Samsung Navibot vacuum cleaners

Posted in Samsung by Conner Flynn on March 11th, 2010

When you think robot vacuum cleaners, you tend to think Roomba, but they aren’t the only game in town. Samsung wants in on some of that floor cleaning dough too, with their Navibot vacuum cleaners, which come in Samsung Navibot SR8845 and Samsung Navibot SR8855 models.

These automated vacuum cleaners will clean up all of your floor junk as usual, but the more advanced Samsung Navibot SR8855 even sports touch sensitive buttons and an on board scheduler. The Virtual Guards feature creates an infrared virtual fence to help it prioritize cleaning zones. It will run for 90 minutes on a single battery charge.

Samsung’s Pink Beat R1 Media Player gets a price and date

Posted in Portable Meda Players by Conner Flynn on March 9th, 2010

Samsung has now priced their Beat R1 portable media player. It comes in two capacities, 8GB and 16GB, for $149.99 and $179.99. The device measures just 8.9mm thin and weighs 50 grams, allowing the R1 to be smaller than a credit card with a 2.6? LCD touchscreen display.

Some other features include an integrated FM radio and recorder, Bluetooth and it will last for up to 50 hours for audio playback or 4 hours for video. here’s also DivX support for video files, as well as Samsung’s Digital Natural Sound Engine (DNSe) 3.0 sound enhancement technology.

Samsung E6 e-reader hitting Barnes and Noble this spring for $299

Posted in ebooks by Conner Flynn on March 9th, 2010

We still don’t have a formal launch date for Samsung’s e-reader line that it launched at CES, but it will be sometime “this spring”. We do have some news about the six-inch E6 at the moment.

Samsung says the E6 will be $299 at launch. No news about the 10-inch E10 or the E61. Just that they “may be coming soon,”. The question is do you prefer the E6 over the Nook?

Samsung BD-C6500 Blu-ray Hands-on Review

Posted in Review by Darrin Olson on February 28th, 2010

Samsung BD-C6500 Blu-ray ReviewToday we were able to try out the Samsung BD-C6500 1080p Blu-ray player, one of Samsung’s latest line of players featuring high-definition video along with the Samsung Internet@TV. The new players do a good job of grasping onto the future of digital media by bring internet connectivity into the player and directly into your TV.

The BD-C6500 player features the ability to playback full Blu-ray 1080p HD video along with Dolby Digital sound and output it through HDMI, S-Video, Optical and 7.1 analog audio. What’s really interesting about this player however is it’s integration to the internet and online media.

Samsung LED 7000 and 8000 TVs get Skype

Posted in Samsung,Skype by Shane McGlaun on February 26th, 2010

Anger over the high price of Samsung 3D glasses aside, the firm makes some cool products. Samsung and Skype have announced that the Samsung LED 7000 and 8000 HDTVs are getting a new feature.

Skype video and voice calling has been added to the feature list in Korea already and will come to other parts of the world in the first half of 2010. To make video calls you will need the ISS FREETALK TV camera.

Shutter glasses for your 3D TV could cost $150

Posted in 3D by Conner Flynn on February 26th, 2010

Samsung is showing off their 3D TVs as well as the LCD shutter glasses you need to go with them. But if you are buying all the 3D hype, all of that gear is costing you tons of money and those glasses cost $150 a pair on top of all that other stuff.

Why so expensive? Well, shutter shades usually have a transmitter inside so that they can communicate with the TV, and a battery. Of course this is just one model. Maybe other Shutter glasses from Samsung will be cheaper.

Samsung Halo i8520 with Projector

Posted in Samsung by Conner Flynn on February 15th, 2010

Samsung has revealed its Android 2.1 powered projector/mobile phone. Just like the Wave, this one is jam packed with features, including Wi-Fi, GPS, DivX and XviD support for videos, a 3.5mm headphone jack, 16 Gigs of internal memory and an 8 megapixel camera.

There’s also a large 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen and along with the Android OS Samsung has a “Specialized Projector UI”. The handset is called the i8520 or the Halo. Expect it to hit Europe in Q3 of this year.

Samsung is working on a 10-inch Chrome OS netbook

Posted in Samsung by Conner Flynn on February 14th, 2010

We don’t have any pics or even a release date, but Samsung’s Phil Newton has confirmed that the company will be releasing a Chrome OS netbook later this year, according to a report by Channel News in Australia. The laptop will be similar to the N210(pictured) and feature a 10.1-inch screen, 3G, WiFi, 2GB of RAM, 64GB of flash storage and a 12 hour battery life.

