In korea,Samsung’s 75-inch 3D TV Has Been aAnnounced

In korea,Samsung’s 75-inch 3D TV Has Been aAnnounced

Have you seen such a big TV before?I haven’t.

Unbelievable?It’s true.Samsung keeps its step to meet the needs of 3D age.Look at thetelevision picture above.

3D is best served on a large plate, which is why Samsung’s latest HDTV got us all dribbling over our TV munchies. This 75-inch platter, dubbed D9500, has stolen the short-lived crown off LG’s 72-inch LZ9700 to become the world’s largest LED-backlit 3D LCD HDTV, and obviously Samsung’s still staying faithful to its active shutter 3D technology following its recent price drop on its glasses. The 240Hz display will also come with the usual Smart TV features, garnished by a QWERTY flip remote for your web-browsing and SNS needs on that large screen. Oddly enough, only an ex-factory price of a whooping ₩19,000,000 ($17,600) is quoted here, so customers will have to pay a bit more than that during the pre-sales at the end of the month. Alternatively, you can hold off your shopping spree until Samsung pushes out its 70-inch “Ultra Definition” 3DTV.

Netflix Android App Hijacked From The LG Revolution, Being Leaked To The Internets

The LG Revolution isn’t even available yet, but some crazy resourceful lads have already managed to get a full dump of the handset’s innards. As we showed you (before anyone else!)back at Mobile World Congress, the LG Revolution just happens to be the only handset with the Netflix app on it right now — but now that the system dump is in the wild, the hacker-type crowds have ripped it out to be shared with everyone.

Alas, there’s a bit of bad news.

The bad news: You can’t… actually stream anything, right now. While the dudes over at DroidLife are thinking it’s just a matter of the Netflix team firing up things on their end, I think there might be more to it than that; last I’d heard, Qualcomm and Netflix had partnered for the DRM/Security setup in this app, requiring specific hardware in the device’s chipset (beyond that already found in most Snapdragon phones) before playback can go down.

In other words: unless something’s changed or the always-clever hacking community finds a workaround, chances seem pretty good that streaming will only work on the handsets that they intend it to work on.

On the upside, you can still use this leaked APK to browse around Netflix and manage your queue. That’s a start, right? You can find the download link over at DroidLife.

LG Revolution passing through the FCC, four Gs intact

We managed to see plenty of the LG Revolution at both CES and Mobile World Congress, and it's now finally cleared one of the final hurdles on its way to availability. While there's unfortunately none of the usual teardown pictures to be found just yet, the phone has now passed all of the FCC's various tests, and been slapped with the requisite label to prove it. Sadly, we still don't have much indication of a release date but, as Wireless Goodness points out, there's an increasingly good chance that this could actually be Verizon's first 4G phone if the HTC Thunderbolt delays continue.

LG Optimus 2X now coming to Europe in March, a little later than planned

European dual-core aficionados were promised their fix way back in January from LG, however the Korean company's delivery schedule evidently slipped a tiny bit as we're today bidding adieu to the month of February. Good news is that LG will definitely, totally, honestly be releasing its Optimus 2X in "key European markets" this March. It'll ship with Froyo on board, however a Gingerbread update is expressly promised, which should allay fears of being left with a very powerful but outdated piece of hardware. Last time we looked, Amazon's German branch had priced this handset, to be known as theOptimus Speed in Deutschland, at just under €500, which sounds about right for its eventual unlocked price. 

Samsung Crafting World's First Color Quantum Dot Display

Samsung's researchers have created what it says is the world's first quantum dot display. Quantum dot displays offer a number of benefits, including brighter colors, reduced manufacturing costs, while still allowing for extremely thin displays. Samsung's color quantum dot display is four inches across the diagonal, and the dots are turned on and off by a thin transistor film. Quantum dots can be used in rigid glass as well as flexible plastic displays. The technology still needs a lot of development time, however, and won't be available in electronics devices for at least three years. In late 2010, LG Display and QD Vision announced a partnership whereby the two companies would work together on active matrix, quantum-dot LEDs (QLEDs). LG and QD didn't comment on when quantum dot displays would become available.

HOT ! Mobile World Congress Was Dominated by Google's Android OS

The biggest European mobile technology show of the year has now closed down in Barcelona, leaving a record number of global smartphone premieres behind (as well as a few tablets). What all of these devices have in common is their operating system: the Android OS.

Even though Nokia and Microsoft started the hottest topic of the show three days before the Mobile World Congress even began by announcing their strategic collaboration, as this tradeshow ended it was clear that the biggest star and winner was actually Google. This was the first time in MWC history that there was no premiere of a device with Symbian OS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry OS or any other platform that is not Android.

The story that Nokia would be using the Windows Phone 7 as its main platform for all future smartphones got watered down by the end of the tradeshow, largely because of big spectacles made at the start of the show by Samsung and Sony Ericsson to announce their new Android OS models.

Samsung
First, Samsung presented its Galaxy S II as the successor of a smartphone which has sold over 10 million units all over the world. The Galaxy S II will have a bigger screen, even though it is going to be slimmer and lighter than its predecessor -- it might even be the world's thinnest smartphone as well, but that is still in question. It will also have a dual core processor, a Super AMOLED Plus display and TouchWiz 4.0 user interface.

