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  Samsung’s first bada-powered handset has crossed a new milestone in the European market. Wave S8500 has surpassed sales of more than a million, just four months after its European release. Wave is a value for money phone that sports high-end hardware in a mid-range price. The phone has a 3.3-inch Super AMOLED display, 1GHz [...]

  Samsung’s one of the powerful Android devices has gone on sale in Europe. The Android 2.1 OS running Galaxy S is available in Europe while South Korea will get it next week (via SKT) and US along with the other regions will get it later this year. Samsung hasn’t mentioned the price but has [...]

  Samsung has roped in LOVEFiLM to allow online streaming of movies for European consumers. LOVEFiLM is one of Europe’s leading digital and DVD rental subscription-based service that claims to have over 67,000 titles. The service is currently available on all Internet@TV Samsung TVs with Blu-ray players and Home Theatres to get it later. LOVEFiLM

  European consumers can expect cheaper refrigerators and washing machines from Samsung soon. The Korean conglomerate has announced to acquire Poland-based Amica’s refrigerator and washing machine manufacturing facility for US$76 million. Earlier, appliance products sold in Europe were supplied from China and other Asian countries but with the recent acquisition, Samsung can greatly reduce the [...]

  So we knew M5650 was coming but having no picture or any other specifics, it was difficult to tell how and where the device will be placed in Samsung’s wide portfolio. Thankfully, GSMArena today uncovered couple of product listings revealing M5650 aka Lindy, indicating that M5650 is indeed Corby but a bit higher-end. On [...]

  Samsung had promised to launch its environmental friendly Blue Earth device this month and here it is. Blue Earth’s name and design inspiration is derived by our planet’s clean and pure look from the space, just like a blue marble. For nature caring consumers, Samsung has not only used environmental friendly materials for the [...]

  Confident Taiwan-based makers believe Samsung will pass Asus and HP in netbook shipments to take the second spot in Europe for the second last quarter of this year. The reason for Samsung’s success in Europe is to tie netbooks with different carriers, which they’re trying to replicate in US and the Asian region as [...]

  Brace yourself because Samsung is gearing up to bring its Tegra-powered YP-M1 PMP outside the South Korean shores. Pocketlint is reporting that Samsung will make the European pertinent (and mostly other regions as well) announcement at the pre-IFA 2009 presser on September 3. YP-M1 is the second PMP based on Nvidia’s Tegra chipset that [...]

  Samsung is one of the few branded names that offers chunk of dual Sim phones. Now they are planning to add one more albeit it won’t be feature packed. The C3212 DuoS dual-SIM candybar phone will first arrive in Russia and then head to other European destinations. Full specs-list is not known but one [...]

If Samsung phones’ popularity continues to grow at this pace, Nokia will soon bite the dirt in their own continent. According to a research report by a German institute, Samsung phones are gaining more popularity amongst users in the European region. The findings of the report was: TouchWiz (F480) is the most demanded handset in [...]