Samsung enhances Q1 Ultra UMPC performance
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Premium model gets longer battery life too CES Samsung has upgraded its Q1 Ultra UMPC, adding 'Premium' to the machine's moniker and boosting the handheld's processing power and its battery capacity.â¦
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. 005930.KS plans to introduce a mobile telephone with high-speed Internet links in the United States in the first quarter of next year, an executive said on Thursday.
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Samsung Electronics typically likes to be the first out of the gate to sport new technology in its devices. As one might expect, that could be a boon. But it also could be a bust if the technology falls flat with users, or competitors chose another suite of features that is more attractive.
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced  semiconductor technology, announced that it has begun mass producing  1.8-inch solid state drives (SSD) at 64GB (gigabytes) --  the highest density SSD available today for mobile computing  applications.
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Samsung Electronics will present the latest model in its popular&#160;Ultra edition range of cell phones&#160;at the Mobile World Congress exhibition in Barcelona next week.The phone, dubbed &quot;Soul,&quot; is a slider-type handset that with an eye-catching touch panel under the display. The panel displays navigation icons that change according to the current application being run on the handset. For example, in camera mode icons such as zoom and brightness appear while music player functions appear in music mode.The quad-band GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) handset supports data downloads of up to 7.2Mbps&#160;over HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) networks and also has Bluetooth 2.0 wireless networking.Other features include a 5-megapixel camera with face detection and image stabilizer, FM radio with RDS (Radio Data System) and a music system based on technology from Bang &amp; Olufsen.The phone will be available worldwide and hit Europe in April.Samsung&#39;s Ultra line has proved a hit with style-conscious consumers. All phones in the range emphasize thinness and the new Soul handset is no different at 12.9 millimeters thick. But it&#39;s nowhere near as slim as the Ultra 5.9 handset that Samsung unveiled this time last year in Barcelona. The candy bar phone, as the name suggests, is just 5.9 millimeters thick.
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Samsung Electronics is showing off a new 128GB flash-based SSD (solid-state drive) at the International Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas, one of the largest such drives shown to date.The drive is another blow to HDDs (hard-disk drives) in laptop PCs. SSDs have several advantages over HDDs; they&#39;re lighter, more rugged, consume less power, make no noise and enable a computer to start up and load software faster than HDDs.The only trouble is&#160;SSDs are a lot more expensive than HDDs. But that&#39;s why SSD makers, including Samsung, SanDisk, and others,&#160;aim the devices at the business laptop market, where users are willing to pay more for performance and reliability.Samsung&#39;s 128GB SSDs will be available to laptop makers in the first half of this year, said Jim Elliott, director of flash marketing for Samsung. He declined to discuss pricing, but pointed out that the 128GB model won&#39;t carry quite the premium over HDD technology that Samsung&#39;s 64GB SDD does.The company used a lower-cost type of flash memory chip to develop the 128GB SSD to keep costs down and put an SSD with greater storage capacity on the market, he said. The flash memory, called MLC (multi-level cell) NAND flash isn&#39;t as powerful as the SLC (single-level cell) NAND used in most SSDs, nor is it as power efficient. The main difference is that SLC NAND flash lasts 10 times longer than MLC NAND flash, 100,000 write cycles compared to 10,000 write cycles in general.Samsung believes users won&#39;t find the difference to be much of an issue. It put a controller chip on the SSD drive that spreads information out across the 128GB of space on the drive to increase longevity.&quot;It&#39;s a trade-off,&quot; said Elliott. Write endurance is slightly lower on MLC-based SSDs, but the market is looking for larger capacity sizes without the heavy price premiums.The 128GB SSD is available in 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch versions for notebook and desktop PCs, as well as other possible mobile devices such as ultramobile PCs.The company used the high-speed SATA II interface on the drives to ensure speedy reading and writing. The 128GB SSDs have a sequential write speed of 70MBps, but the speed highlights the difference between MLC and SLC. Samsung offers 64GB SSDs based on SLC NAND that use SATA II with sequential write speeds of 100MBps and sequential read speed of 120MBps second.&#160;
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Increasing front-side bus speed from 800 to 1,066 MHz addresses crucial bottleneck in system performance.
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New at CES: the 45-millimeter LG60 LCD, an ultramobile PC, and mobile broadcasting device.
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(InfoWorld) - Samsung ElectronicsÂ on Wednesday announced it has developed a new device driver to make handheld-device screens brighter, even in broad daylight. Samsung's intelligent mobile display driver IC measures the ambient light at 32 levels and illuminates the device's LCD (liquid crystal display) accordingly. In indoor settings, these light measurement and display illumination settings can reduce power consumption by 30 percent, the company said. Developed by the its Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), the algorithm used to determine light and illumination levels also enhances color display by adjusting brightness and color saturation. Mass production of devices with the new driver will begin in late 2006, Samsung said.
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Device can improve the image quality of standard and high-definition images.
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45nm 'Silverthorne' not even out yet CES LG has craftily shown off an ultra-mobile PC based on Intel's as-yet-unlaunched '45nm Silverthorne' processor at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES).â¦
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Prototype ups high-resolution display ante with whopping 4096-by-2160 resolution.
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According to a Samsung release, the device is the most advanced graphics double-data-rate synchronous DRAM available for graphics card makers, as well as game console manufacturers.
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InfoWorld - Samsung Electronics will update its mobile processor lineup with a new chip that combines a 667MHz processor core with hardware acceleration for multimedia, including 3D graphics and video, the company said Sunday.
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Throughput improvements to 200 kilobits per second (up from between 70 kbps and 135 kbps) noted by multiple users.
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Samsung Electronics, the world's largest memory chip maker, announced better-than-expected results for 2004 and a positive outlook for 2005, in a boost to the struggling global IT sector.
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The new M-Cell Hyper-Drive from DTS adds 1GB of DRAM cache for faster operation.