Samsung revealed its latest smartphone today, the Google Android 2.2-powered Galaxy K.
Sporting a large 3.7″ AMOLED Plus touchscreen and juiced by a 1GHz processor, the Samsung Galaxy K promises to offer a wide range of capabilities; built-in support for Adobe Flash 10.1 is one example. The Galaxy K also boasts 8GB of internal storage along with wireless features such as WiFi and Bluetooth.
The Samsung Galaxy K will first see release in South Korea at a price of about $700 USD.
The announcements from Samsung have been nearly non-stop this past week, with word from the company on everything from updated manufacturing capacity to the potential for Google Android to be seen on Samsung television sets.
The first big news from Samsung was in regards to their ongoing display manufacturing unit with the announcement that the company’s newest plant, to be brought online in July 2011, will increase production from 3 million to 30 million display units per month. The recent problems faced by Samsung in production have forced companies like HTC to look elsewhere for AMOLED and Super AMOLED displays. A press release this week has also outlined Samung’s venture into so-called moviNAND chips, embedded flash chips allowing for far higher processing power then previously experienced in mobile phones.
And finally, a report this morning from Bloomberg quotes Samsung’s head of television development, Yoon Boo Keun, as saying that his company is considering the use of the Google Android operating system in its next generation of consumer television sets. Given the huge rise in the purchase of web-enabled televisions over the next few years, the use of a web-based OS on your next TV holds great promise.
Mobile phone manufacturer Samsung wrapped up its week at CES 2010 with the announcement of its new March For a Million Phones program, a green effort aimed at recycling phones.
Striving for the recycling of one million handsets during 2010 in the United States alone, Samsung’s Telecommunications Chief Marketing Officer Paul Golden introduced the program in Las Vegas on Friday. The company promises that the recycling effort will include any and all handsets, not just those manufactured by Samsung, though the company has suggested that it could begin offering recycling bags and pre-paid mailing packages for its own devices.
Golden suggested that major sponsorship was on the way for the program, enabling a wider education program that will see programs instituted in schools and major places of business along with intake bins located at every event throughout the year that Samsung associates itself with.
Here’s hoping that this effort helps to set a new trend in the mobile industry this year with the aim of reducing or even eliminating harmful e-waste.
Samsung has agreed to settle with camera-manufacturer Kodak in a suit that saw Samsung accused of infringing on two of Kodak’s camera patents. Samsung will pay an undisclosed amount to the plaintiff and the companies will sign a cross-licensing agreement to avoid similar trouble in the future.
An American International Trade Commission judge ruled last week that Samsung had indeed violated Kodak’s patents, setting the stage for today’s settlement. While in-court details have been kept to a minimum, the patents in question reportedly related to capture and preview, data storage and image compression.
LG settled a similar case with Kodak earlier this month.
Samsung has announced that they are developing a new mobile operating system for their entire lineup, from feature phones to smartphones. Dubbed Bada, Samsung promises a simple and intuitive user experience through a smooth graphical interface with original design. An app store is planned for future release, allowing third-party developers to write new apps for the Bada OS.
Bada is planned for release next month with the launch of the first Bada-powered handset coming in Q1 2010.
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