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Hardware

Samsung’s New Flash Memory Chips Will Cause Gadget Shrinkage

5:00AM Rosa Golijan | With a thickness of only 0.6mm, Samsung’s newest NAND chips are practically anorexic, but for once that’s a good thing. Thinner chips like these could bring smaller gadgets and hopefully also lead to lower SSD prices. More »
Cameras

The Samsung’s DualView TL225 Won’t Meet My Cam-Whoring Needs

12:24AM Rosa Golijan | Lousy at framing self-portraits? Yeah, me too. Thankfully Samsung’s here to help with the double-screen toting DualView TL225. Well, they would be helping if the camera wasn’t as laggy and unresponsive as Wired found it to be. More »
Phones

Verizon’s Second-String Lineup: Chocolate, Curve 8530 And Convoy

1:30AM Dan Nosowitz | The Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris may get all the buzz, but what about Verizon’s less glamorous new phones? The LG Chocolate Touch, BlackBerry Curve 8530 and Samsung Convoy were all introduced today, and they too deserve a look. More »
Gadgets

Tango Autonomous Vacuum Has A Built-In Upskirt Camera

12:03AM Rosa Golijan | Is it really necessary to stick 13 sensors, a camera, extra gyroscopes and crash sensors into these vacuuming robots? I’m all for improved gadgets, but I just plain don’t want my vacuum able to take photos of my knickers. More »
Screens

Samsung’s 30-inch AMOLED TV Does 3D Without The Dizziness

12:24AM Danny Allen | Another of the treats on show at FPD 2009 is Samsung’s AMOLED 3D TV prototype. The 240Hz panel is just 2.5mm thick, has 1000000:1 contrast, and Samsung claims its latest shutter-glasses technology reduces the dizziness often associated with 3D. More »
Computers

Samsung’s Hybrid Desktop Notebook Concept

11:24PM Danny Allen | I’m not sure how practical this design would be on the road, but it sure looks sweet at 2.7mm thin. The stunning 14-inch screen supports a resolution of 1366×768, and because it’s AMOLED, has a 1000000:1 contrast ratio and 300cd/m2 brightness. More »
Phones

Samsung Omnia II: Looks OK, But Why The Resistive Touchscreen?

3:20PM Dan Nosowitz | Samsung’s going the HTC route with Windows Mobile on its new AMOLED-packing Omnia II by cramming its own TouchWiz interface into every nook and cranny of WinMo. Ai.rs has a thorough walkthrough of the hardware and TouchWiz for your perusal. More »
Phones

Samsung Moment Review: The ED-209 Of Android Phones

2:00AM Matt Buchanan | The Samsung Moment is the first Android phone trying to be special purely through hardware: It’s got a really rich AMOLED display, a gigantic keyboard and an 800MHz processor (the fastest yet for Android). More »
Screens

Samsung’s Sexy “Needle Slim” 3mm HDTV

10:24PM Danny Allen | At just 3mm thick, Samsung’s latest 40-inch LED backlit LCD HDTV is as thin as Sony’s XEL-1 OLED TV. It almost makes the 1-inch thin Panasonic Z1 Plasma look chubby and Samsung’s current LED LCD TVs (about 1.2 inches) look fat. More »
Peripherals

UN Approves MicroUSB Universal Phone Charger Standard

12:00AM Chris Jacob | The International Telecommunication Union, a branch of the UN, has decided on a standard for phone chargers that should finally cut down on a huge chunk of unnecessary e-waste. It’s about time. More »