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Samsung Omnia 2 on Verizon on December 2

Samsung Omnia 2 is a mobile phone that has been long rumored to become available in the United States on the airwaves of Verizon Wireless. Expected to arrive for about two months now, the handset is finally said to be on its way to the market with the mobile phone carrier and should become available for purchase as ...

20 November 2009
10:41 GMT

LiMo-Based Samsung SCH-M510 Launched in Korea

The Samsung SCH-M510 is the first mobile phone to feature LiMo that will become available for purchase in Korea, the LiMo Foundation announced recently. The new handset will arrive on the Korean market via wireless carrier SK Telecom, which joins operators like NTT DOCOMO and Vodafone in launching LiMo Compliant dev...

19 November 2009
08:44 GMT

Samsung Unveils 3G Ubicell Personal CDMA Base Station

On Monday, Samsung Mobile announced  the Samsung 3G Ubicell Personal CDMA Base Station, a new addition to its femtocell family of products, expected to reach the market in 2010. According to the company, the new 3G UbiCell can prove a great option for home or small office coverage, as it can work with existing h...

17 November 2009
13:31 GMT

Samsung ‘Galaxy Spica’ (I5700) Now Officially Available

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has made yet another step on the Android development road, materialized in the release of Samsung ‘Galaxy Spica’ (I5700), its fourth device sporting Google's operating system. Although the device has been rumored for a long time now and has been also launched ...

16 November 2009
04:02 GMT

Samsung Behold II Surfaces in Unboxing Video

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is one of the vendors that ventured on the Android road this year. The company already came to the market with four such handsets, one of which is the Samsung Behold II, which is expecting to be released on the airwaves of T-Mobile in the US as soon as November 18 is here. The...

13 November 2009
12:11 GMT

First bada-Powered Samsung Phone Leaked

Samsung bada is the operating system South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung announced only a couple of days ago to be included in its future smartphone roadmap, and now we've learned that the company is already working on a handset based on that OS. Moreover, a leaked image with the mobile phone also emerged in...

13 November 2009
09:53 GMT

Samsung Will Still Support Symbian

South Korean mobile phone maker Smasung has been rumored recently to plan removing Symbian from its future smartphone roadmap. However, some news site went even further, stating that the company is also intending to stop the support for the OS, due to the launch of its own mobile phone platform, called bada. While th...

13 November 2009
04:38 GMT

Business Homescreen for Samsung Omnia Pro B7330 from Orange

Wireless carrier Orange recently announced  the launch of a business homescreen on the new Samsung Omnia Pro B7330. According to the company, the new interface is available for its medium and large business customers and is meant to offer them fast access to email, voicemail, calendar, contacts, and custom...

11 November 2009
12:01 GMT

Samsung Confirms Symbian Divorce

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has recently been rumored to plan removing Symbian from its future roadmap, and DonJoo Lee, Senior Vice President of Samsung’s Mobile Communications Division and Digital Media & Communications Business, has just confirmed that. It seems that the company will o...

11 November 2009
03:54 GMT

Samsung Launches New Smartphone OS, bada

Samsung Electronics, the second largest mobile phone maker in the world, has just announced the launch of its own operating system for smartphones, called Samsung bada. According to the company, the new OS will arrive on the market in December, and is aimed at offering developers the possibility to come up with appli...

10 November 2009
10:28 GMT

Samsung to Focus on Android with Future Handsets

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung, the second largest handset vendor around the world, is reportedly getting ready to deliver to the market an increased number of devices powered by Google's Android operating system. In addition, the company is also said to plan leaving aside the development of Symbian-bas...

10 November 2009
09:02 GMT

Samsung Pays $1.3 Billion for Patent Licenses to Qualcomm

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics, the second largest handset vendor in the world, announced today that it reached an agreement with Qualcomm, according to which it woluld pay US$ 1.3 billion for the use of its patents. According to the phone manufacturer, the agreement includes the use of Qualcomm...

6 November 2009
16:41 GMT

Samsung Launches Its Wireless Olympic Works Platform

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics announced today the launch of its Wireless Olympic Works (WOW) communications platform. The company, which is the Official Worldwide Olympic Partner in Wireless Communications Equipment, is delivering publicly a solution that has been built to offer users the possib...

