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  After the success of Samsung’s first Barbie special edition notebook in South Korea, they’ve announced a new Barbie notebook targeted at the female crowd. This time it’s the X180 Barbie Special Edition 2 that comes in a white hue with a Barbie girl designed by Barbie’s chief designer, Robert Best. As for the internal [...]

  Samsung has announced Galaxy Ace (SHW-M240S) for its domestic market. The phone that was on showcase at the MWC will now sell in South Korea via SK Telecom. Galaxy Ace for South Korea is similar to the international variant that comes with a “Hyperskin” battery cover to make it aesthetically pleasing and at the [...]

  Samsung has seemingly confirmed Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) update for Galaxy S (I9000). According to an attendee at Samsung’s event in Frankfurt, Samsung said the Gingerbread update for Galaxy S (I9000) is expected in March. It is unclear which countries will receive the OS upgrade first but there’s a fair chance Italy won’t be on [...]

  UPDATE: Samsung Italy has postponed to release the updates in between March 15 to March 20. Not really a surprise but Samsung Italy has published an estimated timeframe about when Galaxy S and original Wave users can expect the firmware update. According to a post made on their Facebook page, Italian Galaxy S and [...]

  Samsung continues its expansion in the healthcare business by entering into a joint venture with US-based Quintiles Transnational Corp. Samsung will invest 300 billion won or US$266 million and will setup a plant in Songdo district of Incheon, near Seoul to produce biopharmaceutical drugs for cancer and arthritis. Samsung Electronics and Samsung Everland will [...]

  Two of Vodafone subsidiaries have confirmed pricing of Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet. As per Vodafone Spain, consumers will get the tablet in spring for 349 euros on contract whereas Vodafone Portugal will sell the Galaxy Tab 10.1 for 700 euros (presumably without any contract). Galaxy Tab 10.1 is Samsung’s second tablet after [...]

  Samsung’s showcase of Google TV products at the CES didn’t reveal anything except the fact that Samsung is willing to support the new TV platform. Now the word from Bloomberg’s source is that Samsung may launch its Android-equipped television sets with their own chip instead of Intel’s Atom CPU, which current Google TV manufacturers [...]

  Samsung has taken down Froyo update for Epic 4G following user complaints related to couple of issues. The over-the-air and the manual updates have been pulled as the EB13 update created some data connectivity and SD card related problem for number of users. Samsung says users suffering from these issues can do a hard [...]

  UPDATE: Now available. Download from here. It’s been slow but more Galaxy S users in US will now see their phones getting updated to the Froyo OS. Samsung has confirmed to release the Android 2.2 update for AT&T’s Galaxy S phone, Captivate. Like other devices running on Android 2.2, Captivate users will also get [...]

  UPDATE: Sweden getting it in April for 15,000 Swedish Kronor. Samsung Series 9 laptop that was first unveiled at the CES early this year has got a price and release date. The 13-inch notebook is one of the slimmest notebooks that measures just 15.9mm at the thinnest point (16.3mm at the thickest) and despite [...]