Samsung Electronics Co. have released updated sales figures which show that their popular smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S II, has surpassed the twenty million units shipped mark in its first ten months of existence in the market. The world’s number two smartphone maker say that the figures represent both domestic and international markets, but only take into account the number of units which have been shipped to service providers and don't take into account SIM-free sales or individual customer purchases which means the figure could be significantly higher.
For those of you amongst us who are big Android and Samsung fans but who aren't willing to part with your hard earned cash on the gigantic Galaxy Note, then it may not be that long a wait until you can get your hands on the Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone. The world had pretty much set itself for the fact that Samsung would release the third iteration of the Galaxy S device toward the end of this month but this is no longer the case with the Korean electronics giant making an unexpected U-turn and decided to give the S3 its own launch event later in the year.
Samsung chose the biggest advertising day of the year in the United States to debut their Apple mocking, Samsung Galaxy Note commercial which aired for the first time during Super Bowl XLVI. The commercial, which featured a number of blatant attacks toward Apple, featured possibly an ageing British rock band as well as quite possibly the biggest mobile phone I have ever seen, which even comes with a stylus. Yes, 2012 and Samsung are releasing top of the range smartphones with a pen.
The fundamental difference between how Apple sells its products and how other computer manufacturers sell theirs lies in the sheer product variety within the same general form factor. Apple believes in putting all its resources into making one unbelievably amazing product and updating it once a year while manufacturers like HTC, Samsung, Motorola believe in putting their resources into making a wide variety of amazing products which, naturally, end up looking and feeling pretty similar to one another.
Samsung’s Galaxy S II smartphone was released around in the world back in May-June 2011 and we are now closing into the reveal and release of its successor - the Galaxy S III.
It's becoming ever increasingly difficult to keep up with who is involved in litigation against who in the mobile smartphone industry. In the last few months Apple and Samsung have been at war against each other, and it was only this morning that a German court ruled in favor of Motorola Mobility in a separate patent case against Apple.
An alleged press shot of a new powered-by-Android-4.0 Samsung smartphone has been “leaked”, Redmond Pie has learned. Details after the jump.
Rivalry is undoubtedly a positive thing, particularly in the gadget sphere. Without manufacturers competing for the affections of the fickle public, we'd have less devices, fewer choices, and our digital freedom could be severely compromised.
While all the talk has been about whether Samsung would announce the Galaxy S III at the upcoming Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, the Korean company has taken us all by surprise by announcing a different handset.
In a similar fashion in the cat and mouse game between Apple and the jailbreakers, I am pretty sure that this back and forth saga between Apple and Samsung is likely to continue for quite some time. The two companies have an extremely turbulent relationship, with Apple on one hand being Samsung's largest components customer, but the two companies are also dragging each other through different lawsuits claiming the other has infringed upon certain patents.
