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  UPDATE: SGH-I897 might be a re-branded version for AT&T. Bluetooth SIG has listed a new Samsung phone on their website. It’s the SGH-I897 and going by its description on the website, the phone seems strikingly similar to Galaxy S. So is it a different phone or the same phone modified for a different region? [...]

  As expected, Samsung Digital Imaging (SDI) will be a part of Samsung Electronics from tomorrow. The move disclosure had come late last year and was recently approved by the shareholders in South Korea. Even the European Commission gave a nod to the approval saying the merger “would not significantly impede effective competition in the [...]

  South Korea’s biggest life insurer has announced to raise $4.52 billion by way of an initial public offering. Samsung Life, who has 27% of the SK Life insurance market will offer 44.4 million shares for a price band from 90,000 won to 115,000 won. The exact price will be decided April 27 for May [...]

  Take this with a pinch of salt but Italian blog, Hdblog claims that Samsung is preparing another variant of Galaxy S with a physical QWERTY keyboard. Specs-wise, the Galaxy S Pro will remain the same but the phone will add a QWERTY keyboard to suffice avid texters. To recap, the Galaxy S runs on [...]

  Samsung has announced that its Omnia II smartphone has surpassed 600,000 units in South Korea. Unlike in the international market, Samsung sells different versions of Omnia II on different cellular operators like T*Omnia II (left) for SKT, SHOW Omnia (center) for KT and OZ Omnia (right) for LGT. Samsung says Omnia II sales averaged [...]

  UPDATE: The phone is known as Galaxy I6500U and is up for pre-order on this site for 3,399 Yuan ($500). Samsung I6500U (Saturn) existence came into light way back in October last year and since then we’ve a bit of info and a picture. Now I6500U has got a permanent position on Samsung Mobile’s [...]

  Samsung has started shipping samples of its 40nm-based 32GB DRAM modules apt for servers that require high density and performance at low power consumption. The modules consists of Samsung’s recently unveiled 36 dual-die 40nm class 4Gb DDR3 chips that boast same or better performance as compared to the 40nm 16GB RDIMM modules. Samsung says, [...]

  If you’re unaware, Lee Kun-hee who had resigned from his post in 2008 over fraud and ethics, returned to the Samsung Group as a chairman of Samsung Electronics. While the move is said to save Samsung from the crisis they’re facing, there is a mixed feeling about his return. KoreaTimes has done a detailed [...]

  A Swedish online retailer has added a couple of lenses for NX5, hinting that Samsung might have a smaller and cheaper brother of NX10 up in its sleeve. There are no pictures of the camera but going by the specs Photorumors has received, it seems the same NX10 but with cheaper parts. -NX mount [...]

  CTIA today announced the winners of its fifth annual E-Tech awards. Samsung managed to take away three awards, including the Best in Show by Moment. To quickly recap, Moment is Samsung’s Android device for Sprint and features a 3.2-inch AMOLED screen, sliding QWERTY keyboard, 800MHz CPU, Wi-Fi, 3.2MP camera, GPS and microSD card slot. [...]