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Samsung introduces S2 USB HDD loaded with Michael Jackson movie

Samsung introduces S2 USB HDD loaded with Michael Jackson movie

 
UPDATE: Amazon UK has started taking pre-orders. It will be shipped in UK from March 1 at a price of GBP 69.99. Product Page
Samsung will be wooing all Michael Jackson fans by selling a special edition of its portable S2 external hard drive. The special edition drive will come in a golden hue with MJ’s [...]

Samsung GT-B3710 LTE USB dongle now available

 
Samsung has announced the sales of its LTE USB dongle, GT-B3710. The dongle takes advantage of TeliaSonera’s newest LTE network to deliver speeds fiber-like speeds over-the-air at up to 100Mbps. Samsung’s dongle is based on its Kalmia chip, supports 2.6GHz band and is fully compliant with 3GPP LTE Release 8 standard.
An updated version of [...]

Samsung’s 3.5-inch STORY Station Plus HDD now features eSATA

 
UPDATE: The drives will be released by the end of this month for $299 (2TB).
Current Samsung STORY Station HDDs support only USB 2.0 interface but now with the arrival of STORY Station Plus, the new external HDDs also support eSATA. Winner of Good Design Award, the STORY Station Plus will give users the freedom to [...]

Samsung will provide TeliaSonera world’s first 4G/LTE USB modems

Samsung will provide TeliaSonera world’s first 4G/LTE USB modems

 
TeliaSonera have struck a deal with Samsung that will mostly make the European operator, the first ones to sell 4G/LTE modems. The modem (GT-B3710) is USB-based and will be available commercially in Sweden and Norway in 2010 with a promise of up to 10 times higher speed than available today.
The chip inside the LTE [...]

Samsung adds new capacities to its S Series external HDD line

 
Samsung added two storage capacities to its S Series external HDD lineup – the 3.5-inch S3 Station and 2.5-inch S2 portable has now got a capacious 2TB and 640GB options respectively. Apart from the larger storage, these S Series drives come with the same features like Auto Backup, SecretZone and SafetyKey.
The 640GB S2 [...]

Samsung unveils largest capacity 1.8-inch external HDD

 
Looks like Samsung has used its Spinpoint N3U to bring the first 250GB capacity 1.8-inch external USB HDD to the world. They have added 250 and 200GB variants to its 1.8-inch S1 Mini line and if you were to consume all the 250GB space, it would take around 80,000 photos or 60,000 MP3s or 96 [...]

Samsung intros 1.8-inch 250GB HDD with native USB controller

Samsung intros 1.8-inch 250GB HDD with native USB controller

 
Samsung has announced a new hard drive to cater to the 1.8-inch external HDD market. The Spinpoint N3U comes in capacities of up to 250GB and instead of adding a bridge circuit board to convert the PATA interface to USB, the new drives integrate the USB controller right on its printed circuit board.
With no [...]

Samsung develops high-speed USB wireless chip

Samsung develops high-speed USB wireless chip

 
Samsung has successfully developed a high-speed Ultra Wide-Band (UWB) chip that touts have the fastest data transfer rate. The chip combines ARM9 core-based baseband processor and flash controller to attain high rate of data speeds.
The USB chip now reaches a speed of 120Mbps, which is 70MB faster than the current lot of UWB chips. Samsung [...]