Your cover story How Samsung Moved Nokia's Cheese (May 27) has once again proved that necessity is mother of all innovation.

One afternoon, in the last week of November 2010, Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah went for lunch at a cafe in a mall in Gurgaon. The visit changed the way they thought of their business.

A US district judge had ordered Apple and Samsung to participate in a two-day mediation session to settle Apple's claims that Samsung's smartphones and tablets violated its patent and trademark.

Chinese regulators have attached a big condition to the Google-Motorola Mobility deal: Google's Android operating system for mobile devices remain available to all at no cost for the next five years.

Samsung dethrones Finnish major Nokia as the top mobile handset maker with sales of 86.6 million units in 2011.

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Xperia S, the first smartphone from the rebranded Sony Mobile, tries to offer everything from looks to smart functionality. But does it succeed?

A good effort that has got things wrong with the pricing.

With phones becoming smarter, the embedded cameras too are acquiring HD and Full HD recording capabilities along with the power needed to process these files.

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Chaitanya Kalbag says competition tell us why long-time incumbents drowse at the top of the tree; why value-conscious Indians are willing to spend big bucks on newer devices and wheels; why the user experience is so important to coming up with the best products.

The S3 has a 4.8 inch Super AMOLED display, 1.4GHz quad core processor, 1GB RAM, Android IceCream Sandwich, 8MP camera, 1.9MP front facing camera for video calling, 2100 mAh battery and NFC.

Samsung Galaxy S III that boasts of a high-definition touch screen will go on sale in Europe on May 29 and in the US this summer.

RIM has rubbished reports that suggested a shift in the company's offerings after the May 2 BlackBerry prototype was unveiled as a touchscreen phone.

And, the pain won't go away soon. Samsung's Goliath-beating journey in the Rs 55,000-crore mobile phones business is as much luck as nose-to-the-grind execution. The luck was in the call it made two years ago on smartphones.

Powering on the Xolo greeted us with the typical Android interface but the app icons are really small. The Android v2.3 phone is priced at Rs 22,000.

Research In Motion though unveiled the new BlackBerry 10 OS but failed to arrest the slide of the company's shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange.