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		<title>Some Reservations About Samsung&#8217;s 5G Speed &#8216;Breakthrough&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/some-reservations-about-samsungs-5g-speed-breakthrough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like a shop owner anticipating Christmas in July, Samsung Electronics is this morning touting new technology it claims will allow it to usher the world into the 5G era by 2020. If you can stand to wait seven years, the company&#8217;s talking about core &#8220;adaptive array transceiver&#8221; technology that delivers so-called fifth generation speeds &#8220;up to several hundred times faster&#8221; than today&#8217;s 4G networks. What&#8217;s that translate to in download speeds? Up to &#8220;several tens of Gbps per base station,&#8221; says Samsung, adding that this could allow users to sling around vast data files and ultra-HD movies &#8220;practically without limitation.&#8221; (In other words, Shazam!) The new technology reportedly solves limitations with millimeter-wave bands (operating at high frequencies) transmitting data over long distances due to atmospheric attenuation. (I don&#8217;t pretend to understand the atmospheric physics, but it involves, among other things, radio signals and the resonance of oxygen molecules, as well as &#8220;rain fade,&#8221; where radio signals are absorbed by ice, rain and snow.) Samsung says it&#8217;s been able to successfully work around this by using 64 antenna elements transmitting data at 1.056GBps at a frequency of 28GHz for up to 2 kilometers (a little over a mile). All well and good, but before we get all rapturous about downloading ultra-HD content in a blink, let&#8217;s revisit an arguably bigger problem we haven&#8217;t solved still, today &#8212; a problem higher speeds will only exacerbate. Imagine you&#8217;re zipping down the Interstate, and say the speed limit&#8217;s 80 m.p.h., but you&#8217;re &#8212; did I say zipping? &#8212; actually creeping along at half that because, you know, two lanes and rush hour &#8212; a real bumper-to-bumper slog. That&#8217;s what my smartphone&#8217;s data connection sometimes feels like living in a college town, say on (football) game day, during any of the city&#8217;s big summer festivals or, you know, when school&#8217;s in primetime session seven months a year. The trouble&#8217;s not that my 4G smartphone or tablet connection isn&#8217;t fast enough (in theory) to instantly stream high quality videos and music &#8212; even a 3G connection&#8217;s capable of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162634&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Samsung&#8217;s Next Galaxy Phone Could Have Optical Zoom Lens</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/10/samsungs-next-galaxy-phone-could-have-optical-zoom-lens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although smartphone cameras have made some huge leaps over the last few years, they remain handicapped by a lack of optical zoom. The perennial advantage for dedicated digicams may not last long, however, as phone makers look to cram optical zoom lenses into smartphones. This week, Russian site Hi-Tech.Mail.Ru reported that Samsung is readying a &#8220;Galaxy S4 Zoom&#8221; phone, with a 10x optical zoom lens. Previously, the same site had accurately reported on the Galaxy Core low-end handset, and now a listing for the Zoom has appeared on the Bluetooth SIG&#8217;s website. Sammobile has reported that this will be a camera-focused spinoff from Samsung&#8217;s popular Galaxy S series, coinciding with the launch of mini and rugged variants. Optical zoom describes a lens that physically extends outward from the body of the camera, much like a telescope. Digital zoom, by comparison, is basically just a cropped and enlarged image. Virtually every phone on the market offers digital zoom, but using this feature is no different than enlarging and cropping the photo in post-production. If the rumor about the Galaxy Zoom is true &#8212; and it&#8217;s looking pretty likely at this point &#8212; it won&#8217;t be the only effort to duplicate, or at least approximate, the optical zoom experience on a smartphone. At Mobile World Congress in February, Huawei said to expect phones with optical zoom lenses within a year. &#8220;This is a feature for the compact camera, but we want to design this on our smartphones,&#8221; Kevin Ho, president of Huawei&#8217;s handset division, told Trusted Reviews. Nokia, meanwhile, has come up with a way to make digital zoom mimic the benefits of optical zoom. The company&#8217;s 808 PureView phone has a 41-megapixel camera, but it automatically crops images down to about 5 megapixels. Because the camera is gathering so much data, it can zoom and crop without causing a noticeable hit to image quality. Nokia is widely expected to offer the technology in a Windows Phone later this year. (The company&#8217;s existing Lumia 920 carries the PureView label, but doesn&#8217;t have the huge megapixel count.) As<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162532&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pentagon Clears Use of Samsung Devices</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/03/pentagon-clears-use-of-samsung-devices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 12:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea (AP) &#8212; Samsung Electronics Co. says the U.S. Department of Defense has approved using Samsung smartphones for its networks. The South Korean company said Friday the Galaxy S 4 smartphone has become the first Android device to meet the security requirements set out by the U.S. government, allowing government and military officials to access the Defense Department&#8217;s networks with the S 4. Samsung is making a big push to enter the smartphone market for governments and enterprises dominated by Research In Motion Ltd.