The Tizen App Store was officially announced today at the Tizen Developer Conference, and it will be the goto place for all your application needs. The store isn’t accessible to the general public yet, but is open for developers to submit their apps (seller.tizenstore.com). Registration and publishing apps is free, and the promise to developers is that their apps will be validated within 3 days of being submitted for approval.

The Tizen Store is pretty much everything you expect from a modern App Store, however it does have a couple of …

Going into the Tizen Developer Conference there were a few major questions that people wanted answers to. The developers wanted to know details about the Tizen App Store, everyone wanted to know when we’d see the first Tizen devices, which would be the carriers supporting them, and what about the big games apps?
The keynote did manage to answer a few of those questions, albeit in not complete detail. Tizen devices are coming this year, but Jong-Deok Choi, EVP, Samsung won’t be more specific. In terms of operator support, Roy Sugimura from NTT …

The Galaxy S3 is the sucessor to the super successful S2, and since I did a very popular must know tips & tricks post for it, now would be a good time to do a follow up for Samsung’s latest superphone. The S3 packs a quad core processor, a GB of RAM, a 4.8″ Super AMOLED screen with a 1280 x 720p resolution, a 2100 mAh battery, support for NFC and runs Ice Cream Sandwich with the TouchWiz layer on top.

TouchWiz is Samsung’s Android skin that differentiates the look and feel of …

One of the reasons that people prefer Android over iOS, or even Windows Phone is that it is ‘open’. It is, to an extent, but to really push the device, you do need to root your Android smartphone. Fortunately, rooting Samsung devices has been fairly easy in the past, and that’s thanks to XDA’s Chainfire. He has released CF-Root for a number of Samsung devices, and the best part about his method is that it keeps the device as close to stock configuration as possible, while giving you superuser status.

So your Samung …

The Galaxy S3 is definitely one of the hottest devices of 2012, and will continue to be the reigning Android flagship come 2013. Samsung’s just started selling the device across the world, and it just went on sale in India. While the maximum retail price in India is closer to the 43,000 INR mark, you can get it for anything between 38-39000 INR in in stores and online.

While Samsung in recent months has followed a policy of not dropping prices quickly, I do expect the retail price of the S3 to settle …

Even Samsung isn’t sure if the Note is a phone or a tablet, but that isn’t stopping them from selling it by the truckloads. At least in India, everyday I see more and more people buy a Galaxy Note. That brings me to the question, what about the S2? It is no longer Samsung’s flagship Android device? The S3 isn’t coming till summer, so clearly there’s still some life left in the device. So if you were in the market for a high end Android, what should you to looking …

A while ago I did a ‘Must Know Tips & Tricks For The Galaxy S II‘ post and judging by the insane number of views that video has received on YouTube alone (almost 850,000), I thought I’d do a follow up video, this time for the Galaxy Note.

The Note is breaking new ground, not only for Samsung, but also for smartphones as such. A year ago 5″ phones bombed, Dell Streak is a prime example. However, with an HD screen and s much slimmer profile, the Galaxy Note quickly carving out …

A lot of people at one point in time or another have waited in line for a shiny new Apple product, and Samsung’s decided to go all in, toss subtlety out of the windows and mock them for doing so. The one minute ad focusses on the insecurities of the buyers, the iPhone’s battery issues and the lack of ’4G’.

What are they pimping instead? The Galaxy S2 of course!
[via: The Verge]

Nokia India recently had an event about its latest NFC devices like the Nokia 701, 700 and the 600, all of which run Symbian Belle. Since a bunch of us were together, we decided to get in front of the camera and demo some of the NFC functionality that’s ready to be used by the consumers.
We demo Angry Birds Magic, the game that lets you unlock levels using NFC, NFC pairing, transferring photos using NFC and using NFC tags amongst other things. We wrap the video up by talking about …

In some very big news coming on the sidelines of Intel’s AppUp Elements Conference, the LiMo Foundation and the Linux Foundation today announced a new open source project, Tizen, to develop a Linux-based device software platform. Tizen will be a standards-based, cross-architecture software platform which supports multiple device categories including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks and in-vehicle infotainment systems.

We had been hearing rumors about how Intel was going to pause MeeGo development after Nokia backed out, and today we’ve received official confirmation, its all about Tizen from now.
Meanwhile, a post …