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Samsung Orion, dual-core processor for mobile device revealed

Samsung has announced its first dual-core processors specifically designed for mobile devices such as netbooks, tablets and smart phones. Orion processors are dual core processors based on ARM Cortex A9 1GHz.

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Samsung Galaxy S now in Snow White variant

The popular Samsung Galaxy S series now available in Snow White variant. The front cover is still in black color though. Unfortunately it's only available for Korean market. Galaxy S has made record of becoming the fastest selling device in Korea, manage to surpass 800,000 units sold in just 55 days. It's unsurprisingly outperform iPhone 3GS in their homeland. 

Samsung SHW-A250 now available in South Korea

Samsung seems has really radically penetrate the market  this year, after this Korea-based company selling the Samsung 4G Epic for American market now they began working on their local market itself by presenting Samsung SHW-A250.

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Rumored: Samsung Galaxy Q, packs with Froyo and QWERTY keyboard

Samsung seems preparing the next Android phones, after introducing Samsung Epic 4G / Galaxy S Pro (another Galaxy S with slider QWERTY keyboard) and now Galaxy Q.

According to Samsung's specs leak, Galaxy Q will sports with 3 inch Super AMOLED display (720 x 480 pixel). This screen is smaller than Samsung Galaxy S I think, 8 megapixel camera + LED flash and 1.3 megapixel front facing camera. This phone will run Android 2.2 Froyo powered by 1Ghz Hummingbird processor.

Judging by the dimensions 120 mm x 68 mm x 9,25 mm, Galaxy Q seems to be a cell phone with the candy bar form factor and a QWERTY keyboard below. Some people on the AndroidForums says this phones will become a BlackBerry rival. Unfortunately until now there is no image yet for the Galaxy Q device.

[via AndroidForums]

Android's Pantech IM-A650S Vega for Korean market

The glory of iPhone in Korea has made local manufacturers jealous. One by one, they try to challenge the iPhone sales with their own Android implementation. This time, it's Pantech turn. The third largest manufacturer in Korea, after Samsung and LG, Pantech unveiled its third Android phone, dubbed as IM-A650S Vega, or simply we call it as Vega. Pantech Vega is built with Android OS 2.1 and 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.

Virus infected Samsung Wave S8500

Samsung's latest phones Wave S8500 reportedly infected by the virus. The slmvsrv.exe virus is residing in microSD that bundling with this Samsung's phone.

Mobile Burn who first reported this incident. They found the virus when it will try Samsung Wave had just received from Seoul. Not only Mobile Burn, a forum of discussion in Germany also reported a similar case.

The virus will install itself when connected to a Windows computer and read the MicroSD as an external dstorage device with autorun enabled. Windows computers are infected with the virus will then copy into a memory card or USB drives are plugged into the computer.

Samsung itself has been notified of this incident but until now there has been no official statement from Samsung about viruses that 'ride' on Samsung Wave.

[via mobileburn]

Korea's KT to bring Nexus One by late June

HTC HD2 and HTC Desire launch in Korea

HTC launches the HTC HD2 and HTC Desire in the South Korean market in partnership with SK Telecom. The handsets are aimed to be an answer of HTC to Apple’s iPhone ruling the Korean market.

The HTC Desire is Android phone that equipped with a 3.7-inch active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) touch screen that supports multi-touch capability, which allows the use of two fingers to zoom in and out of images, and is powered by the 1-gigahertz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor that enables faster functions.

While HTC HD2, a Windows Mobile-based smartphone that is also powered by Snapdragon and boasts a 4.3-inch display, the biggest among current smartphone models available. HD2 will be available through SK Telecom later this month.

[via koreatimes]

McAfee viruscan available for Android and Windows Mobile in Korea

If you have a PC or work around them, you should be familiar with McAfee. They are one of the top computer security companies in the world. If you have an Android or Windows Mobile device on SK Telecom in Korea you will soon be able to download this Anti-Malware software to your handset.

This software is designed for your Android and Windows Mobile device and it has similar functions to the desktop version of the security suite. Your personal information will also be secured as well as the app will automatically update itself and scan your device.

Fortunately, this apps can be downloaded for free for all SK Telecom user in Korea, more handsets are expected before long and McAfee plans to support them as well. Click here to read the full press release.

LG, Samsung Android phones come in Korea with AhnLab's V3 Mobile antivirus

We heard reports on LG and Samsung competing in domestic market for Android/smartphone market share. What we rarely heard, because of recent incident with malicious code on Windows Mobile smartphone, those Android phones will come with built-in antivirus made by AhnLab. LG will inject V3 mobile antivirus to Andro-1 and upcoming LG -LU2300, while Samsung will include this antivirus into their first Android smartphone in Korea.

This V3 Mobile antivirus previously available for Symbian and Windows Mobile platform, now available for both Android and iPhone. According to its official explanation:

‘V3 Mobile for Android’ detects and repairs malicious codes in Android-based smartphones and provides real-time scans of all running processes, manual scans for executable files and general files (like SD card sector and built-in memory (UMS)). It also detects applications that possess excessive authority that allows access to personal user data with ‘behavior detection’ methodology.

‘V3 Mobile+ for iPhone’, also unveiled today, detects the jail break. In case of iPhone, the security threat in normal phone is extremely low, as it allows only approved application from App store. Therefore, ‘V3 Mobile+ for iPhone’ guarantees safe mobile internet environment by detecting jail-broken phones.

Well, I have never heard any issue with malicious code in Android and iPhone so far, but if your handset has been jailbroken or rooted, it's better to include this antivirus into your phone as precaution.

[via JoongAng Daily]