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  According to a report from Japanese Business Daily Nikkei, Samsung, NTT DOCOMO and other Japanese firms will come together to develop chips related to wireless communications. The consortium to develop baseband chips will be formed to decrease the reliance on Qualcomm that holds more than 80 percent of the market share. NTT DOCOMO will [...]

  Samsung America has announced the second edition of Free the TV Challenge for developers. Samsung is holding the app contest to celebrate the release of Samsung’s SDK v2.5 and also allow developers to create unique converged apps that works across a number of Samsung devices. For instance, Samsung segregates the Converged Apps categories into [...]

  US-based carrier, AT&T has announced to expand its Windows Phone lineup with the addition of two new Samsung phones. The Samsung Focus S and Focus Flash are expected to hit the carrier in Q4 of this year that will run Microsoft’s latest Windows Phone 7.5 aka Mango OS. Focus S will be one of [...]

  International Data Corporation’s (IDC) recently released data that puts Samsung at the top spot in the European mobile phone market for second quarter of this year. Out of the 20.4m feature phones shipped in Q2, Samsung shipped whopping 9.1m units. In the smartphone market, IDC says Samsung was at the forefront with the wide [...]

  Galaxy S II’s Mali-400 GPU is the fastest GPU, according to an article on Anand Tech. The site extensively reviewed Samsung’s super phone and came to the conclusion that Mali-400 is the fastest GPU available amongst smartphones, trailing behind Apple’s iPad 2 tablet. The only thing the Galaxy S II’s GPU lacks is the [...]

  Samsung has released the bada SDK 2.0.1 for developers. As you’d expect from the version number, the update is just a minor one with some bug fixes. Developers can download it from the bada developer site. bada Developer

  UPDATE: Samsung official statement below. Sad news for German users waiting for Galaxy Tab 10.1. The Dusseldorf court maintained that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 did infringe some of Apple patents and banned the sale of the tablet across Germany. There’s no info on what will be the future of other Galaxy Tab devices but [...]

  Samsung’s bada team has confirmed the rollout of the bada 2.0 OS. The next major update will be released for Wave devices starting from Q4 (which starts from next month) in Europe. Interestingly, the update will be available for all Wave devices however, the number of features could vary depending on the phone’s hardware [...]

  UPDATE: Fake! Turns out to be render of Nokia C8 Concept. Link [Thanks, @Chilko] The image you’re seeing above could very much be the next Nexus phone. UK retailer, Handtec has published a listing on the site that reveals the image as well as some specs like Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), 1.5GHz processor [...]

  Another day, another Nexus Prime related rumor. This time it comes from a “trusted tipster” of GSMArena. According to the tipster, the upcoming Nexus Prime will be known as Galaxy Prime when it comes to the market. The tipster also chimes in to claim that the display will be curved like the Nexus S [...]