Samsung has cut prices of its popular Galaxy range of smartphones in India. The Galaxy S III received the biggest price drop of Rs 3,000 for both 16GB and 32GB variants, according to our friends at PriceBaba.com. On Flipkart, the Galaxy S III 16GB variant is now available for Rs 31,900 while the 32GB variant is available for Rs 34,900 on Saholic. The Galaxy S III, which was launched in June this year for Rs 43,000, has received a price drop of 25 percent in last six months! (more…)Google+

Samsung has detailed some new features that are coming to the original Galaxy Note via a software update. The Galaxy Note will not only get updated to Jelly Bean but it will also get many key software features that are currently present on the Galaxy Note II. (more…)Google+

With the Galaxy S III out of the way, it is now time to focus on Samsung’s next big thing – the Galaxy Note II, of course. Earlier in January we had exclusively reported about Samsung’s plans for its Galaxy flagship products, which included the Galaxy Note II India launch pegged for the third quarter along with the Galaxy S III launch in May. We followed it up with another exclusive about the Galaxy Note II featuring a larger display. News trickling in from Korea today seems to confirm all o...

Samsung has started rolling out the Android 4.O Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Galaxy Note in India. The new update not only, brings new UI enhancements introduced by Google in ICS, but also adds a slightly tweaked layer of Samsung’s TouchWiz overlay for Android. (more…)Google+

Samsung has announced that it has shipped 5 million Galaxy Note devices in 5 months since its launch last year in October. These figures prove that this super-sized hybrid device has been super liked by the general audience but mind you, these are just the shipment figures and the actual number of units sold around the world would be much lesser. The real sales figures were revealed by the Korean vendor earlier this month when it announced that its has sold two million units of the Galaxy Note.However, this n...

Samsung has announced a competition for app developers in India to develop apps for the Galaxy Note, especially ones that make use of the stylus, which Samsung calls the S-Pen. Adobe showed off a version of Photoshop Touch at MWC loaded on the soon-to-be-released Galaxy Note 10.1 optimized for the S-Pen and looks like Samsung wants to drive forward the adoption for this technology via its own curated App Store.Samsung has opened registration for the competition today and is providing links for the Android 2.3...

Samsung has just released a teaser of the upcoming Angry Birds title called ‘Space’ on its official YouTube page. According to the teaser Angry Birds Space will come exclusively first to the Samsung Galaxy Note, most probably through the Samsung App Store and will be optimized for the S-Pen on the Galaxy Note. (more…)Google+

Samsung has sold over two million units of its Galaxy Note ‘phablet’ globally since its launch in the last quarter of 2011, a company spokesperson told Forbes on the sidelines of MWC in Barcelona earlier this week. The 5.3-inch display wielding Android smartphone-tablet hybrid has been a run-away hit in most markets despite being criticized for its huge size and the use of stylus. However, it seems consumers either really like smartphones with massive displays or are enamored by the idea of using ...

Ever since its launch in November, the Samsung Galaxy Note has become India’s favourite ‘phablet’. Now adding to its Indian charm Samsung has just released an OTA update for the hybrid, which adds a Hindi keyboard. The guys at the XDA Forums are claiming that the new build is Android Gingerbread 2.3.6 with the kernel version being 2.6.35.7, which brings a number of new features. (more…)Google+

Samsung is planning to get rid of the home button in its upcoming Android Galaxy smartphones that will enable its high-end smartphones to sport bigger displays without a substantial increase in the size of the device, according to a reliable source. This would be made possible thanks to Android Ice Cream Sandwich, which has menu buttons within its user interface, leaving the hardware buttons useless. The source tells us that one of the smartphones will sport a 4.7-inch display but was clear he wasn’t ta...

Samsung is all set to become India’s biggest cellphone vendor by value by March this year even as it is working on adding new high-end smartphones to its already large portfolio. We have learned Samsung is still on track to launch the Galaxy Nexus in March, followed by the Galaxy S3 in May in India. According to people familiar with the matter, India was always in the second or third wave of Galaxy Nexus launch countries, though we have received mixed signals when we were told that the launch had been &...

Samsung has announced it has shipped a million units of Galaxy Note globally. This, mind you, are not units sold but shipped. Still, it is a massive number for a phone-tablet hybrid (phablet, if we may) and the device is yet to be launched in the US, a key market for Samsung. The company had aimed to sell as many as 100,000 units of the Note in India alone by the year-end, which we still believe to be a highly optimistic number. According to analysts we have spoken to, Samsung has shipped a maximum of 50,000 ...