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Before the iPad 2 was announced the rumor mongers among us were absolutely convinced that Apple’s second generation tablet would have twice the number of vertical and horizontal pixels, yet maintain the same screen size; effectively a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels in a 9.7 inch screen. Many pople were expecting a “retina display”…
Some very interesting things happened with 10 of the world’s biggest smartphone makers in Q1 2011. The likes of Apple, Nokia, RIM and Samsung have performed in ways we couldn’t have imagined just three or four years ago. And now that the quarter is over and each of the companies have all the numbers in,…
Good news for the Samsung Galaxy Tab P1000 owners in select markets, including Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom. They are getting the Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread update as we speak. If you’re in that group, you should download the Samsung Kies software and start the update process. If everything…
As part of a plan to further enhance its brand, Samsung is offering a little treat for the Galaxy S (SC-02B) and Galaxy Tab (SC-01C) users in Japan. The company offers free Wi-Fi access for a limited period of time to 100,000 users who register for the so called Galaxy Pass. Using it [Galaxy Pass],…
In case you missed it, Google just handed out free Galaxy Tab 10.1 Limited Edition Android Honeycomb tablets to all five thousand or so attendees of its Google I/O 2011 conference. While the rest of the world has to wait to put their own fingerprints all over the shiny new tablet, we’re lucky enough to…
It’s Google I/O week, so you know we’re going to have some cool Android news. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with the TouchWiz UX will be landing as a WiFi-only version June 8. We’ll have to see when the carriers pick it up. It’s interesting that the company will be taking a direct-to-consumer approach with…
According to images leaked to TmoNews, it looks like T-Mobile is soon going to announce a device called the “Exhibit 4G”. It runs Android 2.3.3, which used to be the latest version until less than 2 weeks ago when 2.3.4 came out and brought with it support for video chat, has a 1.4 GHz processor…
Sprint’s WiMAX-enabled Google Nexus S 4G is now available and anyone can grab it for $199 from the carrier for $199, or from Best Buy which offers it for $50 less, making for a great deal. Of course, a two-year contract is required as well as Sprint’s $10-a-month data add-on package, but that comes as…
Samsung’s Galaxy S II, announced back in February at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, has been out for less than a month, yet it’s already logged 3 million sales according to a recent report from Samsung Hub. The 4.3 inch Super AMOLED Plus packing, dual core rocking, Android 2.3 running superphone has seen many favorable…
Hot on the heels of the IDC report yesterday, Comscore has just released its report for March 2011 in the US market. While Samsung may be the fourth largest handset manufacturer globally, the company is the largest in the US, followed by LG and Motorola. Samsung holds the top spot in the US with 24.8%…