January 23rd, 2013

At Long Last, Samsung’s ATIV Odyssey Will Make Its Verizon Debut On Jan. 24

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Well, after being teased at presentations and making brief appearances at football-themed trade show events, Samsung’s elusive ATIV Odyssey finally has a price and a release date. According to a recent update from Verizon, the humble Windows Phone will make its debut on January 24 (i.e. tomorrow), and will set prospective buyers back $50… eventually. As usual, Verizon is sticking to their… → Read More

January 7th, 2013

Hands On With Verizon’s Elusive Samsung ATIV Odyssey Windows Phone

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Samsung’s ATIV Odyssey has been a real noodle-scratcher of a device ever since its existence was first hinted at during Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 launch event. Well, consider that particular veil lifted — Samsung had a near-final version of the Odyssey to play with here at Digital Experience in Las Vegas, and I took the secretive little guy for a spin. → Read More

November 12th, 2012

Samsung Ativ Odyssey Image Gets Leaked Ahead Of December Launch

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The existence of Samsung’s Verizon-bound Ativ Odyssey smartphone was one of the bigger surprises at Microsoft’s recent Windows Phone 8 launch event — it was the only handset highlighted that hadn’t already been revealed — but no one was willing to talk details at the time.

That’s unfortunately still the case now, but thanks to a newly-released photo from @EvLeaks, we at least know… → Read More

October 29th, 2012

Windows Phone 8 Device Availability: Phones Hit Europe This Weekend, U.S. In November

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Windows Phone 8 is coming to European carriers this weekend, coming to the rest of the world in November, with devices from Lumia, HTC and Samsung including the 920, 8X and Ativ S hitting online stores and retail shelves. The mobile OS has been anticipated for a while now, but this is the first we’ve heard of a specific street date, so now you know when you can actually get your hands on Windows… → Read More

August 29th, 2012

Samsung ATIV S Revealed: Windows Phone 8, 4.8″ HD Display, 1.5GHz Dual-Core Processor

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Sorry Nokia, consider your thunder stolen. It hasn’t yet made an appearance at Samsung’s big IFA press conference inside the Berlin Tempodrom, but Samsung’s first Windows Phone 8 device has just been made official thanks to a post on Microsoft’s Windows Phone Blog.

That device in question is the ATIV (EYY-tiv? Ah-TEEV?) S, a rather handsome new handset that sports a (sadly unspecified) 1.5GHz… → Read More