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Samsung Series 9 Special Edition Ultrabook Arrives in the US

Remember those Special Edition Samsung Series 9 notebooks that went on sale in South Korea at the end of last year? Well, UberGizmo now says that the Ultrabook is now also available in the US, sporting a stylish Night Blue color decorated with a series of crystals for an extra touch of class. Measuring just 0.64-in...

14 February 2012
11:50 GMT

Samsung's Chairman Sued by His Brother over Inheritance

In a move that may or may not be surprising, depending on how much of Samsung's legal troubles one is acquainted with, the chairman of the company just got slammed with a lawsuit of his own. In this instance, at least, it is not Samsung, as a company, that is feeling the hard part of the gavel, but its chairma...

14 February 2012
06:02 GMT

Samsung Wave 3 (SHW-M410) Launched in South Korea

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has just announced the availability of its Samsung Wave 3 (SHW-M410) smartphone on the homeland market. The smartphone will be released on the airwaves of wireless carrier KT with a price tag of 400,000 won ($356 / 270 Euros) attached to it. The handset packs appealing hard...

14 February 2012
05:21 GMT

GALAXY Note Coming Soon to Vodafone Australia

Australian mobile phone users will soon be able to purchase a new high-end Android-based smartphone on the airwaves of local carrier Vodafone, namely the Samsung GALAXY Note. The handset has already been rumored to be on its way to Australia, and now all is official, as Vodafone has confirmed via its Twitter accoun...

14 February 2012
03:50 GMT

UK May Get Samsung's 55-Inch OLED TV This Spring

Looks like that 3D-ready OLED TV we last saw at CES 2012 may be headed to the shores of the United Kingdom. Even though it wasn't expected before summertime, the company reportedly told CNET that it had sped things up quite a bit. In other words, the product is now scheduled for a release during spring. Al...

14 February 2012
03:23 GMT

Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE Approved for Europe

Soon, Samsung might bring to the market in Europe the LTE-enabled flavor of its Galaxy Tab 8.9 tablet PC, recent reports suggest. The South Korean mobile phone maker has just got its device approved for use on the old continent, which suggests that it might not be too long before it arrives on shelves. Featuring ...

13 February 2012
16:31 GMT

Olympus Finances Take a Dive in 2011, $412 Million Loss

Olympus may be the target of Samsung, Sony, Fujifilm and Panasonic, but that doesn't mean it is doing that well for itself. In fact, the Japanese company has reported highly unfavorable financial results for the year 2011. Even with strong camera sales (up 7.2 percent on year), and the top BCN ranking for 20...

13 February 2012
10:41 GMT

Samsung Makes GALAXY Tab 2 (7.0) Official

Today, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has announced the upcoming availability of a new flavor of its GALAXY Tab tablet PC, one that runs under Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. The new GALAXY Tab 2 (7.0) brings along great multimedia capabilities, along with all o...

13 February 2012
09:18 GMT

Apple Seeks to Block Galaxy Nexus in the US

Apple has filed another ITC complaint against South Korean mobile phone Samsung, this time in the United States, in an attempt to ban sales of a series of mobile phones in the country. Among them we can count the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, a handset that was launched in the United States in November last year, and whic...

13 February 2012
09:11 GMT

New Samsung Galaxy S III Concept Emerges

During the first half of the ongoing year, Samsung is expected to bring to the market the successor of its highly popular Galaxy S II smartphone. The company has yet to confirm an official release date for it, along with specs and the like, but that does not stop enthusiasts from imagining what the mobile phone wil...

13 February 2012
01:47 GMT

Samsung Reveals Ivy Bridge Laptop Two Months Too Soon

It is not strange to hear that Samsung is preparing mobile PCs based on Intel's next generation of CPUs, but to see the company jump the gun by several months is, at the very least, unexpected. It so happens that Samsung somehow managed to post the product page of an Ivy Bridge laptop two months too soon. Th...

11 February 2012
03:44 GMT

IBM, GloFol and Samsung to Talk 450mm Wafers, 20nm & 14nm Chip Production

During the 2012 Common Platform technology forum, scheduled to take place in Santa Clara, California, in mid-March, IBM, Globalfoundries and Samsung Electronics plan to preview their next-generation chip fabrication technologies. The presentations held by representatives of these companies, who together form the Com...

