Windows Phone Surpasses the iPhone in China

Microsoft has reached a milestone in one of the largest smartphone markets by passing up Apple's iPhone in China.

According to WMPoweruser, COO for the Greater China Region at Microsoft Michel van der Bel has stated that Windows Phone 7 has grabbed 7% of the market share just two months after the platform's regional launch, trumping Apple's 6% of the pie.

The big fish is still quite a distance away, with Android accounting for a commanding 69% of the market.

Source : http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/05/18/windows-phone-surpasses-the-iphone-in-china

Worldwide Samsung Galaxy S III Pre-Orders Reach 9 Million

Samsung, the largest handset vendor in the world, is approaching the release of yet another extremely popular Android phone, the recently announced Samsung Galaxy S III.

According to the Korea Economic Daily, around 9 million pre-orders have been placed across 100 global carriers, excluding the United States where carriers have yet to be announced, reports Reuters. The device will launch in Germany on May 29, with additional territories receiving the phone over the course of the new few months. To keep up with the high demand, the company's South Korean factory has been working at full capacity to push out 5 million handsets per month.

The Galaxy S II reached 20 million units shipped during its first 10 months on the market, and over 4 million units of Apple's iPhone 4S were sold during its opening weekend.

Source : http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/05/18/worldwide-samsung-galaxy-s-iii-pre-orders-reach-9-million

New Medal Of Honor Warfighter Trailer Coming This Weekend

EA is dropping a new trailer for Medal of Honor Warfighter during half-time of the UEFA Champions League Final this Saturday. Tune into Sky Sports 1 at 8:30pm on Saturday May 19th, to see a new gameplay trailer for the latest outing of the MOH franchise.

Our partner site AskMen will be exclusively premiering an abridged version of the new trailer here at 4pm (GMT) today, May 18th so make sure to bookmark the page to get your first look at the new TV trailer.

Medal of Honor: Warfighter will be released for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC this October. Be sure to check out our preview for everything we know so far.

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Community: "The First Chang Dynasty" Review

Looking for our reviews of the other two Community episodes that aired Thursday night? You can find our review of the video game-themed "Digital Estate Planning" here. The season finale review will be up later this morning!

Full spoilers for the episode follow.

I love me a good heist movie. Heck, I love me a mediocre heist movie. So as it became clear where "The First Chang Dynasty" was going to take us, I was grinning from ear to ear. Sure, it was mostly a riff on Ocean's 11 and not the genre as a whole, but since said movie falls squarely in the "good" category, why complain? Where "Digital Estate Planning" faltered by feeling so out of place as an episode, "The First Chang Dynasty" continued (and ended) the story arcs we've been following for weeks.

Chang's rise to power had been a background story for much of the season. And I like that it's been in the background. Too much Chang can really wear thin. Tonight, we got some full on Chang, and since things have been leading to this, it was nice to give him free reign for a while. Britta perfectly summed up his leadership: "He's just like Stalin back in Russia times." The Chang posters around the campus, the aggressive security, the prescription throne-- all were exactly what we'd hope for once we got a clear look at Chang's rule.

Click on Chang's fearsome face to enter for your chance to win a Chang poster signed by Ken Jeong!

Watching the study group figure out a way to free Dean Pelton was a hoot. Once Troy got his inside info from the air conditioning repair school, the plan was put in place. Things unfolded perfectly, with Jeff going over the steps while split screens showed the action that was taking place. It was a delightfully perfect Community spin on Danny Ocean breaking into the Bellagio. And it was funny. This series always does an amazing job of smartly, often meticulously mimicking countless genres while never forgetting to make the audience laugh.

And even get emotional on occasion. After the failing plan that was all part of the plan actually failed, the study group found themselves locked up without a way out. This is where Troy stepped up and made his wordless pact with the AC school: "A man is only as good as his nod through a camera to a guy with a button." This brought us back to another storyline carrying through mush of this season. It took a while, but Troy was now promised to the repair school.

IGN TV Executive Editor took this pic of Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs and Jim Rash on the set of "The First Chang Dynasty"

Really, "The First Chang Dynasty" brought some pitch perfect closure to numerous storylines running through Season 3. The Ocean's 11 riff was a fun way to wrap the package, but the gift on the inside was seeing how everything would come to an end. There was still one episode left, but "The First Chang Dynasty" worked perfectly as a conclusion to the season.

Source : http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/05/18/community-the-first-chang-dynasty-review

Supernatural: Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki Look Towards Season 8

Just a day before Friday’s Supernatural season finale, I had the chance to speak to both of the show’s stars, Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles about what to expect as Season 7 wraps up and the series gets ready for Season 8 in the fall.

