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So I picked up an Odyssey+ to go along with my Rift and HP WMR headset and have played around with it for about a week. tldr: Amazing display and serviceable controllers with easier setup. The main point of comparison is to the Rift as the HP headset was a cheap backup that I let my kids play...

According to anonymous sources that spoke to the Wall Street Journal, Samsung is ready to celebrate its 10th anniversary of premium Galaxy phones by revitalizing the smartphone market with a new lineup of Galaxy S phones. The flagship Galaxy S10 "Beyond X" smartphone will feature a 6.7" screen...

Samsung just unveiled their newest processor: the Exynos 9 series 9820. The new design uses a 2+2+4 CPU setup, with 2 "4th generation custom CPUs," 2 Cortex A75s, and 4 Cortex A55s. Samsung claims the new "tri-cluster" system will boost multi-core performance by 15 percent, while the new big...

Qualcomm already uses the Snapdragon 850 in some Windows PCs, and rumors indicate that they're cooking up a larger chip designed specifically for larger devices. But, according to "industry sources" in contact with Digitimes, they aren't the only mobile SOC manufacturer trying to push into the...

Samsung is launching a Linux on DeX beta for certain Samsung smartphones. The Note9 and Tab S4 are the first phones that Samsung has officially sanctioned to be allowed to run a Linux environment and connect to a monitor with a single cable for a PC-like experience. This will allow users to...

Samsung has revealed its new foldable smartphone technology at the 2018 Samsung Developer Conference in San Francisco. The Infinity Flex Display allows the smartphone to open and close like a book. The phone reportedly weighs 200-grams and sports an 7.3-inch ultra thin display. The display on...

On Tuesday, a federal judge ruled that Qualcomm must license some of its modem patents to its competitors, like Samsung and Intel. The judge said "court precedent established that Qualcomm’s commitments 'include an obligation to license to all comers, including competing modem chip suppliers.'...

Researchers from Radboud University in the Netherlands found severe security vulnerabilities in several popular, self-encrypting SSDs from Samsung and Crucial. These SSDs can encrypt and decrypt data coming in and out on the fly, which is seen as a "hardware encyption" option in Bitlocker on...

Five of the world's smartphone makers have been applying for patents related to fold-able smartphones. The reasoning behind this move is that many consumers don't see the need to upgrade to the newest model of smartphone nowadays, so manufacturers are afraid that sales will start to lag. Also...

NAND flash prices are expected to drop even further in 2019 after declining by 50% this year. This is due to the creation of more capacity expansion in the industry to meet demand. There are 6-7 leading manufacturers of NAND flash products and some may face increased pressure to remain...

Reuters reports that Italy's anti-trust watchdog accused Apple and Samsung of releasing software updates that degrade device performance. Both companies were slapped with a 5 million Euro fine, which works out to about $5.7 million USD, and Apple was fined an additional 5 million for "failing to...

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Samsung officially launched the successor to their Odyssey mixed reality headset today. The Odyssey+ features dual 1440x1600 OLED displays, headphones developed by AKG, Cortana integration, and 6DOF controllers, just like its predecessor. However, Samsung claims to have doubled the PPI of each...

Samsung announced their 7nm EUV process some time ago, and it looks like production came right on schedule. In a press release, Samsung announced that it finished development of its 7nm LPP EUV process, and is starting wafer production. The new process uses extreme ultraviolet radiation with a...

Samsung is adapting some of the tech from their smartphones for use in the auto industry. According to their press release, Samsung's Exynos automotive processors will retain the performance of their smartphone relatives, while meeting stricter environmental requirements. Samsung touts support...

Samsung is expected to post a record operating profit of $15.5 billion USD for Q3 2018. Smartphone and display earnings actually fell in Q3, but they were more than offset by Samsung's semiconductor business. Some of us are frustrated by sky high DDR4 retail prices, but it seems that Samsung is...

Up for sale is my HP Omen X 17 gaming laptop. I don't use it much and I'd really like a smaller laptop or Windows tablet so it's up for sale. It is under warranty from HP until Mid-January of next year, and an extended warranty can be purchased before the warranty expires. It comes with the...

For sale/trade: offers welcome! HEAT (6-0-0) I am local to Torrance, CA. PAYPAL, local cash/venmo accepted Things I am looking for (I can add $$ on my end): cheap, large capacity SSDs (>1.5TB per physical drive) caldigit tb3 plus dock who knows what else I may be interested in... drop me...

According to sources, Samsung has decided to slow memory chip output to create more market demand. This in turn will keep prices high or possibly even drive them up higher as the corporation seeks to maintain its bit growth projections of 20% for DRAM and 40% for Nand in 2018. If Samsung...

Bought for my HP Omen X laptop and decided to go another route. This was purchased from Newegg very recently and is brand new. Pics: Same drive drive as shown here: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147673&cm_re=samsung_860_evo_1tb-_-20-147-673-_-Product 1TB...

