It is April 2013, and Samsung has just unveiled the ‘Life Companion.’ The Galaxy S4 has arrived in the UK to a level of fanfare that feels more like a stadium concert than a product launch. After the astronomical success of the S III, Samsung hasn’t tried to reinvent the wheel; instead, they’ve take…
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Samsung Note 2
It is late 2012, and Samsung has just doubled down on the ‘Phablet’ experiment with the Galaxy Note II (N7100). If the original Note was a curious prototype, the Note II is a polished, high-performance workstation that has converted the UK tech press from skeptics to believers. It is a 183g behemoth…
Samsung Galaxy S3
It is May 2012, and Samsung has just unveiled a phone that claims to be ‘designed for humans and inspired by nature.’ The Galaxy S III is a massive, curvaceous departure from the blocky aesthetics of the S II, finished in ‘Marble White’ or ‘Pebble Blue’ with a glossy, ‘hyperglaze’ polycarbonate fini…
Samsung Note
It is late 2011, and Samsung has just performed a daring technical experiment that has the UK tech press alternating between awe and ridicule. They’ve released the Galaxy Note, a device with a 5.3-inch screen that is so massive it has necessitated the creation of a new word: the ‘Phablet.’ In the ai…
Samsung Galaxy S2
It is May 2011, and the Samsung Galaxy S II has just landed in the UK like a dual-core cruise missile aimed directly at Apple’s head. This is the phone that has finally turned the ‘iPhone Killer’ from a tired marketing cliché into a cold, technical reality. It is impossibly thin (8.49mm) and so ligh…
Samsung Galaxy S
It is the summer of 2010, and Samsung has finally stopped playing second fiddle to the European and American giants. The I9000, better known as the Galaxy S, is the opening salvo in a campaign for global Android dominance. In the UK, it has arrived as the first legitimate challenger to the iPhone 4’…
Samsung Jet
Welcome to the summer of 2009, and Samsung has just released a phone that is trying to prove you don’t need a smartphone OS to have a smartphone experience. The S8000, better known as the ‘Jet,’ is a technical powerhouse that runs on a proprietary Samsung OS but features a processor faster than the …
Samsung i900
Welcome to mid-2008, and Samsung has just released the ‘Omnia’ (Latin for ‘everything’), a handset designed to be the ultimate Swiss Army knife for the Windows Mobile era. The i900 is a sleek, brushed-metal slab that aims to take the iPhone’s touch-centric crown and add all the technical features Ap…
Samsung G600
While the iPhone is hogging the headlines, Samsung has quietly released a technical powerhouse for the person who still wants a ‘proper’ phone with a ‘proper’ camera. The G600, launched in mid-2007, is a 5-megapixel slider that is arguably the most balanced handset Samsung has ever built. It’s finis…
Samsung D600
The king is dead; long live the king. The Samsung D600 arrived in late 2005 to replace the already legendary D500, and it has done so by taking everything that was good about its predecessor and turning the technical volume up to eleven. If you thought the slide on the D500 was smooth, the D600 feel…