Swype, a Seattle-based company that develops a new way of typing on touchscreen displays, has secured a $5.6 million funding from Nokia and Samsung (via the companies’ subsidiaries Nokia Growth Partners and Samsung Ventures, respectively).

Reportedly, Swype allows users to write “over 40 words per minute on touchscreen devices” by intelligently guessing the words you want to type, and the new funding will further help it improve its technology.

For the moment, only one handset features Swype’s technology (Verizon’s Omnia II), but Swype plans to offer it to several other WM and Android smartphones next year – and maybe to Nokia’s touchscreen handsets, too.

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Somedays ago the Korean company had unveiled their latest smartphone processor namely ARM Cortex-A8. Along with it, Samsung also announced the bigger one designed for netbooks. The latter comes with a 5 Mpx system-on-chip image sensor with capability for processing 1080p video at 30 fps.

The smartphone chipset (S5PC110) and the netbook alternative ( S5PV210) have been designed for better battery endurable. They use a 45-nanometer (nm) Low Power of fabrication process as well as low power of architectures. They feature 1GHz clock speed with 512KB L2 cache. Other than that, you can find on them support for 1080p full HD video playback as well as recording at 30 fps and the built-in 3D graphics engine. (more…)

This latest news says that Samsung has developed its first commercial LTE modem for cellphone. This is also the first LTE modem that meet the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project latest standard.
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Another Samsung Solar-Powered phone has got an official name. No, it is not the budget phone Samsung E1107. This one is the Samsung Blue Earth, the solar powered Samsung phone that was introduced back in February 09.

Anyway, the Samsung Blue Earth’s official name is Samsung S7750. That being said, here are several features related to the green side of the Samsung S7750 Blue Earth:

• 1 hour of solar charging gets you 10 minutes of talk or 2 days of standby
• Touchscreen
• Solar panel
• Front and rear facing cameras
• Eco-walk – essentially a pedometer that calculates how far you’ve walked and determines how much carbon you are saving by not driving
• The handset housing is made from recyclable plastics, owing to its eco-friendly roots

Our source is saying that we might be able to see the Samsung Blue Earth S7750 on the street later this year. So let’s cross your fingers with me, earth lovers

Ok now that the Samsung Reclaim -claimed as a green phone with nice features- will arrive a few days from now, it is about time for someone to start talking about the performance of the Reclaim. And it seems that our folks at MobileCrunch has done that. They also have several arguable statements on the Green-ness of the phone. Read on to find out more.

Our folks said that :

• the fact that the phone is manufactured and shipped from Korea makes this phone has burned up many fuels in the shipping process
• Five pamphlets. 100 pages of extra stuffs that most people won’t read. Those information should be stored in the SD card to save paper, ink (even though they’re made from recycled materials), and time and energy
• The box is too huge and too much empty spaces (also caused by the 5 pamphlets)

Ok so let’s discussed this Do you agree?

It is time for Samsung Omnia HD i8910 tips and tricks. This time I will discuss a simple tips on setting photo contacts on the Samsung Omnia HD i8910. Recently I found this interesting article on the KnowYourMobile. As you might already know, the Samsung Omnia HD i8910 runs on Symbian S60 5th edition and it is a touchscreen phone.  It also has a nice features that allows user to associate images on the Omnia HD with a contact.

Get the idea? Not yet? Here’s further explanation: By swiping a finger from left to right on the homescreen, users can pull up the Photo Contacts menu, which is displayed as a scrollable cascade of images. You can assign numbers to boxes you can place on the image, and make calls or send messages simply by pressing them.

Ok so let’s start; shall we?

Setting up Photo Contacts

1. In the homescreen, swipe your finger across from left to right.
2. In the Photo Contacts screen, tap the centre panel onscreen to add a new Photo Contact (alternatively, press the Add button).
3. A list of your photos stored on the phone is displayed.
4. Scroll up or down to locate the one you want to use. Drag your finger up or down the display, or press the sidebar and drag with your finger. When you’ve found the image you want to use, press it twice to select .
5. The image will be added to the Photo Contacts screen.

To add contacts…press edit, press add area and a small yellow box will appear, drag and drop the box anywhere on the display, resize by dragging the corner of the box, and press OK, options box opens and press link to phonebook and you’ll be taken to the photo contacts list, locate contact and assign to the photo contact image, press contact twice to select, a select phone number appears, select the number and press OK and the contact number is assigned to the image.

Hope this help

If you are someone who love all things that are eco-friendly, then the new Samsung phone from Sprint  might be just the phone for you. Just recently Sprint has officially announced the ec0-friendly Samsung Reclaim. They said that the Samsung Reclaim is the first phone in U.S. that uses the eco-friendly bio-plastic materials and it is 80% recyclable.

According to our source, the Samsung Reclaim will be available on August 16 with less than $50 price tag for 2 years of contract plan. Wal-Mart will also start sell the phone in early September. If you buy the phone from Sprint, you will donate $2 for The Nature Conservancy’s Adopt an Acre program, which supports land conservation across the United States and protects some of the world’s most beautiful and important natural habitats.

Talking about the specs and features, Sprint claimed that the Samsung Reclaim is more than just an eco-friendly phones. It got several cool features, such as:

• a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard making it easy to access personal or corporate email as well as text and multimedia messaging;
• Sprint Navigation with Search, providing easy access to directory information and GPS-enabled directions;
• 2 megapixel camera with 3x digital zoom and camcorder;
• advanced stereo Bluetooth® 2.0;
• expandable memory storage up to 32GB;
• an integrated Web browser; and
• two color options – Earth Green and Ocean Blue.

Ok so do you want to buy one?

(this above is the Innov8, slightly photoshopped)

The next round of MP camera phones race is on start, and Samsung is making a dash right from the start. At the Mobile World Congress ’09 on 16th this month they plan to bring 12 MP Beast into play, while the US carriers are still battling to be the first with an 8-megapixel shooter on their shelves.

Samsung was the first vendor to bring out an 8MP camera phone (the Innov8, which was launched just one month before Sony Ericsson’s C905), and it will likely be the first to announce and launch a 12MP handset too. It’s said that Samsung plans to begin mass production before the end of February, with the intention of releasing it in Europe first. Previous reports said that Samsung also wants to produce an 8MP phone with 3x optical zoom. So there won’t be any surprise if we also see that at MWC 2009, alongside the 12MP handset.

We heard that Sony had some cameraphone-ready 12 megapixel CMOS sensors back in last year—which they will hopefully be set up on phone by March, and Samsung might have similar sensors prepped and packed inside some hardware by now.

Via: Unwiredview

The  miniaturization trend continues… . This time, Samsung Techwin announces world’s smalles 8MP camera modules for phones, which it aims to mass-produce soon. According to the company, its 8.3mm thick camera module is 40% smaller than currently existing products, measuring 8.5mm by 8.5mm in size. This ought to pave the way for uber-sexy, RAZR-like 8-megapixel cameraphones in the future.

So while you already have phones that are thinner than ever, expect them to shed even more millimeters as time progresses, even though they keep gaining better features by the pocket-load. Those 8-megapixel camera phones with bad-ass optical zoom will become sexy in the future.

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