However, only two of those Sprint locations had completely sold out of the Samsung-built device.
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All customer information will be entered into a joint Samsung-FCB proprietary database for use in future promotions and product designs.
Korean makers LGand Samsung--making CDMA phones with Qualcomm's chips--began bombing the U.S. with far cheaper models, undercutting Qualcomm's handset business.
As for storage, the unit on display had a Samsung-made 64GB SSD.
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Its concern focused on whether Google would favour Motorola Mobility over handset manufacturers like HTC or Samsung - which also use Google's Android system.
We're somewhat surprised when the Samsung-made Nexus is using a brand new chip architecture that many had thought would represent a fundamental leap in speed.
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That means you can stream 16-bit audio from say, your new Samsung-i310 musicphone, straight to these speakers... when you're within 10 meters that is.
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Sprint has said it will debut several 4G gadgets in the next few months and is rumored to be getting a Samsung-made 4G phone soon.
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They're said to be working on "Samsung-related projects with a mission to customize circuits for adaptation in Samsung products" -- which certainly doesn't sound like typical Intel behavior.
As testament to Samsung's leadership in innovation, design and engineering, the Samsung HW-F750 Soundbar and Samsung BD-F7500 Smart Blu-ray Player have each been awarded a 2013 CES Innovation Award.
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Chowdhry believes that if the jury comes back with a verdict in favor of Apple, Samsung will use its many patents to force a Samsung-favored negotiated settlement with Apple.
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The particulars of the Samsung-as-innovator narrative are numerous indeed but, in general, the storyline can continue to emphasize the dangers to innovation, and how companies like itself are responding.
The devices that attract attention and envy are those made by Samsung - whose Galaxy Note appears to be the smartphone of choice for young IT professionals - and of course Apple.
We already have Google's own Samsung-made Nexus 10 as a high-water mark for a reference design, what with its 10-inch screen, Butter-smooth Android 4.2 OS and Retina-like 2, 560 x 1, 600 resolution.
Apple may still have the best-selling smartphone in the world, but the many others powered by rival Google's Android operating system -- and especially those made by Samsung -- far exceed the iPhone.
We've commented before on how HTC always seems to come in second to Samsung -- not because it has inferior hardware, but because its marketing budget is comparable to what's fallen between the cushions of Sammy's sofa.
With that, today the Samsung-Apple pairing has half of the global market in smartphones (and barely over a third of all mobile phone handsets when dumbphones are included) so there is clearly plenty of room for other rivals, contenders and pretenders.
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American remains somewhat Samsung-neutral.
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At the Dubai Lynx Awards show in March (which is owned by Cannes Lions), organizers stripped the Qatari agency FP7 Doha of its Agency of the Year title after learning that several of its award-winning ads--including one allegedly given the nod by Samsung--were never commissioned and never ran.
What they discussed is secret (speculation is that it could also involve manufacturing related to an iTV product), but industry observers believe that Apple must be alarmed in the extreme at the possible loss of intellectual property to Samsung as the result of a Samsung-Sharp equity tie-up.
The most menacing of these is that posed by archrival Samsung, whose windfall profits from sales of memory chips and huge internal demand for advanced logic chips for Samsung-brand electronics products like smart phones give it sizeable advantages in the form of both financial firepower and in-house vertical integration.
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As a segue from there, Eun noted that Samsung is making concerted efforts to make its products work together with devices and services outside of Samsung -- in other words, it's unrealistic to assume that each consumer owns a Galaxy Note 10.1, a Galaxy S III and a Samsung HDTV.
Building on the success of the Samsung HMX-U10, the new HMX-U20 and HMX-U15 bring new features and functionality to Samsung's ultra-compact camcorder family, such as a built-in USB connection, which now makes it easier than ever to not only record, but share full HD video with others.
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And while her debut will be at the Samsung World Championship, she seems to have chosen Sony as her multimillion dollar consumer-electronics endorsement, rather than hometown Korean electronics-maker Samsung Electronics --one of Sony's main competitors.
Couper Samuelson, a producer in Los Angeles, recently bought a top-of-the-line Samsung high-definition television set.
Heavy HDD use gave us 40dB, while accessing HDD and spinning up a Blu-ray took this to a deafening 50dBA. Luckily, once a disc was loaded and running, sounds from the drive ceased almost completely and overall system noise remained close to the idle level while actually playing a movie -- the Samsung SH-123L was impressive in that respect.
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SugarSync has been shipping on Samsung's AllShare Play-enabled Smart TVs since January of 2012, giving users the ability to access the SugarSync Cloud from their Samsung Internet-connected Smart TVs.
And in South Korea - Samsung's home - video games from the Google Play store did outsell those from Apple's App Store.
Obligingly, Samsung have provided a handy comparison chart by shipping its first wave of Galaxy S III devices to the US with a dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor and internationally with a quad-core Samsung Exynos system-on-chip.
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