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Samsung’s Israel Facebook page may have jumped the gun a bit today, announcing that the most-popular Android phone of 2011 – the Samsung Galaxy S II – will see the update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on March 15th. The fact that Ice Cream Sandwich will be coming in March should come as no…
Well, unless Samsung has a sick April fools joke in-store for us, the company has made it known that it doesn’t plan on releasing the latest iteration of its flagship phone, the Samsung Galaxy S III next month. The Korean-based manufacturer set the record straight on Twitter, putting an end to all speculation of the…
As part of the process to build momentum for its version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Sprint is organizing Data Storm Sweepstakes, giving away Ice Cream Sandwich phones to 30 lucky winners. Pretty much every U.S. citizen can test his/her luck and enter the contest either online (via PC or phone), by sending a postcard,…
TeliaSonera was the first operator in the world to launch a 4G LTE network. We’re talking December 2009 here, a full year before Verizon turned on their 4G LTE network. Now most people accessing said ridiculously high speed network have thus far been doing it via USB modems, but that’s just officially changed. TeliaSonera has…
In late January Samsung announced the Galaxy S Advance, which can best be described as a 4 inch version of the Samsung Galaxy S II, except that it’s slightly slower (1 GHz versus 1.2 GHz) and has a less capable camera (5 MP versus 8 MP). We didn’t know the official price tag back then,…
It’s hard to believe, but Mobile World Congress 2012 kicked off one week ago today. HTC’s One series may have been impressive, as was Nokia’s 41 megapixel PureView, but there was one device we all kept in the back of our minds. One that we’re pretty confident in saying will be the most talked about…
Samsung won’t give up on Bada, no matter what the world think of it. Quite the contrary, the Korean giant plans to “significantly” increase its investment in its own mobile OS and pitch it as an alternative to Android. According to Sammy’s Juha Park (senior vice president of product strategy), Bada is a “good platform…
Back in December of last year, on the 29th to be precise, Samsung announced that they just sold 1 million Galaxy Notes. It took them less than two months after launching the product to do that. Two days ago Forbes published a piece that said Samsung Galaxy Note sales have exceeded 2 million units. That’s…
Samsung keeps updating its S Pen SDK, allowing developers to make apps that run on the Galaxy Note devices. Version 2.0 of the SDK is out, packing a number of improvements over the previous release (version 1.5), including: SCanvasView Class inherited from CanvasView has been added – so that developers can animate their drawings and…
Samsung Brightside, that feature phone with a touchscreen and side-sliding QWERTY keyboard we told you about before, is almost live in Verizon Wireless’ portfolio. The “everything but cool” device packs a 3.1-inch display and 3.2-megapixel camera. Moreover, there are social networking, email and IM clients preloaded, as well as a web browser, document viewer and…