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Samsung prepared an interesting smartphone for China Unicom, which is the second-largest mobile operator in the world’s most populous country. Model number GT-B9120 sports a clamshell form factor and, get this – two 3.5-inch WVGA Super AMOLED touchscreens! To be fair, we’ve already seen a similar Samsung product though it wasn’t running Android — Samsung…
Word is Samsung the largest supplier of Android smartphones was once interested in buying Finnish-based handset maker, Nokia. Well, the Korean-based manufacturer officially put those rumors to bed by denying such thing. In an email statement Samsung wrote, “Such reports are purely speculative and are not true.” I’m sure Samsung at least looked at Nokia…
Good news for TELUS’ customers with Galaxy S II X smartphone – the carrier and Samsung have started rolling out the Ice Cream Sandwich update, with some users around the web already getting it via Kies. The official launch date for the new firmware is set at June 12th and I guess the over-the-air update…
There was once a time when mobile phones had just one port, the power port. Then someone figured out it would be easier to drive a car without holding a phone up to the side of your head, and thus the headset jack was added. Phones soon started getting smarter, so another daring individual said…
Virgin Mobile Canada is looking for savvy mobile phone users to test the hot-new Galaxy S III. What seems as a dream job for any Android junkie is also part of a great marketing campaign to keep the momentum going for Sammy’s flagship smartphone. Virgin will pick 5 users to test the device, who will…
Good news for the UK-based Galaxy Note owners, with Samsung pushing out the Ice Cream Sandwich update as we speak. The rather big 349MB download not only makes your phablet run the latest version of Android, but also brings a number of enhancements and exclusive apps only users with devices as large as the Note…
Are you sitting down? Because what we’re about to tell you something doesn’t make any sense to us whatsoever. Nokia’s stock price is up over 7.5% 11% on the Helsinki Stock Exchange because there’s a rumor going around that Samsung is interested in buying the company. Think about that second. If you were to combine…
Text messages cost operators little to nothing to send through their networks, yet they charge some pretty hefty fees for customers to use them. Looking to get around that problem, WhatsApp was born. It’s an application that uses your data connection to send messages and it works extremely well because it runs on nearly every…
Samsung quietly swapped out its CEO, replacing the mobile-oriented Choi Gee Sung with the display and chipset chief Kwon Oh Hyun. According to a Bloomberg report, Kwon helped Samsung become the top computer-memory chip manufacturer in the world. He was rewarded for his excellence with a position that puts him in charge of Samsung’s global business, which…
Samsung, the top handset provider of Android smartphones is investing $1.9 billion to build a new logic chip line to make processors for mobile devices. The new line of chips will use 300 mm wafers and 20 nanometer and 14 nanometer processing technology. The Korean based manufacturer is ramping up production to meet high demand,…