ZDNet Korea is reporting that Samsung’s highly anticipated Galaxy S III will be announced sometime this month with an April launch to follow. These claims appear to come from Cheil Worldwide, Samsung’s marketing and advertising agency, which is planning a huge advertising campaign for the summer Olympics in London. While the Olympics campaign makes sense to us, we’re highly doubtful of a March announcement or April launch.
Sprint is touting their “truly Unlimited” data and giving away 30 Samsung Galaxy Nexus devices in their new Data Storm Sweepstakes. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is set to be one of Sprint’s first LTE devices and with a pure Google experience and truly unlimited data, it just may be the best stateside Galaxy Nexus available.
There’s no arguing the fact that smartphones could use more power, however, when your phone starts to look like a blast from the past due to an oversized battery pack sticking off of it, it’s time to think things over. That’s the case with Seido’s latest extended battery for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. This 3800mAh behemoth will certainly get the power user through the day, but you’ll look like Zach Morris doing it.
The GSMA has announced the winners of the 17th Annual Global Mobile Awards which took place yesterday at Mobile World Congress. The top mobile products and services were showcased and there was even some entertainment with comedian/songwriter Tim Minchine as the host. Categories ranged from Best Consumer Mobile Service to Best Mobile Innovation for Publishing and while we love hearing about innovative products, it’s really the hardware categories that had us talking.
BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — Samsung is serious about its Galaxy Note hardware, and has had a rare fit of intense product focus. The Notes are being pushed as artists’ devices. This much is obvious from the artists painting people’s portraits in the Samsung booth, and the caricatures covering every surface like a kids pre-school scrawlings plastered on a proud parent’s fridge door. But Samsung has also got some great developers on board.
