Samsung reporting record
Across five years, 607 leaks about unreleased Samsung devices trace to a named source. No one owns this beat: the largest single source holds 66 of them.
Who reported Samsung news, and how the record was checked. Read every report, newest first
376 of 411 checked details were right or partly right
Not part of that number
Finding 01
79 named sources account for 607 of the 815 leaks here, and the largest single source, Evan Blass, holds 66 of them with WinFuture on 54. The Apple beat is the opposite shape, with one name holding about a third of that index. A Samsung rumor carrying one name behind it is a weaker signal than the same shape of rumor about Apple, and that is a property of the beat rather than of any reporter on it.
Finding 02
A source with one correct leak has no track record yet, so the chart plots repeat sources and the table below still lists every name. The spread is the finding: this is a field of many occasional reporters rather than a few dominant ones.
Finding 03
Samsung announces on a predictable cycle, so a large share of these predictions can be checked against the company's own announcements rather than left open. The 367 still unchecked are not counted as right or wrong anywhere on this page — still open and wrong are different things, and the outcome column says which.
Every figure here is computed from the edition being rendered. A sentence above the table that disagrees with the table is a bug, not a rounding choice.
A few examples of how pre-launch reporting compared with what the company later announced.
Galaxy Glasses
Case gives 7 full recharges
Right
Galaxy Glasses
Gemini via voice + temple touch controls
Partly right
Samsung Galaxy Glasses
The glasses would run for up to nine hours, with the case giving up to seven full recharges.
Right
Samsung Galaxy Glasses
Samsung's Intelligent Eyewear would have no integrated displays.
Right
Every leak, with its date, the source it traces to and the article the attribution was found in.
Chart and table show the live index, 815 leaks.
Bar length is the number of leaks. Every named source is shown. Select any bar to read the leaks behind it.
| Source | Type | Leaks | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evan Blass | Leaker or analyst | 66 | 11% |
| WinFuture | Publication | 54 | 9% |
| Roland Quandt | Named reporter | 39 | 6% |
| Android Headlines | Publication | 37 | 6% |
| Ice Universe | Leaker or analyst | 36 | 6% |
| Windows Report | Publication | 29 | 5% |
| ETNews | Publication | 24 | 4% |
| GalaxyClub | Publication | 24 | 4% |
| Dealabs | Publication | 21 | 3% |
| SammyGuru | Publication | 18 | 3% |
| Michel Groenheijde | Named reporter | 17 | 3% |
| AssembleDebug | Leaker or analyst | 13 | 2% |
| SamMobile | Publication | 13 | 2% |
| OnLeaks | Leaker or analyst | 11 | 2% |
| Asif Iqbal Shaik | Named reporter | 10 | 2% |
| Abhinav Anand | Named reporter | 10 | 2% |
| The Elec | Publication | 9 | 1% |
| Jessica Tsai | Named reporter | 8 | 1% |
| Smartprix | Publication | 8 | 1% |
| Alexander Maxham | Named reporter | 7 | 1% |
| Mihai Matei | Named reporter | 6 | 1% |
| SnoopyTech | Leaker or analyst | 6 | 1% |
| Android Authority | Publication | 6 | 1% |
| Yogesh Brar | Named reporter | 5 | 1% |
| Lanzuk (yeux1122) | Leaker or analyst | 5 | 1% |
| Kang Hae-ryung | Named reporter | 5 | 1% |
| Lee Ki-jong | Named reporter | 5 | 1% |
| Bae Ok-jin, Jeong Hyeon-jeong and Kim Young-ho | Named reporter | 5 | 1% |
| Binay Konwar | Named reporter | 5 | 1% |
| Stephen Schenck and AssembleDebug | Named reporter | 5 | 1% |
| Ahmed Qwaider | Leaker or analyst | 5 | 1% |
| @phonefuturist | Leaker or analyst | 5 | 1% |
| kro | Leaker or analyst | 5 | 1% |
| WalleGalaxy | Leaker or analyst | 5 | 1% |
| Park Jun-ho | Named reporter | 4 | 1% |
| Bae Ok-jin | Named reporter | 4 | 1% |
| Anthony (@TheGalox_) | Leaker or analyst | 4 | 1% |
| Digital Chat Station | Leaker or analyst | 4 | 1% |
| Cho Hyun-young | Named reporter | 3 | 0% |
| Seo Young-wook | Named reporter | 3 | 0% |
| Namgung Kyung | Named reporter | 3 | 0% |
| Josh Skinner | Named reporter | 3 | 0% |
| Seo Jong-gap | Named reporter | 3 | 0% |
| Tarun Vats | Leaker or analyst | 3 | 0% |
| Ben Schoon | Named reporter | 3 | 0% |
| Money Today | Publication | 3 | 0% |
| Seoul Economic Daily | Publication | 2 | 0% |
| Ross Young | Leaker or analyst | 2 | 0% |
| Paras Guglani | Named reporter | 2 | 0% |
| evowizz | Leaker or analyst | 2 | 0% |
| Digital Trends | Publication | 2 | 0% |
