Sep 24

Samsung rolling Jelly Bean out across most of its smartphone, tablet lineup ‘soon’

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Now that Samsung has commenced beaming Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean OTA toward deserving Galaxy S III customers, it’s announced a raft of other devices set to receive the buttery OS in the near future. On the list are the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and 10.1, Galaxy Note 10.1, Galaxy S II, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, Galaxy S Advance, Galaxy S II LTE, Galaxy Music, Galaxy Chat, Galaxy Ace 2, Galaxy Beam, Galaxy Ace Plus, Galaxy mini II and Galaxy S Duos. That should bring a bit of extra speed and smoothness to those devices, along with Google Now for search and Samsung’s own flourishes from the latest TouchWiz UX. As for the rest of us, there’s more than one way to skin a Smartphone — or avoid skinning one, as the case may be.

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Samsung rolling Jelly Bean out across most of its smartphone, tablet lineup ‘soon’ originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 21

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 now on sale in Canada for $499

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Samsung Galaxy Note 101 now on sale in Canada for $499

After landing on American store shelves just a few short weeks ago, the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 has officially gone on sale in the Great White North. Priced at $499, the Galaxy Note 10.1 features a 10.1-inch display, a 1.4GHz quad-core Exynos 4 quad processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 1.9-megapixel front shooter for placing video calls. Sadly, the Galaxy Note 10.1 ships with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, but Sammy has promised that it’ll be blessed with Jelly Bean “very soon.” In addition to its snazzy innards, the Galaxy Note 10.1 includes its signature S-Pen and offers 50GB of free storage from Dropbox for two years. If you think this sounds like all that and a bag of chips plate of poutine, you can purchase the Galaxy Note 10.1 at Staples and other major Canadian retailers.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 now on sale in Canada for $499 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Sep 2012 21:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 12

XDA brings voice calls to the 3G-enabled Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

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XDA brings voice calls to 3Genabled Samsung Galaxy Tab 101

While 3G Galaxy Note 10.1 owners use their Bluetooth-enabled S-Pen to make calls on their tablet, those with the equivalent Galaxy Tab are left out in the rain. Fortunately, the folks over at XDA Developers have leveled the playing field with four roms that bestow call-making powers on 3G variants of that particular slate. Three ICS and one Jelly Bean builds exist, with the only fault that sometimes you’ll have to switch to 2G to get calls working properly. If you’re really interested in stretching the definition of “phablet” beyond breaking point, head on down to the source links for more information.

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XDA brings voice calls to the 3G-enabled Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 09

Refresh Roundup: week of September 3rd, 2012

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Refresh Roundup week of September 3rd, 2012

Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don’t escape without notice, we’ve gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery we could find during the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. If you find something available for your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and let us know. Enjoy!

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Refresh Roundup: week of September 3rd, 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 09 Sep 2012 21:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 31

Apple adds Samsung’s Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note 10.1 to ongoing patent lawsuit

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The Apple v. Samsung patent war that will seemingly never end has taken another turn today, as Apple is asking the court to add newer Samsung Galaxy hardware, including the Galaxy S III, Verizon Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note 10.1 to its complaint against the Galaxy Nexus and other related devices. If you thought updated software and designs would keep these newer smartphones and tablets out of the fight — you were wrong. Just to help you keep things straight, remember this is a separate case from the one that ended exactly a week ago with a decision in Apple’s favor to the tune of more than $1 billion in damages.

At issue here are eight of Apple’s utility patents that it says Samsung has infringed upon. The headliner patents at issue are ‘721 which covers slide to unlock, and ‘604, which could apply to the universal search feature Samsung has been pulling from its phones recently. Another familiar entry is the ‘647 patent Apple slapped HTC with in 2010, which has a vague description but applies to clicking on a phone number in an email, for example, to call it. You can read the details on each and every one in the PDF linked below, we’ll be doing… anything else.

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Apple adds Samsung’s Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note 10.1 to ongoing patent lawsuit originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 30

Visualized: Samsung’s human, Galaxy Note-powered taxi

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Visualized Samsung's human, Galaxy Notepowered taxi

That’s the last time we take a taxi in Berlin. After a fairly harrowing journey across the city to tonight’s Samsung IFA event, we reached our destination and spotted a clearly superior mode of transportation: a fleet of pedal-powered cabs sporting Galaxy Note 10.1s in the back. Of course, we probably would have spent more time admiring the glory that is Berlin, rather than the 10-inch screen, but it’s nice tp have the option there when we need it.

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Visualized: Samsung’s human, Galaxy Note-powered taxi originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 29

Samsung says Jelly Bean update coming to Galaxy S III and Note 10.1 ‘very soon’

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Samsung says Jelly Bean update coming to Galaxy S III and Note 101 'very soon'

It’s not as specific as we’re guessing some would like, but Samsung confirmed during its IFA 2012 keynote today that a Jelly Bean update is coming to both the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note 10.1 “very soon.” That is at least a bit more encouraging than the “later this year” that we last heard for the Note 10.1, and follows a leak of an official GS3 Jelly Bean build earlier this month. The original Galaxy Note wasn’t specifically mentioned on stage, but it did make an appearance on the company’s Jelly Bean slide, so we’d assume an update for it is coming as well, if not necessarily “very soon.”

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Samsung says Jelly Bean update coming to Galaxy S III and Note 10.1 ‘very soon’ originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 26

Refresh Roundup: week of August 20th, 2012

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Refresh Roundup week of August 20th, 2012

Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don’t escape without notice, we’ve gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery we could find during the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. If you find something available for your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and let us know. Enjoy!

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Refresh Roundup: week of August 20th, 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 23

Samsung adds more S-Pen friendly apps for British Galaxy Note 10.1 users

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Samsung adds more SPen friendly apps for the Galaxy Note 101

Samsung’s gifting British Galaxy Note 10.1 users with some new, free, S-Pen apps for when playing “Eat up Martha” in S-Note stops being fun. Drop the Beat lets you produce your own banging dance tracks, while kiddy-titles Spot the Difference and Where Is It will keep your younglings quiet for five minutes. You’ll also get Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, although we’re not sure how you’ll replicate that Fast and Furious action with a four-point-five-inch plastic pencil. Head on down to the source link to start swelling your collection.

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Samsung adds more S-Pen friendly apps for British Galaxy Note 10.1 users originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 20

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 now available in the U.K. via Carphone Warehouse

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Just two weeks after Samsung announced that its Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet will be hitting the global market this month, Europe’s largest independent mobile phone retailer, Carphone Warehouse, is announcing that the highly anticipated tablet is now available in their turf for £399.99. The £400 price tag will be for the 16GB Wi-Fi version while the 3G version plus Wi-Fi is currently selling at £499.99. So if you’re in U.K. right now and is seriously considering the pure tablet version of Samsung’s Galaxy Note, you can get from Carphone Warehouse, in stores or online.

Additionally, Carphone Warehouse is also announcing a limited time offer on the original 5.3-inch Samsung Galaxy Note. The U.K. retailer is now offering the first generation Galaxy Note for £21 per month via T-Mobile. We had the chance to play with the U.S. version of the device last week, and we were quite impressed with the improvements, particularly the pressure-sensitive S-Pen that also has a microphone and tiny speaker on it. Stay tuned for our thorough review of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update confirmed, Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 launches in the USA + Hands-On,

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