All of you Samsung Galaxy S II and Samsung Galaxy Note owners out there have probably been wondering when the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update will arrive for your devices. Well, if Eldur Murtazin is correct, the Android 4.0 roll out for both devices will begin on March 1st. Of course, dates will depend [...]
These days whenever someone mentions the word “Tablet” visions of the iPad or something similar dance in their heads. Not that long ago a tablet was something quite different: a Windows-based slate computer. Since the rise of the new idea of the tablet there have been a few Tablet PCs trying for relevance in an [...]
Samsung won’t host a press conference at the Mobile World Congress this year according to an email sent to PC World. That doesn’t mean that Samsung won’t be announcing new devices, it just won’t be doing so on the main stage. Yeah, that probably means that there won’t be anything earth shattering announced, maybe a [...]
After having announced that the third-generation Galaxy S III flagship Android smartphone would miss the anticipated February Mobile World Congress launch in Barcelona, Spain, there were rumors circling that the device may see a March release when Samsung France had sent out some press invitations. Now, it appears that the March date is also off [...]
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is one of the best phones on the market today, and the only real choice for phone shoppers who want Android 4.0 right out of the box. When the Galaxy Nexus launched on Verizon in December, the $299 price put off many potential buyers, but less than two months later you can purchase [...]
Yesterday, Samsung’s mobile division unfurled its first Super Bowl advertisement. The lengthy advertisement was for the upcoming launch of the Samsung Galaxy Note on AT&T’s 4G LTE network, a device that is part smartphone and part tablet. Truth be told, it’s one of the most unique and most talked about mobile devices in recent memory [...]
If you expected the Samsung Galaxy S III rumor mill to stop churning, you’re going to be sorely disappointed with this next little bit. Right now, we have a heap of Galaxy S III rumors and now we have another to add to the mix as ETNews is reporting yet another Galaxy S III release [...]
Back in the early part of January, we showed you a white Samsung Galaxy Nexus that was apparently, at least according to retailers, going to be headed across the pond to the United Kingdom. Today, that device is official and it’s going to be hitting shelves next week on February 13th. And it probably won’t [...]
Super Bowl commercials are as famous as the game. If done right, possibly more memorable. Who played in the 1984 Super Bowl? Who knows. But I bet most of you know the famous Apple 1984 commercial even if you didn’t see it aired live on January 22nd 1984. This year Samsung took to the Super [...]
If you missed out on all the 2012 Super Bowl commercials, you didn’t miss much. That said, there were a few gems including technology ads from a number of companies including Best Buy, Samsung, GoDaddy, Teleflora and several other websites that jumped into the game this year. I’ve rounded up a collection of Super Bowl [...]
Samsung’s Super Bowl Sunday television commercial advertising the company’s Galaxy Note LTE smartphone/tablet hybrid device for AT&T highlights the device’s stylus and large screen. If you missed the Super Bowl commercials, you can glimpse Samsung’s commercial in the video re-posted below: Though the commercial is hip, fun, and does touch on a couple of the [...]
Should you order the phone today or wait until it’s actually out before buying? It’s a tempting device with a gorgeous 5.3 inch display, a digitized stylus, plenty of pre-loaded and free apps that support it, plus 4G LTE speeds.
Earlier this month, we told you about Liquipel which is a patent pending process designed to coat Apple’s iPhone and other gadgets in a waterproof “nano” coating. The coating works both inside and outside the device to keep it safe from moisture. The coat is supposed to be unnoticeable and while substances like water will [...]
Last year, Samsung sold over 10 million Galaxy S II smartphones which made it the best selling device in company history. It was no fluke as the Galaxy S II is widely considered to be one of, if not the best Android-powered smartphone ever made. Needless to say, Samsung is going to try and pick [...]
AT&T’s Samsung Galaxy Note is one of the most intriguing devices of 2012 thus far as it sports both a massive 5.3-inch display and 4G LTE capabilities. Some refer to it as a phablet as its size and features make it sort of a tablet-phone hybrid. And we thought so highly of its uniqueness that [...]
You might want to take seat before you read this because many of you who own a Samsung Galaxy Nexus on Verizon will have a problem with what you’re about to read, if it is indeed true. In December, Verizon launched its first Nexus device in the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. It has its faults, but [...]
In another Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich leak for Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S II smartphone, we’re seeing a more stable build of the Android operating system. The engineering build bears the version I9100XXLPB and has a date of January 29. The version combines Google’s Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich along with Samsung’s proprietary TouchWiz user [...]
Before today, the only phone that supported Google’s mobile payment platform, Google Wallet, was the Sprint Nexus S 4G. Well, as you may have guessed, that’s changed as the application has been updated to support for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus S if they are running on AT&T’s network. There also appears to [...]
