While LG is still sticking to support HD-DVD with combo player, Samsung has decided to abandon its second generation Dual-Format Blu-Ray and HD-DVD combo player. The BD-UP5500 was announced in CES 2008 and scheduled to release around the second-half of 2008 to replace the BD-UP-5000.
Samsung have, for the moment at least, taken the title of “industry’s fastest DVD burner” with their Super-WriteMaster SH-S223 drive. Capable of writing to all DVD formats, the SH-S223 burns at 22x speed to DVD±R media, 12x to DVD-RAM, 16x to DVD+R dual layer, 12x DVD-R dual layer, 8x DVD+RW and 6x DVD-RW. Over-speed burning [...]
As desktop-replacement laptops increase in popularity, 2.5-inch hard-drives are being asked to step up to the expectations set by their bigger 3.5-inch cousins. Samsung’s latest Spinpoint MP2 disk does just that, scoring on both capacity - 250GB - and speed - 7,200rpm - to satisfy a demand for 2.5-inch drives that research firm IDC predicts [...]
Lenovo’s much-vaunted ThinkPad X300 is being hailed in some circles as the ultraportable to oust the MacBook Air, and a major chunk of its charm is the use of a Solid State Drive (SSD) rather than a traditional drive that can be subject to knocks and jolts. Samsung provided the SATA II SSD used, with [...]
Samsung is shipping the world’s first 2.5” 500GB notebook HDD starting today. Sure there have been other notebook hard drives released recently with a similar capacity, but those were 3.5” drives, this is yet another amazing feat accomplished by Samsung, the giant of the CE and Mobile industries.
It depresses me slightly to see a mobile phone that is in a clamshell form factor and has a larger external screen that the internal one on my clamshell. But, I guess that’s how Samsung rolls, go big or go home.
The 802.11 addition is there to complement the HSDPA WWAN connection that is also built in. You also get a 2.6-inch QVGA display, a 3.2MP camera with AF and flash, and GPS.
Samsung has launched its 3D Ready Plasma TV Cannes 450 in Korean Market. Like TI DLP-3D Dualview technology, the Samsung PAVV Cannes 450 is just another 3D Ready display that requires particular glasses, software or hardware to support 3D content. But for Samsung, the Cannes 450 is industry first Plasma TV with 3D capability and [...]
Samsung showcased the giant 82-inch SyncMaster LCD display 820DXn back in SEK 2007, and today they announces the immediate availability of its largest and most powerful large format LCD display at 2008 Digital Signage Expo.
Look at the glory that is the Sprint Ace, really it’s just a BlackJack that looks a little different and uses CDMA and EVDO instead of whatever AT&T uses. Sure, I know, it looks a little different too, and that kind of makes since, they have managed to fit all the same features in a [...]