Sprint announced that it will start pushing Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to the Samsung Nexus S 4G starting today. The update will be delivered in waves over the course of the next month. It can be downloaded over-the-air and installed without plugging in to a computer. Android 4.0 will bring a significant number of new features and tools to the Nexus S 4G. Users will be notified when their device is ready for the update. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Samsung today announced that it has officially launched Samsung Display, a spin-off of its LCD panel-making business. The new company will operate separately from Samsung Electronics, which will still make AMOLED displays for smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. Donggun Park, executive vice president and head of the former Samsung Electronics’ LCD Business, was elected CEO of Samsung Display. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Face Unlock was one of the attention grabbing features of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich when it was announced last year. It’s a neat concept, but even Google admits that it can be easily fooled with a photograph of the user. Samsung, however, has improved the tool with a new blink detection feature that should make it much more difficult to fool with a picture. Tweet Vote on HN ...

The Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G is a new Android smartphone with a fast processor and support for T-Mobile’s 42Mbps HSPA+ network. Dan takes a look to see if that’s enough to make it a competitor. Tweet Vote on HN ...

T-Mobile USA has begun selling a new Android smartphone, the Galaxy S Blaze 4G from Samsung. The device is available online and in all T-Mobile retail stores starting today. The Galaxy S Blaze 4G offers a 3.97-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display and is powered by a dual-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. The phone is also compatible with T-Mobile’s 42Mbps HSPA+ network. The price tag for the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G smartphone is $149.99, with a two year service agreement. ...

Opera today announced the availability of Opera Mini 7 for Android devices. Opera Mini 7 performs faster for Android due to improved hardware acceleration, according to Opera. Opera has also removed the limit on speed dial buttons (previously nine), and Opera Mini 7 now supports as many speed dial buttons as the user wishes. Opera says this negates the need for users to set up bookmarks, as the speed dial buttons can replace them. Last, Opera says the browser is better at compressing data, which can save users money by making more efficient use of cellular data. The browser is a free ...

A company called Graphics Properties Holdings recently filed a lawsuit against Apple, HTC, LG, RIM, Samsung, and Sony, alleging that the companies’ products violate its intellectual property. Specifically, the lawsuit covers a patent pertaining to how mobile devices process data and text into pixels on a display. The lawsuit names the Apple iPhone, HTC EVO 4G, LG Thrill, RIM BlackBerry Torch, Samsung Galaxy S/S II, and Sony Xperia Play as violating the patent. Graphics Properties, which has already sued some of these same companies under a different name, is seeking damages and ...

Google today announced that it is delivering a small system update to the GSM variants of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S, in addition to the Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi edition. Android 4.0.4 brings stability improvements, better camera performance, smoother screen rotation, and improved phone number recognition. Google said that the update will become available to other devices in the coming weeks, though it declined to name them. Tweet Vote on HN ...

O2 UK customers that own Samsung’s Galaxy S II smartphone can now get the upgrade to Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. Users will have utilize Samsung’s KIES software on their desktop computer to install the upgrade. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Samsung has revealed that sales of the Galaxy Note, its smartphone-cum-tablet with S Pen powers, have topped 5 million units world wide. The company reached this mark in five months since the Note’s debut in South Korea. It had previously hit 1 million sales in December and then 2 million at the beginning of March, so launches in other markets, especially the U.S. with AT&T’s LTE edition of the Note, have accelerated sales. Speaking of the LTE Note, Samsung also plans to launch the LTE version of the Galaxy Note in Japan on April 6 with NTT DoCoMo. ...