Not content with just outmaneuvering Apple, Samsung’s sights are now set on a new competition — Blackberry. In a report by the NY Times, Samsung, which has sold the highest number of smartphones global-wide over the past year, has invested in new features on their Android software to make it highly secure for businesses. It [...]
All these years Apple has ruled Silicon Valley where its brightest minds work in a six-building main campus that houses labs, offices, a conference center, and its own Apple Company Store. In contrast, Samsung’s Silicon Valley headquarters, with its semiconductor and venture capital offices and R&D laboratory, are rather nondescript and not much of a [...]
CNN has just published a highly interesting story by Business Insider Steve Kovach about why Samsung, in terms of innovation, is outsmarting Apple. While Apple deserves all the world’s credit for introducing impressive and sophisticated mobile devices, it appears to have already been outrun by many of its competitors in the rat race of smartphone [...]
For almost a year the tech world has been on tiptoes waiting for Tizen, a new mobile operating system that could rival the open-source capability of Android, to be actually integrated into hardware. With Samsung’s plans to release their own Tizen-based smartphone in 2013, however, we might no longer have to wait for far too [...]
As 2012 draws to a close, Samsung will claim the title as the top cellphone brand for the year, toppling Nokia for the first time in as long as 14 years. This data is based on information published over at iSuppli. Apple, which manufactures smartphones strictly, will find itself in third place. Not only will [...]
Samsung is expected to add more to its collection of Android smartphones through the Dual-SIM Galaxy Grand, equipped with an 8-megapixel camera and 8GB of internal memory. In a post published at their official global blog, Samsung Electronics unveiled the Galaxy Grand, described to be a smartphone perfect for fast-paced users who expect a lot [...]
Apple has judiciously followed requirements of the UK Court of Appeal to publish newspaper advertisements stating that Samsung has not committed any infringement on its devices, reported TheNextWeb. Today – and one day after it received reproof on its failure to publish an apology on its site – Apple has published the first of several [...]
Research firm IDC has disclosed today details on smartphone and mobile shipments within the last quarter, with Samsung topping the top 5 list. According to IDC, the last quarter saw Samsung shipping a total of 56.3 million smartphones, specifically within the period of July 1 and September 30. This translates to a growth of 100.4% [...]
Apple’s win over Samsung is just HUGE : the company will be awarded over $1.05 billion damages. “In a verdict that would have warmed the heart of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, a federal jury on Friday handed Apple a resounding legal victory in its bitter patent war with Samsung, ordering the South Korean [...]
Written on 24 Aug 2012 by Vincent AbryThe numbers have spoken. In a press release made by market intelligence firm International Data Corporation or IDC, Apple has given way to Samsung as the top smartphone vendor for the second quarter of 2012. In their Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, IDC reported about the rate of growth of the mobile phone market worldwide, [...]
Last month Samsung made a bold sales prediction on their latest smartphone model, the Samsung Galaxy S3. The company predicted global sales for the S3 to pass the 10 million-unit-mark by July. Now, that prediction has come to life, as sales for the Samsung Galaxy S3 has already reached its 10 million mark and beyond, [...]
A British judge has ordered Apple to publish ads, saying “Samsung did not duplicate their iPad”, in magazines, newspapers and in their UK website. This ruling is the latest development in a string of battles concerning the patents of Apple and Samsung, specifically on their iPad and Galaxy tablets, reported Bloomberg. The previous year, Apple’s [...]
Rumors have been swirling around Samsung’s plans to release a new, improved version of their hugely popular Galaxy Note late this year. In a story published at UbuntuLife, the Galaxy Note 2 will come with a 5.5-inch display, a bit larger than the 5.3-inch display of the first-released Galaxy Note. The release date is slated [...]
Phablet Samsung Galaxy Note II is coming in October according to ubuntulife. Until now, the Galaxy Note smartphone is a big hit (contrary to 2010 Dell Streak…) with 7 million phones sold. Big screens are coming Big Time. Recently we saw a 4.8-inch screen for the new Samsung Galaxy SIII. This time the rumors about [...]
Written on 06 June 2012 by Vincent AbryNew Samsung television with kinect-control style, voice and facial recognition is so sexy. And not just geeks but all the men in this world will love it. Check at 0’23 oh my god this is the old spice guy! Look at the number of the room…. If you are still interested by the TV and [...]
Written on 31 May 2012 by Vincent AbryWith 9 million pre-orders on the Galaxy S III already recorded by Samsung late last week and with Vodafone and The Carphone Warehouse seeing accelerating demand for the recently-launched smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy SIII could very well be the Android phone with the most number of pre-orders in history. And Vodafone has already confirmed this [...]
The Samsung Galaxy SIII is now available to buy (pre-order) on Amazon.com website. The price : $799.99 US. “If you’re in the US and are dying to get your hands on a Samsung Galaxy S III, Amazon has come to your rescue. You can now pre-order a GT-i9300 Galaxy S III, which is the internationally-selling [...]
Written on 22 May 2012 by Vincent AbryFinally, here is the Samsung Galaxy SIII. Full details below. Specs : HD super AMOLED 4.8 inch with 1280 x 720 pixels (for info the Galaxy Nexus has a 4.65 inch screen, the Galaxy Note 5.3 inches and the Galaxy S2 had a 4.3 screen), 1.4 Ghz quadcore Exynos processor, 1 GB of RAM, Android [...]
Written on 03 May 2012 by Vincent AbryThe Next Web writes this is one of the “most anticipated unveiling of an Android device ever”. And it’s true. But will it make history ou will it just be another smartphone ? “The company recently quashed rumours it is incorporating a 3D display into future handsets, but has kept details of the new Galaxy [...]
Written on 03 May 2012 by Vincent AbryNew Samsung Galaxy SIII video was posted on vietnamese site Tinhte and shows more details about the Android smartphone. First, S3 name could not be SIII but rather codename GT-i9300. “Tinhte said that Samsung has used a fake outer shell designed to ensure the machine is not exposed until they are published.” The phone in [...]
Written on 21 April 2012 by Vincent Abry
