Samsung has officially confirmed that the Galaxy SIII, the highly awaited successor of the Galaxy SII will be announced at a separate launch event, much later than MWC and close to commercial availability of the device.

The phone earlier rumored to being launched at the Mobile World Congress 2012 held this month in Barcelona, will now be launched later. The phone is rumored to have a dual core processor which will run upto 2.0GHz natively. 

Samsung is looking forward to introducing and demonstrating exciting new mobile products at Mobile World Congress 2012. The successor to the [...]

Various builds of ICS on the Samsung Galaxy S2 have started to leak out, indicating that they are meant to be upgraded through Kies. They consist of an early Android 4.0.1 build made on December 20th and version 4.0.3 crafted soon after. These builds are much more improved than the builds released earlier, included cosmetic changes and less neon looking notification. The builds also seem to have better integration with Samsung Apps.

 

Samsung has finally confirmed that most of its top end devices will support Google’s next OS  “Ice Cream Sandwich”. This confirmation comes after weeks of consumer engagements and let downs. Samsung will be rolling out the Upgrade to ICS sometime in the first quarter of 2012. The upgrade is most likely not an OTA update and will require a full flash of the device using their proprietary desktop software called “Kies”  The full List of devices includes 

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Confirmed Devices GALAXY S II GALAXY S II LTE GALAXY Note GALAXY R GALAXY Tab [...]

Its like winning and loosing all round, Apple was denied injunction lift suspension and Samsung was denied primary sale ban in France. The french courts yesterday denied Samsung’s request to ban the sales of Apple iPhone 4S in France. The court called the reaction out of proportion with its claims of intellectual property theft and ordered Samsung to pay a fine of €100,000 (about $134,000) to cover Cupertino’s legal fees.

The case is one of many legal battles being waged between Samsung and Apple in the United States, Italy, and several other countries over intellectual property protecting their smartphones.

Before the journey, Here are the major and upcoming smartphones of India in a spec by spec battle.

Sure there are others and we will continue to add them.

 

 

       Price  TBD  TBD INR : 28500   TBD    Processor  Dual-core Apple A5   1.2GHz dual-core  1.2GHz dual-core Samsung Exyno  Dual core, Qualcomm 8260, 1500 MHz    Display  3.5 inches, 960 x 640IPS LCD  4.65-inch curved glassHD Super AMOLED1280 x 720   4.3 inch , 800 x 480 Super AMOLED Plus  4.3 Inch, 540 x 960 SLCD    Primary Camera  8 megapixel AF, f2.4 lens, BSI sensor, LED flash  5 megapixel with zeroshutter lag  8 megapixel AF, LED flash  8 megapixel AF, LED flash    Front [...]