Android Skype update brings ability to run to SD, Galaxy S compatibility, but with a big catch
Sick of seeing that little hard disk with an exclamation point popping up on your Android handset?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: certainly-heard, disk, dollop, external, galaxy, galaxys, point-popping, release
Canada’s Galaxy S Froyo updates start rolling out this month
Samsung's probably wishing it could just forget its claim that it'd have Froyo rolled out to all carriers last month , but at least it's providing a little bit of updated guidance to its Canadian users. Turns out Bell's Vibrant and Rogers' Captivate are on track for the middle of this month, while owners of Telus' Fascinate will need to wait a little longer: "early 2011," to be exact, which really isn't exact at all since it could easily mean anywhere between January and, say, April or so. Of course, Gingerbread will be all over the place by then -- and we might even be seeing our first glimpses of Honeycomb -- so be prepared for your version envy to continue unabated.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: bell, captivate, envy, fascinate, froyo, galaxy s, galaxys, glimpses, mobile, rogers, users, vibrant
Keepin’ it real fake: Mini Galaxy S gazes meaningfully skyward next to a mini grand piano
If you were going to make a "mini" version of something else you'd probably want it to be significantly smaller.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: camera, capacitive, design, dual, galaxy s, galaxys, keepin it real fake, keepinitrealfake, mini, phone, result, samsung, Sim, yuan
Android 2.2 update for Samsung Epic 4G leaks out
We're still waiting on official Froyo builds for the American Galaxy S variants, but they seem to be getting close. How close? Well, close enough so that you can taste a leak for the Epic 4G if you like to live dangerously
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: buggy, close-enough, edge, engadget, fri, galaxys, some-sluggish, variants, web
Samsung expects to sell a million Galaxy Tabs this year, 40 million smartphones next year
We've already heard Samsung boast that it expects to ship 10 million Galaxy Tabs by next year, and the company's now back at the prediction game yet again, with mobile biz president J.K. Shin saying he expects the company to sell a million of them this year alone -- given that the end of the year is fast approaching, that translates to a million sold in just under 60 days. As if that wasn't enough, Shin also told Nikkei that Samsung expects to sell 40 million smartphones in 2011, which is more than double its projection for this year -- of those, it obviously expects the majority to be Galaxy S phones, but it has quite a way to go from ten million it expects to sell this year.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: galaxy, galaxy s, galaxys, galaxytab, game, jk shin, samsung
How would you change Sprint’s Epic 4G?
It's the only Galaxy S variant to offer 4G connectivity, but it's also the only one that requires a $10/month data surcharge to use. That boost in cost will undoubtedly bring higher expectations, and we're eager to hear from early adopters on how their Epic 4G experience has been.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: adopters-on-how, been-satisfied, connectivity, epic4g, galaxy, galaxys, googleandroid, keyboard, quirks, samsung
Samsung notches record profits, aims to sell ten million Galaxy S phones this year
My, how a year changes things. Q3 2009 was a nightmare for mega-corps in terms of earnings , but things have definitely been on the up and up just 12 months later.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: after-sony, crediting, damper, galaxys, million-phones, notches-record, quarterly earnings, quarterlyearnings, record, sammy, samsung, well-as-profits
Samsung comes clean with Galaxy S Froyo upgrade dates: all carriers in November
The Android 2.2 upgrade situation on the Galaxy S has been a veritable rollercoaster of emotions for owners recently, owing in no small part to the seemingly final firmwares that have been briefly posted and pulled from the company's servers in parts of the world over the past couple weeks.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: all-carriers, couple, galaxys, press, regional, servers, update, upgrade
Sprint Epic 4G update delayed by ‘administrative issues,’ consumer rage released on schedule
And this, folks, is a lesson of what not to do if you're a major carrier with a majorly perturbed user base. In a way, this sort of feels like the Instinct update debacle all over again, with users claiming that a promised software update was being held beyond the 30 day return window in order to keep contracts alive.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-the-break, cdma, consumer-rage, delayed, engadget, fri, galaxys, keep-contracts, major-carrier, operator, sprint, theory, Throttle, time, update
Samsung Transform pictured in Sprint document, alongside Kyocera… err, Sanyo Zio?
Well, dear reader, we've got a pair of minor revelations for you, assuming this picture is real. First, that mid-range Android slatephone the Kyocera Zio is headed to Sprint, with the familiar Sanyo branding .
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: galaxy, galaxy s, galaxys, kyocera zio, perhaps-more, rumor, rumors, samsung transform, samsungtransform, sprint, zio