With the ouster of Lee Kun-hee as the company's chariman last month, Samsung's getting back in to the swing of things. Samsung announced today that its CEO Yun Jong Yong has stepped down from the top position at South Korea's largest company. To fill the newly vacant position, Samsung has named a new CEO to [...]

LG and Samsung are teaming up to propose their jointly developed technology as the North American technology standard for mobile DTV. Two Korean giants are proposing a system that will "reflect the findings of the IDOV (Independent Demonstration of Viability) conducted by the Association of Maximum Service Television (MSTV) on behalf of the Open Mobile Video [...]

Bell Mobility in Canada is set to add two mid-range devices to its portfolio. The first one, Samsung Ace, is considered to be the BlackJack's younger brother, boasting full QWERTY keyboard, Windows Mobile 6 Standard edition, 1.3 megapixel camera, microSD slot, Bluetooth support. The lack of 3G and WiFi may be a dealbreaker for some [...]

Back in February we posted about Samsung SGH-i200 mid-range smartphone. Now it's officially announced, but unlike we initially thought, it will come with the latest version of Windows Mobile - 6.1 (not 6.0). The thin device seems designed to turn an average feature phone user into a full fledged smartphone junkie. This little phone has [...]

So, it's not just the new Curve that reached Verizon ahead of schedule. Samsung Glyde joins the party with its glossy surface and the full QWERTY keyboard. Actually, our earlier story was right. The Glyde will hit the Verizon offering within the next 48 hours, but that doesn't stop you from annoying the carrier's sales [...]

How do we know that Sprint is pushing the Samsung Instinct to go toe-to-toe with AT&T's Apple iPhone? Well, aside from the obvious touchscreen and form-factor similarities, an email from Sprint suggests, "Move over iPhone, The Instinct by Samsung is coming." Sprint's going all out in marketing their iPhone-fighting all-touchscreen device and has launched a new [...]

Back in November of last year, we talked about Verizon's plans to release the dual CDMA/GSM version of the Samsung i760. From then on, we haven't heard anything more about it. Until now. Not that Verizon or Samsung are announcing anything, yet. It's the FCC where we spotted the i770 smartphone, which looks familiar and if [...]

The long wait for AT&T's new mobile TV service, appropriately dubbed "AT&T Mobile TV," will soon come to an end. As expected, the new AT&T Mobile TV service is set to launch on May 4 (tomorrow) with 10 full-streaming TV channels. But, there's a catch. You have to have an AT&T cellphone equipped with Qualcomm's [...]

Samsung has shown off a "new" mobile phone, the "SGH-P960" in response to the EU choice of DVB-H as the Euro Mobile TV standard. This builds on previous P9xx series devices, to provide a 2.6-inch QVGA screen and 3.0MP camera. A number of device manufacturers support DVB-H (notables including Nokia, Motorola, LG, and of course Samsung), [...]

Virgin Mobile USA will be adding a new Samsung phone called Slash to its portfolio in the near future. While we're not sure about the release date nor exact specs, Virgin Mobile's "coming soon page" indicates potential users can expect such things as a built-in camera (we don't have the megapixel count), Bluetooth, mobile web [...]