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  Samsung today announced their association with Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games as a worldwide presenting partner of the Digital Concierge for Singapore 2010. Under this deal, Samsung will provide 5,000 units of OmniaLITE (B7300) phones to the authorities as well as participating athletes. The phone will be pre-loaded with Digital Concierge for Singapore 2010 [...]

  UPDATE: As Sven points out, this could have been done to avoid any hurdles in the EU region but Samsung too, has applied for the Bada and Vita OS trademarks. Going through recent trademark filings from Samsung, I discovered an interesting filing. A trademark by the name of “VITA OS” was filed by Samsung [...]

  Samsung seems to be in a mood of resolving licensing issues. After settling with Kodak, Samsung has come to terms with memory maker, Rambus. The agreement will settle all claims between them and also give them access to Rambus’ patent portfolio. As far as monetary compensation is concerned, Samsung will pay Rambus about $900 [...]

Samsung dropped a big update adding five new cameras to its point-and-shoot range. The cameras introduced are SL630 (PL80), TL105 (ST60), TL110 (ST70), HZ30W (WB600) and HZ35W (WB650). Starting with the SL630 (PL80), the camera seems to be the lowest spec’d of all the cameras unveiled today. SL630 can shoot images at 12.2-megapixel resolution and [...]

  The M3710 had been lurking at various radio approving agencies for quite some time so it’s good to see its final name and pictures. It will be called as Corby Beat and as GSMArena rightly points out, it looks and almost functions like Lindy. The only difference seems to be the absence of 3G [...]

  Samsung has launched a new phone in India, which surprisingly is not from the Corby series. They’ve launched the Metro 5200, a 10.9mm slider phone that does not have anything spectacular on offer except for its 3.2MP camera with LED flash and face detection feature. Other things include quad-band GSM support, a 2.1-inch 16M [...]

  Samsung has announced two new SyncMaster monitors targeted at professionals that boast a very high-contrast ratio as well as a wide viewing angle. The 23-inchers F2370H (70 Series) and F2380MX (80 Series) feature a static contrast ratio of 3000:1 with dynamic contrast going up to a whopping 150,000:1. Additionally, the monitors have a 178 [...]

  As promised, Samsung has now initiated to expand its Apps Store to other countries. Beginning this month, the Samsung Apps Store will be available to Omnia II (I8000) and OmniaLITE (B7300, I329) users in Singapore, Germany, Brazil & China. Users with respective devices can download the apps client on the phone and can download [...]

  It was rumored, leaked and now it’s official. Samsung has announced he cheapest Corby, the C3510 touchscreen phone for the Russian market. Samsung reckons C3510 can fulfill needs of those who are active on various social network sites and listen a lot to music but at a very affordable price. The phone comes built [...]

  Samsung introduced the much rumored 9000 LED LCD TV Series. This flagship series is the most interesting of all due to its attractive and sleek looks as well as features. The LED boasts full HD resolution support, comes with a built-in 3D processor, 240Hz refresh rate and support for touchscreen equipped remote control that [...]