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Over 10 million Samsung Galaxy S III units have been sold

Many considered the Samsung Galaxy S II to be the best Android phone ever made. That put a lot of pressure on Samsung for the Galaxy S III. Well, it looks like they succeeded. Shin Jong-Kyun, a Samsung senior executive, told reporters that the company has sold more than 10 million units of the Samsung Galaxy S III.

While we don’t have any specific sales figures, it isn’t a surprise. The device was launched in May for the European and Asian market and was released in the U.S. in June. Today the handset is available in 140 countries around the world.

This is an enormous success for the company. Shin says he expects the number to grow to 20 million units sold by this fall. I wonder just how soon they will reach that number

Samsung MV900F Multi View Compact Camera Announced

Samsung has launched a new compact camera, the Samsung MV900F which is the latest version of their Multi View compact camera, the previous model was the MV800.

The new Samsung MV900F features a 3.3 inch WVGA AMOLED display that can be flipped to face directly forward, and it comes with a 16.3 megapixel backside illuminated sensor and WiFi.

“The MV900F’s stylish design and incredibly bright and fast lens, makes it the ideal camera for a night out on the town – as it will capture fantastic videos and photos, even in dimly-lit places. Now more than ever, we want to share these experiences instantly with friends and family, so the MV900 will take images consumers will be proud to share using the camera’s SMART Wi-Fi features,” said Reid Sullivan, Senior Vice President of Mobile Entertainment, Samsung Electronics America. “The unique MultiView display, intuitive touch screen and cutting-edge SMART camera technology means that superior quality images can be captured from any angle and shared at any time.”

Samsung will launch the MV900F in August and it will retail for $349.99, there are no details as yet when it will be available in the UK and Europe.

Battlefield 3 Armoured Kill DLC Gameplay Revealed (video)

Looking forward to playing the new Battlefield 3 Armoured Kill DLC? If you are feast your eyes on this new gameplay footage, which has been released showing the action you can expect to enjoy in the new Battlefield 3 Armoured Kill DLC.

Battlefield players who purchased the Battlefield Premium edition of the game will be able to enjoy the new DLC two weeks earlier than other players, when it launches in September 2012.

The new Battlefield 3 Armoured Kill DLC brings with it five new vehicles including mobile artillery, tanks, and ATVs. The video below also shows the Alborz Mountain Battlefield 3 map and the Bandar Desert map, which is the largest Battlefield 3 map created to date, specifically for armoured destruction.

Other expansions currently being created for the Battlefield 3 game include Battlefield 3: Aftermath which will be arriving inDecember 2012, and Battlefield 3: End Game launching in March 2013.

LG announces IPS7 Series monitors

LG has announced a new series of IPS monitors in the IPS7 series. This series includes a 23 and 27 inch model with specs aimed at mobile, HD and professional users. These models feature a 1920 x 1080 resolution and a Cinema Screen design with a 1.2mm (.025-inch) bezel and a half-inch depth.

Other features include a mobile high-definition (MHL) link, fast response times and color calibration software for professionals. These do lack some features that you would find in high end monitors like dual-link 2560 x 1440 resolution and 10-bit, 1.07 billion color graphics(Comparing to the Dell U2711 or HP ZR2740w, for instance), so hopefully they will be cheaper.

Vodafone Australia begins updating Nexus S with Android 4.1

Vodafone Australia has just confirmed on their blog that they will be rolling out the Android 4.1 update for the Google Nexus S starting today, July 19.

The update has been approved by Vodafone and will begin rolling out on 1:00 p.m. AEST. Hopefully, this means that the Nexus S in other regions will be getting the update shortly.

Meanwhile, they have also mentioned that the Android 4.1 update for the Galaxy Nexus is being prepared for submission to Vodafone for testing but no dates have been given as to when the update should be ready to roll out.

Nokia

Nokia in Q2: Lumia sales up, company still in the red

Nokia is still going through the tough transitional period as confirmed by its Q2 financial results. The report is a mix of good news and bad news - the good news is that Lumia sales are picking up, the bad news is that the Finnish company is still losing money.

