Samsung Star 3 and Star 3 Duos unveiled: smarter feature phones

Samsung has just announced the newest edition of its feature phone superstar - the Samsung Star 3 and Samsung Star 3 Duos promise to make feature phones smarter with better social networking, Samsung’s ChatON and an extremely affordable price tag.

The Samsung Star 3 comes with a 3-inch capacitive QVGA LCD display, a 3.2-megapixel camera which can record QCIF videos, the TouchWiz Lite user interface and 20MB of internal memory extendible via a microSD card slot accepting cards of up to 16GB. In terms of connectivity, you get EDGE speeds, Wi-Fi b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0. The battery is 1,000mAh. So overall, in terms of hardware features, the Star 3 looks almost identical to the second-gen Samsung Star.

When speaking about the features, the most notable addition is ChatON - Samsung’s free messaging platform, which a welcome addition on a feature phone. You also have stereo FM radio with RDS and a music player with SoundAlive.

Designwise, the Samsung Star 3 is not a revolutionary change - the screen sizes are the same, the looks and weight nearly identical, but the devices has become slightly wider and thinner. Save for the support for two SIM cards, the Samsung Star 3 Duo is virtually identical to its single SIM sibling. The two devices are ready for an almost immediate release in late January in Russia, and they are also gearing up to arrive in CIS, Europe, Latin America, Africa, Middle East and Southeast Asia. The Star 3 Duos will also make an appearance in Southwest Asia.

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Samsung Star 3 And Star 3 Duos Mobile Phones Announced

Samsung has added a couple of new mobile phones to its range with the launch of the Samsung Star 3 and the Star 3 Duos, which will launch in Russia at first and will then be available in Europe and other countries around the world. The two handsets share the same specifications, except that the Star 3 Duos comes with a dual SIM card slot allowing you to use two seperate SIM cards on the handset. The Star 3 and Star 3 Duos feature a 3 inch QVGA TFT LCD touchscreen display and a 3.2 fixed focus megapixel camera, and it also runs Samsung’s TouchWiz Lite.

“We are pleased to launch the Star 3 and Star 3 DUOS, a further enhanced version of the bestselling Samsung Star series. With the new Star 3 touch phones, Samsung continues to offer the best social networking experiences and opportunities for our feature phone users,” said JK Shin, President of IT & Mobile Communications Division at Samsung Electronics.

There are no details on pricing or availability as yet on the Samsung Star 3 and the Star 3 Duos, you can find out more information over at Samsung.

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Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 ICS Alpha Update Leaked

The official ROM of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for Samsung galaxy s2 leaked and available for download. The dual-core smartphone, Samsung Galaxy S2 was considered top of the list to get the Android 4.0 update along with the Install Latest Android 4.0 ICS.

So, here is instruction on how to install Android 4.0.3 XXKP8 on your Samsung Galaxy S2. Before you start, please note that this is version Android 4.0.3 for Samsung Galaxy S2 not is official releases by Samsung and lot of function still not fully work. This leaked Of Android 4.0 ROM For Galaxy S2 still in testing stage, please try at your own risk. The method to install Android 4.0.3 XXKP8 is almost similar to install Android 4.0 (1st leaked version of Android 4.0 for Galaxy S2), so you can refer to the tutorial (Link) and then flash each of the files below to Galaxy S2.

The downloaded file , I9100XXKP8_I9100OXAKP8.rar includes of 7 files:
GT-I9100-MULTI-CSC-OXAKP8.tar.md5
I9100_CODE_I9100XXKP8_CL42141_REV02_user_low_ship.tar.md5
I9100_EFS_I9100XXKP8_CL42141_REV02_user_low_ship.tar.md5 [not to be used]
I9100_KERNEL_I9100XXKP8_CL42141_REV02_user_low_ship.tar.md5 [not to be used]
MODEM_I9100XXKP8_REV_02_CL1092599.tar.md5

Then you need to select these files in Odin for tabs:
PDA Tab: I9100_CODE_I9100XXKP8_CL42141_REV02_user_low_ship.tar.md
Phone Tab: MODEM_I9100XXKP8_REV_02_CL1092599.tar.md5

CSC: GT-I9100-MULTI-CSC-OXAKP8.tar.md5

PIT tab: u1_02_20110310_emmc_EXT4.pit

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Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket brings fireworks inside a man's pocket

Recently we published some news on a pair of Apple iPhone 4S units that suffered from spontaneous combustion. And with Apple's legal team alleging that the Korean based manufacturer has been copying Apple's designs for its own products, it is an amazing coincidence that a Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket literally exploded in a man's pocket. The man felt a burning sensation down his leg and when he reached to pullout his phone he smelled something burning. And in his hand was one literally hot handset.

Yes, Samsung was hoping that the model would explode in the U.S. and become a hot product, but not exactly like this. And perhaps the Korean based manufacturer had an idea that something like this could happen when it tacked on "Skyrocket" to the name of the phone. The charred model was a variant of the hugely successful Samsung Galaxy S II that is enabled for AT&T's fledging LTE network.

More information's:
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