&#8217;s BlackBerry devices. Earlier this year, Samsung announced software for security-conscious users called Samsung Knox aimed at people who want to use their personal mobile devices to access secured networks at the workplace. Samsung said Knox is only available with the S 4 and will be installed in other Samsung devices later.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161788&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Samsung to Block Access to App Store in Iran</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/26/samsung-to-block-access-to-app-store-in-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TEHRAN, Iran (AP) &#8212; Iranian users of Samsung mobile applications said Thursday that the company had notified them that they will no longer have access to the company&#8217;s online store as of May 22. The move is seen as part of international sanctions on the country over its disputed nuclear program. The West has imposed banking and insurance sanctions on Iran since it suspects Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran denies. At a Tehran shopping mall, owners of mobile phones and tablets said Thursday that they had received the message via email from the company late the night before. Retailers said they had no power over the decision. &#8220;We have heard about it, but we are only responsible for hardware here, not software and apps,&#8221; shopkeeper Bijan Ashtiani said. In the message, Samsung said that it cannot provide access to the store, known as Samsung Apps, in Iran because of &#8220;legal barriers.&#8221; It apologized to customers in emailed statement seen by the Associated Press on Thursday. Samsung&#8217;s offices in Tehran could not be immediately reached for comment due to the weekend there, and its headquarters in South Korea did not immediately respond to a request. The decision quickly provoked ire on social media. &#8220;Samsung is to stop its apps in Iran, oh how we appreciate our officials,&#8221; wrote Bahareh, a Twitter user blaming Tehran&#8217;s policy. Another, named Armin, pointed at the technology giant itself, saying: &#8220;Now, Samsung&#8217;s sanctions honor us as well!&#8221; Samsung spokesman Chris Jung in Seoul declined to comment. Unlike Apple, Microsoft and Adobe, Samsung has provided localized services to Iranians in their native Persian language. In 2012, Finnish communications giant Nokia stopped its services in the country.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161129&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Samsung Galaxy S 4 Review: Gimme One Smartphone, with Everything</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/24/samsung-galaxy-s4-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it became clear that Google&#8217;s Android operating system would be the iPhone&#8217;s primary rival, hardware makers quickly began cranking out a vast profusion of Android models. And for a while, it looked like the future of the phone market would be the iPhone vs. &#8230; well, everybody. Recently, though, the market has boiled down to the iPhone vs. Samsung — or, more precisely, the iPhone vs. the Galaxy S. True, other manufacturers produce some very well-done Android phones, like HTC&#8217;s elegant One. But Samsung is Android&#8217;s 800-lb. gorilla, and the Galaxy S line is its most direct answer to Apple&#8217;s phone. Which makes the Galaxy S 4 the smartphone you&#8217;re most likely to buy if you&#8217;re not buying an iPhone. Like previous Galaxy phones, the S 4 will be one of the most widely available smartphones on the planet: it arrives on AT&#38;T on Saturday, on Sprint and T-Mobile next week and on Verizon in May. The price varies from carrier to carrier and reseller to reseller, but in general, the 16GB model will set you back $150 to $250 with a two-year service commitment. (Or, with T-Mobile, a contract-free agreement to pay off the rest of the price of the phone over two years.) I reviewed the T-Mobile version of the Galaxy S 4 — compatible with both that company&#8217;s nationwide HSPA+ network and its nascent LTE one — using a phone provided by Samsung. If you&#8217;ve been following the evolution of the Galaxy S line since the original model debuted in March 2010, you can guess what Samsung&#8217;s done to differentiate the S 4 from its predecessors. If Apple is a master of minimalism, Samsung believes just as deeply in maximalism: bigger screens, better specs, more features and apps. Bottom line: the Galaxy S 4 is essentially last year&#8217;s Galaxy S III, only more so. In a happy paradox, the S 4 is both larger and smaller than its predecessor. What&#8217;s bigger is the display — a bright, vivid, HD-capable 5-in. (12.7 cm) Super AMOLED screen that adds<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160876&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Winning, iOS or Android? All the Numbers, All in One Place</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/16/ios-vs-android/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who&#8217;s winning the mobile platform wars, Apple&#8217;s iOS or Google&#8217;s Android? It&#8217;s one of the blogosphere&#8217;s favorite tech topics. Every new nugget of competitive information is fodder for an avalanche of coverage. Oftentimes, a story will declare that