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1. Sprint touts 'environmentally conscious' mobile phone

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Thursday, 06 August 2009

   Sprint and Samsung have teamed up to promote the "environmentally conscious" Reclaim mobile phone. The device - manufactured from 80 percent recylable bio-plastic materials - will be available on August ...

2. The next iPhone looms on the horizon

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 25 March 2009

   ... Apple's PA Semi-acquired engineering talent (led by IBM's Mark Papermaster) should design this SoC based on the latest ARM CPU and Imagination's PowerVR SGX543 multi-core GPU. At the same time, Samsung ...

3. Blue Earth: Samsung's solar-powered touch-screen cell phone

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 17 February 2009

   Yesterday, Samsung unveiled its solar-powered full touch-screen cell phone, named Blue Earth. The phone coincides with Samsung's "vision for environmental sustainability," which was also revealed yesterday ...

4. Ultrathin film could change the face of electronics

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Tuesday, 20 January 2009

   ... as though they are reading the paper in print via foldable displays. Jae-Young Choi of the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and Keun Soo Kim and Byung Hee Hong of Sungkyunkwan University describe ...

5. Apple, Nintendo absent in Greenpeace green electronics ranking

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Friday, 09 January 2009

   ... current report sees Nokia in the lead, followed by Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, Samsung and Fujitsu-Siemens. Trailing the pack are Apple, Philips, Lenovo, Microsoft and Nintendo. Nintendo is dead last and scores ...

6. Scientists create transparent memory chip

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Thursday, 11 December 2008

   ... such as Fujitsu, Samsung, Micron and Spansion as a non-volatile memory technology with the goal to replace flash at some point in the future. Whether it can replace flash is unclear as several potential ...

7. Top 10 Mobile Phone Screwups

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 26 September 2008

   ... is. Bar the narrow keyboard, Treo Pro is pretty capable Windows Mobile smartphone. Samsung Instinct: Bad marketing cripples a great product The only iPhone challenger this summer, Instinct sells for ...

8. HTC Dream + Android 1.0 = High expectations

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Monday, 22 September 2008

   ... cheap, there will be good reviews and there will be bad reviews. To us, it does not seem like a fully-baked device yet. Android will get much more interesting in 2009 when Samsung and LG will have their ...

9. Reports of failing iPhone 3G reception, Apple remains quiet

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Thursday, 14 August 2008

   ... a bit in the past with Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson and Nokia. These are "completely normal childhood illnesses," especially in the case of a large volume production. Claes Beckman, professor of microwave ...

10. Why the iPhone 3G is a gold mine for Apple, even at $199

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 19 June 2008

    ... at launch. Now we are looking at a number closer to $100, Portelligent claims. EETimes said that Infineon and Samsung are still the two primary chip suppliers for the iPhone 3G. Will Strauss, principal ...

11. HP pitches green printers, Samsung green hard drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 22 May 2008

    ... every day. Today it is Samsung that announced a more power efficient hard drive and HP, which announced a big effort to reduce the impact of its printers on the environment – reaching from printer-labels, ...

12. Who needs D-SUB, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort? USB rocks!

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 20 May 2008

    ... back in 2003. Initially, they worked on the idea to use Ethernet to connect a monitor to a PC, but quickly shifted their focus to USB. The technology made its market debut in 2007 as part of the 19" Samsung ...

13. Dell aims to cut power consumption of PCs by 25%

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 14 May 2008

    ... #5 in among 18 rated companies – ahead of Nintendo, Panasonic, Philips, Microsoft, Acer, Sharp, Sony Ericsson, LGE, Apple, FSC, HP, Motorola and Lenovo, but behind Samsung, Toshiba, Nokia and Sony.   ...

14. Will we ever see an iPhone killer?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 03 April 2008

    ... goal: RIM with its BlackBerry 9000, Samsung with its Instinct phone and SonyEricsson with the Xperia. There is a wildcard in this game, which has the potential to make a strong debut – Garmin’s Nuvifone. ...

15. Slap down the cash and grab a phone in Thailand

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 25 March 2008

    ... Here cash is king and I’ve just snagged a nice Samsung E250 phone, case and SIM card for a mere $138.  But even more amazing is the time it took – or, more accurately, didn’t take. Opinion – American ...

16. Nokia, LG, Samsung and MasterCard to turn cell phone into wallet

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 25 April 2007

    A consortium of companies including Nokia, LG, Samsung, Sony and MasterCard are to turn cell phones into mobile wallets, allowing consumers to pay for goods and services simply by swiping their phone ...

17. Samsung develops credit card-thin LCD panel

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 21 November 2006

    Samsung today said that it has built the world's thinnest LCD panel and developed a new technology that allows the creation of thinner LCD displays in cellphones. Seoul (Korea) - Samsung today said that ...

18. First look: Watch out Ipod, here comes ... K5?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 26 September 2006

    If there was ever a chance to convince my wife that her Ipod Nano is an over priced, boring music player, then this is it. I got an opportunity to play with Samsung's latest flash audio player that integrates ...

19. New Ipod Nano could bump Apple's profit margin by 20%

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 20 September 2006

    ... 20%, according to Isuppli. Besides the drop in flash pricing, Isuppli mentioned that Apple is now using a Samsung-built system-on-Chip (SoC) that replaces the previous semi-custom PP5021 SoC from Portal ...

20. Samsung develops 7" flexible LCD

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 28 November 2005

      Using plastic instead of glass substrates enables panel manufacturers to create bendable, flexible LCDs for mobile and consumer electronics applications. Samsung claims it has created the largest ...

21. CellStik backs up cellular phone contacts

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 07 November 2005

    ... and then transferred to a replacement phone. CellStik contacts importer for cellular phones.(Courtesy Spark Technology) Available for LG, Samsung, and Motorola cellular phones, the CellStik looks like ...

22. Component cost of video iPod estimated at $151

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 21 October 2005

    ... Apple can negotiate a substantial discount because of their buying power. Crotty points to their recent teardown of the iPod Nano where they estimated Apple received a 30 to 40 percent discount on Samsung's ...

23. Samsung moves ahead with transmissive plastic TFT-LCD display

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 16 March 2005

    ... clearly see the current gap between the leading edges of traditional TFT-LCD displays and plastic models. Both of the sizes are the world's largest, and Samsung Electronics is the manufacturer producing ...

24. Samsung shows flexible LCD

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 11 January 2005

      Samsung Electronics has developed a flexible LCD panel prototype that measures 5 inches across the diagonal, and intends to commercialize products based on the technology by 2007, a company spokesperson ...

25. Samsung Pumps out 15" TFT-LCD TV-Compatible Panels

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 09 October 2001

      For PC/TV convergence to occur, you can expect that the there will have to be a convergence in the types of displays we use to interface with the wondrous new capabilities we have yet to see.  ...