In spite of the Galaxy S5 getting a hot welcome, selling some 30% more than the S4 did, analysts are in doubt of the the S5 outselling the S4 in numbers. Both the european and US markets are slowing down whereas the Asian markets, especially India and China, are getting...
We have previously reported that Samsung was developing a Samsung Gear 2 type Smartwatch that had built in voice calling functionality, by utilising its own inbuilt radios and a USIM module and therefore would not need to rely on being linked to a Smartphone. Now more claims have surfaced...
You’re a parent looking over two unruly children. They are both large for their age and tend to push around the other kids on the playground with little regard for physical or emotional harm. The two children constantly bicker, extort each other for prominence and make broad exaggerated claims about...
No use in denying that I was surprised by all the information but maybe not as much as many other analysts. In Dutch we have a saying that if it takes too long it might by postponed to eternity. (Van uitstel komt afstel). And it's that tantalizing delay that has...
Earlier today, we learned that Samsung has reportedly agreed to to stop copying Google’s core apps on its Galaxy smartphones and tablets running Android. What did Samsung get in return?Maybe it got Google out of the smartphone hardware business. Google announced today that it's selling Motorola's smartphone business to Chinese manufacturer Lenovo...
Following todays announcement of the cross Patent deal between Samsung and Google, Russian blogger Eldar Murtazin has taken to Twitter to let people know his take on this news. Yes, we have been here previously with Eldar claiming Tizen is a dead end OS, but at least he is...
Yep, they're at it again: Apple is going for Samsung's jugular. More specific, a ban on Samsung devices. Sounds familiar? Your memory is OK then. Apple got a serious hurt moment when judge Koh wasn't too impressed by Apple demanding some 20 Samsung devices to be banned from the US...
Google’s Android operating system may be the rock star of mobile world, but it has another group of rock stars that are trying to knock it from its perch.Google, Samsung, HTC and basically every major Android hardware manufacturer have been hit with a patent lawsuit from the Rockstar Consortium, a...
The Obama administration will allow an import ban on older Samsung phones two months after letting Apple off a similar hook. The ban, however, is largely meaningless, as it only affect older Samsung phones that mostly aren't sold any more at major carriers in the U.S.The administration's decision to uphold the...
No one but patent trolls—entities seeking to profit from patents they don't actively use in making products—likes the current US intellectual property regime. Inefficient and outdated, the US patent system, in particular, frustrates innovation more than it fosters it.Things may be on track to get change, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst told ReadWrite...
Bloomberg reports that Samsung will indeed announce its own smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, at a press event on September 4.Not that smartwatches are anything new—see Pebble and Sony. And the rumor of a Samsung device has been going on for months. But if the wire service's two anonymous sources are...
A Samsung smartwatch is likely in the works and it is coming to a Galaxy near you.In a patent filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Samsung details a smartwatch concept it appears to be calling "Galaxy Gear." According to the patent, the device is a watch or a...
The White House has decided that it wants to have a say in the in the ongoing patent wars that have waged between smartphone manufacturers over the past several years. This weekend, the Obama administration vetoed a ruling from the International Trade Commission that called for an import ban on older...
It's official: patent litigation is a fool's game. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, the past few years of patent litigation in the mobile industry have yielded participants very little, as courts have swatted down suits on the basis of prior art, obviousness of the technology or other reasons....
The race for dominance in wearable gadgets is on. To the surprise of no one, the same players that rule the smartphone market are trying to be the leaders of this market as well.According to a report from Bloomberg, Samsung has been readying a smartwatch to release to market for...
Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), the biggest seller of devices using the Android operating system, plans to release a smartphone powered by the open-source platform Tizen as soon as August. “The Tizen phone will be out in August or September, and this will be in the high-end category,” Lee...
For a smartphone with as much hype and anticipation as Samsung’s Galaxy S4, we know surprisingly little about it. We know that it is likely to launch on March 14th at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. We know that Samsung will have a huge marketing plan around...
Like Dr. Frankenstein tinkering around in his labs, Google has created a monster. And now that monster is running amok, terrorizing the smartphone industry and possibly even endangering the livelihood of its creator.Google, through its Android operating system and favorable partnership, has enabled Samsung to become the most dominant smartphone...
We all know that Samsung is the dominant player in among Android smartphone makers. Just how dominant is the Korean smartphone maker? According to data from mobile analytics firm Localytics, eight of the top 10 Android devices in the wild belong to Samsung. The top two devices in circulation are Samsung’s...
Samsung is turning the smartphone market in to one giant game of Simon Says. Samsung says stand on one foot. Samsung says make bigger phones. Samsung says to make smartphones available to all carriers. Sue the South Korean smartphone manufacturer in every patent court on the planet… Oh, we didn’t say...
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