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Samsung and Boost Mobile announced the Samsung Transform Ultra, which resembles the Samsung Transform for Sprint, an Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone coming on October 7 for $229.99. It might sound pricey for an Android smartphone, but the deal is that you get a decent and capable handset without the stress of a contract. It’s not…
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 4G LTE for Verizon is getting an update, but before you go celebrating like it’s Christmas in the summer, it’s just a minor one. Still, the bug fixes and other tweaks should make the end user experience much more pleasant. The update will be available OTA, or over-the-air, and will…
AT&T has released a small firmware update for the Samsung Infuse 4G and it’s not Gingerbread. Rather, the 14.5MB heavy download is a maintenance update that fixes some of the known bugs, improves stability and performance, and so on. I bet it hurts that you have to wait for the Korean company and AT&T to…
For a while, the Samsung Galaxy S II supposedly claimed the title of world’s thinnest smartphone – thinner than even the iPhone 4. We all just assumed this was true but Apple knew the real truth and it continued to advertise the iPhone 4 with this title in commercials. So, the U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority…
Leave it to none other than Galaxy S Support on Twitter to confirm T-Mobile will get their own variant of the Samsung Galaxy S II with a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor. We already knew the Galaxy S II is coming to T-Mobile, but two specifications we didn’t know about are processor model and speed. One Twitter user…
Canada’s Rogers Wireless will be adding the LTE-enabled version of the Samsung Galaxy S II to its portfolio. Starting from September 28th, customers in Toronto and Ottawa will be among the first ones to get their hands on the super-fast and super-awesome Android smartphone. Yep this includes our very own Simon Sage, who will undoubtedly…
Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo and South Korean handset maker and component supplier Samsung, as well as Fujitsu, NEC, and Panasonic, are partnering up in an attempt to take on Qualcomm, who according to Japanese publication Nikkei has 80% of the baseband market. What’s a baseband you might ask? If you know what a modem is,…
Orange UK is preparing to launch two smartphones – Samsung Wave 578 and Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray. The first of the two is a bada-based device that comes with NFC capabilities, allowing users to conduct “amazing Quick Tap contactless payments.” Additionally, the Wave 579 also rocks a 3.2-inch WQVGA capacitive touchscreen, HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity,…
It’s finally here, folks. The very first US Galaxy S II, the Epic 4G Touch, has landed on our doorstep and we’re gonna give you a quick peak at one of the most anticipated phones of the year. While it may not be the only Galaxy S II to land in the US, it’s certainly…
Well, it looks like the shoe is on the other foot now. Samsung has filed a patent complaint against Apple in France and this complaint is not about design, but rather the technology inside Apple’s products. Apple’s famous lawsuit against Samsung was for the design of their phones and tablets, which it says look suspiciously…