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SM-G9298 or W2018 flip phone surfaced in Samsung site

July 09, 2017

Samsung has been almost the only fan of the clamshell phones. They have a continuing line Galaxy folder, W series. Recently, there have been more news of sucessor to the G9098 and G9198, logically named the G9298 and rumoured to be W2018.(successor to W2017) The model has showed up on TENAA, as well as >the FCC and the Wi-Fi Alliance and now even the Official user manual is also now up on Samsung's Chinese website. The series has climbed up spec tables since starting from Folder, now quit...

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Galaxy Note 7 relaunched as Galaxy Note Fan Edition in Korea

July 02, 2017

Samsung has relaunched the Note 7 in Korea under the name Galaxy Note Fan Edition. The Fan editionl is made from parts of the original Note 7 which suffered from battery problems. It is essentially the same device with a smaller 3200mAh battery to solve the battery explosion problem in Note7 (3500mAh). This time, Samsung have applied the 8-point battery safety test started with the Galaxy S8 to ensure no future incidents happening. In addtion, the Fan Edition also comes with the same new softw...

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Samsung just announced the Rose Pink Galaxy S8+ for Taiwan to launch in July

June 26, 2017

Samsung just announced a Rose Pink Galaxy S8+ but it will only be available in Taiwan (for now).. Except for its colour, the Rose Pink is identical specs to the other colours. (4GB RAM in Taiwan). At the same time, they have renamed the current colours -Coral Blue has become Ice Lake Blue, Orchid Grey is now Smoked Purple Grey, and Maple Gold is Quicksand Gold.  It's unknown at this time if Samsung plans to release the Rose Pink color in other regions but typically they do get launched in d...

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Expect the Asus Zenfone 4 series launch in July

June 12, 2017

In January Asus was planning to launch its new Zenfone 4 series in May. However, the Taiwanese company is now pushing back the dates to the end of July because of “design overhaul and efficiency upgrades”. This information has been confirmed by Asustek CEO, Jerry Shen, Asus CEO. He said the Zenfone 4 smartphones would arrive in Q3 2017 with competitive prices, aiming to turn around the money-losing phone business of the company. Preliminary financial results show Asus is struggling with ope...

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Huawei Honor 9 officially launched dual cameras and powerful upgrade

June 12, 2017

Huawei gives a new addition to Honor brand with the Honor 9, a midrange phone with step up features like like a dual camera setup. You may have noticed that Huawei is fitting dual-camera technology across all its smartphone range phone levels, from the most premium Huawei P10 to the low-cost Honor 6X. This Honor 9 comes with 20-megapixel and 12-megapixel rear cameras set up, capable of 2x optical zoom, portrait and bokeh modes. On the front is an 8MP selfie camera. Overall, the Honor 9 is a...

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