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Samsung Galaxy S

Samsung Galaxy S, Samung’s new Google Android phone will sport a 1 GHz processor and will also be one of the first mobile devices to ship with Bluetooth 3.0 on board.

The Galaxy S runs Android 2.1 and features a 4-inch, WVGA, super AMOLED screen, which offers better viewing in bright outdoor light than previous AMOLED screen technology.

According to Samsung the 1Ghz processor will allow the Galaxy S to play HD videos at 720p resolution. You’ll be able to watch those videos on larger screens when you connect the Galaxy S to your DLNA compatible home theater equipment. The Samsung Galaxy S supports a full range of audio and video formats; including MP3G4, H.264, H.263, H.263Sorenson, DivX HD / XviD and VC-1 video codecs, and 3GP (MP4), WMV (ASF), AVI (DivX), MKV and FLV video formats, as well as MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, OGG, AMR-NB, WAV, MID, AC3, IMY, FLAC and XMF audio formats.

Galaxy S will ship with the Layar Augmented Reality browser on board, in addition to some custom apps and widgets to support news and information feeds as well as social networking services.

For text input, the Samsung Galaxy S will use the Swype keyboard design for gesture-based typing. A 5-megapixel camera can be found around back, and the phone has a front-facing VGA camera for video conferencing. The phone’s camera offers Auto Focus, Self shot, Action shot, Add me, Stop motion, Cartoon shot, Smile shot and Panorama shot.

The phone will also support Bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0 and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n when it comes to connectivity.

You will also get to choose from 8GB and 16GB versions of the Galaxy S, and there’s also a microSD memory slot with support for up to 32GB cards.

Check out the side by side comparison with the iPhone over at infoSync.

We’re still waiting to hear which U.S. carrier will offer all this Android goodness.

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Samsung Announces Galaxy S

Coming Soon to a Carrier Near You

During his CTIA keynote speech J.K. Shin, President of Samsung Mobile announced the Samsung Galaxy S a super AMOLED Android device optimized for full length movies, TV shows, books, newspapers and magazines.

The Samsung Galaxy S sports a 4 inch super AMOLED touchscreen which brings a 20 percent increase in battery life, is 20% brighter, and 80% less reflective.  The Galaxy S will also sport a 1 Ghz processor the new standard for Samsung, Shin said — bringing better graphics, multitasking and video.

The device will be  available in Samsung’s major markets (Europe, North America, Latin America, Australia, and Asia), in the coming weeks.

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Breaking News: Wireless Carriers Declare War on Apple’s App Store

Twelve worldwide wireless providers including AT&T, Orange, Telefonica, and nine others have declared war on Apple and their app store.

The twelve wireless carriers are banding together to offer one central location to deliver applications to all mobile platforms according to a report in the TimesOnline.  Together the alliance has more than two billion customers and is believed to have the backing of handset makers Samsung, Sony Ericsson and LG. The announcement is expected to come tomorrow during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

With the fragmentation of app stores from Apple, Android and others, many handset manufacturers and operators are hoped to support a single standard of apps that work across multiple devices.

It’s unknown if this will be a single app store for multiple operating systems or whether they’re talking about a single programing standard allowing applications to work across multiple platforms.

Not sure how well this will sit with Apple now that AT&T plans on competing against them. Maybe this will be the straw that finally breaks Apple’s back and Apple will pull away from the AT&T iPhone exclusivity deal.

More details as they become available.

[via: timesonline]

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Sprint Samsung Moment First to Get Mobile DTV

The Nexus One may have Google’s love and affection, but the Android-powered Samsung Moment for Sprint is getting something nifty too: free mobile TV.

Today Samsung announced that the Moment would be the first phone to feature Mobile DTV, the new free-to-air mobile TV standard that’s launching early this year. The Mobile DTV-equipped Moment will be part of a customer trial in Washington and Baltimore during the first quarter of 2010, Samsung said.

Mobile DTV allows local broadcasters to transmit free digital signals to cell phones and portable devices using their existing broadcast spectrum. More than 35 stations are already online, with five in Las Vegas doing demonstrations at CES. Stations in 96 of the top 100 US markets have signed up to broadcast mobile TV, according to the Open Mobile Video Coalition, the trade organization behind Mobile DTV. You can learn a lot more about Mobile DTV in our previous story.

According to a Samsung press release, the Moment was chosen because of its big, bright 3.2-inch AMOLED display, which allows for wide viewing angles. Sprint previously said that the Moment, which runs Android 1.6, will get an update to Android 2.1 – the same version that’s running on the Nexus One – soon.

The choice of the Moment is interesting because up until now, most of the Mobile DTV sample phones we’ve seen have been from competing manufacturer LG. Samsung and LG merged their two competing, proposed standards, along with some other partners, to form the final Mobile DTV standard.

There’s no word on when the DTV-equipped Moment will be available to the general public.

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HTC Taking a Fast and Furious Ride to the Top with Android

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC is on a tear. This year alone, the company has released five Android handsets. Its next phone, the HTC Nexus One, aka the Googlephone, is among the most anticipated devices of 2010.

Just about a decade old, HTC looks like it is poised to pull ahead of much older and larger rivals such as Samsung and LG in worldwide phone market share. While the older companies’ strength lies is in now-declining “feature phones,” or inexpensive, less-capable handsets, HTC’s bet on the booming smartphone business is giving it a major boost. It has also acquired a powerful godfather in Google, the Goliath whose attention is now captivated by the mobile phone business and whose chosen partner is HTC.

“We have covered a distance in the last three years that many other companies haven’t in ten,” says John Wang, chief marketing officer for HTC.

About one in six smartphones in the United States in 2008 was a HTC phone, according to Nielsen Mobile. And with a slew of new handsets and a clever bet on Android,  HTC is now the fourth biggest smartphone maker, after Nokia, Research In Motion and Apple. HTC’s Android portfolio now includes the original G1 and MyTouch on T-Mobile, the Hero on Sprint, and the Tattoo and Droid Eris on Verizon. And while Nokia is struggling to get a grip on the U.S. market, HTC is gaining ground.

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