Expansys, UK’s online retailer, is offering Samsung‘s latest Android phone, the Galaxy S II, for £650 or US$ 1,050! Also, the website claims that the phone will be shipped to UK customers within ’56 working days’. Now that would mean somewhere in May. This seems contradictory to Samsung’s announcement that the phone will be available … Continue reading
The mega mobile event for 2011 is now over. A record crowd of 60,000 people from 200 countries attended the congress this year. The event featured more than 1,400 exhibiting companies and occupied more than 58,600 net square meters of exhibition and business meeting space. This year’s keynote speakers included the following leaders of the industry: … Continue reading
Samsung unveiled its update to the highly successful Galaxy S – more than 10 million sold worldwide – at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) on the 13th. The specs for the phone are incredible, with a 1GHz Dual Core processor, Gingerbread, 4.3 inches Super AMOLED Plus, and 8MP/2MP cameras. And all this power in a … Continue reading
Samsung unveiled its Galaxy S II with a 4.3 inches Super AMOLED Plus screen. This is being touted as better in terms of contrast reproduction and sunlight readability than the 4′inches display on the previous version of the Galaxy S, the Super AMOLED. The “Plus” indicates a transition from the Pentile matrix to a panel … Continue reading
Predictably, many of the speeches at Mobile World Congress have been a response to the Nokia-Microsoft alliance. Intel and Google CEOs were disappointed, for obvious reasons, though putting on a gracious front; almost every firm that is threatened by Google and Apple welcomed the news, while Nokia itself talked of its adoption of WP7 being … Continue reading
Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha has revealed the price for its iPad-challenger, the Xoom tablet. According to him, the unsubsidized Xoom tablet with 32GB memory will be billed for US$799. Further, this price is available when bought with 3G (which will be upgraded to 4G) connectivity from Verizon sans subsidies. On the other hand, the WiFi-only device … Continue reading
A greater number of U.S. and European mobile users accessed online content through Web browsers on their mobile devices than through applications in the final three months of 2010, according to data from comScore. In addition, mobile Web use is growing faster than application use, the measurement firm estimated. 36% of mobile using Americans and … Continue reading
Using our mobile phones as wallets is closer to reality. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this morning, Deutsche Telekom, parent company of T-Mobile USA, says it will unleash the capability to its customers this year. The first customers to get the full payment system are those subscribers in Germany and Poland. The U.S., Netherlands, … Continue reading
The Romanian units of mobile operators Vodafone Group Plc and France Telecom SA‘s Orange are facing a combined euro63 million ($85 million) in fines for what officials say was abuse of their dominant market position. Agerpres news agency reports Bogdan Chiritoiu, head of the Competition Council, as saying the two international mobile operators blocked the … Continue reading
Samsung‘s new beauty is all set to give Sony Ericsson Xperia Play a run for its money! Check the videos below to see the gaming performance on Galaxy S II for Spiderman, the fps game, NOVA and Real Football. Well, SE fans and critics would say that Play will edge out Galaxy S II because of a … Continue reading
