March 10th, 2010
Samsung has announced that it would be releasing its slider eReader this spring. Samsung E6 would be released in partnership with Barns and Noble. The Barns and Noble partnership would give E6 users access to more than a million e-books, e-magazines and e-newspapers.
Barns and Noble already has its own eReader – the Nook in stores. The difference between the two eReader lies in their pricing. While the Nook is priced at $259, Samsung E6 would be retailing at $399. Below is a quick look at the specifications of the Samsung E6 – (more…)
Categories: eReaders & Tablets, samsung |
Tags: barns and noble, barns and noble ebook reader, e6, ebook reader, ereader, nook e6, samsung, samsung e6, samsung ereader | No Comments
February 14th, 2010
Learning from the success of the Corby series, Samsung is now introducing a new series fuelled with all sorts of social networks. The new Monte series already has Samsung Monte S5620, and now Samsung’s MWC flicker account has leaked two new handsets from the same series. These are the Monte Bar (GT-C3200) and the Monte Slider (GT-E2550) as shown in the pictures above.
For now, there are no specifications known of the duo. But with MWC just round the corner, we could soon have an official press release of the two. Samsung (in all probability) would also be releasing its Bada OS powered Samsung Wave during MWC (Mobile World Congress, Barcelona).
Categories: Leaked / Spyshots, samsung |
Tags: monte bar, monte series, monte slider, mwc, mwc 2010, samsung, samsung c3200, samsung e2550, samsung monte | 2 Comments
February 14th, 2010
No I ain’t speculating, but fact remains that both android and iPhone comes from really sophisticated Internet + software companies, I may be wrong but I doubt if Samsung can deliver that level of a smartphone os. The touchwiz UI powered Bada OS IMO would be good support for Samung’s media rich devices. Having handled the Omnia pro recently, I can very well see the need for Samsung to have it’s own software powering it’s taste if UI (the WinMo is horribly modded with the widgets interface).
One thing that has brought tremendous success to Samsung is the iPhone wannabes strategy. They have artfully catered to the sub $200 market with good looking touchscreens. The Corby & Star i.e. These phones aren’t about rich experience in terms of mobile internet or smart apps, but they give what the Rs 10k junta wants – good looks, iPhone style full touchscreen & feeling of a smartphone. If Samsung can pack a better OS (a much more matured OS as I like to call them) in a $200 full touchscreen like Corby, the potential is killer!
But that might not be the real reason Samsung wants the Bada OS. A great motivation behind the Bada OS might well be the apps market. Mobile apps is now raking in billions and Samsung sure wants to monetize this segment with it’s own OS>developers>apps ecosystem. With over 50 million Samsung touch phones by Samsung being out In the market, the opportunity is certainly exciting.
So will Samsung crack the app store model for itself? Probably yes. But will Bada really bring in competition for Android and iPhone? Unlikely!
Categories: Market Watch, Softwares, samsung, smartphones |
Tags: bada, bada os, iphone vs android vs bada, platform wars, samsung, samsung bada os, samsung bada vs iphone, smartphone os | 2 Comments
February 11th, 2010
By the first looks of it,I thought this was some new nail polish bottle. After taking a closer look at it I realised that this ones got a wired tail and it is a digital music player. Now Samsung has introduced the new TicToc player that does all the functions of an MP3 player with just a single button and an accelerometer. The player has no display and is as sleek as its closest compeditor – the iPod Shuffle.
The device has a smart accelerometer sensor that changes track. A slow shake would line-up a slow song while a vigorous shake would play a fast one. The only key on the player acts as both the power button and the volume control key. Holding the player upside down with the key pressed reduces the volume and vice versa. (more…)
Categories: Announcements, First look, PMP - Portable Media, Weird or not?, Wow Gadgets, samsung |
Tags: accelerometer player, ipod shuffle with accelerometer, motion sensor player, mp3 player, samsung, samsung mp3 player, tictoc | No Comments
February 6th, 2010
Remember that weird (futuristic) transparent AMOLED laptop that Samsung displayed at CES this year? Now the news on it is that the company is actually planning to launch it within a year.
And not just that, Samsung actually wants to create a separate category of products having the transparent screen and plans to launch several such products next year. Also there are rumors of a transparent navigation device that Samsung plans to mount on the car windshields.
