Samsung was ambushing Apple at a temporary "pop up" store offering its new Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone for just A$2 to the first 10 customers each day in the run-up to the rival iPhone launch.  Just a few doors down from the Apple store in Sydney, where a long line of fans eagerly awaited the sale of the new iPhone 4S, another throng was gathering at a Samsung store.

Samsung Electronics delayed the unveiling of its latest smartphone, the Nexus Prime, by a week to.... read me.

Samsung's mobile division has finally announced a date for the release of its hotly anticipated phone, which has sold lavishly in foreign markets. Over 5 million people worldwide have already bought the flagship Android phone in the 85 days it has been on the market -- that's one sold every 1.5 seconds, the company said. And like Eddie Murphy, it's finally coming to America. Samsung sent an invitation to journalists early Friday touting "a major product announcement" for Aug. 29. The brief no.... read me.

There’s been a rather sizable increase in mobile units moved compared to last year, a 16.5 percent increase to be more specific, this being one of the more impressive statistics released in a Gartner study arriving today. This 16.5 percent is tied to the second quarter of this year, 2011, as compared to the second quarter sales from one year ago, this year’s total adding up to 428.7 million units. The leader of this pack of smartphones is Android, a very different situation compared to last year.... read me.

Damjan Stamcar, Account Manager Technical & After Sales bei Sony Ericsson, führt das Playstation-Smartphone Xperia play vor.
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Samsung has crossed the 3 million mark for its Galaxy S phones’ sale in the US market. The numbers are indeed interesting when recalling that Samsung reached this figure in just a couple of months since it launched the first Galaxy S device in the middle of this year.





The new figure came out at the launching ceremony of the new Galaxy S device, the Samsung Continuum.
Interestingly, it was barel.... read me.

The mobile phone battle between a couple of big companies gets more gruesome everyday with patent infringing lawsuits they file against each other. But do think that affects the sales of mobile handsets? Not really. Market research firm Gartner has released its latest report on Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales which state that sale of smartphone in the third quarter of 2010 has shot up by 96 percent from the third quarter last year! Amongst the several smartphones available today, Google Android pla.... read me.

Google's Android is now the second most popular mobile operating system in the world - second only to Nokia's Symbian OS, according to Gartner's third quarter report. Apple's iOS comes in third, followed by Research In Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry OS, and Microsoft Windows Mobile.

In just a year, Android gobbled up over a quarter of the worldwide mobile OS market (25.5 percent), outclassed only by Nokia's Symbian, which has 36.6 percent of the market. iOS, now on iPhones, iPads and i.... read me.