There were 4 million Lumia phones sold in Q2 of 2012 (up from 2.2 million in Q1). Stephen Elop commented that Nokia will continue to support current devices "well beyond the launch of Windows Phone 8" (current phones will get WP7.8, but not WP8).

Sales and shipping numbers for Nokia's smart devices declined both year on year and quarter on quarter. This is mainly due to reduced Symbian sales and the falling Average Selling Price (ASP) of the platform. On the other hand, the ASP on smart devices combined went up both QoQ and YoY.

Net sales of Nokia featurephones are down YoY, but mostly unchanged from the previous quarter even though the number of devices shipped went up. The sub-€50 models like the Nokia 100 and 101 were driving sales up, but the pricier higher-end models found it hard to compete with affordable smartphones.

The report mentions declining net sales across the world, except for North America, a market Nokia has been working hard to get back into. Net sales were up 45% there compared to last year's Q2, but the number of shipped units fell by 60%.

Nokia received €400 million pre-payments for intellectual property licenses and €196 million ($250 million) quarterly "platform support" from Microsoft. The Finnish company also sold its Vertu subsidary, which wasn’t essential to its core business. Nokia bought Scalado, a company known for its cool imaging software.

In an effort to reduce expenses, Nokia closed its R&D department in Ulm, Germany and Barnaby, Canada and is working towards closing off a factory in Salo, Finland. The R&D department there will continue to operate.

The bottom line is this - net sales from Devices & Services department of Nokia are down 26% YoY, shipments are down 5% and the operating loss in Q2 was €474 million. The company as a whole posted an operating loss of €826.

How to Use the iPhone to Record your Guitar

Guitar Recording on iPhone

The iPhone is one of the most versatile mobile devices ever released, however it soon becomes frustrating if, as a musician, you try and record your work on teh iPhone.

Fortunately there are ways you can not only record sound perfect guitar recordings on your iPhone, but also mix your recordings on multitrack iPhone software applications to give you a powerful platform for any musician.

The bad news is that this kind of technology is not cheap,  running to around $200!

Sonoma Wireworks is probably the most popular iPhone guitar recording solution, which provides a great high quality recording system for your guitar (You can also buy an adapter for 1/8 inch input as well as the guitar’s 1/4 inch connection).

Sonoma Wireworks adapters work really well with iphone apps such as FourTrack, which costs around $10, but provides a fantastic fourtrack music studio for your iPhone!

Multi Charger Saves you Space!

The charging mat uses one wall socket and can charge up to four devices at a time.  it supports most current devices, and if it doesn’t it supplies additonal cables for $4.95 each!

At $40 the charging mat may seem a little bit expensive, but when you consider it can charge nearly any device, save you space and securely hold your hardware, well it suddenly doesn’t seem quite so much!

The silicon mat rolls up, and you can get a cigareet lighter adapter to charge your gadgets on the go!

Samsung plans to unveil the Galaxy Note 2 on August 30

According to the Korean Digital Daily website Samsung is planning to have an Unpacked event for the Galaxy Note 2. It should happen on August 30 - a day before the IFA expo kicks off in Berlin, Germany.

According to the information the event will start at 19:00 (local time, CET) and will be all about the Galaxy Note 2. As the latest rumors have it, the Note’s successor will be powered by a quad-core Exynos chipset, will feature a 13MP camera and will actually be narrower despite the larger, 5.5" screen. Android 4.1 Jelly Bean should be powering the whole thing.

With the original Galaxy Note going official at last year's IFA, it was only logical for its successor to arrive at the same event a year later. Yet, Samsung decided not to bring the Galaxy S III to the MWC earlier this year, so there was always the chance that the Koreans will have a separate event for their other key device as well. It's good this isn't the case, though.

Naturally, we'll be onsite covering the Sasmung Galaxy Note 2 announcement live for you, so make sure to keep an eye on our homepage when the time comes.