TheWall Street Journalhas reported an interesting piece of information on Samsung’s upcoming Windows Phone 7 roadmap, suggesting Samsung will be ready to unveil its first 4G-enabled Windows Phone 7 handsets at Mobile World Congress in February. Samsung is already enjoying phenomenal success with Android, releasing its Windows Phone 7 offerings (Samsung Focus and Omnia 7) in October of last year. Speaking to the WSJ, J.K Shin, head of Samsung’s Mobile Division stated:...

Despite claiming it would make a bid for HP’s PC business, Samsung has reportedly hired HP’s ex-vice president of PSG marketing Raymond Wah to help boost the company’s PC sales, as it considers purchasing the company’s webOS mobile operating system in the face of smartphone and tablet competition from Apple and Google. Digitimes reportsthat Samsung will not buy HP’s PC business because of its low gross margin, but also because it could prove deterimental to the company’s panel and DRAM businesses, which have high gross margins....

Samsung India announced on Thursday that it had invested ₹ 315 crore ($70 million) in its mobile phone manufacturing plant in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India to triple its output,as reported by Indian Express. J.S. Shin, Samsung’s President and CEO for the south-west Asia region, remarked that India was one of the top three mobile markets for the company and that it was “working on consistently strengthening our presence in the country through a very innovative mobile portfolio, as well as enhance manufacturing, operations, research and development”....

Follow the latest news from the mobile industry atTNW Mobile. This is a fairly amusing collection of images that show the similarities between the Samsung Galaxy products and the Apple iPad and iPhone. There seem to be a lot of ways that the design of the two companies gadgets are overlapping. This is a bit of an issue as the Apple products arrived on the market first. You may recognize the first image from aSamsung store that was using Apple’s app icons....

Android users in the UK now have another option for accessing apps for their smartphones and tablets, as Samsung has announced the launch of a newPremium Samsung Apps Storefor Android. The UK is one of the first countries to gain access to premium Android apps through Samsung, and there are many mobile apps and games that can be purchased on top of the current free Samsung apps download option. The Samsung Apps Store will offer network billing in the future, meaning that any apps you purchase will be billed along with your standard network usage each month, or deducted from a pay-as-you-go SIM card balance....