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Certainly Apple's Tim Cook has been very outspoken and critical of all of Facebook's data sharing and selling woes here in the recent months, that is why this headline at the New York Times, Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends, is extremely interesting. Seems...

In a bit of unfortunate news, ZDNet is reporting that a court in the Netherlands has rules that Samsung does not have to keep updating its smartphones. In 2016 The Dutch Consumers' Association, or Consumentenbond, sued samsung stating that they were obligated to provide security updates to...

Samsung is rolling the dice this weekend in the UK to see how many people is can truly piss off in the shortest amount of time in an attempt to advertise its new Ambient Mode. The point of Ambient Mode is to have your TV blend into its surroundings, instead of just leaving a big dark rectangle...

SOLD. Thank you, [H].

Ok, this thing has been going on long enough and there might finally be an end in sight. A jury has looked at the damages once again and now says that Samsung owes Apple $539M for infringing on their iPhone patents. The original damages were for $1B and of course Samsung was having none of that...

PCPer is reporting that Samsung has released a firmware update 1103 for 2018 QLED TVs, bringing them FreeSync support. FreeSync support has been enabled on the Q6FN, Q7FN, Q8FN, Q9FN, and NU8000 sets. PCPer notes that the 55" Samsung Q7F TV can be had right now for around $1700, which is $300...

The good folks over at PC Perspective have just put out a nice review of the new Samsung C49HG90 49 inch FreeSync 2 monitor and they are asking whether or not it's just too wide. The monitor sports a 32:9 aspect ratio instead of the more widely used 21:9 ratio of other UW monitors. It's curved...

When you see things come straight out of the Samsung Newsroom, you have to wonder how much of it is PR, marketing, and just fluff. And today Samsung is proclaiming "the Galaxy S9 and S9+ are the Fastest Phones Ever." I will tell you that I am not much of a phone nerd, but lot's of folks are...

The Korea TImes is reporting that Samsung and Microsoft are expanding their alliance for mixed reality. The article states that Samsung is working on developing cordless, and high priced headsets that support AR and VR, while Microsoft is lowering its royalties to help entice users. Samsung has...

If you are looking for a bit of new storage for our box, Amazon has a smoking deal on the Samsung 860 EVO 1TB drive that brings it in at 29 cents a GB. While that is a great deal for a great drive, Samsung is throwing in a free copy of Far Cry 5 for the next couple of days as well. You can...

Samsung has announced today the 970 PRO and EVO solid state drives. The new M.2 drives are using the latest V-NAND technology and an all new Phoenix controller to give speeds of up to 3,500 MB/s read and 2,700 MB/s write, which is nearly 30% faster sequential writes than the 960 series, as well...

ABC News is reporting that Samsung Electronics is estimating a 56% jump in profit despite sales for oled screens for iPhones being lower. As if you couldn't guess where all the extra profit is from, analysts are claiming the jump is from "strong demand" for memory chips. Sales rose 19%, Samsung...

Hello, Just got new Intel NUC's and they all require DDR4. Looking to pickup 8GB or 16GB SODIMM's. Looking to pickup at least 64GB if not more! PM with anything you are looking to sell! Thanks!

Hello all, Just took apart 2 more of my desktops; switching to all NUC's with thunderbolt. Below are the desktops as well as a BONUS for buy them as a bundle. BONUS: Samsung 10inch tablets! (I've got a few extra) *as always I include a gift so just ask; CPU/RAM/SD card, etc.. SOLD Beaflag...

Long time HardOCP reader, Eric Crowley of Stockton, California, had a dangerous moment with his Samsung Note 8 this morning. His daughter has been making good grades at school so she was awarded with a new pair of earrings. Eric was taking a couple of pictures with his Samsung Note 8 so he...

A power outage at a Samsung fab near Pyeongtaek, South Korea is being reported by AnandTech. The half hour power outage reportedly damaged 50,000 to 60,000 wafers of V-NAND memory, which represent 11% of Samsung's monthly output, and 3.5% of the global NAND output. Ugh, if the enthusiast PC...

SOLD Purchased for a laptop I wasn’t able to buy, these are new and unopened. They sell for $120 currently on Newegg and my price is $110 shipped. Same one found here: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA7HN5HW5145 250GB NVMe M.2 SSDs - $110, shipped via USPS. PayPal only...

Hello, I have 2x Intel Nuc i5 (BOXD54250WYKH) for sale (one is fresh back from Intel RMA and never used). I just upgraded to i7 Nucs for my HPTC and home file server with TB3 attached storage, so these are for sale. I RMA'd one as the fan was stuck on and Intel replaced it with a brand new...

While the Windows phone may be dead, Microsoft is selling the Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ on it's website, and it doesn't come with Windows Mobile. The phone is being sold unlocked, and with the "Microsoft Launcher," as well as Skype, Cortana, Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Word. In a statement...

While I hate to be the bearer of bad news, Slashgear is reporting that the Samsung Bixby speaker will be delayed until late this year. Samsung will be wanting to enter the competitive wiretap smart speaker market, however DJ Koh, president of Samsung's mobile division told the Wall Street...