I picked up a Samsung S7 at launch. I replaced the screen and battery a few months back. Mother-in-law had a cheap phone died at the start of a trip. When she got back she orderd a Honor v10 and was so pissed, she bought an Huawei p20 pro before the v10 arrived. I can swap my S7 with her v10...

Samsung recently listed a 32GB, unregistered DDR4 2666 DIMM on their website. Up until now, desktop DDR4 sticks topped out at 16GB/DIMM. To go any higher, you had to use expensive, higher latency registered DIMMs on a server motherboard. This particular Samsung stick isn't available at retailers...

Following the SZ985 that was announced last year, Samsung unveiled a new high performance datacenter SSD aimed at the same market as Intel's Optane drives. Unlike Optane SSDs, which use Intel's unique 3D Xpoint memory, the 983 ZET uses Samsung's 3D NAND in an SLC configuration that Samsung calls...

Chipmakers are slowing the transition to sub-10nm process nodes as money woes start to affect the foundries. Companies such as Mediatek and Qualcomm are rolling out new 14 1/2nm products while waiting in the wings for 7nm technology to mature for 5G products. As reported earlier...

Samsung first introduced a water-based cooling system in the Galaxy S7, and just announced a much improved version that will ship in the Galaxy Note 9. The system features a porous, water filled cavity that carries heat away from the SOC using carbon fiber as a highly efficient TIM. In the...

GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) has placed an indefinite hold on the development of a 7nm FinFET program and is instead focusing on 14/12nm FinFET. GF is also reducing their workforce by 5%. This leaves only Intel, TSMC, and Samsung to develop the most cutting edge processes. "Lifting the burden of...

All items shipped free to continental US. $750 - NVIDIA Titan X (Pascal) 12GB GDDR5x GPU w/ EKWB Water Block and Backplate (Nickel, Clear Acrylic; needs cleaning inside the WB but runs flawlessly as is) $200 - GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980Ti 6GB G1 Gaming OC Edition $450 - Intel Optane 900P...

I know many of you love your phablets and are looking forward to the new more powerful Galaxy Note 9. I've got good news for you and it's the fact that many of the previous leaks of specs seem to be confirmed in the official launch video that just leaked out. You're going to have up to 1tb of...

Samsung has received Underwriters Laboratories certification for a bendable/unbreakable OLED smartphone panel. This panel was dropped from a height of 1.2 meters 26 times in succession and it didn't break or crack and continued working. They even tested the panel from a height of 1.8M and it...

Hello, Selling my Brand new Pixel 2 XL 128GB - Just Black - Verizon phone. Brand new from Google - as my old Pixel was stolen and I just moved into an S9+. I am using the powercord/charger. FYI - $949.00 at the Google store / Verizon. Bonus items, SSD, hhd, cpus, gpus, just ask! $550...

I got an S7 edge from a coworker to tinker with. He told me that it was stuck in a boot loop and couldn't get it to stop. He told me it was in his truck, ended up getting hot and the phone gave him a warning about shutting down apps etc to cool it down. He let it cool down, then that is when the...

SteamVR Beta now supports up to 16 base stations that allows users to cover multiple rooms. In this Twitter post by the China President of HTC Vive, Alvin Graylin, he shows an associate opening doors and entering multiple rooms while being fully tracked by the HTC Vive VR headset. He touts the...

Samsung has started the mass production of the 5th generation of V-NAND technology and is boasting of being the first to use the 'Toggle DDR 4.0' interface. The performance boost from the technology should allow Samsung’s new 256-gigabit (Gb) V-NAND to reach 1.4-gigabits per second (Gbps), a...

Hi Everyone, For Sale Samsung notebook 9 15 - i7 Laptop NP900X5l-K02US - $725 Shipped OBO (he is motivated, so make an offer) Looking to sell this laptop for a friend. It was barely used, he uses his phone for everything. It will come with OS installed and reset. Please see photo of...

If you have a late model Galaxy device, you may want to go ahead and delete "that" folder for a little while. Aroid Central is reporting that the default texting app is randomly sending pictures to random contacts without any permission. Even better, when it does send the unauthorized pic, it...

I was thinking I would like to try a bit of VR and see what games are like. If I enjoy it I will invest in a 2019/2020 VR headset. I'm planning to pick up one of the cheap Chinese headsets and popping in my Samsung S8. After some reading, it seems that I can use Samsung gear VR with an NVidea...

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The Korea Times is reporting that the Korean Government is trying to enhance measures to protect the intellectual property rights of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. The move comes after Chinese officials are putting increased pressure on the companies to cross-license more of their technology...

Certainly Apple's Tim Cook has been very outspoken and critical of all of Facebook's data sharing and selling woes here in the recent months, that is why this headline at the New York Times, Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends, is extremely interesting. Seems...

In a bit of unfortunate news, ZDNet is reporting that a court in the Netherlands has rules that Samsung does not have to keep updating its smartphones. In 2016 The Dutch Consumers' Association, or Consumentenbond, sued samsung stating that they were obligated to provide security updates to...