Right from the release of Apple iPad, we have been seeing that almost every company is trying to bring a competitor to the iPad. Earlier this month we have seen that an android competitor to iPad was released by Dell and now comes the Samsung’s turn. Recently the new Samsung Galaxy android tablet has got released from the platform of Samsung and this is going to be the first 7-inch competitor for the Apple iPad.

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A short teaser video has been released on the official website that showed the name, features and specifications of this new tablet  Some of the features that have been showed in that video are e-book reading, HD video watching, video chatting and Swype text entry.

The resolution of this small 7-inch AMOLED screen has been claimed to be exactly as that of iPad and thus we can get this surety that the smaller yet powerful competitor has now arrived into the international tablet competition.

The company also showed up the release date of this exciting device and according to the announcement up till now only Europe will get the Samsung Galaxy tab on September 2 at IFA 2010. Hopefully we’ll get the announcement of its release in other parts of world very soon.

The new generation of mobile phones the 4G has now started emerging out and some great competitions have been seen even before the release of phones in the international market. The iPhone 4G was among the pioneers that bring the 4th generation of Smartphone in the international mobile industry  and then we saw that HTC brought a tough competitor to iPhone 4 in the form of HTC Evo 4G.

By Analyzing the competition among the 4G mobiles this thing was very clear that HTC Evo 4G could be called as the leading one but wait! Before any solid result could be seen Samsung announced its own competitor for the HTC Evo 4G. Yesterday this announcement came from Sprint that Samsung Epic 4G will be available for sale on Tuesday 31st August with the price tag of $248.99.

Now let’s see what actually this phone carries for which it is standing as a major competitor to the HTC Evo 4G. According to the features and specifications revealed for this phone by company, it is a very fantastic phone with super AMOLED screen and the android 2.1 operating system. The operating system is something that can left this set behind other handsets as nowadays the craze of Foryo 2.2 operating system is at its peak and people won’t prefer android 2.1 over the 2.2 version.

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The other features include sleek and stylish design with a full QWERTY keyboard and advance navigation features for some accuracy. Thus we have to see that if this phone succeeds to beat the record of HTC Evo 4G or the claims of company remains just claims and nothing.

According to a research from IDG, almost 12.2 million mobile phones have been sold in Q1 and Nokia has seen its sales down to 9.1million which is really surprising. The Nokia’s sale decline is really strange as this company has always being the leading one in the industry and this year due to any reason it has came down from Samsung.

This was the story of Samsung and Nokia but after a closer look towards the sale of other companies you’ll come to know that most of them like Sony Ericson and LG re struggling to regain their high sale rate which was once the glory of those companies. Though a little downside is faced by some companies still we can’t say that the overall sales rate of mobile phones in the world is not falling in fact it is increasing almost 8% per year.

Recently, more and more mobile phone manufacturing companies are selecting Android operating system instead of any other rival OS. The open source nature of Android apps is one basic reason for this selection. Samsung has been doing the same for some time, and now it has come up with one of the best smartphones ever made; the Galaxy S. This 4” big screen has a lot to boast at; let us have a look at its specs and features.

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Specs:

• Announced: March 2010
• 122.4 x 64.2 x 9.9 mm
• 119 gm
• Super AMOLED capacitive Touchscreen, 16M colors
• TouchWiz 3.0 UI
• Multitouch input method
• Accelerometer, proximity sensor, touch sensitive controls, Swype text input
• 3.5 mm audio jack
• 8 GB/ 16 GB storage, 512 MB RAM, 2 GB ROM
• Card slot: microSD (up to 32 GB)
• GPRS class 12
• EDGE class 12
• ASDPA 7.2 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
• Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth v 3.0
• USB v 2.0
• 5 MP camera, 2592 x 1944 pixels, auto focus, face and smile detection, geo tagging, touch focus
• Secondary VGA camera
• 720p@30fps video recording
• Android operating system v 2.1 Éclair
• ARM Cortex A8 1 GHz processor
• SMS, MMS, Email, Push mail, IM, RSS
• HTML Browser
• FM radio with RDS
• GPS with A-GPS support
• Social networking integration, Digital compass, MP4/DivX/WMV/H.264/H.263 player, MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player, Organizer, Image/video editor, Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF), Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
  • YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration, Flash Lite v3.1, Voice memo/dial/commands
• Standby battery life up to 750 hrs
• Talktime battery life up to 13 hrs 30 minutes

Features:

This phone is all about quality; good quality. The 4” Super AMOLED Touchscreen is a big hit. On the front panel, there is one physical Home key, which is surrounded from left and right by Back and Menu buttons (these two buttons are touch sensitive).

Android is most probably at its best inside Galaxy S. The touch screen is responsive and offers a great experience. The phone has a specific GPU which makes videos and gaming look awesome. The SRS virtual surround sound and nice loudspeakers make audio quality perfect. So is the video quality; it is great indeed. HD video playback takes phone’s level way higher form its competitors.

