Samsung launched the Galaxy Star Pro, the successor of the Galaxy Star back in October. We already unboxed the device earlier this week. Here we have the benchmarks of the device. The Star Pro packs a 1 GHz single-core Spreadtrum SC6820 processor based on ARM Cortex A5 CPU and has Mali 400 GPU. The phone has a 4.0-inch WVGA … Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Star Pro Benchmarks”
Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 Review The Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 is the much awaited successor to the S Duos which was the Samsung phone to get in the mid range not long ago. It had offered pretty much similar specifications as the Galaxy S but at a far lesser price making it a … Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 Review”
Samsung launched the Galaxy Grand 2 earlier today at an event in Mumbai. The successor of the Galaxy Grand would be priced between Rs. 22,900 and Rs. 24,900. It is already available for pre-order from the Samsung India eStore and would go on sale in the first week of January 2014. At the launch event … Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 Hands On”
Oppo N1 Review After a long period of leaks and teasers, Oppo finally announced its latest flagship device, the Oppo N1 in September. The N1, initially believed to be camera-centric, ended up as a well rounded flagship device for the company. Innovations like the O-Touch rear sensor and the unique rotating swivel unit for the … Continue reading “Oppo N1 Review”
Samsung Galaxy S Duos was very popular phone in 2012 and at the end of 2013, Samsung have announced a successor – Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2. Galaxy S Duos 2 takes up the job of being a budget smartphone and at the same time, providing Samsung’s TouchWiz UI along with average specifications. The camera … Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 Camera Samples”
Hello readers! Welcome to the first round of Fonearena’s Best Budget Smartphone Competition. Fonearena is conducting one of a kind smartphone championship where you get to make your favorite smartphone win. This year we are conducting two championships – one for the flagships and one for the value for money budget smartphones. Among the four … Continue reading “Round 1 – Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos vs Intex Aqua i7 #Smartfone13”
Samsung Galaxy S5’s purported metal casing leaked recently. Now a Korean website ETNews is reporting that the Galaxy S5 would come in two variants, plastic and metal build. Samsung Galaxy S series devices usually enter mass production couple of months ahead of the launch, the new report suggests that the Galaxy S5 mass production would begin in January … Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S5 mass production rumored to start in January, to come in two versions?”
Sony announced the Sony Xperia Z1 at the IFA 2013 in Berlin as the company’s latest flagship. Sony Xperia Z1 is the successor of Xperia Z and gets improvement in almost all the departments. Samsung Galaxy S4 was announced during March and was available in the market since April. Galaxy S4 was the successor of … Continue reading “Sony Xperia Z1 vs Samsung Galaxy S4”
Google announced the Nexus 5 a while back, and with it came the latest iteration of Android – 4.4 KitKat. Within a day, Nexus 5 made its way into the hands of talented developers and Google too helped along, with the AOSP builds instantly going live. We then rapidly saw ports and AOSP builds popping … Continue reading “Android 4.4 KitKat In-depth Walkthrough”
Sony and Samsung announced their flagship devices at IFA 2013. Samsung was the first company to step into the 5inch + category with their original Galaxy Note and it was a very successful experiment. Samsung continued to reap even bigger rewards with the second interation of the Note series – Samsung Galaxy Note 2. Samsung … Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note 3 vs Sony Xperia Z1”
If a report from a Chinese media publication is to be believed, Samsung was apparently interested in acquiring the Cyanogen Mod OS. The report/interview claims that these intentions eventually led to Steve Kondik, the CyanogenMod founder, to quit his day job as a software engineer at Samsung. It’s from a popular Chinese tabloid so it’s … Continue reading “Samsung was interested in acquiring Cyanogen Mod OS, says Report”
At IFA 2013 in Berlin Samsung announced their Samsung Galaxy Note 3 which is the third iteration of their Galaxy Note series while Sony had announced the Xperia Z Ultra, their first phablet sometime in July. Sony Xperia Z Ultra was the first smartphone to feature a Snapdragon 800 SoC and now the LTE variant … Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note 3 vs Sony Xperia Z Ultra”
Samsung announced the third iteration of their very popular Galaxy Note series at IFA 2013 in Berlin – Samsung Galaxy Note 3 while they announced the Samsung Galaxy S4 back in March. Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is the successor of Galaxy Note 2 which was an exceptional device(it still is) while the Galaxy S4 takes … Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note 3 vs Samsung Galaxy S4”
Samsung announced the third iteration of their very successful Galaxy Note series at the IFA earlier this year in the form of Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is the successor of the extremely popular and successful Galaxy Note 2. Galaxy Note 3 has to live up to its hype that it generated … Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note 3 vs HTC One”
Samsung confirmed earlier this year that they would launch a Tizen-based device in 2013. We had already seen an image of the Samsung GT-I8800 codenamed Redwood back in May, now guys at Tizen Experts has got their hands on the Tizen RedWood device (Z9005) that run on the new Tizen 2.2 OS. Since the device is inside … Continue reading “Samsung Z9005 RedWood running Tizen 2.2 surfaces in a video”
