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Another day, another rumor. This time we’re talking about the next generation of the Samsung Galaxy phone – Galaxy S III or Galaxy S3, whatever suits you best. The rumor is that the South Korean company will unveil the new device from the floor of the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, just like they…
Well, that didn’t take long. Samsung is backtracking a bit on its Friday announcement that said that the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab will not receive an upgrade to Android 4.0 ICS. This of course drew a lot of criticism from the Android community, who thought it was unfair that Samsung’s first big-time Android phone would get…
Verizon’s after Christmas sales were a little ho-hum, but you might find Best Buy’s a little more exciting. They’re offering a wide range of devices across all the major U.S. carriers, and the phones are all free with a two-year contract. From Verizon, you’ve got the Samsung Stratosphere and HTC Droid Incredible 2; from AT&T,…
Verizon has a few sales on certified pre-owned smartphones and tablets going until this Thursday, December 29. Verizon has knocked $80 off the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, asking $349.99 on a two-year contract for the 16 GB model, or $449.99 for the 32 GB version. Verizon has also reduced the price of the HTC ThunderBolt…
Well what do you know – even though the Galaxy Note is still not available all over the globe, Samsung is already working on its successor. At least that’s what we think of the mysterious device marked as GT-N8010, which has recently received a Wi-Fi interoperability certificate (PDF download is here). So why do we…
Samsung has launched a dual-SIM version of its super popular Galaxy S II smartphone in China. Simply called Galaxy S II Duos, it resembles T-Mobile or Sprint’s version of the device, sporting a large 4.52-inch Super AMOLED Plus WVGA touchscreen. In addition, it also comes with other “standard Galaxy S II” goodies like a 1.2GHz…
If you’re still rocking one of Samsung’s first generation Galaxy S smartphones or its original Galaxy Tab, then you may want to sit down. There will be no Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for you, as these first-gen devices just can’t handle all of the sweet update with TouchWiz running on top. Ice Cream Sandwich…
After a brief glimpse last week, Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy Y Duos and Galaxy Y Duos Pro. The Android 2.3 Gingerbread handsets look pretty much identical to some devices Samsung had announced over the summer, except these ones have a second SIM card slot in them. Otherwise, the devices are still fairly entry-level;…
The last 12 months have been a wild ride, as we started the year with many of us wondering how the Xoom and PlayBook could compete against the iPad, how would HP use webOS, what the iPhone 5 would look like and if 4G LTE would really come to America in a big way. There…
Samsung has made a new version of the S Pen SDK available, allowing developers to take advantage of the Galaxy Note’s built-in stylus. In this release, the configuration classes and APIs for the pen and eraser have been added, as well as CanvasView APIs. More precisely, here’s what’s new: Added PenSettingInfo class – so developers…