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Showing posts with label Samsung. Show all posts
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Sunday, October 13, 2013

Samsung Series 7 Slate 700T

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Samsung Series 7 Slate 700T. If You've Been Looking Around On The Internet For A Samsung Series 7 Slate Be Sure To Check Out The Samsung Series 7 Slate 700T On Computer Retail Store Shelves Near You. This Quick And Dirty Samsung Series 7 Slate Review Will Help You Find The Information You Need To Consider Purchasing A Samsung Series 7 Slate 700T.

The Samsung Series 7 Slate PC Is Ideal An Ideal Tablet For Basic Computing And More.

Friday, October 11, 2013

Samsung Galaxy Tab 11.6 Release Date Confirmed! - Including Retina Display Like iPad HD (3) Could Be Better Samsung Tablet And The Best Android Tablet Featuring 2560x1600 In One!

Galaxy Tab 11.6 Release Date Arrives! 
The New Final Frontier In Galaxy Tab 11.6 Technology Is Here!!!

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Will The Latest New Samsung Galaxy Tab 11.6 Release Date - Including Retina Display Like iPad 3 Scratch Pad Info Rumors Lead To The Greatest Samsung Pad , The Best Samsung Galaxy Tablet Ever, And The Best Android Tablet Of All Time!?

Get The Best Samsung Galaxy Tab 11.6 Release Date Information On The Internet Right Here On The Dirty Computer News Blog Website. Get The Latest And Greatest Galaxy Tab News On The Samsung Galaxy Tab 11.6 2012 And 2013 Internet News Release News On The Still Expected Galaxy Tab 11.6 Tablet Designed And Built From Scratch To Be The New Flagship Benchmark Tablette Samsung Will Use To Dominate The Android Tablet Markets And Make Samsung Tablets The Choice Of Most Consumers.

We Can Put A Man On The Moon, Send Space Probes Billions Of Miles In Any Direction Into Deep Space, Continue To Evolve And Improve Technology And Our General Health And Ways Of Life But We Can't Yet Build A Better And More Modern Samsung Galaxy Tab Packed With Current Technology!?

Really!? Come On! Samsung Wanted To Simply Keep Up With Their Current Tablet Rivals Instead Of Flat Out Attempting To Outperform Them Resulting In Beating Them Out Right And Cornering The Current Profitable Tablet Market(s).

That's What I'd Be Looking To Due If I Was In Charge Of The Samsung Galaxy Tab Production Line. 16x Core MCU, 32GB Of RAM, A TeraByte Of Storage, An Amazing Operating System, Longer Battery Life, Faster Battery Recharging, Instant On And Off Power Buttons To A Name A Few Things We Likely Won't See.

And So It Goes Just Like The Newly Named iPad HD (3) Samsung Claims Their New Galaxy Tab 11.6 Tablet PC Will Also Feature The New High Resolution Retina Display That Will Apparently Also Adorn The New iPad 3 HD Tablet PC. I Say Big Deal. We're Still Dealing With Lack Of Manufacturer Motivation Keeping Current Technology On The Shelves Out Of The Tablet Production Line.

2012 Looks Like Being A Good To Great Year For Tablets To Replace Most Types Of Computers, Laptops, Notebooks, Netbooks, And Utrabooks For Most Types Of Personal Day To Day Computing Use But Tablet Manufacturers Like Samsung And Apple To Name A Few Seem To Lazy Or Cheap Or Unconcerned To Really Flex Their Muscles And Introduce Current Technology On Tablets Today.

It Won't Be Long Before 16x/32x/128x Core 64-Bit/128-Bit/256-Bit Ultra Low Power Tablets Running 64GB/128GB/256GB Of Ultra Low Power Ram And Solid State Hard Disk Drives Increasing Performance Hundreds Fold Yet Use Less Battery Power Then Todays Current Laptops And Tablets And Retailing In Local Big Chain Stores Shelves For Half The Price Is The Current Norm For Tech Savy Computers.

Why Tablet Manufactures Continue To Recycle The Same Technology Found On A Wide Range Of Devices Is Beyond Me But Apparently Its Profitable Or They Probably Wouldnt Be Doing It. Why Set A New Trend When There's Enough Money For Tablet Manufacturers Out There To Simply Keep Pace Instead Of Outperforming.

It's All About The Money. It Always Is. What You Don't Think We Can't Jam A 16 Core Or A 32 Core CPU And Components Into A Package That Large!? With That Much Power Packed Into Such A Small Device Mass Amounts Of Portable Computer Power Available Within 2-4 Years I Predict Most Tablets Performance, Operating Systems And Options Will Start Moving Closer To The Mobile Smart Phone Which Is The Largest Growing Portion Of Consumer Technology World Consumers Are Consuming.

