within and outside the device. Samsung has amplified the aesthetics of the Finder icon in One UI 9.

Samsung Finder icon glows up in One UI 9

One UI 9 adopts a more refined Samsung Finder icon than One UI 8.5. The redesign has adopted a brighter appearance, which stands out.

Comparing the icons side-by-side in One UI 8.5 and One UI 9 reveals a major difference. The former looks boring next to the dynamically glowing version in One UI 9.

Samsung has retained the pill’s shape, internal component, and text. The change only applies to the entire look of the icon, which now displays wallpaper-inspired color as a background.

Samsung’s UI refinements are not just limited to minor tweaks. The new One UI 9 version has also cleaned up the entire Settings menu design. Tools and options have removed their descriptions on the main page for better clarity.

The Galaxy AI page, which consists of all the compatible tools, has also removed feature descriptions. Expanding a specific feature shows the relevant description, paving the way for the main menu to look cleaner than ever.

Next is Status bar, which is receiving major refinements for Galaxy user experience. The interface now features slightly larger icons for notifications. The text and icon have also applied a bolder shade of Black to match remaining visuals.

Samsung will unveil One UI 9 official update in late July 2026.

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Samsung announced the new One UI 9 Health app experience on June 4, promised it would begin rolling out on June 8, and then went quiet.

That silence broke at VivaTech 2026 in Paris, where Samsung used Europe’s largest startup and tech conference to formally plant its flag in the connected health space. The showcase also served as the green light for the rollout to finally begin.

Under the theme “Open Invitation to a Healthier Tomorrow,” Samsung demonstrated how its Galaxy devices, Samsung Health, and third-party integrations can form a continuous loop between everyday wellness tracking and clinical care.

What the new Samsung Health actually looks like

The app has been reorganized around five pillars: Sleep, Activity, Nutrition, Mindfulness, and Vitals; each accessible from a dedicated tab on the home screen.

Two additions anchor the new home screen experience: daily wellness tips and an AI-generated Energy Score. The Energy Score is designed to give users a single, digestible number that reflects how recovered and ready they are for the day ahead, pulling from sleep quality, overnight biometric readings, and activity history.

The Vitals section consolidates heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), respiratory rate, skin temperature, and blood oxygen into a single screen and compares them against your personal resting baseline.

Heart Health Score is a composite metric that factors in sleep, stress levels, activity, and body composition data to produce a single cardiovascular wellness index.

Two more features round out the fitness side: Daily Cardio Load, which tracks workout intensity and accumulated exertion over time, and a Fitness Index, which gives users a broader picture of their physical condition and progression.

Samsung was careful not to officially name “Galaxy Watch 9” in its announcement, referring instead to “the upcoming Galaxy Watch.”

The app redesign and the Energy Score are already rolling out to One UI 9-compatible Galaxy devices. But features like Heart Health Score, Daily Cardio Load, and the full Vitals suite require Samsung’s next-generation wearable

The Galaxy Watch 9 series, along with the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, is expected to be unveiled at a Galaxy Unpacked event rumoured for July 22, 2026, alongside the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8.

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Qualcomm officially introduced the Snapdragon Reality Elite processor for the Android XR ecosystem. The latest XR platform has plenty of major upgrades, among them, five stand out given their scope of influence on the user experience.

The Snapdragon Reality Elite landed at Augmented World Expo. What Qualcomm is holding is a purpose-built XR (extended reality) processor designed to push mixed reality past the awkward phase it’s been stuck in for years.

Snapdragon Reality Elite: Top 5 features

1. Powerful on-device AI with 48 TOPS

Snapdragon Reality Elite delivers up to 48 TOPS of AI performance, allowing large language models (LLMs) and large vision models (LVMs) to run directly on XR devices.

2. Major performance boost across CPU, GPU, and NPU

Qualcomm claims significant generational gains:

• Up to 60% faster GPU performance
• Up to 30% faster CPU performance
• Up to 160% higher NPU performance

These improvements should translate into richer graphics, smoother interactions, and more advanced mixed reality applications.

3. Sharper 4.4k-per-eye visuals

The platform supports displays up to 4.4K resolution per eye at 90fps, enabling sharper imagery, smoother motion, and better color reproduction. This is one of the key upgrades for premium XR headsets and smart glasses.

4. Longer battery life and cooler operation

Qualcomm says the new platform offers:

• Up to 20% longer battery life
• Up to 12°C lower chipset temperatures under load

Better efficiency can lead to lighter and more comfortable XR devices that users can wear for extended periods.

5. Enhanced tracking and Android XR support

Snapdragon Reality Elite is optimized for the latest Android XR ecosystem, bringing improved hand tracking, head tracking, and optical see-through experiences.

It will debut in devices such as XREAL Project Aura, helping deliver more natural interactions between digital content and the real world.

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Samsung is quietly gearing up for the next big step in memory technology. According to recent reports (via @SemiconductorsX), the company is working with partners to introduce equipment for its 7th-generation 10nm-class DRAM, called “1d,” with mass production targeted for late 2027.

Right now, Samsung’s latest is the 1c (6th-gen) process at around 11-12nm. The new 1d shrinks that to about 10-11nm. Smaller lines mean better performance, lower power use, and higher density – exactly what AI systems need.

The company has already been testing samples internally. The current plan is to bring in the new equipment in the first half of 2027 and start real production toward the end of the year.

Why does this matter?

This 1d DRAM is expected to become the core die for HBM5E – Samsung’s high-bandwidth memory planned for 2029. HBM is the super-fast memory that powers AI training and inference in data centers. This stronger manufacturing process will help Samsung remain competitive with SK Hynix in the booming AI memory market.

For everyday users, this new tech will eventually reach phones, laptops, and servers, bringing better speed and lower power use. For the industry, it proves Samsung is still pushing hard on shrinking memory nodes, even as the overall memory market heats up.

It’s a steady, long-term play. No sudden big breakthrough, but these small improvements are exactly what help build real leadership in the AI memory race. We will keep an eye on updates by the end of this year.

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WhatsApp developers have begun open beta testing of a new About section, which carries a proper live preview screen. It shows exactly how your About text appears inside a chat before you save anything.

Before this update, you were basically guessing. You’d write something, save it, open a conversation, check how it looked, go back, edit it, repeat the whole cycle.

The redesign consolidates three previously separate steps into a single interface, well described by WABetaInfo. You write your About text in the field below the preview. You set an expiration time right beneath that, and a shortcut to privacy settings sits on the same screen.

The expiry options are preset: 1 hour, 8 hours, 1 day, 2 days, 1 week, with a custom setting stretching that up to one month. These durations aren’t new; they surfaced back in November 2025. The redesign just makes them accessible.

You can now toggle Privacy Settings between Everyone, My Contacts, My Contacts Except, and Nobody without leaving the About screen.

The redesigned About section is rolling out to beta testers running WhatsApp beta for Android 2.26.24.1, available through the Google Play Store.

Related article: New WhatsApp message menu UI design comes from iPhone

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On May 6, 2026, Samsung announced the rollout of the One UI 8.5 stable update for Galaxy devices. The software remained in Beta testing phase for over five months. Well, the second wave of rollout was crazy enough, spreading blazingly fast.

The day Samsung began One UI 8.5 stable rollout, plenty of Galaxy devices received the update. The availability in Wave 1 was limited to South Korea. However, the Wave 2 rollout covered millions of Galaxy devices on May 11, 2026.

As part of One UI 8.5, Samsung is bringing select AI features from the Galaxy S26 series across the Galaxy ecosystem. The update focuses on enhancing communication and creative experiences on Galaxy mobile phones and tablets.

These devices have received the Stable update first – Wave 1

• Galaxy S25, S25 Plus and S25 Ultra
• Galaxy S25 Edge
• Galaxy S25 FE
• Galaxy Z TriFold
• Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7
• Galaxy Z Flip7 FE

Major expansion started on May 11

Samsung devices that have received the update on May 6 in South Korea have received the OTA in the Global markets. The second phase of rollout has also begun in South Korea, before hitting the worldwide market.

The first wave targets flagship models released in 2025, including the Galaxy S25 series, Z7 series foldables, and the TriFold phone. The second wave aimed at the Galaxy S24 series and the Z6 series foldables in South Korea.

In its Global press release, Samsung confirmed that the update is gradually starting to arrive on the Galaxy S25 series, S25 FE, S24 series, S24 FE, Z Fold7 and Z Flip7, Z Fold6 and Z Flip6, Galaxy Tab S11 series, and Tab S10 series.

These devices have received the Stable update – Wave 2

• Galaxy S24, S24+ and S24 Ultra
• Galaxy S24 FE
• Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6
• Galaxy Z Fold SE

Wave 3 of One UI 8.5 update expansion

• Galaxy S23, S23+ and S23 Ultra
• Galaxy S23 FE
• Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Z Flip 5
• Galaxy A56 and A36
• Galaxy Tab S11 and Tab S11 Ultra

5th wave of One UI 8.5 expansion

Galaxy A Series

• Galaxy A17 and A07
• Galaxy A56, A36, A26, A16, and A06
• Galaxy A55, A35, A25, and A15
• Galaxy A54 and A34

Galaxy M Series

• Galaxy M17 and M17e
• Galaxy M56, M36, M16, and M06
• Galaxy M55, M55s, M35, and M15
• Galaxy M54

Galaxy F Series

• Galaxy F17 and F70e
• Galaxy F56, F16, and F06
• Galaxy F55 and F15
• Galaxy F54 and F34

Galaxy Tab S/A/XCover/Active Series

• Galaxy Tab S9 series
• Galaxy Tab S9 FE series
• Galaxy Tab S10 series
• Galaxy Tab S10 Lite
• Galaxy Tab S6 Lite
• Galaxy XCover 7 and XCover 7 Pro
• Galaxy XCover 5 Pro
• Galaxy Tab A11 and A11+
• Galaxy Tab A9+
• Galaxy Tab Active 5 and P5o

Updated on June 17, 2026.

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Google, Tesla, AMD, BYD, and others are in talks with Samsung Foundry about shifting advanced chip production away from TSMC, according to sources familiar with the matter.

According to NikkesiAsia (via Jukan), Samsung Foundry is in talks with several global giants for contract production of AI chips.

• Google is weighing whether to have Samsung build its Axion processors, due around 2028, and potentially a portion of its TPUs for AI workloads.
• Tesla’s upcoming AI6 chip will be made by Samsung in Texas.
• AMD is in conversations about future CPUs, also from 2028.
• BYD, China’s electric vehicle titan, is discussing next-generation autonomous driving chips with Samsung.

TSMC has locked up its leading-edge nodes with NVIDIA, Apple, Broadcom, and a roster of others. That’s left smaller-volume customers, particularly Chinese chip designers, scrambling, with several turning to Samsung.

A Chinese auto chip executive reportedly stated that TSMC’s advanced production is full, and Samsung’s availability has made it an increasingly attractive option, even if its yields still trail the Taiwanese chip maker’s.

US clients want production spread across multiple foundries to balance the supply chain and avoid geopolitical concerns. Qualcomm has used both TSMC and Samsung for years; Google is now building out a similar dual-foundry approach.

