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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
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The Samsung K5 really delivers in a small package; it is very attractive, comes with excellent earphones, and the speakers are not bad because its size versus quality ratio is above average.
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
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The new LCD generation offers a whole new quality standard: great contrast, great dynamic range, smaller response time. Both the 16:10 solutions from NEC and Samsung tested today have completely satisfied our expectations. The NEC MultySync 20WGX2 is an absolute great performer, with brilliant colors and nice look: perfect for the enthusiast user. The Samsung SyncMaster 205BW offers good price/performance ratio in a solid package, probably the best choice in the basic 20.1" market.
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Monday, January 8, 2007
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The Samsung SE-S184 was proclaimed the world's fastest USB external DVD burner. Well, in the world's first review of it, Bob Crabtree checks out the Samsung's writing and reading credentials, sees how it performs some of the many useful tasks a burner can carry out and ponders the need for speed and the claims made for DVD writers.
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Thursday, January 4, 2007
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I first looked at the Samsung Q35 back in June where it grabbed itself a Recommended award. The original Q35 offered light weight, solid specification and very impressive value for money. About half a year later I'm looking at the Q35 again, but with a fair few upgrades - can Samsung make its updated Q35 as attractive today as the original was six months ago?
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The Samsung YP-T9B with its excellent Bluetooth audio capability marks the dawn of wireless entertainment without compromising quality, performance or style.
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T-Mobile's HSDPA service launched in the summer and to date has been largely aimed at business users. The first device to appear was a PC Card data card, and it's also available on the MDA Vario II, a keyboarded Windows Mobile Pocket PC. I reviewed the very similar, but non HSDPA powered HTC TyTN. It took till late November for T-Mobile to bring HSDPA to the masses, in the shape of the Samsung SGH-Z560. This is a 16mm thin clamshell handset in the style of Samsung's Ultra Edition mobiles.
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Thursday, December 28, 2006
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The Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc Player heralds the era of High Definition home entertainment with distinguished design elements and great video quality.
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
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At some point cell phone designers will stop screwing around with the keypad layout. To help differentiate its otherwise slammin' Blackjack (aka SGH-1607), available from Cingular for $499.99 (or $199.99 with the usual contract commitment stipulations), Samsung's industrial designers could not resist screwing with the numeric keypad. Instead of integrating the standard three-by-three plus 0 arrangement into the QWERTY layout like every other Smartphone extant, they've instead bizarrely alternated the grey number keys with black alpha keys. In other words, the 1/E key is next to the @/R button instead of the 2. What in the Sam Hill were they thinking? Different sure, but Samsung also has vastly increased the level of difficulty for this device's primary function -- making a phone call. Talk about your fatal flaws.
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When enabled, the most obvious characteristic is a change in brightness. It drops quite considerably. This isn't a bad thing, especially if you are playing in a darkened environment. Colours remain just as good as they were before. Samsung say that Game Mode enables faster response times. This may be so but 8ms is perfectly fine in the first place.
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Monday, December 18, 2006
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Now don't get me wrong, just because this monitor doesn't game doesn't mean it is not an exceptional piece of visual computer hardware. Just make you understand, gamers make up only a small percentage of the purchasing population. The rest of this monitor's features make it an excellent options for consumers needing a top of the line monitor for work and standard computer duties. But for less money you can get a brand named 1000:1 contrast ratio monitor which is capable of gaming and you will still have money left in your wallet.
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Wednesday, December 6, 2006
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The Samsung SyncMaster 960BF is an all white 19 inch LCD monitor. The panel sports a 4ms pixel response time, 700:1 contrast ratio, a highly adjustable base, and runs at a native resolution of 1280x1024. The unit itself is anchored by a large heavy base, and the bezel is all white with light gray highlights. This colour scheme is reminiscent of a Mac Mini , and this monitor along with a Mac keyboard and mouse would like quite nice next to such a unit. In the PC world, it's difficult to find an all white computer. The closest one can come is beige or off-white. As for those who have silver or black computers, well that is a matter of wanting a well performing monitor versus wanting something that matches.
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Saturday, November 18, 2006
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You may get a strong sense of deja vu looking at these pictures of the Samsung GX 1L . Don't worry, it's not a glitch in the Matrix; you really have seen it before. I reviewed it back in July, but then it was called the Pentax *ist DL2. Samsung and Pentax have a joint development deal for digital SLR technology, and have launched their own versions of several key models including this one, the GX 1S and the new GX 10, which is actually a slightly re-modelled Pentax K10D.
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Finding a new colour laser printer at around £160 is something that catches our attention. Although prices of colour lasers have been dropping fast over the last couple of years, this has largely been through companies pitching the price of heavier-weight printers very low and making it up on consumable costs. The CLP-300 is a different case, as the machine appears to have been designed from the ground up as a low-cost, colour laser printer.
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Wednesday, November 8, 2006
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Samsung's Ultra Edition series comprises a number of thin, sleek handsets that are designed to give Motorola and its RAZR variants a run for their money. We've already looked at one phone in the range, the D900, a slider that Riyad reviewed back in September. He was broadly in favour of that handset, but had some reservations and I feel the same about the Tri-band clamshell D830.
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Monday, October 23, 2006
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But Samsung is also flexing its muscles in the smartphone world. Right at the front end of the year I looked at the i300, the company's 3GB Windows Mobile Smartphone. Now, towards the tail end of 2006, we get the i320, a slimline, keyboarded Windows Mobile Smartphone that deserves a place in the Ultra line even though Samsung has not deigned to give it one.
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