It has a 5 mp camera wit a secondary VGA camera. Unfortunately, there is no flash (which is a bit depressing). It can record video in high definition i.e. 720p@30fps. The eBook reader Aldiko and Swype come in the phone by default. Other than these, there are thousands of apps available in the Android market for download.

Product’s Unique Selling Points:

• 4” Super AMOLED capacitive Touchscreen
• 1 GHz processor with 512 MB RAM and 2GB ROM
• Multitouch input method
• 720p HD video recording
• Great sound quality

Limitations:

• No camera flash
• Looks could be better

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Apart from the style and specifications, what the real beauty of this laptop is and that makes it unique from the lineup of laptops by Samsung is the battery life of 13.8 hours that brings an extra ordinarily optional battery life to this laptop.

The screen size is 10.1 inch with a resolution of 1024 x 600 and a very classy matte finish, some of the other features includes: 1GB RAM, 250GB hard drive, Bluetooth, optional 3G and some others. The main power of the laptop comes from an Intel Atom N450 and a GMA 3150 graphics card plus there is also choice of N470 processor as well.

The net book is not just an announcement but it has actually hit the UK market and the price is also not so high, you can get this exciting netbook at just £349.

Let’s talk about the mobile industry and Samsung, whenever some new technology has hit the market then some new mobile phone featuring that technology has always seen from Samsung’s platform and this is the reason that the mobile lineup of the company is truly awesome. Here I am going to discuss one of the latest Smartphone released by the company ‘MGT-I8910’ which is also named as ‘Infotainment’.

Most of the features and specifications of this phone are similar to the predecessors but the major excitement is ensured in its camera which is coming with 8MP and enables full HD video recording. With the 3.7 inch AMOLED display this mobile is claimed to be having the world’s largest AMOLED display and this one is your best personal movie screen that beautifully auto rotates. If you are interested in getting some more information about this new mobile phone then you should go for the section discussed below as there you’ll find all the salient features of this mobile phone.

Features:

1. The feature which is considered to be the main one is the world’s largest AMOLED touch screen which has a size of 3.7 inch. Apart from the size, the other goodness includes auto rotating displays, 16:9 ratio for viewing the perfect HD videos and make this mobile your own cinema screen.
2. The camera of this phone is also another main feature that this phone brings; the 8MP auto focus camera with LED flash brings a great facility for capturing your favorite moments in full HD. The other good features include: geo tagging, smile shot, face detection, blink shot and panorama mode. There is also a HDTV adaptor that allows you to see your stuff on a HDTV.
3. This mobile phone is truly the great HD camcorder that not only brings the beauty of capturing and viewing the HD movies but also give you the option of 8 to 16GB built-in-memory that can also extended up to 32GB so space is not an issue here, feel free to capture and store your stuff with quite much ease and comfort.
4. The USB 2.0 allows the fast connectivity of this phone with other devices and also the speedy downloads will make your joy more than double.
5. The ‘Quick Office’ is another very amazing application of this phone which allows you to perform many office chores by staying at home, you and open and edits documents and with that viewing PDF files has also been enabled.
6. The Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capability of this phone ensures the fastest connectivity in the best possible wireless connection which on the other hand means that you will be able to stay connected to the whole world anytime and everywhere.

Specifications:

• Weight: 148 g
• Dimensions(HxWxD): 123.0 x 59.0 x 12.9mm
• Display: 3.2 inch TFT screen, 65K colors.
• Talk time : Up to 10 hours (2.5G) up to 6.5 hours (3G)
• Standby time: Up to 430 hours (2.5G) up to 450 hours (3G)
• Operating System: Symbion S60
• Browser: Pocket Internet Explorer, Opera 9.5
• Camera: 8MP, power LED, 4X zoom, advance photo effects, advance photo settings.
• Music Player: Music Player (MP3 / AMR-NB / I-Melody / SMAF / XMF / MIDI / SP MIDI / AAC / AAC+ / Enhaced AAC+ / WMA)
• Video Player: Video Player (MPEG4 / H.263 / H.264 / WMV / Dvix / Xvid)
• DRM: WMDRM (ILA) OMADRM1.0 OMADRM2.0 (operator dependent)
• Memory: 8GB / 16GB User Memory (SMS / Phonebook upto 120MB), MicroSD card supported

From the price and specifications, you might have got this idea that this phone is though similar to the previous phones in many aspect but the display, camera and the multimedia features makes its unique among others. So if you want to have a camera with such capabilities then this one deserves to be your first choice.

The digital cameras have been getting some really exciting technologies from the past years and the passage of innovations has still not stopped, Samsung has recently announced that they are going to release a new pocket sized camera that will have access to the internet which is pretty exciting. A small camera with Wi-Fi is really a change for the digital camera industry, the new ST5500 is the one we are here talking about. This new camera is not just coming with a Wi-Fi radio but also with Boingo software that will help this device to get online and it is also reported that for the starting 3 months, free access to the company’s hotspot will be provided.