Tab's Are Their Own Product Line For Sure But The Options Always For Tablets To Outperform And Outsell Computers, Laptops, And Notebooks Any Time.

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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

10 Ways Android Beats The iPhone 5 Hands Down

Apple may have mollified the masses by adding significantly better specs to its smartphone offering, but when it comes to innovation, the iPhone 5 just can't compete with the latest Android handsets. Sure a larger screen, 4G LTE support and a faster

Apple may have mollified the masses by adding significantly better specs to its smartphone offering, but when it comes to innovation, the iPhone 5 just can’t compete with the latest Android handsets. Sure a larger screen, 4G LTE support and a faster CPU are welcome additions to the world’s number one phone, but Apple is a year late and $199 short, because Android has provided all these features and more for some time now.

In fact, even after Apple’s johnny-come-lately improvements, Android phones have a number of key advantages over the iPhone 5.

Screens larger than 4 inches

Apple may be patting itself on the back over its move from a 3.5-inch to a 4-inch display, but in the smartphone size race, the iPhone 5 trails the field by a wide margin. In the Android world, the 4.3-inch Droid RAZR M is considered a "compact" phone, the 4.8-inch Galaxy S III is mainstream and the 5.5-inch Galaxy Note II is large.

Why would you want a phone with a larger screen? A larger display makes videos more exciting, text easier to read, and keys on the keyboard easier to target with your finger. And if for some reason that doesn't appeal to you, the Android ecosystem also has smaller phones.

NFC support

If you own an iPhone 5, you can just forget about using mobile payment systems that let you touch your device to a reader in order to conduct a transaction. Instead of MasterCard's Tap and Pay, you'll be using tap and pray as you rap your fingers on a table and hope that Apple provides NFC support on the iPhone 6 in 2013.

With NFC support, the latest Android phones can not only send out payments, but also share photos, contacts, videos and more, just by tapping their backs together. Since Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the OS has built-in NFC sharing software called Android Beam that any third party application can use for seamless sharing. Task management app Any.Do even lets you beam assignments to friends and family. I'm sure Apple will add this functionality just in time for iOS 8.
custom widgets

Custom widgets on your home screen

Congratulations iPhone 5 users! You now get an extra row of icons that you didn't have with the iPhone 4 and 4S. That means you can see your TweetDeck icon and tap on it without scrolling over. The Times Square billboard writes itself: "iPhone 5: Now with More Icons!"

However, if you use any Android phone, you get more than just a static set of application icons on your 5 to 7 home screens. You have a working desktop you can fill with interactive widgets that show everything from the weather to your latest social media updates. I particularly dig the circles widget that Motorola includes on its Android phones, which shows you battery life, time, text alerts and local weather.

A micro USB port rather than a proprietary connector

If you're like me, you have a drawer full of USB cables and, if you can't find one, you can always buy another on any street corner. When you upgrade from an old phone to a new one, you can still use the same old wires and charging plugs, because micro USB is a standard. In fact, the European Union requires phone manufacturers to use micro USB for charging, because it reduces waste as users hold on to their old cables rather than tossing them in a landfill.

Unfortunately, the iPhone 5 uses a proprietary connector it calls "Lightning" instead of standard micro USB, but gets around the EU regulation by offering an adapter.Why not just use micro USB like every other company? Then you couldn't make a mint selling proprietary wires and making every iPhone 4S owner that upgrades buy new accessories, because older iPhones had an even larger proprietary dock connector.
third-party keyboard.

Third-party software keyboards

With the iPhone 5, you can have any keyboard you want as long as its the stock iOS 6 keyboard. If you're using Android and you don't love Google's default layout, you're free to install a third-party keyboard that suits your needs.

Some of the best Android keyboards include Swype, which lets you create words by tracing between letters on the keyboard, and SwiftKey, which predicts the next word in your sentence to save you keystrokes. Heck, you can even buy an Android slider like the Motorola Droid 4, which has a real physical keyboard.

Attach any files you want to your email

Apple doesn't gamble on immature technologies so perhaps its understandable that the company has yet to include this new-fangled thing called "email attachments" on its iPhone 5. While previous versions of iOS Mail didn't even present you with any attachment options in its message composer, the new iOS 6 mail on the iPhone 5 gives you the option to attach images or video only.

What if you need to send your boss a PowerPoint presentation, a Word doc or some other type of file? You will need to have an app that opens that kind of file, go to that app and send the file from there. In other words, there's no way to simply attach the file(s) of your choice when composing email in iOS mail. There are workarounds and third-party apps that address this problem, but Apple's approach here could not be lamer.