4 November 2009
08:48 GMT

Bell to Soon Launch Samsung Omnia II

Canadian mobile phone users will soon have yet another appealing handset to choose from, as Bell and Samsung announced a few days ago that the Samsung OMNIA II would soon become available in the country on Bell's airwaves. The new device will be available exclusively from Bell, and it will fit perfectly with the...

3 November 2009
05:27 GMT

Samsung Registers a Great Q3 2009

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics recently announced its financial results for the third quarter of the ongoing year, and posted $21.07 billion in revenue, on a net income of $3.1 billion. As the maker indicates, its third quarter operating income for the telecommunications unit was of 1.03 trillion...

31 October 2009
05:02 GMT

Samsung Omnia II Spotted with Windows Mobile 6.5

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics unveiled the Samsung Omnia II to the world not too long ago, a high-end nice looking handset that runs under Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system. The phone already reached the market with said version of the operating system on board, and now it is ...

28 October 2009
12:08 GMT

Samsung Selects Tele Atlas for Location Content

Leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location-based solutions Tele Atlas and South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics have announced today the signing of an agreement through which the latter's GPS-enabled devices will make use of the former’s maps. Ac...

27 October 2009
11:13 GMT

Samsung and Handmark Partner for Mobile Game Development

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics and Handmark, a world-leading creator and distributor of mobile applications and services, announced on Monday the launch of a new Global Venture Fund, aimed at investing in companies and/or individuals that come up with innovative market-changing game ideas that wo...

27 October 2009
06:55 GMT

Samsung Makes Investment in Fusion-io

Samsung, one of the world's leading vendors of NAND Flash memory solutions, has recently announced that it has invested in Fusion-io, a company that has been making headlines with the performance specifications of its ioDrive. The two companies have agreed to jointly evaluate technology for new SSD applications,...

21 October 2009
08:24 GMT

Samsung Rolls Out Two Lapfit Displays for Notebooks

Looking to market the success rate of today's portable computer systems, Samsung Electronics, one of the world's leading vendors of consumer electronics, has recently announced the debut of its new Lapfit monitors, the LD220G and LD190N, two LCDs that have been designed as a secondary display solution for l...

16 October 2009
08:51 GMT

Samsung Rolls Out Its Own-Branded Memory Cards

Samsung, one of the world's leading vendors of consumer electronics and storage products, has recently announced, in Taiwan, the introduction of its premium Samsung memory cards. Designed to compete with similar products from the likes of SanDisk, Kingston and others, the new Samsung-branded memory cards are ava...

16 October 2009
04:21 GMT

Samsung Intros Power-Efficient External Hard Drive

Trying to stay atop of its competitors, Samsung, one of the world's leading vendors of consumer electronics and computing products, has recently announced that its 3.5-inch external hard drive, dubbed STORY Station, will be the industry's first external hard drive to boast a standby power consumption below ...

15 October 2009
06:30 GMT

Samsung Blue Earth Comes to the Market

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has announced today the launch of its Samsung Blue Earth eco-friendly device, which comes to the market with a full-touch display. The handset was showed to the world for the first time back in February at the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona, and has already...

14 October 2009
06:38 GMT

Verizon's Omnia II in New Images

Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is expected to soon announce the availability of a new high-end device powered by Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, the Samsung Omnia II, which has been spotted recently at CTIA Wireless, and which still doesn't have an official launch date added to its n...

14 October 2009
05:45 GMT

Samsung's Smartphones to Feature Agito's Mobile Unified Communications

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung and Agito Networks, provider of innovative solutions in enterprise mobility, have recently announced a partnership through which Samsung's smartphones will receive the functionality of the first “server-based enterprise fixed mobile convergence (eFMC) and mobile Unif...

9 October 2009
16:51 GMT

Galaxy I7500 Unlocked on NewEgg, Galaxy I5700 in HD Images

Samsung's first ever mobile phone to come to the market with Google's Android operating system running on it, the Samsung Galaxy I7500, is now available for purchase in the United States. However, the best part of the news is yet to come, as the handset can be purchased unlocked from NewEgg, where it sports...

