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Samsung, reigning smart phone champ, preps Galaxy S III

The Galaxy S III is set to debut in the US in June. What will it mean for Samsung??

Yesterday, Samsung took the wraps off the Galaxy S III, a svelte new smartphone equipped with a?4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED screen, a?1.4GHz quad-core Exynos processor, and a June launch date. ?

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In a hands-on preview posted at Engadget, Mat Smith faulted Samsung for not upping the design quotient ? the Galaxy S III looks not so different from other Samsung phones ? but praised the display and predicted that the snappy processor which should help the Galaxy S III "spar for top spot among Android devices." So hey, what will the Galaxy S III mean for Samsung??

Well, here's where things get interesting. According to a recent report from IDC, Samsung currently owns the biggest slice of the global smartphone market, besting even Apple, its closest competitor. In the first quarter of 2012, Samsung sold a whopping?42.2 million smartphones, compared to the 35.1 million sold by Apple. (As one reporter has pointed out, "every second smartphone sold across the world [now comes] from either Samsung or Apple.")?

But that doesn't mean that Samsung is necessarily earning more than Apple. Over at CNET,?Asymco analyst Horace Dediu tells Lance Whitney that worldwide smartphone operating profits are split between only two major players: Apple, with 73 percent, and Samsung, with 26 percent. HTC, in third place, gets 1 percent of the pie. That means that everyone else is either losing money or fighting over a rounding error.?

The reason Apple makes so much money off the iPhone? Carrier subsidies,?Dediu?says. The iPhone helps carriers stay "competitive," CNET reports, and the carriers are willing to pay a premium for that privilege.?

"Following this value proposition to its logical conclusion would suggest that the industry is rewarding those who can supply computers-as-phones which preserve the cash flows of what is essentially a trillion dollar data services business," Dediu says. "Vendors which cannot offer this solution saw their businesses implode. At least on the high end."

And herein, we return again to the Galaxy S III, which has already inspired an iPhone-worthy puddle of drool. If Samsung can succeed in making its new device a "must-have," as the Apple smartphone is now, it could also start to rack up the kind of carrier subsidies currently enjoyed by Team Cupertino. It's a long shot, of course, but if there's one Samsung phone that could do it, it's the Galaxy S III.?

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PHOTOS: Alicia Keys' and Her Basketball Boys!

Alicia Keys & Swizz Beatz take Egypt to a Knicks game! Plus, see more photos of celebs spending time with their loved ones!

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Engadget Mobile Podcast 136 - 05.07.2012

We're back, and we have opinions. Strong ones. Veer into the rim of our ga1aXy for a glimpse of what's now and what's next in mobile.

Hosts: Myriam Joire (tnkgrl), Brad Molen, Joseph Volpe
Guest: Mat Smith
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Tycho - Coastal Brake (Ghostly International)

00:02:15 - Samsung Galaxy S III preview: hands-on with the next Android superphone (video)
00:11:20 - Samsung Galaxy S III vs. rival flagships: iPhone 4S, HTC One X, Lumia 900
00:15:06 - Samsung Galaxy S III software impressions (video)
00:43:15 - HTC One X for AT&T review
00:58:17 - BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha hands-on
01:00:30 - BlackBerry 10 dev alpha unit unveiled: 4.2-inch screen, 1280 x 768 resolution
01:04:00 - RIM shows off BlackBerry 10 touch keyboard with gesture support
01:08:00 - RIM demos simple app switching in BlackBerry 10, slide to reveal
01:10:40 - Does BlackBerry 10's camera app get by with a little help from Scalado Rewind? (Update: Yes)
01:14:50 - LG announces Optimus LTE2, coming to Korea mid-May with True HD IPS and 2GB RAM

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The Mash-Up You've Been Waiting For (talking-points-memo)

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B&W P3 Headphones Are Built for Commuting

Bowers and Wilkins are known for their very good ? and very expensive ? audio speakers. In recent years,they have aggressively ventured into the world of iDevices with the Zeppelin Air, P5 headphones and C5 earphones (see related links for our reviews). However, most people will never pay $300 for the P5 headphones, no matter [...]

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Titanium Backup updated, addition of Google Drive sync for Pro users

Titanium Backup Pro has long been a favourite in the Android toolbox for root users. Its feature list and relative ease of use have seen it become a must have, including the ability to sync your backups with your Dropbox account. With the recent launch of Google Drive, Titanium now offers sync to your Drive account with this latest update to the application should you be using the paid, Pro version. 

Google Drive sync isn't the only new feature to be heading our way though. The full changelog reads a little something like this:

• [PRO] Supports Google Drive!
• [PRO] Can use a Filter for Dropbox/Box/Google Drive sync. All features from the Filters screen are supported.
• Can backup & restore system apps on stock ROMs, for backups made with TB 5.1.0+.
• Fixed infamous "Android Market query failed" error when viewing Market info on an app.
• Fixed frozen system apps getting defrosted when integrating their updates into ROM.
• Fixed TB launch failure on some ROMs (for LG Optimus 2X & SGS2).
• Misc improvements & bugfixes.

As always, we've got download links to the Google Play store for you after the break. 

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