Verizon Wireless has announced that it will carry the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 4G LTE Android tablet starting March 1. The Galaxy Tab 7.7 features a 7.7-inch Super AMOLED Plus 1280 x 800 pixel display and a dual-core 1.4GHz processor. It runs Android 3.2 Honeycomb and is only 7.9mm thick. The Galaxy Tab 7.7 will cost $499.99 with a two-year contract. ...
The GSMA, organizers of the Mobile World Congress event, have just announced that Samsung was named "Manufacturer of the year" and that the Samsung Galaxy S II was named "Smartphone of the year" at the organization's annual GSMA Awards. We happened to be sitting with some Samsung representatives when the word came in, and we can tell you that they were ...
Verizon has announced that it will offer its customers a new handset, the Brightside by Samsung. The Birghtside offers users a slider form factor for those that prefer a full QWERTY keyboard for messaging as well as support for Verizon's 3G data network.
Along with the new Lumia 610 and 808 PureView, Nokia also announced at Mobile World Congress 2012 that it plans to bring the Lumia 900 originally shown at CES to European markets in Q2 of this year. The European Lumia 900 features HSPA+ 42Mbps data and will also come in a white color option
Verizon Wireless and Samsung today announced the March 1 availability of the Brightside, a touch phone that also has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The display measures 3.1 inches and the Brightside runs Qualcomm's BREW MP operating system that incorporates social network and messaging apps. It includes Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, GPS, an HTML web browser, and EVDO ...
Samsung today announced that an updated version of Tizen and the Tizen SDK are available to developers. Tizen is Samsung's open-source, standards-based mobile operating system that is currently in development. The new version of the software is being offered as a beta, and adds an updated user interface framework, web APIs, and support for Windows and Ubuntu. ...
At Mobile World Congress 2012, we learned that we can expect to see the three members of the Sony NXT family of Xperia Android smartphones, the Xperia S, Xperia P, and Xperia U, made available unlocked for purchase at Sony stores and online in the U.S. in the June/July time frame. The Sony Mobile executive we spoke with also hinted that we could well ...
Samsung had relatively few things to announce at MWC 2012 this year, but one of them was the Galaxy Note 10.1, a larger version of the original Galaxy Note. The Note 10.1 uses the Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) as its design inspiration (it looks nearly identical), but it adds S Pen capabilities to draw and notate on the screen. The Note 10.1 is powered by a dual-core, ...
Alongside the Ascend D quad and D quad XL, Huawei has also unveiled the Ascend D1, a dual-core version of the quad-core flagships.
LG has updated the original 3D smartphone, the Optimus 3D, with the Optimus 3D Max, a slimmer, faster version of its predecessor. We got some hands-on time with the 3D Max at Mobile World Congress and got a look at some of the unique software that LG developed for the 3D cameras.
HTC has confirmed that its One V smartphone that was announced at Mobile World Congress is headed stateside to Virgin Mobile, U.S. Cellular, and MetroPCS. The One V runs Google's Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS and is powered by a single-core 1GHz Qualcomm processor with 512MB of RAM. HTC's own Sense 4 is on-board along with a 3.7-inch touchscreen ...
Samsung has told TechRadar that it will be bringing out Windows Phone 8 handsets when the new platform is announced. With Windows Phone Tango making a low-key entry into the market at MWC 2012, the focus is now on Windows Phone Apollo (or Windows Phone 8 as it will formally be known) for the future for the top brands.