Android is beating iOS or that iOS is beating Android. Really, though, it&#8217;s silly to obsess over any one data point. If what you&#8217;re after is a clear idea of how the world&#8217;s two dominant mobile operating systems are doing &#8212; rather than an excuse to make bold proclamations and/or cheer for your favorite &#8212; you want to consider lots of data points. So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing in this post. I&#8217;ve rustled up results from a bunch of studies, focusing on information that&#8217;s relatively fresh. (In some cases, it dates from the fourth quarter of 2012 &#8212; stats for the first quarter of this year are still scarce.) A few notes on this exercise: I&#8217;m not really going to look at changes over time. Trajectories are important, but there&#8217;s a limit to how much I can do in one story. I won&#8217;t do deep analysis of why the numbers look the way they do. I&#8217;m collecting rather than interpreting, though I hope that some of you will draw conclusions in the comments. I&#8217;m not going to include specific numbers for anything other than iOS and Android. Sorry, Windows Phone and BlackBerry &#8212; I&#8217;ll come back to you and how you&#8217;re doing at some point, I promise. I won&#8217;t include forecasts and other predictions. I don&#8217;t believe in &#8216;em. I&#8217;m not endorsing any of these studies. That&#8217;s dangerous unless you have a thorough knowledge of the methodology behind the numbers. Which I don&#8217;t. Without any further ado, here are some key competitive questions, and the answers as provided by various research firms. Which platform is selling the most smartphones? In research conducted from mid-November through mid-February, Kantar Worldpanel Comtech showed sales of all Android phones outpacing the iPhone by a hefty margin: 52.1 percent to 43.5 percent. However, judging from past Kantar<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160143&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Browser News: A Second Act for Firefox?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/03/todays-browser-news-a-second-act-for-firefox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I usually don&#8217;t spend much time fixated on the technologies that power web browsers. But today brought two pieces of news which could &#8212; just maybe &#8212; add up to the beginnings of a sea change for the whole web, especially on mobile devices. News item #1: Google, which currently uses the same WebKit rendering engine which Apple originally devised for its Safari browsers, has decided to use WebKit as the basis for a new engine for its Chrome browsers: WebKit is a lightweight yet powerful rendering engine that emerged out of KHTML in 2001. Its flexibility, performance and thoughtful design made it the obvious choice for Chromium&#8217;s rendering engine back when we started. Thanks to the hard work by all in the community, WebKit has thrived and kept pace with the web platform’s growing capabilities since then. However, Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers, and supporting multiple architectures over the years has led to increasing complexity for both the WebKit and Chromium projects. This has slowed down the collective pace of innovation &#8211; so today, we are introducing Blink, a new open source rendering engine based on WebKit. News item #2: Firefox creator Mozilla has announced that it&#8217;s working with Samsung on Servo, a new rendering engine which is written in a programming language called Rust: We are now pleased to announce with Samsung that together we are bringing both the Rust programming language and Servo, the experimental web browser engine, to Android and ARM. This is an exciting step in the evolution of both projects that will allow us to start deeper research with Servo on mobile. Samsung has already contributed an ARM backend to Rust and the build infrastructure necessary to cross-compile to Android, along with many other improvements. Now, Google&#8217;s decision to carve off a variant of WebKit which it can call its own is interesting, but it&#8217;s not shocking. As a leading desktop browser, the default Android browser and a whole operating system, Chrome is exceptionally important to the company, and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159537&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Phablets Are a Niche, Not a Fad</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/02/phablets-are-a-niche-not-a-fad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gadgets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phablets are basically the Rodney Dangerfield of smartphones. Despite the popularity of jumbo handsets like Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy Note, they get no respect. The latest undeserved diss comes from Flurry, an analytics firm that measures app usage. Its latest data shows that phones with 5- to 6.9-inch screens only account for three percent of devices in Flurry&#8217;s system, and for only three percent of active users on those devices. That led Flurry&#8217;s Mary Ellen Gordon to conclude that &#8220;Phablets are a Fad.