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A report last week predicted that Samsung shipped more smartphones than Apple in Q3, but now it’s confirmed. Samsung is now the number one smartphone vendor in the world when measured by global shipments, which is a title effectively stolen from Apple. During Q3 2011, Samsung shipped approximately 27.8 million smartphones, while Apple was in…
Look at the header image. Do you see anything on the right? No? Look closer. Yep, Nippon Electric Glass developed a new technology it calls ‘invisible glass’ because it looks, well, invisible. The point of the glass is to reduce as much glare as possible, a huge disadvantage of normal glass. In fact, normal glass…
It’s no secret that Android’s growth would ultimately lead to big market share increases in multiple categories when compared to iOS. Android is pre-loaded on hundreds of phones and iOS is pre-loaded on just three: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPhone 4S. In Q2, Android took another step in fulfilling the expectations we all had.…
ZTE has announced that its Tania Windows Phone handset is headed on a journey to Europe. The handset packs in a 4.3-inch 800 x 480 display, 5 MP camera, and a fairly slim 10.5 mm form factor. Behind the scenes is 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, and a single-core 1GHz processor. It runs…
In an interview with Forbes, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse managed to slide in a compliment for the iPhone, now that he actually likes it. Don’t be fooled by its seemingly kind nature. This is a double-whammy compliment, because while it may praise Apple, it secretly slams AT&T and Verizon in a brilliant way. Hesse claims…
Samsung has a creative new handset hitting the Chinese market. The Samsung SCH-W999 is a large Android flip phone with two screens. The outside features a generous 3.5-inch 480 x 800 AMOLED display, and the inside features another display of similar specifications. With the screen measuring 3.5 inches, the whole phone must be pretty big.…
Uh oh, Samsung’s being a poor sport. The company is appealing the Galaxy Tab 10.1 ban in Australia. This comes two weeks after a court ruled in favor of Apple effectively preventing all sales of the tablet in the country/continent for infringing on Apple’s patents. The evidence it presented in court regarding Samsung’s two patent…
T-Mobile took the wraps off a new mid-range smartphone today called the Samsung Exhibit II 4G. This Android handset includes a single-core 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, a 3.7-inch WVGA display, front and rear camera with flash, and Android 2.3 Gingerbread. In layman’s terms, it’s a nice option for regular cell phone owners looking to take…
A photographer by the name of Romain Guy posted a sample video from the Samsung Galaxy Nexus Android 4.0 smartphone to his Google+ profile. The result? Quite good. It’s yet another example of the continuous innovation going on to improve mobile phone cameras. There are some caveats, however. One Hacker News member pointed out that…
An LTE iPhone has been on customers’ wish lists for the past year due to the influx of Android devices that have added 4G support. Now, Apple may finally be preparing to release an LTE offering for 2012. DigiTimes reports that as the competition gets more fierce, “Nokia, Apple, RIM and Sony Ericsson are expected to…