It appears that both Samsung and LG are both keeping their panels to themselves this season as the Smart TV market fires up and Apple sets its sights on IGZO. Sources are speaking to the tune of Sharp being the next on the list for Apple to be looking to for Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide displays for their upcoming iTV production line. Meanwhile the competition in LG and Samsung, who've both provided parts to Apple in the past, are tipped to be holding back in this case to keep their HD Smart TVs strong in and of themselves.
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Apple iTV pushed back as IGZO panels unready for shipment
Samsung Galaxy ICS smartphone press photo leak faked
Today a photo of a seemingly brand new smartphone from Samsung running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and teasing a Mobile World Congress 2012 release has been leaked. This photos is fake, and here's why: the pixels simply do not line up. As our friend Michael Crider from Android Community makes clear, there's not only Photoshop related breaks in the reality of this image, there's clues in the code we know to be true that cuts down the legitimacy of this beast as well.
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Samsung Galaxy S Advance hits pre-order
With Samsung's Galaxy S III no longer expected at MWC 2012 later this month, we'll have to make do with the Samsung Galaxy S Advance, officially announced on Monday and already up for pre-order. An variant of the original Galaxy S, the Galaxy S Advance I9070 is scheduled to drop roughly at the same time as the Barcelona mobile show, according to UK retailer Clove, with pre-orders priced at £295 ($467)plus tax.
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Corning and Samsung Mobile Display team for OLED glass partnership
Corning and Samsung Mobile Display have announced they've teamed up to form a new OLED glass partnership. The two firms are establishing a new joint venture to many factors special the glass substrates that will be used in the OLED display manufacturing market. The joint venture will use Corning's new Lotus Glass and Samsung's OLED display tech.
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Samsung ‘Galaxy S II Plus’ may be on the way
Samsung might be taking a page out of the Apple playbook and preparing to launch a smartphone that falls in between the Galaxy S II and the Galaxy S III. What will potentially be called the "Galaxy S II Plus" has appeared in a benchmark database, An3DBenchXL. This could be the reason why the manufacturer revealed it would not be displaying the SIII at this month's Mobile World Congress.
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: February 1, 2012
Welcome to February! We're hitting the ground running as we steam ahead into the shortest month of the year, and there's no bigger news today than the launch of Facebook's IPO, which makes Mark Zuckerberg a filthy rich man. Not that he wasn't already. For something a bit more relatable, Max OS X 10.7.3 has just been released so get your Mac computers up-to-date whenever you get the chance.
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Apple loses sales ban attempt against tweaked Galaxy Tab 10.1N
Apple's attempts to ban Samsung's redesigned Galaxy Tab 10.1N in Germany, along with the Galaxy Nexus, have failed, with the courts ruling that Apple's touchscreen patent was likely to be revoked in short order. "Samsung has shown that it is more likely than not that the patent will be revoked because of a technology that was already on the market before the intellectual property had been filed for protection," Judge Andreas Mueller told the Munich Regional Court today, Bloomberg reports.
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Samsung Retro style NX200 shooter announced for Germany
The Samsung Retro style NX200 has been announced for Germany, the same country where we first laid eyes on the NX200 just a few weeks ago at IFA. This device is a brand new outer-shelled version of the original NX200 with a two-toned silver and black design with essentially the same set of specifications as the first release. Look like the fabulous yesteryear shooter with all the goodness of the future under the hood that you'll be picking up this Spring season?
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Galaxy Note given teaser for full Superbowl ad
Yes, you read that right, there's a teaser for an advertisement, one that'll be longer we must expect, made by Samsung for the Superbowl reveal of the newest version of the Samsung Galaxy Note. This device will be more than likely basically the same as the one we've gotten our hands on back at CES 2012 for AT&T, but should have perhaps some soft of feature or another that'll have us on our seats edge for such a big reveal. This newest ad is part of a series of "Samsunged" ads made by Samsung to tease Apple on their long lines and iPhone fans galore.
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Samsung Galaxy S III pre-June reveal confirmed but MWC no-show
Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy S III will not make its debut at Mobile World Congress 2012 later this month, with Galaxy S II follow-up expected to launch at an independent event sometime in the first half of the year. The later reveal will be “closer to commercial availability of the product” Samsung told TechRadar, fitting in with earlier rumors that despite the company’s intention to bring the smartphone to MWC, that launch had been delayed.
Samsung’s Galaxy Note will star in company’s first-ever Super Bowl ad
Don't believe all the hype you hear on TV - next Sunday isn't about Eli Manning or a rematch of 2008's big game or even about football at all. The real excitement will be when Samsung makes its debut in the biggest commercial time slot of the year. The game itself will be boring - we all know the Giants are gonna win anyway. Did I mention I'm a New Yorker?
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: January 31, 2012
Not only are we wrapping up the news of the day today, we're wrapping up the first month of the year. As we steam ahead into 2012, here's what made news today - for starters, Acer has plans to bring $699 Ultrabooks to the market later this year. What else can you expect as we move forward in 2012? If you're a Nokia and/or Windows Phone fan, expect NFC and wireless charging in the coming months.
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