&#8221; Gordon argues that app developers shouldn&#8217;t bother writing software for huge smartphones, because the market isn&#8217;t big enough compared to other screen sizes. &#8220;Phablets appear to make up an insignificant part of the device installed base, and do not show disproportionally [sic] high enough app usage to justify support,&#8221; she wrote. Let&#8217;s dismantle this argument, shall we? For one thing, there&#8217;s a big difference between a niche, which can thrive in lieu of mainstream success, and a fad, which implies falling out of style and coming to an abrupt end. There&#8217;s plenty of evidence to support the former, and Flurry doesn&#8217;t offer any proof of the latter. Samsung&#8217;s original Galaxy Note reached five million shipments within five months of its October 2011 launch. The Galaxy Note II reached that same milestone in two months. And the Note II is still going strong. In January, ChangeWave Research found that 23 percent of future Samsung phone buyers were interested in the Note II, compared to 69 percent for the Galaxy S III. That&#8217;s a solid niche. Jared Newman / TIME.com Besides, it&#8217;s not fair to compare the number of phablets to other devices, considering phablets haven&#8217;t been on the market for very long. The Galaxy Note was the first device to successfully bridge the phone-tablet gap (not counting the failed Dell Streak 5), and it&#8217;s only about 16 months old. Samsung&#8217;s competitors are only now starting to offer alternatives, like the LG Optimus G Pro and the  Huawei Ascend Mate (pictured). Meanwhile, the lines between extra-large phone and &#8220;phablet&#8221; proper are blurring,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159419&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Samsung Galaxy S 4 Price Creeps Up on AT&amp;T</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/28/samsung-galaxy-s-4-price-creeps-up-on-att/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AT&#38;T and Samsung must be feeling pretty confident about the Galaxy S 4, as they push the base price up $50 over the phone&#8217;s predecessor and Apple&#8217;s rival iPhone 5. The Galaxy S 4 will cost $250 on AT&#38;T with a two-year contract, and will be available for pre-orders starting April 16. AT&#38;T hasn&#8217;t announced an actual release date for Samsung&#8217;s next flagship phone yet. It&#8217;s unclear how much storage will be included in AT&#38;T&#8217;s version of the S 4. Samsung will offer 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB versions &#8212; with a microSD card slot for more storage &#8212; but AT&#38;T hasn&#8217;t said whether it will carry the full range. (Last year, AT&#38;T only sold the 16 GB version of the S III.) T-Mobile is the only other U.S. carrier to announce Galaxy S 4 pricing so far. Under the carrier&#8217;s new subsidy-free plans, the Galaxy S 4 will go on sale May 1 for $99 up-front, plus $20 per month for two years. Verizon, Sprint and U.S. Cellular will also sell the Galaxy S 4, but haven&#8217;t revealed details yet. The S 4 will look similar to last year&#8217;s model, but will pack a 5-inch, 1080p display into roughly the same size chassis. It&#8217;ll also have a faster processor, a better camera and a few more software features. My colleague Harry McCracken tried the phone at a press event, and has a detailed overview along with some lingering questions.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159092&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reminder: Ultra HD Televisions Are Still Ridiculously Expensive</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/20/reminder-ultra-hd-televisions-are-still-ridiculously-expensive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Samsung, LG, Vizio and other tech heavyweights showed off their Ultra HD televisions at CES in January, the one thing they weren&#8217;t so eager to talk about was pricing. Now we know why: Samsung just revealed a whopping $39,999 price tag for its 85-inch S9 UHD TV, which will be available for pre-orders later this month. That makes it by far the most expensive Ultra HD television on the market. Ultra HD is another term for displays with a resolution of 3840-by-2160, also known as 4K. These displays pack four times as many pixels as today&#8217;s high-definition televisions. Although the technology is expensive, TV makers remain undeterred from building and selling 4K televisions. It all feels like a &#8220;because we can&#8221; sort of endeavor, more than an attempt to actually address current market needs. Even so, Samsung&#8217;s S9 is more exorbitant than the rest. LG&#8217;s 84-inch Ultra HD television costs a mere $20,000, and Sony&#8217;s 84-inch set costs just a teeny bit more, at $25,000. It&#8217;s unclear why Samsung&#8217;s set is so much pricier, aside from the funky easel design that makes the TV appear to &#8220;float within its thin frame,&#8221; as the company puts it. Samsung doesn&#8217;t even have its own 4K video delivery system, unlike rival Sony, which plans to launch one this summer. (Sony will also &#8220;loan&#8221; a 4K video player to anyone who buys one of the televisions.) Until the content selection improves and prices fall way down, buying an Ultra HD television will be more about bragging rights for the ultra-wealthy. But if Samsung&#8217;s S9 is any indication, prices are still going up.