Samsung Galaxy Note gets a taste of the Olympic Games

We've known for a while the Samsung is an official sponsor of the Olympic Games commencing in London later this year but until today we have yet to see any results of this. A series of pictures have b... more.

An Samsung official who would love to remain anonymous in order to retain his job has revealed that the Samsung Galaxy S III unveiled a few weeks ago has had over 9 million units pre-ordered alread... more.

According to the latest figures from research firm Gartner, Samsung holds the top spot in global mobile phone sales. The Korean appliance giant has taken this gold medal spot from Nokia recently. Sams... more.

There has been much confusion in enthusiast circles recently when it appeared that multitasking was 'broken' (or modified) on HTC's Sense 4.0 user interface, which is present on their latest Android s... more.

Do you remember when HTC and Google launched the Neuxs One back in 2010? In a fast moving mobile world we don't remember much of early 2010 either. Anyway, the Nexus series of phones have always been ... more.

HTC's successor to the highly grossing Wildfire S budget Android smartphone has been known about for a while now, with specifications leaking just the other day. Today it has been revealed (as rumou... more.

The Samsung Galaxy S III was revealed to the public last week surrounded by iPhone levels of hype, but with that came iPhone 4S levels of disappointment. One of the main complaints was the 4.8 inch HD... more.

Overnight Sony has announced their first LTE enabled smartphones for the Japanese market; the Sony Xperia GX and Xperia SX. While the GX, or at least a variant of it, will be coming to an internationa... more.

While we don't often focus on the phone market on the other side of the Atlantic this definitely caught our eye this morning. Today at CTIA, HTC and Verizon annoucned the latest phone in its Droid I... more.

While this has been expected for some time now due to the ever increasing affordability and value of smartphones, numbers released by Nielsen reveal that over half of mobile phone owners in the US now... more.

Samsung has been flying high in recent times by taking the crown for the largest phone vendor worldwide. The Korean giant doesn't want to stop there though, according to mobile division president JK S... more.

Following Thursday's announcement of the Samsung Galaxy S III, the local UK carriers have been quick to to indicate that there will be wide availability of the flagship phone later this month. Just li... more.

Custom OEM skins such as HTC's Sense or Samsung's TouchWiz are commonplace on Android smartphones these days and are used to differentiate their phones. HTC Sense has as many lovers as haters; much ... more.

While the majority of minds were focused on the Samsung Galaxy S III last night, LG has attempted to steal some of Samsung's thunder by announcing the Optimus LTE 2. If you ask us, LG has succeeded... more.

While we have already reported on Samsung's contribution to the Olympics, we did not mention the exact and precise details of the arguably flagship smartphone that was launched last night in London. ... more.

Nokia has just announced that their camera-centric 808 PureView will start to roll out in Russia, India and possibly other markets in May. The handset is the first of Nokia's phones that comes with th... more.

It was only a few short years ago that we had mobile phones that would last for weeks on end without life support enabled. More recently in the smartphone era you are expected to live with near-daily ... more.

The Asus Padfone was, and still is regarded as a very unique device. After all, it is a smartphone, tablet and laptop hybrid. Launched at Mobile World Congress in late February, expectations were that... more.

It comes as no surprise that the smartphone market is growing at an impressive rate, but some numbers to back up the obvious to always pleasant. The global smartphone market has grown by 42.5% in the ... more.

Samsung has kept its Galaxy S II successor under veil rather well, so far we have only seen it hiding in an outer shell and a few other unconfirmed but certainly possible bits of information. Now to... more.

Google's Jean-Baptiste Queru, the technical lead of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) has spoken out, voicing his opinion of the very long waits many Android users face for updates. Following Sam... more.

LG has just announced their Optimus True HD LTE Android smartphone will soon be available across new markets in Europe and Asia. Countries at this stage include Germany, Portugal, Sweden, Hong Kong an... more.

Motorola has enjoyed a varying degree of success over the years. It has managed to perform well in the USA thanks to its Droid series of phones but their international equivalents never quite caught... more.

Earlier this morning we reported that Samsung was going to tease their next Galaxy smartphone at midday today. As midday hit the website crashed (surprise, surprise) but The Verge is reporting that th... more.

It is now under two weeks to go until the May 3rd event in London and we will "meet the next Galaxy" and the first evidence of a marketing campaign has appeared. Samsung's Twitter feed directed us in ... more.

HTC's design team has recently shed some details on the company's plans going forward at an event in Seattle. We have already discovered that plans for phones with larger capactity batteries have been... more.

The most reliable information to date on the Samsung Galaxy S II successor has just been leaked thanks to a Vietnamese website. The website has posted up pictures and a video of the GT-i9300, the na... more.

HTC has been doing its fair part of market research, one of the topics being whether customers prefer thin smartphones or smartphones that compromise a couple of millimetres here and there for better ... more.

Earlier in the year at CES, Huawei unveiled some of the most impressive Android smartphones we had seen to date. At the time no specific launch date information was made public but global availabilit... more.

The Lava Xolo X900 will soon be the first smartphone to be powered by an Intel Atom processor and is due to go on sale next Monday in India. The handset itself will have 4 inch, 1024 by 600 resolut... more.