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At AWE USA 2026, Samsung Display showcased its next-gen AR Smart Glasses prototype with advanced technologies, including 40000-nit screens.

The company’s RGB OLEDoS on Silicon technology hit that number on a 1.3-inch panel, demonstrated inside an installation called “The Big Dipper.” Seven panels and two of them push that 40,000-nit figure.

The AR glasses prototype is the more interesting play here. A 0.62-inch RGB OLEDoS panel sits inside the frames, driving real-time translation, navigation, and weather data overlaid against a projected Long Beach coastline.

There’s also an MR headset demo running K-pop concert footage and rhythm game “Synth Riders.” RGB OLEDoS is structurally simpler than white OLEDoS because it skips the color filter.

Simpler structure, better light efficiency, longer lifespan, lower production costs; “less complex than other technologies” is how one company official put it.

Samsung Display also prepared Light Field Display (LFD), which creates three-dimensional visuals that appear to exist in physical space without requiring glasses or a headset. The LFD at the booth shows a 3D-like image of Dabotap, a historic stone pagoda located at Bulguksa Temple, allowing visitors to view the structure from different angles and observe how the image shifts with changes in viewing position and perspective.

The side exhibit includes a stretchable display that physically changes shape and a Light Field Display producing glasses-free 3D images. Both are concept territory for now, but the AR glasses are real hardware.

// Samsung Display

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Samsung One UI 9 Beta 3 is now widely available for Galaxy S26 users in six countries, and it comes with 9 important changes and bug fixes.

The patch notes carry two improvements and seven bug fixes. The improvements are tied to Privacy Display and Camera, while the fixes span across various aspects of the operating system that directly influence the user experience.

Samsung One UI 9 Beta 3 – Changes and Fixes

One UI 9 Beta 3 sorted out Privacy Display errors tied to routines and Quick Panel toggling. 30x zoom focus accuracy has been improved, which matters more than it sounds on a phone built around its optics.

Improvements:

1. Improved errors related to the Privacy Display when setting Routines or toggling the Quick Panel ON/OFF
2. Improved focus accuracy when using the 30x camera zoom [read more]

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There was a cropping bug that cut off part of the camera preview under certain conditions. Widget data, including weather and battery percentage, wasn’t refreshing properly on the lock screen.

The S Pen couldn’t swipe between home screen pages and My Files had a scroll bug that stopped users from reaching the bottom of a file list.

Fixes:

1. Fixed an issue where part of the Camera preview screen was cropped under certain conditions
2. Fixed an issue where Widget information, such as Weather and Battery on the lock screen, was not updating correctly
3. Fixed an issue where the home screen would not swipe left or right when using the Pen
4. Fixed an issue in the My Files app where the file list could not be scrolled to the end

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The background turning white during calls, while the status bar pulling down to a black screen. What’s more: the phone rebooting once during video streaming.

Important fixes:

1. Fixed an issue where the background screen would intermittently turn White when receiving a call
2. Fixed an issue where the device would reboot once during video streaming
3. Fixed an issue where the background would appear Black when pulling down the status bar

Beta 3 itself is a huge update, but Samsung may not close the Beta Program anytime soon. Galaxy S26 users can expect the Beta 4 release by the end of the month or early next month.

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Paris gets a lot of tech theater, VivaTech 2026 is no different, but Samsung showed up with something harder to dismiss than a concept video and a press release.

The company is running a full exhibition at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles through June 20, built around a connected care vision. The theme is “Open Invitation to a Healthier Tomorrow,” and what’s underneath it is more interesting.

The centerpiece is the Xealth integration

Samsung acquired the US digital health platform last year, and for the first time it’s showing what that purchase actually means in practice.

Galaxy devices feed health data into a clinical platform where doctors can monitor patients, prescribe digital health tools, and track progress outside a hospital setting.

The Samsung Health app is doing heavier lifting, too. The new 7.0 update surfaced features like Heart Health Score, Vitals tracking, and Daily Cardio Load.

One of those partners is Lifet, a pet health app that uses AI to scan photos of your animal for signs of dental problems, joint issues, or cataracts.

The booth breaks into three zones: a media facade, a connected care ecosystem area, and an Open Care Lab spotlighting partner projects.

June 19 brings a panel featuring Samsung’s Hon Pak alongside Xealth CEO Mike McSherry and founders from Generation Lab and SiPhox Health.

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Google announced the official release of Wear OS 7 for eligible Pixel smartwatch models. This rollout quickly followed the start of Android 17 distribution. Samsung will bring a Wear OS 7-based One UI 9 Watch update later this year.

Wear OS 7 update aims to elevate your smartwatch device’s performance and battery life. Meanwhile, Google is highlighting three key features for users, including Live Updates, multi-device controls, and Gemini Intelligence.

Battery life upgrade

Google has optimized the Wear OS 7 operating system for battery life improvements. The company says users can expect a battery life improvement of up to 10 percent over the Wear OS 6 version released last year.

Thanks to deep, system-level power optimizations, Wear OS 7 lets you enjoy all of these new features. Average users who upgrade their watches from Wear OS 6 to Wear OS 7 can expect up to 10% improvement in battery life.

Live Updates

Google is bringing Android’s Live Updates to Wear OS with version 7. Users owning an eligible smartwatch will be able to track ongoing events right on the wrist.

It could be either the score of a big game, your food order’s arrival time, or your workout progress.

Cross-device connectivity

Wear OS 7 focuses on improving cross-device connectivity. Your smartwatch can be a central hub to control certain features across connected devices such as your smartphone, headphones, speaker, TV, Nest Hub, earbuds, or smart glasses.

For instance, if you take a photo with your audio glasses, you can review your capture instantly with a quick glance at your watch.

Gemini Intelligence

Gemini Intelligence is the biggest upgrade of Wear OS 7. Select smartwatches will receive the AI features later this year. The list may include the upcoming Galaxy Watch 9, Watch Ultra 2 and Google’s Pixel Watch 4.

• Create My Widget – Build custom dashboards using natural language
• Multi-step app automation – Gemini navigates tasks directly from your watch
• Neural Expressive design with Personal Intelligence

Samsung Watch models released in the past three years are confirmed to receive the Wear OS 7 update later this year. The list includes:

• Galaxy Watch 8 (40mm, 44mm, and 46mm)
• Galaxy Watch Ultra
• Galaxy Watch 7 (40mm and 44mm)
• Galaxy Watch FE
• Galaxy Watch 6 (40mm and 44mm)
• Galaxy Watch 6 Classic (43mm and 47mm)

Samsung may also upgrade these older Watch models:

• Galaxy Watch 5 (40mm and 44mm)
• Galaxy Watch 5 Pro

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Google officially released the Android 17 update with 7 notable features. Compatible Pixel phones are starting to receive updates on June 16, 2026. Android vendors, including Samsung, will distribute the update to eligible devices throughout the year.

It’s a broad drop covering multitasking, gaming, security, and a handful of small quality-of-life fixes that add up fast.

Android 17 introduces 7 new features

Bubbles for better multitasking

Turn apps into floating windows, with improved support for large-screen devices and a dedicated bubble bar.

Screen Reactions for easier sharing

Record your screen and selfie camera together, allowing reactions and commentary without switching apps.

Foldable gaming mode

Optimizes foldable phones with a 50/50 layout, placing the game view on top and controls below.

Improved gaming performance

Reduces frame drops and stutters through better memory cleanup during high-end gaming.

More advanced privacy and security controls

Includes temporary precise location access, selective contact sharing, and stronger app protections.

Enhanced Find Hub protection

The improved “Mark as lost” feature lets users lock missing devices with biometrics, adding protection even if someone knows the passcode.

Smarter system performance improvements

Adds app memory limits to prevent excessive RAM usage and improve overall performance and battery efficiency.

Apart from this, Google is also hiding app names on your home screen if you want a cleaner look, expanding Parental Controls to all Android devices, and adding a dedicated volume slider for your assistant.

App memory limits are baked in under the hood to keep RAM usage from spiraling and dragging down battery life. That said, Android 17 is a mature update from a platform that’s earned confidence in these areas.

Samsung’s Android 17 update

Samsung is already running the One UI 9 Beta Program, based on Android 17. The official version is slated for a July 2026 release with the foldable phones. The company would take some time to begin rolling out the update to older phones.

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Samsung has launched a Spidey Tracker to track Spider-Man’s whereabouts and immerse fans in the world of the Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie premiering on July 31.

This tool is developed by the character Ned Leeds, who uses the Galaxy Z Fold device to track Spider-Man as he moves throughout the movie. What’s interesting is that the tracker is no longer exclusive to the movie; it is now available for Spider-Man fans across the globe.

This new interactive Spidey Tracker provides fans a way to experience real world campaing that includes cast appearances and interviews, spotlighting live activations, content drops, hidden easter eggs, and fan-submitted sightings.

Fans follow Spider-Man sightings and interact with the story in real-time while sharing the same experience with the community.

Samsung has also announced that the latest Galaxy Z Fold and Flip smartphones will be featured inside the movie, along with the Galaxy Watch, to showcase their multitasking and spider-man tracking skills.

“Unfolding online and in real-world spaces throughout the summer, see Spidey pop up on the map, at live events and venues, popular creator videos, and maybe even a Samsung Experience Store — keep your eyes peeled!” wrote Samsung.

How to access the Samsung Spidey tracker?

You can go to SpidyTracker.com to interact with this tool. Samsung has confirmed that the tool is available in 35 countries.

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Apple is about to hand Samsung a gift, and it didn’t even mean to. The iPhone 18 is heading toward a 12GB LPDDR5X RAM floor across the entire lineup, and this upgrade opens up a new opportunity for Samsung memory business.

This time, the entire iPhone lineup would have larger RAM across the board. That’s because Siri’s AI feature suite apparently can’t run properly on anything less. Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron are set to benefit, as per Digitimes.

Here’s where it gets interesting for Samsung

Apple is projected to ship around 250 million iPhones in 2027. That’s an enormous number, and those devices need DRAM, a lot of it, sourced from a very short list of suppliers that includes Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron.

Samsung’s memory business will enjoy more shipments of higher RAM chips. Dedicated Apple blog reports that the iPhone 18 would keep prices unchanged despite the memory upgrade, which is good news for Galaxy S27 buyers.

Apple’s absorbing the component price hike rather than pushing it to consumers. It would put pressure on Samsung while deciding its Galaxy S27 pricing strategy. Last year’s models already had a price hike, so another in 2027 is unlikely.

Apple has a cushion; its Services division is printing money and can absorb DRAM premiums that would break competitors. So Samsung gets more volume, better pricing power, and watches rival phone makers suffocate.

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Samsung has reportedly built a data-sharing ecosystem called DSEP, the Data Sharing Eco Platform, and it’s now pulling in more than 60 chip equipment and materials partners.

The newly formed Data Sharing Eco Platform reportedly is the operational spine of Samsung’s push to run fully unmanned semiconductor fabs by the end of the decade, 2030.

Here’s what DSPE stands for

For years, Samsung kept that data locked inside its own walls. Security protocols made it nearly impossible to export error codes or processing times outside the factory.

