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into mobile: What Android has done for Samsung (by Horace Deidu of Asymco)

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Back in the day, Samsung was a capable smartphone maker, but it wasnt a star. It made a lot of feature phones, but pumped out smartphones like the mediocre Samsung Saga. Now, though, Samsung is a household name thanks to Google and its Android operating system. A recent tweet by Horace Deidu of Asymco points [...]

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BGR: IDC: Samsung extends lead over Apple in Q2, Nokia continues to fall

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A recent study by market research firm IDC revealed the smartphone market grew 42.1% in the second quarter of 2012, while the worldwide mobile phone market grew just 1% year-over-year. Smartphone vendors shipped 153.9 million handsets in the second quarter of 2012, compared to 108.3 units in the second quarter of 2011. Samsung (005930) extended [...]

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Androidcentral: Samsung Galaxy Pocket (GT-S5300) headed to Three UK in September

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Announced back in March, Samsung’s entry-level Galaxy Pocket has yet to see widespread release on any UK networks. That’s set to change next month, though, as Three UK has updated its “Coming Soon” page to show that the tiny 2.8-inch phone is due in September. With Android 2.3 Gingerbread on a QVGA (240×320) display, a [...]

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SAMSUNG TOMORROW: Samsung makes London 2012 the first social Olympic Games

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Samsung Electronics and the Worldwide Olympic Partner for Wireless Communications Equipment at London 2012, announced its much anticipated Samsung Global Blogger (SGB) program kick-off. Following a worldwide online talent search with media partner MSN, over 3,000 people from around the world applied for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to report on the London 2012 Olympic Games. An [...]

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Phonearena: Here’s what instructions Judge Koh gave to Apple v. Samsung jurors

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Judge Lucy Koh who’s presiding the Apple v. Samsung case has sent out a document to the nine selected jurors, explaining them the rules of the case, and giving them guidance as to how they should react to what’s happening in the court in order to be able to reach the right verdict. The document [...]

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All Things D: Samsung goes public with excluded evidence to undercut Apple’s design claims

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Denied the opportunity to make the argument in court that the design of the original iPhone was derived from Sony concepts, Samsung has decided to make it in the court of public opinion. Moments ago, the company released to the media two batches of evidence excluded from the trial currently occuring in San Jose, Calif., [...]

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FOSS PATENTS:
New Apple filing includes charts comparing its market share to Samsung’s from 2004 to 2012

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Today Apple filed its response to Samsung’s appeal of the preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Nexus, and included two charts that show how Samsung’s and Apple’s smartphone market shares evolved in the U.S. market and on a worldwide basis between the first calendar quarter of 2004 and the first calendar quarter of 2012. Here’s the [...]

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Phandroid: Samsung Galaxy S III vulnerability exposed – Kies software to blame

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Another day, another security scare. I think it would be safe to assume that just about any OS is vulnerable in some area and it never fails, where’s there’s a hole, there’s a person who will find it and exploit it. Today, a security vulnerability was found in Samsung Kies — Samsung’s sync and update [...]

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