Earlier this week, 9To5Google reported that Google Wallet on Wear OS had started asking for the PIN to make tap-to-pay transactions for some users. While the change offered increased security, many people were disappointed with it as they would now have to go through an additional step on their Galaxy Watch to make payments. Well, as it turns out, the change is just a bug and Google is working on squashing it. A Google spokesperson told the publication “We are aware of an issue that requires a small number of Wallet users to re-enter their PIN in order to make a payment from their Wear OS ..read more

The Galaxy S24 series smartphones brought One UI 6.1. Last month, Samsung rolled out the new software customization to older devices as well. While it brings a ton of new and useful features, it also introduces a bunch of issues. Now we’ve discovered that the tech giant has made a change to notification management that could annoy a few users. Since Android 8.0 Oreo, Android has been offering a feature called notification categories (also known as notification channels), which allows you to select the kind of notifications an app can send and the kind it can’t. For example, you could use this ..read more

Qualcomm has unveiled the Snapdragon X Plus, a new ARM-based processor designed for laptops. It sits one step below the company's flagship laptop chip, the Snapdragon X Elite, which was unveiled a few months ago and is expected to be used in Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Book 4 Edge. Snapdragon X Plus will be used in more affordable Windows laptops The Snapdragon X Plus is a 4nm chip with a 10-core CPU and uses the same Oryon CPU cores used in the Snapdragon X Elite. It will be used in more affordable laptops running Windows OS. Its CPU is clocked at 3.4GHz instead of 3.8GHz on the Snapdragon X El ..read more

Samsung Wallet is becoming more useful with each passing year. The app can double as a mobile ID in India, South Korea, the USA, and other countries. Now, the company is making its app more useful for students in South Korea. Samsung Wallet to work as identity verification for students of Woori Bank's universities Samsung has partnered with Woori Bank to make Samsung Wallet a mobile ID verification tool for students at the latter's universities. This deal was signed yesterday at Woori Bank’s headquarters in Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea. Woori Bank's universities include POSTECH, Seoul National ..read more

Samsung is showcasing its display technology prowess through a new collaboration with Amazon that revolves around its latest addition to its entertainment business portfolio: Culver Post. The latter is a state-of-the-art theatrical post-production studio located in Los Angeles. Samsung says it has partnered with 424 Post and Harbor to provide advanced display technologies for Amazon's post-production studio. As a result, Culver Post takes advantage of a 34-foot 8K Samsung The Wall LED (IWA-series) display and DCI-certified 4K Samsung Onyx LED displays. The right equipment for the job Culver Po ..read more

Good Lock’s Theme Park allows you to create and apply custom themes to the Samsung Keyboard. However, on some devices, custom themes don’t get applied completely if the ‘Color Palette’ option in One UI is enabled, which lets you choose a color palette for UI elements with customizable colors, such as quick setting toggles and keys in Calculator. Well, Samsung says that it is aware of the issue and will fix the problem with One UI 6.1. On Samsung’s Community forum for Korea, a Galaxy Z Fold 4 user complained that when they applied a custom theme to the Samsung Keyboard using Theme Park, the the ..read more

Samsung is rolling out a new update to Theme Park, a module for the company’s Good Lock app that allows you to create your own themes. It brings many improvements and at the same time, takes away some cool features. Let’s check those out. According to the changelog, Samsung has changed the “previous ‘APK installation method to the devices’ ‘theme application method (Color palette)” which results in three improvements. Faster theme creation and application speed. The ability to edit and overwrite themes. Automatically reflects new icons for newly installed apps based on the current icon pack b ..read more

Samsung's wireless earbuds come with a touchpad and support various touch gestures, including a touch and hold gesture that can be assigned to launching apps like Spotify and Bixby or performing actions such as increasing and decreasing the volume But did you know that the touch and hold gesture cannot be used to launch the Samsung Music app? You would expect a music app made by Samsung would be fully supported by the company's wireless earbuds, but that isn't the case for the Samsung Music app. At long last, Samsung is fixing that oversight. An update to Samsung Music finally adds the option ..read more

Samsung Notes is one of the most well-known and long-lasting apps in Samsung's portfolio. Countless Galaxy device owners rely on it regardless of whether or not they use the S Pen, and Samsung keeps improving the Notes experience with every major update. All in all, Samsung Notes feels like a core part of the Galaxy device experience. It almost always has. And in our latest video, we decided to talk more about our favorite five Samsung Notes features — old and new. We go into more detail in the video below, so we won't spoil it for you. But, in short, the features we love the most have to do w ..read more

Prospective Samsung customers in Canada now have one extra reason to use a Samsung Account when they purchase new products. The Korean tech giant announced it is bringing the Samsung Rewards program to Canada, allowing customers to earn points and exclusive benefits. Samsung Rewards is a loyalty program that lets customers accumulate points whenever they purchase qualifying products through the Samsung online shop or the Shop Samsung mobile app. How the Rewards program works Samsung says Rewards is “a new program designed to give Canadians more control over their shopping experience while rewa ..read more