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Samsung dominates China’s smartphone market
Thursday, 30 May, 2013 – 8:15 | No Comment

Samsung and China continue to enjoy a great relationship as the South Korean electronics giant has retained its lead in the Chinese smartphone market for the past five quarters. The company has surpassed its own record by selling over ten million units in just a single quarter.

Samsung takes top spot in Chinese smartphone market
Friday, 15 Mar, 2013 – 6:22 | No Comment

Apple’s archrival Samsung secured 17.7 per cent of China’s smartphone market in 2012, selling more than 30 million units. This marks a significant rise from the 10.9 million units sold a year ago, according to recently released data by Strategy Analytics.

Samsung to debut “eye scroll”?
Friday, 8 Mar, 2013 – 6:07 | No Comment

What if you could scroll a text just by staring at the screen of your smartphone? Samsung is reportedly trying to make that possible with its next flagship handset, the Galaxy S IV smartphone.

New smartphones for the not-so-young
Friday, 22 Feb, 2013 – 5:28 | No Comment

Age is just a number and smartphones are not only for the young. With this in mind, Japan’s Fujitsu has allied with France Telecom-Orange to launch Android-powered smartphones in Europe specifically for elderly users.

Samsung to offer open source smartphone
Friday, 4 Jan, 2013 – 10:47 | No Comment

Leading mobile devices brand Samsung Electronics, in coordination with its partners, is expected to offer a smartphone powered by the Tizen operating system (OS) this year, according to Japan’s Daily Yomiuri.

African brand pioneers own tablet, smartphone
Friday, 28 Dec, 2012 – 7:02 | No Comment

The US is known for its Apple devices and Asia has Samsung. Now Africa is grooming its very own smartphone icon dubbed VMK.

Samsung officially unveils oversized Galaxy Note II
Friday, 28 Sep, 2012 – 9:29 | No Comment

A week after Apple unveiled its iPhone 5, Samsung has unveiled the latest version of its smartphone: an oversized Galaxy Note II.

Apple wins over Samsung in patent infringements case
Friday, 31 Aug, 2012 – 10:29 | No Comment

The controversy regarding patents infringement between Apple and Samsung has been finally put to an end, as most of the jury were convinced that Samsung did copy ideas from Apple.
After a long deliberation, the jury …

Samsung smartphones feature unique design
Friday, 10 Aug, 2012 – 9:50 | No Comment

In a bid to rebut Apple’s allegation that Samsung copied the design of its iPads and iPhones in a US patent case

Galaxy S3 launch fails to attract mega crowds
Friday, 1 Jun, 2012 – 10:16 | No Comment

It has been one of the most eagerly awaited handsets to be released in recent months. But when the Galaxy S3 was launched by Samsung at its Westfield Stratford store this week, it failed to attract the same type of crowds notorious for queuing as a new Apple product is released, much to the disappointment of the manufacturers.

Apple and Samsung share 50% of market
Friday, 4 May, 2012 – 10:24 | No Comment

A report by research company IDC has revealed a trend that is seeing Apple and Samsung grow in dominance in the mobile market while their competitors such as Nokia, RIM, Motorola, and HTC struggle to achieve profitability.

New Galaxy phone to use Samsung quad-core processor
Friday, 27 Apr, 2012 – 10:40 | No Comment

Samsung announced this week that it would start to mass-produce its energy saving, faster quad core mobile, microprocessor to help power the third generation of the Galaxy S, the flagship smartphone under Samsung’s ownership.