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158589&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If Samsung&#8217;s Making a Smartwatch, Here Are Its Strengths and Weaknesses</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/20/samsung-smartwatch-strengths-and-weaknesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instead of letting the rumor mill do the talking, a Samsung executive has come right out and said it: The company is building its own smartwatch to compete with whatever Apple might be working on. “We’ve been preparing the watch product for so long,” Lee Young Hee, executive vice president of Samsung’s mobile business, told Bloomberg. “We are working very hard to get ready for it. We are preparing products for the future, and the watch is definitely one of them.” Lee didn&#8217;t offer any specifics on the actual product, its price or a release date. We can only assume that it&#8217;ll behave  like other existing smartwatches, allowing users to glance at notifications and other bits of information. Although we don&#8217;t know much about Samsung&#8217;s plans, there&#8217;s still plenty to think about based on what we do know about the company. Here&#8217;s what Samsung could bring to the table for smartwatches: Samsung Owns Some Cool Display Tech. The company has its own flexible OLED display technology, called Youm, that it&#8217;s been showing off on the trade show circuit. A curved display could come in handy for a watch, since it could maximize screen area by bending around the wrist instead of sticking straight out. Rumor has it that Apple is considering curved displays for a smartwatch of its own, so Samsung could very well be doing the same. Better Galaxy Phone Integration Is a Given. A common gripe with Pebble&#8217;s smartwatch is that interaction with Android phones seems a bit like a hack. You have to enable accessibility services on the phone to make it work, and Pebble must add support for any app that wants to send notifications to the watch. Samsung, being in control of its own software, could have these notifications built right in, with no setup required. Samsung Is the Anti-Apple. If Apple does build a smartwatch that&#8217;s deeply integrated with the iPhone, it may be of limited use to Android phone owners. Samsung could easily step in and be the anti-Apple alternative, just as it&#8217;s done with its Galaxy phones. The<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158371&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Samsung Galaxy S 4 Is Just as &#8216;Boring&#8217; as the iPhone 5</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/15/samsung-galaxy-s-4-is-just-as-boring-as-the-iphone-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samsung&#8216;s big reveal of the Galaxy S 4 on Thursday night was an event with virtually no surprises, unless you count the arguably sexist skits and other bizarre spectacles on stage. Compared to the rumors leading up to the show, the real Galaxy S 4 isn&#8217;t much different. It looks almost identical to its predecessor, but with a bigger display in nearly the same chassis, a faster processor, a better camera and a handful of new software tricks. It&#8217;s an incremental improvement to what is already one of the most popular phones in the world. It will, without a doubt, sell in great quantities. Does any of this sound familiar? You may recall that last fall, Apple released a smartphone that the rumor mill thoroughly documented ahead of time. It looked similar to its predecessor, but with a larger display, and it had a faster processor, a better camera and a handful of new software tricks. It was not a revolutionary new device, but an evolution for the most popular (and profitable) phone in the world. It sold, and continues to sell, in great quantities. I&#8217;m talking, of course, about the iPhone 5, a phone that some pundits quickly dismissed as &#8220;boring.&#8221; Dan Lyons proclaimed that iPhone launches aren&#8217;t exciting anymore. Wired&#8216;s Mat Honan wrote that the iPhone 5 is amazing but also a snooze. The Wall Street Journal&#8216;s Jessica Vascellaro stopped just short of declaring her boredom. The Telegraph&#8216;s Mic Wright lamented the iPhone 5&#8242;s success over seemingly more exciting rivals. Phonedog&#8217;s Anna Scantlin tried to make a list of exciting things about the iPhone 5, but failed to come up with anything. Even if Samsung&#8217;s reveal doesn&#8217;t elicit the same reaction, the Galaxy S 4 is just as dull of an upgrade as the iPhone 5 was, by all the same metrics. Although Apple&#8217;s detractors like to say the company isn&#8217;t innovating anymore, it&#8217;s hard to see how Samsung is much different. My point isn&#8217;t that the tech press treats Apple unfairly, or that Samsung&#8217;s getting a pass<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158217&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My First 10 Questions About Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy S 4 Smartphone</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/15/samsung-galaxy-s-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[iPhone partisans may like to mock Samsung as a company incapable of doing anything but mindlessly mimicking Apple, but I&#8217;ll tell you this: The event which the Korean electronics behemoth held in New York City on Thursday evening to unveil its Galaxy S 4 smartphone owed little to Cupertino. Samsung filled Radio City Music Hall to the rafters with journalists, partners, VIPs and assorted other interested parties, and plied them with an open bar. Then it put on a splashy, overblown, frequently bizarre and occasionally offensive Broadway-style extravaganza which included a full orchestra, a tap-dancing little boy, a Real Housewives-esque dramatization of a Miami bridesmaid party, scenes set in China and Brazil, a real convertible sportscar driving on a simulated highway and much, much more. (I kept expecting a chorus line of Rockettes to emerge from the wings.) It was more or less the exact opposite of Apple&#8217;s classic formula: one or two guys demoing a new product on an unadorned stage. Which made sense, because the Galaxy S 4, for all it owes to the iPhone in terms of basic form factor and interface fundamentals, isn&#8217;t pursuing