PSA: don’t try to wow your friends with the key scratch test on the Nexus S — because it’s not Gorilla Glass
Before you stand (perhaps slightly inebriated) in front of a group of wide-eyed disbelievers and poke your brand new Nexus S' display with a fork, rock, key, icepick, or anything else that's hard and pointy, just remember this: it's not Gorilla Glass . That's the official word from Samsung Service's Twitter feed, a stark contrast to the hardened, tough-as-nails surface of the original Galaxy S' Super AMOLED display. No reason is given for the change, but there's an obvious theory: Corning might not have the technology to produce Gorilla Glass that's curved in the way that Samsung wanted -- or they can't produce it in the quantities asked of them -- and so Sammy decided to go with a slightly less rugged screen rather than ditching the so-called Contour Display
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: contour, contrast, disbelievers, display, friends, galaxy, gorillaglass, mobile, nexus, nexus s, obvious-theory, Plastic, sammy, Samsung Service, tough
Samsung Galaxy 550 prepping for low-end Android duty on Virgin Mobile Canada
Americans on Virgin Mobile, you're going to want to keep on keepin' on with your Intercepts -- but our friends to the north are on the verge of getting an apparently exclusive new Android device out of Sammy, it seems. The so-called Galaxy 550 appears to be the same phone that we knew as the Galaxy 5 previously , featuring Android 2.1, a 2 megapixel camera, and integrated Swype atop some manner of smallish display. Needless to say, Virgin's billing this as a low-end smartphone in every sense of the word, saying it's "sweetly priced to fit all budgets" and pairing it with a new $40 plan that'll include 300 anytime minutes, 100MB of data, unlimited local incoming calls, unlimited nights and weekends, and your choice of unlimited messaging or Voicemail 10 / Call Display.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: duty-on-virgin, entry, friends, incoming-calls, sammy, virgin, virgin-mobile, virginmobile
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
Exclusive: Samsung Continuum for Verizon has double the displays, double the fun
The Fascinate's ride at the top of Sammy's Android lineup for Big Red might be a short one -- a very short one. Feast your eyes on this monster, said to be the rumored SCH-i400 Continuum, whose biggest claim to fame would be the addition of a secondary OLED display below the main. What might you use it for?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: below-the-main, claim, conditions, engadget, entry, fiddle, Notifications, sammy, sch-i400, ticker, verizon
Samsung’s 4-inch Windows Phone 7 handset gets named: Cetus (SGH-i917)
You'd probably assume that Samsung would have a difficult time overshadowing the Galaxy S right now, but all it really takes is a salacious Bluetooth SIG entry that leaves only the most important parts to the imagination. We've known for some time now that Sammy would be one of Microsoft's closest Windows Phone 7 launch partners, and we've even taken the time to toy with a prototype earlier in the year. But a new Bluetooth certification is now all-but-confirming a name: Cetus.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: bluetooth, difficult-time, galaxy, leak, phone, prototype, sammy, samsung, taken-the-time, windows
Samsung Intercept ambushed in the wild, features higher res screen (video)
When we first got word of a Samsung Moment successor , we were concerned it would be too little, too late... but this week a man headed off Sammy's new Intercept at a Best Buy (for $100, reportedly), and there's slightly more to this device than it originally seemed. While the form factor and features are familiar enough -- a QWERTY slider with a 3.2 megapixel camera and 3.2-inch screen -- that display apparently sports a 800 x 480 resolution now, the keyboard seems much improved, ports and buttons have been thoroughly revamped, and the whole unit's been given a lovely sheen
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: factor, features-higher, keyboard, moment, sammy, samsungintercept, sprint, sun, wild
Acclaim Android slider revealed by Samsung’s own site
We know you've been kept awake at night by this question: just what does the Samsung Acclaim look like? Well, thanks to one of our awesome readers, we now the first official pic of the handset. This was discovered on Samsung's site without too much effort, which might indicate just how excited the Korean manufacturer is about the whole thing.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: assuming-sammy, awesome, inclinations, leak, qwerty slider, release-at-some, sammy, samsung, visage
Samsung AMOLED Beam SPH-W9600 projector phone is not what we’ve been waiting for
Remember Samsung's impressive 3.7-inch Super AMOLED Beam projector phone running Andriod? This isn't it. Instead, Samsung is launching its far less impressive 3.3-inch AMOLED (what, no Super ?) Beam SPH-W9600 we previewed back in January into its South Korean home.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: amoled, beam, codec-support, DivX, engadget, microsoft, picoprojector, projector, projectorphone, sammy, samsung, sph-w9600
Samsung Moment 2 with Sprint branding and TouchWiz 3.0 peeks out
The Samsung Moment is due to get Android 2.1 sometime in the near future , but it looks like it's also going to get a bit of a refresh -- check out this pic of a Sprint-branded Moment 2 that's said to have TouchWiz 3.0 on top of Android 2.1. Unfortunately, the same source says this thing doesn't have Sammy's new Super AMOLED screen , so we'd assume it doesn't have that new faster processor from the Galaxy S either -- all of which means the HTC EVO 4G is still really the Sprint device to wait for. But hey, maybe you love TouchWiz?
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: assume-it-doesn, engadget, leak, Peeks, result, sammy, samsung, samsung-moment, sprint, thing, touchwiz3.0
Samsung Galaxy S coming to AT&T?
We'd already heard from Samsung itself at CTIA that we'd see the high-end Galaxy S complete with blindingly brilliant Super AMOLED display on American soil in 2010 -- and considering that Sammy doesn't play the unlocked, unbranded game in these parts, that means with certainty that it'll be coming to a carrier. Here's where it gets interesting: the Bluetooth SIG has recently certified a "full touch" device (read: no keyboard) from Samsung identified as the SGH-i897 with a 4-inch display and TouchWiz 3.0 -- in other words, a dead ringer for the unbranded Galaxy S that's identified as the i9000. Historically, Samsung models that start with SGH and end with a number 7 land at AT&T (it's a tradition that goes back years) so it stands to reason that this i897 is destined for the orange and blue.