Using only a Philips screwdriver, a plastic stick, some tweezers and a spudger (my current favourite word), the experts at iFixit have completely disassembled the magnificent Samsung Galaxy S4, reducing it to a pathetic pile of parts. Not to make a million nerds cry out in anguish, you understand, but to find out how fixable …
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Comedic spoofs on popular songs can sometimes work, but what about if they’re earnest remakes? It appears that Samsung is testing those waters. At the launch party for its Galaxy S4 smartphone in India, one of the country’s Bollywood actors, Ranveer Singh, performed “Gangnam Style” as “Samsung Style” (imagine pronouncing Samsung like Gangnam). A video posted to YouTube shows the …
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Flipboard is posting pretty rapid growth, and it’s looking for new ways to generate revenue for itself, partners, and users, the company’s CEO said. Mike McCue, speaking Monday at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York, said the company has added 6 million new users since launching an update to its popular news-reading app a month ago. Flipboard in late …
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(Screenshot by Nic Healey/CNET) A new ad spot suggests that the Nokia Lumia 920 is the key to peace on earth and goodwill between iPhone and Android users. Phone manufacturers have often used ad campaigns to poke fun at their rivals, playing up the rivalry that apparently exists in the market between iPhone and Android users. Windows Phone has gone …
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Microsoft’s new projector concept, IllumiRoom, could let the next Xbox take over your whole room. First shown off at CES in January, the company’s research division has explained the idea in more detail in a new video embedded below. IllumiRoom isn’t a real product yet, but the idea is that it’s a projector that sits on your coffee table, wirelessly …
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Streaming and DVD rental service Quickflix has simplified its subscriptions offerings to just three plans, each with “unlimited streaming”. (Credit: Quickflix) Australian streaming company Quickflix recently announced that it was looking to offer season passes for TV series, and have HBO’s hit show Game of Thrones available soon after the US airing time. Now, it’s changed its subscription plans to …
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Samsung has absolutely stuffed its Galaxy S4’s 13-megapixel camera with settings and modes, but none of that matters if the phone’s image quality can’t stand up to the hype. And so, here is a smartphone shootout between the Galaxy S4’s top Android rival, the HTC One, and another beacon of smartphone photographic excellence, the iPhone 5. Related stories Samsung Galaxy …
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Samsung is clearing a warehouse to make room for all the money it’s about to collect, as the Galaxy S4 is now officially on sale in the UK — if you’re lucky enough to find one, that is. Read on for everything you need to know about this quad-core monster. We’ve given this top-notch super-phone the review treatment already, awarding it …
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Mobile analytics firm RootMetrics this week announced a new report that provides a broad view of the mobile carrier landscape over the course of 2012. Related stories: Five things you didn’t know about testing smartphones Crowdsourced RootMetrics for Android tests carrier coverage AT&T muscles up 4G LTE in San Francisco with new cell sites Conducted using data from more than …
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Initial supplies of the Samsung Galaxy S4 could be limited thanks to “overwhelming global demand”, the Korean company has warned. “We expect to fulfill inventory to meet demands in the coming weeks,” a Samsung spokesperson told our sister site CNET News. US networks Sprint and T-Mobile have already limited the phone’s availability to people who buy online, with no specific …
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Australia, the US and the UK all got the quad-core S4, but is the difference between it and the octa-core really that big? (Credit: Samsung) The Samsung Galaxy S4 will be available to Australians on Saturday, 27 April, and as we’ve noted many times before, it’s the quad-core Snapdragon 600 version, as opposed to the Exynos 5 “octa-core”. It’s the …
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Nokia’s sent out invites to a London event on 14 May and a new Lumia phone is on the cards — “The Nokia Lumia story continues” it promises. CNET will be there in force to bring you all the news in a live blog and hands-on reports with the new Windows Phone kit, don’t you worry. So what are we …
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Drama! Crisis! Shortages! It’s launch day for the fabulous — and CNET UK Editors’ Choice winning — Samsung Galaxy S4, but the Android superphone is proving so popular that phone networks and mobile retailers are struggling to keep up. “There has been unprecedented demand for the Galaxy S4 in the UK,” the Korean company boasts in a statement. “Samsung is …
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Iranian device users will lose access to Samsung’s mobile app store as of May 22, according to a new report. Related stories: Meet the ‘Corporate Enemies of the Internet’ for 2013 Senators want probe of NetApp, Blue Coat devices’ ties to Syria Samsung posts $6.4B Q1 profit, down slightly from Q4 2012 The Korean electronics giant said, via an e-mail …
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Knock knock. Who’s there? The Samsung Galaxy S4! Who isn’t there? Security feature Samsung Knox, which has been delayed. Knox is the security software that separates your work stuff from your personal stuff on your phone. It was planned to come built in to the S4, but plans have changed: the New York Times reports that Knox has been knocked …
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