[Full Galaxy S Review] The Samsung Galaxy S was released in June 2010. It's running Google Android 2.1 Eclair with Samsung's TouchWhiz user interface. The Galaxy S is packing a 1GHz Samsung-Intrinsity S5PC110 processor with 512MB of RAM. The Galaxy S sports a four-inch display with 480x800 WVGA resolution that uses Super AMOLED technology. It also features two cameras, one rear facing five-megapixel camera with autofocus and a front facing 0.3-megapixel camera for video chat. Read on for the latest Galaxy S news, reviews and videos:
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by Anton D. Nagy | September 18, 2011 3:16 AMRead OnIt's getting more and more difficult to keep track of all the lawsuits, claims and accusations between these two. Legal battles are ongoing in several regions, from Japan to the U.K. and Australia has just been added to the list. Samsung claims that Apple is infringing on seven of its patents with the iPhone and the iPad. If the court finds the claims real and rules in favor of the Korean company, Samsung could overturn a previous ruling banning its Galaxy Tab. Even more, in such a scenario, Apple's patents could be invalidated (these refer to phones too) and Samsung would win back the ...
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by Stephen Schenck | September 1, 2011 6:07 PMRead OnThe just-announced Samsung Note is one of those devices that makes pigeonholing hardware into a nice, neat category a real challenge. With its 5.3-inch screen, should we stop considering it a smartphone, and more a tablet? That handset is just one gadget out of many that walks the tightropes between traditional product families. There's another just-revealed Samsung that fits that profile as well, but for a different reason altogether. Samsung's Galaxy S WiFi 3.6 looks like your average Android smartphone, but lacks a cellular radio, for both voice and data. Like the iPod touch, you'll ...
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by Stephen Schenck | August 24, 2011 1:13 PMRead OnOf all the patent disputes going on involving smartphones and their manufacturers, none has received quite so much attention as Apple's initiative against Samsung. Apple's been going after the Korean company with accusations that its Galaxy Tab and Galaxy S are just rip-offs of the iPad and iPhone, respectively. As part of its legal efforts, Apple's been trying to restrict Samsung imports and sales. Apple just scored a significant victory in that regard, with a judge in The Hague granting a preliminary injunction against Samsung that halts its sales of the Galaxy S, Galaxy S2, and Galaxy ...
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by Stephen Schenck | August 11, 2011 3:32 PMRead OnHot on the tail of the whole bunch of planned Samsung smartphones we just saw leaked, another bit of Samsung news comes to us from Europe, revealing the company's new naming strategy to easily differentiate models into tiers. Our understanding of the system is a bit hampered due to the source report being in Lithuanian, but with the help of a little Google translate, we get a pretty good sense of what's going on. The plan is to standardize the model labeling within the company's Galaxy, Omnia, and Wave (if you're into Bada) lines. The company will take a base model, like the Galaxy S, and ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | July 8, 2011 6:50 AMRead OnWhether you're a new smartphone user or an experienced one you most definitely heard, seen or experienced a bricked device. It's a state in which your phone gets once all those flashes and hacks you apply go wrong. Sometimes you can recover but sometimes you just get an expensive paper weight. One-click Unbrick is an application which promises to restore your bricked Galaxy S smartphone (or variant) as easy as clicking a button. The application is advertised to be compatible with all Samsung devices which use Odin and runs on Linux, Windows and Macs. To see the list of instructions and ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 25, 2011 11:11 AMRead OnApple claims that Samsung is ripping it off by copying no more than 25 smartphones from Cupertino's iPhone design and, even though Apple and Samsung high-level executives are rumored to be in talks for a settlement, the saga continues with another patent suit filed by Cupertino. The new lawsuit is filed in South Korea, Samsung's home, and Apple claims that several Samsung products are infringing its patents. A Cupertino spokesman said that "it is no coincidence that Samsung's latest products look a lot like the iPhone and iPad from the shape of the hardware to the user interface and even ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 18, 2011 2:22 AMRead OnEarlier this year Apple considered that Samsung is ripping it off by copying its iPhone design and applying it to a couple of its own smartphones. Cupertino claimed to take a look at Samsung's upcoming models and the Korean company instantly responded demanding the same, plus adding in a couple of patents to raise the stakes. If the original complaint referred to designs of the Samsung Captivate, Continuum, Vibrant, Galaxy S 4G, Epic 4G, Indulge, Mesmerize, Showcase, Fascinate, Nexus S, Gem, Transform, Intercept, and Acclaim smartphones, Apple has amended it to add an additional eleven ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 14, 2011 7:55 PMRead OnSamsung's Mesmerize on US Cellular got a long-overdue taste of Froyo with a software update arriving at the end of March. Now the carrier is revisiting the Mesmerize with a bugfix update, release EE19. You're going to have to get your hands dirty for the manual install process needed to get EE19 onto your Mesmerize; don't worry too much, as the process is relatively straightforward (so long as you're using a Windows-based PC, that is - Windows 7, Vista, or XP will suffice). After installing Samsung's Kies Mini software on your computer, you'll be ready to send the Mesmerize update to the ...
