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  The leaked doc from last week turns out to be true. Samsung and Verizon have announced the impending Omnia II that will grace the stores beginning December 2. The feature set remains the same, which means it will have a vivid 3.7-inch AMOLED resistive touchscreen display running WinMo 6.5 OS laden with TouchWiz and [...]

  A new firmware of Samsung Jet is floating on the interwebs, claiming to bring in barrage of new features. Users who have installed the new S8000XEII2 firmware, claims the overall performance has been improved. Amongst specific improvements – the Dolphin web browser and media browser have been worked on to make it faster; 3D [...]

  UPDATE: The drives will be released by the end of this month for $299 (2TB). Current Samsung STORY Station HDDs support only USB 2.0 interface but now with the arrival of STORY Station Plus, the new external HDDs also support eSATA. Winner of Good Design Award, the STORY Station Plus will give users the [...]

Samsung’s tradition of showing handsets before the official announcement continues. At a Corby event, two upcoming phones were snapped that will supposedly be marketed under the “Diva” brand, targeting the fairer sex. Starting with S5150 Olivia, the phone has a clamshell form factor with a small external display gracing the front beneath the mirror-like body. [...]

  Omnia II for Verizon has been teased and sighted before and it’s good to see the wait will be over soon. An internal document has been unearthed leaking SCH-i920 or Omnia II’s launch date. According to the doc, the phone will launch at “all channels” on December 2 carrying a price tag of $199.99 [...]

  Euroset will soon launch the Samsung B5722 DUOS phone in the Russian market. The phone’s unique quality is the integration of two SIM slots, enabling the user to use two different numbers simultaneously. Other features include a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen display, TouchWiz UI, FM Radio with RDS, music player, 3MP camera with LED flash, [...]

  Samsung Electronics is currently the world’s largest memory chipmaker and it will strive to widen the gap, according to Korea Times. By next year, Samsung will look to increase its global market share of DRAM chips to up to 45 percent from the previously forecasted 36 percent. Additionally, Samsung also plans to achieve the [...]

  UPDATE: Take it as pure speculation but the M510 could be Vodafone H1 in SKT’s garb since the claimed specs match exactly with H1. Samsung has confirmed to launch the first LiMo compliant handset in their home market by the end of this year. The SCH-M510 will be released by SK Telecom making it [...]

  Samsung is suddenly bombarding the Indian market with low-end phones. The newest entrants are CorbyTXT and Corby Mate both targeted at those looking for cheap messaging devices. While the unusual looking Corby Mate was found lurking the Indian Samsung Mobile site for quite some time, TXT adopts a familiar candybar design. The CorbyTXT (B3210) [...]

  Samsung has launched the YP-R0 PMP in South Korea. The YP-R0 is similar to YP-R1 but integrates a set of physical buttons instead of the only touchscreen interface found on the R1. It comes in capacities of 4 or 8GB options and also integrates a microSD card slot to increase the total storage by [...]