May 23rd, 2012 
AT&T today announced a new smartphone for its pre-paid GoPhone brand. The Samsung Galaxy Appeal is a side-slider Android phone with a four-row QWERTY keyboard.
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May 23rd, 2012
LONDON, United Kingdom - A newly developed SIM card is able to minimize bullying and sexting agaisnt children, and to give the full control over the mobile phone used by a child to its parents….
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May 23rd, 2012 
With the runaway success of the Galaxy S lineup and as Samsung’s biggest and brightest star, it’s only to be expected that the latest iteration of the Galaxy S series will be scrutinized and placed under a magnifying glass. The design of the Galaxy S3, for instance, has been equally praised and loathed, but critics went so far as to say that it was designed by Samsung’s lawyers to avoid future litigation from Apple. Samsung’s officials, naturally, deny the claim.
Talking to journalists during the 2012 Seoul Digital Forum, Samsung design vice president Chang Dong-hoon said that the company has a five-year design plan for its phones, Samsung Galaxy S3 included. This debunks the notion that Samsung was forced to choose a design for the Galaxy S3 that will avoid Apple’s trade dress infringement claims and keep the company out of court.
In the case of the Samsung Galaxy S3, Dong-hoon said that the main design team spent over a year perfecting the phone. The Galaxy S3’s sleek curves had to go through hundreds of design changes before they settled down on the final “nature-inspired” look, which the company then complemented with a nature-themed user interface.
Hopefully, we can now move on and start paying more attention to other aspects of the Samsung Galaxy S3, because the flagship phone does come with lots of new tricks and features to please gadget lovers. With reports coming out about the Galaxy S3 finally reaching retail stores in Dubai, eager buyers definitely have a lot to look forward in the next few days.
Are you ready to welcome the Samsung Galaxy S3? Have you done any pre-order yet in your country? Feel free to let your opinion (positive or negative) about the phone’s design known in the comments below.
This article, Samsung defends Galaxy S3 design, says nothing to do with lawsuit , was originally published at AndroidAuthority.com – Your Android News Source.
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May 23rd, 2012 
NVIDIA has been talking about cheap, quad-core powered tablets for some time, and it now has revealed the platform that it plans to bring them on. Unveiled during an investor call last week, the new Kai platform is expected to be cheap enough for tablet manufacturers to produce quad-core Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablets in the $199 price range. NVIDIA says that the Kai chipset uses some of the “secret sauce” found in the higher-end quad-core Tegra 3 chip, but manages to keep costs much lower. NVIDIA hopes to compete with devices like the Amazon Kindle Fire, but still provide much better performance. There have long been rumors that Google is working on a Nexus-branded tablet that will be quad-core and priced under $200, so Kai may very well be used to power that.
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May 23rd, 2012 
Employees of IBM will need to find someone else to talk to other than their phone while at work, as the technology giant has revealed that it is blocking Apple’s Siri personal assistant on its networks. The reason is because Siri works by transmitting voice commands to Apple’s data center and then processing them there, and IBM is concerned that certain sensitive information may get into the wrong hands as a result.
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