Samsung will pay $1.3 billion for Qualcomm patent licenses
Samsung has recently announced an agreement with Qualcomm, according to which it will pay $1.3 billion for using Qualcomm’s CDMA, WCDMA and OFDMA patents for the next 15 years.
The $1.3 billion will be paid upfront, with additional royalties to be paid afterwards.
According to Telecoms Korea, the $1.3 billion that will be received from Samsung accounts [...]
Samsung and T-Mobile Ready for Behold II Event on Nov 12
I’ve always been intrigued by companies that like to announce that they will have an announcement. Especially in this case where Samsung and T-Mobile are partnering together to hold a press event on November 12 in which the Behold II will be the star of the show.
There have been enough leaked pics and videos of [...]
Samsung sold 10 million Star S5230 phones
Today, Samsung announced that the Star S5230 has become its sixth phone to be sold in more than 10 million units – after the Samsung T-100, Samsung E700, Samsung D500, Samsung J700 and Samsung E250.
The Star S5230 passed the 10 million mark after six months since its release (May), thus becoming the fastest-selling Samsung phone [...]
Samsung Mythic and Flight coming to AT&T on November 8
Announced exactly one month ago, the Samsung Mythic and Samsung Flight will be available via AT&T starting November 8.
Both new devices are touchscreen phones, but they’re not at all similar and are targeted at different categories of customers.
The Samsung Mythic is priced at $199.99 on contract after a $50 mail-in rebate and features stuff like: [...]
Verizon BlackBerry Curve 8530, Samsung u640 Convoy and Casio G’Zone Brigade
Apart from announcing the HTC Droid Eris and launching the LG Chocolate Touch, Verizon has also announced the BlackBerry Curve 8530 and Samsung Convoy today.
Previously known as BlackBerry Aries, the Curve 8530 is the CDMA version of T-Mobile’s BlackBerry 8520.
The 8530 features EV-DO connectivity, Wi-Fi, GPS, full QWERTY keyboard, QVGA display, optical trackpad, 3.5mm headset [...]
Vodafone’s Samsung H1 to have a Pizza Hut home delivery app
Available as of yesterday through Vodafone UK, the Samsung 360 H1 will soon get a Pizza Hut application. The app lets you order pizza directly from the H1 smartphone, but what’s interesting about it is that the orders will be charged on your phone bill.
Only orders of up to £30 are accepted, but you get [...]
Samsung Jack Gets Dressed up in WM 6.5
Samsung announced this morning that one of its existing smartphones will be getting a tuneup. If you own a Samsung Jack you will now be able to upgrade your phone to Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard.
To be honest, we weren’t expecting to see the Jack to be one of the first 6.1 phones pushed through to [...]
Opera Mobile 10 launched for Symbian S60 (touch and non-touch)
Opera announced the availability of Opera Mobile 10 beta for Symbian S60 phones from Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.
Opera Mobile 10 beta works with Symbian S60 3rd and 5th edition, so it can be installed on both touchscreen and non-touchscreen phones.
The new version of Opera Mobile has a fresh design, it’s twice as fast as [...]
Samsung Moment and Sanyo SCP-3810 now available at Sprint
Two new phones are available at Sprint starting today: Samsung Moment and Sanyo SCP-3810.
We knew the Moment was coming on November 1 – and it’s nice to see that Sprint kept its promise and actually released it the day it said it would.
Coming as Sprint’s second Android phone (after the HTC Hero), Samsung Moment features [...]
Samsung Saturn i6500 to be a new Android smartphone
Samsung currently has four Android phones (Galaxy i7500, Spica i5700, Moment and Behold II), and it looks like the fifth one is coming soon under the name of Samsung i6500 Saturn.
The i6500 Saturn has recently received its Wi-Fi interoperability certification (PDF link), so it will surely feature Wi-Fi.
According to Tweakers.net, the rest of the phone’s [...]