Samsung Galaxy S Power Pack: when internal batteries are just too convenient
Somebody at Samsung apparently forgot that its very popular Galaxy S handset (in all its varieties ) has -- are you ready for this -- a user-replaceable battery .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: batteries, external battery pack, gps, like-the-galaxy, power, power-pack, result, samsung, screws, very-popular
Samsung Galaxy S sporting Gorilla Glass to protect that precious AMOLED
Remember this horribly painful video ? The Gorilla Glass protection on the Dell Streak is undoubtedly a selling point, and now Corning, the maker of said glass, has announced that the Samsung Galaxy S (which includes the Vibrant , Captivate , Fascinate , and Epic 4G in its brood) employs the same alkali-aluminosilicate glass shield. The glass is similar to the "helicopter windshield" stuff Apple uses on the iPhone 4, which was rumored to be Gorilla Glass at one point, and while neither tech is impervious to shattering, they certainly can take a beating -- but just try and do that pen stab torture test while we're not looking, alright?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: beautiful, engadget, entry, fascinate, glass, glass-at-one, gorilla-glass, helicopter, iphone, samsung, samsung-galaxy, torture
Samsung Craft LTE phone spied enroute to MetroPCS?
These shots actually surfaced a few days ago buried in the depths of HowardForums , but given what we know of Samsung's R900 Craft thus far -- particularly the fact that it'll be a non-smartphone -- we have no reason to doubt that we're looking at a prototype of it here. What makes the Craft most notable is that it's slated to be MetroPCS' first LTE -capable handset (and one of the first LTE handsets anywhere in the world) for its shiny new 4G network, and it looks like we can expect full sliding QWERTY along with the typical TouchWiz UI elements
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: elements, engadget, handset, metro, qwerty, r900, rumor, samsung, samsung-craft, slider
Confirmed: Galaxy S unlock codes are stored in your phone, Vibrant capable of AT&T 3G
Sure, the Samsung Vibrant's a T-Mobile device and the Samsung Captivate belongs to AT&T, but there's no longer any reason you can't swap them around -- all you need is a simple script and a USB cable to completely unlock your phone.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: captivate, hack, hacking, hacks, mobile, myriam-joire, phone, samsung, samsung vibrant, samsunggalaxys, tested-it-out, unlocked, Unlocking, vibrant
Exclusive: Samsung Cetus i917 bows for AT&T, shows off its Windows Phone 7 ways
Does the almost Pre -esque shape of this beast look vaguely familiar? It should, because it matches up nicely with the outline of the Samsung Cetus we saw in the FCC a little while back
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: cetus, gallery, holiday, i917, inthewild, samsung, Shape, shows-off-its, windows, windowsphone7, wp7
Samsung switches up the alphabet soup, launches Galaxy U in Korea
We'd previously heard about South Korean carrier LG U+ picking up a moderately downscaled version of the Galaxy S series as the Galaxy U before... and, well, sure enough, here it is.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: engadget-mobile, entry, galaxy u, hitting-stores, korea, lgu, record, result, samsung, soup
T-Mobile offering Vibrant for $99, if you’re quick about it
If the Vibrant's $200 price tag on contract was the only thing keeping you planted on the fence, you might want to head over to T-Mobile's interwebs right this second seeing how they're offering a one-day special -- $99, online only -- which makes it $100 cheaper than AT&T's Captivate and $150 less than Sprint's Epic 4G . Any way you slice it, that's a killer carrier-direct price for a high-end Android phone with a 1GHz core and one of the best phone displays we've ever seen...
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: blu-rays-yeah, captivate, entry, fence, galaxy s, interwebs-right, mobile, phone-displays, price, result, sale, samsung, thing-keeping, vibrant
Samsung Epic 4G showing up in Sprint stores — and no, you can’t have them
Samsung Epic 4Gs earmarked for product advocates at Sprint retail locations -- folks whose job it is to know everything about key devices -- apparently started to roll in on Monday of this week.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-epic, boston, engadget-mobile, know-everything, mobile, retail, samsung, samsung-epic, sprint, store, tipster, Units, wimax
Epic 4G review
Of the seemingly countless variants of the Galaxy S that Samsung's in the process of deploying around the globe, one stands out in a couple very unique (and important) ways: Sprint's Epic 4G . The Epic hangs on to a couple of the Galaxy line's most important characteristics -- namely the 1GHz Hummingbird processor and the 4-inch Super AMOLED display -- but adds in a sliding landscape QWERTY keyboard, support for the wickedly fast WiMAX network that Sprint shares with partner Clearwire, and a handful of other notable one-off customizations. We've already taken a look at two of the other US-bound Galaxy S models -- AT&T's Captivate and T-Mobile's Vibrant -- but it shouldn't take more than a quick glance at the Epic to tell you that this is a very, very different beast.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: clearwire, epic, epic 4g, galaxy, galaxy s, galaxys, globe, handful, htc, phone-released, pretty-critical, qwerty, samsung, states, video
Windows Phone 7 leak mania continues with new Samsung prototype
Better bring an umbrella if you're going out, because the Windows Phone 7 hardware leaks are really starting to rain down. We've so far peeked pre-release handsets from ASUS , HTC ( twice ), and LG , and now Samsung is pitching in with what looks like a device fated to dance on retail shelves
Categories: Mobile Phone, htc Tags: dance-on-retail, handsets, in the wild, leak, microsoft, rather-resemble, result, samsung, smartphone, time, windows phone 7, windowsphone7