A Samsung executive has been quoted as saying that his company plans to merge its own bada smartphone operating system with Intel’s Tizen Project, which is based on the remnants of the the MeeGo OS that Intel developed with Nokia. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Samsung vice president Kevin Packingham has said that his company intends for the batteries in all of its 2012 smartphones to be able to last at least a full day, from wake-up until bed, with average to moderately Tweet Vote on HN ...

Samsung and Intel are working together to blend parts of Samsung’s in-house bada smartphone operating system with Intel’s open-sourced Tizen project. “We have an effort that will merge bada and Tizen,” said Tae-Jin Kang, Senior Vice President of Samsung’s Contents Planning Team, in an interview with Forbes. The goal of the project is to make it easier for developers to create applications that will work on both platforms. Once the integration is complete, developers will be able to use the same SDK and the same APIs to write applications that will run on either ...

Samsung Electronics’s U.S. operations today indicated that it is preparing to sell up to $1 billion in five-year bonds so that it can raise the funds it needs to operate its chip plant in Austin, Texas. Samsung needs financial institution support to run the sale and has sent proposals to several banks. Reuters reports that this would be Samsung’s first major debt sale in more than 10 years. Samsung wants to increase its ability to produce chips and OLED screens for mobile devices. ...

A Samsung source has said that the company is open to the possibility of an alliance with rival manufacturer Olympus.Although Samsung has previously declared it isn’t interesting in buying up the Olympus camera business, it is considering a partnership with the company in other areas.Olympus is currently considering an equity tie-up with five candidate companies which include Sony and Panasonic, according to the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.Recently, times have been troubled for Olympus, which has been rocked by scandal over the past few weeks. Starting with the dismissal of its CEO ...

The Galaxy Tab 7.7 was originally announced at the IFA trade show back in September, and features, as the name implies, a 7.7-inch Super AMOLED Plus color WXGA touchscreen display. The display gave text great sharpness and rich browsing when we tested it out on the CES show floor. Under its hood is a zippy 1.4GHz, dual-core processor that runs Google’s Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system. Samsung’s TouchWiz interface sits atop that, with its custom mini applets that can be launched from the bottom edge of the display – as you’ll see in the video, below.The Tab 7.7 ...

T-Mobile today announced a new 4G Galaxy-series phone from Samsung. The Blaze sports HSPA+ 42 Mbps data, a Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 dual-core processor at 1.5 GHz, and a Super AMOLED screen. It will be available “in the first half of this year.” Further details will be announced closer to launch. Tweet Vote on HN ...

The Galaxy Attain is the result of trying to make a 4G LTE phone really affordable, for a prepaid carrier like MetroPCS. It’s a cute little phone, with that blazing fast LTE inside. See how it stacks up in our hands-on. Tweet Vote on HN ...

MetroPCS today announced the Samsung Galaxy Attain 4G, a new Android smartphone that supports MetroPCS’s Long Term Evolution 4G network. The Attain 4G runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, has a 3.5-inch display, and is powered by a 1GHz processor. The Attain 4G has a 3.2-megapixel main camera with LED flash and a 1.3-megapixel user-facing camera with Google Talk video chat software. The Attain 4G will cost $199.99 after $50 rebate, and will be available from MetroPCS stores and MetroPCS’s web site in the next few weeks. Voice, messaging, and data plans start at $50 per ...

A poster in a public area of the Las Vegas Convention Center has confirmed that the Samsung Galaxy Note, a smartphone-tablet hybrid device, is headed to AT&T. The Android powered slate is expected to go on sale next month. Tweet Vote on HN ...