10 February 2012
16:01 GMT

Ice Cream Sandwich for Samsung Galaxy S II in Three Weeks

Samsung might start rolling out the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system on Galaxy Nexus as soon as March 1st, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest. Apparently, all will depend on the country and on the carrier that has the Galaxy S II on its airwaves, but the update is near. The news comes f...

10 February 2012
05:26 GMT

250,000 Smart TVs Denied Internet, Samsung Gets Ready to Sue

Samsung is none too happy about how, just the other day, hundreds of thousands of its Smart TVs got suddenly cut off from the Internet. For those that missed the report yesterday (February 9, 2012), South Korean Internet provider KT decided to cut off web access to the apps loaded on Samsung Smart TVs. The reason ...

10 February 2012
04:00 GMT

Samsung GALAXY Tab 8.9 LTE to Be $649.99 at TELUS

Tomorrow, wireless carrier TELUS will make available for purchase in Canada its first LTE-capable devices, coinciding with the launch of the 4G network. Among these devices, we can count the Samsung GALAXY Tab 8.9 LTE, which is already listed on the wireless carrier’s website as coming soon. Today, we have lear...

9 February 2012
16:01 GMT

Samsung Plans Android Cameras, Files "Galaxy Camera" Trademark

The Android operating system has proven to be quite versatile, enough so that Samsung has decided to use it in a series of photo and video cameras. There was no announcement revealing any such product though. However, the fact that Samsung has such designs can be inferred from the latest trademark that the company ...

9 February 2012
09:35 GMT

Hundreds of Thousands of Samsung Smart TVs Lose Internet App Access

Samsung's smart TVs may be suffering from a severe case of being too good for their own good, in its home market at least. KT, the largest fixed-line operator in that country, has decided to deny Internet access to the apps loaded on Samsung Smart TVs. Apparently, those things eat up too much bandwidth, so dow...

9 February 2012
09:16 GMT

Samsung GT-P3100 Tablet Confirmed, Likely a Budged Android Device

The user agent profile for the Samsung GT-P3100 has emerged, answering certain questions that have surely circulated all over the web ever since the rumors about an 11.6-Inch 2560 x 1600 tablet started. Some time after the info about that super tablet leaked, another piece of info came to the Internet's attent...

9 February 2012
03:13 GMT

Galaxy Nexus Arrives at Videotron, $149.95 on Contract

Galaxy Nexus is the latest Android-based smartphone that has arrived on shelves at Videotron. Today, the smartphone is available for purchase for the wireless carrier’s users both on contract and at full retail. The first smartphone in the world to run under Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich oper...

8 February 2012
15:01 GMT

Thin Samsung ST77 Camera Launched in South Korea

While it gets ready to make a strong push on the display market, Samsung is also operating on the camera segment, where it most recently prepared the ST77. Launched in South Korea, the product is a particularly thin camera based on a 16.7-megapixel sensor. It also boasts a 25mm wide-angle lens and 5x optical zoom, ...

8 February 2012
10:39 GMT

Samsung Wants to Sell 50m TVs in 2012, 25m Smart TVs

Samsung has a clear idea of how it wants its TV business to progress this year, and the numbers are quite ambitious. For the entirety of 2012, the company wants to reach flat-panel TV shipments of around 50 million, half of which will be smart TVs. As a reminder, smart TVs are TVs which also have Internet connectiv...

8 February 2012
10:19 GMT

Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE Coming Soon at Telstra in Australia

Australian mobile phone carrier Telstra is set to bring to the country a new series of devices that will provide users with access to its LTE network, and tablet PCs might also be included among them. Moreover, rumor has it that the wireless carrier could plan the launch of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE tablet...

8 February 2012
06:01 GMT

Samsung Announces Press Event for March 22nd in France

Samsung is gearing up for a press event in France as soon as March 22nd. The South Korean mobile phone maker has already announced plans for that, but did not unveil what would be launched at the meeting. However, rumors on the matter have already started to emerge, and some suggest that the vendor might announce ...

7 February 2012
13:11 GMT

Samsung Offers Free Apps to Android and Bada Users for Valentine’s Day

Samsung is trying to make its Samsung Apps marketplace the favorite downloading place for Android and bada users. The Korean handset maker already offered several promotions in the past few months and now is back with another one.To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Samsung has just kicked off a new promotion that inc...

7 February 2012
12:57 GMT

Galaxy S III to Be Incredibly Thin When Launched in May

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is gearing up for the release of a new flagship device in the Galaxy S line, supposedly called Galaxy S III. The smartphone did make it to the headlines a few times before, but some more info on it is now available, complemented by details on its possible release. Apparent...

