Samsung Concept Phone, Flexible OLED!

Flexible OLED screens have been in the news for quite a while, but what is OLED, it stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode. Now I don’t truly understand the technology, but OLED, is purported to be less power hungry than LED. The OLED is a polymer based surface, that accepts various organic materials to be laid down upon it, in rows and columns, and the resulting matrix of pixels allows lights of different colours to be emitted. What does that mean to you and me? A laptop screen, a phone screen/display, the way most of us access our devices, the conduit for or graphical user interface[GUI].

What if you could fold that screen up and put it in your pocket, or wallet, or purse? What if your 10 inch display folded up into a mobile phone sized package? Sounds like Science Fiction doesn’t it? 

So the idea of a Foldable OLED screen has been touted for a while, put a more accessible display, in your pocket using Origami, hey fold it up. the Video above, shows an automated display from Samsung, that is going to take over not only the mobile world, consider carrying your wide screen display in a tube?

Samsung concept phone unfolds to hypnotize onlookers with flexible OLED - Engadget

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Listen To This! The Great JAMM Portable Media Player Showdown. Part 2: Hardware

When I started thinking about this series, one of the hardest things to wrap my brain around was where to begin.  Then, I thought about Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music.  “Start at the very beginning.  A very good place to start.”  You know what?  That is excellent advice.  So, rather than getting into some of the more complex areas like playing music or videos, I thought we would start with what you see right out of the box.  Usually, the battery is dead or near to it when you buy a new media player, so the first thing you are going to do is not watch a video or play some music.  The first thing you will do is tear through that box and examine the hardware (pining for the ability to use it while it is charging.)  So, I thought it made the most sense to start there…right out of the box.  And we will do that in a few initial articles.

Today, I am going to take a look at the players themselves.  Turned off, and just looking at the hardware and construction.  The next two installments will look at the rest of the contents of the respective boxes, including earphones and accessories.  We’ll then wrap up this initial section with a look at the controls on each of the devices.  Then, we’ll start to look into what happens when you turn these things on and start playing with them.  So, let’s jump right in and start at the very beginning.  You slowly and carefully remove your new device from the packaging…

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Omnia, …, SAGA, An epic…Not

If I bought a phone that was branded/named the  “saga” I would be worried. It implies a long, drawn out  process.

BUT we are talking about the Samsung Omnia, and it seems it is coming to Verizon

I’d like to  get my hands one of these, but if it’s going to be a Greek epic, …

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Listen To This! The Great JAMM Portable Media Player Showdown. Part 1: Introduction

I have spent a considerable amount of time here at JAMM, and also at Gear Diary, reviewing portable media players.  One thing I have noticed is that a stand-alone review is really not the best format to help users answer the real question on everyone’s mind: which one should I buy?  While a review is nice, it looks at a particular media player in a vacuum.  The missing piece in the review is how this one compares to the others.  And that is what I want to try to accomplish through this series. 

So, in addition to the Sandisk Sansa View, which I already own, I went on eBay and gobbled up a  Microsoft Zune, Samsung YP-P2, and Creative Zen X-Fi.  Heck, I even got the Sony Walkman A828 back on an extended loan.  After considerable thought, I also replaced my iPod Touch with the new fourth generation iPod Nano for this series. 

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Windows Mobile 6.1 for the Blackjack 2

I don’t know if we have a lot of Blackjack 2 users here at JAMM, or if they are just a very vocal group, but it seems like I get asked about this device more than any other Windows Mobile device.  And the most common question is: When and where can I find the Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrade for my Samsung Blackjack 2?

The answer: As Van Halen would say, Right Here, Right Now.  Enjoy!

[via Jason Langridge]

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Samsung Omnia, pretty slick…

Samsung’s latest offering, the Omnia, really appeals to me. It’s packing Windows Mobile 6.1 professional, a 3.2” display, comes in 8 or 16 Gb flavours, and still has an added micro SDHC slot.

I’m salivating at the thought of this phone, another of the  Black Slabs arriving on the market at the  moment. It’s all a little Space Odyssey ‘esque. Though this review over at PhoneArena didn’t do anything to dampen my thoughts of getting a converged device. 

Have a look at the review, it’s really in depth, and if your a WM devotee, it might be your next phone.

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