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Sprint Samsung Intercept Becomes Official
Today, Sprint announces its newest Android handset, the Samsung Intercept. It comes with a 3.2″ screen, slide-out keyboard, and a 3.2MP camera. There’s not much special about this little device, but its probably the replacement for the popular Samsung Moment. It will retail for $99.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and a two-year contract (with…
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Samsung i897 Coming To At&t
Time for another high-end Android phone to join the market, this time its by Samsung and reportedly coming to At&t. Back in January, we reported on the Samsung Galaxy, with recent reports showing the Galaxy S is coming to T-Mobile this year. Now there’s another Samsung device, which is very similar to the Galaxy S,…
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Sprint’s Samsung Moment Finally Getting Android 2.1 Now
While there’s been no official announcement from Sprint, people are reporting that if you download the update executable from Sprint’s website that you’ll end up with Android 2.1. The download page still shows the update is dated 2/19/2010. There’s some discussions going on in our forums about it too. Have you tried it? What was…
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Wireless Market Share By Carrier & Devices
ComScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, has released their latest study yesterday, which shows common trends in the US Wireless Market for the first three months of this year. According to the study, Verizon holds the most market share at 31.1%, while At&t is second with 25.2% and Sprint and T-Mobile both had…
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The Government Is Trying To Stick Their Noses In Your Pocket
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has started working with mobile phone manufactures, including Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, and LG, to begin implementing poison chemical detectors. The detectors will be used to help notify users of a chemical release. The implementation of this chip would also be linked to a network,which through multiple unique detections and…
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Samsung’s Pico Beam
While there is still a large dearth of pico-projector smartphones in the U.S. market, Samsung has launched another pico-inclusive device abroad called the Samsung AMOLED Beam SPH-W9600. What is a pico-projector you may ask? It’s an image/video projector that is tiny in size that displays media onto a wall or another stationary display, without the…
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Sprint’s Samsung Moment2 Image Leaked
Even though the original Samsung Moment has barely been out for half a year, it looks like Samsung is getting ready to release its successor. WeRAndroid has posted up some leaked images showing it will have Android 2.1. From the image above, its obviously a Sprint version with a hardware keyboard. Its also said to…
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Official: Android 2.1 Update Now Available
The first phone to be officially upgraded to the Android 2.1 operating system is the Samsung Galaxy Spica (also known as the Galaxy Portal). The upgrade is available in Germany and Samsung has detailed that it will be gradually rolled out to other European markets, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Asia, Africa and rest…
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Samsung Galaxy 2- Does it take you to the Androidosphere?
Androphones has it from several sources that Samsung will be launching a new Snapdragon powered Android device. Judging from the likely specifications, this will surely have enough rocket power to boost you to whatever galaxy you want to go to. – 1 GHz Snapdragon – 3.7 inch AMOLED touchscreen – 5 MP camera – 32…
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Samsung 32Gb MicroSDHC Cards Announced
Samsung has announced that it plans to start production on a 32Gb MicroSDHC cards as early as next month. There’s no other information about the class or the price, other than the fact that it takes advantage of Samsung’s advanced 30-nm class 32Gb NAND flash memory technology. Source: Slashgear
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Sprint Hero & Moment To Go Straight To Android 2.1
Sprint has confirmed that the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment will be skipping Android 2.0 and will be jumping straight to Android 2.1. Users will still have to wait until the first half of 2010 for the update though. Click on the image to the left to view a screenshot of the Twitter post. Source:…
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Samsung Pays Qualcomm $1.3 Billion
Samsung and Qualcomm have reached a cross-licensing deal which will let Samsung continue producing 3G and 4G wireless phones for the next 15 years. Samsung is also letting Qualcomm 57 of its patents on mobile technology. The $1.3 Billion is a down payment and future loyalty payments will be involved, but aren’t detailed. It is…
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Sprint’s Samsung Moment Now Available
Sprint’s next Android phone, the Samsung Moment is now available to purchase. Like the Verizon Droid, its a touchscreen slider with a 3.2MP camera, but it boasts an AMOLED display and an 800MHz processor. It also has the standard WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, EV-DO rev. A, visual voicemail, 3.5mm jack, microSD card and a TouchWiz UI.…
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PPCG Review: Samsung SBH-600 Bluetooth Stereo Headset
I had the change to review the Samsung SBH 600 Bluetooth Stereo Headset. When first opening the box, I must admit that they looked very comfortable. It was very well-cushioned in a soft leather. The ear pieces were very soft as well as the band. The buttons have a nice chrome finish to them, making…
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TellMe ripped from Sprint Intrepid
Tired of Voice Command? Now you can try Microsoft’s new app called TellMe thanks to our forum member pixelwix. He was at a Sprint store and saw the Intrepid sitting next to the Hero and noticed it had the TellMe app on it. He copied the installer file over to his TP2 and decided to…
