Samsung revealed the Galaxy Gear today, the smartwatch that brings Samsung into the arm race. Like the smartphone you keep in your pocket, the Galaxy Gear will integrate social applications that can be operated from your wrist. Path, Highlight, Evernote and Glympse are among the first group of apps integrated with Galaxy...
Samsung took the wraps off the Galaxy Gear, its much-anticipated new smartwatch, formally entering the "arm race" for watch-based wearable computing. The Samsung Gear is the South Korean company's bold effort to trump Apple's own expected entry into wearable computing. Apple has long been rumored to be working on its own...
Apple's biggest event of the year is over. Today's announcements included a big revamp to the iOS interface in the form of iOS 7, new MacBook Airs and a preview of the new Mac Pro, and the unveiling of Apple's long-rumored streaming-music service, now called iTunes Radio. Here's our live blog of...
Images of the Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 and 10.1 have been leaked by Moveplayer. We knew some possible specifications of the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 from a post I wrote last week. But more specifications of both models have been leaked. Although the image of the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 does appear...
Google bombarded thousands of attendees at its I/O 2013 Keynote with enough information to force that hi-res photo of Vic Gundotra's forehead into their dreams tonight. Here are the eight best moments:Google Variant Of The Samsung Galaxy S4One of the briefer announcements at I/O was the introduction of a variant of the...
Tizen is an open source, standards-based software platform supported by leading mobile operators, device manufacturers, and chip suppliers for multiple device categories, including smartphones, tablets, netbooks, in-vehicle infotainment devices, and smart TVs. The Tizen Platform consists of the Web framework (APIs), native framework (APIs), and core system. The Tizen...
Your smartphone should not be a source of stress. With its new Galaxy S4, it seems Samsung may not have gotten the memo. It seems that every feature Samsung could possibly dream up ended up in the Galaxy S4. The company pushes the envelope with technologies and features that keep the...
Update: A previous version of this article included benchmarks from a 1.9GHz Snapdragon SoC that were labeled as being from the Exynos 5 Octa SoC. The text and charts have been corrected to reflect this. Samsung officially unveiled its new flagship Galaxy S 4 smartphone on Thursday after weeks ofspeculation, leaks, and strange ad campaigns. The...
You remember Icarus, right? Greek boy with wax wings takes errant flight path, meets watery death. A classic metaphor for reach exceeding your grasp.Samsung: Meet IcarusSamsung threw so much at us during the keynote launch of its flagship Galaxy S4 that it's difficult to unpack all of it. Samsung is big...
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...
Everyone knows the smartphone is killing the point-and-shoot digital camera. Who wants to carry a digital camera as a separate device when your smartphone already takes good-enough pictures and makes them easy to share with your friends? Sure, a good point-and-shoot takes better pictures than a smartphone does. On the other...
A day after switching over to Windows Phone 8, I found myself rooting for Microsoft’s evangelists on stage at its BUILD developer conference. I’m not sure that my switch will be permanent. But for someone who originally first starting using a smartphone with Google’s Android operating system, shifting from Android to...
Microsoft never has had to be the innovator in a given market to succeed. More often than not, it has followed a successful path set forth by a predecessor, only with a bit more capital and marketing panache. This time, the competition has left a clear set of footprints for...
Intel introduced a new wrinkle into the Windows 8 tablet market on Thursday by launching an upgrade of its entry-level Atom chip line best known for (under)powering netbooks. The more powerful but still low-cost Windows 8-compatible microprocessor challenges the need for Windows RT tablets powered by ARM chips.At the debut...
Apple has requested an injuction against the sale of eight Samsung devices. The move follows its patent-infringement victory over Samsung.According to The Verge, Apple is requesting injunctions against sales of eight Samsung devicess (see the court document here). Apple is going after some of Samsung’s most popular 2011 products. Apple’s list...
At the recent Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco Jong-Deok Choi (also known as "JD") spoke as part of the Keynote speech. There were a couple of moments that JD did a live show of Tizen running on a device and I've been informed that the device was...
One of the most entertaining aspects of studying the Android ecosystem is the fact there is just so much of it. It is overwhelming, especially for consumers that do not know what smartphone or tablet they are supposed to buy because a new device is released every other day. Samsung...
Just ahead of the official start of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung held its own press conference where it announced the second generation of two of its high-profile devices: the Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer. Neither launch was much of a...
It's pretty common for our live blogging of Apple events to be the top story of the week, but this week Microsoft finally had its day with Frederic Lardinois' coverage of the PDC Keynote event. In Internet of Things news, Richard MacManus explained how to connect your car to the...
Somewhere between Napster and Kazaa on the historical timeline of online music sharing, there was Audiogalaxy. It was a great Web-based service that offered tons of high-quality and rare MP3s before it ran into some legal trouble and was shut down. We've missed it, sure, but now it's back, and...
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