Samsung Kies

The app to sync your Samsung smartphone with your PC

Samsung is one of the main manufacturers of Android mobile devices in the world. Its tablets and smartphones are used by millions of people all over the planet and, despite some unexpected explosions, they're considered as the highest quality and top-performing phones. If you're the lucky owner of any of them, whether the most powerful Galaxy S8, an S5 or any other humbler version, you should be interested in the possibility to download Samsung Kies for PC. It's the tool with which you'll be able to connect your PC to your mobile phone (although there's also a version for Mac) to synchronize and manage all the contents from the desktop.

An iTunes for Samsung

If you were wondering why you should download Samsung Kies for PC, this could be the answer. It's a PC Sync that the South Korean company offers its users for free and that offers us an interface to make it easier for us to control the files we handle on our mobile devices. Through two different connection methods, USB cable or a WiFi network, Windows can become the perfect manager for your phone's contents. And we're not talking about any old manager as not only can we use it to manage multimedia files, contacts, and other contents, but it also allows us to update the device's firmware to the latest version.

The Samsung smartphone and tablet manager to control all their contents from our PC.

Among the main features and functions of this application to manage Samsung smartphones and tablets, we have to point out:

• Add and edit contacts.
• Manage multimedia files: photos and images, music, or videos.
• Firmware updates.
• Connect via cable or a WiFi network.
• Function to create song playlists.
• Edit and enhance photos.
• Synchronize contacts with Outlook, Google, and Yahoo accounts.
• Download and install applications from Samsung's store, SamsungApps.
• Tools to make backups.
• Function to save messages.

What are the requirements to install Kies and sync a Samsung device?

On the one hand, and referring to those relative to the operating system, almost any user can install the program as it runs from Windows XP to Windows 10, including Vista, 7, and 8.1. Apart from that, it requires an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 1 GB of RAM to make it work.

At the same time, in terms of the tablet or phone, it can be used on any basic device or smartphone or tablet earlier than the Galaxy Note III, such as the Galaxy S4 or the Note II.

Requirements and additional information:

• Requires: .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 or above, Windows Media Player 10 or above, ActiveSync (Windows XP), Device Center (Windows Vista/7) and DirectX 9.0C.
• This program updates once installed, for which purpose it requires an Internet connection.