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We talked quite a lot about the Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G before its launch on September 19, but ever since then we didn’t hear much about the 4-inch slider. Despite equipping it with a dual-core Snapdragon S4 Krait CPU, Sammy didn’t manage to draw many tech users towards the mid-ranger, with the $150 on-contract price tag being slightly prohibitive.

Fortunately, one online retailer noticed the phone’s potential and decided to give it a price trim in order for some of that pre-release excitement to return. We aren’t sure if Best Buy managed to do so just yet, but we are pretty certain that you’ll be making a good deal if you choose to purchase the Relay for $99.99.
The trimmed price is good for both new T-Mobile customers and existing ones wanting to upgrade or add a line, so that’s another reason to consider Best Buy’s special offer. You will be asked to sign up to a two-year carrier agreement no matter which road you choose to go down to, while if you want to break free from contract restrictions you’ll still have to pay an arm and a leg ($549.99).
This is the second high-end-ish phone we’re seeing discounted today, after AT&T’s Motorola Atrix HD, which is available via Amazon Wireless for a penny. And while overall that deal still looks better, given that the Atrix is both cheaper and snappier, the Galaxy S Relay 4G does have one ace up its sleeve – the functionality plus of that slide-out QWERTY keyboard.

Here are the detailed tech specs of the phone to ensure you’re making the most informed decision regarding the Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G for T-Mobile:

• 4-inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 480 x 800 pixels resolution and 233 ppi pixel density
• Dual-core 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8260A processor with Adreno 225 GPU
• 1 GB of RAM
• 8 GB of internal memory
• MicroSD and microSDHC support for expanding the storage with up to 32 GB
• 5 MP rear-facing camera with autofocus and LED flash
• 1.3 MP front-facing webcam
• Android 4.0 ICS with TouchWiz UI (no word on a Jelly Bean upgrade just yet)
• 1,800 mAh battery supposedly capable of running for up to 10 hours of talk time
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot
• Bluetooth 3.0
• NFC
• GPS
• HSDPA, HSUPA
• Full 5-row slide-out QWERTY keyboard
• 147 grams weight
• 126 x 66 x 13.5 mm dimensions

There’s no end date on Best Buy’s website for the offer, but seeing as this is a web-only deal, we’re guessing it won’t last long. Hurry up and get it while you still can, and then tell us if this is actually the best slider phone on the market, as some say.

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Yandex is the Russian Google, claiming over 60 percent market share for its search engine within Russia. It is also an advertising company, an e-commerce payment system, social and professional network, and a lot more. The latest expansion is into Google’s Android ecosystem with Yandex.Store, an Android app market that will offer around 40,000 applications on release.

The store will work much like the established app markets, with Yandex claiming 30 percent of the take from apps and games and 70 percent going to the developer. It will also support in-app purchases and payments via mobile billing, e-money or credit cards. It will be offered to other companies as a complete white-label solution which they can brand for themselves. Russian carrier MegaFon is apparently the first customer to sign up and the Yandex.Store will come preinstalled on devices from PocketBook, text and 3Q .
This seems like the latest front in a war with Google. Yandex also announced that it will be releasing its own web browser. Within Russia, at least, Yandex is winning by a distance.
The store should open sometime this month. Any interested developers looking for a new outlet for their wares can check out the Yandex Store Developer site and sign up.
Google recently celebrated 25 billion app downloads from Google Play with a series of discounts. Google Play is closing in on 700,000 apps (it just passed 675,000) so Yandex has its work cut out.
We will take a closer look when Yandex.Store launches. In the meantime, if you have any experience with Yandex, post a comment and let us know what you think about this.

The longstanding legal war between Apple and Samsung has two main points of interest right now, but there are a number of small battles going on besides the big ones that we should keep a close eye on too.
The big fights involve of course the verdict in the California trial that found Samsung guilty of infringing on a number of Apple patents and that could or could not stand after appeals, but also the Sammy counter-attack against the iPhone 5.

As for the smaller battles, one of the most interesting ones has the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the center of attention. The 10-inch tab was banned from sellin in the U.S. way back in June after Judge Lucy Koh granted Apple’s filing for a preliminary injunction against the gadget accused of “slavishly copying” iPad designs.
Sammy filed a number of appeals asking for the injunction to be lifted, but every one of them was denied by Judge Koh, who found it likely that a jury will agree with Apple’s claims. However, that didn’t happen, and the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington ruled a few days ago that Judge Koh can reconsider the injunction.
That didn’t necessarily mean that the sales ban was to be lifted, but fortunately for Samsung Judge Koh did as she was advised and allowed the Galaxy Tab 10.1 to again become legal. “We are pleased with the court’s action today, which vindicates our position that there was no infringement of Apple’s design patent and that an injunction was not called for.” said Samsung immediately after the ruling, adding that “We will continue to take all appropriate measures to ensure the availability of our innovative products.”

