Samsung has announced Samsung Galaxy S Advance that surfaced in Philippines recently. It comes with 4.0-inch WVGA(480×800) Super AMOLED display and is powered by 1 GHz Dual-Core Processor. It runs on Android 2.3(Gingerbread) with Samsung TouchWiz UI and comes with 5 Megapixel Auto Focus Camera with LED Flash and 1.3MP secondary camera.
Specifications of Samsung Galaxy S Advance
4.0-inch WVGA(480×800 pixels) Super AMOLED display
Android 2.3(Gingerbread), Samsung TouchWiz UI
Dimensions – 123.2 x 63.0 x 9.69 mm and weighs 120g
1 GHz Dual-Core Processor
5 Megapixel Auto Focus Camera with LED Flash, 720p video recording and 1.3MP secondary camera
3.5mm audio Jack, Stereo FM Radio with RDS
768MB RAM, 8/16GB User memory that is expandable up to 32GB with MicroSD
3G (HSPA 14.4 Mbps), Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth v 3.0 and aGPS
1,500mAh battery
It would also comes with ChatON messaging app and Find My Mobile, a unique lost-phone management system that ensures secure phone data encryption in case of phone loss, and that enables users to trace their lost phone directly via the Web or even delete the device’s data remotely.
The Samsung Galaxy S Advance would be available in Russia starting from February, and would gradually be rolled out in CIS, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Southeast and Southwest Asia, Latin America and China.

Mundu TV has reached 5 million Downloads on the Nokia Store. Mundu TV app reached more than 5 million downloads and has held its place as one of the top 10 free apps on the Nokia Store with an average of 400,000 downloads per month in less than a year.
Mundu TV provides live and archived television from top content providers worldwide, bringing a personalized TV experience to viewers across the globe, regardless of location or network. Viewers can watch a range of genres, from business and news to sports and entertainment, including live coverage of events such as cricket.
They plan to launch new features including, Video-On-Demand (VOD), social media integration, enhanced usability, and many more international channels by early 2012.
Download Mundu TV app for Nokia Symbian S60 v3, S60 v5 devices, including Symbian^3 devices from the Nokia Store. The app would soon be available for the Windows Phone 7 devices and Series 40 (S40) Nokia phones.

LG Optimus L3 E400, a new unannounced Android smartphone is on pre-order from a online retailer in Sweden. It comes with a 3.2-inch (240 x 320 pixels) display and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The phone has a unique design and looks like a mid-ranger device according to the specs.
It also comes with a 3MP camera, 3G, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, FM Radio, 3.5mm headset jack, and MicroSD card support (up to 32GB).
It is priced at 1,290 Swedish kronor (US$ 191) in Sweden and comes in Black, and White colors. There are no details about the processor, memory and the battery. Let’s wait for the official announcement from LG. It might also be announced at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012.
Via: GSM Arena
 

Samsung Galaxy S Advance GT-I9070, an upcoming Android phone has surfaced in Philippines. It looks like smaller version of Samsung Galaxy S II with 4-inch (480 x 800 pixels) Super AMOLED display. It has curved design similar to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus but the specs are similar to Galaxy R that was announced last year. It runs on Android 2.3.6 (Gingerbread) with enhanced TouchWiz UI, which should be upgradable to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).
It uses a dual-core ARMv7 (VFPv3, NEON) CPU and a Mali-400 MP GPU. It has 5MP camera with a single LED flash with 720p HD video recording and a front-facing camera, 3.5mm audio jack and the micro USB port and a 1500mAh battery.
It is expected to be showcased at MWC next month and is priced at 22,900 Philippine pesos (US$ 535) in Philippines.
Source: hardwarezone.com.ph

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) has upgraded the minimum broadband speeds to 512 Kbps for all their customers in Mumbai. According to this, all the MTNL broadband customers in Mumbai with download speed less then 512 Kbps will automatically be upgraded to 512 Kbps download speed without any additional charges. They have also launched 2 new limited plans and an 1Mbps unlimited plan.
The MTNL DSL 250 plan and DSL 450 plan would offer up to 2 Mbps download speeds at a monthly rental of Rs.250 and Rs.450 with free data usage of 1 GB and 3 GB (charges after free usage as 50p/Mb and 30p/Mb) respectively.
The Unlimited combo plan offers Rent-free land line with 25 free calls and 1 Mbps download speed with Unlimited free usage at a monthly rental of Rs.995.