Season 8 will find Supernatural going through some big changes, including a move from Friday nights to Wednesdays -where it will be paired with the new series Arrow. There will also be a new showrunner, Jeremy Carver, who previously wrote for the series before departing to launch Being Human a couple of years ago.

About an hour and a half after I spoke to Padalecki and Ackles, I attended a press conference with CW’s president, Mark Pedowitz. While anything can happen in TV, Pedowitz’s remark about Supernatural – “I’m not looking at Season 8 as the final year in any way, shape or form” – makes it clear The CW certainly has no specific intention right now of wrapping up the series next season. You’ll see what Padalecki and Ackles told me about their thoughts on going beyond Season 8 below.

IGN TV: So, you’ve got this Dick Roman guy to deal with in the finale...

Jared Padalecki: Yeah, yeah. He’s an ass***e!

IGN: [Laughs] Yes, he is! So what can you tell us about the finale?

Padalecki: True to Supernatural form, we don’t avoid the issue or press it on ad infinitum. We do an episode where we confront him. So you will see the boys, with some help, confronting Dick Roman tomorrow, and we’ll see how it turns out -- some good, some bad. It can’t just be, good guys win, drive away. It never is in Supernatural. We’re certainly going to leave you hanging a little bit. But it’s a very exciting cliffhanger for Season 8.

But we didn’t know. We had a good inkling that we were gonna go to Season 8, so we left it in a sense -- it would be very bad for the show to end tomorrow. So we set it out with a good launch pad for Season 8. Once again, true to Supernatural form, we’re not just gonna, like, “Oh, what’s going on now?” One of the brothers is left in a pretty sticky situation. So I hope that Season 8 can start where Season 7 left off. We had a few opportunities in Supernatural where we could start where we left off. And sometimes, I think there were a few seasons were like, Sam’s been hunting with the family, or Dean’s been alive for however long. So I’d like to pick up where we left off. And I’d like to see the brothers do their own thing for a little bit. I love the brothers together -- I think it’s a great dynamic, and I’m great friends with Jensen. I know how we act, and it’s easy to work together. But I love when the characters get to go out on their own and do their own thing.

IGN: You got Bobby back, but again, true to the show, there was a price. He’s not doing so hot.

Padalecki: Yeah, he’s not doing so well. But we don’t want Bobby’s character to be cheapened, either by killing him and bringing him back, killing him and bringing him back, killing him and bringing him back - nor by letting his character literally deteriorate into this ghost he is. So we also have some stuff to deal with tomorrow.

IGN: Your character went through a lot of mental angst for a couple of years on the show.

Padalecki: Yeah, they’re killin’ me!

IGN: Are you happy to be in a better place with him, or is it fun to play the screwed up version of Sam?

Padalecki: Both, I guess! The new dad in me is happy to not have the angst-y character, because it has to go with you a little bit. When you’re 12 or 14 hours a day of playing this messed up character, you go home and have a glass of wine to get it out of you. So the new father in me is happy that Sam’s a little more balanced right now. But Sam will always have a couple screws loose. He’s had too much going on in his life to just be a perfectly balanced human being. So he’ll always be a little angst-y.

IGN: I love Mark Pellegrino’s Lucifer. Do you think the writers will continue to figure out some ways to use him?

Padalecki: Yeah, he’s awesome. I hope so, because I like him a lot -- also, as a person. And he’s a great character. He brings a great dynamic to the show. So I hope we get a chance to bring him back. I learned a long time ago to try and not figure out what the writers are going to do because I’m always wrong. So I’m not gonna throw a wild guess out there, but I hope he does come back.

IGN: When are you guys thinking this show might hit an ending? Do you think Season 8 might be the final one?

Padalecki: I haven’t heard any inkling of it. There’s no news that this is the last year. We feel like Supernatural can go as long as our fans are excited. We have a new showrunner now too, and Jeremy is a fantastic writer, a great mind. I can’t wait to see where he takes the show. And I’m imagining if he just came on, he probably has more than 23 episodes in his head. So hopefully they’ll keep us around. I mean, we’re having a great time doing it. Eight years of my adult life have been spent in Vancouver as Sam Winchester, so why not make it nine or ten?

Continue to Page 2 to see what Jensen Ackles had to say about the end of Supernatural: Season 7 and his thoughts on Season 8.

Source : http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/05/18/supernatural-jensen-ackles-and-jared-padalecki-look-towards-season-8