Samsung D980 Dual Sim

Price in Rs: 40,500,USD: $519

Samsung D980 Dual Sim Dual Standby - Half the Trouble Double the PerformanceYou will enjoy the convenience of being able to use 2 SIM cards with one handset. No need to juggle multiple phones; this singular sleek Samsung D980 Dual Sim mobile enables the functionality of two mobiles whether for separating business & personal lives or when roaming. With Samsung D980 Dual Sim mobile You will enjoy the luxury of having a 5 MP camera in their mobile phone. Day or night, you can capture great photos with features like Power LED & Image Stabilization. Samsung D980 Dual Sim - Switch between ‘I’ and ‘Wo’ at a touch

Dimension
97.5 x 55 x 16.3 mm
Weight
117 g
Battery
Talk Time Up to 7 hrs, Standby Up to 320 hrs
Memory
45 MB Built-in + microSD (TransFlash, up to 2 GB supported)
Connectivity
Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, USB, GPRS Class 10 (48 kbps), EDGE Class 10 (236.8 kbps)
Display Size
240 x 320 pixels, 2.6 inches
Display Colour
TFT touchscreen, 256K colors
Operating Frequency / Band
GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 (both sims)
Browser
WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (NetFront 3.4)
Colors
Black
Entertainment
FM radio, MP3/AAC+/MPEG4 player, Games
Camera
5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, flash, video (QVGA@15fps)
Other Features
Document viewer, Built-in handsfree, Voice memo
Ring Tones
Polyphonic (64 channels), MP3
Messaging
SMS, EMS, MMS, Email

Samsung: Solid state will match hard-drive price

PRICE:$100 and $600

Samsung expects solid-state drives to reach price parity with hard-disk drives within the next few years amid steep annual price declines in flash memory chips.
Solid-state drives, which use flash memory chips as the storage medium, typically offer much better performance than hard-disk drives. But they cost more. Currently, opting for an SSD instead of a hard-disk drive will add anywhere between $100 and $600 to the cost of a laptop, depending on the capacity of the SSD.
Dell's Alienware Area-51 laptop (above) and Dell's Studio XPS 16 come with a 256GB solid-state drive option(Credit: Dell)
In a phone interview, Brian Beard, flash marketing manager for Samsung Semiconductor, said reaching price parity with hard-disk drives is just a matter of time. "Flash memory in the last five years has come down 40, 50, 60 percent per year," he said. "Flash on a dollar-per-gigabyte basis will reach price parity, at some point, with hard disk drives in the next few years." Samsung makes both SSDs and HDDs.
Beard explained why a cost gap persists between solid-state drives and hard-disk drives. "The difference in cost is fundamentally very different. A hard drive has a fixed cost of $40 or $50 for the spindle, the motors, the PCB (printed circuit board), the cables," he said. "To make the hard drive spin faster (increase speed) or to add capacity doesn't really add a lot of incremental cost to the drive." (The price for most laptop-class hard-disk drives on the market is between $60 and $100 at retail, Beard said.)
"When you contrast this with SSDs, they also have a fixed cost for the PCB and the case and the controller, which is lower than the fixed cost of a hard drive," according to Beard. "But as you scale the capacity of the SSD up, the cost scales linearly. For example, if the spot price of the flash chip itself is $2, a 64GB drive is going to cost $128 just for the flash and then you would add the fixed cost of the PCB and the case, he said. So, the cost will double as you double the capacity, according to Beard.
This argument, however, works in favor of lower solid-state drive pricing too--as flash memory prices drop and densities and capacities increase. And Beard added that "there's a lot of pressure for OEMs (PC makers) to match the price to the traditional pricing in the hard-drive industry." Samsung is also a PC maker and faces the same pressures.
And what will happen to the price of SSDs this year? "The rest of the year is quite unpredictable. Because the SSD price is directly tied to the price of flash, no one knows. Everyone is just giving their best guess as to what will happen in the flash market," he said. To date, flash memory prices have dropped so much that chipmakers can't make money.
"Every major flash manufacturer posted major losses in Q4. So flash and SSD manufacturers are under a lot of pressure to make a profit," Beard said.
Where is the price-per-gigabyte sweet spot for solid-state drives going to be later this year? "On the business side, the sweet spot is 64(GB) moving to 128. On the consumer side it's definitely 128 moving to 256," he said.
Samsung SSDs with a capacity of 256GB have been shipping since January. Dell offers these drives in some laptop models already. 256GB drives are just now "rolling out into mass production," Beard said. "We'll start shipping it to some of our smaller customers about right now."
Note: Currently, on a Dell Studio XPS 16, opting for a 128GB SSD instead of a 7200rpm 320GB HDD adds $200 to the price of the system. Opting for a 256GB SSD adds $400.

Latest Samsung SPH P-9000 Computer Mobile

Imagine the power of technology taking over your life. Supporting the state-of-the-art WIbro technology, the Samsung SPH P-9000 is a technological marvel. The Samsung SPH P-9000 is the world's first 4G mobile phone. A hi-fi convergence device, the Samsung SPH P-9000 supports video calling and CDMA 2100. This astounding handset also includes a QWERTY KEYPAD and a 5 INCH WVGA LCD screen. Savour multimedia with the Samsung SPH P-9000 which supports amazing multimedia functions and a very large 30MB memory. Redefining communications with top-notch technology, the Samsung SPH P-9000 is the world's biggest mobile phone.

1.3 megapixels

CameraScreen: 800x480 pixels

Bluetooth

Polyphonic

Infra-red

It will cost “under $2,000

Samsung NC20 Notebook Review Roundup

Now that it’s been confirmed that the Samsung NC20 is indeed coming to US shores netbook and notebook fans will have some touch decisions to make. Is the NC20 the best kind of netbook or the worst kind of notebook. (I think most people around here would agree that it’s the former, not the latter.) Check out our full review of the 12-inch netbook and these from around the globe:
NetbookNews.de also has a great series of photos of the NC20 next to the NC10, the Dell Inspiron Mini 12, and, randomly, a cell phone.