Samsung is set to unveil the new Galaxy S9 and S9+ next week at Mobile World Congress 2018. Attendees of the show, and those wishing to view the event's livestream were encouraged to download an app called Unpacked 2018. Hidden away in the app is an Augmented Reality feature that allows people...

Hello, Just parting out my main Desktop and Intel NUC (more parts to come soon), currently just the RAM. I ran this in quad channel via my Xeon and it was rock solid! $200 shipped *As always I include a free gift (CPU, SD card, SSD, HHD, just ask!!!) 32GB DDR3 1600 1.35V 2x16GB Crucial...

Samsung goes the extra mile and shows us a video that showcases its new 3D Cinema LED! You guessed it, it shows us nothing, but surely after looking at its promo video that showcases, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (trailer awesomeness), it makes me want to see the movie again. In...

A new pull from a Dell computer, this SSD hasn't even booted Windows 10 yet. SOLD to SEAL62505 Purchased this Apple TV 4K a few months ago and I don't really use it. I'd really like to trade it for/towards an UHD Blu-Ray player such as the Sony UBP-X800. If you happen to have one and would...

For sale a have an excellent set of Audio Technica ATH-A700 Art headphones. Asking $ 80 shipped. s I also have a lightly used Samsung Galaxy Tab A 7 8GB Tablet With black Orginal Samsung book cover case. I will also include the original charger and cable. Asking $90 shipped...

We all already know that Samsung is officially announcing its Galaxy S9 phone at Unpacked next month. And we have already seen the specs on the side of the S9 packaging. But in the corporate world it is extremely unusual for a company to officially comment on a yet-to-be-released product...

This is the best thing I have heard all year when it comes to mining! Samsung is now in the mix with TSMC and GloFlo when it comes to making mining ASICs. I hope we see more specialized chip production for mining-specific applications to ease some of the burden on the dwindling GPU supply that...

Hello, Just cleaning up and have the remaining 17x 275GB MX300 SSD that I have been sitting on. I sold the last big batches in previous posts (https://hardforum.com/threads/fs-ssd-godmode-275gb-x-84-ssd-23tb.1942827/) GODMODE!!! Anyway, I've got 17x left and looking to sell them all together...

Hello all, I'm selling: My Surface Pro 4: Intel i5 - 6300U Skylake 8GB RAM 256GB Storage Surface Arc Mouse 91 Charge cycles on battery (I believe it is rated for 1000 cycles but not sure) Accessories: Surface Keyboard (Gray), Surface Pen, 3x Power Adapters, 2x Ethernet Adapters, miniDP to VGA...

Samsung has officially announced its "Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2018" event. It will be held on 2/25/2018 at 11am CST. You can check the animation on its Newsroom site and see the big "9" animation that it is touting, "The Camera. Reimagined." If you can't make it to Barcelona for the shindig...

10nm GDDR6 is now in production by Samsung. These ICs will be 16Gb density which is twice what we saw with 20nm GDDR5. Per-pin data increases to 18Gbps which doubles the 8Gbps rate we see with GDDR5. Wow! This represents a huge increase and depending on where GDDR6 falls out on pricing...

While I am a bit unsure of the "Aquabolt" name, there is no doubt that HBM is finding its place in the industry, and now HBM2 is in production by Samsung. HBM2 will deliver 2.4Gbps per pin at 1.2v, compared to the original HBM's transfer rate of 1.6Gbps at 1.2v. The improvement equates to a...

So I took advantage of the Black Friday sales last year and picked up a 50" Samsung UN50MU6070 from Best Buy. This is basically the same unit as a 6300 but they deleted Bluetooth, one HDMI port (so it has two instead of 3), and it doesn't come with a smart remote. It was a 'sidegrade' from the...

Samsung's foundry business isn't growing as fast as they would like and according to TrendForce it's well below the market average of 7.1% growth. Lack of growth could be because their memory based process isn't ideal for foundry business. Regardless, if Samsung wants to catch up with the...

For all of you out there that take a lot of pictures with your phone and wish you could take pictures like a DSLR the new Galaxy S9 may be a step in the right direction. According to Neowin, who translated a report by VTECH, the new S9 will not only have an f/1.5 aperture, but that aperture is...

Samsung recently applied for a patent that uses a camera to look at the lines in your palm and then provides clues to you for your password to one of your apps/phone. It looks pretty cool, but unless they put some kind of depth sensing or something that can detect a photo I'm not sure it's...

Does anyone know how the PWM flicker is on this model? I see that this model is on sale at Office Depot right now. Looking for a productivity monitor.

Samsung is going to compete with Intel in the Z-Nand market and attempt to take some of the Optane business away from them. This Register article compares the Samsung SZ985 to the Optane P4800X and the results are surprising. Samsung may have a winner here and the rest of us might get...

I'm going through a mixed time in my life at the moment (great professionally, not so great personally / breakup with my girl), so I figure I'll distract myself with some new shiny tech bits. I was originally going to buy a new TV for my living room but YouTube video heads have said to wait...

Hello, I have a brand new Pixel XL 128GB Verizon (unlocked) Quite Black phone. I bought 2x of them awhile ago and used one as my daily phone till I moved to a S8+. I have moved now to a Pixel 2 XL and pretty much forgot that I had an extra Pixel laying around, brand new. Works on Verizon...