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Samsung: One In Ten South Koreans Now Owns A Samsung Galaxy S II

Friday, January 20, 2012 No Comment

It’s not really news to say that the Galaxy S II is a hit, but it has actually become a mega hit in South Korea. According to maker Samsung, the Android handset has been sold a whopping 5 million times in its domestic market since release at the end of April 2011. In other words, a little more than 10% of the country’s entire population (48 million people) are now proud owners of the phone.

It’s the first cell phone that has reached this milestone in mobile-crazy South Korea, according to Japanese business daily The Nikkei. The paper also says that one out of four South Korean smartphones users owns a Galaxy S II (sounds like feature phones don’t play a big role in that country anymore).

In 2011, Samsung commanded a 53% market share in South Korea’s smartphone industry.

The company recently decided not to take legal action against its fiercest competitor, Apple, in its home market – despite being in a patent war with the iPhone maker the whole world over. It looks like Samsung can afford it.

Via Sammy Hub

Samsung Galaxy S3 Specification Leaked

Thursday, January 19, 2012 No Comment

Galaxy S 3

Galaxy S 2 is the present leader of the Samsung Galaxy series. when we consider both performance and cost. There are lot out in the market, competing with this flagship device, but samsung haven’t loosen the grip in the market due to the unmatchable cost of their devices.

Samsung's ChatON is latest in crowded mobile messaging field Hands ON....

Tuesday, August 30, 2011 No Comment

Samsung's ChatON messaging service, announced Monday, is the latest example of the mobile messaging space heating up.

Google is in the fray with Huddle, a feature found in its Google+ app for Android and Apple iOS devices such as the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Apple is set to roll out its iMessage service this fall with the launch of iOS 5.

Skype, which is being taken over by Microsoft, has purchased GroupMe for an estimated $85 million. And Facebook has released its Facebook Messenger app for iOS, which might have been a product of the social network's move to purchase Beluga (which still runs as its own app) in March.

Research in Motion has for years had its BlackBerry Messenger service, which in some ways got this entire market started. And recently BlackBerry Messenger has made a lot of news as well, being used as an organizing tool for the rioters in London as well as RIM trying to leverage its Messenger user base into a new music sharing app call BBM Music service.

Each messaging system works the same way -- users of a service can message other users for free, sending text messages and sometimes photos and video too.

The big deal here is that Samsung's ChatON, and each of these other competing services, are all free -- leading many analysts and journalists to predict that paid text messaging through cellphone carriers is on its way out. A possible reaction to this might have been AT&T's decision to kill its other text messaging plans in favor of only a $20 per month unlimited texting option.

So what makes ChatON any different from others in the growing field of competitors? Well, Samsung says ChatON will be the most internationally compatible mobile messaging service. It will be made available in 62 languages and 120 countries over the next few weeks as it rolls out to Android devices.

Eventually, though Samsung hasn't said when, ChatON is slated to hit iOS too. Samsung is also adding a bit of gamification to the service too, allowing ChatON users to have a profile page called "My page" which ranks users and their friends by how much they interact.

To get a look at ChatON before it hits Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market, check out Samsung's launch video below.