Android phone would be the first screening of "Ice Cream Sandwich Google, but withdrew without explanation

Samsung rival Apple in the smartphone sector and is involved in a series of bitter battles room with the American company, has abruptly postponed its planned launch of new high-end phone Tuesday .

The apparent reason was not to interfere in the reactions surrounding the death of Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, whose death was announced Wednesday night at his home in California.

The South Korean company, which said Friday morning that he expects smartphones to become the main engine of your profits, expected to launch its new phone Nexus of Government, with the latest version Google's Android software - the numbers 4.0, and known as "ice cream sandwich" - Tuesday at the CTIA

blunt But in a statement Friday night, said: "Samsung and Google has decided to postpone the announcement of new products at CTIA Fall, we agree that the time is right to announce a new new products .. Date and place will be announced shortly. "

The company did not say, but it is understood that the reason is not connected to any hardware or software problem on the phone.

This implies that the decision was made because it is considered too close to death in employment. No new date has been given by Samsung for the announcement. No date was given either by the family of jobs for his funeral.

Samsung and Apple are engaged in a series of court cases in the world, with Apple claiming that Samsung copied important elements of the look of your iPhone and iPhone, and affecting a number of patents. Samsung responded by saying that Apple violated several of its patents, including some on mobile devices:. He threatened to stop selling Apple's iPhone 4S, announced Tuesday, France and Italy

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last year tried unsuccessfully to intercede in the conflict before it becomes a major legal battle. The first shots in the legal battle in April, there were 201.

Samsung, the largest electronics company in the world, announced Friday morning that it expects record profits come from sales combined. Analysts estimate that this could happen to Apple in the July-September period by the total number of smartphones shipped worldwide.

However, its other divisions are under pressure amid consumer spending squeezed. The South Korean company believes that its quarterly operating profit of 4.2 billion won (2.3 billion pounds) compared with a consensus forecast of $ 3.4 billion (1.8 billion pounds) won by analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I / B / E / S. It would be 14% compared to last year, but 12% on the previous quarter. Samsung
"The Galaxy II S, probably played a key role in boosting the profits of the business and will continue more or less unchallenged until Apple releases a new version of the iPhone, "said Kyung Woo-hyun, a fund manager at Daishin Asset Management.

Samsung, which has worked to make the black and white television in the 1970s to destroy the Japanese models, has become a leading brand in the last decade.