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Popular photo-sharing app Instagram has had a good ride so far. Today at the SxSW conference in Austin, Texas Co-founder Kevin Systrom confirmed the company has surpassed the 27 million registered users, up about 7 million from last month. Apart from finding incredible success on iOS they have finally announced plans to released an Android app “really soon”, but gave no definitive date. Systrom did briefly show the audience a beta version of the app running on his Galaxy Nexus, and even went as far as saying “it’s one of the most amazing Android apps you’ll ever see… in some ways, it’s better than our iPhone app”. Bold statement – apparently the app has integration with other social networking sites such as Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter.

Hopefully “really soon” is only a matter of days.
Source: The Verge

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Fresh new iPhone rumours coming at you this morning. In addition to the larger edge-to-edge display that will possibly be coming to the next iPhone, Apple is apparently thinking about throwing curved glass on it too (like the the 4th generation iPod nano). DigiTimes reports that Apple is assisting manufacturers with the high up front [...]

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The Samsung Labs in Korea have finished testing the update to the Samsung Galaxy S phones to Android 2.2 Froyo. A leaked email in Korean apparently confirms that Samsung is done testing Android 2.2 and that the Korean binaries will be released this week.  Binaries are the code that makes the software work.

Although some bloggers are saying that the it means that Froyo is on its way to all the Samsung Galaxy S smartphones in the US including the Samsung Epic 4G, Samsung Fascinate, Samsung Captivate and Samsung Vibrant . There is no proof yet, that the carriers have tested the update.

After the manufacturer sends the software update to the carriers, the carriers then test the update and prepare it for over-the-air updates.

The fact that Samsung has readied the update to Android 2.2 is still good news, because a T-Mobile forum post noted that the Android 2.2 update had been delayed. A copy of the email appears at the end of this article.  If you read Koren it would be nice if you contacted ediitor[at}wirelessandmobilenews.com with any important details.

The Samsung Epic 4G began getting the interim “3G-fixer” update earlier this week. The Samsung Vibrant started receiving an OTA update with GPS fixes and Samsung Media Hub on Thursday.
The Samsung Epic 4G received an update to use Media Hub in September.

Many of the Samsung Galaxy S phones were named in Wireless and Mobile News’ Review of Reviews Top Ten Best Android an’ Droid Phones Now an’ Later.

All Samsung Galaxy S phones
have a super-fast 1GHz hummingbird processor with efficient 3D graphics
processing, Super AMOLED 4-inch touchsreen, 5 megapixel camera,
microSD, Wi-Fi, and Android 2.1.  Samsung has added-on TouchWiz software
for a social hub as well as a media hub for online viewing. 
Differences come in the amount of internal storage, size of the microSD
card included, mobile hotspot capabilities, keyboard style and the speed
of data networks.

We will be exploring the Samsung Galaxy S phone series in future articles.  Check the Samsung Glaxy S page to see when they appear.

• Top Ten Best Tips an’ Tricks for Samsung Galaxy S Phones.
• Samsung Galaxy S Phones Compared: Epic 4G, Fascinate, Captivate, Vibrant, Tab.
• Samsung Galaxy S News: Samsung Fascinate Will Google with Android 2.2 – How to Google Now.
• Samsung Galaxy S: Samsung Epic 4G has ANADIGIC AWT6264.
• Samsung Fascinate Goes On Sale Online 2Day, in Stores 2Morrow.
• Review: Samsung Fascinate (Verizon), Review of Reviews.
• Droid X vs Samsung Fascinate – Which Will Win the Android Galaxy?

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Isn’t this interesting. We only thought that Bell was going to be launching Samsung Wave… but thanks to one of reliable Rogers tipsters who let us know that we can expect to see it in their lineup also. There’s no confirmed launch date or pricing but this operates on Samsung’s new open mobile platform called [...]

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Following up to the Apple announcement of the iPhone 4. TELUS informed us that they will be releasing this “in the coming weeks”.
And now Rogers has posted an update on their RedBoard blog that says that “Rogers intends to launch iPhone 4… in the coming weeks. As this is a brand new device – just [...]

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After TELUS and Rogers announced they will officially release the iPhone 4… Bell sent us an e-mail stating that “Yes, Bell will launch iPhone 4 in coming weeks. We will make more information available soon.”
No other details… but it’s “coming soon”. We just wish we made the June 24th cut but have to settle for [...]

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It’s almost a given that Rogers, TELUS, Bell, SaskTel, Fido and Virgin will all be launching the new iPhone 4. Today we just received an e-mail from TELUS that stated the following: “Thought I’d share with you that TELUS today confirms it will launch iPhone 4, the thinnest smartphone in the world with the [...]

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The buzz is picking up on the idea that Sprint, not Verizon, might be the second wireless carrier to offer the iPhone.

Check out this report pegged to an anonymous Best Buy store employee in Pennsylvania. Kinda thin, eh?

Okay. How about this stock market site’s claim that Walmart is cutting prices on the 3GS iPhone to clear inventory ahead of a 4G capable iPhone coming next month? And who has a 4G network for a 4G-ready iPhone to run on?

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