A new photograph of what appears to be the unannounced Samsung Galaxy S III has shown up, giving all of us impatiently waiting for Samsung's July announcement in London, something to keep us going for a while.
Although Nokia have been going through a rather difficult spell in recent years, they have still been managing to cling on to the top spot when it comes to global sales of cellphones - until now. According to new research conducted by a number of analytics firms, Samsung have ousted Nokia from the top of the leader board.
It has been a day or so since the smartphone loving world was treated to any gossip surrounding Samsung's latest addition to the Galaxy range of devices, the Galaxy S III. The much anticipated device has so far managed to surround itself with growing mystery, leaving Samsung and Android fans chomping at the bit to get their hands on it.
While the announcement for the next Galaxy smartphone - informally referred to as the Galaxy S III - isn't due until May 3rd as we've previously reported, Samsung has already dropped some news regarding the processor that will power the upcoming flagship Android smartphone. By the looks of things, this processor definitely seems to be worth getting your Android-mascot branded mascot in a twist over. It's called the Exynos 4 Quad, is clocked at 1.4GHz, and is based on the ARM Cortex A9 mobile processor. This processor seems to be quite inline with some earlier rumors, apart from the branding; rumors suggested that the upcoming quad-core CPU will sport the Exynos 5 branding.
No matter how anxious tech fans are becoming in their endeavor to meet Samsung's Galaxy S III, the Korean consumer electronics giant is giving absolutely nothing away. With the official announcement set for ten days' time, Samsung has released a couple of short teaser videos, although anybody looking for some solid information will once again be disappointed.
As the launch of Samsung's Galaxy S III draws ever-closer, Amazon Germany has already begun accepting pre-orders of the handset, and whilst there aren't any accompanying images, the price and features revealed are - given Amazon's rep as an online retailer - as good as confirmation.
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Apple's long running spat with Samsung over just about everything they've ever sold had provided months of entertainment already. Both companies have sought sales bans in their quests to disrupt sales of new devices around the globe, and the spat shows no sign of coming to an end any time soon.
Samsung's Taiwanese branch has confirmed that it will begin retailing Windows Phone 8 smartphones as soon as October. Responding to the questions of reporters, Samsung Taiwan has noted that it would not be introducing Windows Phone 7 (Mango) in Taiwan, instead looking towards the introduction of Windows Phone 8 (Apollo) handsets this October.
Samsung has reportedly been taking a leaf from the stalk of Cupertino rival Apple, by shifting around disguised prototypes of its upcoming Galaxy S III in order to proceed with stringent carrier testing.