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According to the procedure provided by company for that internet usage, the users of this camera will first register online in order to get free Boingo mobile account. One of the most exciting facilities is that the photos and videos captured from this camera will be able to directly upload on the social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Picasa and others. The camera carries 14.2MP sensor and 7X zoom lens and the perfection of images can be obtained from the automatic image stabilization. Along with that the 3.7 AMOLED screen will be the one enhancing the internet surfing experience with its ultimately bright and clear display, thus we can simply say that not only in terms of internet usage this camera is also awesome because of its out-class specification and this camera has got all the capabilities to earn up a good name for its developers ‘Samsung’.

Samsung has been seen to be very active in the production of 3DTVs and the company carries great plans for the future 3DTVs. Recently we have seen that Samsung has provided some warnings for people regarding watching the 3DTVs and it has been suggested that Pregnant women, children under the age of six or those who have had a drink or two should avoid the 3D functionality in their TVs. The company has then discussed the reason behind these warnings in an event at London and the company’s spokes man said “We started looking at 3D in 1999 at our advanced technology centre. Since then we have tried out the 3DTVs on a number of people, looked at lots of diagnostics and what we have found is that each person’s ability to recognize the 3D effect is slightly different”.

From such discussions of the company it seems that 98 percent of people won’t be having difficulty in watching the 3DTVs and only 2 percent will be those one who are not suggested to watch 3DTVs. For the kids this statement has been provided “It depends on the distance of your two eyes. Most people have a 2.5-inch distance and they won’t have a problem but small children who have a smaller distance may not see the 3D image properly” and this thing is pretty much true. Thus we can see that company is not only bringing on new technologies to raise its profit but it also cares for the health and safety of its customers.

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The availability of android platform for the TVs will surely take the internet connections on the TVs on some more heights and thus the downloading facility for internet widgets like YouTube, Weather, Stocks and anything else on the android marketplace.  Warren East, CEO of ARM while talking to TechRadar about this issue said that “Google invented Android for the small screen, but in a world of open source developers can take what’s out there and stretch it for all kinds of different formats”. Thus there should be no doubt in this fact that Android has set up it ways for the internet TVs and now the glory of android platform will be enjoyable on the bigger screens.

Samsung has been one of the oldest mobile phone developing companies of the world which always brings innovative products for the international mobile markets and in the now days competition of Smartphones, the company has brought some really exciting models which have attracted many people along the globe.

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The company has always tried to be the first in bringing any new technology like it was the first to launch phone with optical zoom and the phone under review here in this article ‘Samsung Pixon12’ is the first ever mobile phone to be coming a 12MP camera.

The phone is just top of line camera phone which stores your memories with such efficiency that you no more require to carry a digital camera with you. Along with such an exciting camera this phone also carries a very fantastic sleek and stylish design, 3.1 inch touchscreen display that can supports up to 16 million colors, latest touchWiz technology for the display, TV out facility, Smart unlock system, inbuilt GPS navigation software and many others. The phone thus is fantastic in many matters and it has taken the camera phones onto some new heights and being the first it has started the revolution of bringing high pixels in the mobile’s cameras.

Features:

• This phone carries fantastic 3.1 inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 480×800 which gives you a fantastic experience of watching videos and photos.
• The main and the most exciting feature is the 12MP camera with a Xenon flash that enhances its photo capturing capabilities. It also carries some advance technologies which produces fantastic results and they includes object tracking autofocus, geo tagging, image stabilization, face detection, smile detection and some others.
• The camera also gives you a fantastic ability to capture D1 videos with a speed of 30 frames per second and also including auto focus and face detection.
• This phone carries a very advance web browser which gives full support to flash and java scripts thus makes your web surfing experience much more like fun.
• If you want to view the larger image then the TV out feature lets you connect your phone with any HDTV or projector and thus enhances your viewing experience.
• This phone also carries an inbuilt office document viewer which enables you to view the MS office files and thus manage them as well.
• It gives full support to aGPS which shows you the way to your destination and you never feel lost even at some unknown place.

Specifications:

• Dimension(HxWxD): 107.9 x 53.0 x 13.8mm
• Weight: 119g
• Camera: 12Mp with 5X zoom
  • Flash: Xenon and Power LED
  • White Balance: Auto / Daylight / Incandescent / Fluorescent / Cloudy
  • Shot mode: Single / Beauty / Smile shot / Continuous / Panorama / Vintage
• GSM&EDGE Band: 850 / 900 / 1,800 / 1,900
• 3G Band: 900 / 2,100
• Operation System: Samsung Proprietary OS
• Browser: Samsung Web Dolphin Browser
• Display: Technology: AMOLED
  • Resolution: WVGA (480 x 800)
  • Size: 3.1 inch
• Email: POP3 / IMAP4 / MS Exchanger Push
• Connectivity: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USP, GPS receiver
• Network support: GPRS, EDGE,3G

This is thus is a very fantastic and revolutionary phone brought to the international markets from Samsung’s platform and it can be undoubtedly called the flagship of all the camera phones developed by the company. The capabilities for the camera of this phone are just awesome and it is no less than an advance digital camera and with the camera the other capabilities of this phone are also good and anyone who wants a digital camera, mobile and web browser all in one place then this should be the first priority.