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Samsung JetSet aka SGH-r550 Available at Cricket US

Certainly, having to pay a monthly fee to have our communications need met is not something all of us are really that comfortable with. For this reason, there are companies that offer customers prepaid services, and one of them is Cricket. What's new is the fact that Cricket has announced that the Samsung JetSet...

13 October 2008
10:57 GMT

AT&T's Samsung Propel, a Phone for Texters

In one of our latest articles, we talked about AT&T lineup of Samsung phones. It seems that, for this fall/winter, the mobile operator relies heavily on Samsung to offer users all the mobility they need, at all prices, from expensive to cheap, depending on the customer.Among the Samsung Omnia, the Eternity and the Mi...

10 October 2008
10:01 GMT

Lavender, A New Concept Phone for Samsung

One thing that Samsung does not lack is fans. More than that, it does not lack fans that are willing to provide it with concept phone designs. Lucky should be he or she that has his/her design picked up by the company since they would probably make a lot of money off it. However, come to think of it, this rarely ever...

10 October 2008
05:50 GMT

Samsung Unveils High Capacity S Series External HDDs

Samsung announced yesterday the introduction of a series of external hard drives, the S Series. The new Samsung line-up includes a 2.5-inch drive S2 Portable and a 1.8-inch HDD S1 Mini, which are coming to the market in a new sleek casing with a leather back-cover. The company has incorporated a USB controller within...

10 October 2008
05:12 GMT

Samsung a867 in Leaked Photos

A while ago, word in the industry had it that AT&T was preparing a Samsung trio for this fall/winter. Apparently, the devices that will make the trio are Samsung a867, Samsung Sangria, and Samsung Mirage. On this note, it clearly seems that, this season, Samsung is keeping the largest operator in the US quite busy, s...

10 October 2008
03:50 GMT

Samsung Jack Merlot Released in Canada

If the black version of Samsung Jack SGH-i616 available from Rogers doesn't look good enough for you, the largest Canadian mobile carrier has recently released a new Samsung Jack smartphone. Called Samsung Jack Merlot, the handset in question obviously comes dressed in a merlot color. The weird part of this...

10 October 2008
03:33 GMT

T-Mobile Welcomes New Addition, Samsung T919

Recent reports indicate that German-based mobile operator T-Mobile will deliver to its customers and users its first full touchscreen phone, and that the device in question is Samsung's T919.Rumors about this handset have been around ever since mid August, but all details on it were a bit blurry, to say the leas...

9 October 2008
09:47 GMT

Samsung Unveils Three New 22X Super-WriteMaster DVD Burners

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a worldwide leading provider of digital consumer electronics and technology, announced today the addition of three new DVD burners to its Super-WriteMaster SH-S223 series. Earlier this year, the company announced the SH-S223F DVD burner; now, it is introducing the SH-S223Q SATA drive al...

8 October 2008
03:15 GMT

Free Samsung t109 Launched by T-Mobile USA

When not dealing with super-handsets like the HTC-built G1, T-Mobile USA is focusing on cheaper mobile phones. The latest such example is Samsung t109, a basic clamshell that is offered by the fourth largest US carrier for free, together with a two-year contract agreement. As you're probably expecting from ...

7 October 2008
05:22 GMT

Samsung S3600 Announced

One thing is for sure: Samsung makes phones for everybody and every pocket. It gave us the highly expected Pixon (a really high-end cameraphone), then some info leaked about its mysterious i7100 (which seems to be a mid-end phone), and the only thing to complete the list would be a more low-middle-end handset. This i...

6 October 2008
11:21 GMT

Samsung i7110 Finally Gets Specs

At about the same time that everybody was talking about the Bresson, or the Pixon, the 8 megapixel camera phone from Samsung, there was yet another model, developed by the same producer, that got our attention. With all that, except for a couple of photos that were leaked, there was not that much to say about this ph...

6 October 2008
04:58 GMT

Samsung Jack, aka Rogers' BlackJack, Updated to Windows Mobile 6.1

Canada's Samsung BlackJack, called Samsung Jack by Rogers, can now be updated to Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.1 OS, thanks to an upgrade ROM released by Samsung.Samsung Jack (model name SGH-i616) is no longer a smartphone that can be deemed a novelty, but most of its owners will probably be happy to learn t...

