It looks like Samsung will be devising a big pushing with Android, as the company said more than 50% of its smartphone volition rock that little K automaton.

This is a great sign for Android because Samsung has enormous reach as the second-biggest French telephone manufacturer in the world. Getting cozy with Android could also lead Samsung to potentially integrate it into other products in the future tense, maybe TVs.

So, what kind of handsets can we looking forward to? Well, I think it’s safe to say that the Moment was just a clunky first attempt. We had a chance to play with the Galaxy S at CTIA and this baby is a beaut. Right away, the super AMOLED blind pops out because it’s so crisp and vibrant. It also rocks a 1Ghz processor, Android 2.1 OS, 5-megapixel shooter and all the connected goodness you expect from a gimmick of this class. Check out the embedded video recording below for a finisher look.

As for the company’s dwelling-grown operating organization, bada, Samsung plans to use this for 1-third of its smartphones. This appliance-tastic OS is already on the Wave and, piece I really don’t like having so many chopine, it seems pretty solid. During our hands-on time, we were pretty impressed with how smooth and responsive it was. I don’t know how many developers it volition attract but it appears Samsung will aim bada devices at the low remainder of the market.

So, my computer-like brain tells me there’s a little bit of leftovers in Samsung’s mathematics. We know its going to make at least 1 Windows Phone 7 French telephone and we whitethorn see a Symbian device, too. I think it’s a solidness strategy to put option most of you resources stern a one chopine but distillery support others in order to covering fire your bases. Samsung also has a long ton of resources, so net ball’s promise it tin execute.

[Via Reuters, photo]

Samsung has unveiled the manufacture’s first 20nm-based NAND photoflash chips that will be used in SD memory cards and embedded computer memory solutions.

According to the Korean troupe, exploitation the new technology, these chips give fifty higher productivity than 30nm MLC NAND with a read speeding of 20MB/s and write speed at around 10MB/s.

I’ll stopover here to drop my cents to the game. Just because read/write speeds of the Flash computer memory modules ar 50% faster, it doesn’t mean value some new devices volition actually run fifty faster, all other things organism equal. It’s a measure forward, there are no doubts about it, but Flash memory is already super fast — usually, a more powerful central processing unit and more available random-access memory are responsible for the earphone’s performance improvements.

Back to Samsung. The troupe is currently sampling the card game (chips) to its customers. Once released, the new modules and SD card game volition be available in capacities ranging from 4GB to 64GB.

[Via: SamsungHub]

The iPad is a great gimmick for casually surfboarding the vane and potentially acquiring some work done while suspension out at a cafe or on the couch. But, the matter about the iPad is that it currently is only available in wireless local area network-only trim. That means you’ll either rich person to bounds yourself to your living way, or frequent caffein-selling establishments with WiFi service. That is, unless you have a Sprint (New York Stock Exchange: S) MiFi or Sprint Overdrive 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot. In that lawsuit, you tin go nearly anywhere in the US and always have a radio internet joining handy. If you’re in a Sprint 4G market, you’ll even get 4G information speeds up to 10x faster than 3G. So, it makes sense that Sprint is push their Overdrive onto iPad customers. To that end, the aircraft carrier has just announced they’ll be gift away their new iPad lawsuit for free at participating C. H. Best Buy stores.

The Sprint iPad lawsuit features a little pocket that you tin manipulation to hold your Sprint Overdrive. That means, you never lose running of the hockey puck-sized wireless modem, and you’ll always be sure to rich person an internet joining for your WiFi-only iPad. The troupe is giving away 10,000 of these cases at select C. H. Best Buy stores (likely those in 4G markets) while supplies shoemaker’s last. The promotion started on Apr 17, so you’d do wellspring to smash up your local Best Buy to grab a lawsuit before they run out!

For consultation, Sprint has 4G up and run in 28 US cities, including as battle of Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas/Ft. Charles Frederick Worth, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Portland, Ore., San Antonio and Seattle. In 2010, Sprint plans to rich person more markets advent online with 4G, including Hub of the Universe, Cincinnati, Grover Cleveland, Denver, Kansa City, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and St. Joe Louis. For more info on Sprint 4G markets, hit up this website.

More information on the Sprint iPad case and the Overdrive here.

Sygic AURA (a nex-gen Sat Nav app) has got released in to the wilderness – mapping Singapore on Malayisa on its first regional outing.

In cause you are wondering what’s nex-gen about it – wellspring, it’s apparently a “revolutionary combining of full-featured twist-by-turn cable car and walker navigation with social networking, packed with latest maps and dozens of useful tourer information, all this in 3D with attractive turning point models of the most popular places”

I’m not too sure it’s revolutionary, but some of the features ar certainly welcome, if they ar executed well in the application. Case in distributor point: 3D Maps – I’m certainly at the point now where a cleverly-realised 3D Map would add something to the surround for me, but the problem to-appointment has been mixing the requirement for that much extra detail, with the massive warehousing impingement.