DSEP opens a controlled slice of that process data to partners in real time, feeding it into AI models that can flag irregularities and predict failures without anyone boarding a flight.

This helps everyone (via SemiconductorsX):

• Find defects quicker
• Reduce bad chips (higher yield)
• Improve machines and materials using real factory info
• Use AI to predict problems before they happen

Samsung’s HPC Center inside its Device Solutions division already handles the infrastructure side. DSEP sits on top, connecting the partner ecosystem to that compute backbone.

Partners bring deep knowledge of their own equipment’s failure signatures. Samsung shares production-line data, partners sharpen their AI, and the whole system gets smarter.

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Samsung outclassed Hisense in the Q1 2026 Mini LED TV market in North America, ahead of the FIFA World Cup, when seasonal shopping began.

When the FIFA World Cup 2026 opened on June 11, it also triggered a spending cycle that’s already reshaping the Mini LED segment in ways nobody quite predicted last year.

According to Counterpoint Research, Samsung surged to 40% of the North American Mini LED market in Q1 2026, while Hisense dropped to 27%.

Samsung did it on product, not sponsorship. The new Micro RGB lineup, the R95H and R85H, starting at $1,499.99, compresses what a $30,000, 115-inch proposition into a range ordinary consumers can actually buy.

The M-Series, starting at $330, is Samsung’s first genuine value Mini LED play, the kind of entry-level strike that signals a company defending territory, not just premium shelf space.

Hisense isn’t sitting still: it’s an official FIFA World Cup sponsor and the exclusive supplier of VAR review displays. Its RGB Mini LED lineup, the UR9 and UR8 starting at $1,300, plus the U7 series, lands inside the tournament window.

• How to watch 2026 FIFA World Cup on your Samsung phone

Samsung counters with software; free FIFA+ content on Samsung TV Plus, Vision AI features across the lineup, and an AI Soccer Mode Pro on the Micro RGB sets. Pre-tournament retail promotions went up to $1,500 off.

Bob O’Brien, Research Director at Counterpoint Research, said:

“Samsung dominated the MiniLED category for years but may have been caught napping as Hisense introduced value-focused big-screen MiniLEDs. Samsung has responded with a product line that competes at all price points.”

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On June 16, Samsung pushed the third One UI 9 Beta update with 9 big bug fixes. In particular, Samsung has included new camera focus improvements for Galaxy S26 users, specifically targeting the 30x digital zoom shots.

Galaxy S26 phones come with 30x zoom support, with the Ultra camera going up to 100x. Users mostly rely on 1x and 2x for everyday shots and 5x for distant photography. 30x is a digital zoom range offered by the telephoto camera sensor.

New camera focus improvements for 30x zoom

The One UI 9 Beta 3 update changelog specifically mentions “improved focus accuracy when using 30x camera zoom.” The improvements are included in the Beta update, so the availability is limited to Beta participants in six countries.

Samsung Camera activates focus lock after a certain zoom range. It appears on the screen as a Yellow padlock, ensuring minimal shake during shots. You get enough support to tap the shutter and capture the image on your phone.

Your Galaxy phone’s camera will now focus more accurately on distant objects. The real enhancements can be experienced when magnified to 30x. Improved focus will result in clearer shots with better colors and details.

One UI 9 Beta 3 Update

The third Beta update weighs around 1.8GB, a huge one. It’s nearly three times larger than the second Beta build and a little smaller than the first full version. The massive size suggests that Samsung has included more than just fixes.

It’s a great development for Beta users who have enrolled their phones in the Program. They are helping Samsung perfect the Galaxy experience for millions of users. The faster the bugs will be erased, the earlier the Stable rollout kicks off.

One UI 9 official version will launch with the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Flip 8, and Fold 8 Ultra in late July 2026.

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Galaxy S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra users can now download the One UI 9 Beta 3 update as Samsung has begun the update rollout. The latest build comes with a PDA version number ending with ZZF7 and weighs about 1786 megabytes.

Here’s everything new in the One UI 9 Beta 3 update

Bugs that have been fixed

• Improved errors related to the privacy display when setting routines or toggling the Quick Panel ON/OFF
• Fixed an issue where part of the camera preview screen was cropped under certain conditions
• Fixed an issue where widget information, such as weather and battery on the lock screen, was not updating correctly
• Improved focus accuracy when using the 30x camera zoom [read more]
• Fixed an issue where the home screen would not swipe left or right when using the pen
• Fixed an issue in the My Files app where the file list could not be scrolled to the end
• Fixed an issue where the background screen would intermittently turn white when receiving a call
• Fixed an issue where the device would reboot once during video streaming
• Fixed an issue where the background would appear black when pulling down the status bar

How to update your phone’s software

Samsung rolls out new software updates over the air. Firmware builds appear on the device, which can be downloaded as you use your phone. Seamless updates ensure the installation doesn’t break your usage momentum.

• Open Settings, followed by Software update
• The page will display an OTA available for download
• Tap Download and install to run the download on the device
• Hit the Restart/Install key to reboot and finish.

Current availability

One UI 9 Beta 3 update has started to roll out in Germany, Korea, India, Poland (via TarunVats), the UK, and the US.

Notably, the US release is about 100 megabytes smaller than other builds. The changelog mentions nine bug fixes, the same as the Global release versions.

Samsung’s One UI 9 Beta Program is live for Galaxy S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra in six countries. The company is expected to stick to its usual mechanism, which indicates the Beta Program could expand to older models around July Unpacked.

• Likely devices:
  • Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7
  • Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra

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Samsung is reportedly exploring a stake in Boston Dynamics, the Hyundai-owned robotics company behind Spot, Atlas, and Stretch, as part of its potential move to the world of Physical AI and Robots.

This isn’t confirmed, but the signals are loud enough that people inside the industry are paying attention.

Big tech has spent years racing to build better language models. The next front is robots that actually do things, think in real spaces, and adapt to factory floors, distribution centers, and living rooms.

SoftBank holds around 10% of Boston Dynamics. The Japanese conglomerate has been on a financing spree to fund AI data center bets globally, and liquidating a minority stake in a robotics company fits that playbook perfectly.

Samsung’s M&A teams have reportedly been running feasibility reviews with that scenario in mind, reports Maeil Business Newspaper.

CFO Park Soon-cheol commented during Q1 earnings that the company is “continuously reviewing various mergers and acquisitions and equity investment opportunities in future growth areas, including robots.”

In addition to Nvidia and Google, Samsung, which still has no humanoid platform despite having world-class AI chips and consumer hardware, is staring at a conspicuous gap in its portfolio.

Samsung built dominance in chips, displays, and smartphones by moving early. Arriving late to the humanoid robot era, without even a platform to show for it, would be the one gap in an otherwise brutal industrial legacy.

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A bug surfacing across Android phones and Android Auto users this week is blocking Gemini from placing phone calls through voice commands. It’s not isolated to one device or one situation; users are hitting a dead wall almost everywhere.

Multiple Reddit threads confirmed (via 9to5Google) that Gemini fails to dial out when prompted. The error message reads: “Something went wrong. Please try again.”

Meanwhile, it’s not just an Android Auto problem; the same failure is hitting Android phones directly, which means something deeper in Gemini or the Google app is broken.

What’s causing it is probably a bad Gemini or Google app update. The workaround: switching back to Google Assistant appears to stop the bleeding for now.

There’s also a separate weirdness worth flagging. Android Auto has been flashing the old Assistant icon even when Gemini is actually running the response.

For now, frustrated users are saying that Google replaced Assistant with Gemini and somehow made it harder to make a phone call. Even though it’s triggered by the app itself, the user experience is getting ruined, and the aim is at Google.

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Samsung is training the next generation of smartphone repair technicians in Texas, US. Skilled trades are having a moment, and Samsung is planting its flag in the middle of it.

According to Randstad USA, US skilled trade jobs are growing three times faster than professional roles. That’s not a rounding error but a structural shift in how people build careers, and Samsung Care has apparently decided it wants a seat at that table.

Earlier this month, more than 30 students from the Frisco Independent School District’s Career and Technical Education program completed a five-day Smartphone Repair Bootcamp at Samsung’s Care Center in Frisco, Texas.

They trained toward WISE Level 1 Certification, a credential developed through CTIA, the wireless industry’s trade association, that establishes baseline competency in mobile device repair across manufacturers and service providers.

For Samsung Care, which provides repair, support, and service solutions for millions of customers, helping develop the next generation of skilled technicians is both a workforce opportunity and an investment in the future of customer care.

After opening the Frisco facility, Samsung started inviting local students and educators in for tours. Those tours became “Behind the Glass,” a structured program showing participants how device repair actually operates at scale.

“That interest has grown,” said Jasper Morse, Director of Business Operations at Samsung Electronics America, “and now we’re creating opportunities for students and job seekers to turn hands-on skills into meaningful careers.”

Back at the Samsung Technical Training Center, service professionals get instruction on the company’s latest products and AI-powered tools. The Samsung Skills Competition pushes top technicians to keep developing.

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Samsung is quietly ticking boxes ahead of what’s shaping up to be a busy July. The Samsung Galaxy Watch 9 and Watch Ultra 2 have both cleared FCC certification in the US, while their rumored sibling, the Galaxy Watch 9 Classic, is missing.

Update: FCC certification – June 15, 2026

Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 9 and Watch Ultra 2 have been spotted on the FCC database ahead of launch. Similar to the CMIIT certification, the Classic version is missing from the authority database, indicating that it wouldn’t launch.

• Galaxy Watch Ultra 2: SM-L715 (Cellular)
• Galaxy Watch 9 (small): SM-L340 (WiFi), SM-L345 (LTE)
• Galaxy Watch 9 (big): SM-L350 (WiF), SM-L355 (LTE)

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Initial story: CMIIT certification – June 9, 2026

CMIIT certification, via 91mobiles, mentions Samsung’s SM-L3550 (Galaxy Watch 9) and SM-L7150 (Galaxy Watch Ultra 2). What’s missing is the Galaxy Watch 9 Classic, no certification filing, no model number sighting.

Whether Samsung is planning a later announcement or has quietly dropped the Classic variant altogether isn’t clear yet. The last year’s lineup had a Classic version, so it’s less likely to show up this year due to Ultra sequel.

• Waiting for Galaxy Watch 9 Classic in 2026? Don’t

On the charging front, the 3C filing confirmed 10W wired charging for both models. Same as the Watch 8 series. The Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 reportedly packs a 784mAh battery and could be Samsung’s first smartwatch with 5G support.

On the flip side, the Watch 9 is expected to come in 40mm and 44mm, with a new Exynos wearable chip and battery sizes of 382mAh and 435mAh.

Galaxy Unpacked is rumoured for July 22nd in London, where Samsung is expected to show the new watches alongside its next foldables. Well, Samsung is already testing the Galaxy S27 as it just emerged on the GSMA database.

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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8 (Wide), and Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra are actively clearing certification hurdles ahead of launch.

The South Korean tech giant is preparing three foldable phones for 2026. The lineup reportedly includes a flip phone and two book-style foldables. The company has also revamped its naming strategy for the next foldable lineup.

