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17:21:00
After crossing the 10 million
units moved threshold back in
September, Samsung has
joyously announced ahead of
MWC 2012 that its Galaxy S II
family of phones has sold 20
million since launching in April.
According to Samsung, taking
just ten months to hit the mark
puts it ahead of the original
Galaxy S (hovering around 22
million sold) by seven months.
The hallmarks of this model -- in
its many forms as seen above for
AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint -- has
been the Super AMOLED Plus
screen, slim design and dual core
CPUs, all of which made it a
record breaker right out of the
gate. Samsung's been pretty
quiet as Mobile World Congress
2012 approaches, but whenever
we see the Galaxy S III, it will
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07:02:00

The successor of the Galaxy S II
Android smartphone won’t be
introduced at the Mobile World
Congress conference at the end
of the month. Instead, Samsung
plans to unveil the device at a
separate event in the first half of
the year, the company said in a
statement to The Verge.
The Galaxy S II is Samsung’s
record-breaking smartphone,
and now the pressure is on to
deliver a new model.The Galaxy S
II is Samsung’s most successful
smartphone to date, generating
10 million sales quicker than any
mobile device in the company’s
history. With Apple’s iPhone 4S
catching up with Android in the
U.S. over the holiday period, the
pressure is on for Samsung to
deliver a worthy rival before a
new iPhone model arrives this
year.
Android manufacturers tend to
preview their smartphones
earlier in the year, either at CES in
January or at the Mobile World
Congress (MWC) in February, and
these phones actually ship much
later in the year, especially in the
U.S., where carriers request
various customizations. Probably
to avoid long periods of waiting,
Samsung said it would announce
the Galaxy S II successor -- call it
the S III – later this year, “closer
to commercial availability of the
product.” The S II was
announced at MWC last year and
began shipping in April.
Samsung managed to keep the
lid on details about its upcoming
flagship smartphone, yet Eldar
Murtazin from Mobile-Review
hinted that he played with a
Galaxy S III. He says the Galaxy S II
successor will rock a 12-
megapixel camera and Android
4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Other
previously speculated details for
the S III include a 1.8GHz dual-
core processor and 2GB of RAM,
although hopefully by the time
Samsung releases the phone, it
could slip in an Nvidia quad-core
mobile processor.http://ksp2347.blogspot.com
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17:27:00
 Apple Inc took back the sales crown from Samsung Electronics Co in smartphone sales in the fourth quarter, a market research firm said on Friday. Thanks to the introduction of its iPhone 4S model, Apple saw its smartphone sales rise to 37 million for the quarter. Samsung does nOTgive figures for how many smartphones it sells, but Strategy Analytics Inc said Samsung's earnings report on Friday indicated sales of 36.5 million units after the company reported its smartphone sales had spiked 30% quarter-on-quarter.
Such sales would give the South Korean company a 23.5% market share, right on the heels of its US rival's 23.9%.
Samsung held the top spot in the third quarter and also came out on top for all of 2011, Strategy Analytics said. It sold an estimated 97.4 million smartphones for the year, more than Apple's 93 million iPhones.
Samsung is locked in battle with Apple for smartphone dominance. Both companies are also engaged in a bitter court fight over patents for the design and technology that goes into their smartphones and tablet computers.
Nokia Corp took third place with 19.6 million smartphones sold in the fourth quarter, amounting to a 12.6% market share, down from the 28.1% it held a year earlier.
For the year, Nokia sold 77.3 million units.
Smartphone shipments worldwide in the fourth quarter rose 55% year-on-year to a record 155 million while 2011 shipments were up 11% at 488.5 million.
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02:31:00
Just because an app is banned from Google's official Android Market doesn't mean that plenty of users aren't itching to install it on their devices. But where can those folks get the contraband downloads they crave?
They could hunt through back-alley websites and dig through shady forums — but that's pretty dicey business. What would be simpler is a visit to an (unofficial) alternative app store, which serves as a one-stop shop in the app black-market.
TechCrunch reports that an Android developer by the name of Koushik Dutta is in the process of building such an app store.Dutta is no stranger when it comes to software that isn't approved by Google — he's a member of the CyanogenMod Android hacking team and the creator of ClockworkMod, a custom recovery console for Android devices — and the Android community appears to be responding positively to his project so far.
Dutta's alternative app store will serve as a place for customized versions of the Android operating system (also known as ROMs), rooting apps (which allow users to easily gain full control of their devices), tethering apps banned thanks to cellular carrier complaints, and more. It certainly won't be a place where everyone will want to download apps as many may be aimed at Android users with advanced technical knowledge.
There is also a security risk to consider, as with just about any alternative market. Details are still vague as to whether Dutta will police his store somehow in order to prevent malicious apps from slipping in or if the general policy will simply be "buyer beware."
Either way — assuming the project remains on track — Dutta's app store is bound to leave those who love to push the limits of customizing their Android devices quite happy.


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