Another feature is the duplicate metadata that supposedly comes with the app, allowing you to check out (for representative) local points of pastime with lots of detail to it.

One lineament I’m not convinced by is the sociable side of the App – but then again, I think some apps rich person a center requirement for social connectivity, and others don’t – and I’d have to be convinced that organism able to find my budding, when I’m exploitation Saturday Nav, is actually important – I’d of intellection acquiring where I was leaving would be anteriority figure one!

At any pace, we’ll all be able to give things a go when the regional app for where each of us lives goes live – I’m wait for the UK edition of Sygic AURA

Sygic AURA Singapre &ere; Malaysia (Ј32.99) [iTunes link]

After launching the iPhone version, SPB Software is delivery its SPB TV app to webOS devices. Actually, it’s just the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre and Pre Plus that will sing along the diligence until microcode 1.4.1 becomes available for the Pixi and Pixi Plus users.

As you probably already know, SPB TV brings publicly available digital TV channels from all over the earthly concern to the thenar of your hand. There’s a handy picture-in-painting quick distribution channel trailer feature, integrated TV templet and quite a few channels to choose from.

Like that was the case with the iPhone version, the one for webOS devices is also free – it’s ad supported, with advertisement organism shown piece the flow is buffering when you open a new distribution channel.

If you want SPV TV on your Palm Pre/Pre Plus — and there’s really no reason not to try it out — simpleton search for the application in Palm’s App Catalog and payoff it from there. It’s that easy.

The Samsung u820 is a 3-inch, WQVGA touchscreen, with physical QWERTY yellow-bellied terrapin action. It also has a 3.2MP photographic camera on the backrest, with video gaining control, 3.5mm headset jack, MicroSD circuit board one-armed bandit, full hypertext markup language browser, and full Microsoft Exchange email documentation. That photographic camera and full keyboard should come in handy, as Samsung is retention up with this whole thing social net integration thing. The u820 include a widget called Communities, where you’ll be able to update your status, as well as billet pictures to all your sociable networking sites. It also features WouchWiz 2.0 for good measure.

While the phone whitethorn not be that nice on the eyes, it will get the occupation done for most customers. Especially for teenagers who motivation to be connected with their social sites at all times of the twenty-four hours. Verizon Wireless is the carrier of selection for this little nugget of delight, and it will cost you somewhere in the park between $80 and $100 with a new (2-year) agreement. If this device is for you, you’ll have to wait until Apr 30th, when it should officially smash store shelves.

[via PhoneScoop, effigy via CNET]

The update is obviously bringing a draw of great new features, along with some improvements to the organization as a whole. It’s distillery rocking the speedy processor, along with all of the integrated Google services that you’ve come to expect from an Android device. While it’s great that the update is rolling out to the devices, there’s a number of a speed blow in movement of your upgrading joy. Instead of it organism an Over the Air (OTA) update, it looks like you’re going to rich person to manipulation PC Studio 7 (which came on a disc with the gimmick) in order to get the update. Not a huge trade, but still, we like our things delivered to us. (Where’s that silver platter!?)

So, here’s the trade: You’re getting no less than nine (9!) screens, which you tin obviously variety up as much as you want, with whatever widgets you so desire. And thanks to the rise in versions, your Spica will now allow you to proceeds full advantage of augmented reality applications, such as Layar. It also features patented Samsung widgets, along with some other standardized features, like the PC sync, so that you tin synchronize your selective information quickly and easily. What we’re most interested in though, is the Media Browser, which allows you to browsing the media on your gimmick in a quick, easy, and fashionable means. As for the update itself, it’s rolling out in Federal Republic of Germany first base in March, and then gradually rolled out to the rest of the countries where the Spica is available. We’re not sure what that agency in time, but hopefully it’s sooner than later.

Samsung Delivers World of New Experiences With Upgraded Galaxy Spica

Android 2.1 gives Galaxy Spica new functionality and unrivalled user experience

SEOUL, Korea – Mar 17, 2010 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leading mobile headphone provider, today announced it has upgraded its powerful Galaxy Spica (I5700) smartphone to harness the might of thelatest version of AndroidTM, Android 2.1. The smartphone now offers users a extragalactic nebula of new features and an unrivalled mobile experience.

The Galaxy Spica retains all the features inherent in the successful Galaxy Spica (I5700), such as seamless connectivity and access to GoogleTM mobile services, multimedia functionality and speedy C.P.U. performance

“Lovers of the Galaxy Spica appreciated the relaxation with which they could approach their contacts and personalise their experience – our upgraded handset offers all this and much more; a rich and rewarding and powerful mobile experience,” said JK Shin, President of the United States and Head of the Mobile Communications Business, Samsung Electronics.