9 October 2009
10:22 GMT

Samsung Rolls Out the SyncMaster XL2370 LED Monitor

Samsung, one of the world's leading vendors of consumer electronics and a world leader in the segment for LCD screen products, has just announced the debut of its new premium LED monitor, the SyncMaster XL2370, a solution that is said to deliver a combination of a high-quality visual experience with an affordabl...

9 October 2009
05:08 GMT

Samsung Announces Upcoming AMOLED Screen Phones for the US

Mobile phone maker Samsung announced on Wednesday the upcoming series of handsets that would hit the US market with a Samsung AMOLED screen on board. Among the new devices we can count the Samsung Behold II and Samsung Moment, both of which have been already announced to come with Google's Android operating syst...

8 October 2009
05:41 GMT

Samsung Announces the Official Debut of Its First Internal Blu-ray Disc Combo Drive

Samsung, one of the world's leading vendors of consumer electronics and a major player in the market for personal computer systems, has announced today the launch of its first internal Blu-ray disc Combo unit, the SH-B083. Designed to provide a choice for computer users looking to upgrade their systems with the ...

8 October 2009
05:07 GMT

Samsung's Phones to Sport WeatherBug Widget

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has announced today that it has recently signed an agreement with WeatherBug, the leading provider of live, local weather information and services, for the inclusion of WeatherBug as the weather source for Samsung's new widget platform. The information from WeatherBug will...

6 October 2009
10:13 GMT

AT&T Shows Samsung and Pantech Phones with Enhanced Browsing Features

Wireless carrier AT&T is set to raise the bar when it comes to the browsing experience it can provide to its users, it seems, and will come to the market with a series of new devices able to provide that rich web experience every mobile phone user dreams about. Two of the new handsets come from Samsung and should bec...

5 October 2009
03:57 GMT

Samsung Intros 12MP AMOLED 12M Camera Phone

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics announced today officially the introduction on the market of its first 12-megapixel camera phone that sports 3x optical zoom lens, the Samsung AMOLED 12M (aka SCH-W880). According to the company, the new handset is set to come to the market in Korea in early October...

29 September 2009
08:58 GMT

Sprint's Instinct HD Available at Best Buy Come September 27

Wireless carrier Sprint announced on Thursday the upcoming availability of a new handset on its airwaves, the Samsung Instinct HD, the successor of Samsung Instinct, available with the operator since last summer. The new mobile phone will become available for purchase for Sprint's users starting with September 2...

25 September 2009
03:54 GMT

Samsung Launches New Corby Phone Models

Hot on the heels of the successful Samsung Corby (S3650), South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has announced today that it launched two new mobile phones that will fit into the Corby line, namely Samsung CorbyTXT and Samsung CorbyPRO. The new devices, the maker states, are aimed mainly at young handset users and c...

24 September 2009
04:21 GMT

Samsung Demoes 5MP SoC Image Sensor

Following the introduction of the two new 1GHz application processors based on ARM's CORTEX-A8 solution on Monday, Samsung has announced the S5K4EA, a 5-megapixel system-on-chip image sensor, its newest quarter-inch optical format. Designed mainly for smartphones and high-end handsets, the S5K4EA imager brings t...

23 September 2009
06:43 GMT

Photo of Verizon's Samsung Omnia II Spotted

The powerful Windows Mobile-based Samsung Omnia II is expected to make its way to Verizon Wireless' lineup in the near future, and now an image with the device has also emerged into the wild. The first thing that anyone who knows the Omnia II can already notice is that Verizon's version seems to be quite di...

22 September 2009
10:16 GMT

Samsung Announces Two 1GHz Application Processors

South Korean maker Samsung Electronics announced on Monday the introduction of two new 1GHz application processors that are based on ARM's CORTEX-A8 solution. The two CPUs, namely S5PC110 and S5PV210, are aimed mainly at advanced mobile devices, and, while the former goes for small form-factor connected devices,...

22 September 2009
06:58 GMT

Samsung's SSDs Optimize Performance in HP's ProLiant Servers

Samsung, one of the world's leading vendors of NAND Flash storage solutions, has recently announced that its 60GB and 120GB solid state drives (SSDs) have been selected for use as an option across the full range of HP's ProLiant G6 and G5 server systems. These severs have been built to support virtualized e...

