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Samsung has released sales estimates for Q1 2013 today, with the electronics giant expecting to record an operating profit of 8.7 trillion won, or $7.7 billion, an increase of 53% over Q1 of 2012. A full earnings report will be released at the end of the month, on April 26th. These numbers show that Samsung…
Samsung UK has launched its Galaxy Note 8.o today, making the device available in the U.K. for purchase starting today at the Samsung Experience Store in Westfield Stratford City, London. So far, the tablet is only available at this location, but will be making its way to other outlets soon. The Note 8.0 16GB Wi-Fi…
A judge from the International Trade Commission gave a preliminary ruling on March 26th that Samsung is infringing on yet another Apple patent. The patent is for a “method and apparatus for providing translucent images on a computer display.” As always, it’s quite broad. Samsung infringes on Apple’s patent with its text selection feature in…
SamMobile ninjas are striking again. This time, they’re bringing us the Samsung Galaxy S4 shipping dates for Eastern Europe. From the document they managed to get, the Korean company will only offer the 16 and 64 GB models in countries like Russia and Ukraine, though the 32GB version may also be launched at some point…
If you’re excited about trying out Facebook’s new Home app suite on your Android phone, you may be out of luck unless you possess one a handset running Ice Cream Sandwich or Jelly Bean. In a Q&A session after Zuckerburg’s announcement, Facebook Home compatible devices were revealed and include the HTC First, HTC One, HTC One X, HTC One X+, Samsung Galaxy S3,…
Samsung is teaming-up with Mozilla to help it make Servo, its next-gen browser engine that supports multi-core processors. The problem today’s mobile web browsers have is that they don’t use all the processing power modern smartphones and tablets have. WebGL, which uses the graphics processor; and HTML5 Web Workers, which bring a multi-threading approach to…
Samsung announced three new phones in China – Galaxy Trend II, Galaxy Trend Duos II and Galaxy Win. The first two are entry-level Android 4.1 Jelly Bean handsets with specs that include a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 4-inch WVGA (480×800 pixels) screen, 3-megapixel rear camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, 1,500mAh battery and a microSD expansion slot. The…
Some two weeks ago, we’ve told you about the purple Samsung Galaxy S III, adding that it will likely come to the Now Network. That information is now confirmed, with Sprint planning to start selling it on April 12th. The price is set at $99 on a two-year contract and after a $50 mail-in rebate.…
AT&T’s version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 has been caught while getting approval from the Federal Communications Commission. The device is now ready to be sold on the U.S. soil and pre-orders are set to begin today. The model FCC engineers got to play with has the proper LTE band 17 support and yes, we’re…
Samsung is not relenting in expanding their Galaxy line by officially announcing two previously rumored entry-level devices, the Samsung Galaxy Neo and the Samsung Galaxy Pocket Star. Both models will be operating on Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean and will use Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface. As far as specs go, the Samsung Galaxy Pocket Neo will…