Apple and Samsung’s relationship is turning from bad to worse, the Cupertino tech giant is now making moves to reduce its reliance on supplies from the Korean electronics company, turning to Japanese suppliers. DigiTimes has reported that Apple has tapped Elpida Memory and Toshiba for its orders of NAND flash and DRAM. This move by the company comes after the continued...
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Samsung does it again. In its latest bid to dethrone the iPhone as the world’s top smartphone, Korean electronics giant Samsung is bringing out its new Galaxy Skin, a flexible mobile phone. Samsung’s new handset, which was unveiled at the Hongik University in South Korea last June, and later at the CES 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada, was developed by Prof. Haeseong...
The Apple iPhone 5 is still yet to arrive, but Samsung has apparently drawn up a legal move for the company to block the sale of the fifth-generation iOS smartphone in South Korea once it is launched, according to a report. The report comes from Korea Times, which said that “Sources closely involved with the thorny issue including Samsung insiders made the comments...
The Samsung Nexus Prime, the first Android smartphone that sports Google’s Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, has been reported to head to all carriers. The next Google phone has been spotted by people from The Droid Guy at the Verizon Developer conference in Las Vegas. They stumbled upon a man, identifying himself to be a Samsung employee, who was playing...
Microsoft Corp. has unveiled the first tablet that will run the Windows 8 to developers last Tuesday. Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows, showed off the device while presenting a number of features of the company’s new operating system, Windows 8, at the 2011 BUILD conference in Anaheim, California. The company said that they will give out 5,000 units of the device...
Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC is considering acquiring Hewlett-Packard’s WebOS or buying another mobile operating system, according to some reports. According to an interview, Cher Wang, chairwoman of HTC, said that the members of the board have been thinking and looking at options whether the company will buy its own operating system, but ni decisions have been...
Samsung is now building a tablet that runs on Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Windows 8, according to a report. Korea Economic Daily said that Samsung is currently working on a quad-core tablet that runs Windows 8, making it the first tablet PC that runs the newest Windows version. The publication cites an unnamed source for its information, and added that...
Samsung might have accidentally confirmed the next smartphone they are making for Google, called the Nexus Prime. The company has uploaded the device’s User Agent Profile file with the name “Nexus Prime” written on it. The page also confirms that the Nexus Prime will be using the GT-I9250 technical device name. Reports say that the Google Nexus Prime...
PC World reported that Samsung erased all traces of its Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 tablet in the IFA conference in Berlin, Germany. This comes after it received a call from a court in Düsseldorf, the very place where the company is facing a lawsuit filed by its fierce rival, Apple. Apple is accusing Samsung Electronics of infringing iPad-related patents by releasing the Samsung...
MobileFun, the leading online retailer for mobile devices and accessories in the United Kingdom, has announced that the company is now shipping to over 50 countries, including the United States, India, Brazil, Canada, Russia and many more. This news is part of the company’s announcement that they are currently stocking a SIM Free white Samsung Galaxy S II, the latest...