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Samsung invest millions into Fusion-io SSD specialists

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 21st 2009 No Comments

Samsung have invested "millions" of dollars into SSD storage firm Fusion-io, with the two companies looking to work more closely on solid-state memory applications in future. Fusion-io are responsible for a range of SSDs that slot into a desktop PCI slot rather than using a SATA channel. While not usually intended for use as a primary, e.g. boot drive, they make for incredibly fast serving of data: the ioDrive Duo, for instance, offers 1.28TB of storage and read rates of up to 1,500MB/sec.

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DIY Samsung Q1UP Android 1.6 UMPC

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Oct 20th 2009 No Comments

Android is slowly but surely appearing on a number of UMPCs and MIDs, but if you actually want to buy one – as opposed to just read about it – your options are still pretty limited. Over at jkOnTheRun our friend Kevin C. Tofel’s patience has expired and so he’s loaded Android 1.6 onto his Samsung Q1UP UMPC, courtesy of the Android-x86 project.

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Samsung i5700 Spica gets video demo

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 19th 2009 No Comments

The Samsung i5700 Spica (aka Galaxy Lite) may still be some way off – early 2010, in fact, if the rumors are to be believed – but that hasn’t stopped some pre-production units arriving into hands early. ai.rs have managed to acquire a device and, after masking what we’re assuming is a carrier logo, have made a video preview.

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Video demo after the cut

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MetroPCS Samsung Code SCH-i220 lands with WinMo 6.1… wait, 6.1?

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 19th 2009 1 Comment

There are times when a press release makes you do a double-take, and MetroPCS‘ this morning has prompted just that momentary disbelief. You’re looking at the Samsung Code SCH-i220, the first Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone on the MetroPCS network; yes, while everyone else is getting up to speed with Windows Mobile 6.5, MetroPCS are taking time out to celebrate their first device running the superseded OS.

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Samsung unveils line of consumer memory cards in Taiwan

By Shane McGlaun on Friday, Oct 16th 2009 No Comments

Samsung has its fingers into just about every category of electronics that you can think of from TVs to computers, and LCDs with lots more stuff thrown in between. The company announced today that it was entering into the consumer memory card market for the first time.

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Samsung LD220G and LD190N seamless laptop displays make it out of Korea

By Shane McGlaun on Friday, Oct 16th 2009 No Comments

Back in February, the Samsung LD220 and LD190 laptop monitors tipped up for launch in Korea. We wondered at the time if they would ever come to the US. Today Samsung has announced that the LD220G and LD190N laptop companion LCDs are being released in the US. The devices are now available at all leading Samsung retailers.

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Samsung i5700 Galaxy Lite caught in wild again

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 15th 2009 No Comments

It feels like its been a long time since we last saw the Samsung i5700 Android phone, the so-called Galaxy Lite the company are positioning as an entry level counterpart to the i7500, and in fact the last we did see was a non-functional store model. So we’re glad that the 3-inch AMOLED touchscreen handset has shown up again, this time fully functional and in the hands of Cellularmania.

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Samsung STORY Station is first external HDD to meet new standby power rules for Europe

By Shane McGlaun on Thursday, Oct 15th 2009 No Comments

We first heard of the Samsung STORY Station back in April when the external storage solution first debuted. Samsung has now announced that the storage solution is the first to offer reduced standby power levels and meet the coming European Union EuP Directive for Standby Regulation due to go into effect in January 2010.

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Samsung and Amazon announce streaming video on demand for select Samsung TVs

By Shane McGlaun on Thursday, Oct 15th 2009 No Comments

samsung7000ledtv sg Streaming video rentals are growing significantly and many think that the future of movie rentals and purchases may be streaming digital formats. Samsung and Amazon announced today that they two have teamed up to provide users of certain Samsung HDTVs streaming access to the Amazon VoD library.

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Samsung unveils 55-inch 240Hz 3D 1080p TV

By Shane McGlaun on Wednesday, Oct 14th 2009 No Comments

I have said it before, I am looking forward to watching 3D movies and TV shows in my home, but the caveat is that the 3D has to look good. I’m talking movie theater caliber 3D, not that junk like NBC pulled on Chuck. I have already talked about a Panasonic 3D HDTV a few weeks back that was unveiled. Today Samsung is back with its own 3D HDTV.

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