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Samsung shows the world's first 7 megapixel camera phone
By Mike Hanlon
March 11. 2005 Korean giant electronics manufacturer continued to flex its massive technological muscle at CEBIT yesterday when it announced the SCH-V770 handset mobile phone, another world first for Samsung in that it features a 7 mega pixel camera with a 3 times optical zoom lens. Samsung continues to make headlines in the camera phone pixel race in that it's less than twelve months since it showed the first three megapixel camera-phone and less than six months since it showed the first five megapixel phone. Read More
Samsung develops World's largest (82-inch) TFT-LCD screen
By Mike Hanlon
March 11, 2005 Samsung has again inched ahead in the “mine’s-bigger-than-yours” contest it is playing with LG over the world’s largest LCD screen. This time it has announced an 82-inch TFT-LCD. In an illustration of just how far and how fast the game has progressed, Samsung developed the first 40-inch model in August 2001, the first 46-inch panel in October 2002, the first 57-inch model in December 2003 and now the first 82-inch panel. The screen uses12.44 million thin-film transistors to achieve an image quality of 6.22 million pixels. Read More
Anna Sui Mobile By Samsung: The Mobile Phone Fashion Accessory
By Mike Hanlon
February 23, 2005 When a leading designer, a mobile phone manufacturer and a fashion icon magazine get together to collaborate on the release of a mobile phone, it's worth taking notice - clearly the world of ubiquitous communications melding with fashin accessories is beginning to go mainstream. Such was the case yesterday when Samsung, cutting-edge designer Anna Sui and VOGUE magazine issued a joint announcement concerning a new upmarket mobile phone for women. Read More
Samsung debuts mobile phone with Speech-to-Text Capabilities
By Mike Hanlon
LAS VEGAS January 8, 2005 Samsung used its massive show of all-round high technology strength at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show as the backdrop for a very innovative and potentially very useful new technology for mobile telephones: speech-to-text dictation. The speech-to- text product called VoiceMode allows consumers to speak into the phone and have the phone convert the words directly into text. Using advanced speech recognition, the technology enables consumers to send short messages with the sound of their voice. Samsung's p207 is the first phone with the VoiceMode technology that allows consumers to simply speak the words of a message and have the phone translate those exact words into text. This speech-driven text messaging application allows users to quickly and easily address messages, then use their voice to create the text, enhancing the user experience and greatly simplifying text creation on today's compact numeric keypads. Read More
Samsung collaborates with Vogue for designer technology
By Gizmag Team
October 29, 2004 Vogue and Samsung have announced a long-term collaboration positioning technology as an essential component through which to create, define and express style. Leveraging each company's influence, core capabilities and marketing reach, Samsung and Vogue's multi-tiered agreement is yet another variation upon which future technology and design trends will be developed and marketed. Read More
SAMSUNG introduces a 5-megapixel camera phone!
By Gizmag Team
October 24, 2004 The convergence of digital cameras with mobile phones continues apace with Samsung unveiling the SCH-S250 model mobile, equipped with an intense 5-megapixel camera, a "true colour" LCD with 16 million colours and a text-to-speech conversion function all in the one handset. The CCD (charge-coupled device) camera and high-sensitivity flash allow the user to take the same quality pictures as a mdeium-quality digital camera. Like Samsung's premium grade camera phones, the S250 can also function as a camcorder. Read More
Samsung 5.25 mpx digital still and camcorder in one
By Mike Hanlon
Samsung Electronics has launched its second-generation DuoCam VP-D6050i which combines a 5.25 megapixel digital still camera and mini-digital video, with a dedicated lens for each function and switch between the two at the push of a button. For digital still pictures the DuoCam features 5.25 mega pixels, a 3x optical/12x digital zoom and a built-in auto flash. Images can be saved onto a variety of flash memory cards via an innovative 4 in 1 memory media slot. Read More
Samsung combines mid-range camera with phone
By Mike Hanlon
Samsung has raised the bar for camera phone functionality with a 3.2 megapixel camera phone with x3 optical linear zoom lens and x4 digital zoom - thes specs place the phone directly in the medium range digital camera market. The big zoom lens makes it visibly a camera with a phone in the back than vice verca, and the specs confirm it is a serious camera. It is also capable of recording 100 minutes of digital video and can record audio too, and with memory card storage on the side, could transform the way we record our lives. Read More
Samsung announces 57-inch LCD Panel
By Mike Hanlon
Samsung Electronics have set a new benchmark with the unveiling of a 57-inch TFT-LCD Panel for HD-TVs. The addition of the new screen - which was produced on Samsung's second 5th generation line beginning in September this year - means that the Samsung range of LCDs now spans from 15" to 57". Read More
Samsung release camcorder phone
By Mike Hanlon
The latest in phone functionality has arrived in the form of Samsung's SCH-V410 camcorder phone. Recently released in South Korea, the clamshell design phone enables video recording and editing, plays music without needing to open the device and also doubles as a remote control for certain TVs and DVD players. Read More
Samsung unveil 533MHz CPU for handheld devices
By Mike Hanlon
Tuesday July 22, 2003: With a core speed of 533MHz, the S3C2440 is the world's fastest mobile CPU according to Samsung, which has designed its latest chip with the demands of the burgeoning PDA and multimedia phone market in mind. Read More
Samsung's "Matrix Reloaded" phone
By Mike Hanlon
Samsung Electronics and Warner Bros. have struck a promotional deal covering the rights for the second and third installments of The Matrix trilogy. Designed by Matrix Reloaded set designers, the SPH-N270 features a bar-type pop-up screen"intenna" and enhanced voice dialling capabilities... Read More
Samsung's World First HDD digital camcorder
By Mike Hanlon
Samsung Electronics released the world's first Hard Disk Drive (HDD) digital camcorder - the ITCAM-7 - at the 2003 CES. Instead of tape, the ITCAM-7 uses a 1.5 GB HDD to store more than one hour of footage, as well as still pictures, music, audio and data files. Read More
Samsung Combination DVD and VCR
By Mike Hanlon
For those who want the best of both worlds, and hate paying $35 for a recordable DVD disk, the Samsung DVDV5000 is a combination DVD player and VCR which also reads VCDs, Audio CDs and CD-ROMs and can copy DVDs that have no Macrovision protection to VHS tape. Read More
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