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Samsung Monte S5620 Phone Gets Early Reveal Prior To MWC

A few leaks here and there, and voila—Samsung’s Monte S5620 is revealed ahead of MWC. Running the TouchWiz 2.0 Plus OS, it has full HTML browsing and the usual array of social networking tricks. A 3.0-inch capacitive WQVGA TFT touchscreen, 3.2-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, Bluetooth 2.1, and Google Maps 3.0 seems to be the crux…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Samsung’s Touchscreen AMOLED Phone Shown Off Ahead Of Big Reveal Next Week

Seen here is the first SUPER AMOLED PHOOOONNNNEEE from Samsung, which is so SUPER you must wear a protective suit to touch it, lest you become SUPER too. We knew their integrated AMOLEDs were on the way soon, and while the first device (which supposedly has a 3.3-inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen) hasn’t been named/specced-out, at…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Samsung to Release Laptop with a Transparent Screen within 12 Months

Remember this insane transparent OLED laptop we saw at CES? Well, Samsung is actually planning on selling this ludicrous contraption within a year. Prediction: it will be expensive and not worth it. But we’ll see! [PlusPlasticElectronics via OLED-Info] https://gizmodo.com/the-invisible-oled-laptop-to-end-all-laptops-5442217

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Samsung’s First Phone With The Bada OS Will Be Released As Early As March

Samsung’s barely released details about its new operating system Bada (indeed, for a while there we weren’t even sure it was an operating system), but they’re already talking tough. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-bada-details-fleshed-out-3g-multitouch-handset-5421422 We do know now at least that the first Bada phone will be released in late March/early April, with Samsung’s mobile division President, Shin Jong-Kyun…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Samsung Producing First Integrated Touchscreen AMOLED Panels Starting Next Month

Samsung Mobile Display has announced that they’re going to begin mass production of the world’s first 3.3-inch touch-embedded AMOLED panels next month. That means goodbye heavy glass display, and hello thinner, lighter, brighter phones. The technology Samsung has developed places .001mm thin touch sensors on-cell on a 3.3-inch WVGA AMOLED, between the panel’s substrate and…

Gadgets Brian Barrett

Samsung’s 30nm DDR3 RAM: More Efficienter, More Cheaper

Samsung’s the first to make DDR3 RAM using a 30nm process, which will hit mass production later this year. It uses 30 percent less power than RAM made at 50nm, and it’s twice as cost effective (meaning it’ll get even cheaper). [PC World]

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Yeah, AT&T Is Requiring Messaging Plans With Feature Phones

After we whispered that AT&T might be requiring messaging plans when you purchase select feature phones, we were hit up by a flood of connects. Long story short, it’s true, and here’s the break down: • Phones that require a messaging plan at time of purchase include: Pantech Reveal, Pantech Impact, Motorola Karma, Samsung Flight,…

Gadgets Boy Genius Report

The Secrets of SkyMall Lie in an Arizona Office Park

Bill Donahue made a trip to the headquarters of SkyMall, purveyors of the most useless gadgetry in the western world (good luck competing with Brando). My favorite part of the article? SkyMall’s president is named Christine Aguilera. Ha! https://gizmodo.com/meeting-brando-hong-kongs-usb-willy-wonka-5136739 It is kind of an interesting piece, though—SkyMall doesn’t make, design, or even (to my surprise)…

Gadgets Dan Nosowitz

Giz Explains: SSDs and Why You Wish You Had One

Speed. Toughness. Efficiency. Silence. That’s why we want solid-state drives in our computers. But we worry about the zoom-zoom performance degrading over time, and the fact that SSDs might eventually wear out. Here’s what you need to know about ’em. Why Solid-State Drives Are Awesome (Or At Least, Better Than Hard Drives) To understand what’s…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Samsung Monitors With Actually Meaningful “World’s Highest” Contrast Ratios

The absolutely ridiculous contrast ratios you see on most display refer to their dynamic contrast ratio, a virtually meaningless spec. But Samsung’s F2380MX and F2370H have the world’s highest static contrast ratio for an LCD monitor. The reason dynamic contrast ratio is meaningless is that it just measures that lightest and darkest a display is…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

10 Gadgets That Terminate Snow and Ice

Growing up in upstate New York, I know something about ice, snow and struggling through waist high drifts piled up by the city snow plows with a woefully inadequate Toro snowblower. God, I wish I had some of this crap back then. This is how Russians melt snow and ice during their intense winters—by strapping…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

What It Feels Like to Watch 3DTV: Viewing a Digital Diorama

I’ve written a lot about 3DTV and that I consider it occasionally incredible. But the entire concept is tough to explain because, let’s face it, I can’t just embed 3DTV example videos and you’ve probably never seen it. Allow me: https://gizmodo.com/im-sold-on-3d-tvs-and-i-kind-of-hate-myself-for-it-5443165 I stood on a crowded CES floor with an assignment I dreaded. I had…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

I’m Sold On 3D TVs…And I Kind of Hate Myself For It

I’m a skeptic who’s seen every consumer-grade 3D TV in existence from manufacturers like Panasonic, Samsung, and Sony. I’ve seen OLED 3D, plasma 3D, LCD 3D and LED LCD 3D. And I’ve finally made up my mind on the matter. Even though every technology coming to market this year requires glasses, even though 90% of…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Did Your Company Get Kicked Out of CES (and Not Get to Show Us Your Cool Stuff)?

