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Samsung says new products 'push the boundaries of innovation'

First Windows Phone 8 smartphone revealed

Samsung Electronics has introduced products and services that it says will ‘push the boundaries of innovation’. Introducing its latest products at the IFA 2012 consumer electronics show, the company revealed the new Galaxy Note II, a Galaxy Camera and a Windows 8 phone as well as televisions, refrigerators and washing machines.

Samsung Galaxy Note II

Boo-Keun Yoon, President and Head of the Consumer Electronics Division at Samsung Electronics, said “Earlier this year, we promised to remove the barriers that exist between devices and content. Today, you will see how far we’ve come in achieving this goal, with technology that will create unique experiences by putting the consumers at the center, and building every product, content and service around them.”

The Samsung Galaxy Note II follows the ‘phablet’ styling of its predecessor but offers a larger 5.5-inch HD Super AMOLED screen and an updated S Pen stylus. It runs Android 4.1 on a 1.6GHz quad-core processor.

Samsung Galaxy Gamera

That wasn’t the only Android announcement from Samsung, which has expanded its ‘Galaxy’ sub-brand to photography. The new 16-megapixel Galaxy Camera includes 3G, 4G and WiFi connectivity. It runs Android v4.1 and has access to mobile applications via Google Play and the Samsung Apps marketplace. As well as including touch-screen controls, the Galaxy Camera can also be controlled by the user’s voice.

Samsung’s Windows-based devices now have a new brand: ATIV (which has been chosen because it’s the Latin word for ‘life’ - vita - spelled backwards). There’ll be an 11.6-inch Samsung ATIV Smart PC with a detachable keyboard running Windows 8, a 10-inch ATIV Tab tablet using Windows RT and an ATIV S Windows Phone 8 smartphone with a 4.8-inch display and a 1.5Ghz dual-core processor.

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Heroes of Emerging Markets: the podcast

Heroes of Emerging Markets is an interactive, intimate panel discussion that looks at the opportunities of doing mobile business in emerging markets.  The event took place on 28th February 2012 during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

We’ve recorded the entire event and have turned it into a podcast. You can listen on our desktop web site here, by downloading the MP3 audio file or by finding TheFonecast.com on iTunes.

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Last week at The Fonecast: 12th March 2012

Mark Bridge writes:

It’s all gone a bit quiet. Is it the calm after the Mobile World Congress storm... or is it the knowledge that an Apple announcement will push anything else out of the headlines, even before the product itself has been revealed?

Either way, the last seven days have had significantly fewer news stories than the beginning of the month. But that’s not to say they’ve been completely news-free.

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Hacking a smartphone by using differential power analysis

Mark Bridge writes:

Mobile security always seems to be on the agenda – but one of the companies demonstrating its services at Mobile World Congress 2012 had a particularly stark warning.

Cryptography Research was demonstrating what’s called differential power analysis or side-channel analysis, which can be used to reveal encrypted information from a smartphone or tablet without ever needing to get hold of the device.

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Last week at The Fonecast: 5th March 2012

Mark Bridge writes:

Mobile World Congress is over for another year. Also gone is the mobile industry’s sudden obsession with public transport and student protests in Barcelona. But away from the local news, what’s been going on?

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Windows 8 – 2012’s Biggest Mobile Milestone

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Microsoft’s Windows 8 announcement today is as significant to the mobile industry as Apple’s iPad launch 2 years ago. Windows 8 will work on tablets, ultra books, desktops, laptops and 82” big screens. Not only that but it’ll support touch on all these devices.

“We're in a world where tablets are about touch, and PCs are about keyboard. We're changing those assumptions” Steven Sinofsky President, Windows and Windows Live Division says.

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