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SAN DIEGO and SEOUL, South Korea, -- DivX, Inc. (Nasdaq: DIVX), a digital media company, and Samsung Electronics Co., LTD, announced that the Samsung Omnia(TM)(1)is the first DivX Certified(R) handset to be released in the U.S. market. The Samsung Omnia, a CDMA phone, will be available to consumers across the U.S. for purchase beginning November 26.

The company Samsung introduced a mobile phone for children - Tobi. As the manufacturer, designing this phone, Samsung designers initially refused to «childishness» in his appearance: Tobi performed well in the adult and respectable form factor slider. Samsung Tobi - is an apparatus which will enable a child, always seeking to grow, to feel a high. The functionality of the device, according to the company, is an excellent choice for the first mobile phone: bright and contrasting QCIF screen with a diagonal 1.9-inch, support for microSD cards up to 8 GB, audio player, 1.3-MP camera and support for Bluetooth 2.0 Protocol + EDR.

Samsung announces the Tobi S3030 a really cool slider phone design with pre-teens and young adults in mind. Not only teens but if you are a kid at heart don’t be afraid to go and get a Tobi because you are as old as you feel.
Samsung used eco-friendly materials without any polyvinyl chloride (PVC) while [...]

CHICAGO — Motorola Inc. has ceded the top spot in U.S. mobile-phone sales to Samsung Electronics Co., according to a report released Friday by Boston-based research firm Strategy Analytics.

In the third quarter, Samsung posted market share of 22.4 percent to become the No. 1 handset manufacturer in the U.S. for the first time. Motorola fell to second place with a 21.1 percent share.

About 30 percent of mobile phone shipments in the U.S. are smart phones, devices that can e-mail and surf the Web.

Co-Chief Executive Sanjay Jha has acknowledged that Motorola needs to put out more smart phones and will face challenges through the first half of 2009 while it develops products.

Microsoft UK is running an unusual viral campaign to promote its Bluetrack technology. We have already seen a couple of mice before featuring Bluetrack technology which is in fact nothing but the freedom for the mouse to work almost on every surface.

Sony PlayStation Blog posted an announcement of a new firmware update for PS3. It is a minor update with couple of changes.

- The playback quality of some PS3 format software has been improved.
- A text entry issue that occurs when using the on-screen keyboard, USB keyboard or Bluetooth keyboard with some PS3 format software has been addressed.

[Via PlayStation Blog]

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Not so famous, USI recently showed up their mobile internet device at the Intel Developer Forum to take the crown for thinnest MID built on Intel Atom processor. USI MID-160 is one good device to look at and has equally good specifications in a slim 1.5cm profile. Its got a nice 5-inch WVGA touch screen supporting 800X480 pixel of resolution, 512MB of RAM, GPS and Ubuntu Linux distro as the default OS.

New Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Handset Boasts State-of-the-Art Features Including Wi-Fi, Built-in aGPS, Video Share and 2.0 Megapixel Camera

AT&T customers can now have a smartphone of "epix" proportions. AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) announced the availability of the Samsung Epix™, an innovative new smartphone featuring both an advanced touch screen and new optical mouse technology that is powered by AT&T's 3G network, the nation's fastest, and the Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system.

The notorious Red Ring of Death (RRoD) which has hounded Xbox 360 for quite a long time has finally got a legal recognition. A class action suit has been filed in California against Microsoft alleging them of selling defective consoles in order to compete with PS3 and Wii.

The lawsuit cites articles from various publications where the RRoD was already reported and says that Microsoft already knew as many as 50% of the consoles were vulnerable with the overheating problem.

Spotted on Akihabara, Samsung just announced thier new hi-performance SSDs (32 and 64) GB. This SSD is recomended for your server computer. This samsung SSD can achieve 100MB/s in reading mode. For writing mode, it has slower (of course!) speed for about 80MB/s. The SSD has tested for “ProLiant BL495c G5 Virtualization Blade Server” a HP server computer.

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Samsung today rolled out not one but two portable hard drives in Korea. The 1.8 inch S1 and 2.5 inch S2 portable hard drives are available in piano black, wine red, snow white and chocolate brown colors. The Samsung S1 has a maximum capacity of 160GB and the S2 for to 500GB storage capacity. Samsung will release these storage devices in Europe in November 2008. [i4u]

Three awards to Samsung, Nokia E71 wins two

Samsung scooped up three awards at last night’s Mobile Choice Awards. The company won the title of Best Manufacturer, while the i8510 was named best camera phone and the F400 the best music phone.

Sure the specs are the same as any other netbook in the highly saturated market right now, but Samsung at least got one thing right: price!

The company will sell its NC10 netbook later this month for 299 GBP, and that's including VAT. This comes out to approximately $530 in US dollars, but Samsung is sure to cut the price further in the States, so it's all okay.

For 300 GBP, you will land a 10.2 inch, 1.3kg netbook with a 160GB hard drive and 1GB RAM. And it doesn't look too shabby either.