Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime (SM-G530H) firmware available online

Samsung officially announced the Galaxy Grand Prime, the fourth handset in its affordable phablet lineup, for the Indian market yesterday. The Galaxy Grand Prime is the first Samsung handset to feature a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, and today, firmware for the device have begun showing up online. Based on the regions for which the firmware files are available, it looks like Samsung might be following previous tradition of only launching its Galaxy Grand devices in Asian and emerging markets. Also notable is that the Galaxy Grand Prime runs on Android 4.4.4 out of the box, though it remains to be seen if Samsung will find it eligible for an upgrade to Android L.

For those unaware, these firmware files can be used to manually return to the stock software on the device, and for extracting things like wallpapers, ringtones, and inbuilt apps APKs. You can download firmware for the Galaxy Grand Prime from our firmware section; to get all firmware for the device, enter SM-G530 in the model number search field to get the full list.

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Win Galaxy Note 4 by participating in #NotePunIntended contest

Samsung’s advertisements are known for Apple bashing and while that strategy still steams ahead, a few days back the company released a new promo video for the Galaxy Note 4 that was filled with puns. Basically everyone in the video tried using Note at the end of almost every word so that it could be a punny video, no pun intended.

Now Samsung is giving you the chance to come up with your own puns for the Galaxy Note 4. By participating in the #NotePunIntended content its running via Twitter you can try your luck for a chance to win Galaxy Note 4.

To enter the contest reply to Samsung’s tweet with a pun filled tweet and use the #NotePunIntended hashtag. The first entry period has already ended, the second is ongoing and will end on 11:59 am ET on October 1st. The third starts October 2nd oon 12:00 pm ET and ends 11:59 am ET on October 3rd.

For each entry period Samsung will be giving away five Galaxy Note 4 units. Keep in mind that these won’t be unlocked units, winners will have to activate them on either Verizon, AT&T, Sprint or T-Mobile, all four of which start selling the device next month. As you probably may have guessed by now this contest is limited to the U.S.

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