Apple&#8217;s less-is-more minimalism. With this phone, Samsung is betting that more is more. Samsung The S 4 has the largest Super AMOLED screen (5-inch) with the highest resolution (1920-by-1080) of any Galaxy S phone to date. Its rear camera has 13 megapixels of resolution, up from eight on the S III. It has a processor with eight cores, double those of its predecessor. And the phone&#8217;s list of new software features is, well, rather extensive: Dual Camera lets you embed a little photo of yourself while snapping a picture of something else Story Albums are automatic collections of photos which you can order as real-world photo albums Group Play includes several capabilities, including the ability to tap your phone with one or more others to play the same song simultaneously S Translate does text and voice translation on the fly and can translate signs and menus Air View lets you hover your<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158185&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh Thank Goodness, the Galaxy Note III Might Be Smaller Than We Thought</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/07/oh-thank-goodness-the-galaxy-note-iii-might-be-smaller-than-we-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How big can Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy Note go? Apparently not as huge as we originally expected. Last December, Korea Times reported that the Galaxy Note III would have a 6.3-inch display, citing &#8220;officials from local parts suppliers.&#8221; Now, the same publication is changing its tune, quoting an anonymous &#8220;official&#8221; who says the Note III will have a 5.9-inch display instead. Either screen size would be larger than the Galaxy Note II (pictured), whose display measures 5.5-inches diagonally &#8212; but that&#8217;s to be expected. Samsung is announcing its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone next week, and all signs point to a 4.99-inch display, which would be about 0.2 inches larger than its predecessor. If the S4 is getting bigger, the Note III is likely to follow, maintaining a decent size gap between the two devices. Still, I winced after reading that the screen might grow to 6.3 inches. At that size, the perennial phone-tablet crossover would veer into tablet territory, and could be tough to stuff into a pants pocket. (That was certainly the case with Huawei&#8217;s Ascend Mate, a 6.1-inch &#8220;phablet&#8221; that I briefly tried at CES in January.) The Note II is big, but it&#8217;s not so big that you can&#8217;t treat it like a smartphone. And I really liked the Note II. Hopefully Korea Times&#8217; latest report is the correct one, and even if the Note III has a larger screen than its predecessor, perhaps Samsung can minimize the physical footprint by using smaller bezels around the sides and top of the device. We&#8217;ll find out more in the second half of the year when Samsung is expected to announce the Note III.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157779&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everything We Think We Know About Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy S4</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/05/everything-we-think-we-know-about-samsungs-galaxy-s4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unless the press invitations are deliberately misleading (see the photo above), Samsung will announce its Galaxy S4 smartphone in New York on March 14. Aside from a teaser video that says absolutely nothing about the device, Samsung has been predictably tight-lipped. But that hasn&#8217;t stopped the rumor mill from chiming in with plenty of unconfirmed details. Below, we&#8217;ll try to paint the clearest possible picture of Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy S4 based on the last few months of leaks, rumors and speculation. Design Pretty much the entire tech world expects the Galaxy S4 to have a 5-inch, 1080p display, making it Samsung&#8217;s largest Galaxy S phone yet. Korean media started reporting on this possibility back in November, and an official roadmap for Samsung Displays leaves even less doubt in our minds. Despite the larger screen, the Galaxy S4 will likely have a design that&#8217;s similar to its predecessor. Though we&#8217;ve yet to see a credible image of the phone, there&#8217;s no shortage of spy shots and alleged press images that hint at a phone with gently-rounded corners and a large physical home button flanked by back and menu buttons. Much like the Galaxy S3, the S4 will likely be built from plastic, according to well-connected blogger Eldar Murtazin. According to SamMobile, the phone will measure 0.3 inches thick, and weigh 0.3 pounds. That would make it roughly 0.04 inches thinner than the S3, but a teeny bit heavier. Tech Specs We&#8217;ve already mentioned the possibility of a 5-inch, 1080p display. Other specs for the Galaxy S4 may include a 13-megapixel rear camera, a 2.1-megapixel front camera and 2 GB of RAM, as reported by both SamMobile and HDBlog.it. Storage capacities could start at 16 GB, and go all the way up to 64 GB. The main point of dispute seems to be the processor inside the Galaxy S4. While Samsung&#8217;s Exynos 5 octa-core chipset once seemed like a given, SamMobile claims that the new chip is off the table due to overheating issues. One analyst has speculated that the processor may vary by region, with<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157630&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Samsung Announces an iPad Mini-Sized Galaxy