Just a couple of days ago a black Galaxy S3 popped up on Samsung’s Facebook page. Now Carphone Warehouse has a black S3 listed in its inventory, adding fuel to the rumour fire that we’ll see the S3 in a new colour soon. A product listed as ‘Samsung Galaxy S3 Black’ is listed in Carphone …

HTC’s One X may be the most ridiculously powerful smart phone money can buy, but it looks like a successor is waiting in the wings. A handset codenamed the HTC PM63100, thought to be the HTC One X+, has been benchmarked using NenaMark2 — a graphics performance app for testing Android devices. And the big news? That monster 1.5GHz quad-core …

Samsung has sent out invites to our American cousins for an event on 15 August — that’s a week on Wednesday. And what’s this scrawled on the invite? Looks like a tablet to me. It couldn’t be the Galaxy Note 10.1 could it? I think it could very well be. The event takes place in New York. There’s no word …

The latest in the ongoing patent court case: Samsung has claimed a 2005 fashion phone influenced Apple’s design, The Verge reports. Samsung has brought out an email from Steve Jobs to design supremo Jony Ive, including a link to the handset, and the phrase, “This may be our answer”. The Samsung SGH-E910 was made in 2005 in conjunction with Bang & …

Being the official handset of the Olympics, you’d have expected to see the Samsung Galaxy S3 at last night’s opening ceremony. There’s even an Olympics-themed version, for crying out loud. But what Samsung didn’t bank on was almost every athlete walking into the stadium recording everything on their own phone, be it a Samsung, iPhone, Sony Xperia, HTC… What was …

The Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S got the update to Android 4.1 (aka Jelly Bean) recently, and now here’s some more good news if you own either handset. Google has released the Jelly Bean factory images for both phones. These factory images let you go back to the standard settings quickly and easily, which is handy if you got a …

In the last three months, Samsung’s handsets have been more in-demand than Apple’s, according to industry analysts. Strategy Analytics says Samsung shipped 50.5 million smart phones in the last quarter, while IDC pegs the figure at 50.2 million, Business Insider reports. Last week, Apple announced its third quarter results, which said it had sold 26 million iPhones in the last three …

Despite some delays in shipping, and even some reported problems with the screen, Google and Asus’ Nexus 7 tablet is flying off the shelves. So much so that the 16GB is now sold out, Pocketnow reports. Head to the Google Play store and you’ll see the 16GB version is listed as ‘Coming Soon’. You can sign up to be emailed …

Samsung has made good on its word and sold 10 million Galaxy S3 smart phones, AFP reports. That’s not bad going at all, considering the phone only launched in May. The company originally forecast it would reach the milestone by the end of July, and it’s beat that by over a week. Break out the bunting, Samsung. This calls for …

We’ve heard word of the Galaxy Note 2 before, but now the benchmarks have leaked, Engadget reports. It’s not certain it’s the Note 2, but the device is listed as the GT-N7100, and the original Note was the N7000, so it looks pretty likely. The page was subsequently pulled, but PhoneArena managed to nab a screengrab. The specs look mighty …