More information on this model is available in this preliminary review:

• Samsung Galaxy S II Hands-On Preview

Sony EricssonStraight after this, Sony Ericsson revealed three cell phones with Google's operating system: the XPERIA Play, XPERIA neo and XPERIA pro.

By far, the one that garnered the most attention was the "PlayStation Phone", XPERIA Play, which represents the first actual gaming console and cell phone hybrid with its 4-inch 480 by 854-pixel screen, 1GHz processor and Adreno 205 GPU. XPERIA Play will be released by Verizon this spring, and about 50 games will be available for it at launch.

A first-look review of this smartphone can be found here:

• Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play Hands-On Preview

The remaining two models from Sony Ericsson, the XPERIA neo and XPERIA pro will use Android OS 2.3 (Gingerbread) as their platform with the Timescape/Mediascape user interface, as used by previous Sony Ericsson phones supporting Android. Both will have 3.7-inch capacitive screens, 8-megapixel back-facing cameras, and Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon processors. The difference between these two devices will be that the XPERIA pro is a slider with a QWERTY keyboard.

LG
All of these announcements came before the Mobile World Congress had even officially started. On the first "real" day of the tradeshow, LG unveiled the Optimus 3D, which lives up to its name with a  4.3-inch 3D display, for which special glasses are not necessary. A 3D camera is also going to be included. 

For a more in-depth look at this Android-based smartphone, read this first-impressions review:

• LG Optimus 3D Hands-On Preview

HTC
Not to be outdone, HTC announced five smartphones -- all running the Android OS.

The Desire S, Incredible S and Wildfire S will only receive minor upgrades hardware-wise compared to their currently-available predecessors which do not have the "S" in their name. This left MWC attendees more interested in guessing why the Taiwanese manufacturer chose to add this letter to their names than in the actual devices themselves.

The HTC ChaCha and Salsa show a bit more innovation -- the two HTC "Facebook Phones" will include Gingerbread and a special key with the Facebook logo. When it is pressed, the phones are going to automatically bring up Facebook to the very segment of this social network that is associated to what the user is doing. For instance, if they were taking a photograph, a punch of this key would automatically upload the image to their Facebook profile.

The ChaCha will have a 2.6-inch screen, a 600 MHz processor and a QWERTY keypad, while Salsa will not have a physical keyboard, but it is going to include a 3.4-inch display. Both of these models are headed for AT&T.

Tablets, TooMobile World Congress 2011 was about more than smartphones, as this has become a venue for tablets, too.

Samsung presented its Galaxy Tab 10.1, its first Android OS 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablet. It comes with a touchscreen measuring 10.1 inches and weighs in at just 1.23 pounds, making it noticeably lighter than the iPad and Motorola XOOM. The secret behind it all is that it is entirely crafted out of solid plastic.

A preliminary review can be found on Brighthand's sister site,TabletPCReview.com:

• Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Hands-On Preview

In addition to its 3D smartphone, LG also presented a tablet which has 3D features -- the Optimus Pad, also known as the G-Slate. This is going to be an 8.9-inch tablet with Android OS 2.3 (Honeycomb), a stereoscopic back-facing camera for recording 3D video which can be watched on its screen with 3D glasses.

A first impressions review is on TabletPCReview.com:

• LG G-Slate/Optimus Pad Hands-On Preview

The tablet which got the most exposure in Barcelona was presented during the second half of the show, the HTC Flyer. It will come with a 7-inch display and Android OS 2.3 (Gingerbread) and HTC's Sense UI, adjusted for tablets. The Flyer will have an additional level of functionality due to the N-trig pen and HTC`s Scribe technology.

• HTC Flyer Hands-On Preview

LTE Was MIA
Apart from Google's Android OS, all of the devices presented in Barcelona have one more thing in common: they do not support LTE. Given that several smartphones and tablets that will use this up-to-date 4G technology were presented at CES in Las Vegas last month, Europe continues to lag behind the United States when it comes to LTE expansion.

Two of the biggest hits of the show were the Samsung Galaxy S II and the HTC Flyer support HSPA+ technology, but, it is clear that Europe will have to wait a while for new devices that support LTE.

Samsung's Galaxy S II having a Tegra 2 version?

Just as we lay to rest the ghost of a phantom Tegra 2 chip inside the LG Revolution, here comes the specter of another unconfirmed appearance for NVIDIA's dual-core application processor, this time inside Samsung's Galaxy S II. If you'll recall, we were initially informed by Samsung's PR crew that their new Android flagship would run on NVIDIA's hardware, however a subsequent correction informed us that the processor inside would in fact be Samsung's own Exynos. Now, it turns out, both might be true.AnandTech have come across some benchmark results showing a GT-i9103 with Tegra 2 listed as its grunt provider, while Pocket-lint and others have noted that Samsung's own spec sheet for the Galaxy S II states that the dual-core Exynos "may not be applicable in some regions." The likeliest scenario here is that Samsung hasn't yet reached sufficient volumes with its own processor production and will rely on NVIDIA's Tegra 2 for handsets outside its critical markets -- much in the same vein as it replaced Super AMOLED with Super Clear LCD screens in Russia and some other territories. Don't fret too much, though, performance disparities between the two aren't likely to be overly significant.

