Monday
Jul202015

Samsung rolls out their thinnest tablets with the Galaxy Tab S2 line

Samsung's still pursuing the tablet market and has revealed its thinnest line of devices with the Galaxy Tab S2 line of 8 inch and 9.7 inch tablets. Featuring an octo-core processor, made up of four 1.9GHz cores plus four 1.3GHz cores, 3GB RAM and 32 or 64GB of internal memory.

Available in white or black and coming in August, the tablets are super thin at a wispy 5.6mm thick. Also on board is an 8-megapixel rear camera and 2.1-megapixel front camera and the 2048 x 1536 pixel super AMOLED display. 4G-LTE and WiFi only variants are expected and pricing hasn't yet been finalized for Canada.

Source: Samsung

Monday
Jul202015

First Windows 10 advertisement says the future starts now

Microsoft's first advertisement for Windows 10 is a bit unorthodox since it doesn't really show the new OS or what it will offer once it ships on July 29. Instead, we get a narrative of just how transcendent the new technology could be for future users. 

Monday
Jul202015

PayPal begins trading on NASDAQ as split with eBay becomes official

 

PayPal has parted ways with parent company eBay and is now trading on NASDAQ (Nasdaq : PYPL). The online payments pioneer, which is now expanding to micro-payments, peer-to-peer payments as well as mobile solutions and is out to expand.

In 2014, PayPal processed $235 billion in total payment volume and generated more than $8 billion in revenues. Also last year, PayPal processed $46 billion in mobile payment volume.  The company serves more than 169 million active customer accounts in 203 markets around the world.

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Monday
Jul202015

Supersized Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus spotted

Samsung's Galaxy S6 Edge is one of the most beautiful and powerful smartphones in the market today. In terms of build, quality and materials, it is Samsung's most impressive handset yet and one that feels worth the money. It is no surprise that Samsung has decided to take the idea and run with it even further with a larger 5.7-inch variant of this impressive device. That is, if leaked images of a S6 Edge Plus dummy unit are to be believed.

Just as large as the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, the dummy Galaxy S6 Edge Plus seems to have all the goods of the smaller model including a larger curved display. It seems Samsung wants to give phablet owners options and with the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 expected around the corner, it may boil down to whether you want a SPen or an dual Edge Display.

Source: AllAboutSamsung