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Samsung releases 10 inch DMB Mobile TV
By Mike Hanlon
September 2, 2006 Every now and again, we see a product which looks set to forge a new market segment, having the right combination of technologies at the right time to have enough appeal to change the way the public sees things. Samsung is hoping its new 10 inch DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) Mobile TV will do just that, opening an era where everyone will have their own personal TV. Indeed Samsung’s aims are huge as it hopes to reposition the public’s perception of TV from a piece of family-oriented and fixed position furniture to a personally-oriented mobile device. In its latest press announcement it draws the analogy of the change created by the portable cassette player in the music industry and suggests portable TV will be even more groundbreaking. Given that not everybody will wish to watch video on a tiny cell phone screen, we believe this product has a very viable audience. Read More
Samsung to unveil 70-inch LCD TV Panel
By Mike Hanlon
August 22, 2006 Samsung will unveil a 70-inch LCD panel for use in the consumer HDTV market at the International Meeting on Information Displays (IMID) 2006, which opens in Korea tomorrow. Samsung's latest LCD panel boasts full high-definition resolution (1080p) and a conical viewing angle of 180 degrees for multi-viewing audiences. In addition, its video signal is reproduced at 120Hz, compared to a video signal of 60 Hz for a conventional Full HD LCD panel, enabling rapidly moving video images to be reproduced with crystal clarity. Samsung will begin producing the new 70-inch LCD during the first half of 2007, bolstering its position in the ultra-large-screen TV segment as the 70" LCD TV will compete head-to-head with PDP (plasma display panel) and projection TV makers. Read More
Samsung 3 inch VGA LCD screen to improve digital camera display
By Mike Hanlon
August 14, 2006 Samsung, the world's largest provider of thin-film transistor, liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, has announced that it has developed the first three-inch LCD panel with VGA (640 x 480 pixels) resolution that directly meets industry interface standards for digital still cameras. The new LCD panel will make viewing digital pictures distinctly more impressive on camera screens, personal multi-media players and other products requiring high-image resolution and low-power consumption. Samsung will exhibit the new device at IMID 2006, which opens on August 23. Read More
SAMSUNG and Gianni Versace Versus partner to target upmarket youth
By Mike Hanlon
August 1, 2006 With the world mobile phone market continuing to gather momentum, it’s not surprising that we’re now seeing brand name designers being brought in to assist in meeting the needs of ever narrower niches. Samsung got together with Versus, the line that embodies Gianni Versace SpA at its most youthful, free spirited and daring, unveiled the new ‘Samsung Versus E500' mobile phone in Korea last week. The prime objective of this alliance is to create a product targeting younger generation of consumers who pursue originality in terms of style, innovation and practicality. Samsung is hoping that the ability of Versus to interpret the very latest trends in style and design and Samsung's excellence in the field of technological innovation will create truly enriching opportunity for both brands. Read More
Verizon and Samsung launch first 3.2 MPX camera phone in U.S.
