Samsung hasn’t yet abased itself to competing head-on with the lowest price netbooks out there, but its Samsung Go can at least vaguely keep up with the times spec-wise, notching up from the N310 to the N315 model name in the process. The $429 rubber-clad netbook has been bumped to …
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Keepin’ it real fake: HP Mini 5101 knockoff is almost as good, almost as expensive as the real thingBy Engadget on March 6th, 2010 | No Comments
Coveting a beautiful new netbook but can’t quite manage the $399 for a new HP Mini 5101/5102 ? Maybe this knock-off would fit your budget, looking more or less indistinguishable from the real thing. The ports have a slightly different layout (with some of them looking a wee bit askew) and …
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Samsung’s 4Gb DDR3 RAM modules could put 8GB in your next netbookBy Engadget on February 24th, 2010 | No Comments
Rhett and Link (and one Bill Gates, too) may assume that 64KB of memory is “plenty,” but let’s be realistic here — it’s not. Samsung ’s fully in agreement, and it’s looking to make your next DIMM or SODIMM a lot more capacious with a new 40nm-class process technology. As the…
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Android-powered GoGear Connect PMP debuted in new, Godzilla-sized form factorBy Engadget on February 24th, 2010 | No Comments
We’re used to seeing some ho-hum units with the GoGear name , so we were pleasantly surprised to hear (well, read) that Philips was getting much more ambitious for its upcoming GoGear Connect line of PMPs . Plans are said to include the Android 2.1 OS, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, and extensive skinning that plays up…
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New Samsung chips bring HD image sensors to slimmer, smarter mobilesBy Engadget on February 14th, 2010 | No Comments
If case you haven’t noticed, Mobile World Congress is upon us, and you can bet that Samsung is here in a big way. The outfit is kicking things off with a couple of low-key releases: the S5K4E2 and S5K5CA CMOS image sensors. The former is a 5 megapixel…
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Samsung Wave launching Bada onto its very first handset at MWCBy Engadget on February 12th, 2010 | No Comments
There’s something nice and unequivocal about a huge billboard popping up in the host city of major tradeshow, and Samsung’s Wave handset is making just such an entrance at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The previously unannounced handset will be running Samsung’s brand new Bada platform , and appears to be a…
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Sharp and Samsung settle LCD patent cases, end legal disputeBy Engadget on February 8th, 2010 | No Comments
After three years of spent treasure , Sharp and Samsung have finally settled their LCD patent fight. Although the terms of the agreement won’t be made public, a Sharp spokesman was caught boasting about conditions that “will be in favor of Sharp” — the company that kicked off the battle back in 2007. As a recap, the…
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Samsung does the 2TB shuffle with EcoGreen F3EG hard driveBy Engadget on February 3rd, 2010 | No Comments
Look out, Western Digital — you’ve got a little competition up there in the rarefied storage air. Samsung just got official with its newest EcoGreen HDD, the 1.5TB and 2TB F3EG. This here drive is the followup unit to last year’s F2EG , and aside from sucking down as little power as possible…
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Samsung’s 30nm DDR3 DRAM set to lower costs and power consumption later this yearBy Engadget on February 1st, 2010 | No Comments
It seems like we’ve been talking about Samsung and its 30nm promise for an eternity, but ever so slowly real products are starting to head out into real consumers’ hands. After recently announcing its forthcoming NAND memory cards , the company is back with word of 2Gb DDR3 DRAM modules that consume 30 percent less power than…
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Samsung NC10 hacked to accommodate second mini PCI-e slotBy Engadget on January 25th, 2010 | No Comments
Samsung’s NC10 may be getting a tad long in the tooth in the world of netbooks, but it still has its share of fans out there, some of whom are intent on stretching the netbook to its limits. One such individual is Graeme of the SammyNetbook forums, who amazingly managed…












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