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 [...]
Google and Oracle’s current legal battle has unearthed some very interesting pictures. Apparently in 2006 (two years before the release of the T-Mobile G1) Google pitched the “Google Phone” (shown above) to carriers. Google seems to have concentrated its efforts on getting T-Mobile on board. Slides emphasize how Google’s expertise combined with T-Mobile’s unlimited data plan [...]
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 [...]
The rumor mill has been buzzing for some time now about Google’s plan to release a cheap Android tablet that can compete with the Kindle Fire. Sources have claimed for some time that this would be a “Nexus” device (a pure Google experience). But now the Wall Street Journal is saying something even more interesting about [...]
There has been a lot of talk at Google lately over how Ice Cream Sandwich is going to end fragmentation and unite Android. Yet Google’s best wishes has not stopped hardware manufactures from toying with Android 4.0. Already we have seen leaked versions of what Samsung plans to do with the newest version of Android. [...]
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.
Lenovo launched the LePad S2005, S2007 and S2010 tablets in Beijing today. When the devices come to the US they will be called the IdeaTab line with the same model numbers. The smaller 5-inch S2005 is in the confusing space of not knowing if it is a tablet or a phone. It has a 800 [...]
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 [...]
Its no real suprise but Motorola has announced the new Xoom 2 and Xoom Media Edition. We have seen some different photos leaked for these devices over the last few months and there are not really any suprises. The design of the tablets is identical to the leaked photos. The Xoom 2 has 1.2GHz dual-core processor, [...]
In May 2011, Google released Chromebooks, the first computer to operate completely within the confines of the Google Chrome web browser. The release of Chromebooks takes cloud computing to an entirely new level, as the computers run completely in the cloud without any internal hard drive. There are currently two Chromebook models available: one by [...]
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 [...]
If you can remember the days when mobile phones let you phone people and not much else then you too probably find yourself wondering from time to time just what manufacturers could now do to add yet more features onto them. Now that the likes of iPhones and HTC models have cameras, GPS, internet access [...]
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: [...]
For those of you who don’t know Google has been planning to revamp Google TV for a while now. There has been talk of it running Honeycomb with access to the Android Market. The final add on to the SDK brings some new improvements that are nice. But more importantly this final ad on to [...]
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 [...]
The people over at Android Police have had pretty great luck lately with Ice Cream Sandwich leaks. Now they have really hit the jackpot. They have gotten their hands on a supposed version of the new Google Music App for Ice Cream Sandwich. They even have it available for download on their website. The new [...]
Samsung and Google have just released the following joint statement: Samsung and Google decide to postpone the new product announcement at CTIA Fall. We agree that it is just not the right time to announce a new product. New date and venue will be shortly announced. Now this is quite disappointing for those of us [...]
The Romanian site Mobilissimo.ro has posted video and pictures of what they claim to be a prototype of the Nexus Prime and its sweet Ice Cream Sandwich OS. Source: Mobilissimo.ro
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