Fleksy, a creator of third-party keyboards for Android and iOS, has released an SMS messaging app for the Samsung Gear 2. Fleksy Messenger allows owners of the Tizen smartwatch to send text messages directly from the watch itself, complete with a miniaturized onscreen keyboard for entering text, without requiring the user to use their smartphone. […]
PayPal today made a new version of its mobile app available explicitly for the Samsung Galaxy S5. The app, first announced in February, lets GS5 owners make payments across the web by swiping their finger on the GS5’s fingerprint sensor. PayPal says the feature can be used with most online merchants and mobile apps that […]
Sprint announced its plans to sell the Samsung Galaxy S5. It is accepting pre-orders for the phone beginning today. Customers may choose between two different financing options. Customers can pay $199.99 (after rebate) with a new two-year contract, or pay $0 down followed by 24 monthly payments of $27.09 with Sprint’s Easy Pay option. The […]
U.S. Cellular today announced that its variant of the Samsung Galaxy S5 will be available for preorder beginning today (March 21). The device will reach stores April 11. It will cost $199.99 with a two-year contract. U.S. Cellular is offering $50 in Google Play Store credit to those who preorder the phone. The Gear 2 […]
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AT&T has announced when the Galaxy S5 will go on sale and how much it will cost. Preorders for the device begin Friday, March 21. The GS5 will cost $199.99 with a new contract or $25 per month with an AT&T Next plan. The full retail price for the phone will be $649.99. AT&T says […]
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Samsung today made a software developer kit for its new Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches available to app writers. Developers will be able to use the SDK to create their own apps for the two smart wearables. The Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo don’t run Android, and instead run Samsung’s own Tizen […]
Samsung today made new SDKs available to app writers seeking to target the Galaxy S5 smartphone and Gear 2 and Gear Fit smartwatches. The software developer kits, which are free to download starting today, provide developers with the tools they need to create apps for the devices. The Samsung Mobile SDK 1.5 adds APIs that […]
Samsung today announced the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo, two new smartwatches that run Samsung’s Tizen operating system rather than Android. Where the original Gear device relied on Android 4.2.2 and used select Android-based apps, both the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo adopt Samsung’s home-grown, Linux-based platform. Samsung says that despite the OS […]