DailyTech reports that a number of companies with tiny budgets who resorted to the survival tactic of showing their new gear at hotel suites around Vegas during CES were kicked out of hotel rooms they paid for by CES’s organizers. One company was reportedly ordered to pay a $10,000 exhibition fee to the CEA, the…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Samsung’s LTE-Equipped Cameras Beam Pics Over 4G

Samsung showed off some LTE-equipped cameras, MIDs, and photo frames which will beam your media around over Verizon’s 4G network. This could mean having images show up on your photoframe as you shoot them, and allow for plenty of humiliation. I mean, having things transferred almost instantly like that is bound to lead to some…

Gadgets Rosa Golijan

What Is This?

Hint: it’s from the CES show floor. It’s the ceiling of part of the Samsung booth, which features a boatload of TVs arranged in the above trippy pattern. Sure, you can’t get too close a look at those TVs hanging from the ceiling, but that’s not really the point. The point is SHOCK & AWE.…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Hands On: Samsung C9000 Ultra-Thin TV and Sweet Wi-Fi Video Touchscreen Remote

The brushed-aluminum LED-lit C9000 is not just the handsomest slender TV at the show, it comes with the most innovative Wi-Fi remote control—one that looks suspiciously like an iPhone and feels suspiciously like a Samsung phone. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-led-lcd-hdtv-lineup-the-c9000-does-3d-and-has-5441310 Why a Wi-Fi video remote? So you can watch a Blu-ray on your TV while checking out the…

Gadgets Wilson Rothman

Samsung IceTouch: Hands On the See-Through OLED PMP

The Samsung IceTouch seems odd with its AMOLED touchscreen and rubbery-looking bottom half, but it’s fun to use and designed to keep your fingers from getting stiff while handling it. Ok, and the transparent display is just plain awesome. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-icetouch-pmp-has-a-transparent-amoled-screen-w-5439351 Basically, the IceTouch is a pretty standard PMP except it has a nifty AMOLED screen…

Gadgets Rosa Golijan

Samsung Goes Orwell on the World with Its OLED ID card

For all the good things that leviathan Samsung comes up with, they have to spoil it somehow. Now, I’m not saying that the tech behind this ID card is teh bad, but it’s the principle. Winston Smith, where are you? The idea consists of an ID card with an AMOLED display that looks normal until…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Samsung 3D OLED Display is Practically Paper Thin

Looking at the pictures this OLED concept produces is the strangest thing: a 3D image on a nearly 2D panel. The 14-inch panel from Samsung Mobile Display is just 1.6mm thin, and if you look at it from the side you might miss it completely. It’s at least three years away from being ready—much less…

Gadgets Brian Barrett

Samsung Monte S5620 Phone Gets Early Reveal Prior To MWC

Samsung’s Touchscreen AMOLED Phone Shown Off Ahead Of Big Reveal Next Week

Samsung to Release Laptop with a Transparent Screen within 12 Months

Samsung’s First Phone With The Bada OS Will Be Released As Early As March

Samsung Producing First Integrated Touchscreen AMOLED Panels Starting Next Month

Samsung’s 30nm DDR3 RAM: More Efficienter, More Cheaper

Yeah, AT&T Is Requiring Messaging Plans With Feature Phones

The Secrets of SkyMall Lie in an Arizona Office Park

Giz Explains: SSDs and Why You Wish You Had One

Samsung Monitors With Actually Meaningful “World’s Highest” Contrast Ratios

10 Gadgets That Terminate Snow and Ice

What It Feels Like to Watch 3DTV: Viewing a Digital Diorama

I’m Sold On 3D TVs…And I Kind of Hate Myself For It

Did Your Company Get Kicked Out of CES (and Not Get to Show Us Your Cool Stuff)?

Samsung’s LTE-Equipped Cameras Beam Pics Over 4G

What Is This?

Hands On: Samsung C9000 Ultra-Thin TV and Sweet Wi-Fi Video Touchscreen Remote

Samsung IceTouch: Hands On the See-Through OLED PMP

Samsung Goes Orwell on the World with Its OLED ID card

Samsung 3D OLED Display is Practically Paper Thin

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Lego Is Leaning Into Your Marvel Memories With a New Helicarrier Set

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Kash Patel’s Email Account Hacked, Iran-Linked Group Takes Credit

Repair Workers Accidentally Stumble Upon Lost Remains of Legendary ‘Fourth Musketeer’

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

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