Just like Windows or Mac OS, Android allows you to attach any files you want to any email message. Whether you're using the Gmail app, its stock email app or any of a dozen third party email clients, there's always a prominent attachment option on the composition screen and, when you hit it , you're able to browse your gallery, your file system or any other apps you've installed that organize files (Dropbox, Quickoffice, etc).
sharing Android iOS

Share using any service you want

With Android, every relevant app from the browser to the photo gallery includes a share button. When you tap share, you're given an extensive and universal list of apps you can share with. And that list grows, depending on what software and services you have installed, from Facebook to your SMS messenger to Bluetooth transfers. So if, for example, you join Pinterest and install its app, you can share directly to that from any app with a search button.

Rather than providing you with one share list to rule them all, the iPhone 5 lets each app developer create his or her own share menu, which has a finite list of services that developer feels like supporting. The default Safari browser and iOS photo gallery apps can only share to Facebook, Twitter, email and messaging. Google, Flickr, Pinterest, Google Talk and any of 100 other services need not apply.
Android file system

Visible file system

Try plugging an Android phone into your PC and mounting it as a storage device. You'll have access to all the files and folders, just as you do when you browse through your WIndows computer's C drive. So, if you want to copy a raft of MP3s or PowerPoint presentations to your Android handset, you can just drag and drop them.

Say you record a memo with Droid Record and want to grab its output files. You can navigate down to its folder and move, copy or share them directly from there. If you run a file browser on the phone itself, you can also dive into the file system from there.

So what happens when you plug the iPhone 5 into your PC? You get access the digital camera (DCIM) folder only so all you can do is drag and drop pictures. Yes, you can iTunes to transfer media files back and forth, but you still can't go directly into file system because Apple just doesn't trust you enough to let you see the folders on the iPhone 5 that you bought from them. Whose phone is it anyway?

Haptic feedback

Most Android phones offer optional haptic feedback, which allows you to get a nice tactile vibration when you type, long press on the screen or tap the navigation buttons. While some people dislike haptics, the vibrations give you a strong acknowledgement that your touch has registered so you don't have to tap twice. Unfortunately, with the iPhone 5, you don't have a choice; just a flat screen that provides no feedback.

Laptop Pen support

"If you see a stylus, they blew it," Steve jobs famously said of pen-enabled computing and, like its predecessors, the iPhone 5 does not support pen input. Yes, you can get third-party capacitive styluses that will work on the iPhone 5, but these little sticks do nothing more than give you a thinner finger.

Want to scribble down some notes like you do on paper? On Android, you can. Samsung's Galaxy Note and LG's Intuition both offer large screens, active styluses and deep pen integration into the operating system.

On the upcoming Galaxy Note II, you can hand write notes on your calendar, on the backs of JPGs and in half a dozen other places throughout the OS. You can even get previews of emails, photos and videos by hovering the Galaxy Note II's stylus slightly above the screen.

Nokia's $39 Phone Wins More Time for Comeback Bid - Businessweek


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Nokia Oyj (NOK1V), burning cash as it struggles to revive its smartphone business, is winning time for the recovery effort by gaining more customers for another product: basic mobile phones it sells for $39.
By adding features such as quicker Web and online games to its Asha handsets popular in faster-growing economies including India and China, Nokia boosted its share of the basic-phone market to 35 percent last quarter -- the highest in two years. Unlike the smartphone division, the basic-phone business is profitable and unit sales are increasing.
The more than 70 million cheaper handsets Nokia sells each quarter is providing relief for Chief Executive Officer Stephen Elop as he tries to stem revenue declines and recover from five quarters of losses. The basic-phone division is also winning over first-time users who may stick with Nokia when upgrading to a more expensive device.
“Nokia’s Asha models are selling quite well and that is good news for them since it gives the company a bit more time to get its smartphone business on track,” said Teemu Peraelae, who helps manage $1.5 billion including Nokia shares at Alfred Berg Asset Management in Helsinki.
Nokia’s cheaper phones outsold its smartphones 7-to-1 last quarter and, at 2.29 billion euros ($2.86 billion), brought in 49 percent more revenue for the Espoo, Finland-based company.
If Nokia’s smartphone strategy fails, the basic-phone unit may become the company’s most attractive asset for an acquirer because it remains profitable and has a dominant market position in many emerging markets, said Sami Sarkamies, a Nordea Bank AB (NDA) analyst in Helsinki. A buyer would also benefit from Nokia’s strong relationship with carriers in growth economies, he said.