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by GeoffreyFarinha | June 13, 2011 11:22 PMRead On
If you caught Daniel Webster's series of videos and final review on the Samsung Galaxy S, you were treated with an abundance of detail about this new device. Sporting a 4" Super AMOLED with a 1 GHz processor, the Galaxy is equipped to impress. However, the Samsung Galaxy S is not alone in the 4"+ screen size market. I've decided to match the Samsung Galaxy S up against my beloved HTC EVO. The EVO has been my primary phone for a little over a month now, and I've been nothing but impressed. Over the next few videos, I will put the Galaxy side-by-side with the EVO and run a few comparison ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 13, 2011 5:09 PMRead OnNot every new Android that we're looking out for is necessarily a top-tier, multi-core powerhouse with a high-res display. Though those may receive the lion's share of our attention, smaller, less powerful, and most importantly cheaper smartphones have the potential to to get the smartphone experience out into the hands of as many mobile phone users as possible. Enter, Androids like the recently-uncovered Samsung Dart, a mini Galaxy S with a 600MHz processor and a QVGA display. Last week we caught a glimpse of what the Dart will look like, and heard about a possible June 15 release date. ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 10, 2011 8:38 PMRead OnSamsung's Galaxy S i9000, the original model that launched so many carrier-branded variants, got an official build of Android 2.3.3 courtesy of a leak at the end of March. Now the next decimal revision is ready for the smartphone, with Android 2.3.4 leaking out. The details in the ROM show it was compiled quite recently, a week ago on June 3. In order to get it onto your phone you'll need to use Samsung's Odin tool to flash your Galaxy S with the ROM. For now, the only available version of this build still has the bootloader attached. Don't get tempted to try your luck using it on any of ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 31, 2011 8:27 AMRead OnThe Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread update for the popular Samsung Galaxy S has been leaked at the end of March and it even managed to hit a couple of smartphones in April before Google halted the roll-out. According to reports, Indian Samsung Galaxy S smartphones are getting the official Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread update via the KIES software. The platform refresh -- DDJV -- will install Android 2.3.3 on smartphones with several improvements and bugfixes and we expect other regions to follow (while hoping that nobody will halt the roll-out process this time). Update: Turns out that ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 30, 2011 8:27 AMRead OnNot so long ago we told you about Samsung releasing the official Gingerbread source for the Galaxy S smartphone and it appears that the manufacturer has released yet another, updated source of Android 2.3 named GT-I9000_OpenSource_GB_Update.zip. Given the name for the last official Gingerbread source was GT-I9000_OpenSource_GB.zip, we can expect some improvements and bugfixes but we'll definitely know more once ROM Chefs download, tear apart, strip the source down and put together a nice new custom ROM that is tweaked and improved, after extracting all the goodies. To take a look under the ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 18, 2011 1:37 PMRead OnLast year's Samsung Galaxy S series of Androids is about to get a shot in the arm, thanks to the the development efforts of the coders working on CyanogenMod. While experimental builds of the custom ROM replacement have existed for the Galaxy S and its carrier-branded cousins, the smartphone hasn't been officially supported by the project. Now it looks like that will finally be changing, starting with AT&T's Captivate getting its first official CyanogenMod nightlies. These nightly builds mark the Captivate's progress towards a stable CM7 release. It won't be making that journey alone, with ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 16, 2011 5:00 AMRead OnSamsung officially announced today its Android 2.3 Gingerbread update plans for Samsung Galaxy branded smartphones which include the Samsung Galaxy S, Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Gio, Galaxy Fit and Galaxy mini. First to get the Gingerbread update will be the former flagship smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S and the first users to receive the platform refresh via KIES will be those residing in the U.K. and Nordic countries starting from mid-May (which is already here). The update will then gradually roll out to other markets such as "Europe, North America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East Asia, ...