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T-Mobile’s Samsung Highlight: Cute, Toy-Like Touchscreen Dumbphone [Samsung]
Presumably aimed at tweens who want one of those cool all-touch devices without paining their parents with a data plan, the Samsung Highlight features an admittedly cute design and a teeny touchscreen.
The touchscreen is an oddly-sized 1.61- x 2.64-inch capacitive display, though the handset does have a few hardware buttons on the bottom and sides. [...]
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Samsung Giorgio Armani 2 specs leaked by Bluetooth SIG
As best as we can tell, that June 11th Armani event with Samsung and Microsoft came and went with nothing more than a new ad campaign featuring David Beckham in his knickers, and Sammy’s June 15th solo fête was devoted to the Omnia lineup and said nothing of any impending Windows Mobile fashionphone. So whatever [...]
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Samsung goes bargain hunting with SMX-K40 and SMX-K45 camcorders
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We’ve already had a look at Samsung’s most interesting camcorder introduction of the day (that’d be the HMX-U10), but those looking for a more conventional alternative may take interest in one of these two. The SMX-K40 and SMX-K45 both take a different approach to capturing clips by logging them at 720 x 480 and offering [...]
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Why You Can’t Complain About the Price of Today’s Gadgets [Prof. Dealzmodo]
So your MacBook cost $1500—boo hoo. Thirty years ago, when the average salary was under $18,000, you’d have paid $2638 for an Apple II with 48K of RAM ($7770 in today’s dollars). And a cellphone? Waaaay more.
Cellular technology had been in development since the early ’50s, but cellphones didn’t become commercially available until Motorola’s DynaTAC [...]
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Samsung PL70 and PL55 bring 12 megapixels to the unwashed masses
Promising to allow the differently rich consumer a chance to experience “the latest and most advanced digital imaging technology” (of 2008), Samsung has today announced two new entry-level cameras. While the headline features — 12.2 megapixel sensor and 5x optical zoom — are identical, the PL70 (SL720 here in the US) comes with a 3-inch [...]
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Samsung Barges Into Flip Territory With HMX-U10 1080p Pocket Camcorder [Camcorders]
Samsung has finally joined the illustrious, bulging ranks of Flip-imitating manufacturers, announcing the HMX-U10, a 1080p-recording, 10-megapixel-shooting compact camcorder set to land in September.
It’s a form-factor that doesn’t leave much room for creativity, but Samsung’s managed to put together a distinctive product with the HMX-U10. The slightly swept design allows for more comfortable gripping than [...]
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Samsung’s SyncMaster 80 series LCD monitor stands above the rest
It’s a simple idea, sure, and it’s far from new, but putting an LCD on a telescoping mount offers incredible convenience. As such, this Samsung SyncMaster 80 series professional LCD monitor allows for a more natural secondary display perched directly above your open netbook or can be spun into a portrait orientation for those looking [...]
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Leaked Samsung YP-M1 shows a more colorful spin on its DAP lineup
We can’t say we’ve ever been too excited by Samsung’s Yepp series — not that it’s bad, just nothing particularly worth writing home about. If this pic is any indication of what’s to come, however, we are suddenly a bit more interested. The story starts in late June, where an Anything but iPod forum member [...]
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Blockbuster OnDemand en route to Samsung HDTVs, Blu-ray players, and home theater systems
Questionable longevity or no, Blockbuster’s taking some strides to get itself firmly into the video on demand business, and this latest announcement will go a long way with that. The company announced that it’s integrating its OnDemand service into Samsung HDTVs, home theater systems, and Blu-ray players starting Fall 2009. Better still, those with LED [...]
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Samsung Connected HDTVs, Blu-ray Players to Get Blockbuster Streaming [Samsung]
A whole mess of Samsung web-enabled HDTVs and Blu-ray players are about to get access to Blockbuster’s OnDemand service. Since OnDemand doesn’t require a monthly fee, this is a nice little value-add.
