100 million Galaxy S series shipped Samsung today announced that it has shipped over 100 million Galaxy S smartphones until now. The original Galaxy S (GT-I9000) was released back in 2010, and has reached sales of more than 20 million units. The Galaxy S II (GT-I9100), released in April 2011, and has seen 40 million units shipped. This leaves a chunk of 40 million shipped units for the current flagship, the Samsung Galaxy S III (GT-I9300). The Galaxy S III was launched in May 2012, making it 7 months old. Estimates put that the Galaxy...
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Samsung Galaxy S II Plus Samsung today announced the Galaxy S II Plus. However, the updated model doesn’t really feature anything new except for Android 4.1. Jelly Bean with Touchwiz Nature UX and less internal memory. Specs include a 4.3-inch WVGA Super AMOLED Plus display, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, and 8MP and 2MP rear and front facing cameras respectively. Internal memory has shrunk from 16GB to just 8GB, but it’s still expandable by a microSD card (up to 64GB). Positioning was beefed up with the addition...
Samsung Windows Phone proto with flexible Youm display Samsung today showed off its latest development in flexible display technologies called Youm. In 2011, Samsung told investors that it would ship smartphones with flexible screens in 2012. Well, it’s 2013 already and we don’t have a device with a flexible screen in our hands. However, during Samsung’s Youm demo at CES this year, Microsoft’s chief technical strategy officer Eric Rudder marched on stage to show a working Windows Phone prototype with Samsung’s...
Samsung Exynos 5 Octa processor Samsung just dropped a massive bombshell at CES by announcing an 8-core mobile CPU! The new SoC goes by the name Exynos 5 Octa. The processor builds on the 28nm processor, and uses ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture. The Exynos 5 Octa will automatically switch between performance and energy-efficient modes. Samsung claims that the new SoC will help achieve a 70 percent increase in battery life. ...
Samsung Galaxy Advance Samsung has just began pushing out Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to Russian Galaxy S Advance devices. The build is based on Android 4.1.2 that was built on December 18th. SamMobile reports that other countries will not see this update delivered until March. Those in Russia should fire up Samsung KIES and look for updates. Happy updating Samsung Galaxy S Advance Jelly Bean firmware details:OS: Android 4.1.2 Date: December 18th Changelist: 660490 PDA: I9070XXLPY CSC: I9070SERLPY MODEM: I9070XXLPY...
Samsung Galaxy S II Jelly Bean update Samsung Korea just released a document that highlights features that a future update will bring to the Galaxy S II. The biggest change is obviously that Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich will be updated to Android 4.1. Jelly Bean. A timeframe was not given at the time of writing this post, but the fact that Samsung Korea already has a document ready to go, I’d say that the update can’t be far. The latest update can not be applied as an over the air update, meaning you’ll have to use...
Samsung Galaxy Camera Samsung has just began pushing out Android 4.1.2 for the Galaxy Camera. Those keeping track, this update is dubbed BLL7. The update will add features that are found on the Galaxy Note 2. One of these is the improved Gallery app. The usual stability and performance improvements are also in place ...
Samsung Galaxy S IV coming in May 2013 Samsung Lebanon might just have accidentally slipped that the Galaxy S IV will launch in May 2013. While a Facebook post doesn’t really provide concrete proof, it’s a good start. Reuters earlier reported that the Galaxy S IV will launch in April, 2013. Samsung has usually announced a new Galaxy S flagship in Q2. The original Galaxy S was launched in June, the Galaxy S II in April and the Galaxy S III in May. So a rumored launch of April or May for the Galaxy S IV doesn’t really...
