Samsung Unveils First Quad Core LED TV With Super Thin Bezel S Recommendation Revamped Smart Hub

Samsung is more than just a fifth horseman in tech — the company is a straight-up powerhouse with the breadth to run your entire digital lifestyle. Last year, the focus was on ecosystem, with smart TV’s, phones and tablets that interact with each other.

This year, Samsung wants your technology to go further than inter-connectivity. The company wants technology to “know you.” That begins with the Samsung LED F8000 TV.

It sports a bezel under a quarter-inch, with a wave inspired stand that gives the illusion of a floating TV. It will range in size from 46 to 75 inches. The TV offers support for the new HD video codec HDVC, which will allow for the best possible streaming content.

This is the first Samsung TV that sports a quad-core chip, offering 3X faster performance when switching from apps to viewing, etc.

The company has also launched S-Recommendation with Voice Interaction, which will not only help you control the TV with your voice but help you find what you want to watch in the first place.

S-Voice and Siri are fighting it out for control of how you communicate with your phone, but we all know the living room is where it’s at for complete ecosystem domination, and clearly Samsung has a leg up here.

The Smart Hub has also been totally revamped, rearranging various categories and panels to be much simpler and easier to use. You can navigate the UI with gestures, remotes, or even your voice.

source:techcrunch

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AT T Reports Big Gains in New TV Subscribers but wireless drives AT Ts Q4

AT&T Technology

AT&T now serves roughly 3 million TV subscribers. In the fourth quarter, AT&T’s revenues from U-Verse services such as TV, high-speed Internet and VoIP totaled $1.3 billion.  

In the fourth quarter, more than 90 percent of AT&T’s U-Verse TV subscribers also purchased high-speed Internet service and 60 percent of the customers also subscribed to U-Verse Voice, the company’s VoIP service. Meanwhile, AT&T said it added 400,000 retail wireless subscribers. Wireless service revenues rose 9.6 percent to $13.8 billion. Net income attributable to the company was $1.1 billion, or $0.18 per diluted share. 

About 90 percent of U-verse TV customers also take U-verse broadband, and about 60 percent take VoIP. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said in the companys earnings call that more than 90 percent of the companys iPhone subscribers are under contract, but warned that "it may be rocky in the beginning of the year, volatile and hard to predict" after Verizon Wireless begins selling the iPhone on Feb. 10. 

AT&T activated 4.1 million iPhones in the fourth quarter and 3.3 million other "integrated devices" – cell phones with qwerty keyboards or touchscreens, bringing the companys total integrated device sales to 7.4 million. The net adds included 400,000 postpaid customers, 307,000 prepaid customers, 1.5 million connected devices and 595,000 new customers from resellers.

Data usage drove the eighth consecutive quarter of growth for AT&Ts postpaid ARPU growth, which reached $62.88 in the fourth quarter. Postpaid data ARPU grew nearly 18 percent to $22.64. Wireless data revenue rose 27 percent to $4.9 billion. The company expects sales to increase over the next year.

By. AT&T Technology

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Samsung Corby TV F339 Specs Manual Review

Samsung Corby TV F339 is a phone which has TV feature, it work on CDMA network and support 3G with CDMA2000 1xEV-DO. This Samsung cell phone was released on 2010, April and available for sale in the market. The key features of this phone are TFT capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors, Smart unlock, Cartoon UI, DNSe (Digital Natural Sound Engine), Mobile TV. The manual document for this phone not available yet, please come back later. For buyers guide, we provide the full specification here.

GENERAL INFO
2G network	CDMA 800
3G network	CDMA2000 1xEV-DO
Announced	2010, April
Status	Available. Released 2010, April

SIZE
Dimensions	103 x 56.5 x 12.2 mm
Weight	92 g

DISPLAY
Type	TFT capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors
Size	240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches (~143 ppi pixel density)
Features	Smart unlock, Cartoon UI

SOUND
Alert types	Vibration, MP3 ringtones
Loudspeaker	Yes
3.5 mm jack	No, DNSe (Digital Natural Sound Engine)

MEMORY
Phone book	2000 contacts, Photocall
Call records	200 received, 200 dialed, 200 missed calls
Internal	79 MB
Card slot	microSD, up to 16 GB

DATA
GPRS	-
EDGE	-
3G	Rev. 0, upto 2.4 Mbps
WLAN	-
Bluetooth	Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infra Red Port	-
USB	Yes, v2.0

CAMERA
Primary	2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels
Features	Smile detection
Video	Yes, QVGA@15fps
Secondary	-

FEATURES
OS	-
CPU	-
Messaging	SMS, MMS, Email
Browser	WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Radio	FM radio
Games	Yes + downloadable
Colors	Jamaican Yellow, Cupid Pink, Minimal White, and Festival Orange; 2 Fashion Jackets
GPS	-
Java	Yes, MIDP 2.1
Other features	Mobile TV, SNS integration with live updates, MP3/WMA/eAAC+ player, Find Music recognition service, H.263/H.264/MP4/WMV player, Organizer, Voice memo, Predictive text input

BATTERY
Type	Standard battery, Li-Ion 960 mAh
Stand-by	Up to 200 h
Talk time	Up to 3 h 20 min
Music Play	-

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LGs latest smart TV Magic Remote can control other devices understand natural language

Weve seen several iterations of LGs Magic remote since it was first introduced in 2010 with gesture control, as it added a click wheel and a mic for voice control (QWERTY for the Google TV), and LG has announced its returning with a new model at CES in a few days. The new Magic remote keeps all of those features and adds on with universal remote capabilities that let it control other hardware in your home theater, and improved software with Natural Language support. That means you can just say the name of a program or a channel, and see it automatically pop up on the screen. The design of the hardware itself has also been tweaked, with repositioned buttons and, on the premium version that ships with higher end TVs, a smaller model with backlit keys. Well surely give it another hand waving, command shouting demo once were in Las Vegas, until then you can just check out another pic and a press release after the break.

Source: Engadget

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