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Samsung Galaxy R smartphone sports Nvidia Tegra CPU
Samsung and Nvidia have announced they’re extending their technology partnership from tablets to smartphones, today announcing the Galaxy R smartphone, a new entry in Samsung’s well-regarded Galaxy line that will sports a 4.19-inch display, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and the same dual-core Nvidia Tegra processor that powers Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1. The addition of the Tegra [...]
Apple Raises The Stakes In Patent Battle With Samsung
Apple has amended its existing complaint against Samsung over intellectual property-rights violations, removing a few infringement claims but adding many more. FOSS Patents’ Florian Mueller thinks the action is in response to Samsung’s requests to see samples of the upcoming iPhone 5 and iPad 3 ahead not only of their release but also of official [...]
Samsung, RealD To License New 3D Technology
Samsung and 3D company RealD are teaming up to license a new, full-resolution 3D technology to consumer electronics makers, the companies announced today. Discussed at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year, the new technology promises better and brighter image quality. The technology brings active shutter functionality to the display, which alternates content viewing between [...]
Global 3D TV Market To Grow 5-Fold In 2011: iSuppli
The global 3D television market will grow more than 5-fold to account for 11 percent of flat-screen TV sales this year, as prices fall sharply and manufacturers add the function as an add-on feature, research firm IHS iSuppli predicted on Friday. It projected 3D TV shipments would rise to 23.4 million units this year from [...]
ODROID-A tablet fits 1366 x 768 res on a 10-inch screen, dual-core Exynos inside transparent shell
Samsung might not have quite enough Exynos 4210 processors to sell a tablet of its own based on that Cortex-A9 dual-core beastie, but it’s found a few to hand over to Korean partner Hardkernel for this ODROID-A reference platform. It’s strictly a dev kit, and as such is unlikely to find its way to your [...]
Samsung Star II Officially Introduced, Coming Soon to Germany
Spotted last week, the Samsung Star II has been officially announced by the Korean manufacturer and will be available in February. The feature-phone will be initially released in Germany, followed soon by other European countries, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), South America, India and the Middle East. The successor of the original Samsung Star, which [...]
Samsung thinks about putting touchscreen on a tablet’s back
Now that Apple showed how a real tablet device should look and work, everyone else is scrambling to make their own tablet that will be at least on par with the iPad. Samsung is no stranger here, and has already confirmed that it will have an Android tablet ready for market this fall. We’ve even [...]
Samsung births another Wi-Fi-enabled digicam
Samsung announced the ST80, a 14-megapixel ultracompact digital camera with a 3x optical zoom, a 3-inch touch-screen LCD, and built-in Wi-Fi. The ST80 joins the company’s other Wi-Fi-enabled camera, the CL80, on my list of “I’ll believes it when I sees it” Wi-Fi-enabled cameras. The camera comes equipped with an account for mobile hot-spot provider [...]
Samsung’s E10 shoots all-around in full HD
Samsung’s new HMX-E10 minicamcorder captures 1,080p resolution video at 30 frames per second in H.264 format. The camcorder has a 2.7-inch touch screen that splits in half when you hold it vertically; the top half is for framing your video and the bottom half has the controls. With the camcorder, Samsung includes the requisite flip-out [...]
Samsung’s Kinda Crazy Dual Screen Shooters for Serious Profile Pics Get Slightly Crazier
Camera like the ST100 and ST600 are why people love Samsung: The front-facing LCD screen, designed for self portraits, has ballooned to 1.8 inches for more precise framing of perfectly mopey Facebook profile photos. Both of them also have 14.2-megapixel sensors, 3.5-inch touchscreens and 720p video. The ST600 has a wider lens, starting at 27mm [...]