Sprint and Samsung today announced that its joint-venture wireless infrastructure, better known as WiMAX, is ready for service. This comes after years of scrutiny against Sprint for basically fucking everything up along the way. Still, mistakes aside, WiMAX looks to bring a new generation of high-bandwidth web surfing to our laptops. Have you missed out on WiMAX news in the ...
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Samsung KDDI Japan to launch AMOLED phones
Samsung has announced plans to release a line of phones through KDDI Japan which will have AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode) displays. This technology has been in the works by various companies, yet this is the first of these phones being mass-produced, going beyond the concept stage. Japan always gets lucky with this cool new technology, though once ...
Read More »Samsung Concept PC times three
Samsung released pictures of three new concept PCs they’ve got in the works and they are pretty out of this world. No specs yet, and frankly, I don’t even think Samsung knows yet. Talk about conceptual. The one pictured above looks like a cross between a UFO and a witch’s hat. We don’t even know what to think about these. ...
Read More »It’s raining Samsung phones in Second Life
As if you are not sick of Samsung’s propaganda in real life yet, the company is opening an island on the online virtual space Second Life to promote their phones. And since Samsung was trying to tell us how thin those phones they developed with Softbank were, they got this phone-raining effect on. If you would like to use these ...
Read More »Red Samsung K3, just another colored case
Valentine’s Day affects even the techlogy market. You wouldn’t think that companies would put too much effort into having special products for this holiday, but you’d be wrong. Samsung has just released their nice PMP, the K3, in Red (looks kinda pink). Samsung has changed no features for this new red edition. None. The casing is just red. So as ...
Read More »Samsung’s revolutionary Ultra Smart F700 might be the iPhone killer
Samsung announced its latest addition to their Ultra line of phones with the Ultra Smart F700. Or as we like to call it, the only phone we’ve seen with the potential to be the iPhone killer. The phone will be displayed at the 3GSM World Congress. The F700 has a pretty looking touchscreen, which happens to be very iPhone-esque. Samsung ...
Read More »Samsung SCH-B680 springs to Korea in Spring
Samsung’s announcement for this new addition to the Korean market in the Spring, the SCH-B680, looks pretty slick. It’s available in both black and white and has a checkered style number pad which is a pretty nice looking design feature. The SCH-B680 comes with DMB, an integrated MP3 player, a 1.3 megapixel camera, and M-Bank. M-bank is some sort of ...
Read More »Samsung releases single platter 60GB hard drive
Perpendicular magnetic recording has allowed for some major breakthroughs in hard drive capacity as of late. Next in line: Samsung’s SpinPoint N series. What makes it so important is that it is the first single platter 1.8-inch hard drive to reach the 60GB capacity. The SpinPoint N series will have 4 tiers of storage: 20/30/40/60GB. While a single platter 60GB ...
Read More »Samsung partners Swarovski, more anorexic phones: thinnest WCDMA candybar, thinnest DMB slider, thinnest HSDPA folder
Samsung is one huge attention seeker. Today they presented 3 new phones for Softbank Japan, the 8.4mm thin W-CDMA 708SC candybar that looks like the GSM 820, but the screen is upped to 240×320 landscape (from 176×220), microSD slot is added and now supports up to 2GB. Camera is still at 2MP, but a subcamera for video conference is added. ...
Read More »Samsung set to beat their own record with the anorexic 10.9mm slider and 5.9mm candybar
Just when you thought it was the furthest they could go when Samsung started selling the 12.9mm slider and 6.9mm candybar last year, Samsung has managed to shred another mm in their labs. And at CES this year, they’re set to announce the new Ultra 10.9 and 5.9. The slider retains the 3MP camera, QVGA screen and microSD slot on ...
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