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With the recent leak of a Android 2.2 (Froyo) test release for the Samsung Galaxy S, one has to wonder when the official build will be available for everyone. Well, according to SamsungUKMobile’s Twitter account, you can expect it to hit in September. This is for the original, international Galaxy S, and not for any…
You’ve heard about the Samsung Galaxy S right? You know, Samsung’s first superphone coming to all four major US carriers? Good, because now we have them all together before they battle it out in the US smartphone market. While it’s nothing we haven’t seen before, the video below is by far the most detailed of…
Samsung is all over this Windows Phone 7 game with its handsets already out in the wild to a select few developers and journalists. While we’ve all been reminded that what we’ve handled so far is pre-production hardware with pre-production versions of Windows Phone 7 software, which probably isn’t the greatest idea when introducing a…
Just as we predicted, Verizon Wireless is adding the Samsung Intensity II u460, the phone that’s made for those folks who cannot afford a more expensive smartphone, but still want a device for texting. Specs wise, there’s a 2.2-inch QVGA display, side-sliding QWERTY keyboard, 1.3-megapixel camera with “night vision” (not sure how that works), GPS,…
Samsung is bringing two new Bada phones to Russia – Wave 2 and Wave 2 Pro. However, in the world’s largest country, these two will be sold as Wave 525 and Wave 533, respectively. Don’t ask me why that’s the case – cause I don’t know. I do, however, know that Samsung’s naming scheme is…
Handmark and Samsung made an agreement under which Handmark will support the Korean company’s brand new Bada platform. In other words, we’ll have tons of apps Handmark has made for various media companies available via Samsung Apps. The first app that will be ported to Bada is the London Evening Standard app, which will be…
Well it sure didn’t take very long for the new Samsung Galaxy S to get rooted, and now we’re already seeing the official Samsung Galaxy S Android 2.2 test ROM leaking out from Samsung Mobile. The smartphone maker seems to not be wasting any time getting the latest version of the Android OS, known by…
We have yet another no-contract, discount wireless service provider in Canada today, called Chatr, borne of Rogers. The new carrier is meeting younger players, like Wind, Mobilicity, and Public by offering cheap, metropolitan, no-contract, unlimited texting and calling. Sure, Rogers already has Fido, but it’s just prepaid carrier, nothing else. Roger’s Chatr takes the discount…
Just when we talked about that latest unofficial firmware update for the Samsung i8910 HD, another firmware has been released (version HX7). This time, QT 4.6.2 Symbian^3 libraries are included in the mix, making us think the Nokia N8 won’t be the first Symbian^3 device available on the market. To be fair, it’s not just…