Samsung’s S8500 Wave phone is now for sale on T-Mobile in the UK (here). It will punish your wallet for £369.99 unlocked, or between free and £59.99, dependent on contract. As we know from previous reporting, the Wave has a Super-AMOLED screen, and the Bada OS. On top of that there’s Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-FI, a…
Samsung confirms new OLED plant – will go online January 2011
The iPad 2 – that’s what this post is mostly about – or at least the screen anyway. Currently there’s a nice LCD screen doing the business in the iPad, but everyone knows that the holy grail of pretty colours and non-thrashed batteries is OLED. So would it be unreasonable if the next iPad had…
Sprint Launches Eco-Friendly Samsung Restore, Due Summer
Following up on their previous green efforts, Sprint today announced the Samsung Restore, an eco-friendly phone that will be going for $49.99 on contract after rebates and will be available this summer in “midnight” and “limeade” colours. As you can see, it has a slide-out landscape QWERTY keyboard, and preloads for Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo!.…
Bell Offers Samsung Galaxy for Free on New 3-Year Contracts
Yet another price drop to tell you about. The good folks at Bell have lowered the price on the Samsung Galaxy to, well, it’s free! Of course, you’re not going to get away with a free device without a little bit of commitment. To get the device you will need to sign up for a…
Samsung’s 20nm NAND Flash memory promises up to 50% higher speeds
Samsung has unveiled the industry’s first 20nm-based NAND flash chips that will be used in SD memory cards and embedded memory solutions. According to the Korean company, using the new technology, these chips give 50% higher productivity than 30nm MLC NAND with a read speed of 20MB/s and write speed at around 10MB/s. I’ll stop…
Samsung Reality Really Coming to Verizon April 22
As expected, the Samsung Reality U820 will be coming to Verizon on April 22 for $79.99 on conctract. The landscape slider is built from the ground up for people who want plain and simple texting and instant messaging, along with all of the appropriate social networking apps. The specs are modest: 240 x 400 touch…
Samsung launches Corby TV and Metro TV in India
Samsung has launched two new TV-enabled devices for the ever-growing mobile market of India. The new phones include Corby TV and Metro TV, both of which come with a pre-installed application that allows watching of Live TV and other video content. Speaking of the application, it’s called MimobiTV Mobile TV and it was developed by…
T-Mobile may get a smartphone like the Samsung Galaxy S
In my review of the Motorola Cliq XT, I said T-Mobile fans should wait for a better Android handset to hit T-Mobile. Well, it looks like you won’t have to wait long because the Bluetooth Special Interest Group just approved the Samsung T959, which is similar to the neato Galaxy S. The Bluetooth SIG said…
Sprint phones could get Android 2.1 in early May
Remember how it seemed like the Motorola Droid 2.1 update took forever? Well, Sprint Android users have been suffering even more but there are signs that this could change in early May, according to leaked screen shots. The HTC Hero and Samsung Moment are solid handsets, but both rock Android 1.5, which is getting long…
Samsung Corby S3650 SpongeBob Squarepants is aimed at tweens and their parents
Samsung keeps betting on its highly successful Corby phone. The all-touchscreen device is already available in quite a few variants, including CDMA-based and WiFi-enabled device. Heck, you can even grab some trendy back covers for the phone in Russia and I guess some other markets, as well. Now the Korean company has unveiled a new…