Samsung brings us more to love, offers Galaxy Note engraving in South Korea
Sure, you can draw whatever the heck you want on the front of your Galaxy Note , but what about that blank blue or white canvas ’round back? With north of a million 5.3-inch pocketable slates in circulation around the world, you’ll need to get a bit more creative to truly make it yours — and Samsung is willing to help. If a trip to South Korea is on the books between now and March 31st, you can now deck out your Note with custom messaging on the back, with the company letting customers “engrave wished letters on the backside of their own device with laser beams.” And we can all agree that laser beams boost the appeal of any device — even the Note
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Samsung 2011 Q4 earnings official: $42 billion in sales, $4.7 billion operating profit
It might not be making as much money as the competition in Cupertino , but that doesn’t mean Samsung isn’t raking in cash at an astonishing clip. We reported earnings estimates a few weeks ago, but now it’s official that the firm posted a 5.3 trillion won ($4.7 billion) operating profit in Q4 2011. That represents over a 2 trillion won ($1.8 billion) increase year over year
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HTC’s UK chief wants to ease off the new-product gas, focus on ‘amazing hardware’
If you ever thought remembering HTC’s titanic product line was like trying to recall the Greek alphabet, then it seems you’re not alone.
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Samsung reports operating profit of $4.5 billion on cellphone, hard drive biz sales
Fourth quarter earnings for Samsung are out and wouldn’t you know it, selling a record number of mobile phones — more than three times over what it sold in the same period last year — is a pretty good way to turn a profit. Businessweek notes it closed the three months ending in December with an operating profit of 5.2 trillion won ($4.5 billion), beating analyst estimates
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Belle to make a pass at Symbian handsets early in 2012, Anna pretends to look the other way
We already know Donna and Carla are waiting in the wings, but you’re likely wondering what’s the deal with Belle . And no, that Symbian update isn’t being held captive by a Beast in a lonely French castle, thank you very much. According to a report on All About Symbian , Espoo’s OS refresh — currently shipping on the trio of handsets pictured above — is slated to roll out worldwide for a “range of smartphones such as [the] N8, E7, X7, C6-01, C7, Oro, E6, and Nokia 500″ sometime early next year
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Sony Ericsson to become Sony in mid-2012
Sony and Ericsson’s decade-long partnership may have humbled Kim Kardashian , but dwindling market share and an over-reliance on feature phones signaled the end of the affair .
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Some Android phones fail to enforce permissions, exposed to unauthorized app access
Eight Android phones, including the Motorola Droid X and Samsung Epic 4G , were found to house major permission flaws according to a research team at North Carolina State University.
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xBounds adds HDMI mirroring to Android phones, lets you ‘kill the pigs’ on the big screen (video)
Forget DLNA, that pesky setup requires all of your electronic kit to match up with the same certification. If you want full HDMI-mirroring without the fuss, your go-to’s going to be an innocuous little dongle from Dream Chip Technologies. The plain, white xBounds stick links up to your smartphone over WiFi using the outfit’s xBeam encoder, transmitting mobile content via HDMI to an HDTV set or external monitor. Games and videos streamed to the big screen will also enjoy output in a higher resolution thanks to the company’s xBounds ReMatch tech. But all of this ease of use comes at a price, as the RemoteGPU device is purported to cost €99 (about $134), with the full-on dev kit (which includes a Nexus S) ringing in at €998 (about $1,350). There’s no word yet on an official release, so you’ll just have to make due with the video after the break.
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Amazon Wireless drops all Verizon, AT&T and Sprint phones to a penny, will not be undersold
Don’t be so quick to file this one under “duh!” — Amazon’s added a whole lotta sweetener to its usual smartphone-for-a-penny pot. If your frugal heart’s been holding out hope for a discounted drop of the high-end mobile goods, now would be the time to pounce. The Seattle-based web retailer’s wireless arm is throwing every phone from Sprint, Verizon and AT&T under the $0.01 umbrella for a limited time. Starting today and running until the 28th, you can snatch up a Galaxy S II Skyrocket, Droid RAZR, Rezound or Focus S (just to name a few) for one Lincoln-embossed, copper-plated piece. But there’s a catch, and you knew it was coming. In order to take advantage of this Crazy Eddie-like steal, you’ll have to sign up for a new line of service. So, bust out the credit card (and your credit report), the mobile bargains lie in wait at the source.
Amazon Wireless drops all Verizon, AT&T and Sprint phones to a penny, will not be undersold originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
BlackBerry design chief says 2012 phones will be ‘charming, whimsical and fun’
Todd Wood, RIM’s senior vice president of industrial design has teased next year’s BlackBerry handsets, describing them as “charming, whimsical and fun.” Admittedly, those last two words aren’t closely associated with BB devices of the past, but the manufacture will certainly be on the charm offensive after those service outages last month. In an interview with Pocket-Lint, the Wood explained how this year’s range was influenced by Bellagio in Italy. This is apparently inspired the style licks — like the ‘fretted’ keyboard — on phones like the Bold 9930 and the barely-announced Bold 9790. Next year’s models, presumably arriving with a software refresh in the form of BBX, will be drawn from ideas at a design workshop held in Malmo, Sweden. While we can’t imagine seeing a Nordic wood-encased Bold, nor the disappearance of RIM’s talismanic keyboard, hopefully the change in design focus will bring a bit of texture and spice to BB’s next roll of the smartphone dice.
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