Samsung has signed a deal with Norton to provide Samsung Galaxy phones with 90 days of free Android security, replete with several features designed to allow users to remotely track down missing or stolen phones, a la Apple’s Find My iPhone feature, as well as malware protection. Is Samsung acknowledging Android’s inherent weaknesses? Read more
Samsung seems to be jumping ahead of Moore’s Law. If technology is doubling in power and halving in size every 18 months, then the smallest a Kinect unit could possible be would be about the size of a pack of cars. Not according to Samsung – the company has just developed a mobile phone camera built with a Kinect-style depth sensor. Read more
We’ve all been crowding around our RSS feeds for the past few months trying to eke out drops of information about the Samsung Galaxy SIII, but if newly leaked specs are anything to go by, we needn’t have worried. Samsung’s about to knock it out of the park. Read more
It’s a day of budget handsets, today, which points to a Mobile World Congress of more of the same. Moments after ZTE has unveiled its Mimosa X handset, Samsung has just rolled out refreshed Galaxy Ace and Galaxy Mini handsets. Hang on, though: today’s budget phones are starting to outrank yesterday’s flagships… Read more
The Apple vs Samsung ding dong is still raging in the US courts. Apple claims the Samsung Galaxy range, including the Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Galaxy Tab, is unreasonably inspired by the iPad and iPhone. Samsung obviously denies that. Now a Federal Judge has ordered Samsung to hand over a raft of unreleased Android phones and tablets for inspection. Read on for the full story…
Intel could build the next incarnation of the chip powering the iPad 2 and iPhone according to a juicy new rumour doing the rounds. Samsung currently makes the A5 processor but given the current legal dispute between Apple and other parts of the Samsung empire, speculation is growing that it will lose the contract.
Intel currently makes the processors inside the MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac and Mac Pro and Mac Mini lines but it’s ARM processors powering iPods, the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Could that be about to change?
The Samsung Galaxy S will be getting the Android Gingerbread 2.3 update at the end of March, according to Samsung’s Romanian Facebook page. The Samsung Galaxy S Froyo upgrade will stop being available on the 20 March, and after that the Android Gingerbread upgrade will be available. That means that if you’ve got an unlocked Samsung Galaxy S you can expect to see the upgrade available some time after 20 March, although we don’t know exactly when.
Sadly many of you with a Samsung Galaxy S locked to a mobile network will have to wait, as those networks will be running their rigourous stress tests to make sure nothing is going to upset the network.
[via Recombu, source MyDailyGadget]
A fortnight ago Samsung had a wobble over its Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 after it saw the iPad 2. Executive VP of Samsung, Lee Don-Ju, said that parts of the device were “inadequate” and needed “improving”. Now a video of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 has surfaced, showing off the Android Honeycomb smarts. Click through for the full video.
