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SEK2006: Towards a U-Korea

By Justin Ong - 26 Jun 2006

Samsung's Booth

Samsung's Booth

Evident by the MT50, Samsung is also very much involved in media centre PCs. Succeeding the older MT40, the MT50 runs on the newer Intel 945 chipset and is Viiv optimized. However, any more talks about its details are futile as it is, like many good things, for the Korea market only.

The MX40 is designed for consumers who had enough of boring beige boxes of conventional computing disposition. Apart from its obvious styling freshness, the system also features Samsung's AvStation Premium, DNIe, and Multimedia Instant On, functions that are common in Samsung notebooks as well.

Despite the conservative culture of Koreans as a whole, the population is surprising fast to embrace new technologies. Barely a year after DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) was kicked off in South Korea, a good fraction of Koreans can be seen walking around with a handset similar to the SCH-B410 shown above to enjoy mobile TV programming. It even packs TV-out and MP3 functions.

Right beside the SCH-B410 is the SCH-B500 slider handset with very similar functions to the former phone. Keen readers would have probably observed that it doesn't quite resemble images of the highly publicized 7.7-megapixel SCH-B500 cameraphone posted all over the Internet sometime back.

With the country pushing for HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) to realize its goal of 4G by 2010, Samsung has timely launched its first HSDPA handset, the SCH-W200. Through HSDPA, the handset is well capable of data transmission speeds into the 1.8Mbps range. It is also a DMB receiver with TV-out jack.

Along with the unveiling of WiBro (derivative of mobile WiMAX) in June is the new SPH-M8000 WiBro ready smartphone. Naturally, with WiBro providing citywide mobile Internet coverage, VoIP is naturally a key selling point, and like the majority of Korean handsets, DMB is also supported.

Its design may be controversial but there's no denying that the SPH-S4300 is one sleek and functional multifunction communication handset. It is a phone, 1GB MP3 player, FM radio, sound recorder, and a 1.3-megapixel camera all rolled into one. Well, it's just a COOL gadget in our books.

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