23

May

2013

Samsung Galaxy S4 reaches 10 million sales in less than a month

Author: The Fonecast

Samsung Electronics says its Android-powered Galaxy S4 smartphone has already sold 10 million units since sales began on 26th April, less than a month ago.

That’s the equivalent of four phones every second.

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23

May

2013

Samsung buys a stake in South Korean rival Pantech

Author: The Fonecast

Samsung Electronics is reported to have bought a 10% stake in smartphone and tablet manufacturer Pantech.

Pantech is South Korea’s third-largest handset maker after Samsung and LG.

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22

May

2013

New devices from BlackBerry, HP and Jolla... plus a new purchase for Yahoo

Podcast - 22nd May 2013

Author: The Fonecast

We start this week's podcast by talking about Yahoo and Tumblr before moving on to discuss Google's recent developer conference.

There are product announcements from BlackBerry, HP and the former MeeGo developers at Jolla... and there's some interesting mobile app news as well.

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20

May

2013

Last week at The Fonecast: 20th May 2013

New products from BlackBerry, Google, HP and Nokia

Author: The Fonecast

Mark Bridge writes:

Last year, the Google I/O developer conference gave us plenty of product announcements: Google Glass, the Nexus 7 tablet, the Nexus Q device and the Jelly Bean version of Android. This year’s announcements were less dramatic: a streaming music service, a Google-friendlier Galaxy S4 and some game development tools. Coincidentally (or perhaps not) Apple announced its 50 billionth app download in the middle of the event.

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16

May

2013

Telefonica to offer direct mobile billing via the Samsung Apps store

Author: The Fonecast

Telefónica Digital and Samsung Electronics have announced a global deal that’ll add direct mobile billing to the Samsung Hub and Samsung Apps services.

It means that Telefonica customers will be able to charge the price of apps and other content to their mobile phone bill.

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