A tweet from Samsung has let us know that previous rumours indicating its highly anticipated Galaxy S III smartphone would launch next month are false. We know the phone isn't all that far away and it's safe to say it should surface by mid-year, but April is a definite no go.
Online US retailer J&R have jumped the gun on an unannounced Ivy Bridge-equipped Samsung notebook reminiscent by design of the company's Series 7 Chronos range, with a listing already on its website sharing out a good deal of detail on the upcoming model.
A German court has dismissed two separate lawsuits brought by rivals Apple and Samsung against each other, marking a stalemate in both companies' efforts to ban opposing devices in the largest European economy.
We're pretty sure that Samsung's first foray into pico projector phones – the i7410 that was announced two years ago – was anything but a success, but if you don't succeed, try again. Samsung has as such announced the Galaxy Beam at the MWC which features a lot more potent hardware and this time around we're talking about an Android handset as well.
The rumoured quad core Exynos 4412 from Samsung is said to have been demoed at the ISSCC or International Solid-State Circuits Conference held in San Francisco, which as it happens finishes today. Samsung didn't announce the model name, but details of the Exynos 4412 has already leaked and the SoC that was being demoed is said to have been a quad core Cortex-A9 chip built on Samsung's 32nm high-k metal gate process.
Samsung has now listed a docking station for its Galaxy Nexus smartphone which makes use of those 3-pin connectors on the side of the phone. But it doesn't come cheap at an associated price tag of US $89.99.
The board of directors at Samsung has approved a plan to spin off its ailing Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) business.
The iPhone 4 960x640 'retina' resolution started the race, then Samsung brought in a quality 16:10 1280x800 display to the 5-inch smartphone level. And now, some vendors are introducing 16:9 720p displays on the new high-end offerings. Can the phones, at least, avoid the moviescreen format fiasco that befell the desktop and mobile PC realms?
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Samsung has just debuted its second generation of Series 9 notebooks at a media event in Korea today - these ultra-slim units coming in 13.3-inch and 15-inch sizes with a single-piece aluminum body that's only 12.9mm thick.
If you've been holding out on your purchase of the Galaxy Nexus while waiting for availability of the 32GB model, you'll be saddened to hear that the waiting is probably doing you no good. Online retailer Expansys-USA as well as Negri Electronics have both indicated that the larger capacity model has been canceled by Samsung altogether, for reasons unknown at this time.
Apparently Samsung is none too concerned about the MWC at the end of this month, since the company has seemingly decided to launch its new devices at its own leisure. The latest addition to Samsung's stable of tablets was announced at the Samsung Forum held in Prague and it's an updated version of the original Galaxy Tab which will be known as the Galaxy Tab 2.
Not everyone can afford – or want for that matter – a high-end smartphone and it looks like Samsung is getting ready to unveil a new affordable model which is expected to be announced around the Mobile World Congress at the end of this month. The new model is the Galaxy mini 2, or S6500.
Unless Intel has decided to move the launch of its Ivy Bridge processors forward, Samsung is getting way ahead of itself as the company had put up one of its Ivy Bridge powered notebooks – the NP700G7C – on its US website yesterday. Beyond having an Ivy Bridge processor, the 17.3-inch notebook also sports Nvidia 600-series mobile graphics.
A German court has given Samsung the go-ahead to sell its reworked Galaxy Tab in the country, putting an end to an injunction secured by Apple last year.
Three players joined in the largest foundry alliance - the Common Platform Alliance will present next generation silicon at the 2012 Common Platform Technology Forum in Santa Clara, California.
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