The rise volition be available via PC Studio 7, Samsung’s unique in-house software system rise program. PC Studio 7 was included in the package of Galaxy Spica or tin be downloaded at the Samsung mobile website (http://www.samsungmobile.com).

Enhanced User Experienced The Galaxy Spica becomes a highly intuitive communication theory gimmick offering users the pick to personalise no less than nine position-scrolling screens. Users tin really net ball their imaginations tally wild, creating different abode screens according to different personal interests or requirements.

The handset now features augmented reality engineering that displays real-time digital information of your surroundings over the view-viewfinder of the Galaxy Spica’s 3 megapixel photographic camera. The Galaxy Spica also features Samsung widgets, Visual bookmark and PC Sync documentation to enable users to synchronise their devices quickly.

Enhanced Multimedia and Messaging Functionality The French telephone now comes with a number of enhanced multimedia system features which transform the Galaxy Spica into a personal amusement gimmick. Media browser allows you to browsing through your media aggregation with relaxation. The camera has been upgraded to go enhanced painting options and wake functionality.

Improved messaging functionality agency that it is much easier to attach files to MMS and email that users can easily add contacts to messages direct from the phonebook. Improved contact direction enables users to find a requirement tangency very easily through the alphabetical index finger.

The rise will be available from March 2010 in Germany and gradually rolled out to other European markets, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Asia, Africa and relaxation of the earth.

Verizon Wireless is on running with the rollout of its Long-Term Evolution 4G meshing and the largest U.S. carrier is set to have LTE handsets in mid-2011, according to a reputation from The Wall Street Journal.

Getting a 4G handset out next summer would reportedly be about sixer months ahead of agenda and there’s no tidings on what manufacturer volition rich person the first base gimmick. This is poise stuff because a 4G handset could potentially get 5 to 12 Mbps on the go, which could surface the threshold to services like HD streaming videos, high gear-caliber video chatting, or VoIP calling. Big Red River is currently deploying LTE across the country and it plans to rich person up to 30 markets covered by the end of the class.

Of course of action, this whitethorn start the iPhone-to-Verizon (NYSE: VZ) rumors again because LTE is look like it volition be the criterion for 4G around the earth. If Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) wants to come to Verizon it volition, but this doesn’t make things any easier technologically because Verizon’s 4G handsets will have to be able to capitulation backrest on Big Red’s 3G. Verizon has aggressive LTE deployment schedules but it’s really ruffian to cover the stallion United States – we distillery don’t rich person 100% 3G reporting.

Rival Sprint (NYSE: S) is patronage WiMax for its 4G efforts and it is already delivering 3 to 6 Mbps on the go. It is oblation USB modems and 4G/3G mobile hotspots like the  Overdrive and a WiMax handset is expected to launch this summer. We’ve already seen some WiMax handsets from HTC and Sprint is reportedly talking with Samsung about a 4G handset. It’s going to take a while but we’ll soon have some insane broadband at our fingertips. I’m excited.

[Via The Wall Street Journal (subscription required)]

Evernote, my favorite note-pickings tool, announced a partnership deal with Samsung that would see the Evernote node come pre-loaded on select Android smartphones made by the Korean troupe. As part of the deal, the Samsung Behold II has recently got a software update that included Evernote application.

Those unfamiliar should know that Evernote allows users to create text, effigy and video notes; and approach them using a dedicated background client, web or their mobile headphone (via mobile website or dedicated node). In addition to textual matter, effigy and video files – Evernote tin also “hold” various types of documents such as Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Office files and PDF.

Personally, I manipulation it for storing all kinds of notes, as well as stage business cards which get instantly indexed using the might of the OCR software system. Needless to say – I love Evernote and so volition you. If you distillery oasis’t registered for the overhaul, record hop over to evernote.com and proceeds it from there.

This isn’t the first meter the N97 mini has been treated to the limited edition way of life, though. In fact, if we were going off limited version versions, the N97 mini would be a pretty big hit. Of course of action, it still has that whole thing “N97″ nickname, which we’re sure is bringing some people down all over the worldly concern. It doesn’t damage that it’s a better phone than its big brother, but distillery, sometimes those shadows extend pretty far.

Unfortunately, from what we can tell, there’s not much changed on this variant of the mini. Yes, there is a optical maser-etched symbolization on the backrest of the phone, and it does have a great gas alloy finish to it, but we’re thinking that’s not enough. After all, the RAOUL variant was pretty intense. There’s a few goodies in the box, though. Like some Team Oakley stuff. Other than that, not much. But, if you’re a buff of Oakley (or Nokia), and want a earphone that stands out above the rest, then this is a great means to make that happen. Start scouring those online auction sale sites, ladies and gentlemen, these ar saltation to go quick.

[via WRG]