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Samsung Omnia II Hits Verizon Dec. 2 For $US200
10:58PM Danny Allen | I still don’t know why the Omnia II’s 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen is resistive, but the WinMo 6.5 phone will go head-to-head with Verizon’s own Moto Droid. Leaked docs suggest it’ll be $US200 on contract after $US100 mail-in rebate. More »
History of TV
12:00PM Nick Broughall | LCD’s Achilles’ heel has always been its ability to show fast moving images. Watching sports or fast-paced action films on an early LCD screen was terrible, thanks to the technology’s inadequate refresh rate. But just like introducing LED backlighting helped LCD display blacks better and more vivid colours, the introduction of 100Hz technology went a long way to eliminating the motion judder caused by fast-moving pictures. More »
100Hz: Saving LCDs From Motion Judder Since 2006
12:00PM Nick Broughall | LCD’s Achilles’ heel has always been its ability to show fast moving images. Watching sports or fast-paced action films on an early LCD screen was terrible, thanks to the technology’s inadequate refresh rate. But just like introducing LED backlighting helped LCD display blacks better and more vivid colours, the introduction of 100Hz technology went a long way to eliminating the motion judder caused by fast-moving pictures. More »
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The True Google Phone May Be Coming Soon
7:13PM Dan Nosowitz | TechCrunch is hearing some veeeeeery interesting rumours about a true Google Phone: Not just an Android device, but a phone designed top-to-bottom by Google to fulfil their dream of exactly what Android can be. It’s a resilient rumour. More »
Design
11:40AM Sean Fallon | Like many of the design competitions in recent memory, the theme of Samsung’s Young Design Award for 2009 centred around energy conservation and sustainability in the home. These gadgets were voted best of the bunch. More »
The Best Of Samsung’s Young Design Awards 2009
11:40AM Sean Fallon | Like many of the design competitions in recent memory, the theme of Samsung’s Young Design Award for 2009 centred around energy conservation and sustainability in the home. These gadgets were voted best of the bunch. More »
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Samsung Behold II Non-Review: Oh God, The Ugly
9:40AM Matt Buchanan | Samsung’s Behold II is the most impressively ugly Android phone in existence. The custom interface is so bad, so gaudy and so confusing it turned my brains into ooze. More »
Cameras
3:48PM Nick Broughall | You know, I don’t think most people care whether their camera has Wi-Fi or not. I mean really, it’s not that hard to plug in the camera via USB, or even take out the SD card and stick it in a reader to get pictures from the snapper to your computer. But there’s a subset of people who would find Wi-Fi very useful in a camera — and I’m one of them. More »
Samsung’s ST1000 Wi-Fi Camera Launched
3:48PM Nick Broughall | You know, I don’t think most people care whether their camera has Wi-Fi or not. I mean really, it’s not that hard to plug in the camera via USB, or even take out the SD card and stick it in a reader to get pictures from the snapper to your computer. But there’s a subset of people who would find Wi-Fi very useful in a camera — and I’m one of them. More »
Software
Samsung Dumping Symbian
2:32AM Mark Wilson | So this is why Samsung announced bada. That new OS will replace Symbian starting in 2010, according to Samsung’s senior VP, Don Joo Lee. (No worries, Samsung will continue to sell Windows Mobile and Android handsets.) But as for Symbian, the OS will certainly take a hit without a piece of Samsung’s 200 million or so phones shipping yearly (a figure based upon their expected 2009 numbers). Ouch. [DigiTimes via techblips UberGizmo]
Deals
2:30PM Nick Broughall | Zazz quite often has pretty good laptop deals, and today is no exception. They’re offering a Samsung R519 laptop: 15.6-inch screen, 2.0GHz Pentium T4200 dual-core processor, 2GB RAM, 320GB SATA hard drive, 6-cell battery and Vista installed (although there’s a free upgrade to Windows 7) for just $677.85. That’s a lot of spec for not a lot of buck… More »
Zazz Selling Samsung R519 Laptop For $677.85
2:30PM Nick Broughall | Zazz quite often has pretty good laptop deals, and today is no exception. They’re offering a Samsung R519 laptop: 15.6-inch screen, 2.0GHz Pentium T4200 dual-core processor, 2GB RAM, 320GB SATA hard drive, 6-cell battery and Vista installed (although there’s a free upgrade to Windows 7) for just $677.85. That’s a lot of spec for not a lot of buck… More »
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