By Mike Hanlon
July 10, 2006 It’s taking some time in comparison to genuinely advanced countries such as Korea, but the level of picture quality of camera phones is finally approaching an acceptable level thanks to the Samsung SCH-a990 via Verizon Wireless. In addition to a 3.2 megapixel camera phone, the SCH-a990 boasts video recording capabilities, V CAST to view video and V CAST Music to download music directly to the phone and Bluetooth to allow a customer to print pictures wirelessly to a Bluetooth-enabled printer basic print profile. The SCH-a990 has a unique design that looks first like a phone and then, when the screen is rotated 180 degrees, like a camera. This design, along with the high resolution and features such as a flash and in-camera photo editing software, make the SCH-a990 the first mobile device that is as much a camera as it is a multimedia phone. Read More
Samsung pushes the limits of slim mobile design
By Mike Hanlon
June 23, 2006 Samsung has unveiled a brand new line-up of slim mobiles at CommunicAsia 2006 that push the limits of slim mobile design. The Ultra Edition 6.9 (X820) leads the handset pack, boasting the world’s thinnest profile of only 6.9 mm. Also on display was the Ultra Edition 12.9 (D900), the world’s slimmest slider with a depth of only 12.9mm and a three megapixel camera. Finally, to round out the range, the Ultra Edition 9.9 (D830) is a new clamshell handset that is 9.9 mm thick. Read More
Samsung X820 - World’s Slimmest Phone at only 6.9mm
By Mike Hanlon
May 11, 2006 Samsung has unveiled the first of the upcoming series of ultra slim phones, the Samsung X820, at the Sviaz ExpoComm 2006 in Moscow. The X820 boasts the world’s thinnest profile of only 6.9 mm. Also on display at Sviaz is Samsung’s D900, the world’s slimmest slider phone with a depth of only 13mm. Read More
Samsung showcases ultra-slim bar phone at CTIA
By Mike Hanlon
April 7, 2006 Following the global trend towards slim, wide-screened phone designs that was created by Motorola’s RAZR, Samsung today unveiled a super slim bar phone that is expected to be the thinnest available in the U.S. when it launches this spring. The Samsung t509, displayed for the first time at the CTIA Wireless 2006 trade show, is just 9.8 mm thick and becomes the third slim phone design from Samsung, adding to the company’s existing a900 clamshell and t809 slider models. Read More
Samsung unveils RIM Blackberry Connect E-mail Phone, HSDPA Phone and WiFi/UMA-Enabled Phone
By Mike Hanlon
April 7, 2006 Samsung unveiled eight mobile phones for the U.S. market at the annual CTIA Wireless 2006 trade show yesterday including three revolutionary devices that are the vanguard of Samsung's mobile lifestyle solutions offering. These phones are expected to be first in the U.S. market featuring RIM Blackberry Connect in a slim folder design (t719), high-speed HSDPA capabilities (zx20) and WiFi/UMA connectivity (t709), giving consumers unprecedented options for mobile productivity and entertainment. Read More
Samsung unveils the world's first 8GB hard disk embedded phone - the i310
By Mike Hanlon
March 7, 2006 Continuing to push the leading edge of mobile phone capability, Samsung will show an 8GB hard disk drive model dubbed the SGH-i310 at CeBIT later this week. Samsung is the first to adopt a hard disk drive into mobile phones and has launched three models equipped with a hard disk drive; the world's first 1.5GB HDD embedded phone (SPH-V5400), the world's first 3GB HDD embedded phone (SCH-V7900) and the world's first 3GB HDD Music smartphone (SGH-i300). The i310 which combines a phone, a digital camera and an MP3 player with its immense storage capacity will be introduced in the European market during the second half of this year and will catalyse change in the way people manage and use mobile phones. Read More
Samsung’s 8 mpx camera phone – the hamburger with the LOT!