Galaxy Z Fold 8 would feature wide cover and main screens. It was earlier rumored to launch as the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide, but Samsung plans differently. The Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra will be a true successor to the Galaxy Z Fold 7.

Samsung is rumored to hold its Summer Unpacked in late July 2026. If supply chain reports are to be believed, the event would be held on July 22 in London. That said, the official reveal is roughly 40 days away.

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Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra price rumor [Update – June 18]

Samsung may launch Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra at higher prices than the Fold 7. The company would offer a 256GB version of the new foldable phone at around the same cost as the 512GB model of last year’s Fold device.

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Galaxy Z Fold 8 series emerges on FCC [Update – June 15]

Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra has appeared on FCC certification database. Following the certification, the device is now approved to launch in the United States. Samsung’s SM-F976U has surfaced along with a design render on the database, via DroidLife.

 

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Galaxy Z Fold 8 appears on BIS certification [Update – June 11]

Samsung will launch its Galaxy Z Fold 8 (Wide) model in India as well. This has been confirmed after the device’s model number SM-F971B surfaced on the country’s BIS certification database; however, it doesn’t reveal any other details.

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Galaxy Z Flip 8 obtains FCC certification [Update – June 9]

Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 8 has surfaced on the FCC database with the SM-F776U model number. The device has reportedly gone through an RF exposure test, specifically a SAR (Specific Absorption Rate) test report.

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Galaxy Z Flip 8 and Fold 8 series clear BIS certification [Initial post]

Ahead of their official reveal, Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8, Fold 8 Ultra, and Flip 8 have cleared the BIS certification in India. This milestone hands the three foldables a mandatory regulatory approval for official release in the market.

Our friends over at SammyGuru spotted Samsung’s unreleased SM-F776B, SM-F-971B and SM-F976B models on the BIS database.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy SoC will power the upcoming Samsung foldables. The clamshell model, which is rumored to be the last of its kind, is slated to bring Exynos 2600 chips to certain markets.

Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra is reportedly getting a 5000mAh battery with 45W charging support. The camera system is staying the same, which should have been improved to justify the company’s decision to slap the Ultra tag.

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Samsung The Frame TV will now be shipped to luxury hotels with AI personalization features. On June 16, the company officially announced that its iconic Art TV is leaving the living room and will be seen in hotels.

The new hospitality version (model number HL03H) packs 4K QLED picture quality into a 27.5mm slim profile with an anti-glare panel built for real-world lighting conditions.

Even when the TV is powered off, Samsung’s Collection Hub keeps artwork and photography cycling on screen. The TV becomes part of the room’s design.

Samsung will showcase the new hotel version of “The Frame” at “HITEC 2026,” the world’s largest hospitality technology exhibition, held in San Antonio, Texas, USA, from June 15 to 18, aggressively targeting the hospitality TV market.

Samsung’s going further than aesthetics

The hotel Frame is the first in their hospitality lineup to support Generative Wallpaper, letting guests create and display their own custom images. Live Translate handles foreign language broadcasts for international travelers.

Google Cast and AirPlay are baked in across all Samsung hotel TV models from 2025. At checkout, every linked device gets wiped automatically.

Samsung’s LYNK Cloud platform sits behind all of it, letting hotel operators remotely manage TVs, push art collections that match the brand’s aesthetic, and mine viewing data for upsell opportunities.

The Frame hotel edition launches globally in the second half of 2026 in 43, 55, 65, and 75-inch sizes. Samsung is showing it at HITEC 2026 in San Antonio this week.

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Samsung introduced a new Phishing App Risk Alert feature, which will be available on Galaxy devices with the One UI 9 update in the latter half of the year.

The company has spent years bolting security features onto Galaxy devices; One UI 9 is where it stops being reactive. The headline change is how Phishing App Risk Alert now works.

Before, the system blocked the installation of known malicious apps. Starting with One UI 9.0, if an app is confirmed malicious after installation, the system blocks it from running entirely and pushes users to delete it.

Samsung says that if you receive a suspicious voice phishing call and then install an app within a few hours, or if an app gets installed via remote control, the system will flag it the moment you try to open it.

Starting with One UI 9.0, which will be installed on new smartphone models launching in the second half of this year, the “Phishing App Risk Alert” feature will be significantly reinforced. Beyond just blocking the installation of phishing apps, it will also block the execution of already-installed apps if they are confirmed to be malicious.

The One UI 9 official version would debut with the Galaxy Z Flip 8 and Galaxy Z Fold 8 series next month. That said, the new Samsung feature will roll out first with the upcoming foldable phones, followed by a general expansion.

Samsung pulls fraud app lists directly from the National Police Agency. Additionally, the Galaxy Store’s reputation data gets queried at installation.

Korea’s National Forensic Service and KISA are also looped in for regular Security Policy Updates, which now let Galaxy S26 owners choose their preferred network for real-time policy syncing.

South Korea recorded 23,360 voice phishing cases in 2025, with financial losses totaling roughly $1.06 billion. The Malicious Message Blocking feature, built with KCC and KISA, has blocked 400 million malicious messages since September 2024.

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Samsung launched the Galaxy Book 6 Edge in the US today, and it’s priced at $2,100 exclusively through Samsung.com in 16GB RAM, 1TB storage, and a single Gray Blue color option.

At 0.48 inches thin and 3.42 pounds, this thing is genuinely light for its footprint. The 16-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X display runs at up to 120Hz with Corning Gorilla Glass DX, auto brightness courtesy of Samsung’s Vision Booster, and quad speakers tuned for Dolby Atmos.

It has Snapdragon X2 Elite under the hood, which Samsung claims hits up to 80 TOPS for on-device AI work. Samsung promises up to 22 hours of video playback, and the bundled 65W adapter charges to 40 percent in 30 minutes.

You can describe a missing file instead of hunting for it, adjust system settings by just saying what you want changed, and AI Select lets you pull objects out of images without opening an editing app.

“Galaxy Book 6 Edge turns your Galaxy devices, including Galaxy mobile phones, Tabs, Buds, and more, into one seamlessly integrated ecosystem, helping you effortlessly move projects and tasks between screens and form factors without missing a beat.”

Storage Share lets Galaxy phones and tablets swap files wirelessly. Multi Control handles cross-device copy-paste, Second Screen turns a Galaxy Tab into a second monitor, and Samsung Knox provides the enterprise-level security.

Additionally, the Edge laptop comes with a versatile range of ports, a built-in microSD slot, as well as support for Bluetooth 5.4 and Wi-Fi 7 for seamless device connectivity without the need to carry endless adaptors.

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Samsung wants you to buy a Galaxy S26 Ultra and Galaxy Buds 4 Pro in its limited-period sale in the US. The bundle of two premium products is currently $475 off the original price, marking one of the craziest deals in recent weeks.

Galaxy S26 Ultra gets a $200 off, and adding the Buds 4 Pro in the same cart slashes its price by $125. On top of those discounts, you can use promo code PAYPAL150 at checkout to have an additional $150 discount.

• Deal bundle – Galaxy S26 Ultra plus Galaxy Buds 4 Pro
• Promo code: PAYPAL150

After the promo code, the S26 Ultra and Buds 4 Pro bundle would cost $1075, $1275, and $1575 for the phone’s 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB storage tiers, respectively.

9to5Toys reports that the PAYPAL150 promo code is working with traditional checkout as well. However, we advise you to double-check the final price at the checkout page after selecting your preferred payment option.

One of June 2026’s trending deals:

Galaxy S25 Ultra 1TB is at the best buying window with $560 discount

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Samsung Browser is bringing some serious changes in One UI 9, including the naming shift from Ask AI to Ask Anything. The app’s version 30.0.2.45 is available for Galaxy devices, which have plenty of stuff to explore.

Enthusiast GalaxyTechie compiled a list of expansive changes in the Samsung Browser for One UI 9. Galaxy devices running an older OS version may also support the app if sideloaded, but the changes aren’t guaranteed.

The latest version of Samsung Browser makes the dynamic blur application mandatory for all bars. The components adopt a blurred design while keeping transparency. The live webpage would show up as the background, hosting the elements.

Samsung Browser is also letting you tweak the hamburger menu. You can now edit the “More options” page, such as reordering or removing options.

The app has also been linked with the Samsung Notes app to open PDF files. Tapping a PDF file inside Samsung Browser can now be directly opened in the Samsung Notes app for better control.

What’s more, ThatJoshGuy spotted that Samsung Browser now features “Ask Anything” in place of “Ask AI”. This is a major shift in the naming scheme, a big one after the company ditched Ask Plex for Ask Perplexity.

Starting with the Galaxy S26 series, Samsung has renamed the Internet app to Browser. The company has also widely debuted its in-house internet browser to Windows PCs and laptops in a bid to gain some market share in the segment.

Related article:

• Samsung Browser launched for Windows 11 and 10 PCs with Perplexity AI

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Galaxy S27 Ultra may launch with 4 major changes over its predecessor, and Samsung fans should know about them. New supply chain rumors indicate a major overhaul in the next flagship design language to realize hardware upgrades.

Korean leaker Lanzuk (via Tom’sGuide) claims 4 big changes in the Galaxy S27 Ultra, which span design and camera to battery and charging.

Camera

Galaxy S27 Ultra may not retain the legacy camera strategy and remove the 3x Telephoto sensor. Samsung has already brought a more practical and useful 5X Telephoto camera to its Ultra models, which would be carried forward.

Battery

Battery capacity of the Galaxy S27 Ultra is highly likely to surpass the 5000mAh ceiling. Engineers are reportedly assigned the task of using the vacated space from the camera sensors to improve hardware, such as the battery.

Design

Samsung may change the camera module’s alignment, somewhat matching what Pixel phones offer. The vertically arranged camera sensors may be repositioned to spread horizontally, ending the wobble effect when placed on a table.

Charging

The camera design change may also help Samsung to bring Qi2 wireless charging. Pixel phones use the horizontal camera module and support Qi2 charging. That said, Samsung may finally offer the advanced charging support to the 2027 flagship.

Galaxy S27 Ultra expectations

Samsung may launch the Galaxy S27 series in the first quarter of 2027. The lineup would add a Pro version, while retaining the three legacy versions. The Ultra variant may arrive globally with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 processor.

You may like: Samsung Galaxy S27 may launch at the start of Apple’s foldable journey

We may see the camera hardware upgrade in 2027. The camera resolution may remain unchanged: 200MP + 50MP + 50MP. However, the performance would enhance significantly due to the utilization of next-gen camera sensors.

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Samsung’s TM Roh is set to visit BOE in China before the end of June, and the meeting could reportedly focus on OLED display supply for the standard Galaxy S27 flagship.

The central question is whether BOE will supply OLED panels for the standard Galaxy S27, due out in the first half of 2026. ETNews reports that Samsung has already sent BOE a formal Request for Information on development.

Conversations have been running for months. Roh’s visit could finalize what’s been circling in committee rooms into an actual deal.

For years, Samsung has used Chinese OLED panels in cheaper phones, but the Galaxy S flagship line has run exclusively on Samsung Display panels.

