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from the L.A. TimesNexus Prime? Samsung teases new Android phone as iPhone 4S debutsOctober 5, 2011 | 11:41am

Samsung vs. Apple, Galaxy Phone/Tab/Player vs. iPhone/iPad/iPod -- the rivalry is real and it's only growing in courtrooms and on store shelves.

Case in point: On the same day Apple announces its iPhone 4S, Samsung releases a teaser video on YouTube hyping up the new smartphone it's expected to unveil in full next week at its Samsung Unpacked event in San Diego.

That phone is rumored to go by the name Nexus Prime, which is expected to be the first device that will run Google's Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system.

Ice Cream Sandwich is set to be the first Android OS that is the same software for tablets and smartphones, which is similar to the approach that Apple takes with iOS, its software for the iPhone and iPad.

Do we know for sure that the new Samsung Android handset that will go head-to-head with Apple's iPhone (the single best-selling smartphone on the planet) will be called the Nexus Prime? No.

For now, that's a rumor. A heavily circulated rumor. And as we all know, rumors don't always pan out. Just ask all those who predicted Apple would announce an iPhone 5 with a larger screen and new form factor this week.

But, from the video, it sure seems that Samsung is trying to tell us that yes, a new phone (or maybe a tablet? Or maybe both?) will make its debut at Samsung Unpacked and it looks as ifit will have some pretty radically curved glass on the face, something last seen on Samsung's Nexus S smartphone.

We'll keep you posted on how this all plays out with coverage of Samsung Unpacked next week. Stay tuned.

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Samsung Galaxy Players hit U.S. in October, to rival Apple iPod

Samsung's Galaxy Players are headed to the U.S., where they will challenge the Apple iPod for handheld gaming, email, Web surfing, app downloading, Twitter tweeting and Facebook poking glory -- or something like that.

The iPod, with as much as a 90% share of the portable music player market, long ago defeated just about every other MP3-player challenger out there with sales that blew away the Zune, the Sony Walkman and iRiver devices.

Still, iPod sales have declined as consumers have left behind dedicated music players and even the iPod Touch. Apple said it sold 7.54 million iPods in the third quarter, a 20% decline from a year earlier.

Nevertheless, touchscreen-based mobile gaming on tablets and phones is on the rise, and Samsung seems to see an opportunity. The consumer electronics giant might be right. The iPod Touch and iPhone, as well as Android devices, are credited with cutting into Nintendo and Sony's portable gaming business.

Thus, Samsung's Galaxy Players are headed to the U.S., launching Oct. 16 in two variations.

Like the iPod Touch, which is essentially an iPhone without the phone, the Galaxy Players are much like Galaxy phones without the phone.

Samsung will release the Galaxy Player 4.0, featuring a 4-inch screen, and the Galaxy Player 5.0 with a 5-inch screen. Both will connect to the Web via Wi-Fi networks -- no 3G or 4G is available -- and are outfitted with 3.2-megapixel cameras on the back, VGA cameras on the front for video chatting and Google's Android Gingerbread mobile operating system.

The Galaxy Player 4.0 will sell for $229 and the 5.0 will sell for $269, each with 8 gigabytes of built-in storage memory and an SD-card slot that can handle up to 32 gigabytes of storage.

The iPod Touch features a 3.5-inch screen and sells for $229 with 8 gigabytes of storage, $299 for 32 gigabytes and $399 for 64 gigabytes.

Samsung on Sunday is bringing its Galaxy Tab 8.9 tablet to the U.S., which is an 8.9-inch screen version of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet. The 8.9 will be available with either 16 gigabytes of storage for $469 or 32 gigabytes for $569 and run on Google's Android Honeycomb operating system.

So, what do you think? Are you looking to pick up a Samsung Galaxy Player or a Galaxy Tab 8.9? Let us know in the comments.

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HTC Amaze, Samsung Galaxy S II: T-Mobile's fastest 4G phones yet

T-Mobile said back in May that it doubled the theoretical peak speeds of its 4G network to 42 megabits per second in Los Angeles and other major cities.

