The typical gadget review these days can run thousands of words and cover hundreds of features before telling you what you really want to know: is this thing any good? The Atlantic Wire will cut to the chase after spending a week with a device and give you just the bottom line.
With the Samsung Galaxy S IV set to go on sale this weekend on AT&T and in another month on Verizon, the reviewers have taken the purported iPhone killer for a spin and despite all its bells and whistles, they still like another Android phone a lot better.
The likes of "Gangnam Style" reverberate across the grounds of Samsung's flagship cellphone factory, the Gumi complex just south of Seoul — and the K-Pop blares all day long, which kind of sounds like a mellow version of torture, at least to Americans.
Instead of going after its usual foe, Microsoft's attack-hungry marketing department has transformed Samsung and the uber-popular Galaxy S III into its latest tech enemy — just another indication that Apple's no longer king of the smartphone makers.
It's no surprise that following Apple's iWatch rumor Samsung announced its own smartwatch plans in an attempt to get ahead of the competition, but the rumorers have also anticipated this thing for awhile.
Right after China's state-run television station ran a damning documentary on Apple's customer-service practices, a bunch of Chinese celebrities took to China's version of Twitter, all at the same time, to paint a picture of Apple as bullying consumers. Is this a government conspiracy, coincidence, or some combination therein? Let's look at every theory.
The company that just used bridesmaids in heels to demonstrate why a female might want to buy a piece of technology? Yeah, it has a history of female stereotypes in advertising. And it just so happened to coincide with the launch of an "iPhone-killer" Galaxy phone line.
The new phone can do a lot of things Apple's iPhone 5 cannot — and a lot of things it doesn't need to do at all. The Galaxy S IV has a grand total of 35 software features, some of which don't work all that well, others of which are gimmicky, and a handful which are actually useful. Here's our hands-on tets.
The Galaxy S IV launch event verged on offensive when the emcee used a group of bridesmaids to illustrate all the woman things the phone can do, like cooking and weight loss and wedding planning — oh my.
Samsung finally released a lighter, faster, better version of its popular Galaxy S III smart phone on Thursday night, the much anticipated Samsung Galaxy S IV — an "iPhone killer" that also happens to have a ton of goofy, useless bells and whistles. Here's our full report from on the scene at the launch event.
Apple has good reason to get defensive about its iPhone just before Samsung's release of the Galaxy S IV tonight: It's very likely the S IV will steal away some of its most profitable fan-people and this time, for good.
While Samsung has been tight-lipped about the new Galaxy S IV it will unveil tomorrow, they've been especially busy in recent weeks and months filing phone-related trademarks, brand names that maybe give us a peak inside the products they're planning to bring to market.
In the run-up to its release of the "iPhone-killer" Galaxy S IV smartphone on Thursday night, Samsung has spent way more than Apple marketing its phones, and looking at marketing dollars against mobile sales, the ad blitz looks to have paid off.
Two days ahead of the Galaxy SIV big reveal, Samsung has posted this first official image of the new phone to Twitter, confirming two facts: It says Samsung and it has a screen.
A couple of weeks before the release of Samsung's Galaxy S IV, an anonymous employee who has played with the phone divulged to The New York Times that the phone will track your eyes as you read, scrolling through along with your pace, a feature that sounds a little bit nauseating.
Just when Samsung had earned some respect for its advertising campaigns, the latest Galaxy S IV teaser disappoints by emphasizing secrets over product.
About that jury decision that found Samsung owed Apple over $1 billion for patent infringement, the judge on the case has decided to scrap nearly half of that—for now.
Remember that judge who made Apple rewrite its too-sassy public apology to Samsung? Well, Samsung has turned around and hired him as an expert in its patent battle with Ericsson, which seems totally unethical, but is actually quite legal.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Based on this new picture, people, including a South Korean intelligence agency, have concluded that North Korea's supreme leader uses an HTC smartphone.
Today in viral videos: Dr. Spock gets no love, puppies predict the big game, and Seth Rogan, Paul Rudd, and Bob Odenkirk team up for the Samsung Super Bowl commercial.
Samsung has won the latest round of its neverending patent war with Apple — and at just the right moment in its cultural ascendance, giving the Korean gadget giant another notch on its "better-than-Apple" belt.
In an attempt to explain the popularity Android phones over Apple's "superior" iPhone, Gizmodo's Sam Biddle comes to the not-so-nuanced conclusion that "Android Is Popular Because It’s Cheap, Not Because It’s Good," an explanation that only explains part of the phenomenon.