Roh heads Samsung’s DX Division and MX Business, which means he owns both the smartphone and TV product lines. When someone at that level personally makes a factory visit to a component supplier, the stakes aren’t routine.

One industry source was blunt about BOE’s expectations: BOE is hoping Roh’s visit arrives as a gift, specifically the Galaxy S27 supply opportunity wrapped up inside it.

• Samsung may downgrade Galaxy S27 display just to save $5

BOE wants to prove it belongs in flagship territory. Landing a major supply role in the world’s most recognized Android smartphone line isn’t just revenue; it’s validation.

NAND and DRAM prices have skyrocketed over the past couple of months. Next-gen chipsets would also cost more, putting an extra burden on the bill of materials of the upcoming phones.

Samsung, for its part, wants pricing leverage over Samsung Display. A credible alternative supplier does that automatically, whether BOE wins the contract or not.

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Earlier this month, Samsung announced a major update for the Samsung Health app, and users are still waiting for its release. The company scheduled this rollout to kick off on June 8th, and it’s already been a week since that announcement.

Many users asked Samsung about this delay.

“I recall clearly announcing in the last press release that a major update for Samsung Health would be rolled out sequentially starting June 8th, but the speed of the global ecosystem update is quite disappointing. My app still hasn’t received any update notification and remains unchanged. You didn’t forget to press the update distribution button at headquarters, did you?” a user wrote on the Samsung Korea community.

“They said they would release it starting on the 8th, but it seems not a single user has received it yet,” asked another user.

These queries prompted a reply from a community moderator, which suggests that Samsung has yet to release the update for users, but it will come in batches. Talking about the delay, the person in charge notes that the rollout time “may vary slightly”. So, the ambiguity remains surrounding the release date.

What’s special about the new Samsung Health app update?

Samsung previously confirmed that the new Health app update will get users key health features designed for the next-gen Galaxy Watch series.

Vitals: Analyzes heart rate, heart rate variability, respiratory rate, skin temperature, and blood oxygen’s overnight gain against their true resting baseline. It notifies users when data differs from the baseline, helping them understand they need more rest.

Heart Health Score: It combines sleep, stress, and activity data with body composition data to identify habits that could affect heart health in the long term.

Daily Cardio Load: This feature measures the accumulated cardiovascular strain from exercises. It calculates daily load and maximum training capacity and recommends optimal training targets and rest times to achieve fitness goals without burnout or injury.

Fitness Index: The Fitness Index analyzes heart rate, VO2 max, and daily steps against users’ peers to provide personalized content and goals for consistent health improvements.

Besides these features, the Samsung Health app will also get a redesign with a connected layout focusing on five core areas: Sleep, Activity, Nutrition, Mindfulness, and Vitals. There’s more to the design side that is making users anxious about this new Samsung Health app update. We hope Samsung will release it soon.

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Samsung Foundry division has reportedly started R&D work on chips for the next-generation Neuralink brain implant. This is the first time Samsung has landed an order from the Musk-backed neurotechnology company.

The project carries the internal codename “O1”. Samsung is developing a 4-nanometer process to manufacture what would be Neuralink’s fourth-generation implant chips, reports Hankyung (via SemiconductorsX).

Sources say the work is already underway inside Samsung’s foundry operation. Winning Neuralink isn’t just a contract; it’s a signal. Samsung is planting a flag in biotech silicon before most foundries have even thought to look.

Samsung has Tesla on its books; now it has Neuralink. The company is methodically threading itself through every major venture of Elon Musk.

• Elon Musk confirms Samsung is working on Tesla AI4+ chip

TSMC’s dominance has always rested on trust. Samsung just started making a case that it belongs in the most sensitive chips on earth, the ones that go inside the human body.

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Samsung is now rolling out the June 2026 update to the Galaxy S25, S25+, S25 Edge, and S25 Ultra in more regions, bringing 3 new AI features from the latest Galaxy S26 series.

The update was initially released for Korean users last week. Samsung offered the AI-powered Notification highlights feature to last year’s flagship models. Notably, those tools were missing in the Stable One UI 8.5 update.

Here are the details of the newly added AI features, followed by the update’s availability status:

AI-powered Notification highlights

June update installs Galaxy S26-like Notification highlights tab in Galaxy S25 series devices. This page has two main notification handling tools along with a few supplementary settings/functions.

1 | Prioritise notifications

This feature uses Artificial Intelligence to smartly manage how notifications are displayed in the panel. The system is designed to push important notifications to the top of the page, even though there are newer alerts.

Notifications that are prioritised feature a separate glow-up appearance. It’s aimed at offering instant attention to the user and actually realizing the priority state.

2 | Summarise notifications

We use different apps and services for everyday communications, and they form a massive number of notifications. The Summarise notifications feature practically handles the overload of alerts and intelligently summarises them for you.

The feature, in the meantime, has some limitations, such as support for the device language only. Since it’s powered by AI, you should not solely rely on summaries, as it might deliver conflicting information for certain reasons.

3 | Summarise compatible files

Samsung has also updated its My Files app with a summarization feature. Found under the Settings of My Files, the Show file summaries feature offers AI-powered summaries of PDF and TXT files as well as recordings saved using Voice Recorder.

Availability

Initial rollout – June 11

• On June 11, Samsung started the June 2026 update rollout in South Korea, which came with PDA build version ending with CZF1 and weighing a lit lesser than a gigabyte.

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USA, India, and Europe release – June 15

• Samsung starts expanding its feature-rich June 2026 update to users in the United States, India and Europe.
  • Build version – CZF1
  • Update size – Around 950 megabytes

The page will be updated with the next major expansion.

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Huawei is on its journey to develop in-house or rely on Chinese national tech solutions after the United States cut crucial access. Meanwhile, the latest Huawei flagship phones still depend partly on Samsung-made memory solutions.

In a Kirin 9030 and 9030 Pro teardown, SemiAnalysis (via SemiconductorsX) discovered a mix of Samsung and CXMT memory chips, powering the Huawei Mate 80 series flagship phones.

The Pro variant carries 12 GB of Samsung DRAM, two stacks of four dies each, identified as the K4L2E165YD. That’s LPDDR5X-9600 built on Samsung’s 1a node, the fourth generation of its 10nm-class DRAM family after 1x, 1y, and 1z.

Irony doesn’t get much richer than this. Samsung’s 1a has shipped in volume since 2022, which means Huawei is buying current, competitive memory from the company whose country’s government is actively sanctioning them.

SemiAnalysis report pointed out:

China is not closing the gap with Intel, Samsung and TSMC. The teardown shows the opposite in several places: no EUV, no backside power, higher process complexity, and visible trade-offs.

Units surfaced with two different memory packages, depending on who built them, Samsung or China’s CXMT. The CXMT 16GB package, marked CXDD7JEDM and assembled in week 45 of 2025, is stacked the same way.

CXMT is closing the distance, but Huawei still needs Samsung to fill the top of its own lineup.

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Chip foundry giant TSMC is reportedly building out a full supply chain for Panel-Level Packaging, the next-generation semiconductor packaging technology where Samsung Electronics has held a quiet, durable lead for years.

ETNews, via SemiconductorsX, reports that TSMC is in talks with equipment and materials suppliers to lock in a mass production system based on Panel-Level-Packaging technology, and the target is early next year.

After absorbing the PLP business from Samsung Electro-Mechanics in 2019, Samsung spent years quietly applying the technology to mobile application processors and power management chips.

TSMC didn’t need PLP when conventional wafer-level packaging was keeping customers happy. Meanwhile, the demand for bigger chips at higher volumes changed the prospect overnight.

What is Panel-Level Packaging

Conventional packaging happens on round wafers.

A 300mm wafer wastes the edges, all that curved geometry that can’t fit a complete chip.

PLP moves the process to a rectangular panel, roughly 600x600mm, offering five to six times the output from the same process.

Notably, TSMC stood up a pilot line in 2025, evaluated it, and is now moving toward large-scale production. The company has reportedly already secured customers among global AI chip players.

Samsung isn’t standing still either. It’s pushing PLP into high-performance computing and AI semiconductors, and it’s eyeing glass substrates as the next packaging frontier.

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Supply chain sources have surfaced a picture that should make Samsung’s product team sweat. Apple is reportedly aligning the reveal of its first foldable iPhone around the launch of Samsung Galaxy S27 series in early 2027.

MoneyUDN (via SemiconductorsX) reports that Apple is planning to drop the iPhone 18 family this autumn, then follow it with its first-ever foldable iPhone in early 2027.

The iPhone Ultra foldable phone lands almost directly on top of Mobile World Congress (MWC), the exact moment Samsung traditionally owns the conversation with its Galaxy S series.

Largan Precision CEO Lin En-ping didn’t exactly announce anything at a recent shareholders’ meeting, but he didn’t hide it either. He revealed that “Q4 will be busier than usual,” with some devices arriving in Q3 and others pushed to early 2027.

The “reveal first, ship later” strategy Apple appears to be running extends its peak season deep into Q1 2027. The iPhone maker is targeting the Lunar New Year in China as well as Samsung’s mainstream launch event.

Market research firms project Apple could capture nearly 30% of the global foldable market in year one, shipping up to 11 million units.

Samsung has launched Galaxy S phones in February for over a decade without ever competing directly against a simultaneous Apple flagship. Meanwhile, that’s going to end, starting in 2027, when the first foldable iPhone lands.

However, Samsung is also preparing to rival Apple’s first foldable by bringing the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide. This model would come with a different screen ratio than legacy foldables, directly rivaling the Apple iPhone Ultra.

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Over the past few days, Samsung Galaxy S23 owners, including some on the S23+ and S23 Ultra, have been posting about a familiar but unwelcome visitor on their displays: thin green or pink vertical lines that show up out of nowhere.

Right on cue, every fresh round of Samsung software updates seems to bring its own little surprise, and the latest One UI 8.5 rollout is no exception.

The reports started surfacing on X and across Samsung’s own community forums, and by now there are enough of them that it’s hard to write this off as a handful of unlucky units.

One user shared a picture of his S23 Ultra’s screen with a bright green line running top to bottom, insisting the phone had no drops, no cracks, and no water exposure, just a software update that, in his words, turned a pink line into a green one within days. Another user reported the same thing on a Galaxy phone shortly after updating.

Owners in India are being quoted between INR 15,000 and INR 19,500 for an out-of-warranty screen replacement, while a similar repair in other markets is pegged at roughly $205.

This isn’t actually a new problem for Samsung. The “green line of death,” as some forum regulars half-jokingly call it, has been popping up on Galaxy phones for years now, going back to the Galaxy S20 series, with Plus model affected the most.

Samsung even ran free display replacement programs in India, regardless of warranty status, because the issue was tied to a hardware fault in the display panel rather than something a software patch could realistically cause on its own.

Repair technicians point toward the display’s flexible cable connectors or the panel driver itself. A new update doesn’t need to “cause” damage outright; it just needs to nudge an already-weakened part past its breaking point.

For now, this is very much a developing situation. We’ll update this piece if Samsung issues any kind of statement or offers free replacements.