7 February 2012
08:41 GMT

Have a Look at Samsung’s Super Bowl Commercial

Samsung has been pushing its mobile phones hard to the US market lately, especially with video ads that bite at Apple. A new such commercial is now available for your viewing pleasure. This is none other than Samsung’s 90-second Super Bowl XLVI spot, which was aired on Sunday, and which stars the company&rsqu...

6 February 2012
02:21 GMT

Samsung Champ Deluxe DUOS Officially Introduced in India

Yesterday Samsung announced the upcoming availability of yet another dual-SIM feature-phone, the Champ Deluxe DUOS.   Shortly after Samsung’s announcement, the phone hit shelves in India. Even though the Korean handset manufacturer suggested a retail price of Rs 4790 (100 USD or 75 EUR) for the Champ Delux...

3 February 2012
03:39 GMT

Samsung Preps Champ Deluxe and Champ Deluxe DUOS Phones

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is getting ready to launch two new affordable handsets in the Champ family, namely Champ Deluxe and Champ Deluxe DUOS Basically, they are the same device, only that the DUOS version offers support for dual-SIM configurations, expanding the capabilities users can benefit from. ...

3 February 2012
02:21 GMT

Samsung Galaxy S III Might Be Launched in April

The successor of Samsung’s flagship Android-based Galaxy S II might not make an official appearance before April this year, some of the latest reports around the Internet suggest. Samsung has previously confirmed that the mobile phone, supposedly called Galaxy S III will not be unveiled at the Mobile World Cong...

2 February 2012
11:57 GMT

Unannounced Samsung Smartphone Spotted with Android 4.0

Samsung is gearing up for the release of some “appealing devices” at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month, and one of them appears to have just leaked online. A press photo of one of the upcoming Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich handsets from Samsung has made an appearance online, court...

2 February 2012
11:09 GMT

Samsung and Corning Enter Partnership for Lotus Glass OLED

Corning may be enthusiastic about the Gorilla Glass 2, but it will also have a hand in the new OLED technology that Samsung hopes to eventually use in its products. Samsung and Corning have just announced a partnership dedicated to the development of a new display technology. Samsung will combine its OLED display...

2 February 2012
10:54 GMT

Galaxy S II Plus Benchmarked with 1.5GHz CPU, Android 2.3.5

In addition to the already confirmed successor to Samsung’s Galaxy S II, the one that the South Korean mobile phone maker is set to unveil to the world in the first half of the year, we might see another handset launched in the series, one that has yet to receive a formal confirmation. Supposedly dubbed Gala...

2 February 2012
06:41 GMT

Alleged Images of Galaxy S III Emerge

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is gearing up for the release of a successor for its Galaxy S II smartphone, one that might arrive on shelves under the name of Galaxy S III. The company has already confirmed plans to launch the Galaxy S II successor in the first half of the ongoing year, during a Samsung hos...

2 February 2012
05:47 GMT

Samsung Sells Over 700,000 Galaxy Note Units in South Korea

Samsung has managed to sell over 700,000 Galaxy Note devices in its homeland country South Korea since the official release of the new device. Galaxy Note was launched in South Korea in November, with LTE connectivity capabilities. The mobile phone maker has confirmed that this number actually shows the sales to c...

2 February 2012
01:53 GMT

Samsung GT-P3100 and GT-P5100 Tablets in the Works

Leaks really have a tendency of cropping up when and where people least expect them, as proven by Samsung's GT-P3100 and GT-P5100 tablets. These two are products that Samsung hasn't even hinted at, but that didn't stop a completely different source from spilling the beans. It was in the database of...

1 February 2012
14:11 GMT

This May Be Samsung's Windows 8 Tablet SoC, Exynos 5450

According to PhoneArena, Samsung is preparing more than the still unannounced Exynos 5250 System-on-Chip. In fact, the company is building something called the Exynos 5450, a quad-core platform operating at 2GHz (the cores themselves are Cortex-A15). The report also mentions the Mali-658 as the graphics processing ...

1 February 2012
11:29 GMT

Firmware for all Samsung Blu-ray Players Available

As we promised, we're bringing you now the latest software for the Samsung Blu-ray players which are currently supported. Even though Samsung stopped listing many of the Blu-ray players on their index (and kept only the latest generation ones), we know that there are a lot of owners out there who are looking to...

