Samsung articles
January 30, 2013
Good news for owners of the unbranded Australian version of the S-Pen wielding Galaxy Note 10.1 which launched last year running the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android, the update to Android 4.1.2 is now available via Kies. The update was listed in the @SamKiesUpdate tweet stream : Australia GT-N8020 update N8020XXBMA3/N8020XSABMA2(Android 4.1.2) sammobile.com/kies — [...]
January 30, 2013
While other manufacturers are releasing phones with 1080p screens, Samsung have decided to go the other way and make a phone where the pixels are so big, you can see them in all their PenTile pixelly glory. The display on the Galaxy Express is a 4.5 inch Super AMOLED Plus display with a resolution of [...]
January 27, 2013
We’ve heard bits and pieces about the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 in the last week or so. We had it confirmed by Samsung’s J K Shin that the Galaxy Note 8.0 would launch at the Mobile World Congress in February 2013. Then we saw some advertising imagery shown around the web. Now it looks like [...]
January 24, 2013
No one can deny that the introduction of the ASUS Nexus 7 tablet lit a fire in the “budget device” sector, and in the “sub 10″ tablet” range. But it seems that we may see more competition coming in from Samsung this year. There are rumours that we may see a new 7-inch Android tablet [...]
January 23, 2013
After JK Shin yesterday confirmed that the Galaxy Note 8 would be announced at Mobile World Congress in February, SamMobile have been tipped with a photo of what appears to be advertising material for the Galaxy Note 8 which also includes specifications, some of the specs listed by SamMobile aren’t included on the box and [...]
January 22, 2013
With CES now but a fond memory we are now looking forward to what some describe as the ‘Big’ event in mobile news: Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where according to JK Shin the head of Samsung Mobile, the Galaxy Note 8 will make its debut. Not a huge amount is known about the newest [...]
January 18, 2013
The Galaxy Camera has been one of the best use cases for Android we saw last year but it is a little much for some people as an outright cost. One of our readers Carsten has tipped us that iinet is now selling the Galaxy Camera which you can either purchase outright for $579 or [...]
January 18, 2013
Telstra have today launched the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 4G onto their network following Optus’s launch in December. The Note 10.1 4G starts off at $53/mo on Telstra’s lowest tier plan which includes 1GB of data a month, all the way up to $108/mo for 15GB of data. It’s a fairly expensive deal to sign [...]
January 17, 2013
A tip off from an Ausdroid reader Michael who has advised that the Jelly Bean update has arrived for his unbranded Samsung Galaxy S III which he purchased outright from Dick Smith Electronics. The I9300XXELLA Android 4.1.2 update is available for your handest via KIES. Whilst Samsung has not released a changelog for the update, [...]
January 17, 2013
You may have heard of a little family of devices from Samsung called the “Galaxy S” range. Well, apparently they’re pretty popular, with Samsung shipping over 100 million Galaxy S units in total. Other cool numbers from Samsung include selling 190,000 Galaxy S IIIs each day, and 40 million Galaxy S II and Galaxy S [...]
January 10, 2013
I just started using a Fitbit, I`m late to the so-called fitness device game but I received a Fitbit Aria scale for Christmas and thought it was a pretty cool concept and decided to get further into it so I went and grabbed a Fitbit Zip from DSE. Overall, I love the device and the [...]
January 10, 2013
At a second press announcement overnight at CES, Samsung has announced a new 8-core CPU the Exynos 5 Octa, a CPU which uses ARMs big.LITTLE processing technology. big.LITTLE processing offers better power efficiency to extend battery life by what ARM claims is up to 70%, they also claim this gives better performance. To do this [...]
January 9, 2013
Hello fellow Melbournians! Did you know that Samsung is bringing a store to Melbourne, so it’s not just those pesky peeps up in Sydney having all the fun? Well neither did I until this afternoon. Gizmodo Australia has uncovered that Samsung are opening a store at Highpoint Shopping Centre that’s expected to open in mid-March. [...]
