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Best Buy offers free flip cover case with AT&T’s Samsung Galaxy Note

Best Buy has started taking pre-orders for AT&T’s Samsung Galaxy Note and is even offering a free flip cover case (value of $29.99) with the phone activation. The tablet/smartphone itself is selling for $299.99 with a new two-year AT&T contract that requires a minimum data service starting at $15/month. It will be available on Sunday, February 19th. But that’s not all. The electronics retailer is also providing free shipping along with a free $50 gift card with any activation (as we discussed before). As a reminder, the Galaxy Note rocks Read more

Samsung moves 700,000 Galaxy Notes in South Korea

Who knew that a phone as big as (or that’s a tablet as small as) the Galaxy Note will sell well. I wouldn’t. I tried it but I found it too bulky. Maybe I don’t have such deep pockets or my head is too small. Whatever – I don’t want it and I ain’t gonna buy it. However, some people don’t mind its size. As a matter of fact, Samsung has managed to move some 700,000 Galaxy Note units in its own backyard. However, it’s important to add they only Read more

Samsung officially introduces the AT&T Galaxy Note in Super Bowl ad

Just as promised, Samsung has released its 90 second Galaxy Note ad during the Super Bowl. Following in the lines of its previous ads for the Galaxy S II (with a bit of a twist), this Galaxy Note ad pokes fun at iPhone users waiting in the long lines Apple loves to see outside its stores and shows them what “freedom” feels like. We think. We already got a chance to play with the Galaxy Note at CES this past January and while the idea of a 5.3 inch phone Read more

Apple expands its Australian lawsuit against Samsung

Apple turned up the heat on Samsung in Australia when it expanded its patent and trademark lawsuit to include 278 new infringement claims covering 22 patents and ten devices (some unreleased). This is a significant increase from the original lawsuit which targeted only the Galaxy Tab 10.1  and included with a handful of patent infringement claims. If the court grants Apple an injunction based on these new claims, it  potentially could prevent Samsung from selling any Android device in the land down under. Samsung and Apple are embroiled in a Read more

Kelly Hodgkins

Samsung Champ Deluxe Duos heading to India

The regular Samsung Champ Duos isn’t good enough for every citizen of India? For folks who want something more, the Korean company announced Deluxe version of the device, simply called Samsung Champ Deluxe Duos. The somewhat fancier lookin’ device keeps two SIM card slots to allow folks to use two networks at the same time, while the rest of the specs are unchanged (or so we think). In that sense, this little fella comes with a 2.8-inch QVGA screen, 1.3-megapixel camera, FM radio, microSD card slot, and such pre-installed apps Read more

UK: Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S Advance available for pre-ordering; Three, T-Mobile and O2 to offer it, too

The newly announced Galaxy S Advance is heading to the UK, with phone retailer MobileFun and Clove already taking pre-orders for the unlocked device. Those of you who want the mid-to-high end smartphone will have to pour out some 350 GBP (around $550) to be amongst the first ones to get it. We’re hearing the first units will be shipped at some point later this month, with Clove listing February 27th as the first shipping date. If you, however, want to get the Galaxy S Advance along with a carrier Read more

Samsung Galaxy Y Duos and Galaxy Y Pro Duos start selling in Europe

Samsung has started selling two of its dual-SIM Android smartphones, Galaxy Y Duos and Galaxy Y Pro Duos, in parts of Europe. At the moment I’m writing this, the second device is available in Greece for 139 EUR (about $181) from the operator Wind. Moreover, both phones are selling in Russia, with Galaxy Y Duos going for 7,990 RUB (some $263) and Galaxy Y Pro Duos for 9,990 RUB (about $330), which is much more than what Greeks will be paying. Dual SIM devices are known for their limited distribution Read more

Candian wireless carrier Mobilicity starts selling the Galaxy Nexus

We have some great news for you folks on Canada’s Mobilicity, as the wireless provider is making the wildly popular Galaxy Nexus available to customers as of today. Users will not only be able to get their hands on the device for the price of $599.99 (no-contract), but also a “bonus,” as Mobilicity will throw-in a free Samsung HM1100 Bluetooth headset (valued at $39.99). Not bad. It’s said that the company pushed its release date up a few days earlier (from Feb. 6) to counter rival carrier WIND Mobile, who announced it would Read more

Samsung and Corning plan on getting together for future ultra strong OLED screens

Samsung is the undisputed leader when it comes to building displays using OLED technology. Sure, we sometimes hate the tricks that they sometimes pull (PenTile!) in order to make their screens cheap enough to manufacture in volume, but for the most part they’re doing a fantastic job at pushing the state of the art forward. Corning is also an equally admirable company. They invented the glass that most of us fondle on a daily basis and take for granted when we accidentally put our mobile device in the same pocket Read more

Stefan Constantinescu

Photo: Say hello to the Samsung Galaxy S II Plus, it looks awfully familiar

Earlier today, less than six hours ago in fact, we filed a report saying that Samsung was going to announce a device at Mobile World Congress later this month called the Galaxy S II Plus. Now, thanks a tweet from Eldar Murtazin, Editor in Chief of Mobile-Review, we now know what that device looks like. As you can see from the image below it’s pretty much the Galaxy S II we all know and love, except that Ice Cream Sandwich’s onscreen buttons are no longer on the screen, they’re instead Read more

Stefan Constantinescu

Samsung Galaxy S II Plus in works?

File this under “rumors,” but if we don’t see the new Galaxy S III unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (and we won’t), we may get a slightly improved version of the existing Galaxy S II. Apparently, a certain Galaxy S 2+ showed up in An3DBenchXL’s benchmark database, with WVGA display and a processor clocking at 1.5GHz. Now we know that the original Galaxy S II rocks a 1.2GHz Exynos CPU, but there are some U.S. models with a more powerful 1.5GHz processor (T-Mobile’s version) and even a Read more