Samsung sold 27.8m smartphones in Q3 2011, the company has confirmed, making it the world's largest smartphone vendor and contributing significantly to its record-breaking financial quarter. The new stat was tweeted out by Samsung South Africa, and follows the company's announcement last month that it had shipped over 300m handsets - both smartphones and dumbphones - in 2011 as a whole. Updated after the cut.
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White Galaxy Nexus pictured
Curious as to what that white Galaxy Nexus looks like? Retailer Clove has joined the UK retailers listing the vanilla variant of the Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone, and has shared some official images so you can see just how much white you're getting. As with the white Nexus S before it, the display section itself is actually still black: only the edges and rear panel are changed.
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HTC profit dives as Samsung and Apple increase pressure
HTC has revealed underwhelming Q4 2011 financial results, stung by the increasing strength of its smartphone rivals Apple and Samsung, and struggling to differentiate its smartphones. The company has announced that revenues are down 2.49-percent year-on-year, at NT$101bn ($360m), with operating income down from NT$16.7bn in Q4 last year to NT$13.0bn this year. HTC has not given any indication as to why it believes performance has struggled.
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Samsung reports record Q4: $4.5bn profit estimated
Samsung has announced record quarterly earnings for Q4 2011, with profit up considerably compared to last year, buoyed particularly by the company's success in smartphones. Although full results aren't yet available, Samsung is estimating sales of 47 trillion won with operating profit of 5.2 trillion won ($4.5bn) for the three month period; there's 200 billion in wiggle-room either way.
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Samsung, Sony and Vizio will have new Google TV hardware at CES next week, while the platform will make its long-awaited international debut in 2012, with Google confirming its key partners alongside LG's new smart TV kit. Meanwhile, Marvell's ARMADA 1500 chipset - integral to Google TV now that the search giant has jumped from x86 to ARM - will share the stage with chip company MediaTek, which will also be supplying SoCs to power Google TV set-top boxes.
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AT&T Galaxy Note leaker backtracks after accessories blunder
Back-tracking this morning on the apparent confirmation of the AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note by an accessories company yesterday, with Anymode's third-party PR team now claiming the pre-announce info had not been approved by either AT&T, Samsung or indeed Anymode itself. The info - that Anymode was an OEM vendor of Galaxy Note accessories for the AT&T variant - "contained inaccurate information" and has been retracted.
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AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note confirmed early by accessory vendors
The folks at Anymode have just sent out their invites for everyone to come meet them at CES 2012 and in doing so have, we're guessing without the permission of AT&T, confirmed that the carrier will indeed be showing off the Samsung Galaxy Note at the show. While they certainly do appear to be AT&T's official choice for vendor for their upcoming version of the mighty beast of an Android device, such a confirmation before AT&T drops their press release on the subject does not bode well for the folks who probably should have kept the subject under wraps. That said, we look forward to the device coming out next week!
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Licensing BB10 is desperation; Then again, RIM’s desperate
“If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” goes the old saying, but beleaguered RIM seems to have decided on its own interpretation: “If you can’t beat ‘em, license to ‘em.” Talk of RIM sweet-talking rivals like Samsung and HTC into adding BlackBerry 10 to their line-up of supported platforms has resurfaced, with Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek suggesting that the great Canadian software coax has already begun. Question is, who’d fall for it?
White Galaxy Nexus in two weeks; 32GB HSPA+ model follows
A white version of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus has been dated for release by several UK retailers, expected to hit shelves as soon as midway through January, with a black 32GB HSPA+ model following on shortly after. The white Ice Cream Sandwich Googlephone will drop "in two weeks time" according to Expansys, while Handtec says they'll offer it from February 6.
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Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch gets new “Frost White” edition
Samsung has revealed a white version of its Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch, with the unwieldy-named phone set to go on sale this weekend, Sunday January 8. Functionally identical to the existing Epic 4G Touch, the "frost white" variant still offers both 3G and 4G access, a 1.2 GHz dual-core Exynos processor from Samsung's own chipset stable, and a 4.52 Super AMOLED Plus display.
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Samsung unveiled Series 9 Quad HD Display and Series 7 Smart Station Wireless Display
With CES just around the corner Samsung is teasing us with press releases of some of the new goodies we can expect in 2012. In two press releases Samsung has discussed a new Series 9 monitor and Series 7 Smart Station and HDTV monitor. Although the new products won't be available until March, they will be on display at this years CES in Las Vegas next week.
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14-inch Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook pre-order slips out via online retailer
When it rains, it pours. Just a little while after taking pre-orders for its 13-inch Series 5 Ultrabook, a listing for the 14-inch version of the laptop sprang up on online retailer J&R. The page has disappeared, but you can see a cached version here, courtesy of Google. The pre-order price was $949, just a bit more than its smaller brethren, and a quick search shows empty pages at other retailers as well.
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