February 2012
Sensio signs patent licensing agreement with Samsung
Canada-based Sensio Technologies has entered into a patent licensing agreement with Samsung. While the financial details are kept confidential, the agreement will allow Samsung to integrate Sensio’s S2D Swtich in its 3D TVs. We value our relationship with SENSIO Technologies and respect its intellectual property. This agreement will allow Samsung to continue using the [...]
Samsung to “significantly” invest in bada OS
Samsung’s senior vice president of product strategy, Juha Park has confirmed that they’ll continue to invest “significantly” in its homegrown bada OS. According to Park, Samsung believes bada “is a good platform to build on” with products ranging from high-end to entry-level segment. Samsung’s current top-end bada device is Wave 3 that runs on [...]
Samsung expands OTA app installations to more countries
Samsung introduced the OTA app installation feature in December on its web-based Samsung Apps store supporting a handful of countries and a promise to add more soon. Now the company has added six more countries taking the total count to 11 countries. Countries supporting the OTA app installation via Samsung Apss include UK, South [...]
Samsung announces Galaxy Note S Pen App Challenge, $205,000 up for grabs
Samsung is known to conduct developer challenges to spark interest amongst their new products and services. This time they’ve announced a challenge for developers to develop apps utilizing the S Pen input. Developers will have to use to the S Pen SDK that was announced today and create an app implementing the S Pen [...]
Samsung Galaxy S II recognized as Best Smartphone at GSMA’s Global Mobile Awards
GSMA’s Global Mobile Awards just concluded in Barcelona and Samsung came on top with two important awards. Samsung’s Galaxy S II bagged an award in the Best Smartphone category beating the likes of Apple iPhone 4S, HTC Desire S, Nokia Lumia 800 and Samsung’s own Galaxy Nexus. The judges were of the opinion that [...]
Samsung Brightside is an affordable messaging phone for Verizon
In addition to Galaxy Tab 7.7, Verizon also confirmed the release of Brightside. Brightside targets users who want a physical keyboard as well as a decent-sized touchscreen display. The phone features a 3.1-inch touchscreen display but has a sliding QWERTY keyboard beneath it. Moreover, the phone sports a 3.2MP camera, 3G support, Office documents [...]
Verizon releasing Galaxy Tab 7.7 on March 1
Verizon Wireless has confirmed the release date of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 7.7 tablet. This high-end tablet from Samsung will be available on Verizon from March 1 carrying a price tag of $499.99 with two-year service agreement. Galaxy Tab 7.7 for Verizon was announced at CES last month and one of the key differentiators between [...]
Samsung demonstrating VoLTE at MWC
Samsung hasn’t divulged any details on the next-generation voice and video calls over LTE but has confirmed to showcase it at the ongoing Mobile World Congress. Samsung says their technology ensures smooth transition between voice and video calls carried over LTE.
Sister sues Samsung Chairman for inheritance
It was a couple of weeks back when Lee Maeng-hee sued the Samsung chairman, Lee Kun-hee for inheritance and now a similar lawsuit has been filed by Lee Kun-hee’s elder sister, Lee Sook-hee against him over the family inheritance. Lee Sook-hee is demanding the return of assets worth 190 billion won which includes shares [...]
ChatON for web now available to all
We gave you an exclusive hands-on last year and now Samsung has opened the ChatON for web interface for everyone. ChatON users will now be able to communicate with other users on a web browser while on PC or can continue their conversation on Android or iOS devices. ChatON for web is almost similar [...]