Samsung has announced availability of Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab for the Japanese market. Just as we expected, Galaxy S coming will come out this late October and unlike Galaxy Tab’s rumored March launch, the tablet will sell via NTT DOCOMO sometime in late November. Galaxy S will run Android 2.2 out-of-the-box and feature […]
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Leaked bada 1.2 OS brings T9 Trace to Wave (S8500)
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, […]
Samsung Wave II with 3.7-inch Super-Clear LCD
Samsung has unveiled a new Wave handset today – the Wave II. They already have the Wave 2 (Wave 525) but this is Wave II (S8530), the successor of original Wave. The new Wave II has got a subtle revamp and adopts a larger screen – a 3.7-inch one (800×480) but now comes with […]
Samsung to end developer support for Symbian
If you had any doubts in Samsung’s decision to drop Symbian, well, its Mobile Innovators site for developers have made it official. In an email sent by Samsung Mobile Innovators states that all Symbian-related support on its site will be removed by end of this year. Samsung’s Symbian Lab.dev will be closed down on […]
T-Mobile’s Vibrant gets GPS fix via Kies update; Sprint’s Epic 4G gets a maintenance update
UPDATE: Sprint has disabled the update due to some administrative issues to get the software loaded on Google servers. [via] Apparently, a new update for T-Mobile Vibrant users has been released by Samsung via its PC software, Kies. The JI5 update is not a Froyo update but contains number of fixes, including the GPS […]