Samsung articles
May 25, 2013
A month after Optus rolled out their Jelly Bean update for the Samsung Galaxy S2, Telstra are beginning their rollout. The Jelly Bean update which was approved for deployment by Telstra on the 17th of May is now rolling out, with users reporting the update arriving as an Over The Air(OTA) update. The new firmware [...]
May 23, 2013
Samsung have just announced that the Galaxy S 4 has already sold 10 million units worldwide in record time, less than 30 days from its official release date. The Samsung success beats their previous Galaxy S III and Galaxy S II sales records by a considerable margin: 50 days for the Galaxy S III and [...]
May 23, 2013
The Samsung Galaxy train rolls on, this time Phandroid have spotted what appears to be a new Samsung device on benchmarks with the model number GT-N7200 associated. Running a non specific 1.6ghz processor, which would make sense when you sit it along side the Galaxy S 4 quad core version that’s landed in Australia we [...]
May 22, 2013
Samsung has traditionally used ARM based CPUs for all their devices, from their own in-house Exynos processors to Qualcomm CPUs. But, according to an entry on graphics benchmark site GFXBench, the next iteration of the 10″ Galaxy Tab could be running an Intel Clovertrail based CPU. The output on GFXBench shows a device listed with [...]
May 21, 2013
If you like your phones extremely large, then how about a Galaxy S4 Mega? The latest update to the Samsung TV Remote application ‘WatchOn’ included a line that hinted that the Galaxy S4 Mega could soon be on its way. The update also mentions the Galaxy S4 Mini and Galaxy S4 Active, which have already [...]
May 20, 2013
Samsung has so far had a pretty decent track record with keeping all their older models of the Galaxy S line up to date and it appears that the Galaxy S III is about to get some love. A very early pre-release Android 4.2.2 firmware for the Samsung Galaxy S III has surfaced and it [...]
May 19, 2013
The Samsung Galaxy S4 is shaping up to be the best selling Galaxy device to date, with Samsung Electronics co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun advising that the Korean manufacturer is confident that they will pass the 10 million unit sales mark at some stage next week, making it the fastest selling smartphone in Samsung’s history. Released to [...]
May 17, 2013
The Galaxy S III was super popular, but can Samsung repeat last year’s success against renewed competition? The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is set to be the hottest smartphone of 2013, and considering the success of its predecessor, will likely cement Samsung’s place as the number one smartphone manufacturer in the world. It does face [...]
May 17, 2013
One of the many quirks about Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 is that it only has just over 7GB of its 16GB internal memory free, straight out of the box. Samsung’s official party line was that so much space was necessary to deliver the Galaxy’s ‘more powerful features’, although I think truthfully it was just badly-written [...]
May 16, 2013
Earlier this morning, Google’s Hugo Barra announced a variant of the Samsung Galaxy S4 running stock Android and covered by the Nexus experience. It’s a pretty big deal, and it’s even more awesome to see Samsung doing it with their flagship device. In the same breath before unveiling the device, he noted the HTC One [...]
May 16, 2013
While Google didn’t unveil anything new for the Nexus 4, they did partner up with Samsung to announce the Galaxy S4 running stock Android 4.2 with a pure Nexus experience. As with every other Nexus device, updates will come directly from Google in a timely fashion in comparison to the staggered release from Samsung with [...]
May 15, 2013
Put this one firmly in the rumour catgeory folks, but according to Geek.com Samsung and Google have gotten together and are planning to release a Galaxy S4 running an AOSP version of Android, which will be launched during the keynote at IO, due to start at 2am tomorrow morning Australian Eastern time. The rumour states [...]
May 13, 2013
Samsung’s latest beast, the Galaxy S 4, with its 1.9GHZ quad-core Snapdragon 600 should be the fastest device you’ve ever used. But sadly, for a lot of people, this simply isn’t the case. Whether the issue is one of perception, or if there’s something wrong under-the-hood, the device seems quite laggy a lot of the [...]














