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After the launch of Galaxy Star last week, Samsung has launched yet another budget Android smartphone - Samsung Galaxy Young. The phone that was announced in February, has been available on online retailers for a while now. However, it is now officially available on the Samsung e-store for Rs. 8,010. The dual-SIM smartphone is powered by a 1GHz processor and has 728 MB RAM. It runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and sports a 3-megapixel camera. With a 3.27-inch display, it is slightly bigger than the Galaxy Star and has a resolution of 320x480 pixels. It comes with 4GB of internal storage which is expandable up to 64GB and has a 1,300mAh battery. The device comes with the Samsung TouchWiz UI. It supports the Samsung Motion UI and comes pre loaded with Samsung applications such as ChatOn, S Cloud and Game Hub Lite. At this price point the phone will be competing with the likes of LG Optimus L3 II (Review | Pictures), the Lava Iris 455 and Xolo X500 (Review). Samsung had re...

Samsung's entry-level Android smartphone, the Galaxy Star (S5282) has been listed on e-commerce websites for Rs. 4,990. The phone is available on leading Indian e-commerce sites including Flipkart. However, the Samsung India Online store has still not put a price with its own listing. We had earlier reported that the phone has been listed on the Samsung India Online store. The Samsung Galaxy Star duos sports a 3.0-inch screen with QVGA resolution. It is powered by a 1GHz processor along with 512MB of RAM. It comes with 4GB of internal storage and a microSD slot that supports cards up to 32GB. The smartphone runs Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) along with Samsung's own touch-wiz nature UX interface. Samsung Galaxy Star is powered by a 1200mAh battery. The connectivity options for this smartphone include Micro-USB, Wi-Fi- A-GPS and Bluetooth 4.0. The phone sports a 2-megapixel rear shooter. Samsung Galaxy Pocket Neo also comes with 3.0-inch screen with QVGA resolution. ...

Samsung seems to gearing up to launch Samsung Galaxy S II Plus in India. The smartphone is already listed on Infibeam.com for Rs. 22,900. The website is also claiming to ship the device within seven business days. Samsung Galaxy S II Plus sports a 4.3-inch WVGA (480x800) Super AMOLED Plus display as seen in the earlier Galaxy S II. Looks wise, the exterior of the device has been replaced with the plasticky back panel as seen on the Galaxy S III. Samsung Galaxy S II Plus runs Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) out of the box along with layer of Nature UX atop. The device features an 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and capable of full-HD video recording. There's a 2-megapixel front camera as well. On the inside, the smartphone is powered by a dual-core Cortex-A9 processor clocked at 1.2GHz, a Broadcomm GPU and has 1GB of RAM. Samsung Galaxy S II Plus also comes with 8GB of internal storage, which can be expanded by up to 64GB through a microSD card. Connectivity ...

Samsung Galaxy Note II successor has been making quite a buzz recently. It was being speculated that Samsung Galaxy Note III may come with a 5.9-inch screen. Now, GSMArena via Korea Times is reporting that this is indeed confirmed news. Korea Times mentions that they have picked this information up from Samsung's main parts suppliers. Furthermore, the report also states that the Samsung Galaxy Note III will be launched in US through telecom operator AT&T in the near future. As per earlier rumours, Samsung Galaxy Note III will be launched at IFA 2013. IFA 2013 will be organised between 6 to 11 September in Berlin (Germany). There were also news reports that suggested that Samsung will be deploying LCD screens made by Sharp for its Galaxy Note III. The recently announced Exynos 5 Octa processor will allegedly power this phablet. It is noteworthy that Samsung Galaxy Note II was announced at IFA 2012. It sports a 5.5-inch Super AMOLED HD display. Samsung Galaxy Note ...