4 October 2008
06:41 GMT

Samsung's NC10 Netbook, Slightly Different from Other Netbooks

As of late, it has become ever more difficult to browse the Internet without spotting a few more details on some of the many netbooks out there, or even info on an altogether new system of this kind. This time around, it’s Samsung's recently released netbook, the NC10 that is making the headlines, as it i...

2 October 2008
06:02 GMT

Samsung Mobile India Will Focus on High-End Phones

On Wednesday, October, Samsung Mobile launched in Bangalore India its first 8 megapixel camera phone, the Samsung Innov8. At the same event, the company also announced plans to bring more high-end phones to India, and to introduce another nine mobile phone models this year.Samsung's Mobile Country Head, Sunil Du...

2 October 2008
05:17 GMT

Samsung Epix – New QWERTY Smartphone for AT&T

Samsung BlackJack II's glory days for AT&T are kind of gone, so it's about time the largest North American mobile carrier came with a new and better Samsung QWERTY handset. Word on the street has it that the BlackJack III, or at least a handset that looks like a BJ III, will be officially presented by AT&T ...

2 October 2008
04:14 GMT

Samsung Delve Photo Leaked

All sorts of rumors are flying in right now about Samsung's next phone, the so-called Samsung Delve. It seems that the company keeps releasing phone after phone and, after the Bresson, meaning Pixon – the official name, yet another picture has been leaked on the Internet, seemingly showing the device coden...

1 October 2008
06:51 GMT

Samsung Music Phones to Come with Embedded Shazam Service

Perhaps looking to lure in even more customers with its new music phones, Samsung has decided that all of them are to be sold together with the Shazam service. Developed by the British company of the same name, Shazam is an application that will allow owners of Samsung's new music phones to recognize tracks...

1 October 2008
04:05 GMT

ARM, Samsung, IBM and Chartered Collaborate for 32nm and 28nm SoCs

ARM, Samsung, IBM and semiconductor manufacturer Chartered have recently announced that they will begin developing a comprehensive 32nm and 28nm System-on-a-Chip design platform based on high-k metal-gate technology. According to the multi-year collaboration between the four major companies, ARM will develop and lice...

30 September 2008
05:47 GMT

If Thrown, SSDs Can't Fly, but Boot up Afterwards

Solid State Drives have always been said to be more reliable, have extra durability and provide longer life than hard disk drives. The penetration of SSDs into the market has seen recent boosts due to good marketing. All manufacturers claimed that SSD technology offers more performance and reliability than any HDD. ...

30 September 2008
03:19 GMT

Samsung A637, AKA Samsung ‘Milky’

Last week, a new phone, a funny looking Samsung, surfaced on the net. Until now nobody, knew its name or its specs. Today, we can finally give you more information on this little and weird looking handheld.As seen in the photo, the phone is a candybar type, all white and with big round buttons. It features a pretty s...

30 September 2008
02:44 GMT

Samsung Pixon in All Its Glory

After countless rumors, leaked images and several press photos let loose on the Web, today, Samsung has fully unveiled its M8800 Pixon 8 Megapixel camera phone. In doing so, the company has become the only handset manufacturer to have officially presented two phones that feature such an evolved camera, the first one ...

29 September 2008
09:03 GMT

Samsung NC10 Netbook Comes to Europe

Samsung is among the more recent players on the netbook market, which means that its NC10 will have a tough time making itself noticed amidst the other netbooks out there. However, the South Korea-based company is wasting no time in marketing its product, which is why it has recently introduced the NC10 netbook to Eu...

29 September 2008
04:51 GMT

Samsung Omnia Has Hit India

One of the latest handsets touted as an “iPhone killer,” namely Samsung Omnia SGH-i900, is now available across India, offering Indian mobile users the chance to enjoy its high-end capabilities and its refined design. Measuring only 112 x 56.9 x 12.5 millimeters, Samsung Omnia features about everythi...

29 September 2008
04:39 GMT

16GB Memory Modules Coming from Samsung

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, has recently announced having started the sampling of 50nm DDR3 memory modules. According to the company, this new advance will allow it to fabricate more power efficient memory modules, enabling it at the same time to produce devices with...

29 September 2008
03:59 GMT

Sony Rebuffs Samsung Exec's Blu-ray 5-Year Demise Claims

As some of you might remember, we've reported a while back (post-IFA) that one of Samsung's European honchos, Andy Griffiths, director of consumer electronics at Samsung UK, believed that Sony's Blu-ray format only had around 5 years left. However, it would seem that the respective statement created qu...