18 September 2009
03:54 GMT

New Samsung Phones Headed for Canada

Canadian mobile phone users should get ready to welcome a series of new handsets from Samsung that are reportedly heading for the market in their country. The upcoming availability of these devices, namely Samsung Galaxy, Omnia II and Impact, should follow rather shortly after the launch of Samsung Reclaim on Bell�...

18 September 2009
03:20 GMT

Samsung Upgrades Omnia Series to Windows Mobile 6.5

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has announced today that it plans on upgrading five of its handsets included in the Omnia series to the upcoming Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system from Microsoft, namely the OmniaPRO B7610, OmniaPRO B7320, OmniaPRO B7330, OmniaLITE (B7300), and Omnia II (I8000). According to...

17 September 2009
05:33 GMT

MetroPCS Selects Vendors for 2010 LTE Launch

Unlimited, contract-less wireless communications service provider MetroPCS announced on Tuesday that it had selected the infrastructure and handset vendors for the launch of its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) Broadband services, slated for the second half of 2010. According to the company, Ericsson will be the infrastr...

16 September 2009
13:21 GMT

Samsung to Surpass ASUS and HP's Netbook Shipments in 3Q09

The netbook phenomenon has certainly been good to a number of industry players, helping major companies lower their losses when demand was down, while enabling others to debut on the market for portable computer systems. On that note, it appears that Samsung Electronics, one of the world's leading vendors of con...

16 September 2009
06:14 GMT

Paragon Delivers Its Solutions through Samsung's A-Store

Paragon Software Group, the worldwide leading developer of software solutions for mobile phones and PCs, and South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung announced today a partnership aimed at delivering Paragon’s mobile applications via the newly launched Samsung Application Store. The software portal delivers acce...

15 September 2009
17:11 GMT

Samsung Launches Genio Touch in the UK

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has launched today on the UK market a new touchscreen device, the Genio Touch, a handset that will come outside the UK under the name of Corby. The new mobile phone has been designed mainly for the young users in the country, the company states, and comes with a 2.8-inch QVGA t...

15 September 2009
09:58 GMT

Samsung's Application Store Goes Live

In a trend launched last year by Apple with the availability of its App Store for the highly popular iPhone, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung announced today the release of its Application Store, meant to provide Samsung smartphone users with access to a variety of applications designed for their devices. The ...

14 September 2009
07:03 GMT

Samsung 'Green Memory' Campaign Is About 40nm 2Gb DDR3

Samsung Electronics, one of the world's leading vendors of consumer electronics and computer components, has recently announced the debut of a new marketing campaign that is intended to promote its 40nm-based 2Gb DDR3 chips. The campaign, which has been titled “Green Memory,” is focused on providing ...

11 September 2009
06:56 GMT

Samsung Freeform Available on Alltel

Mobile phone carrier Alltel Wireless and Samsung Mobile announced on Thursday the launch of a new mobile phone on the operator's airwaves, the Samsung Freeform. The new candybar device comes to the market with a sleek and stylish design, while also including a series of features meant to appeal to Alltel's ...

11 September 2009
05:25 GMT

Samsung Rolls Out Another CULV X-Series Laptop

Much like almost all of the other PC vendors in the industry, Samsung Electronics has also jumped on Intel's CULV bandwagon, having recently announced the introduction of its new, ultraportable X-series laptops. The new lineup includes the X120, X420 and X520 we detailed in a previous article, but the South Kore...

10 September 2009
06:33 GMT

Samsung i7500 Galaxy Sees Firmware Update

South Korean mobile phone maker Smasung has just released a new firmware update for its first and only handset running under Google's Android operating system, the Samsung i7500 Galaxy. This is not the first software version the company releases for its device, and it seems that the bugs and glitches that the pr...

10 September 2009
05:53 GMT

T-Mobile USA Intros Samsung T659 Scarlet

Mobile phone carrier T-Mobile USA has just introduced a new mobile phone to its offering, namely the Samsung T659, also known as Samsung Scarlet. The new mobile phone comes to the operator's lineup in a sliding form factor, and proves itself to be a rather affordable device, which can deliver all the basic featu...

10 September 2009
03:42 GMT


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