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Samsung Spends Some of Its Cash on a 10-Percent Stake in Pantech

May 22, 2013 / Stan Schroeder / No comments
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Samsung has bought a 10-percent stake in Pantech, a South Korean mobile phone maker known primarily for its huge, feature-packed handsets, Yonhap News reports

The deal is valued at around 53 billion won ($47.6 million). With this move, Samsung will become Pantech's third-largest stake holder, following chip maker Qualcomm, which owns 11.96% of Pantech, and Korea's Development Bank, which owns a 11.81% of the company

Domestically, Pantech is the third-largest mobile phone maker, behind Samsung and LG. In the U.S., it's producing branded mobile phones for Verizon and AT&T. Still, the company is struggling with debt, which is exactly how Qualcomm became the company's largest stakeholder — by converting $75 million of royalty debt into equity Read more...

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Samsung’s Waterproof Galaxy S4 Active Appears on Video

May 21, 2013 / Stan Schroeder / No comments
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Want proof that the "rugged" version of Samsung's Galaxy S4 — dubbed the Galaxy S4 Active — is as durable as promised? The video above from MobileTechReview confirms plans that the phone will be both waterproof and dustproof.

However, the phone's specifications seem considerably weaker than those of the original Galaxy S4. The Galaxy S4 Active features a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro CPU and an 8-megapixel rear camera, compared with the S4's quad-core or Octa-core chipsets (depending on the variant) and 13-megapixel camera. Its other specifications seem to resemble the normal Samsung Galaxy S4. Read more...

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Samsung’s New 13-Inch Display Has a Crazy 3,200 x 1,800 Pixel Resolution

May 20, 2013 / Stan Schroeder / No comments
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Samsung will be displaying some of its latest and greatest notebook and tablet screens at the Society for Information Display's Display Week 2013. Among them, one stands out: a 13.3-inch notebook display with a 3,200x1,800 (WQXGA+) pixel resolution

For those keeping count, that's quite a bit better than Apple's 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, which has a maximum 2,560x1,600 pixel resolution. To make things even better, Samsung claims that LCD can deliver "30 percent" greater power savings than existing LCD displays

Of course, we're not quite sure what we'd do with such a high resolution on a 13.3-inch screen, but it's comforting to note that the 1,600x900 pixel resolution — exactly half of the screen's maximum and much better suited for 13-inchers — will be perfectly crisp Read more...

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Samsung TecTiles Finally Come to Galaxy S4

May 17, 2013 / Samantha Murphy / No comments
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Samsung's programmable TecTile technology is finally coming to the Galaxy S4.

TecTiles are Samsung's near-field communications (NFC) stickers that be placed around the house or car, so you can automate certain tasks

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Want to dim the lights and not get up from the couch? How about activate a media player from afar? All you'll need to do is to tap your Samsung smartphone against the sticker after it's programmed within the accompanying app and life will be much better.

TecTiles first launched last year, but the new Galaxy S4 smartphone comes with an updated NFC chip, which isn't compatible with the previous TecTile tags. Read more...

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Galaxy S4 Is Samsung’s Fastest-Selling Smartphone Ever

May 17, 2013 / Stan Schroeder / No comments
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Samsung Galaxy S 4 is on track to pass 10 million in sales next week, which would make it the fastest-selling Galaxy S device in history

The not-very-precise figure comes from Samsung CEO J.K. Shin, who told it to reporters in South Korea

“We are confident that we will pass more than 10 million sales of the S4 next week. It is selling much faster than the previous model S3,” said Shin

According to Shin, the S 4 is on track to become Samsung's "first 10 million seller device less than a month after its official debut

For comparison, it took 5 months for Samsung to sell 30 million Galaxy S III devices. On March 14, a little over a year since the device was launched, Samsung announced it has sold 50 million S III devices Read more...

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Google’s I/O Conference and Other News You Need to Know

May 16, 2013 / Stan Schroeder / No comments
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Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world.

In today's top stories: Google had a busy first day at its I/O developer conference, issuing updates for just about everything — from Google+ and Gmail to Maps and Search. Android smartphone ecosystem in Q1 2013 was completely dominated by Samsung. Finally, Apple’s App store hit 50 billion lifetime downloads Wednesday.

Check out the video above for more on these stories.

Image by Mashable Read more...

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Apple To Samsung: The S4 Infringes on Our Patents

May 15, 2013 / Adam Popescu / No comments
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A new salvo has been fired in the ongoing Apple-Samsung war

In a US District of California filing yesterday, Apple added the new Galaxy S4 smartphone to a list of 22 Samsung products the company claims infringe on its iOS patents, giving Apple more ammunition for next year's patent trial.

If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then these two should be happily married. But that couldn't be farther from the truth. Both are pointing the finger and this seems to be a showdown based in part on Samsung elbowing in on Apple's iPhone market and the coming change to Samsung's own operating systems. Read more...

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Chase Jarvis Turns Dream Into a Photo for Samsung Series 9

May 14, 2013 / Nina Frazier / No comments
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When Samsung and creative agency Possible approached professional photographer Chase Jarvis to make an image of one of his most vivid dreams, his response was, "Um. Hell yes."

Samsung commissioned the project to highlight the color quality of its Premium Monitor Series 9. Jarvis — who started the free online workshop service creativeLIVE, which features classes taught by other professional photographers — approached the challenge without limitation. He pitched the idea to create a photo of himself floating through a colorscape of clouds from one of his reoccurring dreams. But as soon as Samsung accepted, he realized one problem: He had no idea how to do it Read more...

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Pictures Surface Online Again

May 13, 2013 / Samantha Murphy / No comments
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Samsung is rumored to be building a mini-sized version of its Galaxy S4 smartphone, and if the latest string of surfaced pictures are any indication, the timing of that launch is nearing.

Photos of a new 4.3-inch device, which is significantly smaller than the 5-inch Galaxy S4 (see picture above), have surfaced on Chinese service Weibo, which is similar to Twitter. User PunkPanda posted a series of the leaked pictures to the site.

The introduction of a smaller-size smartphone would follow Samsung's pattern for its previous flagship phone, the Galaxy S III. The company launched the Galaxy S III mini not long after the full-size version hit the market. Also, HTC is rumored to be working on a cheaper, smaller version of the HTC One, called the M4. Read more...

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Samsung’s 5G Is ‘Several Hundred Times Faster’ Than 4G

May 13, 2013 / Stan Schroeder / No comments
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Samsung has developed a new mobile data transfer technology that's potentially up to "several hundred times" faster than current 4G networks. More precisely, the company announced "the world’s first adaptive array transceiver technology operating in the millimeter-wave Ka bands for cellular communications."

Samsung says the technology "sits at the core" of a 5G mobile communications system, and it can say that with relative ease, as 5G (unlike LTE or 4G) is currently not a defined set of standards — more a vague idea of whatever comes next after 4G.

Samsung's new technology, which the company plans to commercialize by 2020, sounds impressive when it comes to data transfer speeds. In its testing, Samsung managed to transmit data at a speed of up to 1.056Gbps to a distance of up to 2 kilometers. Read more...

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