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Technology Stocks : Nokia (NOK) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Eric L who wrote (18910)	3/14/2002 10:39:37 AM
From: JohnG	Respond to of 34857

Samsung's Answer to NOK take that NOK -- gotta go to the site (see link) to see the pictures of these clamshells -- pretty sleek. ===================== Eight new handsets from Samsung (intro only -- see site for pics and details --> cellular-news.com , Posted to the site on 13-Mar-2002 The SGH-V100 is the world's first GPRS mobile phone with video on demand. It provides high-speed, wireless access to music videos, Internet broadcast, animation and other motion pictures in colour and the development of the SGH-V100 represents a breakthrough in cellular technology enabling the playback of streaming video content over GPRS networks. The Samsung SGH-V100 has an MPEG-4 decoder that operates from a GPRS platform and built-in stereo sound reproduction. Its 16 polyphonic sound capability means that audio from the video is more realistic and it's 176 x 220 pixel internal viewing screen incorporates the latest TFT-LCD (Thin Film Transistor LCD) technology for clear movie images. The SGH-V100 is a folder type phone with the 176 x 220 pixel, viewing screen inside. An external LCD of 96 x 64 pixels alerts the user to incoming calls and provides information on calls, date and time. TFT-LCDs (Thin Film Transistor LCD) are being introduced by Samsung, for the first time in GSM phones. Using three transistors for each pixel to be able to process red, green and blue the TFT-LCD processes moving images significantly quicker than previous types of screens, has no after image to affect viewing and uses a palate of up to 4,096 colours. Traditionally, LCDs can be difficult to see in direct sunlight or at some angles but these problems do not affect TFT-LCDs. ****