Ice Cream Sandwich Available for Samsung Galaxy Note
It started rolling out a few days ago, but it’s starting to hit wide release now. A little later than promised, Samsung is now rolling out Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) to international Galaxy Notes. If you’re running a Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000 you ought to fire up the software updater and see if you have an update waiting. If you do, you’ll see something like the screenshot here.
Me? I’m updating my phone right now. Here’s to hoping I don’t end up with a brick. ICS impressions on the Note coming later.
HTC Building Samsung Galaxy Note Clone
I’m sure HTC won’t like it very much that I used the word “clone” instead of “competitor” or some such, but I kid. Anyhow, we’ve talked about how ZTE (remember them? Big Chinese manufacturer ring a bell?) is working on a couple of Samsung Galaxy Note clones, but this would seem to be some sort of proof that the “giant phone” (as a few people have referred to mine) is successful. We haven’t even mentioned the LG Optimus Vu, but that ought to be out relatively soon and is yet another competitor to the gigantic-phone-with-a-stylus category.
ZTE Building Bigger Phones Than Samsung Galaxy Note
Have you heard of ZTE before? If you’re on the bleeding tech edge or in China, then you probably have. If you haven’t heard of them, don’t worry because you’ll only be hearing more about them in the future. While this isn’t about what ZTE has done in the marketplace nor about how big they’re going to be, you might want to keep it in the back of your mind while you consider this: ZTE wants to make big phones. How big? Think Samsung Galaxy Note big.
Samsung Galaxy S3 vs HTC One X vs Motorola RAZR HD
Saw an interesting story that attempts to bring to Earth all of the hype surrounding the Samsung Galaxy S3. I’d post a picture of it on the side, but as we should all know right now, no real pictures exist since Samsung has been extra careful and has been using dummy cases. Anyhow, we all know that the Samsung Galaxy S3 specs are approaching the level of astronomical, but they aren’t going to be the only ones packing a serious punch in the near future.
5 Necessary Free Apps For Your Samsung Galaxy Note
Getting away from the news and rumor stuff for a bit and going back to my roots, here’s a quick list of things that’ll make your Samsung Galaxy Note experience that much better. If you’re coming from an iPhone, some things may still drive you nuts, but with some patience, and the right apps, you can solve some of Android’s problems and have yourself one heck of a powerful little phone (it’s not a tablet, and it’s not a phablet, ok? That’s just stupid).
Enable NFC on AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note SGH-i717
So you bought yourself an AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note SGH-i717 smartphone and find yourself thinking, “Dang! If only it had NFC!” I’m not sure why you’d be thinking that since there’s not a whole lot of support for NFC these days, but should you be thinking that, then you’re in luck! Assuming you don’t mind getting your hands a little dirty and hacking your phone a bit.
Samsung Galaxy S3 to Have Eye Tracking?
It’s all the rage now for everyone to start talking about how they think the Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone is going to have eye tracking built in. I’m not sure what to think of that since it seems a little bit… unlikely, especially given that it’s a phone and that sort of thing requires constant processing which in turn drains the battery, and phones don’t have an excess of either. Regardless, everyone’s talking about it.