Almost as a side note to Verizon’s earlier announcement today that it is offering two new pre-paid data packages for select smartphones and multimedia feature phones, Verizon told us that these new smartphones and multimedia devices will also be available for purchase directly from Verizon without a contract. The newly available devices are: BlackBerry Curve 8330, Curve 8530, Storm 9530, Storm2 9550, Tour 9630, and Bold 9650; Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus; Motorola DROID, DEVOUR, DROID X, and DROID 2; HTC DROID Eris and DROID Incredible; LG Ally, enV Touch, enV3, Chocolate Touch, and VX8360; Samsung Alias 2 and Renown; Nokia Twist; Casio EXILIM. The phones are now available for purchase without a contract from Verizon Wireless retail shops and will be available online on the 28th of September.

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Samsung unveils Samsung Galaxy Tablet using Android operating system.

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Samsung Galaxy S touches 1 million mark in shipments. Samsung’s recent smartphone series Galaxy S has become a super hit in the U.S. just after a few weeks in the market. Performance of Samsung Galaxy S indicates the rising popularity of Android platform. Samsung on Monday revealed the new facts. The company further said that the numbers suggested only shipments not sales.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab features a 7-inch LCD display and Google’s latest Android 2.2 operating system, which allows for access to Flash videos and the Android app market. Samsung will also provide its own set of apps for the device.

The Galaxy Tab will include various hubs for media and music and an e-reader to read downloaded books and other content.

The Tab will also feature 3G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, and add a full HD video player. The device also has front- and rear-facing cameras and the capability to shoot HD video at 720p resolution.

The Tab will be available in 16 GB and 32 GB versions, and feature a micro SD slot for an additional 32 GB of storage space.

Android-based smartphones have been signaling big success in the market for sometime around. Recent market sales reports indicated that Android phones showed tendencies of outselling Apple iPhone. Samsung recently rolled out a number of Galaxy S models in the U.S. on all prominent carriers.

Some analysts and even Samsung attributed Galaxy S’ large of number of shipments to the sales by many carriers. Indeed it is an undeniable truth. Android phones may be finding more customers because they are available on several carriers. In the same time, Apple iPhone is available only on AT&T in the U.S. and so is the situation in many other major countries.

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At the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin today, Samsung confirmed that Google’s future Android 3.5 operating system will be called Honeycomb. Prior to the event, speculation swirled that the next iteration of the OS would be called Honeycomb, but that had never been confirmed. The name falls in line with Google’s alphabetic naming scheme, which includes Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, and Gingerbread, which will be Android 3.0 and is expected before year’s end.

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Samsung: Android 3.5 to be called Honeycomb

At the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin today, Samsung confirmed that Google’s future Android operating system will be called Honeycomb. Prior to the event, speculation swirled that the next iteration of the OS would be called Honeycomb, but that had never been confirmed. The name falls in line with Google’s alphabetic naming scheme, which includes Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, and Gingerbread, which will be Android 3.0 and is expected before year’s end.

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Samsung: Android Honeycomb to follow Gingerbread

According to a story posted by Fortune, Google is claiming that the assertion Steve jobs made during yesterday’s keynote, that “our competitors” (implying Google) are counting upgrades in their daily activation figures, is incorrect. Google told Fortune that the “200,000 per day” figure that it gave back in August was for new activations, and did not even count Android phones sold without Google services. Jobs said during his keynote that Apple was activating 230,000 new iOS devices per day.

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