Posts Tagged ‘ Samsung ’

CES: How About A 128G Solid-State iPod?

Jan 7th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, iPods & Portable Media Players

At the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung announced that it has developed a multi-level cell (MLC) flash-based 128 Gigabyte (GB) solid state drive (SSD) that it will produce this year in 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch versions for notebook and desktop PCs, as well as other mobile applications.
The new drive offers a data writing speed of 70 [...]



Samsung Intros 120GB iPod Hard Drive

Apr 25th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: General

Samsung has introduced a new “jumbo shrimp” hard drive, the 120 GB 1.8-inch SpinPoint N2. The tiny drive¬†brings the first 120GB capacity to portable handheld devices, which could lead to the highest-capacity iPods ever.
Specs:

The N2 spins at 3,600rpm or 4,200rpm
15-ms average seek
sub-1W power consumption

Production of the 1.8-drive begins in July.
via Engadget



Samsung And VoiceIndigo Partner On Mobile Podcasting Service

Apr 9th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Corporate Podcasts, Mobile Podcasting, Podcasting Services

VoiceIndigo has announced a worldwide partnership with Samsung to bring podcasting to Samsung mobile phones. Samsung Mobile Podcasts by VoiceIndigo will be pre-loaded on Samsung mobile phones. The first model with the service is now shipping, the Samsung UpStage.
VoiceIndigo is a free service that lets users manage their podcasts via a simple web interface. The [...]



Apple, Samsung, Sandisk Hit With MP3 Lawsuits

Mar 2nd, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Music, iPods & Portable Media Players

A little-known Texas firm, Texas MP3 Technologies, is suing Apple, Samsung Electronics, and Sandisk for patent-infringement, based on their use of MP3 technology. Texas MP3 Technologies alleges infringement on U.S. patent 7,065,417, which was awarded in June 2006 to multimedia chip-maker SigmaTel and covers “an MPEG portable sound reproducing system and a method for reproducing [...]