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Nearly 4-year-old Samsung Galaxy S6 gets January 2019 security update

Tushar Mehta February 14, 2019

Samsung is gearing up to launch the Galaxy S10 series later this month. But amidst this pre-launch bustle and rampage in form of leaks, the company has not forgotten its older devices. The four-year-old Samsung Galaxy S6 is still being updated and it sure feels like an exception among the usual crowd of Android devices. As...

Get the Samsung Galaxy S9/S8/Note 8 Edge Screen feature on any Android phone

Idrees Patel June 29, 2018

Samsung introduced curved edge displays to their phone lineup starting with the Galaxy Note Edge, a phone that was sold in limited quantities. The Edge display became mainstream with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge in 2015. With the Samsung Galaxy S8, Samsung Galaxy Note 8, and Samsung Galaxy S9, every Samsung flagship...

How a graphics driver bug on the Samsung Galaxy S6 leaked Google Chrome tab data

Max Weinbach June 1, 2018

Back in late March, a U.K. based start-up firm specializing in testing GPU reliability approached us with a GPU bug they discovered that causes the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ to reboot when visiting a web page. The firm, called GraphicsFuzz, worked with us to report the issue to Qualcomm and Samsung. Some of our readers were...

Official LineageOS 14.1 now available for the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge

Doug Lynch February 12, 2018

LineageOS is by far the most popular custom ROM; we prefer not to compare ROMs because each has their own merit, however, we can say for sure that much of the popularity of LineageOS stems from its stability rather than its feature-set. When a build of LineageOS is marked "official", then you'll know that the...