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MetroPCS will soon add a new mid-end device to its portfolio – Samsung Galaxy S Lightray 4G (model number SCH-R940). The LTE-enabled device which reminds us on the Droid Charge has already been cleared by the FCC and is pretty much ready for the official introduction. As far as we’ve understood, the carrier will launch…
Samsung keeps monetizing on its relationship (i.e. sponsorship) with the Olympic Games. After that Olympic-themed Android app, they’re out with the Special Edition Olympics Flip Cover for the Galaxy S III, which also happen to be the official smartphone of the big event. Unfortunately — or not depending whether you like the case or not…
Samsung has taken a sizeable lead in the smartphone market in terms of unit shipments. According to Juniper Research’s estimates, the Korean giant shipped 52.1 million smartphones in Q2 2012, just over double the number shipped by Apple – 26.0 million. What’s more, Samsung has also doubled its lead over Apple quarter-on-quarter, with its flagship…
The battle between Apple and Samsung is still ongoing and it doesn’t look like the fighting will end any time soon. It’s beginning to resemble a 4th grade fight on the playground over who cheated playing four square. Originally Apple was winning the legal war hands down, able to swiftly convince judges Samsung was copying…
Earlier this week, Samsung removed the local search function from the international version of the S III handset and then later confirmed that this removal was a mistake. On Friday, the manufacturer issued another update that restored this functionality and brought some stability improvements to the handset. The update is 5MB and is available over-the-air…
The IDC have released their Q2 report on the mobile market, and it paints the same picture we’ve seen in quarters past. Mobile customers are adopting smartphones than feature phones en masse, with a 42% increase in smartphone sales year over year. Overall, more phones were sold in Q2 than ever before, with 406 million…
It’s quarterly earnings week and now it’s Samsung’s turn to chime in with its Q2 2012 financial report. In the quarter, Samsung reported a record operating profit of $5.9 billion (6.72 trillion won), most of which was the result of strong smartphone and display sales. This figure is up 79 percent year over year. Samsung’s…
The latest Duos phone from Samsung we caught is marked as GT-S3752 though we hope it will get a “slightly” more memorable name soon. It’s a feature phone if you wonder, the one that seems headed to the emerging markets of the world where the ability to connect to two networks at once is not…
Samsung has released an update for the international version of the Galaxy S III that removes local search from the handset. This feature lets you find on-device content and contact information using the Google search app interface. Samsung is likely removing this feature to protect itself from a future Apple lawsuit as Apple has already…
It seems that Sprint will soon make the Samsung Epic 4G Touch — aka its version of the Galaxy S II — available to the Boost Mobile users. The information comes from Phandroid which talks about a user agent profile that has surfaced over at Sprint’s servers showing a device called the SPH-D710BST. The “D710”…