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Samsung Instinct, the iPhone’s Closest Competitor

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

On June 20th Sprint is set to announce the iPhone’s closest competitor: The Samsung Instinct. The Instinct offers the same approach to a phone device that the iPhone made popular: slapping a myriad of features into a “slab” touch-screen design but wrapping all that functionality with an intuitive design. The Instinct is bringing all the usual suspects [...]

UPDATE: Samsung LNT-xx71f Dead Pixel Panel Replacement

Monday, June 16, 2008

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You might have caught our coverage at the end of May of the seeming problem Samsung was having with their LNT-xx71f (LNT-5271F specifically) panels having dead pixels popup out of the clear blue after a few months of use. One of the readers, TiVoHD, pointed out that it’s a known issue and referred to as “delamination”. [...]

Momail Announces Support for 3G iPhone and Samsung Omnia

Thursday, June 12, 2008

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Momail has announced support for the upcoming 3G iPhone and Samsung Omnia releases. For the folks fuzzy on what Momail does, it more or less acts as a super mobile-mail-service in that all the receiving, delivery and sending of mail is optimized around the “mobile device” environment you are on. That includes respecting multiple sender addresses [...]

Samsung L870 - Symbian OS + Safari Mobile Browser

Thursday, May 29, 2008

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Details have popped up showing that the Samsung L870 is actually a Symbian S60 smartphone, slider form factor using (get this) the Apple Safari Mobile Browser. Yea… not WebKit, but specifically Safari Mobile… go figure. Here are the specs for anyone waiting on a new slider that want the “real web” on a 2.4″ QVGA screen [...]

Samsung LNT5271F - Rows of Dead Pixels… Twice

Thursday, May 29, 2008

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I wouldn’t normally post about LCD HDTVs having dead pixels, it happens. The issue here is that Chris Hunkele sent in news that the Samsung LNT5271F he bought from Amazon is having problems… again. A few months ago Chris bought the Samsung LNT5271F from Amazon (still one of the highest rated HDTVs on there) when it [...]

New Samsung SSD: 100 MB/sec Write, 120 MB/sec Read

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

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FastSilicon has the scoop on Samsung announcing their new ultra-fast, ultra-low energy 64GB SSDs (Solid State Drives). We have covered SSD development quite a bit in the past, including the sometimes lack-luster performance. It’s true that in some cases the drives can perform pretty phenomenally (0.1ms seek times for example) but some of the read/write numbers [...]

Samsung 40″ 1080p (0.4 Thick) LCD TV

Monday, October 22, 2007

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Engadget has the scoop on Samsung’s newest “omfgkthxbaibbq” entry into the LCD market. It goes on display at FPD in Japan next week, but until then let’s swoon over the stats: 10-mm (0.39-inch) thin 40-inch LED-backlit 1080p Resolution Covers 92% of the NTSC color gamut Consumes less than 90 watts of power So *this* is what is going to happen to [...]

JD Power HDTV Awards

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

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Winners are: Sony BRAVIA: LCD Category Pioneer: Plasma Category Samsung: DLP Category I’d say my additions to that list are: Sharp AQUOS: LCD Category Panasonic: Plasma Category Mitsubishi/Sony: DLP Category Keeping in mind that the JD Power and Associates award is based on usage and user satisfaction ratings as they responded to the survey. So these are good things. Sort of like a [...]

Sharp LC-52D92U or Samsung LN-T5265F

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

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OR For anyone in the market for a new HDTV, and has zeroed in on getting an LCD TV you are likely having this connundrum right now… do you get the Sharp LC-52D92U or the Samsung LN-T5265F? If you decide to start your search by Googling for all Sharp reviews, then all Samsung reviews you [...]

Samsung Announces HD-DVD/Blu-ray Player

Friday, April 13, 2007

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It’s official, Samsung has announced a dual-format HD media player: BD-UP5000. This looks to be the first real dual-format player as the LG dual-format player was a Blu-ray player with HD-DVD play-only support tacked on, and didn’t support the true HD-DVD specification; which, like the Blu-ray spec, defines additional technologies like the HDi interactive language, [...]

Samsung T509 Sync Support

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

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Bah! So I got the Samsung T509 for my wife because it has Bluetooth support and I recently created a monster contact-list in my PDA that I wanted to transfer portions of over to her phone once she got it so she would be ready to rock and roll. As it turns out, the Bluetooth [...]

The Samsung Saga

Monday, January 22, 2007

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This is a great blog setup by this guy that has been, for 2 months, given the run-around by Samsung. It seems that he got a Samsung HPS-5073 that was dead on arrival, it just flickered strange images, a high pitched squeal and from what I could tell, wouldn’t display a picture: After calling his retailer right [...]

Laptop Model Numbers are Confusing

Friday, December 29, 2006

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I was looking around the web at some laptop’s from different manufacturers and while some are so clearly laid out from lowest to highest (Apple) others seemed to be named in a completely random fashion, making it impossible to tell a damn difference between them without seeing a side-by-side comparison matrix (Lenovo, Samsung). Are these companies [...]

Samsung HL-S7178W Pictures

Thursday, September 28, 2006

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Ok this one is for the Samsung lovers out there, ‘RayPaganJR‘ asked me to host these shots for him over on AVS and it was just too pretty of a setup not to share with all of you… notice the THX-ceritifed power amp, combined with the Samsung BluRay player and some hugely complex tuner… it [...]

What Does the Rainbow Effect (RBE) Look Like?

Friday, September 8, 2006

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A lot of folks are confused when you talk about the Rainbow Effect or RBE for short. They don’t quite know what you mean. I ran across this perfect example of it, take a look: It’s caused by single-chip devices trying to display Red/Green/Blue colors at the same time. Most rear project televisions use a color [...]

My Baby, the Samsung HL-S7178W

Tuesday, September 5, 2006

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It’s true, I love it, the Samsung HL-S7178W. I was reading through the AVS owners thread last night and came across some new posts with pictures and some interesting comments from our local professional calibrator, Eliab. We covered Eliab a little bit before with his suggested settings for this TV that will give it the [...]

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Samsung Instinct, the iPhone’s Closest Competitor

UPDATE: Samsung LNT-xx71f Dead Pixel Panel Replacement

Momail Announces Support for 3G iPhone and Samsung Omnia

Samsung L870 - Symbian OS + Safari Mobile Browser

Samsung LNT5271F - Rows of Dead Pixels… Twice

New Samsung SSD: 100 MB/sec Write, 120 MB/sec Read

Samsung 40″ 1080p (0.4 Thick) LCD TV

JD Power HDTV Awards

Sharp LC-52D92U or Samsung LN-T5265F

Samsung Announces HD-DVD/Blu-ray Player

Samsung T509 Sync Support

The Samsung Saga

Laptop Model Numbers are Confusing

Samsung HL-S7178W Pictures

What Does the Rainbow Effect (RBE) Look Like?

My Baby, the Samsung HL-S7178W

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