LG Revolution now using 1GHz Snapdragon MSM8655, not NVIDIA's Tegra 2

Consider it a mystery solved. Throughout the week here in Barcelona, we've spent an inordinate amount of time chasing down suits from LG, Qualcomm, NVIDIA and Verizon Wireless to answer one simple question: "What's up with the processor in the Revolution?" If you'll recall, NVIDIA actually sent one of its own to Verizon's LTE press event at CES 2011, specifically to bust out a Revolution and gloat about the Tegra 2 chip within (video's after the break if you don't believe us). As it stood, it seemed as if the Thunderbolt and Revolution would be butting heads from a CPU standpoint, with the former definitively sporting a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8655. And then, came the confusion. We showed up at Qualcomm's booth here at Mobile World Congress to see which phone it was using to demonstrate the recently unveiled Netflix-on-Android support -- lo and behold, LG's Revolution was the handset of choice. Obviously, there had to be a new Snapdragon processor within, as only the newest of the new will have the necessary DRM libraries at a hardware level that are necessary to pass muster with the MPAA. 

After venturing over to LG's booth, we were also able to confirm that the only Revolution it knew of was boasting a Qualcomm CPU, and the shot above (which was sourced from there) proves it. We also confirmed with Verizon Wireless' paperwork that the version it's expecting in the next month or so will ship with Qualcomm inside. Finally, NVIDIA refused to comment on the matter, simply suggesting that we contact LG for more details. Put all of that together, and we're able to come to two main conclusions. First off, it seems as if LG yanked support for the Tegra 2 at some point between CES and MWC -- right around four weeks. Hard to say if there were reliability issues, an unsatisfactory amount of power drain, or just irreconcilable differences between the two CEOs (joking, of course). Secondly, it's reasonablysafe to assume that Verizon's Revolution will be the first Android handset on Big Red to stream Netflix directly, which may please those who were planning on buying one but weren't looking forward to going without Netflix thanks to the Tegra 2 that was (presumably) slated for inclusion. Qualcomm 1, NVIDIA 0. 

Update: NVIDIA finally saw fit to drop us a line and clarify a bit. Turns out, the confirmation in the video below was a gaff to begin with, as the Revolution was never going to be outfitted with NVIDIA innards. Go figure, right?

Vlad Savov contributed to this report. 

LG Optimus 3D's OMAP 4 benchmarked, pulling ahead of Exynos and Tegra 2

Which dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 system-on-a-chip rules the roost? It's probably too early to tell, but if you're looking for a preliminary verdict, AnandTech has benchmarked all three of them now. Texas Instruments' OMAP 4430, NVIDIA's Tegra 2 and Samsung's Exynos 4210 went head to head in a gauntlet of browser and graphical benchmarks, and it looks like the LG Optimus 3D's OMAP 4 came out on top, boasting minor but significant improvements practically across the board. Good news for the BlackBerry PlayBook, no? Oh, and if you're wondering why the iPhone 4 and Atrix 4G fall behind their older brethren in the image above, remember that they both have to render images at a higher screen resolution. More graphs at our source link below.

LG G-Slate to Appear at MWC...As the Optimus Pads

In Europe, it turns out you don't call it the G-Slate.

LG Electronics' recently revealed G-Slate (as it's called here in the states) will be making an appearance at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, only it will go by the name Optimus Pad. LG sent out a Korean press release today about the impending announcement of the European variant at the MWC, which will run from February 14 to the 17.

Despite the fact that in Europe the device is referred to as the Optimus Pad, it should maintain the same specs as the American G-Slate, which were unveiled not too long ago. Powered by an Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, the Optimus Pad/G-Slate will have 32 GB of internal storage, an 8.9-inch screen with 3D capabilities, a front-facing camera, and will run Google Android OS 3.0, aka Honeycomb.

LG G-Slate 3D Demoed on Videos

Not long after it was revealed that the LG G-Slate 3D would be showcased at the upcoming Mobile World Congress -- under the European moniker of the Optimus Pad -- a video has since popped up on YouTube that offers a close first look at its build and features.

In the video, we're given a glimpse at the G-Slate's front, back, and sides, confirming the locations of the USB and HDMI ports, the headset jack, volume controls, the speaker, the power/lock button, and, perhaps most importantly, the highly anticipated stereoscopic cameras for 3D video recording. Some off-screen footage is also provided, including that of a 3D video, browsing the web, exploring a map, and even running a video game.

Most of the device's specs, which have already been revealed, are listed over the course of the video. The G-Slate will be powered by the dual-core, 1 GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 processor and will feature an 8.9-inch capacitive multi-touch display, 32GB of storage, a 2-megapixel front-facing camera, and Google's Android OS 3.0 (Honeycomb).

The LG G-Slate 3D will be available to T-Mobile customers sometime in March, though pricing details have yet to be disclosed.