| The Cipher Project | Publication | 2 | 0% |
| 9to5Google | Publication | 2 | 0% |
| Kim Baram | Named reporter | 1 | 0% |
| UnironicallyMe37 | incidental | 1 | 0% |
| Ming-Chi Kuo | Leaker or analyst | 1 | 0% |
| Jeong-Soo Hwang | Named reporter | 1 | 0% |
| Aamir Siddiqui | Named reporter | 1 | 0% |
| PandaFlashPro | Leaker or analyst | 1 | 0% |
| Heo Jin | Named reporter | 1 | 0% |
| Chae Yoon-jung | Named reporter | 1 | 0% |
| Lee Deok-joo | Named reporter | 1 | 0% |
| Erencan Yılmaz | Named reporter | 1 | 0% |
| @thatjoshguy69 | Leaker or analyst | 1 | 0% |
| @Mohammed_K_2010 | Named reporter | 1 | 0% |
| Digital Citizen | Publication | 1 | 0% |
| Kim Yoon-soo | Named reporter | 1 | 0% |
| T3 | Publication | 1 | 0% |
| fireuniverse (@fireuniverse8) | Leaker or analyst | 1 | 0% |
| Fahad Ali Javed | Leaker or analyst | 1 | 0% |
| Anvin | Named reporter | 1 | 0% |
| SemiAnalysis | Leaker or analyst | 1 | 0% |
| Abhishek Yadav | Leaker or analyst | 1 | 0% |
| The Bell | Publication | 1 | 0% |
| Ivan Jovin | Named reporter | 1 | 0% |
| Droid Life | Publication | 1 | 0% |
| The Korea Herald | Publication | 1 | 0% |
| yeux1122 | Leaker or analyst | 1 | 0% |
| Chosun Biz | Publication | 1 | 0% |
This is not a ranking. Open a profile to see what we researched and, where enough outcomes exist, how it held up.
Every leak counted here revealed something Samsung had not announced about a product: a device, feature, design, timing or project status. Evan Blass broke 66 of the 815, and WinFuture 54. No Samsung reporter comes close to the concentration Apple's beat has, where one name holds about a third of everything.
A field with no centre. 79 named sources produced 607 leaks, and 26 of them appear exactly once. Samsung wearables reporting is spread across Korean business press, Dutch and German enthusiast sites, Indian tipsters and English-language Android outlets, with no single figure the others follow.
Why that matters for reading any one leak. On a beat with a dominant reporter, a claim from that person carries the weight of their record. Here almost nobody has a long enough record for that to work, so the corroboration matters more than the byline.
What one leak means. One leak is one substantive revelation about one product by one source. Not one fact: a report giving a watch a new chip, a new size and a new price is one leak, not three. These 815 leaks contain 815 separate checkable claims.
The same rule for every format. A source earns one leak for each product about which it reveals something genuinely new, whether that arrives as a newsletter, a database discovery, a social post or an obtained document. A later article counts only where it adds a new revelation.
How to read this: We count only details we can meaningfully compare with what Samsung later announced or shipped. Still-open items stay separate. Reporter history is context, not the probability that the next report is true.
What “traced” means here. For each leak we confirmed who the article carrying it credited with originating it. That is a check on attribution.
And here, separately, on accuracy. 448 of these 815 leaks have been checked against what Samsung actually announced: 357 right, 35 wrong, and 19 partly right — a report that got most of a spec sheet correct and one field wrong. 37 made claims the announcement did not answer either way. 82 are still open, because Samsung has not announced them. The remaining 271 have not been graded yet.
Every source enumerated the same way. Each named source's predictions were listed from their own published output across the full five years, then settled against Samsung's announcements. Listing predictions first and outcomes second is what stops a track record becoming an artifact of which outcomes somebody went looking for.
What counts. A substantive revelation about a Samsung wearable Samsung had not announced: Galaxy Watch, Galaxy Buds, Galaxy Ring, Galaxy Glasses and Galaxy XR. Regulatory and certification discoveries count, because finding a product in a filing is reporting.
What does not. Samsung's own announcements and press material, reviews, hands-on pieces, deals and roundups restating what was already known. Hardware worn in public by partners ahead of launch is marketing, not a leak.
Apple · Samsung · Google · the wider Android market to follow
Leaks since August 2021, the most recent from October 2026. Outcomes checked against Samsung's own announcements. The index updates continuously as leaks are added, corrected and graded.
