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  Just like Corby (S3650) did to Star to strip the tag for cheapest touchscreen phone, it seems a new cheaper-than-Corby touch phone is on the horizon. Cellpassion has heard from a reliable source that Samsung will launch Corby Pop in India soon. Although it will carry mediocre specs, its USP will be the touchscreen [...]

  Samsung will be providing set-top boxes to Videotron that will come with video recording and Tru2Way service support. Samsung reckons its set-top boxes coupled with Tru2Way will give consumers a “heightened media experience” with interactive cable services and an added functionality of recording HD video content. These set-top boxes will be the first Tru2Way [...]

  Few bada OS screenshots have found their way out on the net and it gives pleasure to see that it won’t be as uninteresting and not-so-revealing as the recent bada announcement. The UI seems finger friendly and will be able to exploit other interesting features like multitouch support, motion sensing and more. First bada [...]

  Samsung has got its impending Application Store to its domestic market. But unlike the European launch, Samsung’s Store in South Korea will be a part of SK Telecom’s App Store. It’s scheduled to go live tomorrow and will operate as a ‘Shop inside a Shop’. There won’t be a vast collection of apps initially [...]

  Russian Mobile WiMAX operator, Yota and Samsung have teamed up to roll out Mobile WiMAX in parts of Latin America. This is the first project for both the companies outside Russia and Nicaragua will be the first country to get it. Yota has already begun pilot testing in Nicaragua and plans to provide commercial [...]

  Samsung will jump into the tablet bandwagon, an executive from Samsung Australia has confirmed. Product Marketing Manager, Emmanuele Silanesu did not say if it will be a slate-type tablet or a tablet with physical keyboard but claims Samsung will definitely launch it “in the future or coming into next year”. He also spilled about [...]

  Samsung’s maiden e-book reader, SNE-50K did not have any wireless connectivity options and was available only in South Korea. But now it looks like Samsung is working on its drawbacks and coming out with a new version. The SNE-60K has been confirmed to have Wi-Fi and if our guess is right, this is the [...]

  Samsung has entered into a cross-industry alliance that has the basic aim to simplify how we consume HD content. Samsung along with LG, Sony Pictures and Valens Semiconductor have created HDBaseT, a new standard that sends uncompressed video, audio to HDTVs over a regular Ethernet cable. The HDBaseT technology also allows for internet surfing [...]

  Samsung has announced a major organizational restructuring that has made way for a new CEO, COO and CFO. Geesung Choi has been named as the new President and CEO of Samsung Electronics while the current Vice Chairman and CEO, Yoon-woo Lee will now act as a Chairman of the Board of Directors. Jay Y. [...]

  A new digital camera from Samsung has been unearthed by way of an FCC filing. The ST5500 seems to up the previous best ST1000 point-and-shoot by providing oodles of features. The 14.2MP camera boasts a Schneider-Kreuznach lens with 7X optical zoom, a 3.5-inch full touch LCD display, dual image optical stabilization, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, [...]