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8 notebooks quietly appear on Samsung India’s website

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  We had a fair amount of idea of what Samsung India was up to but we didn’t expect them to re-enter the market without creating any hoopla. Their website has listed eight notebooks including a netbook to appeal to the Indian consumers. The notebooks listed are NP-R460, NP-R610, NP-R508, NP-R510, NP-Q310E, NP-X360, NP-X460 and […]

Samsung India to start selling notebooks again

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  Samsung is a formidable player in the consumer electronics industry here in India but they have never been able to capitalize in the notebooks arena and thus had to pull out a few years back from the laptop business. However, today our source associated with Samsung’s Indian division dropped a word confirming that they […]

Samsung’s 256GB SSD enters mass production

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  As expected, Samsung has started the production of its 2.5-inch 256GB SSDs. The read/write rates also seem to increase from the previous 200/160 MB/sec to 220/200 MB/sec. Based on the multi-level cell (MLC) technology, Samsung claims the SSD to be as fast as a 15,000 RPM HDD without the “noise, size, power and heating […]

Samsung Gravity exclusively for T-Mobile users

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  Samsung will fulfill the dream of users looking for a QWERTY phone at a cheap price. The Gravity or in T-Mobile’s parlance, t459 offers a full QWERTY keyboard hidden beneath the screen and alphanumeric keyboard. As you would expect, there is nothing extraordinary over here except the goodness of QWERTY. T-Mobile will preload e-mail […]

Samsung Omnia becomes T*Omnia in Korea

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  Samsung Electronics in an exclusive collaboration with SK Telecom will soon be selling a modified version of Omnia in their homeland. It is weirdly named as T*Omnia which has the same hardware with some few worthy additions. The Korean variant sports a tad larger screen than the original, measuring 3.3-inch with a lovely WVGA […]

Samsung demonstrates 0.05mm thick OLED display

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  Samsung’s SDI division showed up their latest display creation to woo attendees at the FPD International 2008 Expo. They demonstrated a 0.05mm thick 4-inch OLED display hung in the air to make it flutter from the breeze. Samsung has named it as Flapping Display and it is so thin that even a light breeze […]

Samsung M8800 Pixon releasing soon

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  There has been a sudden spurt in the existence of 8 megapixel phones in the market. Though companies have always resorted to the megapixel count as the ultimate benchmark for best camera phone, Samsung wants to change this view by launching their M8800 Pixon phone this week in Europe. It has got almost every […]

There will be no SamDisk

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  Here’s a repetition of the Yahoo-Microsoft saga. Samsung officially announced their withdrawal of the hostile bid to buy SanDisk for the earlier price of $26 per share in cash. Samsung is obviously unhappy because the deal not going through and also more millions of dollars will be spent by them in the form of […]

Samsung prepares i7110 S60 handset

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  Samsung Electronics is adding one more phone to its sparse S60 portfolio. The i770 is currently being showcased at the Symbian Smartphone Show in London that has commenced from today. The phone runs Series 60 OS with Feature Pack 2 and boasts powerpacked features in a slim profile, 12.9mm to be precise. There’s a […]