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Samsung used IFA today to introduce the Galaxy Note 2 and the Ativ S Windows Phone handset. It also used the event to announce that Jelly Bean was coming soon to the Galaxy S III and the Note 10.1. No concrete date was provided, but “very soon” is a lot more encouraging than “later this…
Samsung has finally taken then veil off of the its very first Android-powered camera. The Galaxy Camera features a 16 megapixel camera, 21x optical zoom, and Android 4.1. The latter of which may indeed the most surprising of said features. The Galaxy Camera isn’t just some snazzy camera that happens to be running Android. It’s…
Today at IFA, Samsung unveiled its new Ativ lineup of Windows 8 devices, which includes the Ativ S smartphone, the Ativ Tab, a Windows RT tablet and two convertible Windows 8 tablets. Of interest to mobile aficionados is the Ativ S, a high-end Windows Phone 8 handset. The Ativ S has a 4.8-inch Super AMOLED…
Samsung used IFA as a springboard to announce the Galaxy Note II. The next generation phone-tablet will feature a 5.5-inch HD Super AMOLED display with 1280×720 resolution, a 1.6GHZ Exynos quad-core processor, 2GB RAM, an 8-megapixel rear shooter and a 1.9-megapixel web cam. It’ll be slightly thinner and slightly heavier than the original Note, due in…
Samsung might be one of the first vendors to announce a smartphone that will run the new Windows Phone 8 OS when it ships this fall. The device will go by the name of ATIV S — I’m not sure if you’re supposed to pronounce that as a whole word or with each individual letter,…
What do you get when you take an ordinary-looking Samsung Android smartphone and build it in to the back of a compact camera? The Samsung Galaxy Camera. It’s real and minus the phone functionality, that’s pretty much what it is. The Galaxy Camera is a bulky device, but it has its reasons. The camera lens…
It’s IFA time and Samsung has thus far only unveiled new memory cards, namely 64GB UHS-I class SD and microSD cards. The new memory is described as the best fit for modern LTE-based smartphones and tablets, providing read/write speeds of up to 80MB/40MB per second (SD) and 70MB/20MB per second (microSD). That’s pretty fast, hence…
Samsung has been rumored to be releasing a black version of the Galaxy S III for the past couple weeks. Now the Korean based tech company is looking to bring three more colors in the very near future. The company is sticking with the “inspired by nature” crap theme, by bringing the colors ‘Amber Brown’,…
We have the rising pile of evidence suggesting that Samsung Stratosphere 2 and LG Spectrum 2 will soon land on Verizon Wireless. LG’s baby in particular has been leaked few times in the past and now we have another shot from the carrier’s Equipment Guide to prove the claim. It is said that the Spectrum…
It’s amazing how modern smartphones are getting cheap so quickly. Last year, the Google Nexus was considered the best phone ever and today Brits can get it for 299 GBP (about $473) sans any strings attached. If this sounds appealing to you — and it really should since we’re talking about one of the first…