Samsung begins Europe sales of latest smartphone

Samsung begins Europe sales of latest smartphone
San Jose Mercury News
By YOUKYUNG LEE AP A customer uses a Samsung Electronics' Samsung Galaxy SIIIsmartphone during a late night sale event in Berlin May 28, 2012. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch SEOUL, South Korea -- Samsung Electronics, the world's largest maker of mobile ...

Apple's iOS 6 Maps app can do 3D, says report
CNET
A preview of the Maps app reportedly destined for iOS 6 has surfaced on the Web and appears to come with the ability to display images in 3D, according to BGR. by Lance Whitney May 29, 2012 9:27 AM PDT Follow @lancewhit Is Google Maps due to be ...

Samsung launches latest Galaxy smartphone in Europe before arrival of Apple's ...
Washington Post
SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of mobile phones, said its third-generation Galaxy S smartphone went on sale Tuesday in 28 European and Middle Eastern countries, hoping to cement its lead over Apple's iPhone.

Facebook Phone Faces Uphill Battle
InformationWeek
Facebook plans to bring its own smartphone to market, according to reports. If it does, it will probably fail. The Facebook phone rumors have resurfaced, this time with the weight of The New York Times behind the reports. Anonymous Facebook employees ...

Review: Samsung Galaxy S III is a technological triumph
Washington Post
To Samsung, it's the new flagship handset to keep the company ahead of every other Android OEM through 2012, for most people it's a device that stretches the definition of the smartphone form factor, and to mobile gaming enthusiasts it's potentially ...

Samsung Unveils Galaxy S III, Music Hub
InformationWeek
By Eric Zeman InformationWeek Samsung's flagship smartphone for 2012 finally reaches consumers today across 28 countries. The Galaxy S III is the most important device of the year for Samsung's mobile division. It reaches the market more than a year ...

Samsung apes iTunes -- can Apple respond?
Computerworld (blog)
After all, in a few months time Samsung will also be competing directly with Android-developer Google's newly-acquired Motorola Mobility. With Google investing billions in the latter firm, it's pretty certain that, once the lip service promises are ...

Report: Facebook Quietly Planning to Build a Smartphone
Fox Business
According to The New York Times, Mark Zuckerberg and his social network could launch asmartphone that would compete with Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and Google (GOOG) powered Androiddevices by next year. The report did little to help Facebook's shares, ...

Samsung Galaxy S3 gets head start on rival iPhone
Reuters
By Miyoung Kim and Paul Sandle | SEOUL/LONDON (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics launched its top-of-the-range Galaxy S3 smartphone in Europe on Tuesday, aiming to outsell its previous model that helped the South Korean company topple Apple (AAPL.

Facebook Working On Its Own Smartphone?
ABC News (blog)
But according to The New York Times, Facebook is aiming bigger than apps that run on the iPhone or Android phones. It might just release its own smartphone. According to the New York Times' anonymous sources, Facebook is preparing to release a phone by ...

ABC News (blog)

Samsung's Music Hub Service Brings 19 Million Songs to the Galaxy S III
PCWorld (blog)
By Loek Essers, IDG-News-Service:Amsterdam-Bureau Samsung on Tuesday followed up the launch of the Galaxy S III in Europe with its own smartphone music service that allows users to store music in the cloud and stream it for a monthly fee.

Samsung Galaxy S III launches in Singapore (photos)
CNET
by John Chan , Timothy Fernandez | 29 May 2012 10:59pm SGT Today is the official launch of the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S III (S3) smartphone in Singapore. Operator M1 had a queue snaking around the front of Paragon, the shopping mall in which ...

CNET

Samsung Galaxy S III Europe Release: New Smartphones Hit Shelves
Huffington Post
Samsung said the service has a 19-million song catalog. Samsung said the initial response to the new smartphone was positive. At Vodafone Group, pre-sale orders for the Galaxy S III outstripped those of any previous Android-based smartphones, ...

Why a Facebook phone doesn't stand a chance
ZDNet (blog)
By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | May 29, 2012, 4:21am PDT Summary: Perhaps Facebook is using the specter of developing its own handset as leverage against Apple to get its service integrated intoiOS? A persistent rumor has resurfaced which suggests that ...

News Summary: Samsung launches latest Galaxy smartphone in Europe
Washington Post
s third-generation Galaxy S smartphone went on sale Tuesday in 28 European and Middle Eastern countries. Its US debut comes later. IPHONE COMPETITOR: The Galaxy series has become a viable competitor to Apple Inc.'s iPhone.

iPhone iOS 5.1.1 Jailbreak a Big Hit, but Causing Some Problems
eWeek
Apple iOS 5.1.1 users who want their device jailbroken have a new option with Absinthe 2.0, released this weekend. Over the weekend, software allowing users to jailbreak version 5.1.1 of the Apple iPhone operating system, Absinthe 2.0, was released ...

Samsung Galaxy S III goes on sale in 28 countries
CNN
By Stan Schroeder, Mashable (CNN) -- Samsung's new flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S3, today becomes available in 28 countries, including several European markets such as Germany and the UK. The Galaxy S3 is the cream of the crop of Android ...

