Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 soon to $ 250: the expected economic tablet?

Samsung has announced prices and availability for four new products in the Galaxy covering a rather diverse range of diagonals and use. The launch of the most interesting is undoubtedly that of the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, a tablet pretty ordinary in terms of hardware, but that will debut at attractive price of $ 250 (€ realistically about 230 in Italy).

Excluding the pseudo-tablet Kindle and Nook still latitano in our country and throughout the ranks of Chinese clones unreliable, it seems that Samsung will be the first serious option "after Kindle Fire", which is the small revolution that gave a jolt to the market, paving the way for tablet 7 "at low cost.

As mentioned above specifications are not the end of the world. In addition to the display of 1024 × 600 pixels Economic find a dual-core SoC 1GHz, 8GB of internal memory expandable via SDHC port (hallelujah), 50GB of free space on Dropbox for a year and of course the inevitable Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The article continues after the break.

WD My Passport Portable, portable hard drive with 2TB

The new WD My Passport Portable seems almost magical: a portable hard drive 2.5 "2TB, a top technology and probably the pinnacle of this kind of drive, which has done their time so unavoidable and is losing the war against SSDs.

To see something smaller and more compact we will have to turn elsewhere, but this last descendant of the dynasty of magnetic disks is effective and relatively inexpensive, costing $ 200. Its compact size is really impressive: the long and often less than 13cm 1.78 cm, you can toss it into any pocket.

It is a modern HD and then provided with output microUSB 3.0, in order to exploit adequately 2TB could not be expected nothing less. The USB port is also what gives energy to the drive, of course. Standards of the My Passport Portable USB 3.0 can transfer 101MBps and 83MBps for writing to read. This is very good performance.

The drive has four small rubber feet which absorb the vibrations of the magnetic disk. It 's quiet. The accompanying software is both Windows and Mac (though the drive is formatted to NTFS) and includes tools for maintenance, security and backup.

Samsung Display has completed its "spin-off"

As we said, now Samsung Display is a separate company from the main body of the large multinational. It remains fully owned by Samsung Electronics, and (to a lesser extent) of Samsung SDI, but the fledgling company now operates separately 20,000 employees and 5 production: this makes it the largest manufacturer of video in the world.

The business of Samsung Display is literally titanic proportions. Samsung LCD has sold in various forms for 20 billion dollars in 2011, but has also lost 665 million, working at a loss. This is why the spin-off, which will make Samsung Display for quick and ready in the decision making process.

When I wrote for the first time I watched this process with suspicion, because it seemed that some key technologies in the field had been cut off, in fact condemning Samsung display a technological stagnation. Apparently I was not the only one to have doubts, because even the OLED industry will be merged with the new creature. So talking about the art Samsung Mobile Display, which will remain focused on the development of this vital technology.

We'll see if this new business structure will have a sense, both for the public as much for the huge galaxy of assemblers and manufacturers that rely on Samsung for the video components of your appliances.

Samsung announces the UHS SD Card from 80MB / s

Samsung presented its line of Secure Digital cards with high-speed interface dedicated to smartphones and tablet generation: Ultra High Speed ​​Series SD.

The first model in the series, 16GB UHS-1, as the name suggests the plant has a storage capacity of 16GB and is achieved by exploiting the performance of the chip 64-Gigabit DDR 2.0, the size of which border on the 20 billionths of a meter, and a controller designed by Samsung which manages the high-speed technology.

The UHS-1 reaches a read speed of 80MB / s, which ensure high reliability when used with devices that require immediate ability to access files stored in the memory, which makes it possible to see the video directly from SD, without first copying them onto another playback device, while maintaining the quality of the content, and also allows you to exploit the full potential of 3D gaming.

The production of new SD UHS will begin next month, then we will also have news about the price of these interesting and useful gadgets.

An external GPS receiver free for all owners of Prime Transformer

An email leaked in recent days on XDA informs us that Asus has resorted to drastic measures to solve the old problem of malfunction of the GPS receiver integrated into its tablet hybrid Prime Transformer.

According to reports in the letter, Asus "will release a short stick, which will put an end to the GPS problems, able to maintain a connection to different satellites and keep it connected in time with Wi-Fi enabled (?)". The email also stated that the key will be provided at no cost from mid-April, probably with an online application system directly from the website.

