Samsung Omnia Unboxing Video complete with Marching Band

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Samsung's marketing team for the Samsung Omnia touchscreen phone let loose a fun unboxing video of the Omnia. Over 750,000 people already watched the Omnia unboxing video on Youtube. If you have not seen it, I do not want to spoil it for you, so just watch it below.
Samsung already officially unveiled the Samsung Omnia in June.
The Samsung OMNIA features Samsung's haptic UI running on Windows Mobile 6.1.
Other features of the Samsung i900 include 5MP camera, GPS, FM radio, Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi, 16GB internal memory and media player. Read more

Posted on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:38:50 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Samsung YA-SBR510 Bluetooth Speaker

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Samsung unveiled the YA-SBR510 Bluetooth stereo speaker for their line of mp3 players.
The Bluetooth 2.0 speakers have a reach of 10m and apparently feature a motion sensor that switches the system on when you come in range within 5m.

The Samsung YA-SBR510 features 30W of power in 3 channels. Read more

Posted on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Samsung Announces Messager Handset

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Samsung has announced a new handset called the Messager that will first be available through MetroPCS customers. The handset is a horizontal slider with a full QWERTY keyboard. The phone comes in black and features a built-in 1.3-megapixel camera, SMS, MMs, email and IM capability.

Voice-recognition, Bluetooth, and a speakerphone are also built into the device. The phone has a MP3 player and an external microSD card slot for image storage supporting up to 2GB of memory. The Messager measures 4.4" x 2" x 0.7" and has a 2.1-inch 262K 176 x 220 resolution LCD. Read more

Posted on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:31:36 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Samsung Yepp U4 revealed

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Samsung unveils the Yepp U4 portable audio player. The YP-U4 follows the Yepp U3 that Samsung introduced in 2007.
The Samsung U4 features a glossy black case in with different color gradients.

Other features of the Samsung U4 include a 4-line OLED display, DNSe 2.0 and USB port. Read more

Posted on Wed, 6 Aug 2008 03:50:02 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

More Samsung Touch of Color HDTV Monitors Announced

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Samsung has announced new HD monitors in its "Touch of Color" line. The new monitors include the T220HD, T240HD, and T260HD. The T220HD is a 22-inch monitor with a resolution of 1680 x 1050 and a brightness of 300 cd/m2. The contrast ratio for the display is 1000:1. The monitor has a built-in USB hub and dual HDMI connections. The T220HD will sell for $429

The T240HD has a 24-inch screen with a resolution of 1920 x 1200. Brightness for the monitor is 300 cd/m2 and the contrast ratio is dynamic 10000:1. The monitor has a built-in ATSC tuner and Dolby Digital Surround sound. The T240HD will sell for $549. Read more

Posted on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:24:31 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Samsung Q1 Ultra Gets HSDPA and Vista Business

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Samsung has announced that its small Q1 UMPC is now available in two new models. The Q1U-CMXP has an integrated HSDPA 3G cellular modem and the Q1UP-V has Windows Vista Business. The HSDPA equipped Q1 will retail for $1499.

Other features of the HSDPA include support for the AT&T Broadband Connect Network, 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0+ EDR and all the other features of previous Q1 models. The Q1UP-V will sell for $1449 and has a 1.33 GHz Intel Core Solo ULV CPU, 2Gb of RAM, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 and more. Read more

Posted on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:36:11 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Samsung and GyPSii Team Up for Location Based Services

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GyPSii has been busy recently expanding its partnerships with top tier manufacturers of GPS-enabled cell phones and GPS devices Last week Garmin announced a partnership with GyPSii to integrate location-based services into Garmin GPS units.

Today Samsung and GyPSii announced that the two would be teaming up for location-based services and social networking services worldwide on Samsung devices. GyPSii will provide technology, products, and data center infrastructure along with branding rights to Samsung. The agreement will allow owners of Samsung handsets to take advantage of location based social networking with their Samsung handsets. Read more

Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:27:24 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Weekly Top 10: Samsung innov8, Cowon P5, W902

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Samsung announced a 8MP Camera Phone dubbed innov8 this week globally. Sanyo unveiled accessories to charge your Wiimotes contactless.
Sony Ericsson introduced several new Walkman phones and Panasonic brought out new Digital Cameras this week.

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Posted on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Samsung innov8 i8510 8MP Camera Phone unveiled

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Samsung unveiled the innov8 (i8510) 8MP camera phone. The Samsung innov8 will be actually available globally starting August. It took 3 years for Samsung to release an 8MP camera phone outside of Korea. In 2005 Samsung announced the SPH-V8200, which was the first 8MP camera phone.

Samsung innov8 (pronounced [in-uh-veyt]) features a 2.8 inch 16m color LCD display, 8G or 16GB Flash memory, DivX, WMV, Real Player and MPEG4 video player, external dual speakers, 3D sound, DNSe 2.0, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, and GPS. Read more

Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Samsung MediaLive HDTV Accessory Unveiled

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Samsung announced its MediaLive retail launch this week. The gadget is designed to deliver digital content in real-time from Windows Media Center on a PC to big screen Samsung TVs. Note that last bit, the device only works for Samsung TVs.

The device can stream photos, music, movies, home movies and live or recorded TV from the PC in HD resolution to the big screen. Samsung says that the MediaLive device will work with most Samsung TVs purchased in 2008. Read more

Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:20:16 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Samsung Announces Series 8 LCD HDTVs

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This week Samsung announced a new Series 8 LCD HDTV line. Series 8 TVs feature Samsung’s take on functional art with an attractive design. The TVs in the series are only 1.9-inch wide at the thickest point. All of the models can support up to full 1080p resolution and use 120Hz refresh rates.

