Samsung's oversized phablets continue to grow with the Samsung Galaxy Mega 5.8 and 6.3. Thankfully, their prices have also been revealed as vendors have started selling the Samsung Galaxy Mega 5.8 in India at INR24900 (RM1364). The Samsung Galaxy 6.3 has been priced at INR31490 (RM1725). The price isn't entirely unexpected as both phablets only have midrange specs and should feature just a bit higher than the Samsung Galaxy Grand.

We fully expected this from our earlier reports but Samsung have dethroned Apple in smartphones sales for Q1 of 2013. According to analysts Samsung sold $26.62 billion worth of smartphones. While Apple have been doing quite well too at $22.95 billion this figure is lower by $7.71 billion compared to the figure reached in Q4 of 2012. Nokia followed up with $3.64 billion while LG got $2.95 billion from their smartphone sales.

LTE networks in Malaysia are just coming out, with the only major players being Maxis and Celcom. Therefore it makes sense that it took a while for the LTE-enabled version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 or I9505 to reach our shores. Coming out for Maxis in the next week or so, the I9505 will be priced a bit higher at RM2499 because instead of 16GB this version has 32GB worth of internal storage.

Out of all the new Samsung Galaxy S4 variants, there was one that we were sure was going to be released and that would be the Samsung Galaxy S4 mini, which Samsung have officially announced recently. Following the SIII mini, this year's Samsung Galaxy S4 mini confirms most of the tech spec rumours including:

• 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display
• 1.7GHz dual-core processor
• 8MP rear camera + 1.9MP front camera
• 8GB storage + 64GB microSD
• Android 4.2.2
• 1900 mAh battery
• LTE + IR LED support

Samsung continues their barrage of devices for every size and use, but this time we may have leaked tech specs for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 and the Samsung Galaxy Ace 3. The tech specs for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 include:

• 10.1-inch TFT-LCD display (1280 x 800)
• 1.6GHz dual-core processor
• 1GB RAM
• 3MP rear camera + 1.3MP front camera
• 16GB / 32GB storage
• 6800 mAh battery
• 243.1 x 176.1 x 7.96mm
• 510g
• Android 4.2 Jelly Bean

Samsung continues their barrage of devices for every size and use, but this time we may have leaked tech specs for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 and the Samsung Galaxy Ace 3. The tech specs for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 include:

• 10.1-inch TFT-LCD display (1280 x 800)
• 1.6GHz dual-core processor
• 1GB RAM
• 3MP rear camera + 1.3MP front camera
• 16GB / 32GB storage
• 6800 mAh battery
• 243.1 x 176.1 x 7.96mm
• 510g
• Android 4.2 Jelly Bean

It is no secret that Samsung have not been able to keep up with the production of their Exynos 5 Octa chipsets and processors. Only 30% of the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphones sold had these processors, after all. For this reason, the rumour that Samsung may instead use the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 to power their upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note III phablet sounds very likely. Performance benchmarks of Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 800 platform have been very good, so much so that they've overtaken Samsung's own Exynos 5 Octa.

As rumours continue to swirl about the soon-to-be-released Samsung Galaxy Note III, one of the latest rumours is that Samsung will include Optical Image Stabilization with the Note III. On top of the 13MP camera the Note III is supposed to have, this feature may also come with shutter functions. So far, tech specs for the Samsung Galaxy Note III include:

• Exynos 5 Octa
• 5.99-inch Super AMOLED (1080p)
• 3GB RAM
• 13MP rear camera (OIS)

In our first smartphone view of Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 800 processor, a Pantech smartphone recently got an amazing score on the AnTuTu benchmark site. Previously, the king of the AnTuTu benchmark score was the Exynos 5 Octa powered Samsung Galaxy S4 I9500 with an AnTuTu score of 27000+. The new Snapdragon 800 powered Pantech smartphone got a score of 30133, beating the S4 by an amazying 3000 point margin.

When Samsung first announced their 8 core Exynos 5 Octa processor we were quite enthusiastic. Imagine, a more powerful processor that combines best of class performance with great power efficiency. The fact that Samsung have used both this processor and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 in their Samsung Galaxy S4 means that we can make a more focused comparison between the two processors. On one hand, the Exynos 5 Octa has already proven that it is more powerful, however, does it achieve what it initially claimed, as in better power efficiency? Check out the graphs below: