South Korea ministry today announced that they’ll develop their own open-source smartphone OS to give local smartphone makers “competitiveness” against foreign smartphone OS makers. The details on how and what the OS will be are unknown but the Korean ministry said such a move will help manufacturers like Samsung, LG to compete against Apple’s […]
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Samsung Galaxy Precedent coming soon on Straight Talk
Walmart and TracFone will soon launch an entry-level Android-based Samsung smartphone in United States. Little is known about the upcoming Galaxy Precedent (SCH-M828C) but is said to be similar to (or just a rebadged) Galaxy Prevail. Amongst the confirmed features, the phone has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, GPS, Swype text input support and a microSD […]
Samsung Galaxy Q available in Canada
Not the Galaxy Q we’ve been waiting for but Canadians can pick their sliding QWERTY version of Galaxy Q from Rogers. It’s an entry-level smartphone that goes for just $49.99 on a 3-year contract and features Android 2.2 OS (no word if it will be upgradeable to Android 2.3), horizontal sliding QWERTY keyboard, 3.2-inch […]
Samsung publishes another IFA 2011 teaser
Samsung has also posted the first video teaser that was supposed to go live before the previous one. This video seems to be the first step towards the big unveiling at IFA, which is why you don’t see any “glowing device” like in the second video. Samsung will unwrap its offerings on September 1 […]
Samsung aims for 40 percent smartphone market share in India
Samsung is planning to capture at least 40 percent of the smartphone market share in India by end of this year. Samsung currently holds a 23 percent market share in India but country head of Mobile and IT, Ranjit Yadav reckons they can achieve it due to a wide range of smartphones running on […]