Bad news coming out of the Android and Samsung blogs this afternoon is that Samsung are suffering major supply headaches with their new “flagship” device The Samsung Galaxy S III.

AndroidNZ are reporting that Samsung have had to destroy 600,000 blue pebble polycarbonate plastic back battery covers and have had to make changes to their production lines. Due to these supply shortages, Samsung has admitted that some international shipments would be put back.

Samsung Sweden have confirmed the delay on their Facebook page after enquiries from people who found out about supply difficulties through AndroidNZ. They estimate it will arrive only days after the white one, and apologise for not leading with the information themselves.

Were you looking forward to buying a blue pebble Galaxy S III? Will you wait or look for an alternative device?

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Samsung Galaxy Note owners, there is a new TouchWiz UX custom ROM available for you with all the goodies from the Galaxy S III included: S Voice, Weather widget and many more, thanks to XDA developer PETKING. With all this in a new ROM what more could you ask for! Check the ROM in action and how to install videos after the break.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjt7K0PFAC4

V-1.6 Changelog: ROM FULL + UPDATE_NEW (no wipe)

• Added Weather Widget (sgs3)
• Removed TouchWiz 4.0 launcher
• Added TouchWiz launcher 5.0 (sgs3) thanks @smando
• Optimiced for TouchWiz 5.0
• Updated S-Voice with all its libraries and linked files tanks @wanam

How to install KingDroid ICS ROM video tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Mh5paxw3A

Thanks @Apex666

For more info and download visit our Android forum.
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Aaron from PhoneDog compares two 4G LTE capable Windows Phones, the latest one by Samsung, Focus 2, and Nokia’s flagship, Lumia 900. Check the video comparison after the break.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx5CMx3usMA

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The Samsung Focus 2 offers a 1.4 GHz single-core Snapdragon CPU, 4-inch Super AMOLED display, 5-megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording, and a 1,750 mAh battery.

The Nokia Lumia 900 is powered with the same 1.4 GHz single-core Snapdragon CPU, 4.3-inch AMOLED display with ClearBlack technology, 8-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and 720p HD video recording and a 1,830 mAh battery.

Both phones are exclusive to AT&T customers, the Samsung Focus 2 is available for $49.99, while the Nokia Lumia 900 will cost you $99.99.

Which one is better for you?

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Good news Samsung Galaxy S II owners, now you can experience the new TouchWiz UX launcher thanks to XDA developer Smando.

XDA developer Smando successfully ported the new TouchWiz UX launcher from Galaxy S III to Galaxy S II. The new TouchWiz UX launcher is available in two versions: TouchWizUX 4×5 – 4 columns and 5 rows in appdrawer (Stock layout) and TouchWizUX 5×5 – 5 columns and 5 rows in appdrawer.

Note: The Galaxy S3 TouchWiz launcher will only work on Samsung based ROMs, will not work on AOSP based ROMs like AOKP or CM9.

For more info and download visit our Android forum.

Thanks @Apex666

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There is no need to beat around the bush here this is what we have on the whole “will current Gen Windows Phones get the Apollo update.”

According to a source:

Waggener Edstrom person says MSFT has Windows 8 (for x86), Windows RT (for next-gen ARM), & Windows Phone 8 (for current-gen phones).

So you are thinking at this point..”So what? What does this mean to me?”

Waggener Edstrom IS Microsoft’s PUBLIC RELATIONS company! So someone from Waggener Edstrom is likely to have actual knowledge on if  Apollo is coming to current Gen phones.

The same source also stated that this should be just one of many leaks corroborating this information. All leading up to “an official announcement in a few weeks time.”

Nokia has already let it slip that the Nokia Lumia 900 will receive updates “Major ones”.While this is not proof positive current Windows Phones will be updated to Apollo it seems all the whisperings are starting to point in that direction.

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Samsung’s Olympic Games Ambassador David Beckham shows some nifty footwork with a 15-foot wall of drums, the GALAXY Note and the illustrative capabilities enabled by the S Pen.

Watch the video after the break

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn8jkyu88bw

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Announced earlier this month at CTIA Wireless 2012 in New Orleans, Samsung Focus 2 is now available for purchase. Is it worth? Check the full video review after the break.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5smvWRC3gPo

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Focus 2 is Samsung’s first 4G LTE equipped Windows Phone smartphone. It features a 4-inch WVGA Super AMOLED display, 1.4GHz CPU, 5MP back camera capable of recording 720p HD video, VGA front facing camera and 1,750mAh removable battery.

