Samsung Galaxy S5 With aluminium body

Samsung is contemplating on using more premium-feeling materials in its next flagship smartphone, claims an insider familiar with the electronics giant’s plans.

CM9 RC2 Available for Galaxy S3: Download Now

CM9 RC2 for Galaxy S3 and Galaxy S2 Skyrocket with Support

Twenty days back CyanogenMod team came up with the update called as CM9 RC1. This was done on the day before Google made an official announcement of Android Jelly Bean. Today, we received the news that CyanogenMod team has updated the version to CM9 RC2. RC means release candidate. It refers to the fact that the developers already know about the bugs and they have fixed the same. But still, it need not be the full and final version. There may be some more issues that are yet to be sorted out.

The good news is, CM9 RC2 is available for Galaxy S3. Also, Galaxy S2 Skyrocket has received CM9 RC2support. Thus assurance is being made that the software is becoming stable or not. Before the final version is brought out, such 3-5-5 versions are released in order to test and enhance the stability of the software. Thus RC2 is yet another achievement from CM team. Once the final version is out, CyanogenMod team can concentrate on CM10. Thus with every RC release, the hope that Jelly Bean would come up soon, becomes stronger.

It is important to note that CM9 RC2 for Samsung Galaxy S3 and CM9 RC2 for Galaxy S2 Skyrocket are not the only news we are going to give you. There are 3 more devices which will receive support from CM team and these include:

• Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 (all variants)
• Samsung Galaxy SII on T-Mobile – Hercules
• Samsung Galaxy Note on AT&T

You can download the CM9 RC2 version for your supported device at Get.CM. Also, the CyanogenMod team is doing all this work for free. We heartily thank them for their tireless efforts. We request our readers to donate CM team some money as well, so they can continue to support more devices in future.

If you are thrilled with the info that we have provided to you and you want to know more on this then kindly stay tuned. We shall provide you update on this as and when we receive them.  Also, we would like to make it clear that while downloading or using this ROM if anyting goes wrong with your Android then we shall not be responsible for that. Kindly read the disclaimer below.

Disclaimer: Download and install the CM9 RC2 ROM for Galaxy S3 at your risk. The same disclaimer applies for other handsets also.

Samsung: Galaxy S3 to reach 10 million sales by end of July

Despite experiencing supply problems and suffering production errors with the rear cases of Pebble Blue handsets early on, which caused over half a million cases to be binned, Samsung says it's on course tosell 10 million of its new Galaxy S3  flagship smartphone by the end of July.

"We're getting far better reviews on S III than we did with its predecessors globally [...] and supply simply can't meet soaring demand," said JK Shin, head of Samsung's mobile division. "We've sent executives and staff to almost all our (component) suppliers to ensure a smooth offering and hopefully things will get better from next week."

The handset launched in the US last Thursday with T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint but the South Korean technology giant has struggled to keep up with demand, with 32GB models non-existent due to tight supply issues. Pebble Blue versions also continue to experience short supply due to a previous manufacturing error that resulted in over 600,000 covers being binned. By the end of July the handset will be available globally with over 300 carriers.

Samsung, the world's largest phone maker by volume launched the first Galaxy S handset two years ago in a bid to counter Apple's dominant iPhone smartphone. At the time, big Sammie had a market share below 10%. Thanks to over 50 million "S" handsets now sold, and record-breaking shipments of other Samsung models the technology firm now enjoys a market share over three times larger at 30.6%. In the January to March period alone, Samsung sold 44.5 million units, an incredible 21,000 per hour.

The news follows previous claims the S3 had hit nine million pre-orders ahead of its May 29 launch, but confusingly it's unknown whether the ten million estimate will be handsets sold to customers, or the same figure shipped to shops. Apple on the other hand reports the total figure of new handsets activated for the first time, giving an accurate account of exactly how many handsets are actually purchased by consumers.

Salty Samsung Galaxy S III Specification

It's no surprise that Samsung is preparing another Galaxy S flagship smartphone but now, after taking a dose of salt to keep us grounded (and salty), we may have an idea of what the South Korean company has in plan for its successful Galaxy S family.

The slide below includes a timeline for the Galaxy S series and mentions for 2012 the Galaxy S III which is said to feature a 4.6-inch Super AMOLED Plus HD (1280 x 720) touchscreen, a 1.8 GHz dual-core Exynos processor, 2GB of RAM, and a 12-megapixel rear-facing camera. The image provided next to the specs doesn't look that enticing but it may be too early to complain, especially since the origin of the slide is sketchy.

Currently Samsung is busy preparing the Galaxy Nexus model and probably won't talk about the Galaxy S III until late February 2012 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona so let's keep the hype at reasonable levels for a while longer. Of course we still want two S III's, for to use daily and one to take to bed instead of a plush stuffed animal. What were we saying about hype?