By Mike Hanlon
January 30, 2006 We’ve talked about the highly competitive nature of Korean giant Samsung previously. If they ever introduce that well known game, “mine’s bigger than yours” at the Olympics, Samsung would be a Gold medal contender, capable of playing in almost any consumer electronics arena and winning the game. Last March at CEBIT, Samsung announced the world’s first 7 megapixel camera phone, the SCH-V770 and for the last few months has been showing the first eight megapixel camera phone, the V8200, to potential distribution partners at various trade shows, culminating in disclosure to select media at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month. The V8200 will be on shelves in Seoul within six weeks but will only be available in Korea. Both models (770 and 8200) will be available side-by-side as the specifications are slightly different - the 770 has a x3 optical zoom whereas the V8200 has just digital zoom. But the V8200 has just about every other feature you can think of – such as VGA (640x480) video recording, a TV-out function, Video on Demand, Music on Demand, an MP3 Player, a Microsoft Office file viewer, a 16M-color TFD Display, TransFlash external memory, dual speakers for excellent sound quality and a melody composer so you can develop your own ringtones … and digital images 3296 x 2472 pixels in size. Detailed images inside. Read More
Samsung’s credit card phone – distilled technology
By Mike Hanlon
January 30, 2006 If you’re beginning to wonder just how far the technology miniaturisation trend will take us, the following will hopefully confirm that the form factor of the mobile phone still has a long way to go. Samsung will soon release a phone dubbed the SGH-P300 in Europe. With such clinical model designations, it's not suprising it has already attracted the nickname, “the card” because it’s very similar in size to a credit card, though in our opinion, it looks for all the world like a calculator. Within its dimensions of 87mm x 54mm x 8.9mm it accomodates all standard phone functionality, has a 262K-colour, 220 x176 pixel TFT display, 1.3 megapixel camera with flash and direct printing via PictBridge, 88 MB of internal memory, an MP3 player, speakerphone, Bluetooth wireless technology support and quite incredibly, an 800 mAh Li-Ion battery. Somehow, it still weighs in at just 65 grams and if we didn’t know better we’d suspect that Samsung has found a way of distilling technology. Two of the better European-based mobile phone resources on the web have already had their hands on the P300 and managed quite extensive reviews so follow the links for much more detail and extensive images. Read More
Samsung enters digital SLR market with 6 megapixel GX-1S
By Mike Hanlon
January 22, 2006 It was just a matter of time before Samsung entered the prosumer and professional SLR marketplace and it has been known for some time that the Korean giant has been collaborating with Pentax. So no-one is surprised that the first Samsung offering is a rebadged Pentax *ist. Accordingly, the Samsung GX-1S weighs in with a 6.1 megapixel CCD, 2.5 inch rear screen, ISO levels up to 3200, 2.8 fps burst mode, USB 2.0 and an SD card slot and is Pentax Lens compatible. It will come as a body-only or with a new 18-55 Schneider D-XENON lens. No pricing info yet, but you can expect a price in the sub-US$700 area, given that it probably won’t be much different to the Pentax offerin’s price. Read More
Samsung demonstrates 3.6 Mbps HSDPA Phone
By Mike Hanlon
January 15, 2006 Samsung used the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month to highlight its expertise in High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) technology by demonstrating speeds up to 3.6 Mbps. Although there have been several demonstrations of speeds up to 1.8 Mbps in the past, Samsung's demonstration of HSDPA handset speeds of 3.6 Mbps is the industry's first ever. A 3.6 Mbps HSDPA handset allows users to download content much faster than either a WCDMA or GSM/GPRS network. HSDPA, a new form of mobile broadband, is capable of transmitting data at speeds up to seven times faster than that of WCDMA. Users can enjoy large-scale multimedia downloads, such as DVD-quality movies and interactive multimedia games, with high-speed wireless Internet access comparable to speeds of fixed-line ADSL services. Read More
Samsung unveils first WiBro (Mobile WiMAX) mobile handsets
By Mike Hanlon
November 16, 2005 - Samsung has demonstrated the WiBro (Wireless Broadband; Korean brand name of Mobile WiMAX) mobile phones and systems at the "2005 APEC IT Exhibition" during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in Busan, South Korea. Various applications such as broadcasting, home networking, video telephony, VOD, and navigations were presented at the exhibition with Samsung's latest WiBro (Mobile WiMAX) handsets. As WiBro gets prepared to be fully implemented and utilised in the market next year, Samsung also put on display both the mobile phone-typed H1000 and the PDA-typed M8000. Read More
