Gizmo Ave

Short Version: Samsung’s SyncMaster XL2370 is a 23-inch LED backlit monitor that retails for around $300. At under eight pounds and less than two inches thick, there’s a lot to like here.

Last year Samsung set up stall in the mini-camcorder market with the HMX-U10 — a quirkily shaped device that offered HD video and a 10-megapixel camera to boot. This year it’s flogging the all-new HMX-U20 and HMX-U15, two feature-rich minicams with equally hard-to-remember names.

If you’re bored of 3G, it’s time to take things to the next level. Which is 4G, obviously. The Samsung N150 is the first 4G netbook, making it able to connect to the Web wherever you wander. 3G is the technology that lets you browse the Web at usable speeds over your mobile phone signal. [...]

There’s nothing like wacky convergence to brighten up a long day at the Mobile World Congress phone extravaganza. So we were keen to take a look at the Samsung Beam i8520, the phone with a tiny projector in. Will it light up our lives?

The Samsung Wave is the first phone to rock Samsung’s new mobile operating system, Bada, which aims to make feature phones more app-friendly. We first heard the rumbles of the approaching tsunami after Samsung flaunted the Wave on a billboard outside Mobile World Congress on Friday. The Wave’s frothy crest is a 84mm (3.3-inch) touchscreen [...]

The 800MHz ARM11-powered Samsung Mondi WiMAX MID (SWD-M100) became commercially available today for those in Clearwire’s mobile WiMAX service areas (currently Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Portland, OR) to put the “blazing fast internet in the palm of [their] hand.” The 5.39-ounce Windows Mobile 6.1 slider can be put into the hands of those residing in [...]

At its ‘Unpacked’ event here in London and numerous cities worldwide, Samsung has introduced its latest fully touchscreen phone — the Samsung Jet. It’s packing a 79mm (3.1-inch) AMOLED screen running at an impressive 800×480-pixel resolution, a 5-megapixel camera and, so Samsung says, a processor that makes the Jet the fastest fully touchscreen phone on [...]