Korea seems to be the hot spot for Android gadgets, with the latest Samsung Galaxy S in the offering. The device loaded with a unique UI –  TouchWiz 3.0, thus overriding the HTC’s Touch Sense graphical user interface. With an incredible SuperAMOLED capacitive touch screen, Galaxy S is among the best Android phones created so far by the Korean manufacturer.

Even though the phone is preloaded with several useful widgets, applications and functions, yet you will eventually like to tweak and customize your Galaxy S smartphone. Also, you may want to undo all the changes you made earlier. Users who want to revert to the factory settings of their Samsung Galaxy S can follow the below mentioned steps. Prior to restoring to factory setting, take a backup of your data at some safe place, as the resetting will delete all information including third-party applications. However, data stored on microSD card will not be deleted.

Instructions:

Step 1: Power off your device. Hold the Volume Down button and press and release the Power button.

Step 2: A window with options Fastboot, Recovery, Clear Storage and Simlock is displayed on the screen.

Step 3: Use Volume Up/Down buttons to select the Clear Storage option and then click and release the Power button again.

Step 4: Conform your selection, press Volume Up for YES and Volume Down for NO.

 Finally, the smartphone will reboot fresh, as it was shipped from the factory.

European customers in Holland, Germany, and the Nordic countries have started receiving Gingerbread aka Android 2.3 update for their Samsung Galaxy S smartphone. The users will have to use the Samsung Kies updating utility on their PCs to install the new firmware. The remaining Europe will receive the update soon.

It wasn’t a long wait, as expected, Sprint officially announced the official Android 2.2 aka Froyo update for the Epic 4G, which will begin to roll out from February 21, and will continue to until February 25, when all devices will have received the update. Even though you may be well aware of the Froyo entails, Sprint has compiled a list of the major enhancements and additions that you can expect:

This software update (version EB13) will include:

• Upgrade of the Google OS from Éclair to Froyo (2.2.1)
• Bluetooth Voice Dialing
• Improved Bluetooth device support
• Ability to install applications to external storage
• GPS Enhancements
• Flash Player 10.1
• Improved OS performance

Maybe this Froyo update will win back some customers for Samsung. Good Luck! 

Undoubtedly, you’ll have your first chance at Honeycomb with Motorola’s Xoom in February, but LG’s G-Slate for T-Mobile, a 3D-enabled tablet shouldn’t be too far behind. News from TmoNews today pegs the G-Slate for a March 23rd launch with an unknown price tag, preceded by the Dell Streak 7 on February 2nd at $299.99 on contract after rebate.

Turning to non-tablet news, the Galaxy S 4G is a vibrant remixed with HSPA+ and will be launching on February 23rd.

I guess we all will be busy emptying out our wallets in these couple of months, starting from February. 

For past few weeks, we’ve been listening to several different excuses from Samsung for delayed updates of Froyo on their Galaxy S phones. Few days ago, we came to know that Vibrant 4G ain’t rollng out any time soon. And, now the saga continues, as a new anonymous source has stepped forth to clarify the issue.

Reportedly an insider who has stepped  up to  explain the issues behind the Android Froyo update to the Samsung Galaxy S phones in the United States, says:

 Samsung provides “critical” updates to carriers for free, charges a small fee for “maintenance” updates, and a larger fee for “feature” updates. They are classifying the 2.2 update as a feature update, and carriers have yet to come to an agreement with Samsung.

Even though there’s absolutely no way to verify the legitimacy of the explanation, yet it sounds a reasonable excuse for holding back the upgrade. What’s your take on it?

Samsung has a big strategy for selling more smartphones this year following announcement of the Google Nexus S. The company aims to sell 60 million mobile phones in the year 2011. We can expect to see more powerful and amazing devices like the slimmest Android – Infuse 4G unveiled at the CES 2011 last week.  An important piece of information comes directly from the horse’s mouth.

The Korea Times reported that Shin Jong-Kyun – head of Mobiles Division of Samsung, confirmed a new version of the Galaxy S phone would be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona starting from February 14.

Back in November, a slide containing information about the Samsung Mobiles plans for the first half this year indicated a Galaxy S successor. Shin said that the new version of Galaxy S would run dual-core mobile processor – Nvidia Tegra T20 CPU or perhaps a new dual-core chip from Samsung. The display of course would be Super AMOLED (Active Matrix Light Emitting Diode) Plus technology based with higher pixel density. And, yes it will run the Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread for sure.

In addition, Shin also stated about revealing a Galaxy Tab roadmap for this year. We may get to see a Super AMOLED or AMOLED display bearing Galaxy Tab.