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Samsung quietly crossed a milestone: the Art Store now carries more than 5000 artworks in 4K, pulled from over 800 artists and 80-plus partners, all sitting behind a single subscription.

The South Korean tech giant has dropped the news alongside the launch of its Art Basel in Basel 2026 Collection, a 24-piece digital exhibition built around Swiss and Switzerland-based artists.

Eight galleries contributed work, including Mai 36, von Bartha, and Blue Velvet from Switzerland, plus international names like Fanta MLN and Felix Gaudlitz. The whole thing lands on Art Store starting today, timed to the fair’s June 18-21 run in Basel.

Three artists anchor the collection with real weight.

Thomas Huber’s “16.7.2024” reflects his distinctive approach to painting, where image and text converge to explore picture space as both a visual and philosophical construction.

Tobias Kaspar’s “The Japan Collection” examines systems of value, taste and desire through a multidisciplinary practice that bridges art and fashion.

Athene Galiciadis’s “Stillleben (Reflection on longings and belongings)” presents a richly layered visual language, combining geometric and organic forms with references to craft, design, science and spirituality.

Samsung is running a gallery-style Art Wall in Basel built from The Frame Pro, OLED, and Micro RGB displays, pulling works based on what attendees respond to visually. Notably, Artist Daniel Arsham is now Samsung’s Art TV ambassador.

Art Store runs across Samsung’s 2026 Art TV lineup, covering The Frame, The Frame Pro, Neo QLED, OLED, and Micro RGB.

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Samsung isn’t whispering about Micro RGB, but it’s screaming it from Times Square. The company has planted billboard campaigns at some of the most-watched intersections on the planet.

Times Square in New York, Piccadilly Circus in London, and The Entertainment Building in Hong Kong, aren’t subtle placements; Samsung picked the loudest rooms in the world and turned the volume up.

At the center of it all sits a hip-hop dance campaign built around choreographer Sergio Reis.

Centering on a large-scale hip-hop dance performance created in collaboration with renowned choreographer Sergio Reis, the advertisement visually brings Micro RGB’s extensive array of red, green and blue backlights to life, along with the precision AI engine that controls them.

The performance visually maps to what Micro RGB actually does: thousands of individual red, green, and blue backlights firing with precision, shaped by the Micro RGB AI Engine Pro.

AI Soccer Mode lets viewers mute commentators entirely, which, honestly, is the feature nobody knew they needed until right now. Vision AI Companion layers in real-time player stats while you watch.

The campaign runs through the end of the year across all locations.

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Samsung announced that its Samsung Max VPN service is set to retire this June. Users opening the app are now greeted with a farewell message rather than the usual data-saving dashboard.

The company confirmed that the service will shut down on June 15, 2026, and users opening the app are now greeted with a farewell message rather than the usual data-saving dashboard.

The in-app notice is brief and to the point. It reads: “This is the final version of the app, and the service will be available until June 15, 2026.”

Service Shutdown Notice – June 15, 2026

This is the final version of the app, and the service will be available until June 15, 2026. Thank you for being with us over the years. Your support and activity truly meant a lot to us and helped shape this app into what it became. We’re grateful for the time we shared and hope to see you again in other Samsung applications in the future!

If you’ve still got Samsung Max VPN installed, here’s the practical bit: after June 15, 2026, the VPN connection and data-saving features will stop working entirely. The app itself will likely remain on your phone as a dead shell.

Samsung Max VPN was never a famous app on a Galaxy phone, and it rarely made headlines. Meanwhile, its retirement is a reminder of how often these background utilities become part of our daily routine without us really noticing.

What next?

For anyone who depended on it for public Wi-Fi security or to keep an eye on app data consumption, now’s the time to start looking elsewhere.

So far, there’s been no confirmation of a like-for-like successor.

There’s no shortage of third-party VPN apps on the Play Store, as with anything VPN-related, it’s worth doing your homework on logging policies and server locations before committing to one.

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Samsung began the One UI 8.5 official rollout in mid-May in the Global market, after initially starting it in South Korea. Android 17-based One UI 9 Beta entered headlines quickly after the Stable release of One UI 8.5 started.

The Korean tech giant officially listed 44 Galaxy devices for the One UI 8.5 update. It included thirteen Galaxy S phones, nine Galaxy Z foldable phones, eleven Galaxy A mid-range and entry-level phones, and 11 Galaxy tablets.

Beyond the forty-four, several Samsung devices received the One UI 8.5 update. Device availability varies by market, which is the key reason Samsung doesn’t usually share a complete device list on its Global newsroom pages.

Longest Beta, quickest deployment

One UI 8.5 is one of the longest-running Beta Programs in Samsung’s history. It started in early December 2025 and wrapped in early May 2026. The company ran a Beta Program for about five months on the Galaxy S25 series.

Samsung shipped the Galaxy S26 series in mid-March, preinstalled with One UI 8.5. Even after the official debut, the software remained exclusive to the latest flagship phones for almost two months and helped retain sales momentum.

In early May, Samsung announced the Stable One UI 8.5 release, starting in Korea, which expanded to the global market on May 11. Millions of Galaxy users benefited from the new features and the quicker yet consistent expansion.

As of June 13, 2026, Samsung has completed the One UI 8.5 rollout for all the devices confirmed on the day of the official announcement.

Galaxy S Series

1. Galaxy S25
2. Galaxy S25+
3. Galaxy S25 Ultra
4. Galaxy S25 Edge
5. Galaxy S25 FE
6. Galaxy S24
7. Galaxy S24+
8. Galaxy S24 Ultra
9. Galaxy S24 FE
10. Galaxy S23
11. Galaxy S23+
12. Galaxy S23 Ultra
13. Galaxy S23 FE

Galaxy Z Series

1. Galaxy Z Fold 7
2. Galaxy Z Flip 7
3. Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE
4. Galaxy Z TriFold
5. Galaxy Z Fold 6
6. Galaxy Z Flip 6
7. Galaxy Z Fold 5
8. Galaxy Z Flip 5
9. Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition

Galaxy A Series

1. Galaxy A56
2. Galaxy A55
3. Galaxy A54
4. Galaxy A36
5. Galaxy A35
6. Galaxy A34
7. Galaxy A26
8. Galaxy A25
9. Galaxy A17
10. Galaxy A16
11. Galaxy A15

Galaxy Tab Series

1. Galaxy Tab S11
2. Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra
3. Galaxy Tab S10+
4. Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra
5. Galaxy Tab S10 FE
6. Galaxy Tab S10 FE+
7. Galaxy Tab S9
8. Galaxy Tab S9+
9. Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra
10. Galaxy Tab S9 FE
11. Galaxy Tab S9 FE+

One UI 8.5 rollout is still going for the remaining models (and countries). Samsung’s every eligible device for the new software is expected to receive it (everywhere) by the end of June 2026.

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Samsung phones have had Secure Folder for years, while the One UI 8.5 brings a new Private Album feature. The new addition is totally different from Secure Folder and allows users to privately save their photos and videos.

The new Private Album feature is designed for convenience, allowing you to protect sensitive content without needing to move files to third-party applications.

Samsung’s Secure Folder and Private Album are different

Secure Folder functions as an entirely isolated, encrypted sandbox environment within the device. It lets users store not just media, but also apps, documents, files, and separate accounts.

Take it as a separate space inside your phone that acts like a clean phone. You can install apps and run them in the native view and have double accounts for almost every app.

Private Album is a new feature launched with One UI 8.5 that lets you store personal photos and videos in a protected space within the Galaxy Gallery app.

It allows you to hide specific content, including photos, videos, and screenshots, right from the Samsung Gallery app, adding a seamless layer of privacy.

That said, the Samsung Private Album is specifically developed to quickly hide photos and videos directly inside the native Gallery app, offering fast access and streamlined protection for media.

How to set up a Private Album?

• Open the Gallery app.
• Tap the Menu.
• Select Private Album.
• Follow the on-screen setup instructions.
• Tap Screen Lock and select your preferred security method.
• Set your notification preferences and tap Done to finish.

Private Album is available in non-One UI 8.5 devices too, but the setup is a bit tricky.

• Samsung Gallery has 4 hidden features; #1 is the big one

How to hide photos and videos?

• Open the Gallery app.
• Select the photos or videos.
• Tap More.
• Select Move to Private Album and confirm.

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Samsung dropped a completely new set of icons with One UI 7.0. Since then, the company has been making minor tweaks to the components. One UI 8.5 marks a major step toward taking the design of app icons to the next level. Design-wise, the icons remain largely unchanged from One UI 8.0, but the revamp comes from the three-dimensional (3D) appearance.

There is a specific kind of change in Android UI design that takes a while to fully register. You open your phone, swipe through the home screen, and something feels different, not broken, just unmistakably more refined. That is exactly the sensation Samsung has engineered into One UI 8.5, and once you see it side by side with One UI 8.0, you cannot unsee it.

The app icons in One UI 8.5 are not just prettier. They represent a foundational rethink of how Samsung wants its software to feel.

Samsung One UI 8.5 rewrites design rules for App Icons

One UI 7.0 introduced a cleaner, more geometric approach to icons, stripping away the excess detail and opting for bold, simplified shapes.

When One UI 8.0 arrived, it kept that same visual framework entirely intact. No meaningful changes to icon shape, shading, or depth.

One UI 8.5 – The shift to three dimensions

Where One UI 8.0 icons sit flat against the home screen, One UI 8.5 icons, specifically the inner (supporting) components, carry shadows, curves, and gradients that give them a subtle but unmistakable three-dimensional quality.

Look at the difference between the two versions of any stock Samsung app.

The Calculator icon in One UI 8.0 is clean and flat, with a sharp division between its black and green segments. In One UI 8.5, the same icon gains a softness at the edges, a curvature that suggests form.

The Contacts icon, the Browser icon, and the Settings gear, each one in One UI 8.5, look as though they could be physically picked up off the screen.

Samsung has carefully calibrated this three-dimensional design. The depth is implied rather than literal, shadows are subtle, and radiants are purposeful rather than decorative. The result is icons that feel premium and modern rather than trying too hard.

The effect is visible in a cleaner way in the Themed icons. The dynamic coloring scheme aligns all the app icons based on the color palette. The application is impressively fine, and the 3D appearance is prettier.

Third-party app icons in One UI 8.5 also benefit from the same depth-enhancing treatment. This is important because nothing breaks a design system faster than a mismatched grid of icons.

The icon overhaul is part of a larger design philosophy shift in One UI 8.5 toward what Samsung is building around a Frosted Glass aesthetic.

This matters for how the phone feels to use day to day. Aesthetics in software influence perception of speed, quality, and intent. A user interface that looks premium creates the expectation of premium performance.

The jump from One UI 8.0 to One UI 8.5 on the icon front is a philosophical repositioning.

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June 8, 2026 | Samsung has new firmware updates for its smartwatch portfolio. While users are busy exploring One UI 8.5, Samsung has started pushing the May 2026 Wear OS update to its smartwatch lineup, starting with Galaxy Watch 8 and Watch 7.

Galaxy Watch models receive new firmware updates once a quarter. Samsung strictly follows its Watch Update Mechanism to deliver timely releases. The latest update follows the March rollout, which brought the February patch.

