To fend off iPhone Competition, Samsung to release phablet in August

Meanwhile, most BlackBerry Priv devices will also be allowed to update their smartphones to Android 6.0 M. The initial update started rolling out in April but were only made available for unlocked devices, Neurogadget noted.

During its first six months in the United States and Korea, Samsung Pay surpassed 5 million registered users; the company has processed more than $1 billion of transactions in South Korea alone.

Reports suggest that the company may have decided to do make this move in order to align the 2016 Note with the Galaxy S7 series.

Starting today, Samsung Pay will be available on compatible Samsung smartphones, including the Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 edge, Galaxy S6 edge+, Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge.

Things are heating up as far as rumors tied up to the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 which is expected to debut in August. The Singapore market wasn't ready then and we knew it would take at least a year to make progress to launch Samsung Pay in Singapore.

A long-rumored feature will finally become a reality on Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Note 7.

One is that it confirms that the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 will indeed come out with a curved display which could add the word "edge" to its official name. In addition, the website also reports that import and export data reveal 200 iris scanners being brought into New Delhi from South Korea.

A leaked photo of what may or may not be an invite to a Samsung Unpacking event seems to indicate that the Galaxy Note 7 launch is less than a couple of months away. However, it is not clear yet whether there will still be a separate LED notification for the front of the Note 7 considering that most smartphone users tend to place their phones screen-side up.

Compared to fingerprint scanning technology, which works by recognizing 40 traits of a fingerprint, the iris scanner recognizes 266 traits of an iris, meaning the latter offers greater accuracy and security. Like the Galaxy Tab E, the Galaxy On5 supports T-Mobile LTE bands 2, 4, and 12.

While Galaxy Note 7 has Snapdragon 823 inside, and running on 6GB of RAM, Samsung Galaxy S8 may come with the same 6GB of RAM.

Source: To fend off iPhone Competition, Samsung to release phablet in August