Checking in with a 5.3 inch screen, the Samsung Galaxy Note is HUGE. And jump for joy, it also has a stylus. But the Note is more than just a mashup of a smartphone and a tablet. No, it’s so much more. Abdel Ibrahim and Jon Dick highlight many of the cool uses people have […]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 11, 2012
Though China Telecom recently began selling the iPhone, Apple’s share of the smartphone market in China still lags behind Samsung whose share is surprisingly 3 times as large as Apple’s. All told, Apple’s share of the Chinese smartphone market is 7.5% while Samsung’s is 24.3%. As opposed to Apple, Samsung has been willing to play ball […]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 23, 2012
Comments Off on Jonathan Geller reviews the Galaxy Note
Jonathan Geller is hardly impressed with the Samsung Galaxy Note: The phone is too big. You will look stupid talking on it, people will laugh at you, and you’ll be unhappy if you buy it. I really can’t get around this, unfortunately, because Samsung pushed things way too far this time. You can’t use it […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Comments Off on Samsung not worried about Apple entering the TV market
With everyone anticipating Apple’s foray into the HDTV market, Samsung – the global leader in HDTV shipments – isn’t worried at all. At the company’s European Forum in Prague, Samsung AV product manager Chris Moseley told pocket-lint that when it comes to HDTVs, superior image quality is what matters most. Consequently, Moseley isn’t worried at […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Comments Off on Apple pens letter to European Standards board, seeks consistency in FRAND licensing
As you all know, Apple has for many months now been involved in ongoing legal disputes with both Motorola and Samsung regarding various smartphone technologies. While both sides are wielding patents against one another, there’s an important difference between the patents being asserted by Apple and those being asserted by Samsung and Motorola. The patents […]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 5, 2012
Comments Off on Samsung’s Super Bowl Galaxy Note commercial goes after Apple fans
Steve Jobs once said, with regard to smartphones, that “”if you see a stylus, they blew it.” Apparently Samsung disagrees with that sentiment. During today’s Super Bowl – great game by the way – Samsung unveiled its latest commercial, this time for the upcoming Galaxy Note which features, you guessed it, a stylus. And making […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Comments Off on Samsung sold slightly more smartphones in 2011 than Apple
Apple this past quarter shipped a whopping 37 million iPhones, setting a new quarterly record as iPhone sales grew 128% year over year. The achievement was enough for Apple to slightly edge out Samsung with respect to smartphone sales during the recent holiday quarter. A few days ago, Samsung reported shipping 36 million smartphones as […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Comments Off on European Commission to investigate Samsung’s abuse of RAND patents
Well it seems that Samsung’s strategy of suing Apple for allegedly infringing RAND patents is coming back to bite them in the ass. Foss Patents reports: The European Commission just announced that it has “opened a formal investigation to assess whether Samsung Electronics has abusively, and in contravention of a commitment it gave to the European Telecommunications […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Comments Off on German Court rejects one of Samsung’s asserted 3G patents
It’s hard to keep up with all of the legal entanglements Samsung and Apple are currently embroiled in. The two companies have legal proceedings in-play across 4 continents and in over 10 countries. One of the busiest jurisdictions with respect to Apple and Samsung’s ongoing legal dispute is Germany where Apple achieved some success in […]
Continue reading...Monday, January 23, 2012
Comments Off on Samsung goes after Apple fans, again!, in new commercial
In addition to going after Apple in the legal realm, Samsung isn’t pulling any punches with its advertising campaign either. Samsung a few weeks ago kicked off a new campaign that attempts to portray Apple fans as fad following lemmings who blindly and moronically stand outside of Apple stores ready to purchase the latest Apple […]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 22, 2012
Comments Off on Apple sues Samsung in Germany over “slide to unlock” feature in Galaxy Nexus
Apple’s certainly keeping its lawyers busy. The Cupertino-based company filed yet another lawsuit against Samsung in Germany last week. This time around, Apple alleges that Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone infringes upon Apple’s “slide to unlock” feature which first debuted on the original iPhone back in 2007. The feature was officially granted patent protection in the […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Comments Off on Apple files new lawsuits against Samsung in Germany
It looks like Apple’s ongoing legal feud with Samsung is going to get worse before it gets better. Apple and Samsung are already embroiled in patent litigation across the globe, and as the battle for smartphone marketshare becomes fiercer, so too do the legal battles. Apple this week filed separate lawsuits against Samsung in Germany […]
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Comments Off on The Galaxy Note is big.. But how big is it?!