With Berlin’s IFA 2011 mobile expo fast approaching, Samsung has unveiled four new smartphones that it intends to showcase at the event, each bearing the fruits of the Korean smartphone vendor’s new naming policy. Samsung adds the Galaxy W, Galaxy M Pro, Galaxy Y Pro and Galaxy Y to its Galaxy Series of smartphones, each unique in terms of features and pricing. In a bid to simplify the way it names its smartphones and to reduce consumer confusion, Samsung has begun to categorise the handsets in its Galaxy range into five different categories, sub-categorising each device into as many as three variants....

Over the weekend, Samsung announced the latest addition to its Galaxy range of Android smartphones; the Galaxy Pro, a small QWERTY handset that features a 2.8-inch touchscreen, with a QWERTY keypad that runs Android 2.2. The Galaxy Pro will will feature a dedicated hotspot feature, allowing users to turn their device into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot at the touch of a button, also shipping with Samsung’s Social Hub Premium feature which connects users to their favourite social networks and instant messaging platforms and email from one place....

Samsung has announcedthe latest addition to its Windows Phone lineup on Monday morning, debuting the new Samsung Omnia W premium smartphone in Italy at the end of October. The Omnia W will ship with Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango), sporting a 3.7-inch AMOLED display, a 1.4GHz single-core processor, 512MB RAM, 8GB storage, a 5-megapixel rear-facing and VGA front-facing camera. Moving away from the somewhat blocky Omnia 7, the Omnia W is more rounded and is 10....

Just hours after it emerged Apple hadfiled a patentsuit against its smartphone rival Samsung, the Korean electronics giant has said that it will fight the Cupertino-based company, possibly filing a counterclaim itself. Apple is suing Samsung, stating that Samsung has willfully violated patents, committed trademark infringement and exercised unfair competition with its Galaxy line of phones and tablets. Speaking toYonhap News, Samsung spokesman Chung Jae-woong responded to Apple’s complaints: “We think Apple has violated our patents in communications standards....

It seems that not a day goes by without a new development in the ongoingspatbetween Apple and Samsung over the supposed similarity between the two companies’ devices. Now Samsung hasannouncedthat it is lodging preliminary requests to place an injunction on sales of the iPhone 4S is France and Italy. In this case, Samsung’s gripe is over two patents related to Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) standards for 3G mobile handsets, which it claims Apple is infringing in its new handset which was announcedless than a day agoand is due to go on sale on 14 October....