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Snoopy watch faces now available for Samsung Gear S2

Snoopy watch face for Samsung Gear S2

Samsung teased new watch faces featuring Peanuts characters for its Samsung Gear S2 in early January. The company yesterday tweeted that Snoopy watch faces are now available through Samsung’s Gear Apps store. https://youtu.be/2B8B0rbCDiU   The watch faces are fairly simple, displaying only the time. Based on Samsung Mobile’s video promoting them, at least one of them will change over the day with the sky […]

MWC 2016: Samsung Charm fitness tracking accessory

Samsung Charm

Along with its new flagship Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge smartphones this week at Mobile World Congress, Samsung unveiled a number of accessories including a new fitness tracking band called the Samsung Charm. The Samsung Charm comes in two styles, a square and slender rectangle. The former can be paired with a range of bracelets, including leather and metal ones […]

MWC 2016: Samsung Pay coming to Canada in 2016

Samsung Pay global expansion

Samsung Pay launched last year in South Korea and the U.S. In the six months that it has been available, some five million registered users have processed over 500 million dollars in transactions. The company is now getting ready to bring its mobile payment platform to at least seven more countries this year. Samsung first announced the expansion on Friday and mentioned […]

Samsung Gear S2 classic 3G to launch in U.S. on March 11th

Samsung Gear S2 classic 3G/4G

Samsung earlier today announced that the upcoming Samsung Gear S2 classic 3G smartwatch would be the first device to sport a GSMA compliant eSIM. The South Korean company has now provided more specific launch details. The Samsung Gear S2 classic 3G/4G will launch in the U.S. on March 11th and will be available from AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless. “By bringing together fashionable design […]

Samsung Gear S2 classic 3G to be first to carry GSMA-certified eSIM

Samsung Gear S2

When Samsung first announced its new Gear S2 smartwatch, one of the models unveiled was the Gear S2 3G with integrated e-SIM and voice support. The company today announced that its new Samsung Gear S2 classic 3G will in fact be the first device to use an eSIM compliant to GSMA Consumer Remote SIM Provisioning (RSP) architecture. “At Samsung, we aim to meet and anticipate […]

Video: Samsung SmartThings Future Living Report predicts our future

Samsung SmartThings Future Living Report

Samsung often likes to polish off the old crystal ball and gaze at what the future could bring. This time, it asked a a team of leading academics The SmartThings Future Living Report, to predict what could become reality in the next 100 years (and would presumably be powered by Samsung technologies such as Samsung SmartThings). The overall prediction is that “the […]

Samsung Pay global expansion plans to be announced at MWC 2016

Samsung Pay

Samsung Pay is now available in both South Korea and the U.S. Samsung is now getting ready to bring its mobile payment platform to more countries later this year. It has already confirmed plans to deploy it to China in the near future. Business Korea today reports that the company will outline further global expansion plans at its next Samsung Unpacked event on February 21st. It […]