May 2026 Wear OS update is available on these models:

1. Galaxy Watch 8 [AZE1]
2. Galaxy Watch 8 Classic
3. Galaxy Watch 7 [BZE1]
4. Galaxy Watch Ultra
5. Galaxy Watch 6 – CZE1
6. Galaxy Watch Classic
7. Galaxy Watch 5 – DZE1
8. Galaxy Watch 5 Pro
9. Galaxy Watch 4 – JZE1
10. Galaxy Watch 4 Classic
11. Galaxy Watch FE – CZE1

The rollout began on June 8 in South Korea, covering the two recent Watch ranges. Remaining lineups, including the Galaxy Watch 6, Watch 5, and Watch 4, have joined the update party as of June 16, 2026. Details follow:

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June 16, 2026 | Samsung is now rolling out the latest Wear OS improvements to the Galaxy Watch 4, Watch 4 Classic, Watch FE, Watch 5, Watch 5 Pro, Watch 6 and Watch 6 Classic smartwatch models in South Korea.

• Watch 4 – JZE1
• Watch 5 – DZE1
• Watch 6 – CZE1
• Watch FE – CZE1

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June 13, 2026 | Verizon-bounded Galaxy Watch 7, Watch Ultra, Watch 8 and Watch 8 Classic have started to receive the May 2026 firmware update in the US.

• Changelog:
  • The current software update provides the most up to date Android security patches for your device.
• Build versions:
  • Watch 7 – L305USQU3BZB4 (40mm) / L315USQU3BZB4 (44mm)
  • Watch Ultra – L705USQS3BZE1
  • Watch 8 – L335USQS3AZE1 (44mm) / L325USQS3AZE1 (40mm)
  • Watch 8 Classic – L505USQS3AZE1

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What’s new in Watch firmware

Samsung announced it addressed 39 vulnerability items in its May 2026 package. Those vulnerabilities were linked to Android and One UI; meanwhile, the content may differ on smartwatch models.

Apart from fixes, Samsung updates usually clean the system cache and unnecessary files. OTAs also optimize the overall system stability and reliability. As a result, Galaxy users have a better experience with health tracking.

How to update your Galaxy Watch

You can update your Watch’s firmware through Galaxy Wearable or the smartwatch itself. I prefer installing OTAs using the Galaxy Wearable app as it’s seamless and ensures that everything goes perfect while installation.

To update the watch, open the Wearable app, followed by Watch settings. Now tap Watch software update so your watch finds a new firmware. Follow the on-screen instructions if the system delivers an update to your watch.

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May 30, 2026 | Smartphone software updates are like a virtual treat, thanks to the security improvements, new features, and refinements. Samsung has a history of software surprises, with the company revisiting two retired Galaxy S phones and a Note in 2026.

Samsung has a new software update for three phones nobody expected. The Galaxy S8 series and Note 8, released in 2017, are getting a new software update in May 2026; however, the security patch remains outdated.

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June 13, 2026 | Samsung has expanded the new firmware update to the Galaxy Note 8, S8, and S8+ smartphones in the US. Build versions of the latest updates are as follows:

• Galaxy Note 8 – N950USQU8DZE1
• Galaxy S8 and S8+ – G95xUSQU8DZE4

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The three phones were already retired in the year 2021. Not many people have been using any of the smartphones as their daily drivers. Some may have been keeping them alive in their drawer as an unforgettable memory.

Samsung has also refreshed the software update detail page of the Galaxy S8, S8+ and Note 8. The most recent listing suggests the OTA updates were made available on May 28, 2026, with security patch dates back to 2021.

Software versions:

• Galaxy S8 – G950NKSU5DZE1 [Source]
• Galaxy S8+ – G955NKSU5DZE1 [Source]
• Galaxy Note 8 – N950NKSU5DZE2 [Source]

Here’s the changelog:

• Stability improvements
  • Applied stability improvements to enhance overall device operation.

Earlier this year, Apple received massive praise when a handful of aged iPhones (including iPhone 5s and iPhone 6) received new iOS updates. Those releases have also included improvements rather than new features or patches.

Samsung provides software updates for a specific period and then retires the devices. However, the company doesn’t completely abandon Galaxy phones as they receive new OTAs whenever necessariliy required by the OS.

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Galaxy users are missing one useful Camera Scan feature in their phones, and Samsung appears to be reviewing its relaunch. Samsung updates are not always beneficial, as they bring functional changes that sometimes degrade the user experience.

The same happened to the native Camera Scan feature.

Select Galaxy phones have removed the instant sharing feature tied to Camera Scan, and Samsung is aware of it. The company’s moderator responded to user comments and dropped a satisfactory answer in the community.

Samsung Camera and Gallery come with a Scan feature, offered as the “Yellow T” icon. The icon appears whenever the camera or gallery detects a copyable text file in real-time camera viewfinder or gallery preview.

Tapping the icon triggers the system to recognize text in the picture and allows users to save a scanned file. Previously, this feature had an instant sharing feature that didn’t require users to save a file in the Gallery and then share.

Just tap the T icon, let the system recognize visible text content, like an optical character reader, and offer the sharing button immediately.

Camera Scan isn’t a heavily used feature for all; it is for many. Users rely on the Samsung Camera app for their frequent requirements. The removal of the instant scan feature has added an additional step for the same task.

Samsung’s camera moderator confirmed to have “forwarded the suggestion regarding the scan draft saving feature to the relevant department.” A comprehensive review will be conducted to explore the relaunch of the feature in the future.

It seems the shift is caused by a Samsung Gallery and Camera app update. One UI 8.5 is the latest official release, and some models have this feature. Meanwhile, Galaxy S phones are on One UI 8.0, lacking the instant sharing button.

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WhatsApp is rolling out a message bubble animation to Android Beta testers, and it’s the kind of polish that makes you wonder why it took this long.

When you fire off a message, the bubble doesn’t just pop into existence anymore; it slides in, settles, and breathes. WABetaInfo frames it as a short, fluid motion that makes the whole interaction feel more like a lively conversation.

The feature surfaced in WhatsApp Beta for Android 2.26.23.11, spotted by WABetaInfo. iOS users got it first, back in Beta 25.15.10.74, and now Android is catching up.

The animation triggers specifically when the last message sits close to the chat bar, which keeps the motion intentional, and it works for incoming messages too.

Animation controls

WhatsApp tucked the controls into Settings, under Accessibility. A toggle lets you kill the animation entirely if motion sensitivity is a concern.

This isn’t WhatsApp’s first swing at motion design. Photos already get a transition and stickers float from the keyboard into chat. The message animation is the missing piece, the one that covers the most basic thing you do in the app.

Certainly, it’s minor, but smooth animation is what separates an app that feels cheap from one that feels considered. WhatsApp has been quietly closing that gap.

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Samsung Electronics’ Foundry chief threw cold water on recent optimism about the division’s financial recovery, saying a return to profit is unlikely before 2028.

Han Jin-man, president of Samsung’s foundry business, told employees (via KoreaHerald) at an internal briefing Thursday that turning the division profitable “does not look easy even next year [2027].”

“Turning the foundry business to a profit does not look easy even next year,” said Samsung Foundry chief, and added that “There is a high possibility of achieving profitability in 2028.”

His remarks landed just five days after industry sources told Chosun that the foundry unit could break even as early as the third quarter of 2026.

Han pointed to several structural problems beyond the usual cost complaints: a business mix still too dependent on mobile customers, weak technological competitiveness, orders won at margins too thin to matter, and a legacy process business he now wants to exit as the market turns into a “red ocean.”

A newly established employee bonus system, funded at 10.5% of semiconductor division profits, adds another recurring cost layer that analysts may not have fully accounted for.

The Taylor chip manufacturing factory, central to the turnaround thesis, won’t enter mass production until next year, Han indicated, later than some had assumed.

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 is expected to launch as the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra in July 2026. The company’s upcoming foldable phone is bringing notable upgrades, including the fastest Snapdragon chipset, a larger battery, faster charging, and enhanced AI capabilities.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra – Rumored Specifications
Processor
CPU Speed	4.74GHz, 3.62GHz | Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy
CPU Type	Octa-Core (TSMC 3nm)
Display
Size (Main Display)	8.0 inches
Resolution (Main Display)	2184 x 1968 (QXGA+) – expected similar to Z Fold 7
Technology (Main Display)	LTPO Dynamic AMOLED 2X, HDR10+, up to 2,600 nits peak brightness
Colour Depth (Main Display)	16M
Max Refresh Rate (Main Display)	1-120 Hz (LTPO adaptive)
Panel Structure (Main Display)	Dual-UTG (Ultra-Thin Glass) with laser-drilled metal support plate – near crease-free
Size (Cover Display)	6.5 inches
Resolution (Cover Display)	2520 x 1080 (FHD+) – expected similar to Z Fold 7
Technology (Cover Display)	LTPO Dynamic AMOLED 2X, HDR10+, up to 2,600 nits peak brightness
Colour Depth (Sub Display)	16M
Cover Glass (Sub Display)	Gorilla Glass Victus 2
Camera
Rear Camera – Resolution (Triple)	200 MP (main) + 50 MP (ultrawide) + 10 MP (telephoto)
Rear Camera – F Number (Multiple)	F1.7, F2.2, F2.4 (expected)
Rear Camera – Auto Focus	Yes (Ultrawide also with Autofocus)
Rear Camera – OIS	Yes
Rear Camera – Zoom	Optical Zoom 3x, Digital Zoom up to 30x
Front Camera – Resolution	10.0 MP
Front Camera – F Number	F2.2
Front Camera – Auto Focus	No
Front Camera – OIS	No
Rear Camera – Flash	Yes
Cover Camera – Resolution	10 MP
Cover Camera – F Number	F2.2
Cover Camera – Auto Focus	No
Video Recording Resolution	UHD 8K (7680 x 4320) @30fps; 4K @60fps with HDR10+
Slow Motion	240fps @FHD, 120fps @FHD, 120fps @UHD
Storage / Memory
Memory (GB)	12 / 16
Storage (GB)	256 / 512 / 1024 (1TB)
Network / Bearer
Number of SIM	Dual-SIM
SIM Size	Nano-SIM (4FF), eSIM
SIM Slot Type	SIM 1 + SIM 2 / SIM 1 + eSIM / Dual eSIM
Infra	2G GSM, 3G WCDMA, 4G LTE FDD, 4G LTE TDD, 5G Sub6 FDD, 5G Sub6 TDD
2G GSM	GSM850, GSM900, DCS1800, PCS1900
3G UMTS	B1(2100), B2(1900), B4(AWS), B5(850), B8(900)
4G FDD LTE	B1(2100), B2(1900), B3(1800), B4(AWS), B5(850), B7(2600), B8(900), B12(700), B13(700), B17(700), B18(800), B19(800), B20(800), B25(1900), B26(850), B28(700), B66(AWS-3)
4G TDD LTE	B38(2600), B39(1900), B40(2300), B41(2500)
5G FDD Sub6	N1(2100), N2(1900), N3(1800), N5(850), N7(2600), N8(900), N12(700), N20(800), N25(1900), N26(850), N28(700), N66(AWS-3), N71(600)
5G TDD Sub6	N38(2600), N40(2300), N41(2500), N77(3700), N78(3500)
Connectivity
USB Interface	USB Type-C
USB Version	USB 3.2 Gen 1 (up to 5Gbps)
Location Technology	GPS, Glonass, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Earjack	USB Type-C
MHL	No
Wi-Fi	Wi-Fi 7 (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be) 2.4GHz + 5GHz + 6GHz, EHT320, MIMO, 4096-QAM
Wi-Fi Direct	Yes
Bluetooth Version	Bluetooth v6.0
NFC	Yes
UWB (Ultra Wideband)	Yes
OS
Android Version	Android 17 (One UI 9.0)
General Information
Form Factor	Book-style foldable phone
Build / Frame	Aluminum frame
IP Rating	IP48
Sensors
Sensors	Accelerometer, Barometer, Fingerprint Sensor (Side-mounted), Gyro Sensor, Geomagnetic Sensor, Hall Sensor, Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor
Physical Specification
Dimension (HxWxD, mm) – Unfolded	158.4 x 143.2 x 4.1
Dimension when Folded (HxWxD, mm)	158.4 x 72.8 x 8.9
Weight (g)	215
Battery
Battery Capacity (mAh, Typical)	5,000mAh
Wired Charging	45W
Wireless Charging	Up to 20W (Qi2.2)
Reverse Wireless Charging	Up to 4.5W
Removable	No
Audio and Video
Stereo Support	Yes (Dolby Atmos)
Video Playing Format	MP4, M4V, 3GP, 3G2, AVI, FLV, MKV, WEBM
Video Playing Resolution	UHD 8K (7680 x 4320) @60fps
Audio Playing Format	MP3, M4A, 3GA, AAC, OGG, OGA, WAV, AMR, AWB, FLAC, MID, MIDI, XMF, MXMF, IMY, RTTTL, RTX, OTA, DFF, DSF, APE
Services and Applications
Gear Support	Galaxy Ring, Galaxy Buds Core, Galaxy Buds3 Pro, Galaxy Buds2 Pro, Galaxy Buds Pro, Galaxy Buds Live, Galaxy Buds+, Galaxy Buds3, Galaxy Buds2, Galaxy Buds, Galaxy Buds FE, Galaxy Fit3, Galaxy Fit2, Galaxy Watch FE, Galaxy Watch Ultra, Galaxy Watch9, Galaxy Watch8, Galaxy Watch7, Galaxy Watch6, Galaxy Watch5, Galaxy Watch4, Galaxy Watch Active2, Galaxy Watch Active
Samsung DeX Support	Yes
Bluetooth Hearing Aid Support	Android Audio Streaming for Hearing Aid (ASHA)
SmartThings Support	Yes
Mobile TV	No
Software Support
OS Update Period	Up to 7 years of OS and security updates (expected until August 2033)

