Shows & Awards
Samsung takes CeBIT, wins 12 iF awards
Want to know the secret of Samsung’s success? Breadth and imagination are two answers. This year, Samsung released no fewer than 30 innovative products and 30 new phones at CeBIT 2005. From the amazing 3 megapixel 3G SGH-Z700 phone to giant 102 inch PDP and 82 inch LCD televisions, two new printers including Samsung’s first photo printer, multiformat DVDRs and combo DVDR/DVD-VCR recorders, a pocket size camcorder, digital terrestrial set top boxes, and new portable digital music players, laptops, and even a home cinema system, Samsung left Hanover scratching its collective head at the sheer volume of new products coming from Seoul. Then, to top it off, the company won 12 iF Design Awards at the annual International Design Forum—a total of 40 since 2001. Among the 12: Samsung’s new Hyper DVD Player with a 2-piece assembly to give the player two distinct designs, 32 and 46 inch wide LCD-TVs, the Q30 notebook computer, the world’s smallest cassette loading laser printer (ML-1740), four mobile phones, a smart vacuum that hums when you need to replace the filter, and the super-compact YP-T6 Flash MP3 player. Like we said: breadth and imagination!

Memory
Tiny MMC micro™ memory
How small can they make memory cards? Very small! This March, Samsung began production of the smallest memory cards available for mobile phones. MMC micro™ devices can read data at 10MBps (megabytes per second) and write at 7MBps—3.5 times faster than competing flash memory cards. Best of all, the new thumbnail-sized cards are a third the size of reduced size multimedia card (RS-MMC), support four NAND Flash memory chips for higher performance, and are already available in 32MB, 64MB, 128MB and 256MB versions with a 512MB version on the way. (A 2GB card that supports four 4Gb NAND flash memory chips will be introduced in the first half of 2006.)

Television
82 inch LCD TV
Think of all the things you could do with an 82 inch LCD TV. Samsung already has. As the manufacturer of the world’s largest TFT-LCD television, Samsung gave maximum consideration to the need for the crispest possible images with high resolution and low power consumption at the biggest possible size. With a response time of just 8ms—a crucial indicator of a TFT-LCD TV’s motion picture capability—this 82 inch TV will give you smooth playback of even the most action-packed visual contents. And 1920 x 1080 resolution with 16:9 screen ratio and 1080 progressive scanning will give you the highest possible HDTV resolution with twice the picture quality of a 1080 interlaced display.