Category Archives: Mobile Phones
Sprint announces Samsung Ativ S Neo Windows 8 smartphone
- Thursday, 27 June 2013 13:43
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Sprint announced today that they are going to add Samsung Ativ Neo S in their Windows phone lineup. Th phone will cost $149.99 with two years service aggregate after $50 rebate card. LTE powered Samsung Ativ S Neo features 4.8-inch HD display and 2,000 mAh removable battery. The phone also uses a 1.4 GHz dual-core processor, has 1 GB of memory and supports memory card expansion.
In addition to these Ativ S Neo comes with a 8 megapixel main camera with LED flash and 1.9 megapixel front facing camera for video chat. Some of the camera apps like Beauty Shot mode to get smoother looking skin are preloaded with the phone. There is also a built in photo editing application for adding photo effect, decorate and sharing picture quickly.
In addition to Samsung ATIV S Neo, Sprint also announced HTC 8XT Windows 8 smartphone at $99 with 2 years service agreement.
Google may not provide updates for Samsung Galaxy S4 stock android version
- Thursday, 27 June 2013 08:02
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Samsung Galaxy S Google Play edition was released now and there are some hard fact coming out with that. One of the biggest challenge will be, who will provide the future updates of the device. And also will Galaxy S4 Google play edition get the latest and greatest Android updates first just like Google Nexus devices. Neither Samsung or Google addressed the problem directly. But what it seems like Samsung is the one who will have to provide future updates for the Galaxy S4 play edition.
Anandtech in their review found out that the Android part is from Google but still the Kernel is from Samsung. So there is no doubt that Samsung has to provide updates. That means Galaxy S4 Google play edition will not get the latest Android as fast as the Nexus devices. But it will definitely get much earlier than th regular Samsung Galaxy S4 with TouchWiz.
Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A Vs Samsung Galaxy S4
- Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:00
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Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A is just announced and there is a big discussion started already. How better is Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A in comparison to Galaxy S4.
From radio technology prospective Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A got a big boost. It will have a download throughput of about 150 Mbps, which outshines regular Galaxy S4 with a big margin. But there are not many operators with LTE-Advanced network. So let’s not compare the data throughput.
Gforgames did some benchmarking test of Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A against Galaxy S4 Exynos Octa COre and Galaxy S4 Snapdragon 600. The results are interesting. Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A with Snapdragon 800 outscored other variants by big margins.
Here are the benchmarking results and videos.
AnTuTu (Higher is better)
Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A 29976
Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa) 26275
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 24716
Quadrant (Higher is better)
Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A 18581
Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa) 12446
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 12376
Samsung Released Galaxy S4 LTE-A in Korea
- Wednesday, 26 June 2013 08:46
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Samsung announced the Galaxy S4 LTE-Advanced smart phone in Korea today. With a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset Galaxy S4 LTE-A is the first smartphoen with LTE-Advanced technology. The download speed of this phone can reach up to 15 Mbps which is way better than the regular Galaxy S4 LTE.
Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A comes with 2.3 GHz quad-core application processor, full-HD Super AMOLED, 13 million high-pixel camera and 2GB of DDR3 RAM. Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 is pre-installed on this device and will come with all the Samsung’s smart features.
Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S4 Now Available For $650
- Wednesday, 26 June 2013 07:46
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Samsung released an unlocked developer version of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone for Verizon network. The developer edition will work on Verizon’s 3G and 4G network. The phone will cost $650 and it’s available directly from Samsung.
Samsung Galaxy S4 developer edition will have all the functionalists of a regular Galaxy S4 with an unlocked boot loader so you can tweak your phone the way you want and also can flash custom ROM as per your requirements.
The developer edition of Samsung Galaxy S4 only comes in mist black color at this moment.