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At the 2026 National Congress of Cardiology in Rosario, a team of Argentine physicians presented their findings. They tested the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 against 12-lead ECG equipment across 507 electrocardiographic tracings in 225 patients. The watch performed with diagnostic equivalence to clinical-grade tools.

Dr. Claudio Gabriel Morós led the study alongside Dr. Choe Hyon Ju, Dr. Liliana Nicolosi, and their team. The audience was 100 physicians, and the conditions were not minor, which included:

• Atrial fibrillation
• Premature ventricular contractions
• Post-surgical patients, including Tetralogy of Fallot cases
• People with pacemakers
• Pediatric patients

They built something called the ECG Calculator Watch, a digital tool using vector math to calculate the heart’s electrical axis from consecutive wrist and ankle measurements. The margin of error came out to 5.9 degrees.

Argentina matters here. Circulatory diseases account for 27.7% of all deaths in the country.

Samsung has been stacking institutional partnerships, too. Massachusetts General Hospital, Chung-Ang University, and Stanford Medicine each target a specific clinical gap, but this Argentine study is different.

It wasn’t a press release dressed as research, but presented to cardiologists, by cardiologists, with real patient numbers. If you are a Galaxy Watch 8 owner, you are holding a clinically proven heart care gadget on your wrist.

Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 comes with advanced health tools.

Vascular Load tracking that measures arterial stress during sleep, an AGEs Index that estimates biological aging through tissue chemistry, passive AFib monitoring, and an Energy Score that cross-references overnight vessel stress with recovery data.

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Samsung spent four days at World FoodTech ConfEx 2026 in Goyang doing what it does best: making every other appliance brand look a decade behind. Samsung also showcased its AI fridge that knows what’s inside and suggests recipes.

The star was the 2026 Bespoke AI Family Hub, which features a 32-inch touchscreen and an internal camera with upgraded AI Vision that reads fresh ingredients, processed food labels, and even wine packaging.

It logs everything itself, syncs with SmartThings Food, and starts suggesting what to cook before you’ve closed the door. SmartThings Food isn’t new, but 240,000 recipes across 101 countries is a number that earns some respect.

Executive VP Hyesoon Yang took the keynote stage and drew a sharp line between old smart kitchens, which just followed orders, and what Samsung’s calling the “proactive kitchen.”

Ask a generic AI for a high-protein Korean dinner and it’ll invent a chicken rice bowl that ignores your actual fridge. Samsung’s system checks what you’ve got, cross-references your nutrition goals, and fires a verified recipe to your oven with the right settings already loaded.

FoodNote tracks weekly usage patterns and builds a dietary profile. Missing something? One tap orders it. Samsung Health integration closes the loop on nutrition. It’s a refrigerator that knows you better than you know your own kitchen.

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Samsung might launch the Galaxy Z Fold 9 with a thicker Ultra Thin Glass (UTG). The company is reportedly testing a 60-micrometer-thick UTG, which could initially ship with the Galaxy Z Fold 8 launches next month.

If the Wide Fold lands well, the 60-micrometer UTG is likely to be approved for the Galaxy Z Fold 9 next year. This will be a crucial model that could be the first from Samsung after the debut of Apple’s foldable iPhone Ultra.

Galaxy Z Fold 8 (Wide Fold), the passport-shaped third foldable in this year’s lineup, may ship with Ultra Thin Glass measuring around 60 micrometers thick. Thicker glass means a less visible crease and better resistance to drops.

The Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra (Fold 7 sequel) sticks with 45 micrometers, the same spec Samsung applied to the Galaxy Z Fold 7 last year. It seems Samsung is treating the Wide Fold model as a controlled experiment.

Back in 2024, the Z Fold 6 shipped with 30-micrometer UTG. The Z Fold SE later that year corrected course with 45 micrometers, and Samsung held that line through the Fold 7.

Samsung’s shipment target for the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide sits at roughly 1.5 to 2 million units by year’s end, modest but meaningful. The Fold 8 Ultra carries the heavier sales expectation, somewhere between 2 and 2.5 million units.

• Samsung trims Galaxy Z Fold 8, Flip 8, Fold 8 Ultra targets to 5-6 million

The Korean tech giant may hold an Unpacked event on July 22 in South Korea. The event would happen in London, rather than a US or Korean city.

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Samsung flagship deal hunters, rejoice! Woot has an epic deal on the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra 1TB variant, a rare 34% cash discount.

Woot mentions the deal is open for 19 days or until the stock lasts. Galaxy S25 Ultra 1TB, costing $1,660 at launch, is currently available for purchase at $1,100, a steep discount of $560.

Not that all, but the e-commerce platform is offering all color variants at a discounted price. Available shades include, as of June 12, 2026, Titanium Gray, Titanium Black, Titanium Whitesilver, and Titanium Silverblue.

Key specifications of the device

• 6.9-inch Dynamic LTPO AMOLED 2X QHD+, 120Hz Adaptive Refresh Rate, HDR10+, 1440x3120px
• Android 15-based One UI 7 (upgradable to Android 16-based One UI 8.5)
• Up to 7 major Android upgrades
• 12 GB RAM and 1TB UFS 4.0 Storage
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite processor
• Rear Camera: 200.0 MP + 50.0 MP + 50.0 MP + 10.0 MP
• Front Camera: 12.0 MP
• 5000 mAh Battery Capacity with 45W fast charging

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Samsung has finally kicked off the June 2026 update rollout for the Galaxy S26 series, bringing security enhancements. It comes almost a week after the company detailed the information about the fixes and patches included.

Aside from One UI 8.5 and One UI 9 Beta rollouts, Samsung is also releasing maintenance releases for Galaxy devices. June 2026 security enhancements were first released for the latest Galaxy S26 series in South Korea.

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Initial article – June 10

Samsung Galaxy S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra

Galaxy S26 users can identify the update via the PDA build version ending with AZF1. The firmware weighs around 565 megabytes for the devices. More Galaxy devices, including the S25 series and S24 series, would join the rollout shortly.

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Update 1 – June 10

Samsung Galaxy S25 FE

Shortly after the S26 series, Samsung pushed the June patch to the Galaxy S25 FE in South Korea. The OTA weighs nearly 325 megabytes and ends with PDA build version BZF1.

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Update 2 – June 11

Samsung Galaxy S25, S25+, S25 Edge and S25 Ultra

Samsung’s June 2026 patches are now expanding to the Galaxy S25 series, including the Edge version. Users in South Korea are getting the latest update through PDA build version ending with CZF1.

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Update 3 – June 11

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, Z Flip 7 and Z Flip 7 FE

Foldable phones released in 2025, including the Z Fold 7, Z Flip 7, Z Flip7 FE, and TriFold are also grabbing the latest security patches released in June 2026. PDA build number ends with BZF1.

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Update 4 – June 15

Samsung Galaxy S25 and S26 series – India and Europe

June update is now expanding to the Galaxy S25 series and S26 series users in India and Europe region. Software information is as follows:

• Galaxy S25 – CZF1 | ~ 937 MB
• Galaxy S26 – AZF1 | ~ 562 MB

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Update 5 – June 18

Samsung Galaxy S24 series – South Korea

Samsung’s 2024 flagship phones, the Galaxy S24, S24+, and S24 Ultra, have started getting the One UI 8.5-based June 2026 security enhancements in South Korea.

Unlike the Galaxy S25 series, the Galaxy S24 phones are not getting the AI-powered Notification highlights features with the latest software; details as follows:

• Galaxy S24 – DZF3 | ~ 417 MB

 

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What’s new in June 2026 patch?

June 2026 OTA has patches for 44 Android and One UI vulnerabilities. If your device runs an Exynos chipset, you get 45 fixes. The additional Exynos patch is provided by Samsung Semiconductor with specific improvements.

• Samsung Exynos security advisory: 15 June 2026 flaws affecting phones, watches

One UI 9 Beta Program is available for the Galaxy S26 series only. However, the June patch rollout has begun for those running One UI 8.5 official version. Beta Program participants are scheduled to receive the third Beta update next week.

Galaxy S26 users don’t get any significant change with the June update. However, older devices, including the Galaxy S25 series, are rumored to receive a handful of One UI 8.5 features that were missing from the initial package.

Check for updates via Settings > Software update > Download and install.

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