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  Samsung also announced a 5 megapixel System-on-Chip (SoC) image sensor at the Samsung Mobile Solutions Forum in Taiwan. The S5K4EA SoC has been created to bring the digital camera equivalent performance to high-end mobile phones. The SoC packs a CMOS Image Sensor and an image signal processor in a 1.4-micron (um) size. Its rich [...]

  Samsung showed off number of technologies at the 6th Samsung Mobile Solutions Forum in Taiwan and one of the interesting tech was the development of a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 based Application Processor (AP). The S5PC110 AP targeted at small form-factor devices and S5PV210 AP targeted at portable devices like netbooks are based on 45nm [...]

  A Samsung support page has been uncovered showing Omnia II (SCH-I920) in a Verizon garb. As we can see from the image, the CDMA variant has got some minor tweaks in terms of design. The page does not say much about the internal features but suggests the box contents, which includes a 1500mAh battery, [...]

  Just like companies launch plethora of products before Christmas in most markets, the Indian market goes through the same effect just before Diwali. Samsung too wants to cash in on the festive season and have launched 15 digital cameras in India, including the dual-display equipped ST500 and ST550. Both the cameras are priced at [...]

  UA Profile of Samsung’s Linux-powered I8320 and I6410 have been discovered revealing few details, which were scarce till now. Starting with I6410, it has a WQVGA screen resolution (400×240), Opera 9.6 browser and 3G and powered by an ARM11 CPU (ARM1176JZF-S coupled with S3C6410). The clock speed varies according to the voltage so we’re [...]

  Still vouch that ’70-80s music was the best? Well, if you happen to live in South Korea and agree to the aforementioned question, Samsung has got something for you to relive those moments. Sammy along with Mnet have launched YP-P3 Memories Special Edition that bundles 500 songs from that era spanning across variety of [...]

  The video is titled “Samsung B7610” but if you’re acquainted with OmniaPRO’s B7610 design, you’ll know the phone in the video is not the same. So which phone is it? The video claims it to be “Houdini” and if you remember correctly, the name first appeared in T-Mobile’s leaked Android roadmap in May. Surprisingly, [...]

  yesterday Samsung officially announced OmniaPRO B7330 and now we’ve got the first preview of the phone. Phone Arena gave the prototype a quick run and came back impressed. According to them, aesthetically the phone looks “quite appealing and its color scheme is an eye-catcher”. Being a non-touchscreen device, it’s a bit difficult to exploit [...]

  We’ve got more than one confirmation about Instinct HD but none went into detail as this report emerged at Phone Dog. According to the info acquired by them, Instinct HD will be launched on Sep 26 with stores getting it from Sep 27 and will sell in between $99-149. Since the lower spec’d Instinct [...]

  A quick note to all YP-R1 users in South Korea – Samsung has released a v1.11 software update for the PMP. The firmware update is about 60MB and claims to improve system reliability. Head over to the link below to download it. Download