Samsung Introduces Mobile Phone with 3GB Hard Disk Drive
By Mike Hanlon
October 18, 2005 You don’t need to be a brain surgeon to figure out your mobile phone will have a memory capacity greater than the Three Gorges Dam within a few years and just to remind you how quickly we’re moving along that path, Samsung introduced a 3GB HDD embedded phone (model SPH-V7900) onto the Korean market yesterday. This is Samsung's latest model equipped with a hard disc drive and gazzumps its own record of having the world's first mobile phone equipped with 1.5GB hard disc drive (model SPH-V5400), which it introduced into its home market of Korea in September of last year. Makes you feel like moving to Korea with all that mobile activity going on and them clearly delivering what the rest of the world promises – maybe it’s time to drop a note to your local Member of Parliament or Congressman and ask why your country can’t be a progressive country like Korea. Read More
Samsung set to launch Silver Nano Wash system that kills 99% of bacteria
By Mike Hanlon
August 31, 2005 Samsung’s Silver Nano Health System has been applied to a new range of front-loader washing machines that are launching later this year in Australia. A breakthrough function, ‘Silver Wash’, kills 99 percent of bacteria in the wash load and coats the clothes with antibacterial protection which lasts for up to 30 days. To feature on five flagship front-loader models from 5kg to 7.5kg capacity, Samsung’s patented Silver Wash is the first technology that combines disinfectant and antibiotic properties in washing machines. When activated, the Silver Wash releases up to 400 billion silver ions during the first wash and the last rinse cycle. After the wash cycle is completed, Samsung claims that the washed clothes are totally devoid of bacteria. Whereas some other brands use a silver ion coating on the washing machine drum, Samsung claims its approach is far more effective as it ensures that all parts of the clothes are penetrated with the silver ions, rather than short-term surface contact by only some of the clothes on an otherwise silver ion coated drum. Read More
Samsung’s Sports Miniket for xtreme sports capture
By Mike Hanlon
August 31, 2005 We like ruggedised electronics, and we like this one in particular as it’ll help the world to participate more fully in X-sports adventure. Samsung's new ruggedised Sports Miniket VP-X110L is a new variant in the range combining a camcorder, digital camera and MP3 player. Most importantly, the Sports Miniket has been developed with an external camera and a set of mountings, specifically so it would be ideal for recording all manner of outdoor activities from adrenaline-charged action sports through, well … almost anything. The Sports Miniket’s external camera module can be mounted on a helmet, on an arm via the arm-band or any stable surface. If there’s a drawback, it’s that the digital still image camera is a hopelessly inadequate 800 x 600 pixels – incredibly lame from a company that produces 7 mpx camera phones. Read More
Samsung to release radical 19 inch Notebook in October
By Mike Hanlon
August 29, 2005 Samsung will debut a promising new notebook concept at the upcoming IFA Consumer Electronics Show in Berlin which opens September 2. It would be easy to accuse Samsung of continuing to play the same “mine’s bigger than yours” game it plays with camera phones, but the details emerging surrounding the new 19 inch notebook suggest it is indeed a new portable computer paradigm. The M70 will be a logical desktop replacement for those with big screen needs as the screen can be removed and has a dock which enables it to stand upright, giving the notebook two personalities – one as a large “laptop for use in transit and the other as a conveniently transportable desktop which can have discrete components. So whilst the M70 will be the first 19-inch notebook in the world, it could be seen as a new conveniently portable desktop and might be seen as a landmark design in the evolving form factor of the computer. Read More
Samsung Unveils Its New Satellite DMB Phone
By Mike Hanlon
August 26, 2005 Samsung continues to drive the DMB phone market using its base in high-tech Korea as a testing ground for its products which are then aggressively marketed to the rest of the world – exactly the same way the Japanese did bfore them and the rest of the world is hoping it might be able to do at some point in the future. In this particular case, it’s the launch of its fourth satellite DMB phone (model: SCH-B250) following the release of the B100, B130 and B200 we wrote up a month ago. Samsung's new B250 boasts a more compact design and improved features while maintaining the basic product concept of previous DMB phones, which supports horizontal viewing. The B250 is also the smallest Samsung DMB handset yet. The B250 is a folder type with pivotal LCD screen which rotates 90 degrees into landscape mode. Read More
