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The latest phone shipment numbers are out from IDC and you have a few familiar faces at the top but the rise of ZTE and the lack of Motorola and Research In Motion from the top five gives us some interesting fodder to talk about. The IDC report said Nokia is still the dominant phone…
Samsung has just published their Q4 2010 financial results [PDF file] and they’re quite good. The South Korean firm shipped 80.7 million mobile phones during the quarter, and that’s up 17% compared to Q4 09. The mobile side of the company, aptly called “Mobile Communications and Telecommunications Systems”, made 1.44 trillion won ($1.29 billion) in…
Samsung Continuum, the two touchscreen equipped smartphone which is offered by Verizon Wireless, got a small bug-fixing update. Unfortunately, Froyo (or Gingerbread) is not included in the mix and even after the process is ended, your Continuum will still be running Android 2.1. Here’s what’s changed: Reply/Forward Visual Voice Mail audio files as attachments Improved…
Samsung is one of the few handset manufactures who actually make most of the components that go into mobile phones. Unlike Apple and Nokia, Samsung makes screens, memory, and we all know about the Hummingbird inside the Galaxy S, Galaxy Tab, and their upcoming dual core Orion chip that’s destined to go into the successors…
I had my doubts about the Samsung Galaxy Tab when it was first announced last year, and ultimately when it launched in the fall, but it seems that two million folks worldwide thought differently. According to Yonhap News, Samsung managed to sell over two million of its Android tablets all over the globe. Of course,…
Remember the rumors about an Android-powered Sidekick 4G that’ve been floating around for sometime now? Well it looks like this device is very real, and today we’re seeing the Samsung-made Sidekick 4G in the flesh. The existence of this handset shouldn’t come to much of a surprise, but the fact that it’s actually made by…
When the Nexus One was launched by Google last year, the idea was to get the phone onto every major carrier in the U.S. It started on T-Mobile, made its way to AT&T, but failed to ever materialize for Verizon and Sprint. This time around, T-Mobile was first for the Nexus S, and it looks…
While the world has been focused on the elusive white Apple iPhone, Google and Samsung may be poised to release their own white flagship handset. Earlier this week, the folks at Bestboyz snagged some renderings from an unamed source that showed the Samsung Nexus S with a beautiful white coat of paint. Not to be outdone, the…
Samsung launched a brand new developer’s hub simply called “Samsung Developers.” The website is made for individuals and companies developing apps for all platforms the Korean company is supporting — including Android, Java, Bada and Windows Mobile (Windows Phone 7). Moreover, the site also provides tools for making themes and widgets. In the official press…
Good news for our readers in Italy – Google’s Nexus S is coming to your shores. The first Android 2.3 Gingerbread running smartphone will be available at some point next month with a price tag of 549 EUR. Carrier partners are unknown at the moment (at least we haven’t heard of any) but we do…