Samsung announced their latest Bada OS smartphone, the Samsung Wave 3 back in September, and now the device has just launched in Europe, and will be available in France initially, and then Germany, Italy and Russia, plus other European countries before the end of the year.

As a reminder, the Samsung Wave 3 features Samsung’s Bada OS 2.0, plus a 4 inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display, which features a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, and processing is provided by a single core 1.4GHz processor.

On the back of the Samsung Wave 3 is a 5 megapixel camera with an LED flash and auto-focus, up front there is a VGA camera for video chat, plus it comes with 4GB of built in storage and a microSD card slot which can take up to 32GB cards.

Other features on the Samsung Wave 3 include A-GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and WiFi direct, there are no details on pricing ... Read more »

This week the development team behind the popular Linux Mint operating system, have announced the arrival of their latest creation in the form of Linux Mint 12. Linux Mint has been chasing the Ubuntu Linux operating for sometime. But the development team behind Mint 12 have included a number of new features as well as new artwork, which will pro dive Ubuntu with a very worthy competitor.

The Linux Mint 12 operating system features the new Mint GNOME Shell Extensions (MGSE), that allows you to benefit from the latest features in the new version of GNOME. However Linux Mint 12 continues to use the application menu, bottom panel, and other features included in previous versions.

Linux Mint 12 is now available to download for computers equipped with either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 processors. Supported by 512MB or more of RAM, 5GB of disk space, an ... Read more »