Samsung has announced that they’ve started the mass production of 22-inch transparent displays. The transparent panels will be produced in black-and-white and color variants and will have a transparency rate of over 20 percent and over 15 percent respectively. Transparent panels are also energy efficient, which consumes 90 percent less power compared to a regular LCD.
Additionally, the LCD panel supports WSXGA+(1680×1050) resolution, has a contrast ratio of 500:1, HDMI and USB support.
Galaxy S Plus that was confirmed by Samsung Russia has now been announced as the Galaxy S 2011 Edition. Design-wise, the new Galaxy S is similar to the original one but its the hardware and software that matters. The 2011 Edition is pre-installed with Android 2.3 OS and comes with a 1.4GHz CPU, 14.4Mbps HSPA+ and higher capacity 1650mAh battery.
As for other features, you’d find a 4-inch Super AMOLED WVGA display, 5MP camera with 720p HD video recording, 512MB RAM, 2GB ROM, microSD card slot, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, DLNA, Bluetooth 3.0 and GPS.
It will arrive in May for 21,990 rubles.
Samsung has updated its Remote Control app for Android OS to support new features and more devices. The app available for Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab now supports 2010 models with Internet@TV feature, 2011 models with Allshare and Blu-ray players supporting SmartHub.
The remote works over Wi-Fi and allows user to control SmartHub, Social Hub, SearchAll functions. It also has an onscreen QWERTY keyboard, Voice Search support for devices running Android 2.2 or higher and Game control feature that allows the Android device to control games on TV. Turning on the gyro support will allow users to control games by tilting the device.
The Samsung Remote is available on the Android Market in 31 different languages.
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