Last night, Samsung announced one of the most hotly anticipated Android handset of 2012, the Galaxy S III. From the hardware point of view, the Galaxy S III absolutely trumps its competition out there. The GPU inside the SGS3 even manages to beat the powerhouse PowerVR SGX543MP2 GPU found inside the iPhone 4S, which clearly [...]

Back in December last year, a new ‘value pack’ firmware for the Galaxy S was leaked online. This new firmware included many of the Ice Cream Sandwich features including Face Unlock, performance improvements, a photo editing app, and an updated TouchWIZ launcher with folder support. Sammy has also added some UI elements from TW4 to [...]

When Samsung and Google unveiled the Galaxy Nexus back in October, last year, many were disappointed to hear that the phone only has a 5MP camera. Yes, the Galaxy Nexus 5MP camera has Instant Capture feature, which snaps a picture as soon as the on-screen shutter button is pressed, but it still does not make [...]

Earlier this morning, DesignGear and the folks over at RoozWiki leaked the first ever Ice Cream Sandwich firmware for the AT&T’s Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket 4G (SGH-I727). Like the Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Galaxy S II, the leaked ICS firmware for the Skyrocket is also plastered with TouchWIZ so as to spoil [...]

The Galaxy S II was among the first Android handsets to taste Ice Cream Sandwich, thanks to a firmware leak from Samsung. After the first ICS firmware leaked back in late-December, a couple of more ICS firmware leaked in the January. The last leak – XXLPB – was pretty good, but had a few issues, [...]

Quite a few Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich based firmware have leaked online for the Samsung Galaxy S II. Now, the first Ice Cream Sandwich based firmware for the S II’s bigger brother, the Note has made its appearance on a Chinese forum. The leaked firmware was originally meant for the Chinese variant of the [...]

The Galaxy W is a relatively new mid-range phone from Samsung, which the company announced back in October last year. Four months later, the handset is still not available in most of the emerging markets of the world. For a mid-range handset, the Galaxy W packs in some serious horsepower – a 1.4GHz Snapdragon S2 [...]

Samsung, unlike HTC and Motorola, has always shipped its phones with open bootloader. This definitely makes the job of developers to create new mods, develop new kernels for the phone easier. While the Samsung Galaxy S II also comes with an open bootloader, there is a major issue with it. If a user flashes a [...]

The Galaxy S II was the most popular Android handset of 2011. The handset sold in excess of 10 million units, and is still selling like hot cakes all over the world. One of the major complaints among Android handset users is the poor battery life of their phone. The Samsung Galaxy S II is [...]

The folks over at SamMobile have just leaked a new Ice Cream Sandwich based firmware for the Samsung Galaxy S2. The new leaked firmware (XXLPB) has the build date of 29th Jan, and does not contain any radical visual changes. The XXLPB firmware is however, much more stable, than all the previous ICS firmware for [...]