Taking screenshots on the Samsung Galaxy Tab is a lot easier than the experience I’ve had doing the same on the Galaxy S (unrooted). The latter currently requires that I run the Android SDK, connect the phone to a computer via a specific USB mode, etc.

Thankfully with the Tab it’s as easy as on the Wave – press the Back and Power/Standby buttons simultaneously and you should hear the typical camera shot sound. The resulting image is automatically stored in the Image Gallery in a “ScreenCapture” folder.

One trick I’ve learnt so far (after happily snapping away at just about every screen) is that some apps or screens naturally revert to a previous view immediately when the Back button has been pressed. One way around this is to hold the Back button down while launching the app/screen then pressing the Power button.

If I find anymore useful tips on this topic I’ll be sure to add them here; yours are also welcome.

Screenshot of the Readers Hub app:

Screenshot of Basichords:

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Disclaimer: Although I am part of the awesome Samsung Blog team, the views and opinions expressed above do not necessarily reflect those of Samsung.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab sees the company moving into new territory. It is Samsung’s first attempt at conquering a new category of mobile product – the tablet.

The Galaxy Tab has everything you could desire in a New Smart Media device. Wherever they go, Samsung Galaxy Tab users will be able to have acces to PC-like web-browsing as well as all forms of multimedia content, and will be able to stay in touch all the time, via e-mail, voice and video call, SMS/MMS or a whole host of social networking platforms. And all of this on a 7-inch (about 18 cm) display – just the right size to allow you to do all of the above.

Powered by Android’s 2.2 Operating System, the Tab boasts a striking TFT-LCD display. It’s only 380g, making it perfectly portable, and its design is svelt and sexy while remaining easy to grip and use. The GalaxyTab provides swift and seamless viewing of any media on the web, and there are three exciting applications that will revolutionise the way you consume media. There’s the ‘Readers Hub’ e-reading application and the ‘Music Hub’, which grants you access to all the latest tunes.

It presents a level of converged technology that moves beyond mobile or PC to an entirely new category, and will give you new powers to consume, create and communicate from wherever you are.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab is now available in limited stock (at selected retailers) with a full rollout planned countrywide before the holiday period.

An impressive 600,000 Galaxy Tab units have already been shipped globally, numbers which inspire confidence that Samsung will reach the 1 million target this year.

Samsung South Africa would like to warn the public of a false competition email that is going around entitled Samsung Evo 2010 Winning Notification.? and may be signed off with what may look like a Samsung email address or signature (Dr Lloyd Alexander Ivanovich, Samsung Evo claims administrator). It’s not a legitimate email distribution or competition and in no way does it represent the brand.

If you’ve genuinely won a competition, Samsung would contact you personally and not refer to you generally as “Dear Winner”. Furthermore, if you were to win such a huge cash prize then Samsung would make every effort to contact you in person.

Please do not open these emails, download their attachments or respond to them. We apologise to anyone who may have acted on these emails thinking that they were legitimate. Samsung has contacted the local authorities to resolve this issue.

If you’re unsure of the validity of such an email, feel free to contact us.

Regards,
Samsung team

Download Press Release (pdf)

After nearly 6 great years at Samsung it is finally time to say goodbye. It has been a great journey joining Samsung straight from university and working for one of the top brands in the World.

Some of the highlights include: working with great people at Samsung around the World, travelling and watching Chelsea who Samsung obviously sponsor playing in the UK vs my team Man United, the growth our Blog site achieved including being nominated for a Blog award last year, the amazing online campaigns we launched, our mobile site reaching the 1 million unique visitors mark in one month and Samsung achieving a strong number two market share position from 8% market share when I first joined.

A big thank you must go out to our online/digital/social media agencies namely Base Two, Thumbtribe and Cerebra without whom a lot of successes would not have been achievable.

I can only see the Samsung Brand growing from strength. Thanks to all of you for all the support over the years.

All the best.

Daniel Lamberti – Former Brand Manager: Samsung Mobile

To celebrate the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S, Samsung is giving you a chance to win a magnificent holiday to the Mayan temples of Chich?n Itz? worth a whopping R100,000!

You and a partner will stay in opulent five-star luxury at the Mayaland Hotel. Set amidst the ancient ruins, this premier resort is famous for its historic charm and true Mexican hospitality.

By entering you’ll also get a chance to win the weekly prize of the brand new Samsung Galaxy S. This super smartphone runs the Android operating system (giving you access to tons of apps and games), has an integrated calendar, HD recording capability, a Super AMOLED screen (for the best viewing capability), wireless tethering and much more!

Head over to http://www.samsunggalaxys.co.za or our fan page on Facebook to enter now!

I received my Samsung Galaxy S Android smartphone two weeks ago and have found it difficult to let go of it since. No, not because I’ve been inundated by incoming calls (for whatever reason) and neither because I have had a urge to call my mates and tell them that I’m the owner of this awesome phone. The reason for my time being consumed by the this powerful device is due to the availability of applications on Android Market and the addictive grip it’s got on me.

You see, I’m a platform guy, and I appreciate that one of the major values of an operating system to the consumer is how developers embrace it and create a rich ecosystem around it. You could argue that the availability of applications is directly proportional to the acceptance of the platform for the end-user.