26 September 2008
16:41 GMT

Samsung’s X360 Is Good but the X460 Is Even Better

Samsung has decided that the X360 notebook it has released just recently doesn't stand for all that the company is capable of, and especially not when it comes to competing with Apple's MacBook Air. This is precisely why the Korean company thought it would be a nice change if its customers had the option to...

24 September 2008
04:02 GMT

Samsung's NaBee Adds Wireless USB Connectivity to Any Digital Camera

Connecting a digital camera to a computer without using any wires seems to be quite an important issue nowadays, and several solutions for this problem have been provided until now. One of them is the EyeFi wireless memory card, another one is incorporating a wireless module in the camera itself, but Samsung has deci...

23 September 2008
14:11 GMT

Samsung Briefly Teases Us with 10x Zoom HZ1 Compact Camera

Since every major name on the digital photography market is launching (or has already launched) a new product for this year's Photokina, it was expected from Samsung to do the same. However, the Korean company's announcement is not exactly a fantastic one. No, we're not talking about some megapixel-bur...

23 September 2008
10:50 GMT

More Companies Interested in SanDisk's Acquisition

Last week, SanDisk turned down Samsung's offer of acquisition. It seems that the price per share offered now is lower than the one at the beginning of the discussions, and the company wants more money. As recent news shows, other companies seem to be interested in getting their hands on the flash memory company....

22 September 2008
02:57 GMT

Samsung Omnia Out Now in Romania

Samsung i900 Omnia, the high-end Pocket PC launched by the South Korean company back in July, is now available across Romania, offered by HAT Group. Coming as one of the latest Samsung Pocket PCs, the Omnia runs on Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.1 Operating System and brings a wide range of high-end features ...

19 September 2008
10:02 GMT

Samsung Unveils 10-inch NC10 Netbook

After having been refused by SanDisk, Samsung has returned to some of its internal affairs and has decided to finally unveil details about its upcoming netbook computer system, which will go by the name of NC10. As you might have been expecting, Samsung also decided to go for the proven technology, which is why its f...

19 September 2008
06:01 GMT

Samsung SSDs Boost Performance for Lenovo's ThinkPads

As mentioned in several previous articles, solid state drives continue to invade the market, as we are seeing more and more storage vendors releasing better and higher-capacity SSDs. In addition, several system manufacturers have already introduced some of their new products that have been built to take advantage of ...

19 September 2008
04:41 GMT

Rumble in the Jungle with Samsung's SGH-A837 aka Samsung Rugby

You know the cute, stylish and really really fragile mobile phones you buy for hundreds of dollars? Well, Samsung Rugby ain't nothing like them. It's rough, tough and it will probably scare your kids when they see it. Then again, this might be the phone to give to your kids, since it's built to withsta...

18 September 2008
09:14 GMT

Samsung Offers $5.8 Billion for SanDisk

Not very long ago, we informed you about Samsung's intentions to acquire SanDisk, a leading manufacturer of flash-based memory products. Back then, no type of feedback came from SanDisk, while the exact details of a possible acquisition weren't available. However, it appears that the Taiwan-based company ha...

17 September 2008
04:08 GMT

Samsung Rolls Out R610 Laptop with Blu-Ray

Samsung, one of the most prominent manufacturers of consumer electronics and also one of Sony's biggest competitors, has recently announced a new product that has been designed to deliver the quality of a Blu-ray player in a portable package. Simply dubbed R610, the new notebook from Samsung has been launched s...

15 September 2008
11:10 GMT

Samsung Announces OneDRAM for Its L870 Symbian Slider

Samsung SGH-L870 (also known as Samsung L870) will feature the OneDRAM technology, which boosts data processing speeds and improves the handset's overall performance, the South Korean manufacturer has announced.  Samsung's OneDRAM also boosts 3D graphics performance, while at the same time reducing the...

13 September 2008
06:38 GMT

Samsung to Unveil Its Own Atom-Powered Netbook

We could fill pages just by simply enumerating all the netbooks currently available on the market or whose existence has, in any way, been alluded to on the Internet. There's no doubt that this market has grown significantly in the last 10 weeks, with products being released by several major systems vendors, inc...

9 September 2008
04:41 GMT

Samsung T459 Breaks Cover for T-Mobile

T-Mobile USA will soon widen its collection of mobile phones made by Samsung, with an unofficially announced model, apparently called Samsung T459 or Samsung Holic. Resembling the old but still popular LG Rumor and the Samsung Messager (an affordable handset recently launched in the US via both MetroPCS and Cric...

