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Samsung has just announced that the Android-powered Galaxy S II has sold 10 million handsets worldwide, blowing past their previous record. Samsung stated in a press release that over the past 8 weeks they have doubled their sales from 5 million to 10 million. To put this into perspective, the original Galaxy S reached the 10 million mark in 7 months, the Galaxy S II has surpassed this milestone in just short 5 months. There’s no specific numbers for Canada, but other country sales are the following: South Korea has sold 3.6 million, 3.4 million in Europe and over 10 countries (probably including Canada) made up over 3 million.

JK Shin of Samsung said “Since its launch in late April 2011, the GALAXY S II has seen continued sales success, demonstrating Samsung’s industry-leading capabilities in – and commitment to – the smartphone market… In just five months the GALAXY S II has seen tremendous growth, reflecting its tremendous popularity with customers around the world, who in selecting the GALAXY S II as their device of choice have driven the device’s strong market position globally.”

In Canada, Bell, Virgin and SaskTel all sell the Galaxy S II. Rogers will be hopping on board soon with the LTE-enabled Galaxy S II, meanwhile TELUS is launching the powerful Galaxy S II X (Hercules) soon.

Source: SammyHub
Via: AndroidPolice

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Talk of a younger, slimmer Motorola Xoom just keeps on coming. A helpful tipster is adding fuel to the rumors of a Xoom 2 with these shots of a similar, but not exactly identical Motorola tablet. When compared to the images we saw yesterday, this unnamed Android 3.2 slate looks a tad less polished in the rear and seems to favor a portrait format, with the camera resting up top. What’s more, our source says the slab appears to be smaller than what we’ve already seen, which could line up with a report from This Is My Next, pegging a Xoom 2 Media Edition. That device is rumored to have an 8.2-inch HD IPS display and weigh .95 pounds. It is apparently being billed as an “e-reader replacement,” and comes with an onboard IR remote and subwoofer. In further Xoom 2 news, TIMN is saying the classic version will measure 9mm thick, pack a 1.2GHz processor, 1GB RAM, and enable 1080p video recording. If all of that isn’t enough to satisfy your Motorola-tablet craving, we’ve got a gallery of photos below.

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Motorola Xoom 2 evidence mounts — new photos, rumored specs and a Media Edition? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A pickup truck with seven people riding inside, none of whom were wearing seatbelts, hit the ditch and rolled killing two of the occupants RCMP say. They added drinking was a factor in the crash.

Well, it was really only a matter of time before third parties stuck their nose in the ongoing battle between Apple and Samsung. For most of this time others have stood on the sidelines, occasionally shouting moral support. But, no one has rolled up their sleeves and put up their dukes for either party — that is, until now. Verizon has requested permission to file a brief with the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, asking it to deny Apple’s request for a nation-wide injunction against the Infuse 4G, Galaxy S 4G, Droid Charge and Galaxy Tab 10.1. At the heart of Verizon’s argument is that a ban on import of Samsung’s devices would harm not only the carrier’s business, but consumers and the economy by slowing the growth of its LTE network. The brief, technically, only relates to one of the four infringement claims filed by Apple, but it’s clear that Verizon has just as much interest in seeing Samsung succeed in the other three challenges as well. For more (somewhat editorialized) details, hit up the source link.

Verizon goes to bat for Samsung in patent war with Apple originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Now a campaign backed by members of Congress and Commissioner Bud Selig is taking on something that’s been a part of the game’s culture for well over 150 years — chewing tobacco on the field.

An analyst claims that Google’s social networking service Google+ has seen its user base skyrocket in the past few days since Google opened up the service to all users. Read more…

Who’s looking sleek in angled corners? Why, it’s the Motorola Xoom 2 — at least it might be, according to Droid-Life and the folks that leaked it the above image. The outfit’s informant tells them that the pictured device is flaunting micro-USB and HDMI ports, a SIM card slot and a few large, flush buttons on its back. Is it the real deal? Well, we can’t say it looks much like Verizon’s door-destroying tablet, or even the shy slate that we spied on Motorola Mobility’s leaked website redesign — but we wouldn’t put too much stock into ambiguous renders and inconclusive advertisements anyway. There’s one more image after the break for those of you that are into rear-facing cameras and “confidential” engravings.

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Is this the Motorola Xoom 2? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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What’s great about Android is the talented devs who use the platform. Case in point: CVPCS, an Android dev, wanted to use VLC on his Android phone since he used VLC all the time on his desktop. So he built a pre-Alpha version for everyone to use. More »

The Saskatchewan Roughriders football club has received $585,000 from the sale of vanity licence plates that celebrate the team.

Windows: The latest alpha version of uTorrent for Windows (sorry Mac users) has a great new feature: you can drag and drop media downloads onto your Android, iPhone, Xbox 360, or PS3. Currently it won’t convert the files to a playable format, but that’s expected alongside the upcoming premium release of uTorrent Pro. More »

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Congratulations: you just got a brand new Android phone! If you're lucky, you got a great deal and a huge upgrade from your old Android device. Even so, your old handset has been with you for years and it's set up exactly how you like it—with all of your apps, contacts, and settings just so. Here's how to move all of that precious data to your new phone. More »

Canadians can now go forth and purchase the Sony S1 – a Wi-Fi only 9.4-inch Android 3.1 Honeycomb powered tablet that has a 1GHz dual-core processor. Sony took a different route with design, apparently the S1 stemmed from folding a piece of paper in half, which in turn made its “teardrop” shape. Unique and thankfully light. The S1 weighs in at 598 grams while competing tablets such as the iPad 2 is 601 grams. You can check out our full review of the S1 here  but other specs are that it has a 5 megapixel camera that captures 720p HD videos (no flash), a VGA front-facing camera and is the second Certified PlayStation mobile device (comes pre-loaded with Crash Bandicoot and Pinball Heroes). The S1 comes in a 16GB version for $499.99 or a 32GB for $599.99.

Source: Best Buy

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An Arizona college student was arrested and charged Thursday in a breach of computers at Sony Pictures Entertainment early this summer where more than 37,000 customers had their information stolen.

Microsoft tipped at the BUILD developer’s conference last week that Windows Live and SkyDrive will have a big role in Windows 8. Windows Live users will be able to tie their personal computers and phones to Windows Live, log in to all of them with their Live ID, and let Windows Live manage their profile and application settings in the cloud. More »

It ain’t over till the LHC says so, which is why researchers at CERN are opening up their most recent OPERA experiment to the scientific community before officially releasing its findings. Why, you ask? Because the experiment could shatter one of the fundamentals of physics — Einstein’s theory of special relativity, which says nothing with mass can accelerate faster than the speed of light. While studying neutrino oscillations — where particles shift from one type of subatomic particle (muon-neutrinos) to another (tau-neutrinos) — scientists clocked a beam of muon-neutrinos outpacing the aforesaid ray of light by 60 nanoseconds. Calling the result “crazy,” lead scientist Antonio Ereditato published the findings online, hoping to attract the attention of others who might shed some light on what it all means. We’re not expecting a conclusive answer any time soon, but budding whiz-kids can get educated in the links below.

CERN scientists discover particle traveling faster than the speed of light, Einstein theory threatened originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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An old satellite set to fall to Earth in pieces will do so on Friday afternoon ET, but won’t be over North America when it comes down, NASA says.