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  Here’s the scenario of the Taiwanese touchscreen mobile market. LG Electronics is the leader with a 17 percent market share while Samsung holds 12 percent. Now to turn things around, Samsung is planning to launch at least 10 touchscreen devices in Taiwan in the remainder of this year as compared to LG who is [...]

In a bid to save on imports, South Korean companies like Samsung, LG, SK Telecom and others have come together to develop chips in their own country. Such a deal is the first for LG and Samsung, who have predominantly fought in every segment as rivals. Samsung and LG will make global digital TV receiver [...]

  Samsung and Intrinsity have jointly developed a fast CPU based on ARM’s Cortex A8 architecture meant for mobile products. Code-named as Hummingbird, the processor is based on Samsung’s 45nm, Low Power (LP) process that helps it to achieve a clock speed of 1GHz while consuming less power. Hummingbird’s high performance, low power consumption is [...]

  Pardon our limited capacity to understand Korean but it looks like Samsung is out with an e-book reader of its own in their home market. The SNE-50K reader has been created in association with Kyobo, South Korea’s largest bookstore. The 200g and 9mm slim device features a 5-inch display, ability to take notes with [...]

  There were murmurs of a Tegra phone being worked on and it looks Samsung will be the first company to pull it out. A Samsung rep confirmed to Laptopmag that they are developing a Tegra powered phone which will allow users to play graphic intensive games and play HD content effortlessly when attached to [...]

  After gaining the FCC certification, the T659 codenamed Scarlet for T-Mobile has been caught in the wild that looks pretty mediocre, to say the least. The phone is said to carry quad-band GSM support, 3G 1700/2100MHz, MP3 player, Bluetooth, 2MP camera and microSD card slot. No details on the release yet. Source

  Taken from one of the Bluetooth pages, Samsung is prepping a new phone that will be due anytime soon. The SCH-B900 will be a CDMA offering and feature a full touchscreen display, 3MP fixed focus camera, Bluetooth, GPS and T-DMB. Since DMB is prevalent in far east countries, there is a high possibility the [...]

Samsung has posted the second quarter 2009 results and it goes well with the earnings guidance announced two weeks back. They have recorded revenues of 32.5 trillion KRW with an increase of 11.7 percent on YoY basis. The operating profit too had an increase of 5 percent of 2.52 trillion KRW on YoY or a [...]

  PC World managed to get their hands on a retail unit of Samsung’s latest WiMax equipped Mondi MID. According to the reviewer, Samsung has done a good job etching out Mondi but lacks on few fronts. He says though the keyboard is well-spaced out with large keys, the “keys are too flushed with the [...]

  Samsung’s S9110 watchphone is releasing soon in France but UK residents might not get it anytime soon. Samsung UK confirmed to TechRadar that they don’t have plans to launch the device without specifying any reason. The decision seems absurd because an early launch in UK would have meant a disaster for LG’s GD910, which [...]