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May

23

2011

Galaxy Tab 10.1 Keyboard Dock Gets A Quick Look Over

by Joe Sirianni
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We’ve recently seen Samsung Galaxy’s 10.1 Tab get some keyboard and dock love after the Asus Transformer has been stealing all the thunder for a while.  Check out the video of the dock below.  The video doesn’t reveal a whole lot of functionality but you can get a good size comparison and feel just from [...]

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May

16

2011

Samsung Says: Get your Gingerbread here! Updates for Galaxy S, Tab, Ace, Gio, Fit and mini

by Adam Johnson
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The official word from Samsung is out. A number of devices will be receiving Android 2.3 aka Gingerbread! Updating to Gingerbread will give user of the Samsung devices, the latest performance enhancements and welcome changes to the UI from the previous Froyo version. The entire Galaxy line will be updated by way of Samsung device [...]

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May

12

2011

Samsung Galaxy S II Gets Overclocked to 1.5GHz And Scores 4000+ in Quadrant

by Joe Sirianni
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Those crazy mamajamas over at XDA have managed to take a device that was already difficult to beat and made it out right untouchable.  Member coolbho3000, has managed to overclock his Samsung Galaxy S II to 1.5 GHz, shooting Quadrant benchmark scores through the roof. I have successfully overclocked the new Samsung Galaxy S II [...]

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May

2

2011

The Samsung Galaxy S II Gets Rooted…Dang, Already?

by Axl Logan
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Of course and as expected, the hard at work hacking community of XDA is at it again.  This time, they’ve wasted no time cracking the Samsung Galaxy S II, Samsung’s latest flagship powerhouse to hit the smartphone market.  On paper, this bad boy has it all.  It sports a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED display, a dual-core 1GHz CPU, [...]

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Apr

29

2011

Be Wowed By Shadow Galaxy Live Wallpaper For Android

by Joe Sirianni
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One of the better Live Wallpapers I’ve seen to pass through the market has definitely got to be Shadow Galaxy by developer maxelus.net.  We’ve seen a few Live Wallpapers from this developer before  and it looks like they are showing no signs of slowing down when it comes to innovation.  If you’re a Live Wallpaper buff, [...]

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Apr

25

2011

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1v Coming to Portugal with €590 Pricetag

by Mitch Wright
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A while back, Samsung had announced two pretty impressive tablets, coming in 8.9 and 10.1 inch flavors. Afterwards, the iPad 2 came out with an extremely impressive 0.34 inch slimness, causing Sammy to take their tablets back to the drawing board to knock them both down to 0.33 inches thick, the thinnest tablets currently announced. [...]

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Mar

16

2011

Samsung Mob!le Unpacked Likely to Bring More Galaxy Tab News

by Michael Murphy
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Alright, I’ll admit it. I’m totally smitten with my Galaxy S phone, and I’m dying for a rockin’ Android tablet. So the Galaxy Tab seemed like the perfect fit, right? Well, too problems: It didn’t get the greatest reviews, and 7″ is smaller than I’d like my Android Tablet to be. I’ve sure got my [...]

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