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Samsung i9300 Galaxy S III’s battery performance shines

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Samsung i9300 Galaxy S III is the South Korean manufacturer's latest Quad-core flagship smartphone. Even months before it was released, there was much speculation about its battery. On its official release earlier this month, it was revealed that the phone would feature a 2100 mAh battery. Since then, we have all heard so much about the Samsung i9300 Galaxy S III's super powered battery. Does it live up to the hype or was it merely a necessary requirement to power the tremendous Quad-core Exynos processor? Thanks to testing by... (Keep reading..)

Samsung wants to sell 200 million smartphones in 2012

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Samsung has set high expectations this year and JK Shin revealed that the company is looking to sell 200 million smartphones this year.  This would increase its global market share to approximately 24%, which would be up from 21.1% last year, MarketWatch reported. So far this year, the company has sold 44.5 million smartphones during Q1 2012, which has propelled the company past Apple, becoming the top global vendor. Do you think Samsung will be able to meet their lofty goal? Source:  MarketWatch via BGR... (Keep reading..)

Samsung i9300 Galaxy S III tops performance benchmarks among popular rivals

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Samsung has officially revealed its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III, a beast of a device featuring an Exynos Quad-core 1.4GHz Cortex-A9 processor, Mali-400MP GPU, and 1GB of RAM. The new king of Samsung's smartphone dynasty has topped all major performance benchmarks for smartphones set up by experts at GSMArena, clearly indicating that the new device from world's top mobile phone vendor is smarter than its highly regarded predecessor, the Galaxy S II, and is here to stay. A summary of the benchmark tests carried... (Keep reading..)

Samsung scores Google’s next Nexus smartphone

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If Google is to live up to its own tradition of releasing one Nexus phone every year, the new Nexus release should not be too far away. Its current Nexus model, the Galaxy Nexus, was released in November 2011. According to information sources, newly crowned world's top mobile phone vendor Samsung has yet again secured the contract to develop Google's upcoming Nexus device owing to its innovation and extensive experience of Android operating system.   Source: Android and Me... (Keep reading..)

Samsung makes public Q1 2012 earnings, goes past Nokia as top mobile phone vendor

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South Korean company Samsung yesterday disclosed its Earnings Release detailing consolidated earnings for the first quarter of 2012. The Earnings Release shows that Samsung's operating profit has nearly doubled to an all-time high of 5.85 trillion Won (around $5.17 billion US) depicting an admirable year-on-year gain of 98%. According to research by Strategy Analytics, Samsung has been the star among mobile phone manufacturers during Q1 2012 and has been able to capture 25% of market share. It has now gone past Finnish giant Nokia in cellphone shipments for... (Keep reading..)

Samsung to Apple iSheep: Wake up

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Samsung is at it again and shaking up its rivalry with Apple in Australia.  Samsung hired marketing agency Tongue, which formed a campaign to protest customers at an Apple Store with the message, "Wake Up" to tell iOS users not to follow other iOS users. The company has also started a website to support its campaign, which also features a countdown time for the likely release of the new Samsung Galaxy. What do you think of the campaign?  Do you think that Samsung is taking the right approach? http://youtu.be/Ldq2tNLRDwA Source:  ... (Keep reading..)

Samsung may introduce very own cloud service

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Samsung is on the verge of coming up with its very own cloud service. If popular tech sites are to be believed, the service will be revealed when Samsung officially introduces its latest flagship smartphone at the upcoming May 3rd press event in London. Although this comes as a surprise while Samsung are defending themselves from Apple's claims of slavishly copying them, their new cloud service will be called the S-Cloud and is said to be similar to Apple's iCloud in basic functionality but promises to offer much... (Keep reading..)

Windows Phone Exec leaves after five months

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Marketing executive, Gavin Kim has left Microsoft after only five short months for mobile security company NQ Mobile to serve as Chief Product Officer.  Prior to Microsoft, Kim was VP of Content and Services at Samsung. So what does that for Microsoft and Windows Phone when one of the executives leaves after five months?  Well it doesn't speak highly, but it should of NQ Mobile as there are many from Samsung who have also left for the company.  Former VP of Strategy at Samsung, Omar Kahn is now the... (Keep reading..)

New Speculation On the Possible Number of Galaxies

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Speculation as to how many flagship devices a manufacturer can have and where a new one would fit into Samsung's line-up has started following invitations being sent out to journalists, offering them the chance to 'come and meet the next Galaxy'. At the core of the speculation is the Galaxy SII satisfying even the most stringent of critics and whether the Galaxy SIII can make a similar jump for users as the SII did for the Galaxy S. While the physical size of... (Keep reading..)

Apple vs. Samsung: The Withhold Sales Data Tactic

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Apple & Samsung have been at it again. Fronting the US Court of Appeal Apple's legal team claimed that it was enough to prove Samsung infringed on Apple's patents to support the argument that the allegedly infringing Samsung Galaxy line-up directly caused a loss of customers - ie: income - for Apple iPhones and iPads. In December 2011 a judge ruled against Apple on the basis that they did not provide enough information to substantiate their claimed... (Keep reading..)