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- Samsung Galaxy S III Teardown Reveals Components, Hard to Replace Screen Panel
- Samsung Buys Nanoradio, May Include Low Power WiFi in Future Phones
- Double Sided Transparent Screen Phone Caught on Camera, Made by Fujitsu, NTT DoCoMo (Video)
- Samsung Galaxy S III is Phone 4U’s Hottest Selling Smartphone of 2012, in Just 24 Hours!
- Waterproof Sony Xperia Acro S Not Coming to the USA?!
- HTC Desire C Hits the UK Via Three For 13 Quid a Month; We Reviewed it Already!
| Samsung Galaxy S III Teardown Reveals Components, Hard to Replace Screen Panel Posted: 02 Jun 2012 01:52 PM PDT
The folks of iFixit are at it again, cracking open the Samsung Galaxy S III, in order to show us what’s inside. This quad core phone with 4.8 inch display has been all over the news lately, with huge sales, great preorders and queues in front of stores that sell it. And now let’s see what iFixit found out about it:
The phone was released internationally on May 29th, so it’s as fresh as they come. Galaxy S III runs Android 4.0, uses a 1.4 GHz quad core processor and comes in 16, 32 or 64 GB storage versions. Also it comes with blue or white cases. The sleep/power button is found on the side of the device and its battery is user accessible, just like on the Galaxy Nexus and unlike the HTC One X, for example. This battery is a 3.8V 2100 mAh unit with an NFC module incorporated, enabling the S Beam feature. There’s a plastic frame under the case, protecting the motherboard against impact or spills I guess. Removal of the frame reveals easily replaceable speakers and a bulk of tiny components packed inside a small volume. After iFixit removed the motherboard, they had a good look at the inner support frame, most likely made of magnesium and built for endurance. On the display side we learn that the glass is fused to the display and the screen is fused to the Galaxy S III frame. This has a downside, since it increases the amount of money one has to spend to replace the glass. More details will be found on iFixit!
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| Samsung Buys Nanoradio, May Include Low Power WiFi in Future Phones Posted: 02 Jun 2012 12:14 PM PDT
The terms of the transaction remain a mystery for now and in case you’re wondering what’s special about Nanoradio, they specialize in making ultra low power WiFi chips used on phones and other mobile devices. For example, their website shows the picture of two people playing with PlayStation 3 controllers, so they deal with wireless gadgets of all sorts. Nanoradio designs semiconductors with wireless capability, or at least that’s how they like to describe themselves. Sammy seems to be searching for ways to reduce power consumption, something that Apple is also supposedly working on, since they’ll be required to give its new iPhone more power to fuel that supposedly bigger display and LTE chipset. Anyway, Asian companies are always ahead when it comes to power/fuel/power management technologies and some of them even rely on solar energy already. What will the future look like, considering this rush for low power solutions? Related posts:
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| Double Sided Transparent Screen Phone Caught on Camera, Made by Fujitsu, NTT DoCoMo (Video) Posted: 02 Jun 2012 05:15 AM PDT
Xperia Pureness is now a distant memory of a transparent phone, as now we have more evolved models, like the one shown in action below. This futuristic phone has a double sided display, as we informed you here.
The transparent touchscreen is a color one and input is supported on both its sides. Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo and Fujitsu showed off this device, in prototype phase. It was showcased at the 2012 Wireless Japan expo and relied on a dual sided 2.4 inch OLED display, with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. This handset seems to run an unspecified version of Android and it allows moving icons around the screen using both the screen’s sides. You can also see a Rubik’s Cube having its faces rotated using the sides of the touchscreen. The problem here is using the prototype in bright light, since the screen won’t be able to display content as well as it does when it’s darker around it. The employee demoing the phone said that this would make a nice secondary display, an idea that I second and I’m looking forward to seeing a commercial release. [youtube Xbyoool5ZwY 660 520] Related posts:
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| Samsung Galaxy S III is Phone 4U’s Hottest Selling Smartphone of 2012, in Just 24 Hours! Posted: 02 Jun 2012 03:24 AM PDT
Samsung Galaxy S III is without a doubt a hit and that’s proven both by the over 8 million units preordered in just weeks after the phone was announced and also by the huge queues in front of the stores selling the device worldwide. And now another record, a local one, as British retailer Phones 4U announced huge sales of the Galaxy S III.
In just 24 hours, UK phone retailer Phones 4U managed to sell enough units of the new Samsung flagship to make it the best selling smartphone of 2012 in its offer. The record sales were also boosted by the big number of preorders, so considering the S III was Phones 4 U’s most preordered smartphone ever, everything makes sense now. Officials of the retailer claim that not only the brilliant marketing behind the 4.8 inch quad core phone is responsible for the sales, but also its special program. They have a unique JUMP (Just Update My Phone) contract offer, that allows Orange and Vodafone customers to upgrade to the latest smartphones once every 6 months. This is one of the first records to be broken by the S III and expect many more to follow in the next months. Related posts:
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| Waterproof Sony Xperia Acro S Not Coming to the USA?! Posted: 02 Jun 2012 02:12 AM PDT
This is a high end Android 4.0 smartphone with a 4.3 inch 720p HD scratch resistant mineral glass display and Mobile Bravia engine technology. At the back it has a 12 megapixel camera and inside there’s a dual core 1.5 GHz processor and 1 GB of RAM. This model will be available in black, white and pink in Europe and Asia for starters. Xperia Acro S was announced for release in Q3 and the official sources list the phone as “not currently planned to come to the US”. Well, at least you can get your consolation from the Xperia Advance/Go and its 5 megapixel camera. Or maybe the Xperia Ion, with specs that are pretty close to the ones of the Xperia Acro S. Related posts:
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| HTC Desire C Hits the UK Via Three For 13 Quid a Month; We Reviewed it Already! Posted: 02 Jun 2012 01:32 AM PDT
We’ve had a bit of an unique experience with the HTC Desire C, since we were the first in the world to review it. Now, this model has arrived in the UK, where local carrier Three will be selling it for free with a 13 quid a month contract.
The contract involves 100 minutes, 5,000 texts and 250 MB of data per month. There’s also a 149.99 quid option on pay as you go. This is a cheaper option compared to the offers from Orange and T-Mobile, that have priced the HTC Desire C at 169.99 on pay as you go. In case you’re wondering what the phone is about, it’s a tinier device, with a 3.5 inch display and Android 4.0 running on a 600 MHz. HTC Sense 4.0 is also here and the Desire C even provides Beats Audio integration, plus a 5 megapixel camera at the back and 4GB of storage. Finally, there’s a microSD card slot on board and HSDPA plus WiFi connectivity. Getting one? Related posts:
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As you may already know, this week Sony announced two new phones, the Xperia Acro S and Xperia Go, with the latter being rebranded to Xperia Advance in the USA. Both are waterproof models and the bad news here is actually that Sony Xperia Acros S, the one with the better specs might not make it to US soil.
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