With the vast majority of Android phones being Samsung-made now, and Android poised to take over the mobile computing world, it is only logical that Sammy considers itself now a VIP player in the industry. VIPs are entitled to certain perks, and Samsung just announced today that it is launching its own mobile ads solution called Samsung AdHub Market. The initiative is in partnership with the OpenX Technologies, and will allows companies to big for advertising space within applications on Samsung's phones and tablets.

The AdHub Market will be in direct competition with Google's own mobile ad service, and also with Apple's solution, but Samsung has spent a year looking into companies that can make it work, so it should be in good hands with OneX Technologies, which has $100 million in annual revenue already. "This is the first time any device manufacturer has entered the ad tech space in this way. It is becoming very clear to the principals in the mobile space that advertising is going to be a very important part of the revenue mix", says the OpenX Chief Executive Tim Cadogan. Mobile advertising is estimated to become an almost $11 billion business in the next few years, and Samsung is entering a fight with the big Silicon Valley boys for a piece of this pie.

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The Facebook feature phone, which is available for more than 2500 phone models in India, now supports Hindi while support for seven other Indian languages - Gujarati, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Punjabi, Bengali and Marathi- will come in the next few weeks. This application will bring the same in-depth Facebook mobile experience, previously available in English, to over 50 million Facebook users in India. The Facebook feature phone application was originally launched in July 2011 and now works on more than 3600 Java-enabled phones around the world.

People can access the core features of Facebook including viewing and uploading photos and finding friends from phone's contact with this app. The application will support 2500+ devices and work on 2 /2.5G networks. Airtel, Aircel, Idea, and Reliance Communication offer free usage of this app to their users for limited time without charging for any data consumed by this app. The application is available on most Nokia phones, including the upcoming Nokia Asha 202 dual SIM phone. People can download the app by visiting m.facebook.com from their mobile browser and then clicking the download link, or by entering d.facebook.com/install directly into their mobile browser. Users can also find it in leading app stores, including the Nokia Store, GetJar, Appia, and Mobile Weaver.

"With over 50 million people in India on Facebook, we want to make sure that everyone has a great Facebook mobile experience regardless of the device that they choose to use," said Kevin D'Souza, country growth manager, Facebook. He added, "The launch of Facebook for Every Phone mobile application in Hindi and the other regional languages enables more people to connect and share with the people they care about, anytime, anywhere." Facebook currently has more than 800 million monthly active users and over 350 million mobile users worldwide.

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Micromax, one of the largest Indian mobile phone brands, plans to launch a phone with a built-in solar charger. The panel will charge the phone within 3 hours to support 1.5 hours of talk time. Micromax have been at the forefront of innovation. We were the first to launch long battery life phones, dual SIM phones and many more. Our next innovation is to get rid of the mobile phone charger by including a solar panel in our next phone. This solar charger will top up the charge in 3 hours to support 1.5 hours of talk time."

The launch is expected within a week. However, Rahul refused to disclose any further details about the phone apart from the fact that it will be a feature phone and not a smartphone. Micromax will not be the first manufacturer with such a product. Vodafone has Vodafone VF 247, a very basic phone with voice and text features along with FM radio, colour display and solar panel at the back. This phone is priced at Rs 1,500. However, going by the history of Micromax, its phone will be rich in other features as well.

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When Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab 2 range, which includes the 7-inch and the 10.1-inch models, the launch date was pegged sometime last week.  As is obvious, the two products did not make it within the promised launch but now we know the reason why. A Samsung spokesperson told Computerworld that the reason that the launch of the two tablets has been delayed is due to Samsung taking its time working on Android 4.0, presumably implementing its TouchWiz UI on top. The launch date has now been moved to sometime until the end of April.

So if you were wondering whom to blame for the Galaxy Tab 2 arriving late, you now have the answer.

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The Samsung Galaxy S III is occasionally making the headlines with either a rumor or a mockup pumping up our expectations before the official release, and this here rumor is no exception to that rule. Korean Daily now reports that the upcoming Galaxy S III will feature a 4.65-inch Super AMOLED Plus screen with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. Moreover, this will be the first non-pentile HD screen made by Samsung and this alone is a hugely impressive feat. Devices like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus also had a 4.65-inch HD display, but there Samsung went with the sub-par pentile technology where instead of the traditional arrangement of red-green-blue pixels (RGB), you get less  sub pixels and generally a fuzzier image.

The HTC One X most recently raised the bar very high with its 4.7-inch Super LCD 2 HD screen, which left us impressed but this here S III screen could easily beat it. The best news however is that the Samsung Galaxy S III should be coming sooner rather than later. Asia has learned that Samsung is already testing the device with Korean carriers, and wants it done quicker than usual - in only two months. Allegedly, the carriers will have a hard time fitting into this schedule as the upcoming Android flagship will have a quad-core processor and LTE. But we’d rather wait for those feature, wouldn’t we?

Source : Phonearena