Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini: Smaller Screen, Cheaper Price

Details of Samsung Galaxy S3 MINI are being known after its announcement 11 October.

Samsung Galaxy S III mini features a screen measuring 4 inches diagonally, smaller than the Galaxy S III's 4.8 inch display but the same as Apple's iPhone 5, which was Apple's first upgrade of the iPhone screen size.

Samsung said the mini will be launched in Europe later this month but kept mum on schedules for other countries.

Samsung's German mobile shop lists the mini's price at 399 euros ($516) versus 550 euros ($711) for the cheapest S III.

The mini is powered by the latest version of Android software but does not support faster fourth-generation wireless networks.

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Samsung Galaxy S3: T-Mobile’s Best Selling Smartphone for 2012

The iPhone 5′s release sparked Apple’s smartphone sales and surpassed its previous iPhone sales records, it appeared as if it totally dominated the smartphone eco-system throughout major Carriers in US but it turns out that for one of the largest Carrier in US, T-Mobile, Samsung’s Galaxy S3 currently holds the crown of being the best seller of all times.

Here’s what the company had to say via Twitter

While T-Mobile hasn't released any exact sales figures to go with the announcement but it’s safe to say that it comfortably breaches the one million devices sold mark considering it surpasses sales of other Samsung handsets.

Read more: Chip Hazard

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Samsung operating profits nearly double

Samsung Electronics Co. forecast another record quarterly operating profit, likely driven by strong sales of high-end smartphones that offset weak semiconductor orders.

The guidance for Samsung’s third quarter earnings showed it was on track to report a record-high profit for a fourth straight quarter, despite legal tussles with Apple Inc. that resulted in a $1 billion compensation judgment in August

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Samsung estimated in a regulatory filing that its July-September operating income nearly doubled to 8.1 trillion won ($7.3 billion) from 4.25 trillion won a year earlier.

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iPhone 5 Launched

Apple has finally and formally launched the much awaited and much talked about iPhone 5 Wednesday, 12 September 2012 today.

Comparison iPhones [Photo Mashable]

Some of the highlights are as under:

• Facebook Likes integrated into the iTunes store
• iOS6 will work on all phones and tablets back to the 3GS - iOS6 to be launched September 19
• A brand new version of iTunes -- dramatically simpler, with the cloud build in.
• 16GB iPhone5 to cost $199 - 32 GB to cost $299

Read Live Blog at Mashable for details as these are pouring in

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Apple may ask for banning 8 Samsung smartphones

In the wake of its patent trial victory against Samsung Electronics Co., Apple has given a U.S. federal judge a list of eight Samsung products it wants pulled from store shelves and banned from the U.S. market, including popular Galaxy model smartphones.

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh asked for the list after a jury in San Jose last week slammed Samsung with a $1.05 billion US fine, finding that the South Korean technology giant had "willfully" copied Apple's iPhone and iPad in creating and marketing the products. Samsung plans an appeal.

The products Apple wants off the market are all smartphones:

• Galaxy S 4G
• Galaxy S2 AT&T
• Galaxy S2
• Galaxy S2 T-Mobile
• Galaxy S2 Epic 4G
• Galaxy S Showcase
• Droid Charge
• Galaxy Prevail

Koh on June 26 banned the Galaxy Tab 10.1 from the U.S. market after finding it likely violated a "design patent." Samsung is now asking for that ban to be lifted after the jury found the computer tablet didn't infringe that particular patent, but it did find it infringed three of Apple's software patents that cover the popular "bounce-back" and pinch-to-zoom features.

Shared from CBS News

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