The Samsung Focus 2 is available exclusively to AT&T customers for $49.99 with a new 2–year contract.

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As major sponsors of the 2012 Summer Olympic games, it comes as no surprise that Samsung are using the occasion for maximum exposure for as many of it’s mobile products.

Our friends at gsmarena have posted a picture of a very nice looking boxed Galaxy Note Olympic Edition with a special back cover.

O2 UK will be the exclusive UK supplier of this particular Special Samsung Olympic edition handset but as we get closer to the actual games expect to see more special edition handsets popping up on other UK carriers.

If you purchase an Olympics special edition Samsung phone, Samsung will donate on your behalf £1 to Team GB athletes of the future.

For more information head over Samsung or to O2 (UK only)

Samsung Electronics, is definitely a woman embodied as a company. I have studied her, tried to make sense of what she does and can say without any premonition, that I, dislike her. Read on to find out why..

Samsung like majority of women has a very elusive character. You will never be able to understand what exactly do they want. At one hand they are fighting like vixen for patent infringement issues and on the other hand they are also supplying screen for the new iPad and the A5X chip?

They are copy cats. You need not be a tech savvy, smartphone lover to know that Samsung possibly, tops the list for being a company that has hired a panel of employees (lawyers), only to deal with large number of patent infringement cases that the company has landed itself into.

They do not innovate nor do they properly improvise, but are good only at embellishing their devices with bells, whistles and other bling ornaments. When all the men out there were unveiling their uber cool mobile devices at the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona in February this year, Samsung failed to showcase their 2012 flagship. They carefully looked at all the devices, possibly played with them and noted down the features they would finally put in S3 and laced it with added gloss.

We all are well aware that the next generation device or product in a particular category must have a few addtional features here and there otherwise it would be very difficult for the company to stand out from the crowd and give a shock to the competition. This is a common characteristic exhibited by car companies and by freshman girls in a college or university.

Samsung did the same by not launching S3 in February and delayed it until May.

Samsung fights with Apple over patent issues and still follows the tread marks left by Apple. She knew how to attract but that too is something she gained from her global competitor, Apple. She creates rumors like Apple; rumors that tell us the new S3 will have a slick and ceramic body, but what do we get, a hyper-glazed plastic encasing for S3. Meh!

This women has certainly made an impression on many biggies who rule the eco-system of mobile reviewers and critics. One fine example is Ray S. from Phonearena. This guy recently compared Samsung Galaxy S3 and HTC One X in a video. If you see this video carefully, Ray S. found it very hard to appreciate HTC for their sensational flagship device for 2012, the One X and used to stutter or stammer whenever he had to mention a few things about One X that surpassed S3 in terms of quality or usability. WTF!?

Samsung comes with a tagline punchline for S3 that says, “designed for humans”. Does that mean other devices were designed for morons? This phone which is designed for humans has a feature that allows you to watch video on a small window even while you are typing a text or sending someone an email. How on earth you expect yourself to use this feature on a 4.8-inch screen. This is a sheer waste of multi-tasking capabilities of the phone and reminds me of another characteristic similarity with females, doing multi-tasking at the same time without actually making sense in either of the tasks

This stupid punchline reminds me of another brand in India, Bajaj, who manufactures motorbikes and launched their flagship bike, Pulsar, a few years ago with the tagline, “definitely male”. Take a look at the video after the break.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DHb0kb0rMY

Samsung even imitated Nokia by introducing their hot selling device, Galaxy Note, in Pink color. Nokia introduced Lumia 800 in pink previously. Sammy, you act like a jealous woman who doesn’t have a pink attire yet and will get it the moment you see that your colleague is wearing a beautiful pink, What a shame!

Samsung tries to make its presence so solid in anyone and everyone’s mind who ever thinks of buying and/or upgrading a smartphone that people have blindly pre-booked 10 million of their flagship device without even reading a proper review. Applause!!!

I’ll tell you another secret here, no matter how many features Samsung pushes into S3, smart dial, smart stay. Users, most of them, will eventually rip down the ROM installed and personalise this phone with custom ROMs. The first ones would be the members of XDA forum or Cyanogen community. Dudes and Dudettes, what makes a point to drool over these features, if you have to say good-bye to touchwiz and all the slick features that Samsung has put into S3 on top of stock Android, in the very first week of your purchase?