8 September 2008
15:01 GMT

Samsung Considering SanDisk Acquisition

Samsung Electronics, one of the largest manufacturers of consumer electronics, is planning to acquire SanDisk, a leading maker of flash memory card products. In an interview with Reuters and cited by the online newspaper eDaily, a representative for the South Korea-based company confirmed that Samsung was considering...

5 September 2008
08:58 GMT

Samsung a137, AT&T's New $40 GoPhone

Samsung and AT&T have always been working well together, that's why the big blue North American carrier continuously releases new handsets made by the South Korean company. The latest Samsung phone presented by AT&T is the a137, an entry-level device that comes only two days after the Samsung a237 was launched &...

5 September 2008
07:50 GMT

Blu-ray to Die in Five Years, Samsung Rep Believes

When 2008 started, everyone hoped to see a conclusion of the next-generation DVD format war between Toshiba's HD DVD and Sony's Blu-ray. In the end, Blu-ray has officially won this "battle," with Toshiba admitting defeat and moving on to other segments of the CE market. However, this victory might be relati...

4 September 2008
14:41 GMT

Samsung to Kick-off Recycling Program Across the US

Following Nokia's go-green initiative, Samsung Electronics America announced the upcoming launch of SAMSUNG RECYCLING DIRECT, a program that will allow North American consumers to easily recycle Samsung products, from mobile phones to LCDs. SAMSUNG RECYCLING DIRECT will debut on the 1st of October, when con...

4 September 2008
08:08 GMT

Affordable Samsung Knack Introduced by Verizon

Verizon Wireless has announced, a few hours ago, the availability of a new Samsung handset for its US customers. Verizon has dubbed the phone Samsung Knack, although the device itself doesn't live up to this name, not being that advanced when it comes to performance. Having nothing to do with the power pop-...

3 September 2008
11:37 GMT

Samsung a237 Out Now via AT&T

Probably in order to compete with Sprint's M320 and M220 (launched in the US yesterday), AT&T has just rolled out its own new Samsung handset, namely the a237. First spotted at the beginning of August, the a237 is an entry-level device that comes in a clamshell form factor (like Sprint's above-mentione...

3 September 2008
05:46 GMT

Samsung M320 and M220 Launched in the US

It's a busy day today for Sprint, as, after releasing two new and rugged Motorola handsets, North America's third largest mobile carrier has also come up with two new Samsung phones, the M320 and M220. Exclusively released by Sprint, both of the South Korean phones are clamshells targeted for users who...

2 September 2008
12:33 GMT

Samsung i8510 Innov8 Out Now in the UK

Europe's very first mobile phone equipped with an 8 Megapixel camera, the Samsung i8510 Innov8 slider, is now available in the UK, exclusively offered by Carphone Warehouse. The handset is sold, for the moment, only together with a contract from Orange, UK's fourth largest mobile operator, but it will soon ...

2 September 2008
04:23 GMT

Lots of New Samsung Phones Presented

Samsung is currently showcasing, during the IFA 2008 fair held in Berlin, Germany (August 29 –September 3), more than ten new mobile phones. The models presented by the South Korean manufacturer include: Samsung D980 Duos, Samsung S7330, Samsung M3510, Samsung M200, Samsung M150, Samsung B510, Samsung...

1 September 2008
08:31 GMT

Samsung Gets Official with the BD-P2500 Fifth Generation Blu-ray Player

A week ago, we were reporting that an upcoming Blu-ray player from Samsung, then dubbed BD-P2550, had appeared on BestBuy's website, which meant that an official announcement from the Korean manufacturer was bound to follow shortly. And it looks like Samsung didn't want to keep us waiting for too long, sinc...

29 August 2008
14:22 GMT

Samsung's X360 Is 'Lighter than Air'

Despite not being the biggest brand in the portable computer systems market, Samsung can still pride itself with some interesting notebook designs. According to recent rumors, the South Korea-based company also plans to release a new ultra-portable computer, of which it says it will be “lighter than air.”...

29 August 2008
03:02 GMT

Samsung Launches New Line of LCD Digital Photo Frames

Samsung Electronics America, part of the Samsung Electronics Corporation, which is known as the world's leader on the market of professional LCD products, has just announced that it will complete its line of display products, with four new digital photo frames. From September 1st to November 1st, Samsung wi...

28 August 2008
03:16 GMT




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