Note</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/24/galaxy-note-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 07:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not at the massive Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona, but I&#8217;m monitoring news from the show &#8212; and there&#8217;s going to be a lot of it over the next few days. One of the first major announcements is Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet. Its arrival makes clear that the company&#8217;s Note line is, indeed a line: with its 8&#8243; screen, the Note 8.0 sits between the Galaxy Note II, a 5.5&#8243; mega-phone, and the Galaxy Note 10.1, a full-sized tablet. The new model&#8217;s screen size also makes it possibly the most direct competitor to Apple&#8217;s iPad Mini, which has a display that&#8217;s just a skosh smaller at 7.9&#8243;. (The Note&#8217;s resolution of 1280-by-800 beats the Mini&#8217;s 1024-by-768.) As with the other Notes, the Note 8.0 emphasizes productivity. It&#8217;s got a pressure-sensitive pen based on Wacom&#8217;s technology, software which takes advantage of it (including both Samsung apps such as the S Note notetaker and a custom version of Flipboard) and other Android tweaks such as Samsung&#8217;s unique two-apps-at-once feature. What Samsung is showing in Barcelona is an international version, with HSPA+ wireless, which can also be used as a ridiculously large phone; it&#8217;s due in the second quarter of this year. There will be Wi-Fi-only and LTE versions for the U.S.; no details yet on how much they&#8217;ll cost or which carriers will have the LTE variant. Engadget&#8217;s Joseph Volpe, who is at Mobile World Congress, has a hands-on look with more details.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157146&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, a Refrigerator with a Sparkling Water Dispenser &#8212; Make Your Own Soda, Too</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/14/finally-a-refrigerator-with-a-sparkling-water-dispenser-make-your-own-soda-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does your refrigerator have a water dispenser? Mine sure doesn&#8217;t. I had to install a filtration system underneath our sink like a common heathen! None of that matters now, though, since I&#8217;d be kicking myself if I&#8217;d bought a fridge with a regular water dispenser. Why? Because this exists. Samsung and bubbly-water-making company SodaStream have partnered to build a 36-inch refrigerator with &#8220;the industry&#8217;s first-ever automatic sparkling water dispenser,&#8221; according to a joint press release. Here&#8217;s more: With the new Samsung Four-Door Refrigerator with sparkling water dispenser, getting the crisp delicious taste of sparkling water is as easy as pushing a button. Using the same control panel they would use to select between water or ice, consumers can select up to three levels of carbonation for their sparkling water, giving them just what they are looking for to quench their thirst. The sparkling water dispenser uses a standard SodaStream 60L CO2 cylinder that rests in a small, concealed area inside the left refrigerator door, which is easily accessible to change when empty. For anyone unfamiliar with SodaStream&#8217;s line of products, the company produces an in-home line of machines that let you carbonate water and, if you&#8217;re inclined, add flavors to make your own soda, tea, lemonade, Kool-Aid, energy drinks and more. Here&#8217;s a review of the SodaStream Penguin machine that I did a million years ago: So you&#8217;d basically have your own fancy soda maker as part of your fridge (the fridge produces boring still water and ice, too). How much will this miracle of modern technology set us back? A cool $3,900 – and we&#8217;ll have to wait until April. Samsung and SodaStream Announce the First-Ever Four-Door Refrigerator with Sparkling Water Dispenser [BusinessWire]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156637&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Samsung May Have Soured on 7-In. Tablets</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/28/samsung-may-have-soured-on-7-inch-tablets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although Samsung pioneered 7-in. tablets two years ago with the original Galaxy Tab, the company may be about to turn its back on the category — at least for now. SamMobile, a fairly reliable source for Samsung rumors, reports that the company has dropped plans for a Galaxy Tab 3 7.0. The not-so-reliable DigiTimes had reported last week that the 7-in. tablet was in the works, but now SamMobile says Samsung may opt not to release the product and focus on 8-in. and 10-in. tablets instead. The company is expected to announce several new tablets, including an 8-in. Galaxy Note, at Mobile World Congress next month. Times are tough for 7-in. tablets, with the exception of Google&#8217;s Nexus 7, Barnes &#38; Noble&#8217;s Nook HD and Amazon&#8217;s Kindle Fire HD. Because the makers of those tablets sell their own apps and content, they can afford not to make much money, if any, on the actual hardware. In doing so, they&#8217;ve set an expectation that small tablets shouldn&#8217;t cost much more than $200. That doesn&#8217;t leave much breathing room for a traditional hardwaremaker like Samsung. To make a compelling 7-in. tablet, the only options are to go even cheaper with bargain basement specs, or make a premium 7-in. tablet at a much higher price. There&#8217;s already a lot of competition at the low end, and I&#8217;ve yet to see an expensive 7-in. tablet become a big seller. So I could understand why Samsung might want to go a different route. An 8-in. Galaxy Note would stand out from slightly smaller tablets, and it would compete against Apple&#8217;s iPad Mini with unique features, such as the built-in stylus and support for windowed apps. And if the Galaxy Note 10.1 is any indication, an 8-in. version would probably match the iPad Mini in price. Still, it&#8217;s sad to hear that Samsung may be ditching its 7-in. tablet plans. The original Galaxy Tab was what first piqued my interest in smaller slates — they&#8217;re great for gaming, typing and reading — and I&#8217;d like to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155726&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let the Samsung Galaxy S4 Speculation Begin!