But the thing that will not do much to please users of Prime is that this "dongle" interfaces to the tablet via the docking port, thus limiting the use of accessories (especially the docking station / keyboard) when necessary.

A solution, therefore, some patched, a possible consequence of the spectrum of a costly class action that was becoming more threatening with each passing month.

Samsung Youm: a flexible display and unbreakable

After years of demos and advance flexible displays are ready for prime commercial and apart from the recent announcement of LG hours is in addition to Samsung, which just recently launched its foldable AMOLED screen technology shock resistant.

The Korean him also associated with a particular brand named Youm, an exclamation typically culinary that for pure combination (?) Describes a "sandwich" of layers particularly thin.

And 'this very subtlety that gives the display the characteristic resistance to bending. Instead of one or two layers of glass (LCD and OLED technology, respectively), Youm used as encapsulant two films, with great advantages on the versatility of use and design. The article continues after the break.

Flexible displays from Samsung will enter mass production in this quarter and should see the light in new devices expected later this year. The first prototypes of devices with flexible displays date back to 2008, check out the video below to see what we can expect in the near future.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus for $459.50

Not going to say much. Just that you can get the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (the international GSM version) unlocked for $ 459.50 via Negri Electronics, with free ground shipping.

You do have to live with a NTT DoCoMo logo on the back cover.
Update: As AceCurry and the guys behind the offer, Negri Electronics, have both confirmed in the comments below, 3G data will work for Those on T-Mobile. I had erroneously Stated That it will not. Sorry about that, everyone.

Sony Xperia Galaxy Nexus S Vs Vs iPhone 4S: Comparison between display

With all Android devices that are on the market is not always easy to disentangle the various models: what is the most powerful, as the lightest, who has the better screen, which sounds better? These are just some of the many questions that a potential customer can ask before buying, that's why every now and then a comparison can be useful, provided that the impressions on video, especially when it comes to the display as in this case, not always correspond to those we would have with a real use.

Let us, therefore, the Sony Xperia S, the Galaxy Nexus and the iPhone 4S, all smartphones that make your display a strong point of those who should lead the customer to buy, and see how it will put side by side.

In this case we have to trust what was said by the editors of pocketnow, because we have not had the opportunity to personally experience the Xperia S, then we refer to a forthcoming review all our impressions and comparisons.

Samsung Galaxy 10.1 Notes: video preview

We will learn more about the Galaxy Notes 10.1, a little tablet 'controversial for the truth, which as you know has its public debut at MWC last month (you can look at our preview and deepening, if not 'you have not already), but before the full review we take a look at the preview made ​​by the editors of Engadget.

The benchmarks are the natural Galaxy Tab 10.1 and, to varying degrees, the Galaxy Notes.

As shown in the table above the challenge of performance between the two tablet hangs decidedly to the Notes 10.1, which exceeds in performance probably due to domestic rival those 400 MHz difference in clock of the CPU, but the real difference between the two is undoubtedly the Pen-S, on which Samsung insists, dedicating the section S Choice on their store and of course a number of apps preinstalled.

Memo S, S Notes, Ideas and Adobe PS Touch are just some of the names you'll find inside the Samsung tablet, and it is they who may or may not make a difference, elevating the user experience beyond the ordinary tablets Android: the first two apps are all in all quite similar, and agree not only to take notes but also to engage in a little 'editing, which is further accentuated in the second pair of apps, which are also all in all quite similar, between Touch PS which stands far.

The overall judgment on what is still only a model of pre-production is that there are potential, but it is said that these are sufficient: promotion, pricing, and dedicated applications will make the difference. However, we'll talk about in an upcoming review, but if well chewed a bit 'of English in the meantime want to check out the video below along. For the large gallery you do not need to be multilingual.

Samsung Aims Africa Smartphone Market

Samsung Electronics wants to double its smartphone market share in sub-Saharan Africa to 20 percent in the next year. Disclosed its business head for Africa, Samsung will focus on affordable handsets there.

