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  Remember the Giorgio Armani phone that was supposed to be announced way back in June? Yes, it got official today. Samsung and Giorgio Armani showed off the device in Milan, Italy in the presence of Steve Ballmer (wearing a tie signed by Armani!) and Giorgio Armani himself. The phone is strikingly similar to W820/W8200 [...]

  Samsung has launched a new touchscreen phone in the world’s biggest telecom market. The phone’s design is reminiscent to Samsung Star and features support for 3G CDMA2000 1X EVDO (China Telecom), 3.2-inch TFT touchscreen display (240×400), 3MP camera, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, FM Radio, 100MB internal memory with microSD card slot (up to 8GB), DivX [...]

  Samsung will soon be launching its own branded memory cards in the Taiwan market. According to Digitimes, Samsung plans to make an announcement on October 20 with Transcend, who is said to handle the back-end packaging and distribution of the cards. Transcend who sells cards under its name will differentiate both the offerings by [...]

  Samsung announced its first ever Blu-ray Combo drive for computers, the SH-B083. The Combo drive is able to read BD discs at up to 8X while it can read/write CDs and DVDs at up to 40X and 16X respectively. Samsung has integrated number of features to make its offering superior to others. For instance, [...]

  Galaxy Lite I5700 seems to be the worst kept secret for Samsung. Yet more images and info have made it to the interwebs, courtesy a Dutch site. Unlike what we heard the last time, the site claims that I5700 will be announced this month while sales will start from next month. It will be [...]

  At the ITU Telecom World conference in Geneva, Samsung confirmed to extend its support for the next-gen Mobile WiMAX Release 2 based on IEEE 802.16m. According to Samsung, IEEE 802.16m provides four times faster data speed and improved spectral efficiency as compared to the Mobile WiMAX Release 1 based on IEEE 802.16e standard. Furthermore, [...]

  UPDATE: Confirmed. It’s InstinctQ and will be available from November 1 for $179.99 on 2-year contract after $50 instant savings and $100 mail-in-rebate. Pre-registrations begin from today. Samsung’s to be announced phone has been official outed as the Moment. It’s not confirmed but given the phone’s description, it should be the long rumored InstinctQ. [...]

  Looks like some loose hands delivered this document to Gizmodo revealing the full holiday lineup for Verizon. A total of 12 phones are expected to arrive on the big red and interestingly, two phones from Samsung. The Omnia II is not a surprise since we already knew it but there’s a mention of Saga [...]

  Hello Kitty lovers have got yet another gadget from the Korean company. It’s the Popcorn YP-U5 DAP that’s been given the Kitty treatment with the kitty, flowers and subtle use of pink on the player’s face. Apart from that, the player features the same internal specs like 1-inch OLED screen, 2 or 4GB of [...]

  Samsung announced a candybar QWERTY device on Sprint today. Dubbed as Intrepid, the phone is targeted at business users coz of its worldwide roaming capabilities and QWERTY keyboard to handle everyday emailing and messaging. The phone runs on Windows Mobile 6.5 with a customizable Today screen and features a 2.5-inch touchscreen display, 3.2MP camera, [...]