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AT&T subscribers looking for new Samsung Android devices will have plenty to chose from in the coming weeks, as the carrier on Friday announced that it was adding three Samsung smartphones and a new tablet to its device portfolio. The big name on the list is the Galaxy Note II, the sequel to Samsung’s popular Continue Reading →

Good news: The iPhone 5 doesn’t just feel light in your hand, it will also feel light in your electric bill. The energy-consumption researchers at Opower on Thursday released a study showing that Apple’s newest smartphone costs just $0.41 per year to charge, or $0.12 less than the Samsung Galaxy S III. In fact, Opower Continue Reading →

We’re starting to suspect that Samsung has a thing for special events. The company just asked us to clear our calendars for an evening presentation in New York City on October 24th, teasing that the “Next Big Thing” has arrived. It’s easy to make the connection to the Galaxy Note line with a stylus front Continue Reading →

Samsung Galaxy S3 owners are subject to a vulnerability that can actually be fixed with an over-the-air update. Samsung today said that users can install a security update over the air that will safeguard them from a vulnerability that could allow someone to remotely delete all of their personal data from the handset. Security researcher Continue Reading →

Photos that appeared online over the weekend appear to have been taken with an as yet unannounced Samsung phone, which seemingly fits in with Samsung’s Nexus device naming system. The data attached to the shots say they were taken with a device Samsung’s labelled the GT-i9260, which you might reasonably expect to be an update Continue Reading →

Owners of Samsung Galaxy SII and SIII smartphones may want to take care when opening web links received via QR, NFC or push messages, after a security researcher showed that the handsets are potentially vulnerable to being remotely wiped. Ravi Borgaonkar, a researcher in the Security in Communications department at Technical University Berlin, demonstrated the Continue Reading →

Semiconductors are big business. In fact, chips represent $30 billion of Samsung’s estimated $140 billion revenue. Despite their rivalry in smartphones, Apple is Samsung’s largest applications process customer and uses various components, such as semiconductors and display products (see the Quarterly Application Processor Market Share Tracker from Strategy Analytics). “Samsung semiconductor is not fighting against Continue Reading →

Samsung has begun rolling out the Android ‘Jelly Bean’ 4.1 update for its flagship Galaxy S III handset, beginning in eastern Europe. Early on Monday morning, the first forum reports emerged of the update becoming available in Poland, through Samsung’s Kies synchronisation software. Other eastern European countries such as Romania also seem to be getting Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120921_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Are you on line somewhere waiting to buy an iPhone 5?  If so, I hope they have a few left when you get inside the store.  According to Apple, the iPhone 5 is the fastest selling iDevice in history and they are officially out of stock for Continue Reading →

Samsung has just announced some excellent news folks. We had a feeling this was coming but Wednesday morning Samsung’s confirmed their new and impressive Galaxy Note II smartphone phablet will be arriving on all major US carriers, starting in November. The Galaxy Note II will launch nationwide on all carriers just like the smaller Galaxy Continue Reading →