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  Samsung’s N120 netbook has been conferred with the TCO certification, a third-party certification given to ICT products for the use of eco-friendly materials and better ergonomics. The N120 is the first netbook to get a TCO certification that is free from mercury and other hazardous materials and has power saving capabilities as well as [...]

  Samsung has announced a new hard drive to cater to the 1.8-inch external HDD market. The Spinpoint N3U comes in capacities of up to 250GB and instead of adding a bridge circuit board to convert the PATA interface to USB, the new drives integrate the USB controller right on its printed circuit board. With [...]

  Corning Inc. announced that they are providing their Gorilla Glass for Samsung’s Ultra Touch phones. Now keeping it’s somewhat weird name aside, the glass is one of the best in the industry, used in many consumer electronic devices. The glass is chemically strengthened to give the extra durability as well as other advantages, which [...]

  Many netbook vendors are contemplating an Android netbook but Samsung has denied the possibility of the same, at least for the short term. Mobinuate asked Samsung France Telecom’s director, David Eberlé about it and he said there’s “no short-term project aimed at launching a netbook with Android.” In other words, Samsung is not ruling [...]

  Want a free trip to South Korea and visit one of the world’s biggest company’s headquarters? Well, you may want to enter the Samsung Mobile of the Future contest. Samsung and Financial Times have teamed up wherein a user has to write about 200-300 word paragraph about ‘the key features of the phone of [...]

  We have said this before and we’ll say it again, the global launch of Jet has worked highly in favor of Samsung. Today, Samsung unveiled that they have got beyond expectation response for Jet S8000. Firs t the 2m units preorder and now Samsung Electronics Europe is said to be ramping the production in [...]

  O2’s been selling I7500 Galaxy in Germany and its UK division has announced that they’ll handle the retail duties within the UK from August. This confirmation however, does not come with a price but according to O2, it will be available on contract. Samsung’s I7500 Galaxy runs the Cupcake update of Android and comes [...]

  The YP-R1 was spotted last month at some e-tailers but Samsung today has confirmed that the PMP will be launched in Korea next month. The feature set of this mini-PMP includes a 2.7-inch QVGA touchscreen with haptic feedback, wide array of audio and video codec support, 8/16GB capacity options, DNSe 3.0, Bluetooth 2.0, dictionary, [...]

  What’s with the funky colors Samsung? Sure, trendy colors look good but the assumption of yours that youths are attracted to this killer red-orange combo is absolutely wrong. Anyways, the phone you’re looking at right now is Samsung Highlight that is rumored for an official launch on July 15 on T-Mobile. Phone features are [...]

  Samsung will be co-branding its P3 PMP with its Renault Samsung SM3 sedan, destined to come out on July 13. The P3 SM3 Special Edition PMP will do Bluetooth streaming to the car’s audio player which can be controlled with the on-steering playback controls. It will also have a specialized SM3 image and video [...]