Back in September Samsung was happy to announce that it sold 10 million Galaxy S II units just to follow-up in January that its home market, South Korea, contributed with five million of its own. Now they're happy to announce yet another milestone. 20 million Samsung Galaxy S II devices (or variants) have been sold globally which makes the device Samsung's best-selling phone ever. The original Galaxy S was the previous record holder but the newer version and its Super AMOLED Plus screen and sexy looks managed to dethrone it. We're looking forward to  read more

If you fire up iTunes on your iPhone, iPad or computer, you'll see that there is a brand new section inside the store called "Mastered for iTunes". This way Apple tries to deliver best possible audio quality encoded files for all those details inside the tunes. Audio files are delivered in iTunes Plus format which has a variable bit rate of 256 kbps for the AAC file format (compared to 128 kbps AAC files available in the early days). Publishers will be able to submit better quality recordings and the end user, regardless if we talk about your average  read more

What a neat little line-up is LG preparing for this year's MWC! Joining the Optimus VU, Optimus LTE Tag, the L-Series of Optimus L3, L5 and L7 and the LG Optimus 3D Cube/Max is the latest device announced by the manufacturer: LG Optimus 4X HD formerly known as the LG X3 until yesterday. There's a 4.7-inch IPS display on the front with a resolution of 1280 X 720 plus a quad-core nVidia Tegra 3 SoC clocking at 1.5GHz under the hood. Also inside is 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, eight-megapixel main camera, 1.3-megapixel front-facer and Android  read more

Releasing PlayBook OS 2.0 must have put RIM in a good mood when it comes to software updates in general, and the company certainly seems to have been keeping itself busy. Near the end of last month, we heard about plans for the platform's Twitter and Facebook apps to finally get updates making them BBM connected apps, enabling tight integration with BlackBerry Messenger and your contacts. They had already been delayed before, though, and we didn't have much more assurance than they'd be out sometime soon. Well, it seems "soon" was just a few weeks, as  read more

If you've been a loyal user of Motorola's Cliq 2 QWERTY messaging Android, maybe you were involved with last spring's testing of the phone's 1.1.30 software update. After recruiting users to help it with the final stages of testing, Motorola ultimately released that update last summer. That time Motorola only wanted 200 Cliq 2 users helping it out; now the company's facing the pending release of a much larger update for the handset, and is correspondingly seeking-out a much larger testing group. Motorola has prepared a long-overdue Gingerbread update  read more