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Yes, believe it or not dear readers, there are roughly 75,000 people working hard right now to manufacture the Samsung Galaxy S3. If you’ve read the recent report saying that there are 9 million pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy S3, you must be wondering whether these people can actually make 9 million units in time for its release? The short answer is yes, they can.

How did we arrive to the said figures? We’ll spare you the horrid details (not to mention the math) and just give you a brief recap of a feature ran by ExtremeTech.com. In the article, Sebastian Anthony uses various statistics from Apple and Samsung to estimate the workforce necessary to churn out the millions of Galaxy S3 phones that the market demands.

Though Sony’s LT29i Hayabusa has already been sighted in the wild, we’re still in the dark about the phone’s official Xperia branding, at least one that we know of. Unwired View believes that the flagship phone will be named as the Sony Xperia GX, the same phone that DoCoMo just introduced a couple of days ago for the Japanese market.

Sony Xperia GX has similar specs to the LT29i Hayabusa. The phone will ship with a 4.6-inch HD screen, a dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 processor, 13.2MP rear camera, 1,700mAh battery, and Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich. Given the slight difference in specs, it is possible that the LT29i Hayabusa is simply the international version of Sony Xperia GX.

On Tuesday, news broke that US Customs had blocked imports of the HTC One X and the HTC EVO 4G LTE, effectively preventing HTC’s flagships from reaching American customers. The embargo was enforced due to an exclusion order by the International Trade Commission (ITC). The ITC ruled back in December that HTC’s Android devices infringe on two of Apple’s patents, but gave the Taiwanese a respite until April 19 to remove the infringing features.

Although HTC claims that both the HTC One X and the EVO 4G LTE are now free of the infringing feature, it seems that the US Customs needs a lot of time to decide if that’s truly the case.

What do we have here? The well-known Android developer that goes by the name of Chainfire has managed to root the Samsung Galaxy S3 even before the phone is released. Isn’t that amazing? Well if this is the first time you hear such news it is indeed amazing. But for the more avid Android fans, this news is nothing new. For one thing, Chainfire is an established developer and many of those who follow him expected this to happen. Also, Samsung has this penchant for not making it too hard for developers to root an upcoming device, even way before the device is released.

It’s no doubt that the most anticipated Android smartphone right now is the Samsung Galaxy S3. The excitement over the S3 continues to heat up, as many are still uncertain as to when it will become available in Canada and the U.S. Last we heard, a U.S. version of the phone has just reached the FCC, and, in case you’re not aware, once a new device has reached the FCC for scrutiny and approval, its release follows soon.

If you can’t beat your competitor, sue them for copyright infringement and have the court ban their products from entering the market! That seems to be the strategy that tech companies are using against each other with varying degrees of success. Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win – and sometimes there’s no clear winner at all. The latest patent battle between Motorola and Microsoft seems to favor the latter for now.

We were about to lose hope to see Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on Moto devices in a relatively timely manner. But just now,  Motorola has decided to update its support page to let owners know about the lengthy process that it has to go through before it can roll out ICS. We know you’re not too keen to know the gritty details, so to keep things short, ICS is indeed coming to several Moto devices soon, while some just aren’t lucky.

A little over two weeks after officially announcing the Optimus LTE2′s coming, LG has already put the new smartphone up for sale in its native land, South Korea. The Optimus LTE’s successor is not the most affordable handheld out there, but it will come with some great tech specs, including one that pushes that really pushes the envelope.

If you’ve been following us for more than a little while, you might remember that we told you that the phone will be the first ever to come with 2 GB of RAM. However, that’s pretty much all we knew about the new phone’s tech specs, which made us a bit cautious in predicting its success and popularity.

The runaway success of the Kindle Fire has made Amazon eager to refresh its tablet lineup, but it seems the online retailer is having problem deciding on the right size.

An anonymous source recently tipped Reuters that Amazon is preparing to release an 8.9-inch Kindle Fire during the lucrative holiday season this year. If you believe the latest report from DigiTimes, however, the 8.9-inch model has been apparently suspended in favor of a bigger tablet.

Earlier this week Google was granted three patents for their Google Glass augmented reality glasses. These patents, detailed by Patent Bolt, go a long way towards shedding some light on just how the glasses will be controlled by users.

It was previously believed that the glasses might be primarily controlled by head gestures, as hinted in the example video Google produced on the Glass project. Details from the patents show that the wearable computer may instead be controlled by hand gestures via hand-wearable markers. This is great news if you thought that making head gestures might end up looking silly, like you had a nervous tick. Then again, will making hand gestures look much better? Regardless, there’s a lot to be excited about.