For owners of select TVs and Blu-ray players, Blockbuster OnDemand will function how we’ve seen it before: as a broad on-demand film catalog with [...]
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Samsung NC10 being offered by UK carriers, Vodafone’s pricing surprisingly good
Laptops bundled with mobile telephony contracts rarely arouse our penny-pinching passions, but UK carriers are getting pretty aggressive with pricing for the Samsung NC10. Vodafone takes the lead by offering the extraordinarily well-reviewed netbook for free with a £25 ($40) monthly tariff over two years, which makes for a total contract cost of £600 ($972), [...]
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Rubin: Android getting more social features; Donut, Eclair, and Flan all in the oven
You don’t have to look far past Palm’s Synergy tech for webOS and smaller-scale operations like INQ to understand that social internetworking — an intelligent aggregation of every corner of your life — is the wave of the mobile future, and Google’s going on record saying that it understands. At a T-Mobile- and Google-sponsored event [...]
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In tomorrow’s nightmarish hellscape, robots shoot craps and Samsung Galaxy is your only friend
Hey, nice Samsung Galaxy you got there! Whoa, whoa, wait… you sure you want to turn that thing on? Are you physically and emotionally prepared for what happens next? See, in a world where space travel knows no boundaries, Facebook has its own planet, and Samsung makes Android-powered phones, cute robots ride (yes, ride) i7500s [...]
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Samsung Galaxy GT-I7500 unboxed, "Google Experience" distinction now clear as mud
The HTC Hero and T-Mobile myTouch 3G aren’t the only Android phones making waves this week: the Samsung Galaxy GT-I7500 also launched on O2 Germany, and this is the first unboxing we’ve seen. Continuing the confusion over what handsets actually get the full Google blessing, this version of the I7500 runs pretty much bone-stock Android, [...]
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Gadget Deals Of The Day [Dealzmodo]
For those in the market for an ultra-portable, be sure to check out the awesome deal on the Lenovo x301. To make sure everyone has an awesome weekend— there’s free chocolate, condoms, body lotion, depends, and slurpees. Have fun!
Computing and Peripherals: • 15.6″ Lenovo G550 CoreDuo 2GHz Notebook with WXGA LED TFT for $499 [...]
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Rupert Murdoch staying out of the e-reader business, Red Eye sadly still on the air
With the rag trade in obvious (and some might say terminal) disarray, of course folks in the business will be looking for ways to stay afloat in the age of the e-reader — and it’s long been rumored that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is looking to launch a device of its own (if by “long” [...]
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Samsung’s YP-R1 spotted in the wild leering at kids
We like bubble-gum icons and ginger bread men holding “Touch Me!” signs as much as any predator. It’s just not the first motif that comes to mind when choosing an interface for what otherwise looks to be yet another mainstream digital media player. Perhaps Samsung’s YP-R1 is targeting 9-year old Korean girls — however, that [...]
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Sony Vaio W hands-on roundup
Looks like our friends across the pond were among the lucky few to get a their hands on Sony’s Vaio W netbook — that still feels weird to write — and the big takeaway here is that despite its size, the 10.1-inch, 1366 x 768 resolution screen is gorgeous. As for video, though, it’s still [...]
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Samsung’s 250GB SpinPoint N3U has on-board USB, personal bonus card
It may not be the first 1.8-inch hard disk we’ve seen pushing a 250GB capacity, but damn if Samsung doesn’t know how to market its tech. See, these drives are small as Samsung skillfully demonstrates by photographing its new Spinpoint N3U disk in front of a credit card. And by including a native PATA to [...]
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Samsung’s New Smartphone QWERTY Idea: Keep Trying, Guys [Mock-ups]
Samsung filed a patent for this avian-looking smartphone concept: Two spring-loaded half-keyboards burst from the sides of the phone, which in theory provides both a larger keyboard and more screen space, since hands are out of the way. In theory.
It’s a half-baked idea, of course, which is why we’re only seeing it in a patent [...]
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