Samsung will soon release a new phone for its popular Galaxy line-up, and the rumor-mongers can't stop talking about the specs and designs of their dreams — actually, they're starting to sound a lot like the Apple crowd.
Apple's once unwavering grasp on the smartphone industry is showing more signs of weakening, as it cuts iPhone orders by about 50 percent "due to weaker-than-expected demand."
Riding the wave of gadget goodness from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Samsung released a pretty impressive set of fourth quarter earnings estimates, including a record high profit.
Now that labor watchdog groups have started complaining about the poor working conditions in Samsung's Chinese factories, maybe the South Korean electronics behemoth will make changes.
The legal war between Samsung and Apple is going really well and they're both behaving like civil, reasonable adults. Ha, no, not really. Apple just threw a tantrum because they were ordered to tell Samsung a bunch of secrets that could potentially help Samsung keep their products on the shelves.
Apple has lost its number one position with the world's most popular phone, ceding the title to rival Samsung and its Galaxy S3, but we don't imagine it will stay that way for too long.
Only because it had to, Apple has complied with a U.K court that didn't appreciate its tone in its apology to Samsung and has revised its formally too sassy sorry-note.
Apple continues to look like a sore loser in its U.K. patent suit loss to Samsung as a judge has ordered Apple to re-write its apology that read more like a diss published on its website last month.
Apple isn't taking its loss to Samsung in U.K. court like an adult, using its enforced apology as another place to mock its gadget-making rival.
No matter how much you want to believe the pictures on the Internet of the leaked whatever phone or tablet or computer, don't. They are just too fakeable, as Ti Kawamoto writes on Gizmodo.
A UK court has handed Apple another defeat in one of its many legal fights with Samsung, forcing the iPad maker to prepare ads admitting that their rival did not copy their designs.
Hey females (and maybe males?) there's a female CEO who had a baby. New York has a feature story, "Can Marissa Mayer Really Have It All?" about what the event means for females, CEOs, and babies everywhere
Samsung posted a ridiculously high $7.3 billion quarterly profit from July to September, which is a personal best, so the company shouldn't have any trouble paying Apple that pesky $1 billion they won in court.
Fresh off the heels of a favorable court ruling, Samsung announced this morning that it's adding the brand new iPhone 5 to the list of Apple gadgets that it thinks rip off its patents.
Unsatisfied with the $1 billion settlement a jury awarded in August, Apple has requested a California judge reconsider the winning ruling in their case against Samsung to give Apple almost twice as much, and to enact a wide-ranging ban that could include the iPhone's biggest competitor.
Foxconn and Apple are the two names we usually hear in discussions of the poor working conditions involved in making our favorite gadgets. But a just released report from the labor rights group China Labor Watch brings Samsung's dirty practices to our attention.
Following their $1 billion legal settlement, Apple listed eight Samsung products they want taken off the market. Now, still unsatisfied, Apple's adding two of Samsung's biggest products to their kill list.
Following its patent lawsuit victory, Apple might want to take your Samsung device off the market, but Samsung has vowed to take "all necessary measures" to prevent that from happening.
Is your smartphone in danger of being taken off the market? You can find out now as Apple has listed the Samsung devices it wants banned from the U.S. market following its sweeping legal victory over the South Korean electronics manufacturer.
The court has reached a verdict in the Apple Samsung patent trial after just one day of deliberation.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Right in the middle of its design patent lawsuit fight with Apple, Samsung has released a new tablet that looks different from an iPad, but not different enough—at least by Apple's standards.
A judge has ruled in favor of Apple in its quest to halt the sale of Samsung's Galaxy tablet, so Apple can make arguably its biggest competition go away for $2.6 million dollars.
As Android widens its lead in the smartphone and tablet marketplace, Apple is starting to look a little frightened.
In an "exclusive" Reuters reports that Samsung makes Apple's iPhone chips in a Texas plant which is two parts surprising: first, the two companies have been spatting for months over patents and Apple is known mostly for manufacturing its iThings in Chinese factories where labor conditions don't exactly meet American conscience standards.
Apple now has another reason to be mad at the federal judge in California that denied its request to ban Samsung's Galaxy devices in the United States over copyright infringement.
A new Samsung commercial, set in the neverending line for a new Apple project, is good for a laugh, but based on the long history of jeers pointed in Steve Jobs's direction, we're not sure it's the best marketing strategy.
Everybody loves Apple's sleek, hip industrial design — especially other laptop manufacturers trying to compete with the explosive success of the MacBook Pro.
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