What to do about Samsung Gear Email: The content of this email cannot be displayed on the gear for security reasons. For details, view this email on your mobile device
Unlock your Samsung Galaxy S3, Note 2 and Ruby. Free. No Rooting. No Hacking. You MUST have Android 4.1.1 for this to work, otherwize the last step NW LOCK NV… will be missing. Just dial the following keys *#197328640# Main Menu [1] UMTS [1] Debug Screen [8] Phone Control [6] Read more…
After much work and about an hour with Microsoft I determined that the nut of the problem was the automatic setup on the Galaxy S3… don’t use it, click MANUAL SETUP. But first… make sure your phone is patched to the current build as Samsung had a few issues prior to Read more…
The original version of the S3’s firmware had this setting was off by default but since the newer firmware has been installed, text messages now automatically appear in the Inbox of your Samsung Galaxy S3 (and likely other Android 4 devices). Start you email Click the MENU button (left of the large physical Read more…
This is not hard to do but it is easy to make a mistake. If you want to view your email inbox folders on a Galaxy S3 Android 4 all you have to do is open your email and: Click the folder select box at the top Click SHOW ALL Read more…
Below are three brief videos I recorded explaining how to use the your S3: UPDATE: DEC 5, 2012 – Under Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, DRIVING MODE has been relegated to SETTINGS > LANGUAGE AND INPUT > TEXT TO SPEECH OUTPUT > DRIVING MODE . The button on the notification screen Read more…
I have been looking at this “N” (see right) for weeks and have not figured out what it is doing. I have turned off WiFi so it should not find an 802.11 N networks. This was making me nuts. It turns out that “N” relates to NEAR FEILD COMMUNICATION. If Read more…
…global market share fell to 16.9 percent from 18.8 percent a year earlier. Meanwhile, Samsung smartphone shipments surged 172.8 percent to 50 million units from 18.4 million. Market share rose to 32.6 percent from 17 percent a year earlier. Quarter on quarter, Apple share fell from 24.2 percent, erasing most Read more…
It sounds like yet another important legal body is rejecting Apples (often viscous) claims and ordering Apple to undo the damage with prolonged advertising favouring Samsung! Note that Apple actually manufactures very little (if anything) and that Samsung is a very very important OEM which engineers and manufactures such things Read more…
This took me a bit of searching through settings and blogs but I found that if you start your music and then go to the home screen the device will not stop playing. In my case I am using a Samsung Galaxy S III and have enabled the motion detection, Read more…
Companies are notorious for providing questionable MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure). Disks are no exception to this rule. We found that www.behardware.com had acquired actual return rates and so we took their number and compiled the following list. The numbers are …taken from a large French etailer, whose database we have Read more…
“Strategy Analytics puts Samsung’s Q1 smartphone shipment at 44.5 million, compared to Apple’s 35.1 million, IHS says 32 million for the South Korean electronics giant. IDC’s number is way closer to Strategy Analytics, but not as high: 42.2 million. Samsung ended the quarter with 29.1 percent share to Apple’s 24.2 Read more…
“…My reaction mirrored many others this week. Apple’s big iPhone holiday quarter seemed simply unbelievable — 37 million, up 128 percent year over year. But Samsung was close. Real close: 36.5 million smartphones, according to Strategy Analytics. Together, the two companies accounted for 47 percent of fourth-quarter smartphone shipments. The Read more…
“…”Ah that looks like last year’s phone” is the killer line, says a guy rising from his sleeping bag to look at an unboxing video of, presumably, iPhone 4S. Samsung snark already has soured perceptions of iPhone and boosted those of Samsung brands, according to YouGov BrandIndex. The attack ads, Read more…
The Seagate and Samsung strategic alignment benefits all our customers — from the consumer to the enterprise. Our combined strengths will allow Seagate to offer a more extensive portfolio of innovative storage solutions and to quickly develop new solutions that address the industry’s rapidly evolving storage needs. What’s more, Samsung Read more…
“…(Samsung) in third quarter, Samsung sold 24 million smartphones — nearly 7 million more than Apple… While American bloggers and journalists obsess about iPhone, across the globe Samsung makes huge strides that eclipse Apple. While best known for Android phones like the S2, Samsung has a three-operating system strategy that Read more…