Lawmakers are looking into possible antitrust violations centering on exclusive deals that most of the major cellular makers offer with handset to get customers. The exclusive deals allegedly make it hard for small providers to compete.

For now, exclusives are still the norm and Samsung and T-Mobile have announced a couple new exclusive handsets called the Samsung Comeback and the Samsung Gravity 2. We have talked about the Comeback already, so I won’t focus on that handset other than to say T-Mobile will offer it for $129.99 with a new agreement and it is available now.

Samsung’s latest Blu-ray Home Theater In a Box is a nice all-in-one solution.The HT-BD3252 supports all of the latest HD audio codecs like TrueHD and DTS-HD, and a mic for automatic calibration. It features an integrated Blu-ray player, which supports BD-Live.

Samsung has also included internet services like Pandora, Netflix and Blockbuster via an included WiFi dongle and more. Even an iPod dock. You get a bunch of features for just $799. Those looking for an all-in-one solution should definitely check this one out.

We have some more specs for the Samsung Comeback, like this quality image with official specifications. As you can see, the Comeback looks a lot like a Sidekick. The features are pretty vanilla, but this might be an affordable texting/email phone. It sports a 2MP camera, microSDHC slot (up to 16 GB), Bluetooth and WQVGA resolution on the main display.

Can your fingers handle the navigation on the right and a QWERTY keyboard? Rumor was that it may launch today, but we haven’t heard anything yet.

Samsung has unveiled their latest camcorder and the HMX-U10 is all about casual point-and-shoot. It measures a compact 56 x 103 x 15.5mm with a design to better fit your hand. The upright camera has both 10-megapixel stills capture and 1920 x 1080 Full HD video.

Samsung wants some of the Flip UltraHD market with this one. The HMX-U10 records to an SDHC card and uses the H.264 video codec. In the back there’s a 2-inch LCD for framing and previewing, together with basic controls. The 1/2.3-inch CMOS lens is fixed focus and apparently lacks zoom.

Samsung announced that they will be releasing two new SyncMaster 80 Series LCD monitors in Korea. The F2080 and F2380, a 20-incher and a 23-incher. According to the company, these monitors feature the highest contrast ratios available for displays that are standardly lit. The contrast ratio is a whopping 150,000:1. Both monitors feature a 178-degree viewing angle and full sRGB coverage.

Each are set on a 5.1-inch stand and will be released in Korea soon. We just don’t have a date. Pricing is expected to be around $293 for the F2080 model and $354 for the F2380 model.

The SMX-K45 and SMX-K40 are both standard definition (SD, 720×480) camcorders with a 52x optical zoom and optical image stabilization. Sounds like the recording quality may be decent enough on both devices to do web videos. Then again youtube quality has gone up.

The SMX-K40 records only on removable flash cards, while the SMX-K45 has a 32GB SSD. The smx-k40 will cost you $329, while the smx-k45 will cost you $499. 16 Gb is probably all most casual users will need.

I think the future of movie rentals and purchases are in digital form. One day we will no longer trek to the movie store on Tuesdays when new movies are released on DVD. We will just hop on our Apple TVs or maybe even our Blu-ray players and rent the movies digitally.

Blockbuster and Samsung have announced that the two companies have signed an agreement that will provide access to streaming content from Blockbuster on select Samsung HDTVs, Blu-ray players, and home theater systems. The service is expected to debut this fall.

Samsung’s YP-R1 is a smallish and good looking portable media player that will hit South Korea next month. Sadly, we don’t have a price on the device yet. We do have some specs though.

The YP-R1 will have a 2.7″ QVGA touchscreen display with haptic feedback, DNSe 3.0, Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity, dictionary, a voice recorder, TV-out, an integrated FM radio and recording capability. Battery life will give you 25 hours of audio playback, and 5 hours for video.

It wasn’t so long ago that Samsung unveiled its new N120 netbook. The little Samsung rig is widely regarded as one of the best netbooks on the market and sports and Intel Atom N270 CPU, Wi-Fi, 1GB of RAM, 160GB HDD, and more inside the small 10.1-inch chassis.

Samsung has announced that the N120 is now the world’s first TCO Certified netbook. The TCO Certification certifies the netbook to be free from mercury and other materials that harm the environment.

The Samsung XL2370 boasts what Samsung calls a “finger-slim” design, with high-end features like a 2ms response time and 1080p resolution (1920×1080 pixels) as well as a 40% power savings. Samsung is calling it eco-friendly because it is lighter to transport and should require less materials to produce.

How well those claims work in the real world, we aren’t sure. This monitor will come out in Korea this month, then will make its way to the rest of the world at some point. No word if the US is on their list yet.

We first told you about this one back in May. Samsung has finally rolled out the odd SCH-W760 cellphone in South Korea. It’s the first handset in the world to come with an infrared camera. Very handy if you want to do video calls in low-light situations like a strip-club, or while hunting for Bigfoot in the wild.

It also has a 3-megapixel camera and 2.8″ AMOLED display with 240 x 400 resolution. Some other features of the SCH-W760 include 8GB of internal memory, a microSD memory card slot, S-DMB TV support and high speed 3G connectivity.

Since January when the Ion platform from NVIDIA first launched, not many netbooks or nettops have taken advantage of the HD capable platform that crams a 9400M GPU into the netbook chassis. A few machines have trickled onto the market using Ion but not as many as NVIDIA had hoped.

NVIDIA has confirmed that Samsung will be launching an Ion-powered netbook model soon. The GPU maker won’t confirm details like model, specs, or pricing other to say its Ion platform is being used.

Samsung has just released not one or two, but four new handsetsin its mid-range phones series. The phones in question are the Samsung S6700, C5510, M2510 and M2310.

The M2310 comes with a sad VGA camera and the M2510 features a sad 1.3MP camera. Both have dedicated music controls. The Samsung C5510 is a dual band 3G handset that features a 2MP camera with fixed focus, and a 16GB storage capacity. While the Samsung S6700 is a slider with HSDPA, GPS, a 3MP camera with auto-focus and dual LED flash, and 120MB of storage space.

Samsung has been showing off their latest AMOLED concept, an e-passport with a 2-inch QVGA resolution flexible display in an identity card. The idea is to show a 360-degree view of the card-holder, rather than just a headshot. The e-passport uses an AMOLED display that can be powered wirelessly via an RFID reader.

Usually the display is blank (That’s why you need a normal picture. Not everyplace will have an RFID reader) but when it gets close to the scanner it powers up and automatically shows the video. The AMOLED is flexible, but also has a 10,000:1 contrast ratio and is capable of displaying 260k colors. Video below.

The SSD has been on the market for a while now and the prices of SSDs are finally starting to come down. When they first became available, a small SSD could run into the $1000 range. Today you can get a nice SSD for about $300.

Samsung has announced a new SATA-interface SSD that can be used for either primary storage or as a complementary drive to boost performance. The SSD uses a mini-card form factor and is very rugged. The SSD measures 30mm x 51mm and is 3.75mm thick.