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Regardless of which OS has been taking the lead within the smartphone sales, be it Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Symbian, or webOS, a recent study by IDC has shown that the smartphone market is booming. Global smartphone saless over the course of 2010 rose 74% from 2009, totaling 302.6 million. In Q4 2010 alone,…
Rumored and “already seen in the wild” Samsung R910 has been approved by the FCC, meaning it’s almost ready for the prime time. And while we don’t have all the details, we do know it’s an Android-powered smartphone with WVGA touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera, WiFi and a 1GHz processor. However, its main strength comes from LTE,…
Samsung’s naming scheme is getting more confusing with the day. The recently announced Galaxy Mini S5570 (which BTW was unveiled alongside the Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Gio and Galaxy Fit) will be offered in India as the Galaxy Pop — and we know LG makes Pop GD510. I really, really don’t understand this. I can’t imagine…
Samsung SHW-A175S is yet another device which most likely won’t leave the shores of South Korea. To be fair, we’re not that sorry actually, considering it’s not a smartphone we’re talking about. Rather the A175S relies on Samsung’s home-made feature phone platform with Haptic UI running on top of it. Rest of the specs include…
The Samsung Galaxy Tab has joined the ViewSonic G-Tablet and other devices with some Android 2.3 Gingerbread treatment courtesy of a CyanogenMod 7 build. The Galaxy Tab may not be as lucky as the Nook Color with its Android 3.0 Honeycomb ROM, but it’s quite a good start. Before you go flash your brains out,…
Samsung just released an Android app that connects with their Wi-Fi-enabled TVs (much like their iPhone version), and lets you handle all of your usual remote control needs, like channel changing, volume control (with mute), changing the connection source, and navigating menus from your phone. Probably the most helpful feature is a QWERTY keyboard so…
Some research by Bernstein has revealed that Nokia has spent upwards of $3.9 billion on research and development, which is close to three times as much as the average spent by competing mobile manufacturers. Okay, sure, Nokia is still the biggest in the world (for the time being), so it’s not entirely surprising. Samsung was…
When it comes to Samsung Galaxy Tab sales and returns, it’s back and forth between analysts, reporters and Samsung. For those of you who are just casual observers of this particular issue, it must be getting annoying. In December, reports said Samsung sold one million Galaxy Tab Android tablets, quickly followed by another million by…
After the UK, Samsung is bringing the Wave II to India. I doubt too many Indians will rejoice to find that out, but what do I know. The Korean company is far from using all of its capacities to promote the new platform – Bada. The reason for that is obvious – they also make…
Good news for our German readers – Google Nexus S is heading your way. Vodafone will apparently be the first carrier in the country to offer the Android 2.3 Gingerbread-powered smartphone which is made Samsung. The Nexus S has reportedly showed up on Vodafone’s “Coming Soon” page, though I couldn’t verify that because of my…