In a world filled with tech spies, you’re gonna get the occasional obligatory spy shot. This is the latest. Apparently, this is the Samsung Propel Pro and it arrives with some pro-level features. Stuff like Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard, an optical joystick, 3G, and presumably a camera.

That’s about all we know at the moment, but we hear that the QWERTY keyboard is decent. Nothing on a release date or pricing. Looks pretty decent.

With the poor global economy making demand for DRAM greatly reduced and many DRAM companies facing the very real prospect of going bankrupt, it may seem surprising that Samsung is announcing a new DRAM chip onto an already flooded market. Yet, it has announced new DRAM with new features.

Samsung has announced what it claims to be the world’s first 4Gb DDR3 DRAM chip that is built using 50nm construction process. The low-power DDR3 DRAM is intended to enable a new generation of green servers, workstations, and notebook computers.

If you happen to be looking for a slim desktop PC and also live in Korea, you might want to check out Samsung’s latest. A trio of MagicStation desktops with some decent specs in a stylish shell.

The thinnest of them all is the DM-X100 which, along with the others, is fully configurable, and apparently comes loaded with a 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo processor, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M graphics, 3GB of RAM, and a 320GB hard drive in its standard configuration. We don’t have any word on when they might be released here, but those in Korea can pick all three up now.

For a long time one of the things that had people upgrading to new handsets was an integrated camera. Camera phones today are so common that the sole addition of a camera isn’t a draw to one handset over another.

However, the vast majority of camera phones on the market share something in common – horrible performance for taking images. Even the iPhone has a bad camera that often takes grainy and dark images. For mobile phone users looking for a handset with great picture quality the coming Samsung i8510 may be just what they need.

There are many strange world records in the Guinness’ Book of World Records. All sorts of things from the longest fingernails to the fastest text message are recorded in the book. Samsung has held an attempt to set a world text message record using its handsets.

The record attempt has a wrinkle from existing text messaging records though; the attempt was for the fastest text message while skydiving. Samsung provided a team of ten professional skydivers with some of its specialized messaging handsets and tossed them out of a plane at 12,000 feet.

The latest blurry photos to surface are these two hazy pics that supposedly show-off a T-Mobile Samsung destined for the US. The alleged big brother to the Samsung Behold reportedly features an 8 megapixel camera. Tmo News is also reporting that it’s going to run on Touchwiz, the same UI as the Behold, and that it’s being called the Memoir.

It’s not a smartphone as the Touchwiz interface doesn’t have the flash and whiz-bang of Android or OSX, so don’t expect wifi. But that’s just what people are guessing. 3G is expected, along with a full html browser. Nobody knows for sure.

Samsung has a brand new luxury cellphone in the Samsung Ego GT-S9402. The body of this handset is made of a “liquidmetal” composite alloy developed by Caltech, which is said to be three times stronger and can withstand 1.8 times the pressure, 1.6 time more flexible then, with three times better vibration absorption, and 100% lower termal conductivity then titanium. That’s quite a claim.

The Ego GT-S9402 is a DuoS phone that works with 2 SIM cards. Some other features include 2 inch 262K color QVGA AMOLED display, 5MP camera (with autofocus, image stabilization, smile detection, WDR and LED flash), an FM Radio with RDS, 1 GB of built-in memory, microSDHC memory card slot (up to 8 GB), Bluetooth 2.0 and USB, and 960 mAh battery.

Most kids these days own a mobile phone and Samsung wants a piece of that action. The Toby or S3030 is targeting pre-teens and young adults. Tobi features unique GUI themes with animated characters, such as Monster theme, Snowman theme and Ocean World theme. The backside cover is changeable with a see-through protective sleeve, so a photo can be placed there. The phone will be available in six colors, Sweet Pink, Loyal Blue, Apple Green, Bright Orange, Oasis Blue and Snow Silver.

The safety features in the phone include SOS Call, SOS Message and Fake Call, allowing access to family members and friends in emergencies. Samsung’s Tobi is made from recyclable and biodegradable bio-plastic and has non-toxic paints and non-allergic materials. Even the earphone is made eco-friendly without any polyvinyl chloride. It will be available in Italy and UK this month and then other European countries, CIS, and China later this year.

Samsung has released a new Samsung PIXON M8800 8MP camera phone, known as the Samsung Bresson. The handset will be available on November 10th, 2008 for about 550 euros. The camera phone features a built-in GPS receiver, built-in accelerometer, DivX playback, and supports quad-band GSM and tri-band HSDPA. Some other features include a 3.2-inch touchscreen display (240 x 400 pixels), 8MP camera with auto focus, face recognition, smile detection and blink detection.

Samsung’s showing off at the FPD International 2008 show, with a 4-inch, ultra-thin 0.05-mm OLED with 480 x 272 pixel resolution, 100,000:1 contrast, 200cd/m2 brightness. So thin mind you, that it was displayed flapping in the wind. Then they showed off a transparent AMOLED display. The color reproduction range is 100% of the NTSC standard. Take that you other anorexic displays. In order to achieve this thickness, Samsung etched an OLED panel that uses a normal glass substrate. The drive circuit was made by low-temperature polysilicon TFTs.

For some users a smart phone is overkill. All some people want is the ability to send text messages and make phone calls. For this type of user, a fancy smartphone with word processing and other functions isn’t particularly appealing.

AT&T has announced a new Samsung handset called the Propel that is designed with the text user in mind. The phone has a full QWERTY keyboard in a vertical sliding design. Multiple color options are available and the handset can do email and offers 3G connectivity.

Now that HD DVD is dead, the Blu-ray player is pretty much a commodity item. Player manufacturers are looking for anything they can get to differentiate their players from the competition in the market. Samsung announced a partnership with Netflix today that will help make Samsung Blu-players more interesting.

The Samsung BD-P2500 and BD-P2550 Blu-ray players will be able to stream Netflix movies instantly from the Internet to Netflix subscribers. In addition to a catalog of 12,000 movies, Netflix also offers TV shows.

Samsung and AT&T have made it official. The i907 Epix looks nice and features Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, 3.6Mbps HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth, 2-megapixel cam, AGPS with AT&T Navigator, Video Share support, 320 x 320 2.5-inch touchscreen display, and an “optical mouse” for some reason. You can get it now for $99.99 on a two-year contract. One thing that you definitely notice about this one is the extra screen real estate that could have been…If not for the overly large area that displays the AT&T logo. Otherwise, it looks good.

Samsung has rolled out another stylish notebook that looks attractive and is also slim and fairly lightweight at 1.9kg despite packing in a 6-cell battery that will give you juice for 5 hours. It also offers a larger 14.1-inch (1280 x 800) screen and comes in at just 1.2-inches thick. Features an Intel Centrino 2 with up to 4GB of RAM, up to a 320GB HDD, Super Multi Drive DVD burner with LightScribe, nVIDIA GeForce Go 9200M GS chipset for gaming, 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, gigabit ethernet, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, a 7-in-1 card reader, and HDMI output. And if you are into that sort of thing you even get an anti-bacterial keyboard will keep you healthy. No price or availability yet. Sure looks sexy.

It doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense, but just after Samsung announced new Blu-Ray players, Andy Griffiths of Samsung UK made this comment: “I think it [Blu-Ray] has 5 years left, I certainly wouldn’t give it 10.”

Griffiths didn’t speculate on what might replace Blu-Ray, but maybe they know something we don’t. Or Samsung might just think that video downloads will be the future. Whatever the case, the comments don’t exactly make you want to rush out and buy a Samsung Blu-Ray player. Or any Blu-Ray player.