Samsung just announced that it’s going to showcase a new type of PenTile display next week during the SID Display Week 2011. This screen might make it to the iPad 3, according to recent speculations, especially now that LG Display has decreased production of iPad screens after some quality problems. The new Samsung screen supports a resolution...
The performance of Samsung Galaxy S II doesn’t seem to know boundaries, since the handset has just scored 4000+ in Quadrant, after being overclocked to 1.5GHz by XDA Developers member coolbho3000. What you need is the latest version of odin3 and USB drivers for Windows. Instructions are available here. Keep in mind that such customizations should...
It’s already common knowledge that Samsung will sell the Galaxy S II smartphone with two CPU versions. One will be the Exynos unit and the other will focus on the Tegra 2. The latter has just received certification, courtesy of Bluetotoh SIG and WiFi Alliance. While the Exynos version (I9100) is already out in some countries, this one, the GT-I9103...
Thanks to XDA Developers, we’ve just learned that the Samsung Galaxy S II super phone has just been rooted. The handset is not even out in all countries and it’s already being messed with, which is OK if you’re into extreme software customization. This doesn’t mean that there aren’t certain risks when rooting the handset… There’s...
Samsung has just announced a bunch of figures that confirm the fact that the Galaxy S II smartphone will be a hit. Turns out that international carriers pre-ordered 3 million units of this smartphone, making the product become one of the highest pre-ordered devices made by Samsung. The Asian company will release its flagship phone in over 120 countries...
After checking out the figures made public by the IDC report available this week, Comscore has released its own report, covering the three months average ending March 2011. Thus, we find out that Samsung is the favorite of the US mobile subscribers ages 13+, according to the studies. Samsung got 24.8% of the subscribers back in December 2010, while...
Kenton Cool is a British climber who was the first to tweet from the summit of Mount Everest. Also, he did a very original unboxing for Samsung Galaxy S II, as shown below. The climber was sponsored by Samsung and uses the services of Nepali mobile carrier Ncell to tweet from the top of the world. Ncell installed the first 3G station at the base camp...
Samsung has just proved that dual SIM handsets are still cool, by announcing three new models of this kind: the C322, E2232 and E1182. The second and third phone are pictured below, in this order. Samsung C3322 doesn’t have a picture yet, but at least we know its specs that include a metal body and a 2.2 inch display. The same C3322 model supports...
Microsoft has just announced that it has stopped updates for the Samsung Omnia 7 WP7 smartphone, because of problems. This is a temporary halt, confirmed by MS consumer writer Michael Stroh on his blog. No info when the update will start rolling out again. A technical issue with the update package was mentioned and it’s being fixed and tested...
Although Google claims that we’ll have to wait weeks till the Android 2.3.4 update will hit the Nexus S and Nexus One, there’s a way to perform this operation sooner. It’s all done manually and Android Central are the ones with the scoop, having discovered the official file needed for the update. You need to download the file from...