With CES 2012 over and done with, we now have our sights set on the next big trade show, Mobile World Congress 2012, which is scheduled to kick off on in Barcelona on February 27th and last through March 1st. While CES touches on everything tech, the MWC is dedicated to everything mobile. And you [...]
Another day, another Samsung Galaxy S III launch rumor. A couple of days ago, we saw a March 13th release date thrown into a hat that already contains the Summer Olympics and now there is another release window to speculate about. Eldur Murtazin, the guy who leaked the initial Galaxy S III information, is now [...]
Samsung had just recently announced that the Galaxy S III won’t be unveiled at Mobile World Congress this month and that the third-generation flagship would be revealed at a separate launch event in the first half of the year. So what will be headlining Samsung’s MWC lineup? Potentially, a refreshed Galaxy S II may be [...]
As it stands, AT&T’s doesn’t have a wide selection of devices on its 4G LTE network. There are a couple of phones and tablets but the bulk of its LTE lineup will be launching this year, a lineup that includes devices like the Samsung Galaxy Note and the Nokia Lumia 900. However, if you can’t [...]
Don’t ask us why, but Samsung has released an early teaser video of its upcoming Super Bowl ad for the Samsung Galaxy Note which will be hitting AT&T’s 4G LTE network on February 19th for $299. In the meantime, Sammy is going to be drumming up interest for the 5.3-inch phone/tablet hybrid and one of [...]
If you own a Samsung Infuse 4G then you know how painful of a wait it has been for Android 2.3 Gingerbread. AT&T and Samsung made a bold promise saying that the update would be out in August, and guess what? We’re now in February. No matter, because the update has finally arrived for the [...]
By default, users can’t plug in a USB flash drive or SD card to transfer files on the go. Samsung offers a solution to this problem with the Galaxy Tab USB and SD Connection Kit. These dongles make transferring files pretty easy if you can figure out where that happens. The Galaxy Tab isn’t great at making the next steps obvious.
In South Korea, Samsung will be partnering with Jays headphones to bring a better audio experience to the company’s smartphones. Unlike HTC’s deal with Beats Audio, the partnership between Samsung and Jays will not be as fully integrated. The agreement with Samsung is a great boost for our profile in a key target market. It’s [...]
While originally anticipated for launch at Mobile World Congress this month, Samsung had changed its mind and floated around dates for the successor to the Galaxy S II flagship smartphone. The third generation device, widely believed to be called the Galaxy S III or Galaxy S 3, is now slated for a separate Samsung-specific launch [...]
Samsung was already rumored to be announcing one tablet at next month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and today, another device has been thrown into the mix thanks to some Wi-Fi certifications that show two unknown devices, GT-P3100 and GT-P5100. So, instead of the Samsung Galaxy S III, it looks like we may just get [...]
The Samsung Galaxy S III circus is in full swing as another possible release date has been thrown into the mix today courtesy of the folks at MobileCowboys who say that the Galaxy S III will launch in Turkey on March 13th. This comes after we heard that the Galaxy S III would not be [...]
So you may have heard. The Samsung Galaxy S III is on the way and its launch may coincide with the 2012 Summer Olympics which will be taking place in London. There are already some rumored specifications out for it which include Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, a quad-core processor, and a high-definition screen of [...]
According to the Norway regional Facebook page for Samsung, the company has announced that the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update will be coming soon to two handsets–the Galaxy S II and the Galaxy Note–before the end of the first quarter of this year. It looks like Norway may be among the first countries where [...]
In Samsung’s native homeland of South Korea, the company will be offering its consumers the option of getting their devices personalized through custom engraving. At launch the service will only be offered on the company’s Galaxy Note, which is a device with a 5.3-inch screen that comes with both voice and data capabilities and will [...]
Our favorite Samsung marketing executive, Younghee Lee, is back on the scene once again today and in a conversation with AllThingsD, she seems to hint at a major Samsung product launch that will coincide with the upcoming Summer Olympics in London. The company’s mobile phone division is a global sponsor for the Olympics and Lee [...]
Prior to its release on Verizon back in December, there had been talk of a Samsung Galaxy Nexus launch on carriers other than Big Red. Both AT&T and Sprint were mentioned amongst the possible suitors here in the United States. Suffice to say, many consumers out there, especially those adverse to heading to Verizon’s 4G [...]
No, the title is not a mistake. It appears that Samsung may very well be working on a new, higher-end Galaxy Nexus that could feature an upgraded processor and GPU. The source of this speculation comes from a NenaMark benchmark that has a Galaxy Nexus sporting a PowerVR SGX 544 GPU, the same GPU found [...]
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