Asha Demand

Nokia’s Asha phones are gaining users in the developing markets because they resemble smartphones, yet cost a fraction of the price, Anshul Gupta, an analyst at research firm Gartner Inc. in Mumbai, said in an interview. Some Ashas have full- length touch screens similar to Nokia’s higher-end models and Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPhone. The underlying operating system is less sophisticated, making them cheaper to build.
“They have almost all the features a smartphone should have like an application portal to download apps, a touch interface, social-networking integration -- so these devices are completely like a smartphone,” he said.
Nokia added touch-screen handsets to the Asha line in June to meet the surging demand for smartphone features. The Asha 305, retailing at 65 euros, is Nokia’s cheapest full-length touch-screen phone. The Asha 311, featuring a faster touch screen and a 1-gigahertz processor, costs 95 euros.
The company on average sells basic phones for 31 euros each, compared with 151 euros per smartphone.

India Shoppers

The 305 and 311 are seeing “fantastic traction” among customers, said Sathish Babu, who owns handset retailer Univercell with about 500 outlets across southern India.
“The new Nokia phones are doing very well,” Babu said in an interview, adding today’s younger shoppers demand slimmer phones with vibrant colors and full touch screens. “The more stock that comes in the more my sales go up and it’s even cannibalizing into other brands. With the touch screen, the balance is tilting toward Nokia now.”
Nokia CEO Elop, commenting in an e-mail, attributed rising sales to its devices’ “bold design” and new colors. Nokia’s basic-phone sales climbed 2 percent to 73.5 million units in the second quarter from a year earlier, even as the global market for such devices fell 15 percent to 211 million units, according to research firm Strategy Analytics.
Shares of Nokia have risen 66 percent since it reported the second-quarter numbers on July 19. The stock is still down about 90 percent since Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, a debut that started Nokia’s decline in smartphones.

‘Myopic Focus’

Nokia’s share of the basic-phone market rose to 35 percent last quarter from 29 percent a year earlier. In smartphones, the fastest-growing and most valuable market segment, Nokia, the former leader, has slumped to less than 10 percent.
“People forget how significant it is that we’re selling a million phones a day,” Peter Skillman, head of mobile-phone design at Nokia, said in an interview. “There’s almost a myopic focus on smartphones.”
Features helping Nokia’s basic-phone sales include browser data-compression technology, which lowers the cost of Web surfing, Skillman said. Nokia is also benefiting from demand for phones that let users insert two SIM cards, a feature many consumers in developing countries need to make it easier to switch service between carriers as they travel, he said. This month, Nokia said Asha users get Zynga Inc. (ZNGA)’s “Draw Something” and “Zynga Poker” games for free.
Such features are important for a company whose biggest markets last year were China, which made up almost 16 percent of revenue, and India with 7.6 percent.

Samsung Competition

Nokia’s success in basic phones isn’t guaranteed, as ZTE Corp. (000063), Huawei Technologies Co. and other manufacturers are entering the cheaper market segments with phones using Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Android operating system.
Samsung Electronics Co., which passed Nokia as the biggest handset maker overall this year helped by smartphone sales, also pushes basic touch-screen phones under the Star and Champ names.
The intensifying competition caused Nokia to reduce the average selling price of its basic phones 14 percent last quarter, dragging down revenue even as unit sales rose. Profit margins on Nokia’s cheaper phones also narrowed.
“It’s been a slippery slope for Nokia’s feature phones, but they did see an improvement in volumes in the second quarter unlike their smartphone business,” said Janardan Menon, a Liberum Capital Ltd. analyst in London. “Competing more effectively with low-end smartphones will be key to any recovery.”

Sunday, February 24, 2013

New Samsung tablet takes on iPad Mini - Taipei Times



New Samsung tablet takes on iPad Mini
Taipei Times
Samsung Electronics is beefing up its tablet range with a competitor to Apple's iPad Mini that sports a pen for writing on the screen. The South Korean company announced yesterday in Barcelona that the Galaxy Note 8.0 will have an 8-inch screen ...

Friday, September 14, 2012

Apple Notches More Patent-Related Victories Against Android OEMs: Samsung ... - Marketing Land


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Marketing Land
According to Bloomberg Apple has won another legal victory against rival Samsung, this time in front of the US International Trade Commission (ITC). Samsung had gone to the ITC to block import of iPhones and iPads (from China) into the US on the ...

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How to upgrade the Galaxy S3 I747M to Android 4.0.4 ICS build MVLALH1 - Android Authority


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Android Authority
The latest official firmware to hit the Samsung Galaxy S3 comes in the form of Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich software version MVLALH1 for the Bell Mobility variant, the SGH-I747M. The new firmware is based on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, ...