Samsung is gearing up to launch another affordable Galaxy smartphone - Galaxy Pocket Neo. As per news report in SamMobile, this smartphone will be an entry-level Android smartphone much like the Samsung Galaxy Fame and Galaxy Young. The website also claims that this smartphone will come in two variants, a single SIM version, which will bear the model number GT-S5310 and the DUOS variant, which will be model number GT-S5312. Furthermore, SamMobile states that Samsung Galaxy Pocket Neo will have a 3.0-inch screen with QVGA resolution. The expected dimensions of this smartphone are 104.95 X 57.8 X11.8mm. The other alleged specifications for the smartphone include 2-megapixel rear camera, Bluetooth 4.0, USB 2.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n and A-GPS. Galaxy Pocket Now is expected to be available by the second week of May. From the information available as of now, it is likely that this smartphone will come in silver colour option but there might be other colour options availa...

Korean company Samsung Electronics said on Thursday that it has sold more than 10 million Galaxy devices in the Indian market since the launch of the first Galaxy device, ‘Galaxy S’, in June 2010. “Innovative devices like the Samsung Galaxy S, Galaxy S II and S III, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note 2 and Galaxy Y have caught the imagination of customers and helped us democratise the smartphoneexperience in the Indian market,” says Samsung VP (Mobile) Asim Warsi. This has helped Samsung sell more than 10 million Galaxy devices in the Indian market since June 2010, when the first Galaxy device was launched, he added. The Galaxy series comprises a portfolio of devices like Galaxy Y (launched in October 2011), Galaxy S II (May 2011), Galaxy Tab (November 2011), Galaxy Tab 2 310 (May 2012) and Galaxy S III. Though the company declined to comment on individual contribution of a particular device, Galaxy Y series, Note series and Galaxy S III together contributed more than 50 per...

How you could become a part of a Guinness World Record thanks to the Samsung ‘Galaxy Note II Incredible Art-Piece’ which is an attempt to break an existing Guinness World Record. At that time, over 64,000 people had already contributed with their digital arts to the world record and back on Tuesday the record reached the halfway mark as 100,000 Indian contributed to the record. The current world record is being held by the Great Britain wherein 2,01,958 people contributed to create a single digital art piece and currently over 1,28,000 artists have already contributed to the record. Anybody can be a part of this attempt to break the World Record and if you still haven’t participated all you have to do is visit the Samsung Galaxy Note II The Incredible Art Piece page, wherein you will have to fill-in your details to get started. Once you are done with it, you are greeted with loads of options and tools to choose from using which you can draw something inspires y...

The Jelly Bean handset might feature a 4.6" screen, 1.5 GHz dual-core CPU, and an 8 mp camera.   Samsung  has sold millions of smartphones, but it still doesn't seem to have hired an actual team of designers.  The  GALAXY S Duos  borrowed its design from the   GALAXY S III (GS3) ,  and  the GALAXY S III Mini  looks no different either. If that weren't enough to confuse consumers, Samsung is working on the  GALAXY Premier handset, which looks much like the GS3. This is still in rumour-stage, though: An image of the upcoming device has emerged from evleaks' Twitter  account , which is well-known for leaking handset info before launch — with some amount of accuracy. From the image, the Galaxy Premier's model number seems to be  GT-I9260,  which is quite close to the GS3's  I9300 . According to  SamMobile.com,  which closely follows Samsung-related news, the phone will probably be powered by a 1.5 GHz...

Most people are already on their Diwali shopping sprees. If you've ended up spending too much on clothes and left with not more than 10 grand for a phone, you're at the right page! Cutting-edge smartphones cost almost as much as a pair of kidneys these days. So forget about those, and limit your hunt to the pocket-friendly segment. True, none of these phones have fancy features, but they'll be good enough to get the job done. Thanks to  Google's Android  OS, you now have smartphones under the Rs 10,000 mark. But don't just stick to an Android on the basis of impressive specs; build quality and user experience are equally important. So here's the list of handsets that we consider the most worthy options: 5.   Nokia Asha 200 Street Price (As On 25-Oct-2012):   Rs 3800  (Adexmart.com) ; Rs 4000  ( Saholic.com ,  Flipkart. com ) The Asha 200 has an impressive build quality, and it looks decent. It comes with a music player, a 2 MP camera,...