</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/12/11/let-the-samsung-galaxy-s4-speculation-begin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the year-end smartphone season is winding down, it&#8217;s time to start dreaming up the next wave of high-powered handsets. Of course, you can expect iPhone rumors galore in the months ahead, but Samsung&#8217;s flagship Galaxy S line is also getting plenty of attention. Need proof? Samsung posts one little teaser video, and suddenly the tech blogosphere is awash with speculation that the Galaxy S4&#8242;s debut is nigh. I have my doubts. For one thing, whatever Samsung&#8217;s teasing will be revealed from January 8-11, the dates of the Consumer Electronics Show. Would Samsung announce its flagship smartphone at a huge industry trade show where it risks getting lost in the noise? Probably not. Last year, Samsung held a separate event for the Galaxy S III, skipping over earlier trade shows such as Mobile World Congress. Maybe that was just a timing issue, but I&#8217;m sure Samsung likes having its own spotlight. (MORE: Samsung’s Galaxy Camera Highlights Everything Wrong with Shared Data Plans) Also, the video says nothing about specific hardware. It&#8217;s just a list of buzzwords&#8211;&#8221;ideas,&#8221; &#8220;wonder,&#8221; &#8220;dreams&#8221; and the like&#8211;flying across the screen. The video might simply be alluding to a brand makeover, as reported by ChannelNews last month. That&#8217;s not to say all rumors about the Galaxy S4 are unbelievable. Korean media reports claim that Samsung&#8217;s next flagship will have a 5-inch 1080p display and a 13-megapixel camera&#8211;both specs we&#8217;ve seen in other phones on the market right now (HTC&#8217;s Droid DNA for the former, and LG&#8217;s Optimus G for the latter). A sharper display and better camera, as well as a faster quad-core processor, seem like logical next steps for the Galaxy S4. I could even buy the notion of a curved display, which would allow for a thinner, lighter and less shatter-prone design. Still, a CES reveal for the Galaxy S4 seems too soon, not only for the reasons above, but because its predecessor is only six months old right now. And there hasn&#8217;t been the usual ramp-up in leaked images, spec sheets and other minute details that tend<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=153141&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy Camera Highlights Everything Wrong with Shared Data Plans</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/11/14/samsungs-galaxy-camera-shared-data-plans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the ability to upload and share your digital camera&#8217;s photos from anywhere worth $10 per month? AT&#38;T thinks so. That&#8217;s what it&#8217;ll cost, at minimum, to use Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy Camera on AT&#38;T&#8217;s network. The camera, which launches on November 16, has 4G LTE connectivity, and runs a version of Google&#8217;s Android software, so it can directly share photos with apps like Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. I like the concept, at least. Although smartphone cameras are often good enough for basic photos, their smaller image sensors and lack of optical zoom mean you&#8217;ll still want a proper digital camera in some situations. But once you&#8217;re accustomed to sharing photos instantly on your phone, it&#8217;s hard going back to a camera that can&#8217;t. The Galaxy Camera has a 4.8-inch touch display and offers the connectivity of  a smartphone combined with a 21x optical zoom lens and 16-megapixel backside illuminated CMOS sensor. Here&#8217;s the bad news: To get 4G LTE connectivity, you&#8217;ll have to pay a monthly toll to AT&#38;T, in addition to the $500 cost of the camera itself. If you&#8217;re on AT&#38;T&#8217;s new Mobile Share plans, the Galaxy Camera costs $10 per month to connect, and taps into your existing bucket of data. For users without Mobile Share, data plans for the Galaxy Camera cost $15 per month for 250 MB, $30 per month for 3 GB or $50 per month for 5 GB. Of course, it&#8217;s AT&#38;T&#8217;s right to charge whatever the company thinks is fair, and I have no idea how profitable a camera with a data plan will be. But either way, it&#8217;s bad for innovation. By tacking on a monthly charge for every connected device, no matter how much or how little it gets used, wireless carriers are holding back a future where all kinds of devices can have constant Internet access. It&#8217;s funny, because AT&#38;T seems to want that future, but only if customers are willing to pay through the nose for it. In an interview with All Things Digital in September, AT&#38;T&#8217;s head of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=151069&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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