Purported iOS 6 screenshots claim to show Apple's new Maps app
Apple Insider
By Sam Oliver A collection of blurry photos claim to reveal Apple's redesigned Maps application, expected to be a major component of the anticipated iOS 6 update for iPhone and iPad. The five pictures claiming to show the new iOS 6 Maps application ...

Samsung Starts ITunes Rival to Draw Smartphone Shoppers
Bloomberg
(005930) started a service that lets users listen to music stored online as the world's topsmartphone maker competes with Apple Inc. (AAPL) to win consumers seeking entertainment content on their handsets. The Music Hub service, which will be first ...

Facebook smartphone to come, report says
Mother Nature Network
Facebook hopes to release its own smartphone by next year, the New York Times reported on May 28. By Agence France PresseMon, May 28 2012 at 7:06 PM EST Facebook smartphone reported to be in development. (Photo: AFP) Facebook hopes to release its own ...

Mother Nature Network

Softbank unveils post-Fukushima radiation smartphone
Reuters
The smartphone in the company's "Pantone" series will come in eight bright colors and include customized IC chips made by Sharp Corp that measure radiation levels in microsieverts per hour. The phone, which goes on sale this summer, can also keep track ...

Facebook might have smartphone in its future
Post-Bulletin
By Nick Bilton This past week, Google completed its acquisition of the hardware maker Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, which could lead to the search giant's making its own smartphone. But another software titan might be getting into the hardware ...

Samsung says delay in some blue Galaxy S3 smartphone orders
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics said there had been a delay in making the blue variant of its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3, which launched on Tuesday, meaning some customers faced a two to three week wait for delivery.

Six things to know about smartphone batteries
CNET
If you're trying to figure out what your iPhone 5 (or 6) -- or your next Android device or Windows Phone -- is going to look like, there are some things you need to know. by Noam Kedem May 29, 2012 4:00 AM PDT Editors' note: This is a guest post.

Samsung Galaxy S III launches in Europe
USA TODAY
By Brett Molina, USA TODAY European consumers are getting the first peek at Samsung's latest smartphone: the Galaxy S III. As the Associated Press reports, the electronics company launched the device in 28 countries across Europe and the Middle East.

USA TODAY

Samsung Galaxy S3: Android champion slings another attack against Apple ...
Daily Mail
The Galaxy S3 is the successor to the S2 Android phone, which helped make Samsung the world's largest smartphone maker in 2011. The phone, sporting a 4.8-inch screen, features eye-tracking technology so that it knows when to wake and when to sleep, ...

Daily Mail

Apple's new iOS 6 Maps app with 3D mapping is coming this summer, and we have ...
BGR
Apple has been working on an in-house mapping solution for a few years, and it appears as if the company is finally ready to release a new Maps app for iOS, sidestepping Google's mapping data for its own. BGR has obtained exclusive information and ...

Rumor Mill: Facebook goes back to work on smartphone
FierceWireless
Facebook hopes to release its own smartphone by next year and has poached more than half a dozen former software and hardware engineers from Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) to make it happen, according to a report in the New York Times.

Facebook Doesn't Need to Make a Phone
PC Magazine
Although they are mobile computers at their core, phones are mobile computers that must be self-powered with internal radios operating on multiple frequencies (3G, LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth) with increasingly powerful CPUs running operating systems that ...

Google acquires Motorola Mobility: the full story | The Verge
Google's surprise decision to purchase Motorola Mobility last year has since cleared ... As part of the acquisition, Google will take on Motorola's deep patent portfolio ... Eric Schmidt on Motorola Mobility's future: 'a lot more focus on Android ' .... arguing that Motorola is abusing its patents committed to Wi-Fi and H.264 video ...
www.theverge.com/.../google-acquires-motorola-mobility-full...

Android over 50% of smartphone sales as Nokia and RIM feel strain ...
Google's Android: now powering more than half of smartphones sold in the past quarter. ... A year ago Android phones were 36.4% of the smartphone market, at 36.4m units. ..... As Apple iOS will know, if you Ask Siri what is the Best Ever Smartphone it .... Motorola, Sony and LG are doing badly because they are making bad ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../android-smartphone-market-50-perce...

UKC News - UKC Top Photos App for Android
No newer news stories; UKC Top Photos App for Android; Another 8b+ flash by Matilda ... The UKC Top Photos App is now available for Android devices. ... App is globally available via the iTunes Store for iOS or Google Play for Android.
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Android and iOS Rule With 82 Percent Market Share
"Neither Android nor iOS were the first to market with some of these features, but the way they made the smartphone experience intuitive and seamless has ...
www.tomsguide.com/.../android-ios-iphone-market-share-win...

Purported photos of iOS 6 Maps app emerge | iLounge News
Photos claiming to show bits and pieces of Apple's revamped Maps application for iOS 6 have been posted online. Citing a trusted source who supplied both ...
www.ilounge.com/.../purported-photos-of-ios-6-maps-app-em...

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