The series includes the 850 and 860 models and both models will come in either 46-inch or 52-inch screen sizes. Contrast ratio for all models is 50000:1 dynamic and both feature integrated downward firing speakers with a sub and SRS TruSurround XT. Read more

Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:56:53 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

New Samsung Photo Frames support Wi-fi and RSS

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Samsung announced a new range of elegant digital photo frames with Wi-Fi and RSS support.

The premium V series feature a glossy wooden frame and come in 8 and 10 inch sizes. The line-up includes the SPF-86V and SPF-105V photo frame. The Samsung SPF-86V and SPF-105V can automatically grab photos via an RSS feed from a website. Read more

Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:26:56 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Samsung SP-P400 Projector promises over 20,000 hours Lamp Life

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Samsung showed the small SP-P400 projector at the CES 2008 for the first time. Now the company provides more details and puts emphasis on the extreme long lamp life of the SP-P400.

Today's projectors need a lamp replacement after 2,000-3,000 hours. The SP-P400 uses an LED lamp that achieves a life time of over 20,000 hours. This translates into zero cost of ownership for such an LED based projector. Read more

Posted on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Samsung Offers 7-year Warranty on RAID Hard Drives

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Samsung has announced a new warranty for its RAID class enterprise hard drives in the Spinpoint F1 RAID 3.5-inch SATA drives. The warranty covers the drives for a full 7 years. Samsung says that most RAID class hard drive warranties are only good for 3-5 years.

Capacities for the RAID drives from Samsung with the new warranty range from 250GB to 1TB and are designed for storage and surveillance applications. The mean time between failures for the Spinpoint F1 RAID drives is up to 1.2 million hours and the pricing for the drives starts at $299. Read more

Posted on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:23:12 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Samsung and Sun Develop Ultra-Endurance Flash for Server SSDs

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Samsung and Sun Microsystems announced today that they have teamed up to develop single-level-cell NAND flash memory for use in SSDs to offer much higher levels of endurance than other flash memory on the market. The relatively low endurance of flash memory compared to traditional hard drives is one of the key points holding the adoption of SSDs back for some users.

The new memory developed by Samsung offers a five times increase in data write and erase cycles over standard SLC flash memory. The memory is expected to deliver the highest endurance ever offered in 24/7 mission critical computing. Read more

Posted on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:04:14 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Samsung Instinct Review

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Our review partner Digital Trends tested the Samsung Instinct touchscreen smartphone offered by Sprint. Sprint is heavily promoting the Instinct to be an alternative to the iPhone.

Quote from the review: "The Sprint Instinct from Samsung is one of the hottest new phones on the market, thanks to its slim profile, vibrating touchscreen, and standard headphone jack. It also has features that are now standard fare on midrange phones, like GPS, a Web browser, and a microSD slot. Read more

Posted on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:41:13 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Samsung unveils eleven Centrino 2 Notebooks

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Samsung unveiled their large Intel Centrino 2 notebook line-up including the Sense Q210, Q310, R460, R510, R560 and R710 for consumers and the Sense P210, P460, P461, P510, and P560 for business users.

The Samsung Sense Q210 has a 12.1 inch screen, the Q310 featurse a 13.3 inch display, the R460 Sense sports a 14.1 inch display, the R510 15.4 inch, the R560 comes with 15.4 inch, and the R710 has a big 17 display. Read more

Posted on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:48:08 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Samsung NV9 Camera revealed

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Samsung unveiled the Samsung NV9 pocket digital camera with 10.2MP.

The Samsung NV9 features unique retro analog displays for battery life and remaining number of photos.
Other features of the Samsung NV9 include 5x optical zoom, 2.7 inch display, SRS 3D Sound, smile and blink detection, beauty shot, dual image stabilizer, MP3 player and trashcan delete function. Read more

Posted on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Samsung NV100 HD 14.7MP Camera

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Samsung unveils the NV100 HD pocket digital camera with a huge 14.7MP resolution.

The Samsung NV100 HD features besides the 14.7MP resolution, a 3 inch touchscreen, 3.6x Schneider Kreuznach zoom lens, face recognition, smile and blink detection, up to ISO 3200 sensitivity and trashcan support (deleting like on Windows or OS X). Read more

Posted on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Best Buy Says Samsung Instinct Sets Sales Records

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Best Buy has announced that the Samsung Instinct smartphone available exclusively from Sprint has set a new high for handset sales in its stores. Best Buy says that the Instinct has become its best selling handset of the last two years.

Best Buy says that the Instinct began breaking sales records within two week of being available at Best Buy Mobile. Best Buy Mobile is the wireless arm of the electronics giant. Best Buy also offers a program for the Instinct called Walk Out Working that makes the phone fully functional when the customer leaves the store for email and all other features. Read more

Posted on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:37:20 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Samsung Introduces New YouTube Camcorder

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With the ballooning popularity of YouTube most camcorder makers are starting to produce camcorders that are aimed directly at those who like to upload videos to the YouTube service. The most recent camcorder for the YouTube crowd is the Samsung SC-MX20.

The camera uses a 680K pixel CCD sensor that can shoot video at a resolution of 720 x 480. The optical zoom of the camera is 34x and it uses advanced 3-D Noise Reduction technology for improved video quality. The SC-MX20 stores video on SD/SDHC cards up to 32GB and uses H.264 compression. Read more

Posted on Wed, 9 Jul 2008 09:35:42 CDT | by Shane McGlaun