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Samsung Has Finally Launched Bixby Voice in the US for the Galaxy S8/S8+
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Samsung Has Finally Launched Bixby Voice in the US for the Galaxy S8/S8+

July 19, 2017
When Samsung first introduced the Galaxy S8/S8+, one of the features the company spent the most time talking about was Bixby - the brand-new virtual assistant that could remind you of upcoming events, recommend restaurants for you to check out, help you learn more about a product or place by holding your camera up to...
Samsung Might Release Bixby Voice Features in the US next Tuesday
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Samsung Might Release Bixby Voice Features in the US next Tuesday

July 15, 2017
Samsung's Galaxy S8/S8+ is a fine phone, and some may go as far to call it an amazing phone. Although Samsung's software is still a bit of a mess (and that might be an understatement), the device's hardware puts most devices to shame. As great as the S8 is as a whole, one feature that's off...
June Security Update Blocks Remapping Apps on T-Mobile Galaxy S8/S8+
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June Security Update Blocks Remapping Apps on T-Mobile Galaxy S8/S8+

July 10, 2017
First introduced with the Galaxy S8/S8+, Bixby is Samsung's take on virtual assistants, competing directly against the likes of Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. While we can't say for sure how much of a difference Bixby will make to the overall user experience of the Galaxy S8/S8+ (so far, not much), it appears that Samsung...
Update to TouchWiz Home Addresses Lag on Galaxy S8/S8+
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Update to TouchWiz Home Addresses Lag on Galaxy S8/S8+

June 28, 2017
We're just about halfway through 2017, and the Samsung Galaxy S8 still remains as one of the most attractive smartphones that money can buy. The S8's Infinity Display truly is something to behold, but while Samsung may have knocked it out of the park with the S8's screen, the company's latest flagship still suffers from...
How Bixby’s Incompleteness Pushes its Voice Assistant into Functional Redundancy
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How Bixby’s Incompleteness Pushes its Voice Assistant into Functional Redundancy

June 23, 2017
Around 3 months ago, Samsung took the stage at Unpacked 2017 to announce their new Galaxy S8 phones. During their keynote, the company spent around 10 minutes hyping up Bixby, their contribution to the newly-crowded virtual assistant space. Bixby was billed as “a new way to interact with your phone.” Essentially, Bixby aims to be...
Substratum Beta for Unrooted Samsung Experience/TouchWiz ROMs Now Available
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Substratum Beta for Unrooted Samsung Experience/TouchWiz ROMs Now Available

June 12, 2017
XDA users are quite fond of substratum, a theme engine that has assumed the mantle of previous projects and is quickly becoming not only a standard among tinkerers, but also an all-time favorite. This theme engine has been made available on all sorts of devices, with a Play Store application and a rootless release for OMS-based...
How to Automatically Toggle Samsung Adaptive Fast Charging while at Home
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How to Automatically Toggle Samsung Adaptive Fast Charging while at Home

June 9, 2017
While we haven’t seen a breakthrough in battery technology, many companies have instead opted to focus on innovations in charging technology. Qualcomm offers their Quick Charge technology, Huawei offers what they call SuperCharge, Motorola has their TurboPower, Oppo offers its VOOC, and Samsung has Adaptive Fast Charging. (Our personal favorite charging technology is OnePlus’s DashCharge,...
Automatically Toggle Samsung’s Always On Display When Charging [App]
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Automatically Toggle Samsung’s Always On Display When Charging [App]

June 7, 2017
Samsung gets a lot of flak for its performance optimization with regards to its software (though how much of that criticism is legitimate and/or accurate is a debate for another time), but it’s hard to deny just how much added value their software brings. I could go on and on about all of the features...
Pro-Tip: Move Gear VR Apps to the SD Card to Save Space on the Samsung Galaxy S7/S8
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Pro-Tip: Move Gear VR Apps to the SD Card to Save Space on the Samsung Galaxy S7/S8

June 3, 2017
Debloating your Samsung Galaxy smartphone is one of the most recommended first steps users on our forums take when setting up their new phone. Disabling pre-installed apps is usually done for performance reasons, though, as you aren't likely to save much space at all by removing most Samsung apps. But there is one major way...
Galaxy S8: How the Developer Community Radically Improved My Experience (Without Root)
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Galaxy S8: How the Developer Community Radically Improved My Experience (Without Root)

June 1, 2017
Sometimes it needs a little help to make it truly yours... again Last week I wrote about why I felt the Galaxy S8’s software was a major letdown in comparison to its hardware, but despite its faults it is still my go-to phone, for the moment. So how do I deal with software I admittedly hate, and...
Report: Samsung Galaxy S8’s Bixby Voice Won’t be Available Until Late June
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Report: Samsung Galaxy S8’s Bixby Voice Won’t be Available Until Late June

June 1, 2017
Samsung's Galaxy S8 and S8+ are undoubtedly two of the hottest smartphones of 2017 with their gorgeous edge-to-edge display and top-of-the-line hardware without significantly widening the phone. One of the most talked about features of the Galaxy S8 during Samsung's Unpacked event was its new virtual assistant called Bixby. Bixby is Samsung's take on the virtual assistant,...
While Android Leaps Forward, Samsung’s Software Still has Trouble Catching Up to its Hardware
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While Android Leaps Forward, Samsung’s Software Still has Trouble Catching Up to its Hardware

May 27, 2017
I don’t tend to keep it a secret that I am a fan of Samsung phones. I wrote about how I felt the Note7 was a "Remarkable Phone for Life", meaning that it was suited for everything life throws at it, and I could probably rewrite that article substituting every Note7 reference for the Galaxy...