South Korean companies are wooing consumers with a line of African 'Built for Africa'. It is said Kwang Kee Park, President and Chief Officer Operaationg Samsung for Africa, said the company saw some of the biggest opportunities on the continent of growing demand for cheap smartphones.

"We intend to enhance the smartphone market to 20 percent in the next year with the Galaxy Pocket," Park said as quoted by Reuters on Friday (23/03/2012).

Africa is the fastest growing mobile market in the world and according to the GSMA survey, will be the 'home' for the 738 million handsets by the end of this year. The advent of smartphones has also provided millions of internet access in Africa for the first time.

Samsung estimates that the total African market for handset devices shipped approximately 97 million with a penetration of smartphones is currently approximately 6 to 8 percent. Meanwhile, shares of Samsung in the smartphone market today Africa is in the range of 10 percent.

The company also said it wanted to increase revenue from Africa to $ 10 billion by 2015. But Park said, it depends whether pencapian Samsung was able to develop products that are locally relevant at lower prices.

Is this the Samsung Galaxy S III?

Rumors about the shape and appearance of the Galaxy S III has a lot to fill the virtual world. This time, one more picture of the Galaxy S III appeared and from everything we've seen so far, the picture this one seems to be the most convincing.

The design shown in the picture is more similar to something that will actually design and Samsung does not look like a Photoshop product.

The picture also shows some interesting elements that deserve attention. S III are likely to have a loudspeaker that is placed on the underside of the front, a dedicated camera shutter and a very slim body profile.

When examined again, the image is written calendar May 22 to coincide with the Samsung. The assumption is what makes this picture look real.

Finally, at the bottom right of the picture, see the name of Weber Shandwick which is a PR firm that has a history of working for Samsung.

Although this may seem like the most convincing picture of the Galaxy S III so far, it is still unclear how the appearance of S III at the time of its release later. If it really is a false picture, for anyone who makes it, good job.

Samsung will release Galaxy S III in April

The new flagship of Samsung, smartphone Galaxy S III, will officially launch the event provided a large enough. Korean electronics giant said it will introduce the S III in the first half of 2012 at a special launch event.

Initially said that Samsung will announce S III in the month of May, but finally proclaimed the month of April will be a month of the launch of S III. This news is finally confirmed and confirmed again by the President of Samsung China, Ha Young Kim, who spoke on China-related media company plans on the market in China.

Reports from Korea itself states that the reason for Samsung to promote the launch schedule from May to April is not yet clear. However, it seems the company is trying to campaign for Galaxy S III to be the official handset the 2012 Olympics in London.

With the London Olympic Games that began in July, Samsung has to effectively plan and implement the launch to take advantage of the event to be broadcast worldwide to increase sales of new handsets.

Earlier this week, a Samsung executive who was not named, confirmed that Samsung will complement the Galaxy S III with quad-core proprietary Exynos. This is done to reduce reliance on Qualcomm chips.

These devices continue to invite speculation from analysts of technology. Whatever the speculation, of course, everything can be positive publicity for the company. Many see this device will come as a real competitor to Apple's smartphone dominance.

Samsung Display Suppliers Retina New iPad

Although Samsung and Apple are involved a series of patent disputes, but apparently they still formed a partnership. Samsung is reported to be a major supplier of Retina Display for Apple's latest tablet.

LG and Sharp is said to have failed to meet Apple's quality, thus providing an opportunity Samsung is working on the Retina Display for New iPad.

Quoting an analyst at iSuppli, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that Samsung is the only company that assembles the touch screen Retina Display for third-generation Apple tablet.

"Specifications on the new iPad screen is very demanding high resolution. Pencapian high resolution without sacrificing power consumption, brightness, and maintain the quality standards expected Apple to be a challenge for diplay LG and Sharp, "said Vinita Jakhanwal of iSuppli, as reported by AppleInsider on Wednesday (14/03/2012).

Earlier, last week from the NPD Group's DisplaySearch told that the three companies namely Samsung, Sharp and LG have difficulty in producing the latest Retina Display for iPad. But then, there is no mention that Sharp and LG are not able to provide components for Apple.

Even if Samsung is the only provider of Retina Display iPad, it may not have a significant impact on the ability of Apple to produce the tablet.