But since then, no phones have been able to take advantage of such speeds because of hardware limitations. That'll change in October as the HTC Amaze 4G and the Samsung Galaxy S II hit T-Mobile stores, Andrew Sherrard, T-Mobile's senior vice president of marketing, said in an interview Monday.

"We're seeing average download speeds of 8 megabits per second, and the average home download nowadays is about 5 megabits per second," Sherrard said of the Amaze 4G and the Galaxy S II. "We're not suggesting you replace your home Internet with these devices, but it's a good reference point to show you how fast these phones are downloading on average."

While the phones will be the first to take advantage of T-Mobile's faster network, Sherrard said the carrier is seeing peaks of about 20 megabits per second on the handsets.

Both phones will go on sale online Oct. 10 and in stores Oct. 12. The HTC Amaze 4G will sell for $259.99, and the Galaxy S II will fetch $229.99 -- as long as either comes with a two-year contract and after a $50 mail-in rebate.

The Amaze 4G is a bit of a mash-up of other HTC phones, with the fantastic 8-megapixel/1080p camera from the HTC MyTouch 4G Slide and a 4.3-inch touchscreen, the same as the display found on the HTC Sensation, both from T-Mobile.

The Samsung Galaxy S II, which was released on Sprint this month for just $199.99, features a 4.5-inch touch screen, but Sherrard said the T-Mobile Galaxy S II will feature a 1.5-gigahertz dual-core processor that is faster than the Sprint version's 1.2-gigahertz dual-core chip.

Like the Amaze 4G, the Galaxy S II has an 8-megapixel/1080p camera on the back, and a front-facing camera as well.

Aside from pushing smartphones -- 75% of the phones T-Mobile has sold this year have been smartphones, and more than 90% of those were Android devices -- quality cameras on phones are a priority for T-Mobile, Sherrard said.

"We're trying to get smartphones out to more people, people who've never had a smartphone before," he said. "We want to have the best camera phones out there. We're looking to replace point-and-shoot cameras, and we think our phones have the best cameras out there."

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Apple sues Samsung in Japan, seeking to block Galaxy phone sales

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from the L.A. TimesApple sues Samsung in Japan, seeking to block Galaxy phone salesSeptember 8, 2011 |  6:44pm

Apple has sued Samsung in Japan, accusing the smartphone and tablet rival of violating a number of its patents related to the iPhone and iPad, according to a Reuters report.

The suit calls for a court injunction to block the sales of Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy S II phones. It's the latest move in a months-long worldwide patent brawl of suits and countersuits between the two tech giants.

Apple won a sales freeze of Samsung's Galaxy S, Galaxy S II and Ace smartphones last month in 30 European countries. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 has been voluntarily placed under a sales stoppage in Australia, and a court-ordered preliminary injunction has been placed on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the unreleased Galaxy Tab 7.7 in Germany.

All of Samsung's Galaxy phones and Galaxy Tab tablets run on Google's Android mobile operating system. Apple's iPhone and iPad run the company's proprietary iOS software.

Samsung told Reuters that the patent dispute in Japan got started when it filed a suit against Apple there in April and that Apple's suit is in response to that.

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Samsung vs. Apple patent fight spreads to France

Apple and Samsung's international patent dispute has spilled over into a new battleground -- France.

Samsung has disclosed that it had filed a lawsuit in France against Apple in July, alleging that the iPhone and iPad infringe on three of its mobile technology patents pertaining to how gadgets connect to 3G networks, according to a report from Agence France-Presse.

The first hearing in the suit is to take place in a Paris district court in December, the AFP said.

The French suit is just one more example of the escalating rivalry of Apple and Samsung over the increasingly important and competitive markets of smartphones and tablet computers.

Last week a German court upheld an August ruling that sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 be banned in Germany until an Apple-initiated patent suit there can be resolved. The same court also temporarily banned the unreleased Galaxy Tab 7.7 from being sold in Germany.