My views on this weird laptop form factor with a transparent display still remain the same : it’s simply has no practical use! I mean, obviously this looks cool but it also allows people around you to see what work you are doing. So that clearly violates your own privacy. And then, there are issues of it’s usability in the direct sunlight. At the max, you can play music, games or do some casual work on it. You surely won’t spend your hard-earned bucks only to play music while you show off the gorgeous transparent screen. Will you?
As for the transparent navigation device that Samsung plans to mount on the car windshields. It makes a lot of sense, given that this technology would aid a situation where we are discussing in-car screens, that would not distract the drivers attention from the road ahead (atleast not completely).
(via CrunchGear)
Categories: Concept / Educative, Notebook / Laptops, Weird or not?, samsung |
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February 2nd, 2010
I have probably mentioned it a dozen times that Samsung is missing a smart OS in its touchscreen range (viz Corby, Star) and perhaps BADA OS would fill that gap. We are hearing that the S8200 would be the first BADA OS phone from Samsung and might well be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress later this month. The S8200 is said to be a Snapdragon powered high-end touchscreen, that would feature a 3.7″ AMOLED screen (), 5MP camera, WiFi, GPS, HSPA etc. Hope they also manage to get a more mature OS for the low end touchscreens aswell after the mega BADA OS launch is done with.
In other news it is also confirmed that Samsung GT-S8500 would be the first smartphone to support USB 3.0 & bluetooth 3.0 which has just been cleared by the Bluetooth SIG. Another full touchscreen with a 3.1″ OLED display the S8500 might well be one of the BADA OS releases at MWC. Exciting stuff happening from Samsung, hope they live up to the hype.
Categories: Tech Industry News, rumor, samsung |
Tags: bada, bada os, mwc, mwc 2010, s8500, samsung, samsung bada review, samsung mwc, samsung s8200, smartphone, usb 3, usb 3.0 phone | 1 Comment
February 1st, 2010
Samsung is leaving no stone unturned in the battle of the smartphones, leaving Nokia and others a real uphill task in the touchscreen race. Having sold 40 million touch phones in 2009 alone, Samsung has enough wisdom to know what really sells. Someone hunting for a Rs 8000 – Rs 12000 touchscreen smartphone isn’t a power user and the Samsung Corby / Star range suits them just perfectly. The iPhone wannabes if you can call them (and there isn’t any shame in being one); love the freedom of memory cards, ringtones, bluetooth file transfer, better camera with flash, cheaper price etc. The latest addition to the low end touchscreen from Samsung is the Star Superb (S5560). Bundling WiFi, 5MP camera, full touchscreen and a compact design at a price point of mere Rs 11,000 (<$250) is pretty much a success formula. IMO this one certainly kills the Nokia 5530 and even gives the 5800 a run for its money.
The Star Superb is basically a Corby design with the finishing of a Samsung Star. Confused? (more…)
Categories: Reviews, samsung, smartphones |
Tags: buy, buy samsung star, review, samsng india, samsung, samsung star, samsung star review, samsung superb india, star, star superb, superb | 36 Comments
January 27th, 2010
Amazon UK has started taking pre-orders for four new Samsung digital cameras. Although three of these (HZ35W, CL80 and NX10) were officially announced by Samsung earlier, their release date and pricing were not known until now. The fourth (WB2000) is a 10MP digital camera which has been leaked by Amazon UK. WB2000 has not been announced officially till date. The release date, pricing and specifications of the four are given below. (more…)
Categories: Cameras, samsung |
Tags: amazon, CL80., hz35w, nx10, samsung, samsung digital camera, wb2000 | 2 Comments
January 16th, 2010
The much awaited Samsung C3510 has been officially released by Samsung Russia today also referred to as Samsung Genoa in Europe. This is a cheaper and toned down version of Samsung Corby S3650 in features.
Bundled with a 1.3 mp camera and only 30 MB of internal memory (expandable upto 8GB with a MicroSD card) they are calling it the ‘finger friendly one touch mobile‘. It also has features like Multi Instant Messenger, 3.5 mm jack with DNSe sound technology, 2.8 inch QVGA resistive multitouch screen and so on.
