Samsung SC-DC164 10,000 Word Review Spoiler: it’s teh suck

Here’s a review of the low rent Samsung SC-DC164 camcorder. It’s the base model that records to little DVD discs. Ordinarily, that would be the end of the story. But David Kender of Camcorder Info knows his stuff. He gives this camera the gadget equivalent of an invasive body cavity search. The resulting review…

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Samsung Demos a PMP With AMOLED Screen Technology

Samsung showed off a portable media player at an expo in Korea recently that uses an active matrix on LED screen. The AMOLED screen is better at replicating the NTSC gamut (100 percent of it vs. the usual 68 percent with conventional TFT-LCDs). Bottom line? The screen will look better, that is, better brightness and…

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Samsung SCH-a870 Family-Friendly Cellphone With VibeTonz

Samsung and Verizon Wireless just unleashed the SCH-a870 onto the mobile phone market in the US. The clamshell is being marketed as a family-friendly cellphone, so don’t expect too many whizz-bang features here. What you will find on the SCH-a870 are some of the little nickel-and-dime services that Verizon Wireless is in love with nowadays,…

Friday, August 25th, 2006

MediaStreet Pure eMotion 128: LCD Frame Price Drop

We’re big fans of digital picture frames, which can completely eliminate that most loathsome task: printing. No need to cross that digital chasm into the bleak analog world when you have a MediaStreet Pure eMotion 128, a digital picture frame with a 7-inch screen. That 128 number in its name stands for its amount of…

Friday, August 11th, 2006

We’ve heard about diamond-encrusted earphones, a million-dollar cellphone spangled with glitter, an MP3 player of diamonds and gold and even a Kodak V570 digital camera festooned with $20,000 worth of shiny rocks. But this one takes the cake, the million-dollar fishing lure from MacDaddy’s Fishing Lures. It’s made of three pounds of gold and platinum,…

Friday, August 11th, 2006

We’ve heard about diamond-encrusted earphones, a million-dollar cellphone spangled with glitter, an MP3 player of diamonds and gold and even a Kodak V570 digital camera festooned with $20,000 worth of shiny rocks. But this one takes the cake, the million-dollar fishing lure from MacDaddy’s Fishing Lures. It’s made of three pounds of gold and platinum,…

Friday, August 11th, 2006

We’ve heard about diamond-encrusted earphones, a million-dollar cellphone spangled with glitter, an MP3 player of diamonds and gold and even a Kodak V570 digital camera festooned with $20,000 worth of shiny rocks. But this one takes the cake, the million-dollar fishing lure from MacDaddy’s Fishing Lures. It’s made of three pounds of gold and platinum,…

Friday, August 11th, 2006

Samsung Q40: Pretty in Pink

Samsung has unveiled their Q40 pink laptop. Hidden under the cutesy pink shell is a decent machine. It has an Intel 1.2GHz Core Solo processor, 512MB of memory, 60GB hard drive, 12.1-inch widescreen display and includes an external DVD writer. Other features include 128MB integrated graphics, Bluetooth, Firewire and Wi-Fi. It is just under an…

Friday, August 11th, 2006

T-Mobile Getting Two Slim Samsungs: T629 and T519

Two more anorexic phones are heading to the T-Mob, as the FCC has just cleared them for departure. The Samsung T629 is a slider with a microSD slot and 70MB of internal storage. It has a 2-megapixel camera and probably won’t have TV-out capabilities like the Samsung D840 it’s based off of, seeing as…

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

Samsung SGH-Z560 HSDPA-Enabled Slim phone

Samsung’s pumping out phones in Korea and Europe faster than Britney’s popping out kids for Kevin. The latest is their near RAZR-thin SGH-Z560 HSDPA phone with 1.8Mbps data throughput. The phone has 30MB of internal memory plus a microSD slot for expanded memory. In addition to HSDPA, the SGH-Z560 also supports edge, has a…

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006


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