Tag archive: Samsung

South Korean electronics giant Samsung confirmed to Reuters today that it is considering options to make its LCD manufacturing business more competitive, although it declined to comment specifically on recent reports Samsung is considering spinning the operation off into a separate company. South Korea's Samsung and LG Electronics are the two top makers of LCD displays. Nonetheless, Samsung's LCD manufacturing operations lost more… Read More

Prior to Mobile World Congress, Samsung has announced the Galaxy Tab 2. The new 7-inch tablet will run Android Ice Cream Sandwich (meaning you can add it to the short list of devices that can access the new Chrome app) and feature Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi with 3G options. In most respects, it’s quite similar to the 7-inch Galaxy Tab 7.0 but comes wrapped in ICS, which is a considerable upgrade. Here’s a quick peek at how the new version lines up.    You… Read More

Forget about Apple’s November plea to the European Telecommunications Standard asking for regulations for “patent holders playing dirty.” Apple has turned face, and in its evident hypocrisy, returned fire on Samsung, using four newly acquired patents in its arsenal, and filed a patent suit to ban the sales of Samsung Galaxy Nexus in the U.S. The preliminary injunction, filed on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of… Read More

The world of patent licensing often seems like a maze of twisty little passages, all alike, but every so often the industry stumbles into a new tunnel — or, at least, one that seems new at first glance. Such is the case with Apple, which has asked the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to establish a set of basic principles governing so-called fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing of patented… Read More

Too big or not too big, that is the question that has been raging ever since mobile device screens topped 4-inches, recently coming to a head with the release of the Samsung Galaxy Note, with its 5.3-inch screen. Despite being deemed “just too damn big” in our brief hands-on at the beginning of the year, the Galaxy Note has already performed well, racking up more than 1 million devices sold in Korea and at least another million… Read More

Once the king of the Android smartphone world, Taiwanese handset maker HTC has slipped from its throne in recent months, usurped by Samsung's powerhouse lineup, as well as stiff competition from Apple and Nokia. In a trading update (pdf) released Monday, HTC said that it earned revenues of NT$16.6 billion (US$564 million) during the month of January 2012 — a drop of more than 52 percent compared to the same period a year ago. Thanks to a… Read More

If you've been holding on to dreams that the Galaxy S III may still make a surprise entrance at Mobile World Congress, it's time to let them go, as Samsung has confirmed there will be no such launch. In a statement sent to TechRadar.com, Samsung says the following: “The successor to the Galaxy S II smartphone will be unveiled at a separate Samsung-hosted event in the first half of the year, closer to commercial availability of… Read More

UPDATE: Samsung has confirmed the launch of the Galaxy S III will be at an event later in the year. For a long time, the unveiling of the Samsung Galaxy S III at Mobile World Congress 2012 seemed to be an almost foregone conclusion, however recent rumors suggest the device will not make an appearance, due to Samsung wanting to co-ordinate an international launch instead of the staggered release seen with the Galaxy S II. If that's the… Read More

It hasn't been a good day for Samsung in its protracted, multinational patent battle with Apple: a German court has upheld (German) an injunction barring the sale of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9 in Germany, and the European Commission has announced it is launching a formal investigation into whether Samsung is abusing patents it pledged to 3G standards for licensing under fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. First up, a… Read More

Samsung has been hyping its Super Bowl XLVI commercial, announcing via Twitter yesterday that it would “launch a device so revolutionary only an ad in America’s biggest game can do it justice.” Speculation has centered around the unveiling of the Galaxy S III, or possibly a new tablet that would yet again introduce a Samsung device to challenge the iPad. It was all very mysterious, and Samsung had many of us captivated by the lure of a new… Read More

The Samsung Galaxy Note was one of the most talked about phones at the Consumer Electronics Show a few weeks ago, and it looks like AT&T isn't wasting its time bringing the device to market. The Note will hit shelves on Feb. 19 for $300 with a two-year contract.  The new phone is one of the largest Android phones (maybe the largest) to be released with a 5.3-inch Super AMOLED screen (1280×800 pixels). Not shying away from size,… Read More

The Galaxy S III has already set tongues wagging concerning its will-it-won't-it appearance at Mobile World Congress, and here's another phone that could also be unveiled during the show, the Galaxy S Advance. While its specification isn't as headline-grabbing as the Galaxy S III's is likely to be, the latest addition to the ever-extending Galaxy S range still packs quite a punch. Samsung has taken the beautiful curved… Read More

According to a recent report from The Daily, Microsoft is working manufacturers third-party manufacturers on prototypes of laptops utilizing a built-in Kinect sensor. Microsoft has already discussed desktops that include Kinect functions while at CES this year, but this is the first mention of the motion controller in a portable solution. The prototypes appeared to be ASUS netbooks and they were running Windows 8, likely to use motion… Read More

Some people enjoy speculating about celebrity romances, some people enjoy speculating about corporate mergers. Every once in a while, we sit down with a beer and talk about cool mergers that will never happen, but might be really interesting to watch. This week I figured I’d share some of the more interesting ones with you. Disney + Apple It wouldn’t matter which one bought the other, but this could be a really cool combination. In many ways,… Read More

Just a week after dismissing one of Samsung's patent infringement suits against Apple, A court in Mannheim, Germany has done it again, dismissing a second suit from Samsung against Apple that claimed Apple infringed on the company's 3G/UMTS technology. As before, the court gave no reason for its ruling. Although the dismissals are a blow to Samsung's legal battle against Apple, in a broader context they amount to little more… Read More