(more…)
Categories: Announcements, Launch Pad, samsung, smartphones |
Tags: corby, corby pop, pop, samsung, samsung c3510, samsung corby pop, samsung genoa | No Comments
January 7th, 2010
CES 2010 has witnessed launch of some cool gadgets and some weird ones as well. Samsung’s Transparent Laptop falls in the latter category. Well, it’s basically a (prototype of) giant 14-inch see-through AMOLED display laptop, which makes Samsung XPERIA Pureness look totally worthless.
Transparency factor is about 40% (when it is off). Resolution is 960 X 540, but the colors look pleasantly vibrant because of (more…)
Categories: First look, Notebook / Laptops, Weird or not?, samsung |
Tags: ces 10, ces 2010, samsung, samsung transparent laptop, transparent laptop, weird gadgets | 5 Comments
January 4th, 2010
Samsung has unveiled yet another Android phone for the Chinese market. The Samsung i899 has been officially announced by the Samsung China wmkmebsite. The CDMA phone would be available with China Telecom. Like the Galaxy, it centers on a 3.2-inch AMOLED display but uses an older, less costly resistive touchscreen instead of the capacitive found on the Galaxy and Behold II.
The specifications of the phone are (more…)
Categories: Android, Launch Pad, samsung |
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December 28th, 2009
It may be getting into headlines more often for its cellphones (especially the never-ending Corby range) but Samsung is busy in other fields too. It recently gave us a glimpse of its latest digital camera – the CL80 and we were not just intrigued – heck, we were downright impressed.
The reason for our jaws doing the dropping act was not just gravity. Or even the specs on the new Sammy clicker. All right, 14 megapixels, 7x optical zoom, 31 mm wide angle lens, 720 dp HD recording and HDMI connectivity are not to be sneezed at, but at the most, they would elicit a raise of the ‘umble eyebrow. What sent ours scurrying into our scalps was the fact that the device comes with a bigger than usual 3.7 inch display. And it ain’t an ordinary display – it is AMOLED. It is a touchscreen. And a capacitive (read “iPhone type”) one at that. With haptic feedback!
And we are not through (more…)
Categories: Cameras, Tech Industry News, samsung |
Tags: CL80., digital camera future, review, samsung, samsung cl80, samsung cl80 review | 2 Comments
December 20th, 2009
Seems like Samsung has realised that selling 50million touchscreens won’t help in the long run if the OS on the phone is crappy. The recent Samsung phone like the Star series and the Corby series are advertised heavily with integrated FB, Twitter and Orkut. But the reality is that using any of these services or even plain internet on the Corby/Star browser is a PAIN. So here comes the solution from Samsung: Bada OS. Instead of sticking to the known names like Android, Symbian or Windows Mobile; Samsung has decided to walk the tough path like (more…)
Categories: Softwares, samsung, smartphones |
Tags: bada os, mobile os, open source os, os, samsung, samsung bada | 2 Comments
December 10th, 2009
Secured by brushed metallic or beige epoxy casing the next-gen memory cards unveiled by Samsung are made with the view of 2012 in mind 
. These CF / SD cards can withstand 1.6 tons of weight, can go underwater for 24hours and even withstand magnetic force upto 13 times more than what we see in a home theater system. And at the same time remain compatible with standard memory card slots.
The SD card (& microSD) are available in 4,8 and 16GB versions & can read at speeds ranging 17MB/s. On the other hand the CF cards can do 45MB/s read speeds and available in 4 or 8GB. The cards are immediately available in France, Germany and UK. Global roll-out should follow in the coming days. (more…)
Categories: First look, Tech Industry News, samsung |
Tags: buy samsung shock proof, memory cards, samsung, samsung memory cards, water proof memory cards | 10 Comments
December 6th, 2009
Samsung is on a roll with the ‘need-only-tech’ working fabulously for the Korean consumer electronics giant. The Star and original Corby did well and Samsung has officially announced that it has sold over 50 million touchscreen mobiles till date, and 40 million of those were in 2009 alone.
