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  Samsung’s youth-oriented multicolored phone has reached the Indian shores. The Corby S3653 will come in dual tone diagonal contour designed phone with an emphasis on its social networking skills that gives instant access to Facebook, Twitter et al. Other things remain the same GSM/EDGE connectivity, 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen, Bluetooth, 2MP camera, FM Radio and [...]

  Samsung has launched a mid-range clamshell phone in Russia. Targeted at both the sexes, the phone hides an external PMOLED display that lights up when a user receives a call or a message. The phone also boasts wavy design at the back that makes the phone a bit easier to hold, Find Music service [...]

  Samsung has released a new firmware update for its Android I7500 Galaxy phone. The I7500XXII5_VIAII5 update is still the Android 1.5 Cupcake but emphasizes on stability and improved battery life. It has got the Switchers app that allows to quickly enable/disable network components like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. The screen unlock time has been reduced [...]

  Want to know how does the new super snapper phone perform? Well, the lucky folks at GSMArena have been playing with a prototype of the AMOLED 12M phone and to be precise, they loved the most important part of the phone. The camera is one of the best they’ve seen in a phone, offers [...]

  UPDATE: Specs added below and sadly, there’s no word on Wi-Fi or GPS. UPDATE 2: GSMArena has got some live pictures of the phone and reckons Samsung will swap T-DMB with Wi-Fi and GPS in M8920 (international version). After being revealed couple of times in the past few days, Samsung has rightly made the [...]

  Kinetic scrolling is one of the most desired features on Omnia HD and it seems Samsung has heard the plea. For now, they’ve added the scrolling feature in the Chinese firmware, which means other region specific firmware will be due soon. The firmware I8910UZCII1 brings the latest v7.1.13841 of WebKit browser that does the [...]

  Despite Samsung’s portfolio boasting different netbook offerings, its maiden netbook is still registering some good sales. The Korean giant today announced that the NC10 netbook has now surpassed the sales figure of 1.5m units in a short period of just one year. NC10 was introduced in September last year and it reached 1m units [...]

  UPDATE: Samsung AMOLED 12M (SCH-W880) announced in Korea. Seems Samsung wants to pitch its upcoming SCH-W880 as a potent substitute for point-and-shoot digital camera. A tipster notified about this yesterday clearly indicating that W880 has more selling points than its high-resolution camera sensor and optical zoom. The phone’s camera features include, 12 megapixel resolution [...]

  UPDATE: Samsung AMOLED 12M (SCH-W880) announced in Korea. The first picture of the presumed Pixon12 successor was leaked in June and now we’ve got another one albeit a Korean version. The phone will supposedly arrive on SKT as SCH-W880. As for now, other details are not known but it’s good to see high-resolution mobile [...]

  After a month of rumors and leaks, Sprint has officially announced Instinct HD. For a pricey ask of $249.99, the phone brings high-definition for real with video recording on its 5MP camera and TV-out supporting HD output. Amongst other features, the phone integrates EVDO Rev. A, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, Opera 9.7 browser, GPS, Visual [...]