Items tagged with 'Samsung'
Samsung Introduces Secondary Display For Laptops
Samsung is making it easier for laptop users to enjoy the benefits of having dual displays with its latest Lapfit offerings. The new Lapfit monitors, LD220G & LD190N, require minimal set up. The LD190N installs quickly with a standard VGA cable while the LD220G provides the added benefit of USB connectivity with Samsung’s... Read More
HDTV Makers Look To Make 3D The "Next Big Thing" - Will It Work?
It's a question worth asking, but the answer is still probably a couple of years out, at best. Will 3D finally make a lasting impression? Unless you've been living under a rock over the past year, you will have noticed that the movie industry, the consumer electronics industry and big time TV makers have all been pushing... Read More
Samsung's Windows Mobile 6.5 Armani Smartphone Sells For Over $1000
Up until a few years ago, it was essentially unheard of for a major fashion label to associate with a cellphone. After all, would you really want your fall lineup partnered with one of those big, blocky bag phones of the early 1990s? Nowadays, everything has changed. Phones are fashion statements in an of themselves, so... Read More
Samsung Announces Ultra-Slim LED Monitor
Samsung introduced a premium LED monitor, the SyncMaster XL2370 today. This monitor offers 1080 HD quality, a dynamic contrast ratio of 5,000,000:1, and a 2 millisecond response time. The XL2370 also has a thin profile, measuring 3/4 inch at the top and weighs less than eight pounds. The SyncMaster XL2370 is expected to... Read More
Samsung's SH-B083 Internal Optical Drive Reads Blu-ray, Burns CD/DVD
Blu-ray adoption may slowly be growing, but that's not stopping Samsung from trying to hasten the process. Today, the company introduced its first-ever internal Blu-ray Disc combo drive, with the ability to read BD-R and BD-ROM discs at 8x. It'll also read CDs at up to 40x and DVDs at up to 16x. With Samsung’s fast dual... Read More
Samsung's $180 Moment Becomes Sprint's First Android Smartphone
Sprint may have the world's first webOS device in the Palm Pre, and it may have some of the best pricing plans available in America, but you know what it's missing? An Android phone. Er, it was missing that--until today. The long-rumored InstinctQ has today been revealed as the Samsung Moment, an oddly named Android smartphone... Read More
AT&T Adds Four Full Web Browsing Phones
If AT&T's latest Windows Mobile 6.5 phones don't suit your fancy, perhaps you'll be interested in one of the company's four other new phones announced today. The Pantech Reveal and Impact will join the Samsung Mythic and Flight in AT&T's phone portfolio. All four new models feature full Web browsers as well as physical... Read More
Samsung's Behold II Brings Yet Another Dose Of Android To T-Mobile
AT&T may have the iPhone, and Sprint may have the Pre. You could argue that Verizon Wireless has the BlackBerry Storm, but you can definitely say that T-Mobile USA has the Android devices. While most of the other carriers are slowly picking up Google-powered units, T-Mobile is snagging yet another in the Samsung Behold... Read More
Samsung Intros 5-Megapixel SoC Image Sensor For High-end Mobile Phones
Samsung announced the S5K4EA, a new quarter-inch optical format, 5-megapixel system-on-chip (SoC) image sensor that will bring high quality digital still camera functionality to high-end mobile phones. This imager combines a CMOS image sensor with an image signal processor to give mobile handset designers a cost effective... Read More
Samsung Announces Omnia PRO B7330
Samsung recently introduced the latest addition to its Omnia smartphone series: the Samsung Omnia Pro B7330. During the announcement, the company also revealed that all of its Omnia models will run Windows Mobile 6.5. Samsung also plans to release upgrades to current products that are on the market now. The new Omnia Pro... Read More
Toshiba, Samsung Argue Over The Future of 3D Flash
The burgeoning SSD (solid state drive) market has been a modest success story over the past few years. Drive performance and capacity have both increased at a fair clip, while initial sky-high costs have at least fallen into the stratosphere. The two major factors keeping sSD's from broader market penetration are... Read More
Alltel Wireless Gets Samsung Freeform
Alltel may be a bit of a lesser player in the wireless market now that it is selling a large part of its assets off to Verizon Wireless, but the carrier is still competing and continuing to offer new phones. In fact, Samsung and Alltel recently partnered to offer the new Samsung Freeform (SCH-r351) to Alltel customers.... Read More
Samsung Rogue And Intensity Texting Phones Land On Verizon
Without a doubt, the hottest phone to hit the Verizon Wireless airwaves recently is HTC's Touch Pro2, but for those not so interested in forking out big bucks for a powerful smartphone, the carrier has two other QWERTY-equipped phones available for the taking.In a joint announcement with Samsung, the operator has announced... Read More
NVIDIA's Tegra Finds Home Within Samsung's M1 PMP
NVIDIA's Tegra is sure doing a good job at gaining respect in the industry. The company's HD Mobile Processor enables portable media devices to handle HD video and 3D graphics, feats that were deemed impossible for small gadgets just a few years back. Now, however, Tegra has already found a home in the high-profile Zune... Read More
Samsung Introduces First DivX Certified MP3 Player
As the newest addition to Samsung’s BEAT line of portable media players, Samsung’s new R1 is the company’s first DivX Certified MP3 player. The R1 is also the slimmest player in the Samsung BEAT line.The R1 features a 2.6-inch screen and 8 or 16GB of storage space. DivX technology produces highly compressed video that is... Read More
Samsung Intros 640GB S2 And 2TB S3 External Hard Drives
If you've got a fever that can only be cured by more hard drive space, Samsung's your doctor. The megacorp has today unveiled two new additions to its S Series external hard drive range over at IFA in Germany, and both go above and beyond the call of duty in terms of capacity. Both the 3.5" 2TB S3 Station and the 640GB... Read More
Samsung Goes Long With 24x Zoom HZ25W
If you’re in the market for a digital camera with plenty of optical zoom capabilities, then Samsung’s new 12.5 megapixel HZ25W might do the job. This point and shoot camera joins Samsung’s advanced HZ series and offers an impressive 24x optical zoom with a 35mm film equivalent focal range of 26mm-624mm. The new HZ25W is... Read More
Jitterbug Moves To Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless and GreatCall are working together to offer the Jitterbug cell phone on the Verizon Wireless network through the wireless leader’s open development program. If you’re unfamiliar with Jitterbug, it’s a simple, no-frills cell phone that delivers basic capabilities and has large, backlit buttons as well as... Read More
Lenovo And Samsung Delaying Ion Netbooks For Windows 7 Launch
Hey, here's a quick quiz just to see how well you've been paying attention over the past few months. Do you remember Lenovo's Ion-powered IdeaPad S12? What about Samsung's Ion-powered N510? If not, you're certainly not alone. Both machines have gone radio silent since debuting a few months back, and yes, it's intentional.... Read More
Samsung Dishes Three New Bluetooth Headsets, Still Can't Make 'Em Cool
We're still not convinced that we could comfortably walk around with a Bluetooth headset hung around our ear in public, but for those who don't mind making others think that they're talking to them whilst walking down the street, Samsung has a smattering of new options that look pretty darn stylish. The flagship device... Read More
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