After much anticipation Samsung has just announced its newest flagship phone, the Galaxy S III, in London. The phone has a 4.8-inch Super AMOLED display at 720p resolution, a 8-megapixel primary and 1.9-megapixel front-facing cameras that start up in 990ms, 16 or 32GB of storage, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, and a 2,100mAh battery. As rumored the device is also powered by the [...]
Today is a big day for Samsung. The South Korean company released fantastic numbers in its Q1 report, yet interestingly it didn’t mention an even greater achievement. According to research firm Strategy Analytics Samsung just surpassed Nokia as the biggest phone maker in the world. This quarter Samsung shipped 93.5 million handsets (44.5 million were smartphones) while [...]
Samsung once again seems a little too eager about their upcoming May 3rd phone event. The company released information on the chip to power the next Galaxy S phone. Its called the ”Exynos 4 Quad” and will run at 1.4GHz per core. The chip is based on ARM Cortex A9 architecture and has advanced power management features. The Exynos 4 Quad will be [...]
Samsung’s support pages are now showing the phones on US carriers set to receive an upgrade to Android 4.0. On AT&T, the Galaxy S II, Galaxy S II Skyrocket, Captivate Glide, Galaxy Note, Nexus S, and Galaxy Tab 8.9 will all be upgraded. On Verizon the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 7.7 will be upgraded. On Sprint the [...]
Samsung is continuing to raise the hype ahead of their announcement for the next Galaxy S phone on May 3rd. Today’s hype comes from a teaser video that dares watchers to ”stand out from everyone else.” It seems that this “everyone else” are sheep….iSheep that is. In regular Samsung fashion the video provides little other information. We don’t even get [...]
Samsung has just sent out invitations for a May 3rd event in London to show off the ’next Galaxy’ phone. So far Samsung has not mentioned how it will name the successor to its Galaxy S II devices. They could just continue the naming scheme and use Galaxy S III or they could add a new name. The Galaxy S II [...]
HTC has announced a new One line of smartphones at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. The intent of this new product family is to unite the brand under one unified name. According to HTC the One brand is “focused entirely on customer experience.” This focus is being accomplished through an emphases on industrial [...]
Andy Rubin has often used his Twitter account to spread the good news of Android’s growth. This Christmas season is no exception. Rubin announced that over Christmas, 3.7 million Android Devices were activated.
There have been quite a few reports lately of volume problems on the Galaxy Nexus. Posts on various forums say the phone will sometimes experience random muting, and mixed response from the Nexus’ volume rocker.It seems that the issue has something to do with the use of the 2G 900 MHz frequency used by many [...]
A very interesting picture leaked out this morning of a ultra-thin design for a new LG smartphone. The phone is rumored to be called the LG Optimus U1. We know that this phone will be appearing on the LG owned South Korean carrier U+, but no word on a US release. We don’t know how [...]
Analysts are reporting that HTC may have beaten Apple and Samsung in handset market share for Q3 2011. HTC which makes popular Android phones such as the Thunderbolt, Evo 3D, Sensation and Inspire 4G have shipped 5.7 million devices in Q3. Samsung comes in at 4.9 and Apple has only 4.2. But this trend is [...]
Those of you still rocking the original Nexus One probably have been waiting on the edge of your seat to see if you will get Android 4.0. Well I am sorry to say that it is now official… that you will not. It seems that the Nexus One’s older internals are just not up to [...]
Good news everyone looking to turn their new Ice Cream Sandwich phone into a gaming console. You can! With a handy USB-to-microUSB adapter you can be playing games with a controller in no time. Now we are sure that developers are going to love this new addition. In fact we are sure some of them [...]
Good news all those who hate having carrier installed apps on your android phone. Whether is be some NASCAR live tweeting app or NFL game day horoscope you now have full control. Thisismynext is confirming that Ice Cream Sandwich will let you disable any app of your choosing (even the browser). After disabling, the app [...]
As many of you know Google has just launched their new version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich. Now there are many new features in Android 4.0 so instead of talk about each of them we are going to show you what is new according to Google’s Android Web Site.We will have further analysis and discussion [...]
Last night Google and Samsung announced the new flagship phone for Verizon and Google in Hong Kong. The phone has been named the Galaxy Nexus and is sporting a 4.65-inch 1280 x 720 HD Super AMOLED screen . It has a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB or 32GB internal memory, a 1750mAh battery, [...]
Motorola has just pulled the cloth off their new creation. The Droid RAZR (formally known as the Spyder) Its packing LTE for Verizon, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB RAM, an 8-megapixel camera with 1080p video capture, and a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED qHD display. Also its a staggeringly thin 7.1mm thick, in fact it could be [...]
Ahead of the Nexus Prime / Ice Cream Sandwich event that starts tonight at 10pm (Eastern), it seems some information has leaked out. Japan’s NTT docomo has leaked out the supposed specs as well as a picture of the next Google Nexus. Now we don’t know for sure how correct this leak is, but its [...]
Android Police has come across some icons that seems to spell out one thing. That Google is working on a photo editor for Ice Cream Sandwich’s image gallery. All we have now is some icons for editing options and adding effects. We will post more info as we get it. Enjoy. Source: [...]
After Google and Samung postponed the announcement of Ice Cream Sandwich and the Nexus prime that was supposed to happen yesterday they said they would reschedule soon. Well it seems that soon is not that far away. Their Unpacked event has been moved to the 19th in Hong Kong to coincide with AsiaD. We will [...]
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