Let’s make a mobile OS that will rival Apple’s iOS, and let’s give it away for free. Clever thinking by Google, at the time. As of early 2013, Google’s Android operating system has come to dominate smartphones worldwide, with Samsung taking the lion’s share of this dominance. The irony is
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Samsung Electronics took the wraps off its latest flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S4, at a no-expense-spared event in New York City on Thursday evening. TechCentral deputy editor Craig Wilson was there and took these photos from the event
Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S4 takes the features that made its predecessor, the S3, such a runaway success and improves on them quite substantially. In only a handful of years, Samsung has gone from being one of many manufacturers vying for the Android crown to almost the only game in town at the lucrative
New York’s iconic Times Square was plastered with billboards from Korea’s Samsung Electronics this week and, come Thursday evening, the venue played host to a very public launch event for the Korean company’s new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4. Gigantic screens showed
Universal Music Group and Samsung Electronics, together with African and international music labels and publishers, have launched a pan-African mobile music streaming service called “the Kleek”. The Kleek, designed specifically
New York’s Radio City Music Hall will be packed to the rafters on Thursday night for an event that is garnering almost as much hype as an Apple launch. Samsung Electronics will use the event to unveil the Galaxy S4, the successor the best-selling Android smartphone of 2012, the S3. But the
Each year around this time, Barcelona plays host to the Mobile World Congress, the biggest annual event for the world’s mobile communications industry. In addition to usual product announcement from many of the big-name manufacturers, the buzz this year was around mobile
Taiwan’s HTC has taken the wraps off the HTC One – previously codenamed the M7 – its new, top-end Android smartphone and the successor to the highly lauded One X. And, according to the company, the device will be launched
On Tuesday, at events in New York and London, Taiwan’s HTC is expected to take the wraps off the M7, its newest Android “superphone”, and a device that must take on the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S4. For HTC, it’s all on the line. In the face of juggernaut Samsung Electronics
Remember the late 1990s, when everyone was predicting the end of “bricks and mortar” businesses? The Internet was going to make all that tedious infrastructure redundant, according to Web prophets. Pity they didn’t see the dot-com crash coming. And now, in a delicious piece of irony, Google is