Those who babble foolishly over smart stay feature can you please raise your hands and tell me what stops you from increasing the screen timeout delay in your existing phone that you need a front camera to ensure that the screen doesn’t timeout before you finish reading a page length of text on your handheld device? Crap!

The features that S3 has are more to brag about with your friends and less to help you with your day-to-day tasks.

You already know that you should call the member at the other end rather than messaging or emailing them, but you won’t go into the callers list. You would first go to the message section of S3, type a few words or sentences and then your brain will poke you, “hey shouldn’t you be calling your friend?”, and then you will hold the phone close to your ear and S3 will, with its super intelligent sensors connect you to the user at the far end via voice call. Amazing! Smart dial rocks, ha ha ha…

Undoubtedly, Samsung electronics, especially their mobile division, is a covetous woman who cannot stand what others have created and will do a slight change here and there to bring others under the impression that Samsung is and should be the only option when it comes to buying a smartphone.

Dear Samsung, you are cheaters, from ideation to pushing rumors and to copying design and even their business model of hiding the details of their next flagship device, you do everything that a bimbo would do to get attention. Tell me something, if it were not for Android, what would you have done with your homebrewed OS, Bada?

People, do you remember Bada and the Samsung Apps store, they are a failure, to say the least.

Apple has one of the finest mobile OS amongst all  the contenders out there, were you able to copy that, Samsung? Were you???

You make several changes to the stock Android and the layer of touchwiz is so deeply and cartoonishly stuffed that at times your device feels like a toy mobile made for a three year old creating unnecessary sounds rather than a premium handset.

Every tap of the key or the capacitive buttons makes noise unless you shut them up by tweaking the settings. The new S3 has even included the sound of water flowing on the home screen (Sammy calls it Nature UX). I seriously get irritated if my device emits so much of unwanted and eerie noises. Those who own Samsung devices worldwide would agree that once the battery of any Samsung device gets low, it repeatedly reminds us to charge by beeping over and over again. What if it is night, I’m about to go to sleep and I do not want to charge this stupid device smartphone, lest overcharging it might eventually result in bloated battery. But this pesky device would want me to either shut it off completely or stuff cotton in my ears because it will never warn me with a small red LED that the battery is about to get dead rather it will keep me awake by making a noise that even my aged parents in other room will come over to request me to turn off this expensive and ridiculous feature. What a bore…

Leave ceramic, you make the back cover of your latest devices so plasticky and wafer thin, it reminds me of the skimpy clothes donned by many women on Page 3. So in order to be in the limelight you hyper-glaze the skin that protects the battery from being exposed. Is it just to keep your worshipers happy that they can replace the battery as and when they wish?

Even the quality of plastics on your models give us an impression that these are the materials that should be used for not new but refurbished devices. Thumbs down, Sammy.

Sammy, rumors were prevailing that you will remove the hardware home button from your next galaxy, but you failed us even in this department and I can bet you that once Apple will remove the physical home button from their iPhone (possibly iPhone 5), you sure will do the same with Galaxy S4. What fun would it be, right?

In the ongoing Apple V Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 saga, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that Apple’s design-related patent on the Apple iPad is valid.

The Courts recent decision overturns an earlier Californian courts ruling that prevented Apple securing an injunction against sales.

After this Fridays ruling, Apple put forward a motion to have the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 pulled from shop shelves. This could happen as early as next month.

FOSS Patent’s Florian Mueller said that Apple’s injunction motion has a great chance in succeeding considering that one Circuit Court Judge believes that a ban is warranted by the evidence presented by Apple and even issued a dissenting opinion saying that simply tossing the original verdict in the California was not enough relief for the Cupertino based manufacturer, and that Apple deserved more.

“Circuit Judge Kathleen O’Malley argued that the CAFC should have reversed the decision in order to provided Apple with immediate injunctive relief in light of the irreparable harm it is suffering. But the majority of the judges saw ‘no reason to believe that there will necessarily be delay, or if there is delay that it will be unjustifiable.”-Florian Mueller

Apple are still trying for an out of court agreement with friend and foe Samsung and have asked them to respond to the current motion by May 25th.

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