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Samsung has raised a successive step in the field of hard drives. The company has launched a new hard disk drive by the name “SpinPoint S166 Series”. According to the company, it has tremendous speed and ultra silent features.

This amazing 3.5 inch hard drive incorporates the improved version of the company’s NoiseGuard and SilentSleek proprietary technologies. These two technologies accelerate the operational rate and reduce the noise of the hard drive.

The total noise generated by hard drives of S166 series in ideal mode is just 2.4 bel (1 bel= 10 decibels) and in sleek mode it is 2.75 bel. On the other hand the competing hard drives which are generally 80GB and 160 GB models, generates the average noise of 2.8 bel in ideal mode and 3.2 bel in seek mode.

According to the company, this remarkable noise reduction of 15 percent makes this hard drive perfect for the using in consumer electronics like in HD equipped products or DVRs and office PCs with basic intention of silent utility.

In addition to noise reduction, this new series also supports integrated breakthrough technologies such as optimized actuator for solitary-disc device for enhanced mechanical functions and operating or non operating shock characteristics; improved fly-height organizing technology for better write and read compassion; and enhancements in consumption.

According to the Sales and Marketing Vice President at Samsung Electronics, TJ Lee, new SpinPoint S166 series is the best example of development in the company’s latest technology. The product has got the award-winning properties and appeal to attract huge number of audience, by additional reduction in hard drive noise and improved speed for data transfer.

Another noticeable feature of this hard drive is its spin speed. The S166 series offers amazing speed of 7,200 rpm, and supports buffering of 8MB. It also supports an interface of SATA 3.0Gps, and has integrated Native Command Queuing. If the customer requires PATA interface application, the series supports that also for the customer’s convenience.

The SpinPoint S166 series of hard drives is already delivered world-wide in 160GB and 80GB capacities.

Samsung Introduces 1.8 inch Flash SSD   

Samsung has finally announced its creation, the 1.8 inch flash SSD. It is the first 64 Gigabyte flash SSD by the company.

Samsung says that this SSD is based on a single level cell Nand of 8 GB, which is significantly superior in performance than nay other conventional SSDs.

It is pretty certain that the flash-SSD is a reliable and safe method of storing any type of official or personal data. The interesting fact about this flash SSD is that it uses immediately accessible, unmovable Nand flash memory rather than using a using a typical jarring sensitive, power-hungry, noise making rotating disc which is found in traditional hard drives. Thus, it allows quick and quite downloading and uploading of data with the minimum power utility.

Samsung also declares that the write and read performance of the new flash 64 GB SSD have been increased by 60 percent and 20 percent respectively in comparison with the 32GB flash-SSD, which was launched last year. It means that its ability to do better than traditional rotating media HD is much greater than what had been predicted.

It is believed that its sustained Nano-technology relocation is the key-factor for enabling it to continue the segmentation in market for storage media. Apart form being used in PCs and notebooks, this 64GB flash –SSD will become feasible choice to be used in digital camcorders and personal navigation systems.

By the end of this year, Samsung is planning to begin the mass production of this amazing 1.8-inch type flash-SSD of memory 64 GB. There is another highlight about which the company had discussed in the forum. The company is very soon going to unveil the CMOS image sensor of 8.4 Mega Pixels with an amazing design of 1.4 pixels. It was also mentioned in the forum that this amazing image sensor device will deliver the same quality as it is delivered by another smart image sensors, charge coupled device (CCD). The CCD implements on light sensing features and reduces the sound level. There are many other devices that are in row to arrive by Samsung. But for that we have to wait for at least three more years.

Samsung Introduces 8-GB Flash for Phones

The day is not far when many mobile phones will be able to store as much as 2,000 sound tracks or will be able to allocate data for a in-built system to guide you any location on the planet.

The dream of this type of mobile phones took a step forward to reality when the Samsung electronics announced the beginning of distribution of their samples of uppermost-density flash memory of 8GB, open for the market. The highest density that was offered by Samsung prior to this moviNAND chip was of 4GB.

The high-density moviNAND series by this company consists of 16-GB flash modues, four- 50-nanometer, a related firmware and a speedy MultiMediaCard (MMC).

Basically this new memory is designed for the electronic devices, but it can also be used in detachable memory cards for expansion of memory. This memory device has the capability to relocate the data at a speed of 52 MB per second, which is twice the speed of the old 4GB chip.

