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Samsung plans to return to profitability by using Nokia’s old strategy

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Samsung’s profits are down (60% year on year for Q3), because nobody is buying their high-end models and the average selling price per handset is dropping. Its solution is to…. sell more low-end handsets and promote the Note 4 heavily. That would be the Note 4 that they had to cut the launch price of because of the competition from the iPhone 6 Plus. Samsung is doing the same thing Nokia tried (which failed), that Palm tried (and failed), that [the standalone] Motorola tried (and failed), that Ericsson tried (and failed). What makes the South Korean company think they’re any different?

Samsung Windows Phones look too much like Samsung Android Phones

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Got to love the alleged view of the UK mobile networks:  Citing an “extremely reliable” source, [Professeur Thibault] first goes on to address the absence of a Focus S equivalent in Europe which is apparently due to carriers’ unwillingness to stock a device that looks so similar to the Galaxy S II. If there were ever a good incentive to not be lazy with design for Samsung, that would be it…and it really does look to have gotten to them. The source goes on to say the leading OEM is ready to release new models this year for Europe and that, “they should be

Adventures with the Galaxy Tab – Going off the grid

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The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 (from O2, as you’ll recall here, here, and here) has been earning its place in my gadget bag now, and two recent trips around the UK have seen me carry the Tab into areas with poor mobile phone coverage, and rather limited access to Wi-Fi: namely a caravan holiday in the north of England with minimal GSM coverage and not a hope of punching a data signal through; and the recent Over the Air conference where the volume of devices, hackers and power users in such a confined space swamped both the Wi-Fi network and