According to a screenshot from their internal network, T-Mobile will be rolling out an Android 1.6 update to Samsung Behold II owners over the air between June 21 and June 25. The new features, as noted in the forums, are: Access to Google Maps Navigation Google Voice Search capability Quick search box for Android Swype…
T-Mobile Launches Trio of Samsung Messaging Phones
Three news phones are coming out of T-Mobile today, one and all made by Samsung and geared for heavy SMS and e-mail users. The Gravity 3 and Gravity T both have landscape slide-out QWERTY keyboards, while the Smiley’s keyboard is portrait-oriented. They’re also preloaded with an app called T-Mobile Social Buzz, which keeps an eye…
Samsung Galaxy S’ Super AMOLED screen has 180 degree viewing angle
We already knew the Samsung Galaxy S‘ (and Wave’s) Super AMOLED display is miles better than your standard AMOLED screen, but we weren’t aware it has a 180 degree viewing angle! Even when viewing a Super AMOLED display on its side, you’ll get an undistorted picture, according to this little note that we got from…
Adobe confirms Android 2.2 Froyo updates coming from HTC, Samsung, Motorola and Dell
If you’ve been praying that the Android update gods would bestow Android 2.2 “Froyo” OS on your Dell Streak, Google Nexus One, HTC EVO 4G, HTC Desire, HTC Incredible, Motorola Droid, Motorola Milestone, or Samsung Galaxy S, consider your prayers answered. In Adobe’s press release regarding the availability of Flash 10.1 Player to their partners,…
T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S could be the ‘Vibrant’
We know that Samsung will announce a cool Galaxy S phone for T-Mobile at the end of the month but now we’re hearing that the handset will be called the Vibrant. According to Cell Phone Signal, the Vibrant will be powered by Android 2.1 and it should rock that big, gorgeous 4-inch Super AMOLED screen…
Samsung invests $2.1 billion in South Korean factory that will make nothing but OLED screens for phones
To quote Durran Durran, Samsung is “hungry like the wolf”. They want to be the world’s number one producer of mobile phones, smartphones in particular, and in order to achieve that goal they’re going to have to match Nokia’s infrastructure. There’s a reason that Nokia makes 2 out of every 5 mobile phones shipped. They’ve…
Samsung: We’ll have more than 10% of the smartphone market this year!
Samsung is one ambitious and smart company. They know that the battle for consumer hearts, minds and ultimately wallets is moving from the mass market phones to the smartphone space. Hence, the Korean giant has launched a slew of smartphones this year, trying to reach multiple segments of the market. On one hand we have…
Screen test: How well does Super AMOLED perform next to AMOLED and LCD screens in sunlight?
If you’re the owner of an HTC Desire (or any AMOLED display that isn’t the Super AMOLED display), you may have the problem shown in the video below: It’s pretty much unreadable in direct sunlight. Well, Samsung hopes to change those woes with their Super AMOLED screens, giving a brighter, crisper, thinner screen that can…
Layar aims big – plans to be on 1 in 3 smartphones released this year
The augmented reality app maker Layar has some mighty large ambitions, as the company just announced on its blog that it will be preloaded on a third of the world’s new smartphone this year. With pride Layar announced that LG, the worlds #3 mobile phone manufacturer will pre-load Layar on new Android devices. In addition,…
Samsung Galaxy S Pro with WiMAX Gets Hands-On Impressions
Remember the Samsung Galaxy S Pro, Sprint’s next WiMAX phone? We already knew that it would have a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, Android 2.1, 1 GHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, but a tipster has given his impressions of the hardware and software, along with dropping a few more specs. The processor build…