The Samsung Galaxy Note was unveiled at the 2011 IFA and at next week's 2012 IFA we're expecting the follow-up, the Galaxy Note II. However, this didn't stop T-Mobile from making its Galaxy Note available on August 9, almost a year after its original launch and three weeks before the follow-up's unveiling. According to "anonymous sources", Magenta is canceling the Galaxy Note which has reportedly reached EOL (end-of-life) status. This, coupled with the fact that the phone is nowhere to be found on the carrier's website lends more credence to the rumor. We touched upon this in our Pocketnow ...

Despite Samsung's staggering success in the smartphone market, I must admit we're all begging for that same level of "wow" on their line of tablets. Devices like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 are truly beautiful works of art, but the love sadly ends once you turn it on and get a feel for how sluggish it is. The good thing is that Samsung is anything but slow at pushing newer and better hardware, and such is the case with a mysterious new Samsung tablet that just reached the FCC. Code name P10, this oddly unannounced tablet was one of the major leaks that have been roaming around the Apple vs. ...

Since the Jelly Bean source was released, there's been no shortage of custom ROMs available for many of the popular Android handsets out there. Despite how solid many of these releases are, there are still plenty of us interested in finding out when officially-supported Jelly Bean updates may become available from manufacturers. For those of you with Samsung phones, a preliminary schedule has leaked, giving us some idea of what to expect through the end of the year. SamMobile attributes this information to Samsung insiders from which it's received news on Ice Cream Sandwich updates in the ...

August 8 is the date to circle in your calendar and $250 is the amount of money you should have ready 0n that date if you want to grab a Samsung Galaxy Note from T-Mobile (even if it will be a couple of weeks ahead of the rumored Galaxy Note 2 mid-August, pre-IFA launch). If you still decide to get one, prepare to update it as soon as you unbox it. T-Mobile is preparing an out-of-the-box over-the-air update for the 5.3-incher rolling out on August 8. It will pack Android 4.0.3 and naturally it will also be available via KIES, to bring you nothing major, except some bugfixes for the weather ...

Jelly Bean is increasingly becoming available for a wide range of Android phones. First we showed you the Galaxy S III, then the One X, and now the Galaxy Note with this early build of Android 4.1 via a preview of CyanogenMod 10. So far, we've found the CM10 previews to be exceptionally stable and (most importantly) fast. How about the Galaxy Note? Well, that might be the exception. While the CM10 preview works in terms of functionality, there are some performance issues that keep it from being as incredibly smooth as the other two aforementioned devices. There seems to be some lag when ...

It's hardly a secret that T-Mobile has been preparing to start carrying the Samsung Galaxy Note. After all, considering the amount of circumstantial evidence that has been piling-up, you'd have to be willfully ignorant to not see the signs of the phone's pending arrival. Despite confidence being high in a T-Mobile Note, the carrier had yet to officially confirm anything at all regarding its intentions for the phone. That finally changes today, upon T-Mobile tweeting its announcement of the Galaxy Note. After all this waiting, T-Mobile's confirmation still feels a bit empty, as it doesn't ...

Users of the international Samsung Galaxy Note are already enjoying Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on their devices but the waiting seems to be over for those on AT&T who are rocking the almost one year old 5.3-incher. The refresh should be pushed out today, July 10. The firmware update will apply a platform refresh to Ice Cream Sandwich with its key features -- like Face Unlock, data management as well as Android Beam -- as well as the Premium Suite which contains device-specific goodies, like the brand new S-Note app and S-Memo widget. Make sure to check for the update's ...

While Galaxy Note users in the States continue to await updates bringing Ice Cream Sandwich to their handsets, distribution is well underway for the international edition of the Note. Not everything has been going smoothly, though, with reports coming in from France that the ICS update for the Note there is causing crashes and even bricking. Samsung has acknowledged that something is amiss, and is inviting users who have run into such problems to contact its technical support department. In the interim, it's halted distribution of the ICS update, at least in France. Hopefully Samsung will ...