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No doubt, T-Mobile is in the middle of a rebuilding stage as a result of the AT&T merger attempt. Should it be much of a surprise, then, that the carrier would be looking at cranking out a smartphone lineup full of tempting options?
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Samsung T699 for T-Mobile teased in UAProf, reveals 720p display
Samsung made much ado over the Galaxy S III’s 2,100mAh battery, but we’ve been wondering whether or not that power pack was a major perk or just a necessity to offset that hefty Exynos 4 Quad . One of what looks to be a growing number of escaped pre-release devices was put through the ringer in battery tests and came out looking spic-and-span: it lasted for just over 10 hours for video and voice, or long enough to make even a tablet like the new iPad or Transformer Prime break a sweat.
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Samsung Galaxy S III battery tested by GSMArena, lasts as long as your tablet
The Samsung Galaxy S III is coming very soon. Currently we are greeted with few pictures for the device accessories. We can expect the accessories to arrive soon
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Samsung Galaxy S III Accessories Shows Up On Press Image
Nice processor, shame about the Pentile. It’s something that several people have been saying about Samsung‘s new chest-beating flagship .
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Samsung Galaxy S III: Pentile Super AMOLED used ‘because it lasts longer’
More new Windows Phones, this time for the old continent. Instead of the Focus 2 , Samsung announced that the Omnia M will take its place in Europe and it’s looking an awful lot like its predecessor — although we’re a bit concerned the build quality may not match its older brother.
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Samsung Omnia M revealed for Europe: 4-inch Super AMOLED and some software extras
We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there individually, we’ve gathered up an exhaustive listing of every phone and / or tablet getting the stamp of approval over the last week
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FCC Fridays: May 11, 2012
An article published today by the Wall Street Journal offers an interesting insight into the future of the camera market, as Samsung sees it. WSJ correspondent Jung-Ah Lee interviewed Myoung Sup Han, Senior Vice President and Head of the Digital Imaging Business at Samsung Electronics, and uncovered an interesting fact: the company is in the process of converting production lines at its main camera plant in China
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Mirrorless is the future, suggests Samsung imaging head
Samsung‘s outed its massive 17-inch Series 7 Chronos desktop-killing laptop. The portable behemoth arrives packing a 2.6GHz Core i7 Ivy Bridge CPU , 8GB of RAM and NVIDIA’s GeForce GT650M with a further 2GB of memory to itself. You’ll be able to relax in front of that 17.3-inch, 300 nit, 1920 x 1080 display and listen to 2.1 surround thanks to some JBL speakers and a subwoofer
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Samsung’s $1,500, 17-inch Series 7 Chronos arrives, UPS employees check their spine insurance
Samsung‘s main camera plant in China is being converted to produce high-end mirrorless cameras instead of cheaper compacts. That’s a steel-and-concrete sign that the manufacturer is trying to boost digital imaging profits by focusing on cameras with higher margins, and it implies a level adaptability that other companies can only dream of. To drive the point home, Samsung‘s imaging chief Han Myoung-sup told the WSJ that “low-end compact camera offerings will g radually be reduced” to make way for the “mirrorless segment.” A wise move
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Samsung shuns point-and-shoot cameras, switches factory to pricier mirrorless types
Samsung has begun quietly rolling out the long-desired Android 4.0 update for the Galaxy Note . When it arrives, it’ll add the latest edition of Google’s OS and the ” Premium Suite ” full of stylus S-pen friendly apps like S Note, Shape Match and My Story to your 5.3-inch phablet.
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Samsung Galaxy Note Ice Cream Sandwich update begins rolling out now!
Virgin Mobile’s feature phone arm just added a third tier, delivering unlimited talk and texting, along with 50 megs of web access for $40 per month. This offering joins Sprint’s other payLo budget offerings, including an entry-level option that includes 400 minutes of talk time for $20 per month, and a $30 monthly plan that delivers 1,500 minutes, 1,500 texts and 30MB of data
(Credit: Blizzard Entertainment) One week after its release, Diablo III remains the only PC game anyone is talking about .
Nuance, of Dragon TV fame announced today that it was licensing Rovi’s (formerly known as Macrovision ) metadata for its talky-TV platform .
If you’re tired of bananaphones that just make calls, the crew at Gadget Gangster now has a homebrew project to use them for musical escapades. A custom-coded (and appropriately named) Adafruit Propeller board turns a bunch of bananas into the Bananaphone TouchSynth, a synthesizer using the same capacitive touch principles that let a MaKey MaKey turn anything into a controller
Bicom, makers of the Corian -hewn playGo USB will unveil a new AP1 AirPlay device, but only you if help fund it.
Matilda Ceesay, a Cornell fiber science and apparel design major from Gambia, adjusts the anti-malarial garment on model Sandy Mattei. Who knew mosquito nets could be so fashionable?
Plants , like pets, need to be constantly cared for, but not everyone’s blessed with the requisite green thumb. So, for those of you imbued with what we’ll call the bad, brown touch, Swiss outfit Koubachi’s got a cloud-based solution to sidestep those negligent ways and keep your window garden thriving. Dubbed the WiFi Plant Sensor, this wireless peripheral nestles into the soil of any potted flora or fauna, sending relevant vitality data off to the company’s servers where it’s then analyzed and beamed back to your handset (via iPhone app) or online account with care instructions in tow
The HTC 4G LTE will finally land in Sprint customers’ hands this week.
Pentax didn’t wait long after a rather conspicuous leak to make the details official: welcome the K-30, the company’s spiritual successor to the long-serving K-r . The camera makes its biggest numerical jump in sensor size, from 12.4 megapixels to 16, but you’re primarily shelling out for a much tougher body that’s both resistant to rain as well as to dust and temperature extremes; one of the cheapest cameras to do so, if you go by Pentax’s word. We’re slightly down on the light sensitivity being unchanged from three years ago at ISO 100 to 25,600, though you can now shoot video at a much higher 1080p at 30 frames per second — and that French catalog was wrong about a drop in burst speeds, which still top out at a healthy 6 fps.