While Apple is yet to comment on the subject of the sales ban being lifted (go figure), it seems that Samsung can’t even celebrate this small victory just yet. That is because, as Florian Mueller from FOSS Patents notes, Apple can still win a permanent injunction over the D’889 tablet design patent if “it prevails on the related part of its Rule 50 (“overrule-the-jury”) motion”. Confused much? We know we are, but if you take the time to read Mueller’s full post, you should get a better idea of everything that is going down regarding the Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Nevertheless, what’s pretty clear and certain is that Samsung can now start to sell the Galaxy Tab 10.1 again in the States (if anyone’s still interested), and that the South Koreans should think of a financial compensation from Apple, too.
That’ll most likely be of around $2.6 million, a sum that the Cupertino-based tech giant was asked to put up as bond once the court ruled in favor of the preliminary injunction. The $2.6 million was supposed to represent the eventual sales lost by Samsung due to the tab’s ban, but there is no guarantee that Sammy will be awarded all or part of this money. It could even get more, although, compared with the $1.05 billion owed to Apple, it’ll probably still sound like peanuts.
Like it or not, the war continues and there’s no truce on the horizon. For now, Apple still seems to lead, but Samsung might capitalize on these small wins. What do you think?

Samsung has added Apple’s iPhone 5 to its current patent-infringement lawsuit which it has brought against the iPhone maker in the federal court in San Jose, California. According to Samsung, the iPhone 5 infringes two standards patents and six features patents.

The two companies, who are the first and second biggest smartphone makers in the world, are currently locked in a global legal battle with each one saying it is protecting its intellectual property, designs and innovations. Lawsuits, injunctions and product bans are being filed and requested in Europe, Asia and the USA. For Android users with non-Samsung phones the repercussions are larger than just the fortunes of the Korean electronics giant as any successful judgement could be applied to all Android devices and force companies like Google, Motorola, HTC, LG and Sony into the fray.
According to the court filings made by Samsung, as soon as the iPhone 5 went on sale it began to investigate possible patent infringements in the product.

“We have always preferred to compete in the marketplace with our innovative products, rather than in courtrooms. However, Apple continues to take aggressive legal measures that will limit market competition. Under these circumstances, we have little choice but to take the steps necessary to protect our innovations and intellectual property rights,” Samsung said in a statement.

Slow Justice

The Samsung v Apple case, in which Samsung says that Apple infringes eight of its patents with the iPhone (including now the iPhone 5) and the iPad and iPod Touch, will only start in 2014. Which in the tech industry is a very long time. Who knows what devices Apple and Samsung will release over the next 15 months while this case is sitting around collecting dust. For sure Samsung will add future Apple devices to the list (iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 or the iPad mini).
This isn’t the first patent case between Apple and Samsung. Last July a jury decided that Samsung had infringed six Apple patents. Now Samsung says Apple has infringed 8 of its and around we go. There are two things to note here:

1. The patent system is broken. It is costly, slow and when there is an infringement it can take years to resolve.
2. Apple and Samsung need to enter into a cross licensing deal. It is likely both have infringed each others patents. Please Apple, please Samsung, just sort it out.
   SOURCES BusinessWeek

It’s been a long and agonizing wait for Galaxy S Blaze 4G owners, but it now seems that the 4-inch mid-ranger is finally ready to get that much awaited software bump. And while the ICS leap means that the Blaze is still one step behind the times, I’m sure that most of those who bought the phone since March 2012 will receive the news with unrestrained joy.

Samsung and T-Mobile have both assured early Blaze 4G buyers that they won’t be stuck to Android 2.3 for long, but there’s been no official news on the ICS updating front ever since spring. The users’ frustration reached unimaginable heights when T-Mo and Sammy wrapped the upgrades for all other three devices scheduled to get them (Galaxy S2, Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus and Galaxy Tab 10.1), but fortunately the S Blaze wasn’t left out of the mix after all.
The ICS update for the Blaze will be available starting October 3 via Samsung Kies, meaning that you shouldn’t wait for an automatic prompt message to inform you about its availability. Instead, you can either download the Kies utility tool from here, connect your phone to a PC and take it from there, or you can try to manually get the update OTA (over-the-air) by tapping Menu – Settings – Software Update.

You’ll have to be running Android 2.3.6 on your unrooted Galaxy S Blaze 4G to get the download, and you should also make sure your battery is above the 50% mark if you choose to update OTA. Oddly, the software package only weighs in at 15.7 MB, which sounds a bit on the light side for such a major upgrade, but the changelog specifically says Android 4.0.4 and software version T769UVLH5, so we should expect the usual set of tasty treats, improvements and tweaks.
There are also two specific bug fixes mentioned in the update changelog, one for the Mobile Hotspot Icon location and one for adding an Email option. Hopefully, there won’t be any new glitches popping up, but if they do, be sure to inform us and the world below. Happy updating!

October shapes out to be a great month for Android lovers. The latest good news comes from HTC, which today announced the HTC One X+, a revised and improved version of the One X, that you can read more about here.
Tucked away in the press release announcing the new One X+ is a little gem – details about the Jelly Bean update for HTC’s One X and One S:

The Android Jelly Bean with HTC™ Sense 4+ update is scheduled to begin rolling out for the HTC One™ S and HTC One™ X from October.

We do hope that “from October” means in the following days, but we can’t deduce anything more specific from HTC’s brief statement. Also, it’s very likely that the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for the One X and the One S will first roll out to the international unlocked versions of the devices. Carrier-branded versions (like AT&T’s One X model or T-Mobile’s One S in the US) typically follow weeks or even months later.
Along with the serving of Jelly Beans, the One X and One S will probably receive the upgraded Sense 4.1 overlay (although HTC left this open by using the “4+” version), which provides enhanced performance and a number of bug fixes.