Today Samsung and T-Mobile officially announced the Galaxy S 4G, which they are claiming is “the fastest smartphone running on America’s Largest 4G Network”. The Galaxy S 4G will be T-Mobile’s first handset to take full advantage of their 4G HSPA+ network which now covers 200 million people nationwide. Previous 4G handsets from T-Mobile topped ... Read More »
Today T-Mobile held an event featuring new CEO Philipp Humm and Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann where they discussed their strategy for 2011. For starters, they confirmed two new 4G phones that have been widely rumored. Both the Samsung Galaxy S 4G (Vibrant 4G) and Sidekick 4G should be arriving on ... Read More »
In the next couple of weeks Samsung will unveil the successor to the Galaxy S (rumored to be a dual-core Tegra 2 device). I’m sure it will be an awesome piece of hardware, but many Android fans will steer clear of the device based solely on Samsung’s reputation of poor software updates.
For unknown reasons, ... Read More »
The verdict is in. Samsung has failed to upgrade their reputation when it comes to Android software updates.
Samsung produces the Android phones with the best hardware (that’s why I purchased the Nexus S), but they are one of the worst companies when it comes to continued software support.
When Samsung ... Read More »
Now that we know Motorola will unveil their Honeycomb tablet at CES, it appears that Samsung will rush out a competing product to try and keep pace in the tablet wars. We have heard little about Samsung’s CES plans, but a report from the Korea Times thinks that Samsung will reveal ... Read More »
A new leak posted at Phone Arena confirms that Sprint will be the first U.S. carrier to deliver Android 2.2 to their Galaxy S phone. The Samsung Epic 4G will begin to receive an over-the-air update starting on December 26th, according to an internal memo.
Sprint is quickly building the reputation of offering ... Read More »
Do smartphone benchmarks even matter? A lot of people would say “Nope” and I would agree with some, but we still like to run them every time a new version of Android is released or when a new processor hits the market. This last week Google launched the Nexus S with Android 2.3, ... Read More »
“Tell us your Dream…” read the headline on Samsung Mobile’s recent Facebook update. A quick read through the comments shows that Samsung has many customers that are frustrated with the lack of software support for the Galaxy S phone.
This isn’t an isolated incident either. I wrote back in July that Samsung ... Read More »
I think I know why Gingerbread was delayed for over a month and there were rumors of dual-core Nexus S phones. Samsung Mobile didn’t have a dual-core processor for their own smartphones so they wanted to push back the release of Android 2.3 to buy more time to catch up with their competitors ... Read More »
Stop me if you have heard this one. Every major Android player is releasing Tegra 2 devices early next year. We have known for awhile now that LG and Motorola dove head first into the dual-core goodness, but a new report from Forbes believes NVIDIA may have picked up another surprising ... Read More »
