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You have to hand it to Samsung. The company has made the most of its position as a leading component manufacturer by creating devices for every preference. What other company that already has a range of 7-inch and 10-inch tablets would also make an 8-inch version? The Galaxy Note 8 looks and behaves

This feels like déjà vu. A year ago, Taiwan’s HTC and Korea’s Samsung Electronics were locked in a battle over which had the best Android “superphone”. Both had compelling, almost equally matched products in the form of the One X (HTC) and the Galaxy S3 (Samsung). Samsung

Samsung’s new top-end smartphone, the Android-powered Galaxy S4, has set the benchmark that other manufacturers, especially Asian rivals such as Sony, HTC and Huawei, are going to have to beat in 2013. The S4, launched at a no-expense-spared event in New York two weeks ago, packs the sort of technology into its

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

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