Samsung Launches Satellite DMB Phone that Slides and Rotates
By Mike Hanlon
July 27, 2005 Samsung Electronics is the world’s most valuable consumer electronics brand and the future looks incredibly bright for the Korean manufacturer, having recently overtaken Sony as the number one consumer electronics brand in the prestigious Business Week/Interbrand “Best Global Brands” report. In the five years since the annual ranking of the 100 largest global brands was first produced five years ago, no other global brand has risen as much in brand value -- 186%, to $14.9 billion, by the end of 2004. What’s this got to do with a new mobile phone? Everything! Samsung has recognised the opportunity to leverage off the universal recognition offered by being a leading player in handset production as the world adopts the mobile phone and it has hitched its star to the inevitable rise of the convergence device. Samsung’s latest offering which went on sale in Korea yesterday is arguably the most advanced phone in the world at this point in time, and the world’s 14th largest company is posturing quite clearly that it will continue at the forefront. This latest satellite DMB phone with a unique “slide and rotate” form factor. Samsung’s B200, which was first unveiled at MIPTV/MILIA in Cannes, France last April, is the most recent addition to its growing line-up of satellite DMB phones. Read More
Samsung shows 7 megapixel camera phone outside Korea
By Mike Hanlon
June 17, 2005 Samsung Electronics took its “mine’s-bigger-than-yours” game outside Korea this week when it showed its seven-megapixel camera phone, the SCH-V770 at CommunicAsia in Singapore. Perhaps the most encouraging sign was that Samsung has released official “portrait shots” of the SCH-V770 which we first wrote up from Korea in March. It’s an indication that we may soon see the awesome converged device in other markets, and Samsung's Kitae Lee concurred when he said, "We are focusing on our latest technology that demonstrates the innovation of Samsung, and gives visitors a crystal-ball industry view of what they can expect in the future from the world's leading telecommunications company.” Read More
Samsung rocks the digital camera market
By Mike Hanlon
June 4, 2005 Korean company Samsung certainly is making a name for itself by announcing category busting numbers in almost every marketplace it tackles and the digital camera market appears set for the same treatment. Last week in China at the 8th Annual China International Photo and Electronic Imaging, Machinery and Technology Fair in Beijing Samsung showed the Pro815 Digimax and in all the key numbers the camera stacks up better than all the currently announced competition. It has a massive 3.5 inch LCD screen on the back, takes an eight megapixel image, has “the world's largest-capacity 1900mAh, 7.4V lithium-ion battery” and most significantly of all, it has an optical 15 times zoom. In 35mm terms, that’s a 28mm to 429mm zoom lens which is the biggest so far offered on a digital camera and one which offers wide angle through significant telephoto. Speculation suggests that as the lens is manufactured by Schneider-KREUZNACH, it’ll soon be available on other cameras Read More
Samsung's miniscule Miniket digital camcorder
By Mike Hanlon
April 5, 2005: Multi-function devices are one of the by-products of convergence and we’re going to see a lot more over the coming years, not all of them based around telephone functionality. Vivitar were the first to plunge into this market late last year with the EEK and the DVR 390H, but as time passes, we expect that the “jack of all trades, master of none” multi-functionality will subside. The Miniket VP-M110 from Samsung is a multi-function device in that it is actually very good at one thing – it is a tapeless camcorder capable of recording 30 frames per second of 720 x 480 video and it comes with a 10 times optical zoom built into a package just 58.8mm x 92.7mm x 29.1mm in size. Those specs put the Miniket directly in competition with Panasonic’s D-Snap, but in a smaller form factor for a significantly reduced price. Read More
New Samsung Phone with file viewing and remote control functionality
By Mike Hanlon
April 5, 2005 Samsung continued its gargantuan push to turn the mobile phone into the ultimate digital Swiss Army Knife last week when it introduced two new phones to the Korean market with quite intriguing new functionality. The new phones have the potentially very useful capability of viewing all the major document formats (MS Word, MS Excel, PDF, JPG and text files) plus the ability to double as a universal remote control. Oh, and it’s also a 1.3 megapixel camera and comes in anti-bacterial silver – a new nano-particle coating designed to minimise the potential for the phone to carry germs. Read More
Keith Lawhorn
- November 11, 2009 @ 03:07 UTC
