Vincent Nguyen

Samsung Galaxy Camera: Hands-on with the 16MP Android snapper

By Vincent Nguyen
on 29 Aug, 2012

Samsung has thrown its Android and point-and-shoot digital camera teams together, and come up with the Galaxy Camera, an 16-megapixel Android-based snapper with a 21x optical zoom. At first glance more akin to a camera than a phone, the Galaxy Camera includes a 4.8-inch 1280 x 720 HD Super LCD and a 16-megapixel backside-illuminated CMOS, paired with a 23mm wide angle lens and an optical zoom unheard of on handsets.

Samsung Galaxy Note II revealed: We go hands-on!

By Vincent Nguyen
on 29 Aug, 2012

Samsung's Galaxy Note II, the sequel to the Galaxy Note "phablet," has been officially announced, a 5.5-inch update that makes the pen-equipped device even more useful to digital note-takers. Smoothing out the original Note's blunt edges with a Galaxy S III-inspired curved casing, yet still managing to be just 9.4mm thick and 180g, the Note II boosts screen size by 0.2-inches as well, though notches down the resolution to 1280 x 720.

Samsung Galaxy S III revealed: 4.8-inch quadcore monster

By Vincent Nguyen
on 3 May, 2012

Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy S III, the company's "next Galaxy" and perhaps the most eagerly anticipated Android smartphone of the year. Packing a 4.8-inch 720p HD Super AMOLED display into an 8.6mm thick chassis, it runs Samsung's 1.4GHz quad-core Exynos 4 Quad paired with an 8-megapixel camera.

Samsung Galaxy S III hands-on [Video]

By Vincent Nguyen
on 3 May, 2012

Expectations are high for the Samsung Galaxy S III, and from our hands-on playtime with the new Android flagship we've a feeling users will be pleased. Samsung may not have lived up to the pre-launch hype, but it has delivered a phone that improves on all areas of its predecessor: better screen, faster processor and more usable camera.

HTC ONE X Review

By Vincent Nguyen
on 2 Apr, 2012

2011 was not HTC's year. Despite what appeared to be a strong start at Mobile World Congress in February 2011, by the tail-end of the year HTC had seen its device sales slump and rivals like Samsung steal its innovation crown, no small shock for the company which had long been known as the Android backbone. 2012, then, sees HTC become the challenger again, and the HTC One X is the powerhouse of that attack. Packing a quadcore Tegra 3 chipset in European form, it's a big, fast answer to those who said HTC had let specifications slip. Question is, does the One X do enough to leave HTC in a solid position ahead of the Samsung Galaxy S III and the iPhone 5?

Galaxy Tab 7.7 Hands-on

By Vincent Nguyen
on 1 Sep, 2011

Samsung is on something of a roll with its Android tablets, pumping out three different sizes in the space of a year. Twelve months on from the original 7-inch Galaxy Tab comes the Galaxy Tab 7.7, packing a slightly larger display, higher resolution and faster, 1.4GHz dual-core processor. Perhaps more important for ultramobile users is the reduced size and weight, however. Read on for our hands-on impressions.

Galaxy Note Hands-on [Video]

By Vincent Nguyen
on 1 Sep, 2011

Bigger than a Galaxy S II but smaller than a new Galaxy Tab 7.7; offering the latest in capacitive touch but also a stylus; the Samsung Galaxy Note is a device with a few personalities. Intended to pull together phone, paper notebook, games device and tablet into one pen-enabled smart handheld, it's certainly one of the more ambitious gadgets we've seen at IFA 2011.

Android Community Archos 70 Internet Tablet Giveaway

By Vincent Nguyen
on 25 Jul, 2011

At Android Community we're always keen to help people "keep taking their tablets", and so when Archos offered us its 7-inch Archos 70 Internet Tablet, we thought we'd offer it to our readers in a new giveaway. The Android slate is a mere 10mm thick yet still packs a 1GHz processor, and is idea for web-browsing and multimedia playback.

Samsung Galaxy S 4G hands-on

By Vincent Nguyen
on 18 Feb, 2011

Samsung's Galaxy S 4G isn't exactly a great leap from the existing Galaxy S range. The company has taken the original Galaxy S and thrown in Android 2.2 Froyo from the outset, together with HSPA+ support for T-Mobile USA's network. Still, with the Galaxy S family the best-selling Android devices around, there's arguably little Samsung actually needed to do in order to refresh things prior to the Galaxy S II's arrival.

Angry Birds Android ads make Rovio $1m per month

By Vincent Nguyen
on 8 Dec, 2010

Developers Rovio may be giving Angry Birds away for free, but that doesn't mean the team isn't making any money on the game. Speaking at LeWeb 2010 today, Rovio CEO Mikael Hed revealed that the adverts on the Android version of Angry Birds is pulling in $1m per month. That's actually more than the premium version of Angry Birds on sale in Apple's App Store, which is a paid-app rather than ad supported.