Emerging markets and China have resulted in an uptake in global smartphone sales in the first quarter of 2014, according to a latest report from Trend Force. The market research firm says that smartphone shipment worldwide hit 266.9 million units and improved by 1.13% in the first quarter of 2014.
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HTC has been known to be lavish when it comes to marketing and this was evident when they roped in Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. last year. This time, it is not some big name in the Hollywood, but the man behind Samsung’s commercial – The Next Big Thing is here which targeted Apple’s iPhone.
Samsung has announced that its recently launched Galaxy S5 has selling better that its predecessor Galaxy S4. The latest flagship smartphone has set a new record for the company with opening day sales being 30% higher to that of the S4, according to reports from ZDnet Korea. The Galaxy S5 has reportedly sold twice as well in some European market.
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The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 stands out as perhaps the biggest Android tablet that you can get at the moment. The tablet is not only physically large, it also packs in it some serious firepower in the form of specifications. Under the hood is a 1.9Ghz Exynos 5 Octa processor paired with 3GB of RAM. The Exynos 5 Octa or the Exynos 5420 SoC has the big.LITTLE architecture where it pairs two clusters of four cores each. By switching between two clusters of Cortex A7 or Cortex A15 cores depending on the task load, the OS can optimize for battery life and performance.
Unlike the Exynos 5422 variant of the chipset that is found in the Galaxy S5, the Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 does not have HMP (Heterogeneous Multi Processing) enabled which means that the OS cannot schedule task threads on all 8 cores simultaneously. While we’ll talk in detail about real life performance in our full review, here’s a couple of benchmarks to give you a comparative idea of how the Note Pro 12.2 fares against other popular Android tablets across categories. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 Benchmarks”
Soon after launching its premium flagship phone Galaxy S5 in over 125 countries including India, Samsung is now gearing up for its next smartphone launch. The smartphone giant will launch Galaxy S5 Zoom or Galaxy K on April 29th at Singapore’s Red Dot Museum. First emerged in March this year, the Galaxy S5 Zoom has officially passed through Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
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We hope that you’ve already checked out our photo gallery of the Samsung Galaxy S5. We’ve also released the Benchmarks for the Exynos version of the device. Now here is a photo gallery comparing the Galaxy S5 to the Galaxy S4.
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Today we’ve the unboxing of the Samsung Galaxy S5. It was officially announced in February during Mobile World Congress 2014. It is now available for purchase in India through Samsung stores and most other retailers.
As global smartphone shipments rise, estimates show that mobile internet traffic is poised to grow 10 times between 2013 to 2019. LTE users too will be consuming twice the amount of data. As LTE connectivity makes its way across price segments and reaches entry-mid range smartphones, it puts Broadcom in a unique position of being able to provide a complete package. Continue reading “Broadcom demonstrates LTE innovations, to bring fast mobile internet to the masses”
Samsung has launched Milk Music, a new ad-free radio service with 200 radio stations in the U.S. It is powered by Slacker Radio. It has a new design, that lets you change station with a turn of a dial, and doesn’t require any set up or registration. It would be ad-free only for a limited period. Continue reading “Samsung launches Milk Music ad-free radio service for select Galaxy smartphones in the US”
At the IFA 2013, Samsung announced its yesteryear flagship – Galaxy Note 3 and it set a trend for things to come. Samsung Galaxy Note 3 came with a faux leather back and it continued on to other Samsung Galaxy devices – Galaxy Round, Galaxy Grand 2. Samsung somehow missed it on their follow up of S-series of flagship devices – Galaxy S5. Despite missing it on the company’s flagship, Samsung seems to continue the faux leather trend, but this time in a Chromebook.
One of the hottest new devices at the Mobile World Congress this year was the Galaxy S5. Coming from the Galaxy S4, the phone isn’t as big an update as people were hoping for. The design language remains the same but under the hood there are some significant changes. We detailed the features of the Galaxy S5 in our hands on post. Below we’ve got a gallery of phone for your perusal. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S5 Photo Gallery”
FoneArena is live from the Samsung Unpacked 5 event at MWC 2014 in Barcelona , Spain where the Korean smartphone giant is expected to announce the much awaited Samsung Galaxy S5 which is the 5th generation of the Samsung Galaxy Smartphone which has turned Samsung into a leading smartphone player across the world.
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It wasn’t too long ago that Samsung announced its first generation Galaxy Gear smartwatch. Aimed at competing with the likes of Pebble and anticipated competition from Apple, the original Galaxy Gear was a relative failure because of its high price point, poor battery life and limited compatibility. Fast forward five months and Samsung is all set to show off its next gen Gear 2 smartwatch that eschews Android for the Korean company’s homegrown Tizen OS.
The new smartwatch will retail in two variants ie the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo. The Galaxy branding has been dropped because of the transition from Android to Tizen. Specifications of the watch remain largely the same and include a 1GHz dual core processor, 4GB storage, 512MB RAM and a 1.63 inch (320 x 320 pixels) Super AMOLED touch screen. The watch also incorporates S Voice, a heart rate monitor, pedometer for health related applications. It also has IP67 certification for water, dust resistance. Continue reading “Samsung Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo smartwatches with Tizen OS to go on sale in April”
Huawei is gearing up to introduce a range of new products at the Mobile World Congress event this year, but before doing so, the Chinese company has readied a bizarre teaser to explain the kind of products it is launching. First off, why the video is bizarre is because it uses an “Apple” iPhone with a Siri-like voice assistant, to mock “Apple” and Samsung, calling them the “Fruit” and “Some song” respectively. Nevertheless, it gives us a taste of what we can expect from the company, when it reveals its products at this year’s biggest mobile event, the Mobile World Congress. Here’s the video –
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In unsurprising news of this week, a lot of Korean websites and news papers are reporting that top level executives from Samsung and Apple have failed to reach an agreement in their mediation talks. Apple and Samsung have been battling it out in the courts for a long while now, and that’s not a secret. Apple had accused Samsung of various IP infringements including the hotly debated “Trade Dress”, but the Judge had decided to give both the companies the option to resolve their tussle through mediation talks. If the reports are true, those talks just failed and both the companies with be back to the courts, with Samsung defending Apple’s claims again.
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