Apple’s next iPhone, presumed to be called the iPhone 5 and the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III figure to be the two biggest smartphone launches of the year. Their predecessors, the iPhone 4S and the Samsung Galaxy S II were two of the most successful devices of 2011 and the companies clearly want to build [...]
A new piece of evidence has surfaced indicating that Samsung plans to release its upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone in two different colors. The evidence comes courtesy of GSMArena and it depicts an internal inventory screen from Carphone Warehouse, a retailer based in the United Kingdom. The screenshot reveals not only the possible ‘Galaxy [...]
A leaked user agent string reveals a device that’s headed to Verizon Wireless from Samsung that could very well be the Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone. What is revealed is a high-end device with a 720p HD display and a model number of SCH-I535. Additionally, if this is the Galaxy S III variant that will [...]
Prior to Samsung’s May 3rd event to unveil the Galaxy S III flagship Android smartphone, accessories-maker Colorant has released a screen protector dubbed the Ultimate Screen Guard for the device. The leaked screen protector reveals some tidbits about the dimensions of the phone, including the fact that the Galaxy S III may support a display [...]
Back in February, HTC announced the HTC One X, it’s next flagship smartphone. Soon after, AT&T revealed that it would be carrying a 4G LTE version of the device with a Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor instead of a quad-core processor. Needless to say, HTC had me and many others intrigued by this phone, a phone [...]
In just two short days, Samsung will host its Unpacked event in London where the company will unveil its ‘Next Galaxy’ smartphone. That phone is presumed to be the Samsung Galaxy S III, a device that has been rumored to be a lot of different things. Regardless of the uncertainties, let’s be clear. Those looking [...]
An alleged new photo of a device that may or may not be the elusive Samsung Galaxy S III has shown up on film today, posing for the camera a mere two days ahead of Samsung’s event in London where it will announce the name and specifications of the ‘Next Galaxy’ device. This latest leak [...]
Last week’s “Wake Up” protest outside a Sydney Apple store wasn’t a Samsung campaign, but a RIM marketing campaign. According to The Age, RIM has confessed that it was the company behind the campaign which featured fake protesters dressed all in black chanting “wake up” outside an Apple store. The BlackBerry maker admitted the campaign is [...]
Samsung will be announcing its ‘Next Galaxy’ device at an event in London on May 3rd. And while there has been a lot of speculating about what the device may or may not, there hasn’t been much speculation on which American carriers will see the device. So, we here at Gotta Be Mobile have taken [...]
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With a bit of a lull during the past couple of months, the Android market is once again heating up as manufacturers are finally starting to deliver the devices that they promised all the way back in the beginning of the year. That means that several of the devices that have been included on our [...]
There has been a lot of back and forth about the size of the display on the Samsung Galaxy S III and it appears that we may have finally gotten some closure. KnowYourMobile has leaked a photo of what is purportedly a photo of the elusive Samsung Galaxy S III. The device is placed against [...]
Samsung Canada has announced that Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for select Galaxy devices will begin rolling out to some owners today and that it will be hitting more devices and devices on carriers throughout this quarter. The company sent out an email, which was received by Mobile Syrup, exclaiming that the update “will be [...]
A recent guerrilla marketing promotion outside an Australian Apple retail store was believed to have been orchestrated by South Korean rival Samsung, but the Android Galaxy-maker has now said that it was not responsible for the promotion. The marketing stunt involved a large black bus and a cadre of people wearing cloaked in black attire [...]
Verizon had a chance to make the Samsung Galaxy Nexus experience a special one, but unfortunately, it dropped the ball. Big Red was the first American carrier to play host to the Galaxy Nexus, the first device toting Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. I, like many others, bought the device thinking that [...]
It appears that the Samsung Galaxy S III might not only be coming with Android as a new rumor pegs the company as possibly releasing a Galaxy S III type phone running Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 sometime during the fall of this year. The new rumor comes from WP-Life who says that a trusted source [...]
It appears that some new Samsung Galaxy Nexus owners on Sprint have been greeted with a nasty little surprise on their brand new 4G LTE smartphone. It appears that some owners are experiencing data connection issues and while it’s unclear just how widespread the issue is, Sprint and Samsung are both aware of the issue. [...]
Samsung Galaxy Nexus owners on Verizon have been waiting for nearly five months for an update to their Nexus smartphone, an unheard of length for a Nexus device. Well, an Android engineer may have shed light on the reason behind it and lo and behold, fault likely lies with Verizon. Comments made by Android software [...]
Samsung posted a record $5.2 billion profit for the first quarter of 2012, with sales pushing it above Nokia to become the world’s largest mobile phone vendor. According to Reuters, Samsung sold a total of 93.5 million phones last quarter, including both feature phones and smartphones. Almost half, 43.5 million, of the phones were smartphones. [...]
