Pop open the bubbly this morning as Samsung officially announces that it has surpassed 10 million Galaxy S 4 units sold in less than one month. Samsung Mobile CEO JK Shin promised as much last week and we suspected that if anyone knew just how close the company was to the 10 million mark, it was him. In comparison the Galaxy S III took around 50 days to… Read more
Rugged phones may not be so popular, but it looks like waterproof higher end devices are starting to be! To compete with the Sony Xperia Z and the unreleased Samsung Galaxy S 4 Active, LG has unveiled the Optimus GJ. It’s very similar to the Optimus G, with the same quad core Snapdragon S4 Pro, 2GB of RAM, 4.7″ 720p display, and 13MP camera. The… Read more
The AT&T LG Optimus G Pro has only recently come out, and it’s already on a massive sale. Unfortunately, not everyone can take advantage of this sale. It’s only available in Fry’s, and to make things even harder, it’s only available in retail locations. So if you live around a Fry’s, this may be a great deal for you. Otherwise, we’re sorry. Maybe check… Read more
In a list of the most valuable companies made by BrandZ, Google has gone from third place to second. Its brand value is now $113.669 billion, overtaking IBM (who’s brand is valued at $112.536 billion). It’s a pretty tight race, but Google has taken second place. Of course, they are nowhere near Apple’s brand value of $185.071 billion, which puts them at… Read more
With Samsung under fire all this time from Apple and its lawyers, we didn’t expect it to stop. However, we also didn’t expect them to go after Google services. When adding the Galaxy S 4 to their lawsuit against Samsung, they also added in a few Siri patents that they claim are violated by Samsung’s inclusion of Google Now. This is not a Samsung… Read more
A bunch of Google apps are getting updates today! Google Drive is next, and the update is a good one. The first thing you’ll notice is that it comes with a refreshed UI, namely the card layout Google is so fond of. It’s called the grid view and actually looks really good. We hope that Google continues on the goal of making all their apps so pretty…. Read more
Chrome for Android started pretty poorly, with lag issues and lack of features. For a long time, I simply did not want to use it. But Chrome quickly grew, with big speed improvements and the addition of many useful features. Today, Chrome for Android was updated to version 27 (to match the desktop version), and with it came a few new features. The… Read more
Pantech is a South Korean electronics maker who has recently been getting bigger and more popular, releasing some really nice Android devices here in the US. And back in South Korea, it has grown to the number 3 phone marker. Still, they aren’t all that big. They’ve also been having some issues with debt recently, so Samsung buys a 10% stake in the… Read more
A brand new report surfacing out of The Verge suggests things are not all sunshine and rainbows in HTC’s camp. With key staff exiting the company, a “disastrous” HTC First launch and inventory constraints plaguing the HTC One launch, the company’s future looks anything but certain. In the past three months HTC has lost Jason Gordon, the company’s… Read more
Hello Google Chrome conversation voice search now up and running with the newest update to Chrome 27. It’s still a little finicky and isn’t as complete as the Google I/O demo showed us just yet, but you’ll see the microphone in the main search window on Google.com. The bright-side of Google’s conversation search is the natural language and semantic… Read more
When it comes down to Android, we have two huge manufacturers duking it out to create the Android king of 2013. HTC brought out their flagship phone for 2013, the HTC One, to lots of applause. But Samsung came back swinging with their offering of the Galaxy S4. I’ve had the chance for the past couple of weeks to spend some quality time with the HTC One… Read more
Looking through a leaked firmware for the Samsung Galaxy S III, it was noticed that Samsung may have forgotten to take out a few elements. Found in SecSettings.apk\res\drawable-hdpi, there were a bunch of files related to fingerprints and the registering of said fingerprints. Could Samsung be testing a device with a fingerprint reader on it? These… Read more
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