Galaxy

The first round of the Apple v. Samsung lawsuit is over and Apple has emerged victorious. In case you haven’t been following it, Apple sued Samsung for $2.5 billion for infringing on seven of its patents. Samsung countersued for $400 million because it needed to save face. It took the jury less than three days Continue Reading →

Samsung announced the Galaxy S Duos on Monday, the newest addition to the company’s Galaxy smartphone lineup. Sporting a design similar to Samsung’s popular Galaxy S III smartphone, the Galaxy S Duos comes with one feature not found on many smartphones: the ability to support two SIM cards. Dual-SIM support would allow you to have Continue Reading →

The Apple v. Samsung patent trial of the century has cooled off a bit since the hits poured out last week, but a few choice items continue to emerge from San Jose, California. Samsung argued earlier this week that whether or not its Galaxy tablets made use of Apple’s protected technology and designs, that IP Continue Reading →

As expected for quite a while, Samsung has just announced pricing and availability for the Galaxy Note 10.1. As you may have guessed, it’s a 10-inch WiFi tablet that includes the somewhat-pointless-but-perhaps-maybe-kind-of fun S-Pen, the same pressure-sensitive stylus you see with the Galaxy Note. Packing Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (with an update to Jelly Continue Reading →

Imagine a nuclear powered machine that travels nine months and more than 350 million miles through the galaxy. Upon arriving at its target planet, the 2,000-pound machine suddenly hurtles downward in a guided entry pattern, in a period called “The Seven Minutes of Terror,” enduring temperatures as high as 3,800 degrees… Just milliseconds before landing, Continue Reading →

Apple is in the midst of a jury trial that accuses rival Samsung of infringing its patents and trademarks on its iPhone and iPad products in creating and marketing the Galaxy devices. The trial continues this week after a San Francisco jury heard testimony from top Apple executives about the making and marketing of the Continue Reading →

Samsung wants consumers to buy its Galaxy S III so badly that it’s willing to pay them for their old smartphones. Any new customers buying the Samsung Galaxy S III, the Galaxy S II or the Galaxy Note can get up to $300 back in cash if they sell Samsung their old smartphones. Of course, Continue Reading →

Samsung will reportedly update a number of its flagship smartphones to the latest version of Android by the end of the year. According to SamMobile, the Galaxy S III will be the company’s first handset to be updated to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, followed by the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note. The website notes, Continue Reading →

Samsung’s planning a tablet splash at the end of August. It’s expected to introduce a refresh of its five-inch Galaxy Note “phoblet ” and an update of its 10-inch Note tablet. It’s also getting into stylus input in a big way. Bad idea. Despite its awkward size—too big for a phone, too small for a Continue Reading →

Apple executive Eddy Cue sent an email in January 2011 to CEO Tim Cook and others recommending that the company build its own 7-inch tablet. “I believe there will be a 7-inch market and we should do one,” Cue wrote in the email, which forwarded an article written by a reporter that switched from the Continue Reading →