Sprint To Sell Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE on Sunday - Hot Hardware


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Sprint To Sell Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE on Sunday
Hot Hardware
Sprint is readying a new phone for Sunday: the Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE. The company is trumpeting its unlimited data/text/phone service and is pointing to the new phone as an inexpensive way to get onboard with its 4G LTE plan. The Galaxy Victory ...

How to upgrade the Galaxy Tab 7.7 P6800 to Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean - Android Authority


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How to upgrade the Galaxy Tab 7.7 P6800 to Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean
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An Android 4.1 Jelly Bean custom ROM for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 Wi-Fi+3G GT-P6800 variant has been released by XDA Developers member DakiX. Known as the Nexness PRO custom ROM, the said software is based on Jelly Bean build JRO03H ...
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Upgrade the Galaxy S3 T999 to Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean build UVDLI3 - Android Authority


Upgrade the Galaxy S3 T999 to Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean build UVDLI3
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Samsung rolled out the official Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade for the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S3 SGH-T999 via the UVALH2 firmware update recently, but it seems that more goodies are in store for the handset as an official software upgrade, ...

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Hottest Google Android news & rumors for the week ending Sept. 14 - PC Advisor


Hottest Google Android news & rumors for the week ending Sept. 14
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The Nexus line is supposed to constantly be updated with the latest version of Android, and Verizon is the biggest carrier in the U.S. - which means this continues to be an embarrassment for Google, Samsung and Verizon alike. Does it officially count ...

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Sprint to offer the Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G smartphone - Coolest Gadgets


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Sprint to offer the Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G smartphone
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Now, the Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G does seem to be quite the mouthful, don't you think so? Sprint is happy to declare that they are the only carrier to offer “Truly Unlimited” 4G LTE data, text and calling to any mobile, and will offer the Samsung ...

Google accused of blocking Alibaba-powered handset - BBC News


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Google accused of blocking Alibaba-powered handset
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Alibaba has blamed Google for blocking the launch of a smartphone powered by the Chinese firm's operating system. Journalists had been invited to an event to see a new handset from Taiwan's Acer running on Alibaba's Aliyun software. However, on arrival ...
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Laptop Power UK Introduces cost effective Samsung NP-X60 Laptop Batteries - Broadcast Newsroom


Laptop Power UK Introduces cost effective Samsung NP-X60 Laptop Batteries
Broadcast Newsroom
Laptop Power UK, the UK's leading online provider of compatible laptop spares and parts, introduces cost effective Samsung NP-X60 laptop Batteries compatible Samsung NP-X60 laptop. This laptop battery contains Samsung battery cells, which will be of ...

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Google Motorola faces German ban after Apple victory - BBC News


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Google Motorola faces German ban after Apple victory
BBC News
Google's Motorola unit faces being forced to recall its Android tablets and smartphones from Germany after losing a patent lawsuit against Apple. The case relates to one of the innovations at the heart of an earlier US case in which Samsung was ...
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Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE is now official, heading to Sprint on September 16 - Android Authority


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Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE is now official, heading to Sprint on September 16
Android Authority
The Galaxy Victory 4G LTE is the name of the new Samsung Sprint-bound phone, and, after being leaked with an almost full spec sheet a couple of weeks ago, it has now been confirmed as coming on September 16. That's right, we're only two days away ...
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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Galaxy S II Plus benchmark indicates 1.4GHz CPU - AndroidGuys


Galaxy S II Plus benchmark indicates 1.4GHz CPU
AndroidGuys
Galaxy S II Plus benchmark indicates 1.4GHz CPU. Posted Sep 13 2012 by Scott Webster in Hardware News, Hot Rumors, International. The rumored Samsung Galaxy S II Plus (GT-I9105) is making more noise today as word of its benchmarks hit the internet.

Sprint Announces Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE - Gotta Be Mobile


Sprint Announces Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE
Gotta Be Mobile
Sprint added another Samsung Galaxy device to its 4G LTE smartphone lineup today in the form of the oft rumored Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE which will launch on September 16. The device, which is a mid-range Android smartphone, will run on Sprint's ...

Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE coming to Sprint on Sept. 16 - Android Central


Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE coming to Sprint on Sept. 16
Android Central
Although we've seen the Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE pop up several times now in training material and various other leaks, Sprint and Samsung have now officially announced the device. Arriving on Sunday, September 16 the Samsung Galaxy Victory ...

Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE - CNET (blog)


Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE
CNET (blog)
Today, Sprint and Samsung trotted out the Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE, a phone it's billing as a stepping stone for smartphone first-timers. The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich device features faster data speeds, a 4-inch display, and a 1.2GHz dual ...