The patent fight got its start in April after Apple sued Samsung in San Francisco, arguing that its lines of Galaxy Tab tablets and Galaxy phones infringed on some Apple patents as well as the look and feel of the Apple iPad tablet and iPhone.

Samsung fired back with a patent suit of its own in Seoul, where it's based, alleging that the iPhone and iPad infringe on a handful of its patents.

Since then, the suits and countersuits between the two companies have spread to a number of other European countries, as well as Japan and Australia.

One result of the suits so far has been a temporary sales injunction against Samsung's Galaxy S, Galaxy S II and Ace smartphones handed down by a court in the Netherlands last month that bans the phones in 30 European countries. In Australia, Samsung agreed to a temporary sales stoppage of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet.

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Apple vs. Samsung suit: German court upholds Galaxy Tab 10.1 ban

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from the L.A. TimesApple vs. Samsung suit: German court upholds Galaxy Tab 10.1 banSeptember 9, 2011 | 11:21am

A German court upheld its preliminary sales ban on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 on Friday, the latest move in an international patent battle between Samsung and Apple.

"The court is of the opinion that Apple's minimalistic design isn't the only technical solution to make a tablet computer, other designs are possible," said Justice Johanna Brueckner-Hofmann in court, according to a Bloomberg news report.

"For the informed customer there remains the predominant overall impression that the device looks" like the design Apple has patented in Europe, Brueckner-Hofmann said, according to the report.

The court decision is a win for Apple, which is suing Samsung in Germany over complaints that the Korean consumer electronics maker is infringing on a number of Apple-owned patents with the Galaxy Tab tablets and Galaxy phone lines. Apple accuses Samsung of also copying the look and feel of the iPad and iPhone with its Galaxy products.

The German court first granted Apple a sales ban request against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in August and last week, the court also places a temporary injunction against the sale of the unreleased Galaxy Tab 7.7 there as well. Samsung told Bloomberg that it will appeal the ruling.

Apple and Samsung are also locked in patent battles over phones and tablets in other European countries, as well as Japan, the U.S. and Australia.

Apple won a sales injunction against Samsung's Galaxy S, Galaxy S II and Ace smartphones last month in 30 European countries. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 has been voluntarily placed under a sales stoppage in Australia.

While the two tech giants are rivals, and suing each other in courtrooms around the world, they are also business partners from time to time as well. Samsung makes displays and internal components for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

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Samsung will 'never' buy HP WebOS, CEO is reported saying

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from the L.A. TimesSamsung will 'never' buy HP WebOS, CEO is reported sayingSeptember 2, 2011 |  8:40am

Samsung said at the IFA electronics trade show that it will "never" purchase WebOS from Hewlett-Packard, according to reports.

"It's not right that acquiring an operating system is becoming a fashion," Samsung Chief Executive Choi Gee Sung told reporters at the IFA show in Berlin, according to Bloomberg.

When asked by reporters and analysts at the IFA show in Berlin on Thursday whether Samsung was going to buy HP's WebOS operating system, as has been speculated, the CEO responded with "never," Bloomberg said.

Samsung's phones and tablets mostly run on Google's Android operating system, though some do run on Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 software and the company also has devices running a mobile OS called Bada, which it owns and is developing.

HP acquired WebOS when it paid $1.2 billion in 2010 to take over the financially struggling Palm. Since then, HP has made a few smartphones and one tablet -- the HP TouchPad -- running on WebOS.

But none of the devices sold well enough and HP announced last month it would stop making hardware for WebOS itself and look to other companies to produce phones and tablets running the fledgling OS. HP then slashed the price on its HP TouchPad tablet, which debuted at a starting price of $499.99, down to $99.99, which led to online and in-store sellouts across retailers in the U.S. and Canada.

The world's largest PC company is now making one final run of the TouchPad to meet the sudden consumer demand. All of this only boosted the speculation that a company such as Samsung might be interested in WebOS, given its newfound popularity.

But it seems that if any hardware maker is interested in WebOS, it isn't Samsung.

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