Samsung Galaxy S WiFi specifications

Posted in Samsung by Conner Flynn on February 14th, 2011

If you are drooling over the new Samsung Galaxy S WiFi PMP, we now have the specifications on these two new media players in the Galaxy S line. The two models are the Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 and the Galaxy S WiFi 4.0.

The Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 has a 5 inch WVGA TFT LCD display, a 1GHz processor, plus a 5.0 megapixel camera with an LED flash, and a VGA camera on the front for your video chat needs. There’s also FM Radio, a voice recorder, an accelerometer, GPS, a digital compass and 802.11 b/g/n Wifi, plus Bluetooth 3.0.

Samsung HDTVs getting updated version of the Netflix Watch Instantly interface

Posted in Netflix by Conner Flynn on February 12th, 2011

Those of us with a PS3 have had the new Netflix interface for a while,but now Samsung HDTVs are getting the updated version of the Netflix Watch Instantly interface. The latest interface appeared after a firmware upgrade on a UN46C6500 LCD HDTV.

Now you can search through Netflix’s catalog directly on the device, but you still won’t be able to add DVDs to your queue. There’s no official word on this yet, so it might be a test phase or a slow rollout, so it might not appear right away.

Samsung Germany offers free Galaxy Tab customization

Posted in Samsung by Conner Flynn on February 11th, 2011

Leaping Lizards on a tablet! Samsung Germany has teamed up with YOUNiik to provide custom body skins to new Galaxy Tab users. The company will give a free custom skin to anyone who bought the Galaxy Tab from January 2011 to March 31, 2011.

Users can choose from up to 1,500 different skins or they can create a custom skin from their personal images. Knowing the Germans I bet there will be a lot of David Hasselhoff skins. Do they still love david Hasselhoff?

Samsung Galaxy S2 specs leaked

Posted in Samsung by Conner Flynn on February 11th, 2011

Samsung had announced that they would show off their new dual core Android smartphone at MWC 2011 next week, and now we have some possible specifications on the Samsung Galaxy S2. Those specs include a dual core 1.2GHz Samsung Exynos processor and a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED Plus display.

Other specs include 1GB of RAM and an 8 megapixel camera that can record Full HD video in 1080p and a front facing 1.3 megapixel camera for video chat, built in NFC technology and Bluetooth 3.0. Android 2.3 Gingerbread will be running things.

Samsung’s Dual Core Mobile Processor is called Exynos

Posted in Samsung by Conner Flynn on February 11th, 2011

The new Samsung Galaxy S2 will feature a new dual core Samsung processor, which will be called Exynos. The dual core Exynos processor will go into production next month and the first phone to use it should be the new Samsung Galaxy S2.

Samsung hasn’t released any specifications on the new Exynos processor, but we know that the model in the new Galaxy S2 will be a 1.2GHz dual core version. Exynos comes from the Greek words ‘smart (exypnos)’ and ‘green (prasinos)’ to associate Samsung’s ‘smart and green’ strategy.

Samsung announces PL20 and ES80 pocket cameras

Posted in Cameras by Conner Flynn on February 7th, 2011

Samsung has announced some new point-and-shoots for your pocket. The PL20 has a 14 megapixel CCD sensor, 27mm wide angle lens, 5x zoom, digital image stabilization, 720p 24fps HD video with Smart Filters. It will arrive in March for $120, in silver, pink, black, and tomato red.

The ES80 sports 12 megapixels, lacks the HD recording and keeps the color options. This one has a release date for one month later for $20 less. If either of these are for you, they will arrive soon enough so save your dough.

Samsung adds Lovefilm streaming to UK Blu-ray players

Posted in Samsung by Conner Flynn on January 31st, 2011

Europe may not have Netflix, but they have an equivalent called Lovefilm. You might remember that Amazon recently bought the company. Well, now Lovefilm is in the news once again.

Samsung has announced its intententions to include Lovefilm movie streaming as an app on all of its Blu-ray players in the UK. This will enhance both the subscription service’s profile and its own ability to providing the user with multifunctional, “smart” technology. If others start including Lovefilm on their devices, Amazon just may end up owning UK TV screens at some point.

Samsung’s new Dual-Sided QWERTY Bluetooth Remote for Smart TVs

Posted in Samsung by Conner Flynn on January 30th, 2011

Samsung’s new dual-sided QWERTY remote for its Smart TVs was recently revealed and while they aren’t much to look at, we hope the functionality will be worth it’s fugliness.

