Posts Tagged ‘Samsung’

Samsung Shows off Tizen Device

May 8th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Tizen | No Comments »

Following the recent release of the Tizen SDK’s, Samsung has now started to show off the first hardware running the new Tizen operating system. Tizen is based on Linux and originated from MeeGo (Intel and Nokia) and Bada (Samsung).

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Samsung Preparing for a Mobile Acquisition!?

May 6th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Samsung is planning to take over a mobile company. Though it is unknown which company Samsung is to acquire, it won’t be RIM. Or at least that’s what Samsung’s mobile president J.K. Shin said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.

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Intel and Samsung Present Tizen 1.0

May 3rd, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Tizen | No Comments »

Intel and Samsung have launched version 1.0 of the new Tizen operating system for smartphones. Tizen is a combination of MeeGo (once developed by Intel and Nokia) and Bada OS from Samsung. The whole system is based on the Linux kernel. Developers can start downloading the Tizen SDK’s, but have to realize there isn’t any Tizen hardware… yet.

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Juniper: Samsung Topping the Smartphone Charts

May 1st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

According to research from Juniper, Samsung is topping the smartphone sales charts again in the first quarter of 2012, but only when looking at unit sales. Revenuewise, Apple is still dominating the smartphone market.

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Samsung Will launch a Windows 8 Phone in 2012

April 16th, 2012 by Roelof Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Samsung has announced it will be delivering the first smartphone based on Windows 8 by the end of the year. The Thai branch of Samsung brought the news to a local website called ePrice.

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Samsung Starts UCS Rollout on Galaxy S II

March 13th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Samsung has started rolling out Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to owners of the popular Galaxy S II smartphone. Samsung will phase-out the update over the next few days.

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MWC: Tizen Beta launched

February 29th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Tizen | No Comments »

The Linux-driven project Tizen has just launched the first Beta version of the new open source operating system for smartphones. With the release of the beta, the team also made available the first SDK for developers.

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Intel Drops MeeGo for Tizen

September 28th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Linux, Platforms: MeeGo, Platforms: Tizen | No Comments »

Following partner Nokia, Intel has now announced it is to abandon the MeeGo platform as well. Instead, it will be working on a new mobile platform with Samsung that’s called Tizen.

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Samsung Considers WebOS TakeOver!?

August 30th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

While Samsung’s Bada OS is slowly fading from our memories and the Korean government issued LG and Samsung to work on a new mobile OS to secure their markets, rumours now say Samsung is eyeballing HP’s WebOS division. A logical step as it would bring Samsung a well designed operating system.

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Samsung Sold 5 Mln Galaxy S II Devices

July 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | 2 Comments »

It took them 85 days, but Samsung now confirms it has managed to sell 5 million Galaxy S II devices. That news comes only 30 days after hitting 3 million sales.

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