Samsung is rising, and according to a Korean website called Yonhap, they were the world’s number 1 smartphone seller in Q1 of 2013. They sold $23.62 billion worth of smartphones in those three months. This is compared to Apple, who got second place with $22.9 billion worth of smartphones sold. It’s quite a small difference, but it’s good to see an… Read more
These days, the rumors for Samsung devices are almost as many as the rumors for Apple products. The latest rumors that we’re hearing are for the Galaxy Note III. These come from a couple of different Korean websites but the first rumor is stating that the Galaxy Note III will have optical image stabilization built in. This one isn’t far-fetched seeing… Read more
By now, the Galaxy S4 Mini is almost a certain deal. But just in case you’re not convinced, it popped up briefly on Samsung’s website for UK users as a filtering option. This indicates that, like the Galaxy S III Mini, the phone will be released in Europe. Mind you, the filtering option was pretty quickly removed after reports started cropping up about… Read more
Samsung announced early this morning a “premiere 2013” event to be held Thursday, June 20th in London to unveil new models for its Galaxy and ATIV device lineups. For those of us not on the other side of the pond, the device will be live-streamed on Samsung Mobile’s YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/SamsungMobile. The teaser poster above is… Read more
AT&T and Verizon are pure evil: They are the only two carriers in the world to lock down their Samsung Galaxy S 4 models. This would generally mean that extensive software modifications would be impossible, but thanks to some amazing developers, that is no longer the case! If you remember, back when the AT&T Galaxy S 4 was released, a man by the… Read more
As we all know, AT&T and Verizon tragically and maliciously locked the bootloaders of their Galaxy S 4 models. We don’t know why Samsung is letting these carriers walk all over them, but that’s how it is. However, to compensate, Samsung is releasing developer editions of these two models. These devices are virtually identical to the originals, with the… Read more
Being a Verizon customer has been quite eventful, huh? Not only did the network deny its customers the popular HTC One, but when all the other carriers released the Samsung Galaxy S 4, Verizon had only announced pre-orders and a release date that was over a month away. Luckily, Verizon pushed that release date forward a week, and today is the day it… Read more
Last year, AT&T announced the Samsung Galaxy S III in an exclusive red color, and boy what a sexy hue of red it was. And while some people may have been upset that it was exclusive, AT& customers must have been happy. Well the same thing is happening this year, with AT&T announcing today that they will exclusively carry the new Samsung Galaxy S 4 in the… Read more
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
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
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