The TV side features your standard set of buttons. The QWERTY section is what’s interesting here. It has a display, but we don’t know what it is for yet. We will just have to wait for an official announcement and get more info from Sammy itself.

Mitsubishi 3DS-100S 3D Starter Pack for older Samsung and Mitsubishi 3D TVs

Posted in 3D by Conner Flynn on January 28th, 2011

Want more 3D in your life? Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America has announced a new 3D Starter Pack that allows owners of both Mitsubishi and Samsung 3D-ready DLP TVs to enjoy 3D home entertainment. The Mitsubishi 3DC-100S is available online right now and offers two pairs of active shutter 3D glasses, a 3D emitter, an updated 3D adapter with remote, an HDMI cable, and a Disney 3D Blu-ray disc full of 3D trailers of movies.

The new 3D starter pack will cost $449.99 and converts all mandatory 3D signal formats prescribed by HDMI 1.4a for display on Mitsubishi and Samsung 3D DLP TVs.

T-Mobile to drop Samsung Galaxy Tab price to $249.99?

Posted in Samsung by Conner Flynn on January 26th, 2011

T-mobile will be dropping the price of the Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet from $299.99 to $249.99, according to a leaked document found by the folks at TMO news. The price drop is for customers who are purchasing the Samsung Galaxy Tab with a two year mobile data contract. Apparently the price has been reduced in order to make the Galaxy Tab more competitive against many new tablets which have been introduced recently.

With a rumored 10 inch Samsung Galaxy Tab and also the Galaxy Tab 2 on the way, you might want to wake a wait and see approach.

Samsung Galaxy Ace product page goes live

Posted in Samsung by Conner Flynn on January 25th, 2011

Any details that you wanted to know about the Galaxy Ace S5830 from Samsung are now available for you via its official website. Some of the confirmed features include a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen display at 320 x 480 resolution, Swype keyboard for super fast typing on a virtual keyboard, HSDPA, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1.

There’s also support for social networking and a 5-megapixel camera. Looks like this handset will arrive with Android 2.2 and come in white and black.

Samsung 750 and 950 3D LED monitors

Posted in HDTV by Conner Flynn on January 25th, 2011

Samsung’s new 750 series an 950 series will come in both 23 and 27 inch sizes with 1080p resolution, a two-millisecond response time, 1000:1 contrast ratio, D-sub, HDMI, DisplayPort, and DVI-DualLink connectivity.

You can also get them with a TV tuner and they will handle 3D for gaming, TV, films, and user-generated content. The hybrid 750s and all the 950s can do 2D-to-3D conversion from PCs, Blu-ray players, gaming consoles, and set-top boxes. Sadly we don’t yet have a price, but we do know that the line hits stores in March.

Samsung user manual helps you make fake calls

Posted in Samsung by Conner Flynn on January 20th, 2011

Need to make a fake call? Well, there are apps for that, but now at least one phone manufacturer is actually offering this feature built into their phone. In Samsung’s user manual, there is a section that explains how to make a fake call “when you want to get out of meetings or unwanted conversations.”

Very helpful. This feature probably won’t sway you to buy a Samsung phone, but it’s nice to know they have your back when it comes to dodging meetings.

More details on Samsung’s Dual core Galaxy S2

Posted in Samsung by Conner Flynn on January 20th, 2011

Thanks to a South Korean website, we have some new info on the Samsung Galaxy S successor. The Galaxy S2 is expected to feature a dual-core CPU and an 8 megapixel camera with 1080p FullHD video recording.

The Galaxy S2 will operate on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and will be based on Samsung’s custom dual-core Orion SoC. The platform uses two ARM Cortex A9 cores both running at 1GHz. Other features of this next-gen Galaxy include a 4.3″ WVGA screen with Super AMOLED plus technology, NFC integration and the whole thing is just 9mm thick.

Samsung’s HDTV-based app store passes two million downloads

Posted in Samsung by Conner Flynn on January 20th, 2011

Reaching two million downloads in a year is quite a feat when you are talking about apps from a TV maker and it’s the largest number we’ve seen from a TV maker as well. Today Samsung’s app store is available in over 120 countries and features roughly 380 applications, 259 of which are totally free.

It also helps that they have already sold tons of Smart TVs and plan to ship 12 million more in 2011 alone. Samsung definitely has a good thing going here.