1 February 2012
10:35 GMT

Samsung Also Preps Series 7 Smart Station Monitors

If anyone was wondering, Samsung has a monitor/docking station hybrid almost ready to start shipping, not just ultrabooks and netbooks for kids. Being involved in so many different IT industry segments, Samsung often launches things in a set instead of releasing items one by one. In this instance, the company has...

1 February 2012
10:21 GMT

Samsung, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic and Others Seek Bond with Olympus

After a debunked rumor about possibly acquiring Olympus' camera business, Samsung is reported to be seeking ties with the company for its other assets. In short, Samsung wants a partnership with Olympus, reportedly because of the latter's expertise in making medical equipment. It is not alone in that ei...

1 February 2012
09:51 GMT

Samsung Confirms Galaxy S III for the First Half of 2012

Samsung will not bring the successor of its highly popular Galaxy S II smartphone to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month. The company said so last week, when announcing the financial results for the last quarter of 2011, and has confirmed it once again. Moreover, the vendor also announced that it p...

1 February 2012
06:01 GMT

Possible Launch Dates for Galaxy S III, Galaxy S II Plus and Galaxy Note S

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is reportedly gearing up for the release of a new series of high-end smartphones running under Google’s Android operating system, and some more info on them has emerged. One such device would be Galaxy S III, which made it to the headlines a few times before, and which ...

1 February 2012
05:35 GMT

Samsung Prepares Series 5 ULTRA Ultrabooks

Samsung may not yet be shipping the Series 5 ULTRA collection of mobile computers, but it will start to do so soon enough, so it went ahead and introduced the pair. The Series 5 ULTRA could be said to have a fairly self-explanatory name, since it is composed of Ultrabooks. There are, or there will be, both 13-inch...

1 February 2012
04:49 GMT

Samsung Builds Netbook for Kids, NC110-Pororo

It may not be known far and wide as the biggest promoter of netbooks, but Samsung does have a significant presence on that market, enough that it decided it was time for a particularly specialized entry-level PC. Samsung has announced the NC110-Pororo, a low-end mobile personal computer that has a very specific seg...

1 February 2012
02:49 GMT

Samsung Slapped with Antitrust Investigation by European Commission

If anyone thought Samsung's global clashes with Apple were bad, they were probably right, but they might be nothing compared to what the company just got slammed with. Long story short, the European Commission has launched an antitrust investigation against Samsung. The goal is to see if the company tried to s...

31 January 2012
11:00 GMT

Samsung Reading Two Ice Cream Sandwich Tablets for MWC 2012

It looks like Samsung has a few aces up its sleeve for this year’s Mobile World Congress trade fair. Rumors on the upcoming Galaxy S III have come and gone, but the handset maker has yet to confirm the launch of the smartphone during the trade fair.   Although initial rumors pointed to a possible Galaxy S ...

31 January 2012
08:12 GMT

New Hardware Version of Galaxy Nexus Under Development

In November last year, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung brought to the market the first smartphone in the world to run under Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, the Galaxy Nexus. The handset was made available with a TI OMAP 4460 dual-core application processor inside, with each ...

31 January 2012
02:10 GMT

Android 4.0 for Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note in Q1, Samsung Norway Says

Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note, two of the most popular Android-based devices from Samsung at the moment, are set to receive an update to the latest version of Google’s mobile OS before the end of this quarter. Samsung Norway has reiterated such plans once more, and posted on its Facebook page that the owners of...

31 January 2012
01:36 GMT

Galaxy Note at AT&T on February 19th, Pre-Orders This Week

AT&T has just announced the upcoming availability of Samsung’s Galaxy Note smartphone on its 4G LTE network, starting with February 19th. On that day, the large Galaxy Note will hit shelves with a price tag of $299.99 (227 Euros) attached to it, with the signing of a two year contract agreement. The smartpho...

30 January 2012
16:11 GMT

Samsung GALAXY S Advance Now Official

Today, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics announced the release of Samsung GALAXY S Advance, the latest addition to its popular GALAXY lineup of devices. The new mobile phone is expected to arrive on shelves in Russia in February, and should hit the market in CIS, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Sout...

30 January 2012
13:01 GMT

New Firmware for Samsung's Line of Blu-ray Players

We're spreading the word about new software intended for Samsung's new line of Blu-ray players, which also includes the splendid aluminum body 3D models. If you're a fan of extreme video quality and have decided to enter the world of Blu-ray fidelity, good for you! But if you're also thinking abou...

30 January 2012
10:47 GMT


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