Samsung’s obsession with Apple is getting worse as the company is now hiring marketing agencies to stage protests outside Apple stores in Australia. According to Mumbrella, courtesy of Android and Me, the marketing agency Pulse dispatched a group of protesters to stand outside Apple stores chanting at those inside to “wake up.” The protesters didn’t [...]
Samsung has announced that it will be announcing its ‘Next Galaxy’ smartphone at an event in London on May 3rd. The device will replace the wildly successful Samsung Galaxy S II which launched worldwide in 2011. Unlike many Android phones, the device that might be called the Galaxy S III has managed to stay mysterious [...]
Yesterday, we thought the Samsung Galaxy S III specifications were all but confirmed but today, a new leak has disputed those specifications and offered some new ones of its own. SamMobile has leaked a user manual for a device called the GT-I9300 which is thought to be the Galaxy S III. The manual not only [...]
A new Verizon leak hints at some of the phones we can expect from the carrier in the summer and fall of 2012, including the Galaxy S III, a new Galaxy Note competitor, and the iPhone 5. According to sources talking to BGR we can expect to see a lot more Android on Verizon in [...]
If there are any doubts that quad-core Exynos processing power may not make it to Samsung’s next-generation flagship Galaxy smartphone, those doubts should be laid down to rest as the Galaxy S III is now confirmed by Samsung’s chip-making arm to utilize the quad-core Exynos processor based on the ARM CPU architecture. The quad-core Exynos [...]
With Samsung’s success of the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note, a device that straddles the smartphone and tablet form factor and has been lovingly dubbed the ‘phablet,’ it seems other manufacturers have taken note of the Note. South Korean rival LG had debuted the LG Vu, which has a similarly large display in a smartphone at Mobile [...]
Despite Samsung’s own confirmation that the Galaxy S III will be using the company’s in-house ARM-based quad-core Exynos processor, an un-named Samsung executive was quoted as saying that U.S. variants of the smartphone will be relying on rival Qualcomm’s dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor. That executive stated that the company will release different variants of its [...]
We’ve seen a lot of leaks about Samsung’s next Galaxy smartphone but as of now, the official name of the device is unknown. On May 3rd, Samsung will be announcing the next Galaxy smartphone. The smartphone is set to replace the wildly popular Samsung Galaxy S II which replaced the original Galaxy S back in [...]
The Samsung Galaxy S3 or Galaxy S III isn’t expected to make its debut until May 3rd but it appears that the device’s specifications have been all but confirmed by an AnTuTu benchmark. The benchmark, first dug up by Droid-Life, seems to reveal the key specifications of one of the most anticipated smartphone launches of [...]
Today is a pretty big day for T-Mobile USA, those looking to get a smartphone on T-Mobile, those looking to get a smartphone, and smartphone lovers in general. The HTC One S has arrived on T-Mobile’s network which means T-Mobile has its first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone and the United States has its [...]
The first Google Nexus smartphone, the Nexus One, was made by HTC. The last two, the Nexus S and the Galaxy Nexus, were made by Samsung. Well, it appears that Google has once again tapped Samsung to make its Nexus smartphone. According to a report from Digitimes, Google and Samsung are collaborating on the next [...]
In February, I said all eyes should be on Verizon this quarter to see if the Droid refresh could push back the iPhone’s advance. Well, it helped but iPhone still beat all other Verizon smartphones combined. Good news for Apple, not so good for Android.
For T-Mobile customers who have been eyeing AT&T subscribers with envy with their 5.3-inch Galaxy Note Android smartphone, the latest leaked image of the large phone should replace a lot of that jealousy with hopeful anticipation. We’ve heard that the Galaxy Note would be coming to T-Mobile USA’s 4G HSPA+ network through a leaked user [...]
In the latest leaked image of a device that is widely believed to be the third-generation flagship Samsung Galaxy S III (or Galaxy S3), it appears that Samsung is taking extra precautionary measures to keep the design of the phone secret by hiding the device inside what appears to be a plastic housing that resembles [...]
Earlier today, Samsung revealed specifics on which of its devices in the United States would see the upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The manufacturer detailed, specifically, which devices on which carriers would be getting the upgrade in the days ahead. And while it detailed devices on AT&T, Sprint and Verizon, the space for [...]
Another day, another carrier confirming that it will be carrying the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III, a device that is slated to be announced on May 3rd. Yesterday, Vodafone UK revealed that it would be carrying the “Next Galaxy” smartphone and today, another UK carrier has hopped on board with O2 confirming that it too [...]
It’s still unclear if Samsung will debut its third-generation Android flagship smartphone as the Samsung Galaxy S III or the Galaxy S3, but according to the Samsung Unpacked Mobile 2012 app available on Google’s Play Store, it appears that the smartphone is listed as the Galaxy S3. A departure from the Roman numeral in the [...]
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