Samsung has announced that its HDTV-centric Samsung Apps store has surpassed 1 million app downloads. The platform, which has been in existence for less than a year hosts about 200 apps and the most downloaded apps include Hulu Plus, ESPN Next Level and Texas Holdem. Samsung says the app store is available on more [...]

  It seems the I9200 that was revealed by way of a firmware leak is already being used by few testers. This confirmation comes from a quick search on Google’s Picasa that reveals quite a few pictures clicked from the device. We still don’t have any solid details on the phone but little more investigation [...]

  Samsung has inaugurated its second refrigerator manufacturing facility in India. The plant situated at Sriperumbudur, Chennai, India spans an area of 25,000m2 and will have an annual capacity of about 1.2 million units, totaling to about 2.5 million refrigerators along with the Noida plant. Samsung has confirmed to invest US$75 million in the plant [...]

  Samsung has announced that they’ll help Cellular South deploy its 4G network using the Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. The agreement between the two companies includes Samsung providing necessary infrastructure and also design and launch two LTE-enabled smartphones that will go on shelves by end of 2011. While we don’t have any more details [...]

  Samsung has just released a new beta SDK of its bada OS’ for download. The bada SDK 1.2.0b1 will not only allow developers to develop on all Wave devices (Wave, Wave 525, Wave 533, Wave 575, Wave 723 and Wave II) but will also add some new features like apps created from HTML/JavaScript or [...]

  Clarion Hotel Stockholm in Sweden has initiated a pilot project that replaces a conventional hotel room key to a mobile phone and the first phone to be used in the project is Samsung’s Star S5230N. Selected guests were handed out the device with the pre-loaded software which allowed them to check in or check [...]

  As expected, Samsung has released the Galaxy Tab in the UK on its 41st birth anniversary. Users can pick up Samsung’s first Android tablet for a non-contractual price of £530 but if you’re willing to sign the dotted line, you can get a good deal, depending on the choice of your carrier. The tablet [...]

  Samsung Russia has confirmed that Galaxy Tab will go on sale in Russia from today. The Android tablet will go on sale from 5PM at a Svyaznoy store and will cost 36,990 rubles or $1,228. This price is obviously for the unlocked version of the tablet. Galaxy Tab is already on sale in Germany [...]

  Samsung has dropped a new beta version of bada SDK. It’s the first beta of v1.1, which bada developers can now get from the Developer site. The download is about 356MB and has brought many changes like auto-scaling of the UI to support different screen resolutions, HTTP streaming and more. More info can be [...]

  Want some keyboard tracing goodness on your good ol’ Wave (S8500)? Well, a forum poster at Samsungfirmwareworld has posted a leaked build of bada OS 1.2 (S8500XXJID) meant for S8500 that brings continuous typing input. Users at the forum claim that the build features Swype but we reckon it could be Nuance’s T9 Trace, [...]