The next in the line of Galaxy smartphones, the Samsung Galaxy SIII has been revealed. It comes with a 4.8 inch 720p display in a slim body with references to natural, organic curves. The new flagship phone matches the current high-end specs and tries to emphasize the software enhancements on top of Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Human-like interaction is the main theme throughout the software, trying to understand and adapt to the needs of the user.

The release date of the highly anticipated next Samsung Galaxy S device is set to May 3rd. Accompanied by a teaser campaign, expectations are reaching distant galaxies. The next Samsung flagship has to satisfy them to compete with recent smartphone revelations, including its sibling, the Galaxy Nexus. The rumored specs of the upcoming member of the S series are hinting towards a powerhouse of a smartphone.

A new Gartner study assumes that tablet sales will nearly double in 2012, as compared to 2011. 118.9 million units are to be sold worldwide this year according to the analysts. Android is already an important competitor in the iPhone-dominated market. Microsoft and RIM will need a few years to acquire a mentionable market share, Gartner says.

Apple has become the leading client PC vendor worldwide. That is if you count the iPad as a PC. In Q4 2011, Apple has shipped over 15 million iPads and five millions Macs, which makes up 17% of the total 120 million PC shipped globally.

Runtastic goes hardware. The winner of the A1 Challenge for Apps introduced new sports equipment to accompany their very popular sports tracking app. In the portfolio, sports fans will find the new GPS Watch, along with chest straps monitoring the heart rate and the smartphone Sports-Case. The new products are currently presented at the CES in Las Vegas and will be available starting February 2012.

MIPS Technologies and Ingenic Semiconductor joined forces to bring a very cheap Android tablet to the market. The basis for the low price is the use of the MIPS architecture instead of the ARM technology - dominant among mobile devices. The Novo7 will also be the first tablet running the newest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich version. The device was launched in China, further regions of the world are to follow.

We already had a quick encounter with the newest horse in Nokia's stable and gave you a short hands-on video. Now it is time to look a little deeper at what was titled the first real Windows Phone. We had a look at the hardware and software side of the Nokia Lumia 800 to get a feeling of what is Nokia's hope in the smartphone area.

An opportunity for a very quick hands on with the Nokia Lumia 800 presented itself at yesterday's Mobile Monday Vienna. We just had a brief encounter with the Windows Phone device and could get a feeling for the industrial design and the responsiveness of the menu.

After Amazon, book retailer Barnes & Noble is bringing an Android powered tablet to the U.S. market. Similar to Amazon's nomenclature, the Barnes & Noble proposition will be called Nook Tablet, just like their own eReader, offering multimedia capabilities next to the eReader functionality. Are tablets on the way to replace books and magazines in the long run completely?

Android purists prepare to slaughter your piggy bank soon. The Galaxy Nexus is scheduled for European market launch on November 17th. Will there be people waiting in line to get one? The Galaxy Note will be out a few days before, with the S Pen SDK for the stylus following in December.

The Lumia 800, known by its working title Sea Ray before, was for sure the star at the keynote of Nokia World. However, the Lumia 710 might also sell well, as it is similar to the 800 in several regards - but cheaper. Also, a series of new S40 phones was presented.

Nokia has announced their first Windows Phone device yesterday, the Nokia Lumia 800. As expected, it looks just like the Nokia N9, with very slight differences on the hardware front. On the software side, it is completely new – instead of MeeGo, there is Windows Phone powering the smartphone. The announcement comes earlier than initially scheduled – Windows Phone handsets were not to come out before 2012. Will this be enough to pull Nokia out of their smartphone slump?

They didn't want it any other way. Presenting two new lead devices with just a few hours in between basically provokes pitching the two smart phones against each other. Read this article to compare the two devices' specifications. There's also something about Apple.

Not bad Amazon. According to quite reliable estimates, the Kindle Fire was ordered 95,000 times - on the very first day of pre-ordering. That's about a third of the iPad order numbers on its first day, but already half of what RIM sold throughout three months.

Sometimes secrets are best kept loosely. For the mobile world this definitely applies. It has been an open secret that Amazon was planning to release a tablet to go along with their newly launched Appstore for Android. The device has been officially introduced now, but details as to what it is and what has under the hood remain mostly unconfirmed. The 7 inch tablet is reportedly running a customized version of Android 2.1. It comes with a price tag of $199 and will be heavily powered by the cloud.