By now, you’ve probably heard that Samsung has issued a global recall of the Galaxy Note 7 following a spate of fires in new and replacement devices. But this isn’t a story about the Note 7; it’s about a different Samsung phone, whose battery swelled up and broke the phone while charging in my home …
When a company releases a new high-profile phone alongside claims that it’s water-resistant, shatter-resistant or just about anything else-resistant, you can believe that bloggers are going to put those claims to the test. And as can only be expected, they’re going to put those claims to the test in the most savage ways imaginable. We’ve …
Samsung bills its new Galaxy S7 Active as the most rugged and durable phone the company has ever released, but you know that the internet isn’t just going to take Samsung’s word for it. No… launching a smartphone along with the claim that it’s rugged is an open invitation for anyone and everyone to put that claim to …
By this point, the recipe for Samsung to make the Galaxy S[x] Active is pretty simple: take this year’s flagship Galaxy Swhatever, add some physical buttons, a rubber exterior, some waterproofing, and then sell it to Jeep owners. With the Galaxy S7 Active, things are mostly the same. But Samsung’s added a 4,000mAh battery, which …