And that’s why I have had so much fun with the Galaxy S. Technical features aside (I love the Super AMOLED screen!), the fact that I can go to the Android Marketplace, search for an application, find it and install it in a couple of steps is really helpful. (Note there are around 100K apps on the Android Market and over 1 Billion downloads to date!).

But, with all that choice of applications, which ones is the right one? So that’s why I decided to write this blog post. Hopefully I can save you some time (and data costs ?) by listing some of my most useful apps. Sure, at the end of the day it’s all about your personal preferences, but some of these might be relevant to you. I’ve rated the apps based on the software quality (UI, ease of use), rating, size, and the all-up individual appeal to my user profile. For this post, I’ve classified the apps by application category (e.g. games, finance, themes, etc.).

First Step: customizing the Home Screen

Zedge – this nifty tool allows you to customize your wallpaper and ring tones. I’m not too interested in the latter, but definitely wanted to change my home screen look. Zedge has a selection of over 300,000 wallpapers and ringtones – the majority of them of really great quality. If you can’t find one to meet your needs, try the next option below – live wallpapers.

Live Wallpapers – instead of individually describing what each of these listed below do (live wallpaper is self-explanatory right?), I’ll opt to just list my favorites and let you decide which one you like best:

• aniPet Aquarium
• Aquarium
• Ascension Lite
• Aurora
• Fireworks
• Plasma
• Tap Tap Bubbles

Paulo Ferreira
Head of Product and Business Solutions: Samsung Mobile

Read the second part: Pimp your Galaxy S, part 2.

Fans of our Samsung Fan Club page on Facebook may be aware of the major changes we’ve had on it lately, starting with the recent Samsung Wave competition. Today we’re pleased to share with you that we’ve now also added a mini phone catalogue.

This new section will allow fans to browse the Samsung Mobile South Africa catalogue (of available handsets) and the ability to “like” your favourite models or even Tweet about it.

Give it a whirl at http://j.mp/phonecat and let us know what you think.

See the screenshot below:

Remember that Samsung B7330 “Be your own boss” competition from a few months ago? The lucky winner is Suvasha Naidoo who has won herself a share portfolio and home office – a prize worth a whopping R200,000! Suvash was kind enough to share her fascinating story with us.

I was thrilled and totally shocked. When I got the call, I asked the lady from Samsung that contacted me if she wasn’t playing a joke on me. I seriously could not believe it! And after the call I could not stop smiling for quite some time… To be honest, that same morning I received a call to say I had won R5000 in another competition I had entered, and told some colleagues about it – hence, I thought that someone was playing a joke on me. I was over the moon – it’s a day I will never forget!

You gotta be in it to win it
Previously, I always thought that I was unlucky and would never win any competitions. It was my husband who convinced me to stop saying that I was unlucky (this was a few years ago before we got married) and he also told me that “you gotta be in it, to win it!” so we enter as many competitions as we can. He has won a few himself, but much smaller prizes. We both have entered other Samsung competitions, but didn’t win any. I still enter the other Samsung competitions but I’m not sure if they will award another prize to me.

Actually, I entered the B7330 competition because of my husband – he entered and referred myself and many other friends. I received the e-mail link and entered not expecting to win… and I think this was maybe a week or so before the competition closed. It was just one entry.

My prizes
I absolutely love the prizes. I haven’t decided what to do with the Share Portfolio yet, but it has to stay invested for six months, so I guess for the next six months it will just grow a little (or a lot).

The people at Samsung were kind enough to let me choose the second part of the prize – the home office equipment. To choose office stuff to the value of R100,000 was quite difficult, so I incorporated some items that will serve as office accessories when needed and also double for home pleasure! I am off on a two week holiday later today, and when I get back I will be receiving these incredible Samsung products. I can’t wait!

I have collected one item though because I wanted to use it for my holiday, my new camera, the Samsung NX10 – so I when I get back I will share some pics that I would have taken with this new camera.

Thank you, Samsung!
A very big THANK YOU to all at Samsung Mobile for running such amazing competitions and picking random winners like me. SAMSUNG ROCKS!! And also a special Thank You to two wonderful PR ladies Brina and Lizelle.

Suvash Naidoo

It’s only been a few months since the Samsung Wave, the first ever smartphone to use our own operating system bada, was unleashed on an unsuspecting world. The Wave hit the market in June, and since then a whopping total of over 14 million bada applications have already been downloaded from the Samsung Apps store. In a short period of time, bada has established itself as a major player in the mobile platform stakes, and the service’s user base continues to expand by the day.

This great news comes just in time for us to celebrate the first birthday of the Samsung Apps store. In case that’s not enough reason for celebration, Samsung has decided to expand this mobile and television applications store to cover 109 countries. We South Africans were lucky enough to be one of the first nations to gain access to Samsung Apps. Very soon, a host of new nations including Costa Rica, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Iceland, Nicaragua, Tanzania, Trinidad, Tobago, and Sudan will also be able to download applications from the store.

Soon, the launch of new bada-powered devices is sure to lead to even greater growth for Samsung Apps. This is a time for expansion, and we will be working hard to ensure that the amount of people using Samsung Apps continues to grow. After we blow out the candle on our first birthday cake, of course.

Daniel Lamberti,
Samsung Mobile Brand Manager