More memory in small size and cheap price:

According to the company, there are several benefits with the new high density memory solution. Firstly, it is about 20 percent smaller in size as compared to the traditional flash-based memory; it reduces the requirement of any external slot for memory card, which reduces the overall size of the mobile devices.

In addition, Samsung said that this storage device reduces the overall cost as compared to the other storage solutions. This is done by combining the NAND flash with traditional MMC controller. It ultimately provides you with more developed and quick storage solution, which you have never used before.

GPS, undoubtedly is a growing category, it is accessed as video on phones, and this entire function require ample amount of storage. The launching of this amazing device is certainly good information for the music phones. Well, there are already some music phones in the market that offer 4GB storage to their customers. But this storage offers just the double storage capacity, which is really a big deal to think of.

Battery life:

The majority of music phones cannot provide music directly from out of the box. This is certain that music phones require ample amount of battery and storage to play the tracks for example we have the Nokia 5300 XpressMusic phone. It really requires a powerful battery to provide you with the songs all day long.

Samsung is planning to start mass production of the 8-GB flash memory by the second quarter of this year. 

The multifunction devices are gradually making their way towards the success. Everyone demands for something more from a single device. Individual widgets have now become of much more worth than being used for its simple basic purpose. For instance, mobile phones are more in demand with music player, personal diaries, digicams and many other side options; computer are no more known as the productivity device, they have now become an absolute media center with infotainment proportion. These are two very well known examples of multifunction devices. A similar insurrection can be observed in digital cameras.

Samsung has recently introduced an entire range of digital cameras that with shooting the pictures, also supports reading text files, playing music and videos as well. The Samsung NV3 is a digital camera of Samsung’s NV-series. It is one of the latest multifunction devices that are presently available in the gadget market. Let us check out what all interesting features it holds for us:

Camera:

Samsung NV3 is a camera that resembles more with a work of art. The camera has an ultra solid body of metal with lusterless finish of black paint and a brushed shining metal finish highlighting the sensor of 7.0 Mega pixels. The camera offers 5 x optical zoom, 3 x optical zoom, a text file reader and a PMP player. The NV3 also supports digital camcorder functionality with VGA 30 fps of resolution 649 x 480 and MPEG-4 TVD 20fps of resolution 720 x 480. This function is controlled by Auto Gain Control technology that actually reduces the zoom noise while making the video recording. The most amazing part is that all the above mentioned features come well packed in a metal case of dimensions 94.5 x 57 x 17.5 mm. It is certainly the best ultra compact camera.

There is a pair of stereo speakers that are enclosed inside the body of the camera and they absolutely looks like a designer element.

Features:

The camera comes with a CCD of 1.25 inch that offers an efficient 7 mega pixels. The LCD screen is of 2.5 inches, offers resolution of 230,000 pixels and works as a viewfinder as well as a monitor. Its easily accessible software can flawlessly convert AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV and ASF files to be viewed on the NV3. The amazing software allows you to sight subtitles, crop the image, adjust the image size and stretch or shrink the image according to the requirement or to make it fit into the screen.

The camera has an inner memory of 15 MB that can store around four highest quality images. Evidently, the number would increase as you select the low resolution images.

There is also an Advanced Shake Reduction (ASR) feature. This feature basically prevents the fading or degradation of image color and clarity, which I have found as pretty common problem in the flash photography. The Auto Macro function enables you to take absolutely clear pictures even from the greater distance. There are certain special effect features in NV3 for obtaining the creative pictures. These features include color effects, highlights, negative, photo frame and composite shot. The color effects supported by the camera include B/W, blue, sepia, red and green.

With such brilliant PMP features, the NV3 also includes some amazing PMP features. Its high resolution LCD screen is perfect for watching videos /movies. For enjoying the amazing sound effects, the dual stereo speakers are provided that can be even connected with the headphones.

For audio, NV3 supports the MP3 option, which can be accessed either via speakers or the headphones. A pair of nice-looking headphones comes with the camera package. The camera also has the capability of text reader in which you can read/view text files in camera.

One is required to create different directories for storing different file types on the memory card. For video files, one is required to create PMP files, for music there should be an MP3 directory and for storing the text files TEXT directory should be created.

Conclusion:

The brilliant Samsung NV3 camera is available at an approximate MRP of Rs. 21990, including the warranty of one year. According to me it is the digital camera that I have ever seen. The multifunction features offered by it are simply astounding. NV3 surely has some uniqueness and I would recommend it to anyone who is in need of a decent camera with unique features and exclusive functionality.