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 [...]
The Galaxy Nexus has been out for a little over a month now. But up to now only the customers over at Verizon have been able to enjoy its Android 4.0 goodness. Thankfully that is all about to change. A page on Sprint’s website has just gone live showing the Galaxy Nexus on their network. [...]
Well we at the Technolon hate to be the bearers of bad news but today we have some. Samsung released the devices they will be updating to Ice Cream Sandwich on their site recently. The devices are the GALAXY S II, GALAXY S II LTE, GALAXY Note, GALAXY R, GALAXY Tab 10.1, GALAXY Tab 8.9, [...]
There has been a lot of talk lately of what is the perfect screen size for a tablet. Companies have released 5 inch tablets (Galaxy Note), 10 inch tablets (iPad), and almost every size in between. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is yet another screen size to add to the pile. Samsung’s new 8.9 inch [...]
Samsung has already announced that their flexible display technology will hit the market in 2012, but that has not stopped them from releasing a concept video. The futuristic concept video shows how a flexible and transparent display could revolutionize our lives. The clip in not in English but the visuals do a good job of [...]
The European owners of the Nexus Galaxy and now pretty familiar with the ICS volume rocker bug caused by 900MHz RF interference. But it looks like this problem will soon go away for good. Google released a statement today that said: “We’re currently rolling out a fix for the volume issue which will reach everyone [...]
We know pretty well that lately Samsung and Apple have not been on the best of terms. They have been suing each other constantly in an effort to weaken the other. Now it seems that Samsung has pushed this battle into advertising. The following ad holds back no punches. It makes fun of the entire [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
Google and Samsung have announced an even on October 11. The invitation promises we will “get a look at what’s new from Android.” This will most likely be the Samsung Prime or Nexus Prime. As many of you know this will be the first device to run Google’s new Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. [...]
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