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  Samsung is close to reach 10 million bada-powered handsets and if the latest piece by Wall Street Journal holds any water, bada’s up take could increase significantly by next year. According to the WSJ report, Samsung is planning to open-source bada next year. This will fulfill two objectives – it will reduce the reliance [...]

  Samsung has officially confirmed the US pricing of Galaxy Tab 8.9. The new Wi-Fi-only Galaxy Tab device will be available at the same price confirmed before by Best Buy, i.e. $469 for 16GB and $569 for 32GB. There’s no confirmation on the release date but the speculation pins it to a September 22 release. [...]

  Samsung has announced three new 3G-enabled yet affordable phones for the Indian market. First is the Champ 3.5G (S3770) that was leaked last month. Champ 3.5G is a full-touch device that comes with a 2.8-inch QVGA display, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 2MP camera, SoundAlive, 30MB internal memory with memory expansion support of up to 16GB and [...]

  Samsung’s App Store aka Samsung Apps has now completed two years of its service. The store that started in September 2009 with apps for Windows Mobile and Symbian has now expanded to over 40,000 apps available for Google’s Android, Samsung’s own bada OS and Smart TVs. To celebrate the 2-year anniversary and also the [...]

  Orange France today announced to sell the contactless version of Galaxy S II that supports NFC (Near Field Communication) technology. Orange will sell the phone in France from next month followed by other European countries. Orange is the first operator in Europe to offer a SIM-based NFC Android phone that has been developed as [...]

  It seems Samsung is gearing up for the big legal battle against Apple in South Korea. According to an anonymous Samsung executive, Samsung will try and sue Apple for sale of iPhone 5. Samsung will drag the iPhone maker to court on infringement of Samsung’s wireless technology patents used in the next iPhone. Samsung’s [...]

  Late last week, Samsung announced to file a counterclaim against Apple in Australia. The countersuit claims that Apple products like iPhone 3G / 3GS / 4 and iPad 2 are infringing Samsung’s 7 wireless-related patents held in Australia. Furthermore, Samsung’s statement also says that the claim putforth by Apple against Galaxy Tab 10.1 should [...]

  With Samsung churning out Android and more recently Windows-based tablets, you’d expect the Korean giant to do something similar with their in-house operating system. However, it turns out Samsung does not have any plans to release a tablet with the bada OS. Or at least, in the near future. Samsung exec, Dipesh Shah made [...]

  Samsung has confirmed the launch time frame of its latest top-end Wave 3 device. At the bada developer day in India, Samsung executive confirmed that Wave 3 will be launched from this October. The first country to get this bada 2.0 device is unknown but we would guestimate it to be some European country. [...]

  Galaxy Tab 10.1’s smaller sibling, Galaxy Tab 8.9 is now up for pre-order on Best Buy. It’s a Wi-Fi-only variant and comes with Android 3.1 OS, 1GHz dual-core processor, 8.9-inch WXGA resolution display, 1GB RAM, 3MP and 2MP cameras, Bluetooth 3.0 and more. It’s important to note that this variant is a bit lower [...]