Apple's dependence on Samsung for component products, contrary to the legal dispute involving the two tech giants. As is known the two companies are engaged in a series of patent disputes in its products.

Immerse Android to Samsung Cameras?

In addition to the smart phones, Android also is embedded into the TV. Now the latest news reveals that Samsung is working on a plan to embed Android operating system as a digital camera.
Engadget proclaimed on Thursday (3/15/2012), news about the plan have not received confirmation, but look to see how the support of the South Korean electronics giant to Android, the move is something that is logical.
However, even if Samsung decides to go to that step, the company will not be the first release of Android-based digital cameras.
Polaroid recently announced besutannya SC1630 camera at the Consumer Electronic Show, and hope to release it to market later this year. Device from Polaroid has powers of 16 megapixels, and zoom lens with specifications 3xf3.1-5 36-108 millimeters.
The adoption of the Android operating system with a digital camera means new breakthroughs in terms of usefulness, as well as open ecosystems camera for third party developers.
We will be able to see the Facebook application, Twitter is not just allow users to instantly publish photos, but also see the photos shared by friends.
Technically, there is nothing that makes the integration of Android becomes impossible. But there are also disadvantages to the camera makers. Stability will be a major issue, and the camera will need to be rebooted as often as Android smart phones.

Samsung Champ Deluxe Duos, Dual Sim Cell Phone Card

Although Android phone sales were still very large and potential, but Samsung is still maintaining low product segment entry (non OS). Samsung a while ago launched the dual on GSM phones, the Samsung Champ Deluxe Duos.

When from its shape, Duos Samsung Champ Deluxe looks like his brother, the Samsung Champ. Only, Duos Samsung Champ Deluxe has supported facility GSM dual SIM card, dual standby working. The quality of the screen also claimed quite capable, which display measuring 2.8 inches (240x320 pixels) can display a menu with optimal features and supported interface (UI) Samsung's unique TouchWiz.

Multimedia features brought Duos Samsung Samsung Champ Deluxe regarded as fairly complete, audio player (MP3/WAV/eAAC +), video player (MP4/WMV/H.264, and FM radio plus a 1.3 MP camera balakang magnitude. Samsung also facilitates consumers' need for social media, Duos Samsung Champ Deluxe has supported social media services (SNS) like Facebook and Twitter.

Duos Samsung Champ Deluxe is also equipped with 3.5 mm audio jack, Bluetooth v3.0, USB v2.0 Micro, and the battery capacity of 1000mAh, which is believed to provide a longer standby time for the second number.

Duos Samsung Champ Deluxe approximately USD 749 000, plus an attractive package as a free bonus telponan of XL for 6 months, 2GB MicroSD memory card.

Duos Samsung Champ Deluxe:
-Band: GSM 850/900/1800/1900
-EDGE, GPRS
-Size: 55 × 101.8 mm × 12:08
-LCD: 2.8? QVGA TFT TN
-Camera: 1.3 MP, CMOS
-Battery: 1000 mAh
-64 Poly Melody
-BT 3.0
-Stereo FM Radio
-USB 2.0
-WAP 2.0, JAVA
-SMS, Instant Messenger
-Memory: 1G DDR SDRAM 512M OneNAND +
-BB: Intel Mobile Communication? Catfish XMM2150
-RF: Skyworks SKY77548
-1-Speaker
Dual-SIM Option
-TouchWiz-Lite 2.0
-chaton
-Opera Mini
-Native SNS

Samsung Galaxy Pocket, price and size of Pas in Bag

If you want an Android phone is tiny and fits in your pocket bag, it looks like Samsung Galaxy Pocket is a good option. Not only the size but the price of Samsung Galaxy Mini Pocket will not make a perforated bag.

Samsung Galaxy Pocket will be measuring 103.7 x 57.5 x 12 mm. Thus the phone was suspected as the Smallest Samsung Android.

Phones that still belongs to the family of Samsung Galaxy has a 2.8 inches QVGA LCD screen, and comes with a 832 MHz processor speed. Samsung Galaxy Pocket Ginggerbread Android 2.3 has been used as the operating system. Do not forget pinned behind powerful 2 MP camera.

