Tag archive: Galaxy

Samsung launched its unusual tablet/smartphone crossover device, the Galaxy Note, back at the beginning of September. Now, the company has reported a total of 1 million shipped units. The news was shared via an image on Samsung's official Flickr page, spotted by The Verge, which said that sales around the world were “rapidly rising”, and that the magic 1 million shipped figure was reached today, December 29. Currently on sale… Read More

Samsung has no doubt had better weeks. A day after being told by an Australian court that it was prohibited from selling its Galaxy 10.1 tablet in the country, a court in the US ruled on Thursday that the Korean company’s Galaxy tablets infringe Apple’s patents. However, it wasn’t all bad news – US district judge Lucy Koh stopped short of slapping a ban on sales of Samsung’s tablets in the US. Reuters reported that for Apple to have any… Read More

Apple has filed suit with the Tokyo District Court in Japan seeking to block sales of the Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy S II smartphones, along with the Galaxy Tab 7 Android tablet. Apple says the devices violate patent on its iPhone and iPad devices, and the products are essentially efforts to copy Apple's popular mobile products. According to Reuters, the first hearing in the case was held on Wednesday, although there's no word on… Read More

The fur has been flying thick as Apple and Samsung argue over patents and prior art before a court in the Hague, but Apple scored another victory today as the court granted a temporary injunction barring the imports of Samsung's Galaxy S, SII, and Ace smartphones for violating an Apple photo management patent. If the injunction stands, the ban will go into effect on October 15, and would effectively bar the smartphones from the European… Read More

Samsung and Nvidia have announced they're extending their technology partnership from tablets to smartphones, today announcing the Galaxy R smartphone, a new entry in Samsung's well-regarded Galaxy line that will sports a 4.19-inch display, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and the same dual-core Nvidia Tegra processor that powers Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1. The addition of the Tegra chip should make the Galaxy R smartphone plenty fast… Read More

Samsung, already the world's second-largest cell phone producer, may have passed Nokia and Apple in second quarter smartphone sales. The huge popularity of Androidlong with the success and diversity of the company's Galaxy handsets drove sales. An estimated 18 million and 21 million Samsung smartphones were sold worldwide in Q2, according to a Bloomberg report. The high end of that estimate trumps both Nokia devices and iPhones, of… Read More

Earlier this week, it was reported that Apple filed a lawsuit against Samsung for allegedly copying its iOS products with the Galaxy line of smartphones and tablets. Samsung responded quickly with promises of a possible countersuit, and now the threat has been made good on. The South Korean tech company has hit Apple with multiple lawsuits, claiming that the iPhone and iPad infringe on 10 Samsung mobile tech patents. The company is calling for… Read More

Scientists now estimate that there are as many as 50 billion planets in our own Milky Way galaxy, reports the AP. More interesting, 500 million of them may be in zones where life could exist. These numbers come, of course, from NASA's Kepler telescope, which was launched specifically for scientists to search for other planets. Thanks to the mission's success, NASA has been feeding us interesting information for weeks now. The… Read More

Europe's KFA2—KFA stands for “Kick Friggin' Ass” and is a premium brand of Galaxy—has decided that the Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 is a pretty nice video card—but what would be better is if users didn't have to deal with any cables. To that end, they've melded the GTZ 460 with WHDI technology from Amimon to produce what it's calling the world's first wireless graphics card: the KFA2… Read More

Surprising none, but impressing all, today at CES Verizon announced a new line of 4G products that the carrier will support. The 10 new 4G compatible products include two hotspots, two notebooks, two tablets and four new smartphones. All are set to debut later this year, and all will utilize Verizon’s 4G network, the largest 4G network in the country. The devices announced are below.  Pricing and release dates have not yet been confirmed: -HTC… Read More

South Korean electronics giant Samsung isn't taking any chances on carrier exclusivity with its high-end Android-powered Galaxy S smartphone: Samsung is launching the Galaxy on all the major U.S. mobile operators, with the catch that they'll all offer an “exclusive” version under a different name. On Verizon Wireless, the Galaxy will be known at the Samsung Fascinate; on AT&T it'll be the Samsung Captivate;… Read More

Earlier today, the South African branch of Samsung confirmed the release of the Galaxy tablet in three different sizes, all three of which will be due out this year. Rumors originally began to circulate when the Korea Herald posted a story that cited an industry source claiming that Samsung was planning on releasing its Galaxy tablet in August, which would give it a head start over the iPad, which Apple has claimed will ship sometime in the… Read More

South Korean electronics giant Samsung has officially unveiled the Samsung Galaxy Spica I5700, a new Android smartphone packing a fast processor, big screen, high-resolution camera, and Google's Android mobile operating system. But rather than targeting the North American market, Samsung plans to push the Galaxy Spica into Europe, CIS, and Middle East/Africa markets.

It might not be playing God, but you can still organize a host of galaxies. Astronomers have images of around a million of them, and are asking for volunteers online to help categorize them. The taskis quite simple – you say whether the galaxy is spiral or elliptical, and, if possible, in which direction it’s rotating.   The pictures were taken with a huge digital camera atApache Point Observatory in New Mexico. Although it… Read More

Sony Computer Entertainment is the mothership of the PlayStation 3 armada, so one might d think the company would be able to stay on message behind its Blu-ray equipped, pricey new next-generation game console. But that's not always the case: today, the company announced the North American release of Level-5's Rogue Galaxy, an epic action role-playing space adventure with an engrossing storyline, more than 100 hours of gameplay,… Read More