Nokia Asha 300 is finally available in India from online retailer Flipkart. Nokia announced the Series 40 device at the Nokia World 2011 last year and launched in India in December. It is powered by a 1 Ghz processor and has 3G capability. It has 2.4-inch (320 x 240 pixels) resistive touch display. It has 5MP camera with video recording at 25 fps and has 32GB expandable memory. It also comes with Nokia Music Unlimited, DRM free Music service with 3 months free subscription. It is 12.7mm thick and weighs 85g.
It has faster access to messaging, email and instant messaging. Other features include 3G, HSPA Quadband, WiFi, Stereo FM radio and MP3 music player. It has upgraded Nokia Browser gives you swipe access to apps, music or games from the Nokia Store. It comes with 1,110 mAh battery that offers up to 7h talk time and 550h standby.
The Asha Nokia 300 is available from Flipkart in India for Rs. 6,835.

Windows Phone fansite , WPSauce , reporting live from the Windows Phone Dev Camp in India says that future versions of Windows Phone will support upto 120 languages. Equally interesting is the news that C++ native code support will be coming to Windows Phone in the near future.
The news comes from Microsoft developers and speakers during the Q&A at the event. While still far from confirmed , we find the news believable given Microsoft’s goal to infiltrate the volume segment. Microsoft has also been very active in their support for developers who have been clamoring for native code support. Sadly it is still unknown whether these advances will be additions to the Tango release or Windows Phone Apollo scheduled for late this year.
[ WP Sauce ]

Samsung might announce a new Galaxy Tab with 2 GHz Exynos 5250 processor and a display with WXQGA (2560×1600 pixels ) resolution display at Mobile World Congress (MWC) according to androidandme. It would obviously run on the latest Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).
Samsung mentioned in their earnings call that they are sampling the Exynos 5250 SoC and would begin mass production for their devices from Q2 2012. The Exynos 5250 processor A15 chip clocks at 2GHz and would support WQXGA (2560×1600 pixels ) resolution display. Some sites are also reporting that it would come with a larger 11.6-inch display and S-pen support.
The Cortex-A15 and Mali-T604 would deliver better speed and graphics with memory bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s and better power consumption. They unveiled the Galaxy S II and the Galaxy Tab 10.1 at MWC 2011 that was available in April 2011. Even if the new tablet is announced at the MWC 2012, we can’t expect it till the end of Q2 or Q3 since they would start producing these chips in Q2 2012.
Let’s wait till the end of February for the MWC to know more.
Source: Androidandme

Samsung Galaxy S III has been on the radar from quite sometime, there were rumors that Samsung is reviewing their launch of the quadcore beast at MWC, meanwhile in UAE Samsung’s official page listed GT I9300 (Galaxy S III) under the Mobile product name. Which not only proves that Galaxy S III exists but also that it might come sooner than we expect.
The Samsung Galaxy S II is rumored to run a quadcore processor, totally new design, 2 GB of RAM and more cool stuff like that. We are sure that this is the Galaxy S II because I90xx was the model number of the Galaxy S series, I91xx was reserved for the Galaxy S II series and as Galaxy Nexus got I9250, I am sure the Galaxy SIII will be getting I9300. Now this device does sound really awesome and almost everyone in the tech field, even Apple will be looking for the launch of this phone.
Source: Softpedia

Samsung has reported 17% increase in net profit due to increase smartphone sales in Q4 2011. They reported a net profit of 4 trillion won ($3.5 billion) in the fourth quarter of 2011 and 47.3 trillion won in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2011. The  operating profit jumped 75.8 percent to 5.3 trillion won in the fourth quarter compared to last year.
The Semiconductor sector has seen a revenue of 9.17 trillion won in Q4 2011 with 2.31 trillion won in operating profits that has increased 29% year on year.The mobile sector 17.18 trillion won revenue The telecom sector recorded operating profits of 2.64 trillion won that is up 79% compared to Q4 2010. Overall 2011 operating profits were 7.34 trillion won in the semiconductors and 8.27 trillion won in Telecommunications sector.
The overall 2011 revenue for Samsung was at 165 trillion won that is 7% higher that year over year but the net income of 13.7 trillion won is down 15% compared with 2010.