For the problem of connectivity, the Samsung Galaxy Pocket fairly complete. Android phone comes with a dual-band 3.6 Mbps HSDPA and quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE networks. Do not forget to miss the other supporting features such as Wi-Fi b / g / n, Bluetooth, USB, 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio and memory capacity of 3 GB which can add up to 32 GB via microSD card.

As we received the news that Samsung Galaxy Pocket rumored to be available first in the UK later this year, unfortunately there is no further information on the price of this Samsung Galaxy Pocket.

Galaxy Notes spotted in pink

At CeBIT apparatus appeared somewhat strange: it is a Galaxy Notes (and already here we are dealing with a very special crossover between smartphones and tablet), but with a tint which does not hesitate to call unusual: a variant of "pink" .

Apparently the Samsung Galaxy Notes exceeded the barrier of perplexity and became a rather popular gadgets, to the point of inducing Samsung to create a tint specifically aimed at women, or at least to give the earnest tones of the typical black or white Samsung products. In all of the details remain the same pattern, with the textured back and the same hardware (screen 5.3 "in particular), while the shiny front grille takes on a color in the photographs that you would almost hot pink.

This new version should be placed on the market around May, in short, a couple of months. And do not expect that it is usually a special type of Japanese because apparently the Notes is specifically targeted to our market - even in its pink incarnation, or the "giant" seen recently at the MWC.

Pink Samsung Galaxy Notes: chic and kitsch? (hands-on)

We had already announced recently that a variant of the Galaxy notes rose was in the pipeline and then behind that you are taking the CeBIT in Hannover, Germany, colleagues at Engadget managed to get my hands on one of new specimens colored like the famous panther.

The smartphone was in truth a mere shell, not even to start, but since they technically do not expect something that actually matters is the aesthetics, then you will have to judge it so big thanks to the following video and images, but not forgotten then answer the question in the comments in the article title.

Samsung Galaxy Player 70 Plus, including media players and micro-tablet

Samsung continues to expand its line of Galaxy without phone module, namely the niche devices like the iPod Touch or Sony Walkman Z1060 which not only act as media players are real micro-tablet with Wi-Fi and access to markets of apps.

This time it's up to the Galaxy Player 70 Plus, which is nothing unusual that a more powerful variant of what is called the market in our Galaxy S Wi-Fi 5.0 (or Galaxy Player 5.0 in USA).

The novelty of this model is a system-on-chip more powerful dual-core 1GHz, which should trigger the same Gingerbred Android 2.3.5, while the rest of us seems essentially the same, including the very large 5-inch screen, large but the resolution disappointing: only 480 × 800 pixels, like the Walkman 4.2 "and still a far cry from the standards of Apple, which equips her touch with a 3.5" 960 × 640 retina. The article continues after the break.

Apart from the sore point of the screen, the budget is more inviting than its competitors because there is a GPS device and especially a microSD slot, a basic feature for an MP3 player and easy to implement, but viciously almost all producers we deny the media player.

Galaxy Player 70 Plus is available today on the Korean market in denominations of 16 and 32GB, but there is still no information on the European market, on both availability (will never happen?), Price and even less on the nomenclature, which as usual Samsung usually varies for different markets. It is doubtful that at the Cebit 2012, scheduled from tomorrow, turn up new information.

Samsung Galaxy Beam ready for pre-order in UK

One of the new family of Samsung Galaxyyang had exhibited at the MWC 2012 Samsung Galaxy Beam began to pre-order in UK (England). Smartphone that supports the image projection wall, display or LCD with the sharpness of images, graphics or videoberdiameter up to 50 inches.

The good news from Samsung lovers Galaxy Beam is already available for pre-order now in the UK. You can see the website Unlocked-Mobiles.com and is expected to arrive on the market in July. Samsung claims that it partnered with several companies in the UK mobile operators to market their products

The price offered range from 385 pounds (5.59 million yen) for the SIM-free. Info prices and availability of these sites seem plausible but should make sure first whether the specifications of this device interests you.

Piko Projector is a prime feature phone that works with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and dual-core processor is 1 GHz. This slim phone has a thickness of 12.5 millimeters, the 2000 mAh battery, has a 4-inch Super AMOLED display and 5 mega pixel camera.