Corby TXT and Corby S3653
The recently launched Corby TXT is another low cost trendy phone that looks to cash in on the non-business youth market. The Corby TXT has curves very similar to the original Corby but it replaces the touchscreen with a physical QWERTY keypad. The attempt here is to cash in on the business looks of a Blackberry, mix it with some fashion and target the youth. Here is a quick look at the Corby TXT features: (more…)
Categories: Reviews, smartphones |
Tags: corbi txt, corby, corby txt, corby txt india buy price, corby txt review india, samsung, samsung corbi txt, samsung corby, samsung corby txt review | 17 Comments
November 16th, 2009
Samsung Corby has certainly done great with a reasonably priced (actually really well priced) product that gives the right blend of style and features for the massed. It may rightly be called the poor man’s iPhone and perhaps the cheapest phone with a capacitive touchscreen out there currently. Seeing the great reception of the Coby handset (and the cheap touchscreens in general); Samsung has gone ahead and announced a funky Corby branded bluetooth headset (WE490).
Featuring noise reduction, echo cancellation, and auto volume control these Corby bluetooth headsets come in bright colours with changeable panels just like the phone. Expected to cost $45 this is the right accessory for your little Corby.
Categories: Accessories, Wireless Gadgets, samsung |
Tags: bluetooth headset, corby, corby mate, mate, samsung, samsung corby, samsung WE490, WE490 | 14 Comments
October 17th, 2009
(Don’t miss the video!!) We have been hearing about foldable and flexible displays for some time now, and a couple of the early manufacturers to showcase the displays were HP and ASU. But Samsung has us all excited with this demo video of a 2.8″ OLED display prototype, which is just 20 micrometer thick and takes some hammering (literally!) with a smile.
Video link below.. (more…)
Categories: Future WIP, Videos, samsung |
Tags: flexible display, lcd, oled display, prototype, samsung, samsung foldable, unbreakable lcd | No Comments
September 30th, 2009
We recently had a chance to mess with two new Android devices, the Samsung Galaxy i7500 and the HTC Hero. Although on the surface, these two seem rather alike (3.2 inch capacitive touchscreens, Android 1.5, 5 MP shooter, GPS with compass), no two devices could be more different. And no, we are not yammering about the fact that the Galaxy has more onboard memory (8GB to the Hero’s relatively modest 500-odd MB) or that it has an OLED screen or that its camera has a flash, but about the interface.
Whereas Sammy has opted to let the Galaxy have the typical Android device look (complete with analog clock), HTC has decided to be far more innovative and thrown a skin over it. Called Sense, the UI is the successor of the much-hyped Touch Flo, and is certainly a heckuva differentiator. Unlike some manufacturers who just use skins to accommodate larger and more finger-friendly icons (these are the stylus’ last days, after all), HTC have made Sense something that adds to the Android experience. Instead of three customisable screens, the user gets a massive seven. Most significantly, the browser and the album have been tweaked to accommodate multi-touch – so you can zoom in and out of pages by pinching your fingers just like you can on (more…)
Categories: Android, HTC, Reviews, samsung, smartphones |
Tags: Android, Galaxy, Hero, HTC, htc hero vs samsung i7500, i7500, samsung, samsung android | 9 Comments
August 9th, 2009
Samsung is taking some serious efforts to cater to the needs of the people concerned about the environment and to the growing needs of more environment friendly products. The company has recently launched an environment friendly mobile handset, dubbed the Reclaim. The eco-friendly handset is made from 80% recyclable material and would be available with Sprint.
Samsung makes use of corn and other bio-materials to make the handset’s outer casing and other parts. Even the images and text on the box and the warranty card are made from soy-ink. The charger is no doubt Energy Star rated which ensures the highest energy standards set by U.S. Energy Department. As if the rating was not enough, the charger consumes (more…)
Categories: Launch Pad, Tech Industry News, samsung |
Tags: $50 phone, bio phone, corn phone, eco friendly, samsung, samsung reclaim, samsung SPH-M560, SPH-M560 | 3 Comments
August 7th, 2009
Now thats really cheap! According to NYTimes Samsung plans to launch ‘multiple’ ‘touchscreen’ Android phones costing less than $100 by next year.
While we already see tones of Chinese iPhone clones selling for $50-$75, it will be interesting to see what Samsung has to offer with an Android at that price. All we know is these phones will allow full internet browsing. This announcement comes along with the launch of eco-friendly Samsung Reclaim which is a $50 phone made of ‘corn’.
Via Mobile Crunch
Categories: Android, samsung |
Tags: $100 android, Android, samsung, samsung android | 1 Comment
