It is fairly obvious that most smartphone manufacturers have decided that the Android operating system is the future. Many of them place the OS on almost every device they release. Samsung is one of those companies who has taken Android technology and run with it. It hopes to maintain its status near the top of the market with the release of the Samsung Galaxy.

Just because customers want to carry all of the music, television, and personal data and management they can with them, they do not want to feel that the house is in their pocket. Samsung avoids this predicament by creating a slim, slender phone with the Samsung Galaxy. It measures 122.4 x 64.2 x 9.9mm and weighs merely 119g. The Galaxys looks bears some resemblance to the iPhone 3GS with its black plastic and metal construction. Some would rather that the device distinguish itself from the pack a little more, but that is a small complaint for a phone that excels at what it does.

One aspect of the device that does separate the Samsung Galaxy from the crowd is the 1 GHz Hummingbird processor, one of the fastest in the field. 8GB of internal storage is included with the phone, and there is a microSD slot that can accommodate up to 32GB cards if 8 is not enough. The 8GB are split roughly into 6GB for media functions and 2GB for applications. The Samsung Galaxy connects with triband 900/1900/2100 HSDPA/HSUPA. This is coupled with other contemporary technology such as Bluetooth 3.0 and a microUSB 2.0 port.

Though the Galaxy certainly does not lack in the speed department, the phone truly excels with its display. The screen itself is a huge, 4-inch capacitive touchscreen that responds very well. It offers 800 x 480p resolution with Samsungs Super AMOLED display, already a better option than the standard AMOLED and LCD displays of previous models. Super AMOLED also provides much better viewing on the Samsung Galaxy in direct sunlight than many other smartphones.

The Samsung Galaxy utilizes Samsungs own TouchWiz 3.0 user interface on top of the Android 2.1 operating system. This takes some getting used to for those who are familiar with the regular Android 2.1 interface. The TouchWiz does improve the notification bar, providing persistent shortcuts to toggle between vibrate and silent modes, Bluetooth, and WiFi. The Samsung Galaxy also addresses social networking with Social Hub, a function that combines Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter updates into a single stream.

Samsung has produced high quality Android phones in the past, and it has continued to do so with the Samsung Galaxy. The device falls somewhere at the top of the market in speed and functionality. Customers will be more than pleased to own the Samsung Galaxy.

With the Wave, Samsung created a vehicle for its Bada open mobile platform. It received positive reviews from critics and consumers bought it at a respectable rate. This prompted Samsung to penetrate growing markets and gain a foothold with the Bada OS. Continue Reading

Even though the name of the Samsung Wave 2 sounds as if it is an upgrade to the original Wave, it is actually more modest than the original smartphone. Samsung is capitalizing on a huge portion of the market – young adults and students that comprise a huge portion of the social media networkers but cannot afford the bells and whistles of the HTC Desire or iPhone. To achieve this, Samsung has delivered an impressive, yet humbled version of the original Wave. Continue Reading

The Ultimate Stress Relief – My favorite game is brick breaker that comes with the Samsung Touch Phone Series. I have a Samsung Star mobile and I am completely in love with its features, especially the games. Though some of the games on this model are pre-loaded some of them are available in demo version. Brick breaker is in demo version and I needed to download the game from www.download.com. I am seriously addicted to this game and it is a complete stress relief from everything. It basically involves breaking of bricks with the help of a ball that has to be balanced on a horizontal pile. This needs two way attention; one on breaking bricks and other on balancing the ball and not letting it fall down. I have always been a mobile game freak. My all time favorite has been snake and its modern version. However, since I found brick breaker, I have not felt like playing any other game including my previous favorites, dynamite and building blocks as they kept getting repetitive. This game has a number of levels and every level has something new coming up. Several versions of the game are available on internet as well. However, the best thing about having such a great stress relief in your mobile enables you to relieve your stress anywhere, be in at the airport waiting for your flight that has just been delayed or sitting outside doctor’s clinic for your number of come or even in short breaks you take out from the office time.

Google has issued a statement that it suspending the January 20 launch of its Android mobile phone products in China. The mobiles were developed in cooperation with Motorola and Samsung specifically for the China market and were to use China Unicom as service carrier. This leaves rival carrier China Mobile in position to expand it’s market advantage.

The phones use Google’s open source mobile platform similar to the Nexus One and Droid phones which marketed in the US. Google sources sated that it would be “irresponsible” to start service at a time when the company’s future presence in the country is in question.

Many commentators have tied Google’s threat to leave China with a corporate stance against government censorship and cite the company’s superseded motto “Don’t be evil.” Google has operated under censorship since starting operations in China 2005, and has been working with the government of China to restrict and filter search results in order to gain a foothold in this burgeoning market. Google has implied that the hackers who targeted the email accounts of Chinese dissidents were so sophisticated that they must have had support from some unnamed government.

In a bold act of commercial espionage, the hackers also breached Google’s source code repository, threatening the search giant’s core business.