Rumor is that it will also run a 1.5GHz Snapdragon processor. The netbook is supposed to be introduced later this year.

Samsung’s TicToc: Shake to change tracks

Posted in Samsung by Conner Flynn on February 10th, 2010

The Samsung TicToc is a motion sensing MP3 player. What’s interesting about this one is that it picks a slow song if shaken slowly and a fast one if it quickly shaken. It has a large button for power on and off, but if you press and hold the button when the player’s upside down the volume will go down. Do the opposite to increase the volume.

It comes in 2GB and 4GB capacities. It may not have a display, but the TicToc has more going on than the iPod Shuffle. Even if it does look girlly. It can play MP3, WMA, OGG and FLAC files for 12 hours before recharging.

Samsung announces S2 Portable HDD with Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT pre-loaded

Posted in Samsung by Shane McGlaun on February 8th, 2010

The number of external hard drives on the market is staggering. The drives can be had in a huge range of capacities and styles to match the needs of the end user. Many external hard drives with higher capacities are used to back up data from computers on a network and to store movies and other content.

Samsung has announced a new special edition of its S2 Portable hard drive. The drive has 500GB of storage space and will launch alongside the DVD and Blu-ray version of the Michael Jackson THIS IS IT film on February 22. The drive will have a digital copy of the movie pre-loaded.

Samsung eyes bringing transparent AMOLED screen notebook to market

Posted in Samsung by Shane McGlaun on February 5th, 2010


Nokia has a phone that has a clear screen that was all for looks. I don’t care for being able to see through a screen myself; the feature is more of a gimmick to me. I certainly don’t want to be able to see through the display of my notebook at what is going on behind me.

Samsung showed off a notebook with a transparent AMOLED screen a while back and the notebook was popular enough that reports are now coming in that Samsung plans to bring the notebook to market in the next 12 months. The machine will come with the clear AMOLED screen that will drive the ADD prone to be unproductive.

Samsung EcoGreen F3EG hard drive

Posted in Samsung by Conner Flynn on February 3rd, 2010

Everybody is either green already or going green. Samsung is no exception. Their latest EcoGreen F3EG hard drive comes with 2TB of storage space across four 500GB platters. It uses Samsung’s EcoTriangle technology that consists of eco-friendly components, low-power and low-noise operation technology.

It’s a drive that any Greenpeace member would want to use. Some other environmentally friendly features of the Samsung EcoGreen F3EG hard drive include the elimination of a halogen compound and brominated flame retardant from the PCBA, eco-friendly materials used during production and a 0% failure rate in unstable voltage environment tests. It has a 3.0 Gbps SATA interface, Native Command Queuing features and 16MB/32MB buffer memory.

Samsung unveils 2TB EcoGreen F3EG HDD

Posted in Samsung by Shane McGlaun on February 2nd, 2010

Hard drives are growing in performance and storage capacity every day. While they are getting more storage, the drives are also becoming greener and reducing the amount of power they need to operate. Samsung has announced a new green HDD for desktops called the EcoGreen F3EG.

The drive is a 3.5-inch HDD that uses the SATA 3Gbps interface for desktop computers. The drive has four patters of 500GB each and uses Samsung EcoTriangle tech. This tech uses eco-friendly components, low power, and produces little noise.

Samsung’s first 3D Blu-ray player available for pre-order

Posted in Blu-ray by Conner Flynn on January 29th, 2010

3D TVs aren’t even available yet, neither are 3D Blu-ray discs. But if you want to buy into the whole 3D craze I guess you better start buying stuff. How long the fad will last is anybody’s guess, but hey at least you’ll be all set right?

Samsung’s BD-C6900 is the company’s first 3D Blu-ray player, and its available now for pre-order on Amazon. Samsung wants you to buy your 3D gear now, not later when you can actually use it. You can still put on the glasses and pretend. Who’s going to know?

Samsung first to mass produce 3D TV panels

Posted in Samsung by Shane McGlaun on January 27th, 2010

I am more excited about the prospect of 3D TV in my living room than I was at the thought of HDTV a few years ago. This year we will see lots of new 3D TVs and 3D content hit the market for home users.

Samsung has announced that it will be the first major panel maker to start mass producing 3D panels in LED and LCD styles. The screens will require active glasses and boast 240Hz refresh rates. The refresh rate will allow for 120Hz to each eye.