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Samsung has become the new ruler of smartphones, snatching the reigns away from the world’s previous number one Apple, according to two separate reports. Today Research firm IDC estimated that Samsung shipped a record 42.2 million smartphone units during the first quarter of 2012, a 267 percent increase from 11.5 million during the same quarter last…
Samsung Canada announced the availability of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich updates for Samsung GALAXY devices. The new software will be available starting from today on select devices in the country and will continue rolling out throughout the quarter. Smartphones and tablets that will get this treatment include GALAXY S II, GALAXY S II LTE,…
Apple and Samsung have been going at it seemingly forever in the battle of ‘who infringed who’s patent.’ Recently, both companies have expressed an interest in settling their differences by way of mediation, which is set to begin on May 21 and 22. In this mediation, both tech giants are to discuss possible settlements to…
Samsung has officially announced the availability of the Galaxy S Advance in the UK. The device that sits somewhere between the original Galaxy S and Galaxy S II rocks a 4-inch Super AMOLED WVGA touchscreen, 1GHz dual-core processor, 14.4Mbps HSPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, 1.3-megapixel front-facing one, 768MB of RAM, 4 or 8…
If you’re like me, you pretty much never (and I repeat – never) use DVDs and CDs. Those relicts of the past are no longer needed with most of us having fast Internet connections that allow us to download just about anything within few minutes (or seconds). However, from time to time, you may need…
If you’re a) living in the UK; and b) don’t want to wait for the Galaxy S3 and would rather grab the Note instead – here’s a deal for you. Phone retailer Phones 4U is offering Sammy’s phablet (as in phone/tablet) for free on a 20.50 GBP/month plan. That’s right, you don’t have to shell…
We’ve already seen O2 and Vodafone committing to launch the next Samsung Galaxy smartphone, and now we have Carphone Warehouse joining the party, too. Similarly to what Vodafone has done, the phone retailers prepared a dedicated page from where interested users can sign-up and be the first to know when the powerful device starts selling.…
Samsung Electronics posts a record quarterly profit of about $4.45 billion thanks in part to the success of its smartphone division. The company’s mobile unit was responsible for 73 percent of the company’s total profit and this division’s operating profit margin rose to 18.4 percent. The company sold 90 million handsets overall, including 44 million…
The bean counters at Strategy Analytics have done their due diligence, poured their data into a spreadsheet, and have come to the unsurprising conclusion that Nokia simply isn’t what it used to be. Having shipped just 82.7 million handsets in Q1 2012, Samsung’s estimated 93+ million handsets mean that the South Korean handset vendor has,…
Samsung has started rolling out the Value Pack update to Galaxy Tab users in South Korea. We’re talking about the original 7-inch tablet which doesn’t rock a fast dual-core processor and which won’t get its serving of Ice Cream Sandwich. Rather, the Korean giant is pushing an Android 2.3-based software that comes with few features…