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Samsung is going to enter the US notebook market, the company’s representative announced yesterday.

According to a report on PC Pro, Samsung currently
enjoys 1.7% of the global laptop market. The company will need to more than triple that to 5.7% within three years to meet a “minimum survival” volume for its notebook division.

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Samsung today unveiled the Q1 Ultra Premium UMPC, which advances the Q1 Ultra line by delivering “enhanced performance, extended battery life, and superior text entry”.

The Samsung Q1 Ultra Premium sub 2-pound ultra-mobile PC features the Intel Core Solo U1500 ULV processor at 1.33GHz, 1GB of DDR2 system memory, and an 80GB hard drive. This UMPC has a 7-inch touchscreen 1024-by-600 display and the new Version 1.5 of its split-QWERTY keypad, which now provides larger, improved keycaps for easier text entry. Samsung says the Q1 Ultra Premium has up to 7.5 hours of run time with a standard 6-cell battery.

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The leaked manual for the Samsung SPH-P9200 revealed the full specifications of this ultra-mobile PC device. The UMPC features a 5-inch 800×480 touch-sensitive display, a folding keyboard, a Via C7-M processor at 1GHz, 512MB of RAM, and a 30GB hard drive, and supports Wifi, Wibro and HSDPA networks, according to the manual.

The 1.43-pound SPH-P9200, also known as the Deluxe MIT SPH-P9200, provides 2-2.5 hours of run time with a standard battery, and up to 5 hours with an extended battery unit.

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Samsung Electronics America has announced the Q1U-SSDXP, Q1U-XP and Q1U-ELXP, the three new additions to its Q1 Ultra ultra-mobile PC lineup. All of the new models feature Microsoft Windows XP Tablet Edition operating system, while the main innovation in the Q1U UMPC series is a solid state drive in the Q1U-SSDXP.

With its 32GB Flash memory based SSD and a 800MHz Intel Ultra Mobile A110 processor, the higher-end Q1U-SSDXP UMPC is priced at $1649. The Q1U-XP comes with a 800MHz A110 processor and a 60GB standard hard drive, and has a $1149 price tag. The most affordable among the three new Q1U computers is the Q1U-ELXP, which runs a 600MHz A100 processor and features a 40GB HDD. It is priced at $999.

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Samsung unveiled today at its 4G Forum 2007 in Korea the Deluxe MIT SPH-P9200 ultra-mobile PC (UMPC), featuring an innovative design with a folding keyboard and a 5-inch touch-sensitive display.

“This one looks like a new and improved version of the older one they used to show. The design is pretty innovative, notice how the keyboard folds and has game controls and a touch pad on the other side. Much better then the weird swiveling screen of the predecessor. Shame this probably wont see a release in any other place than Korea,” UMPC portal reports.

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Samsung Electronics has officially announced the Q1 Ultra ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) family at the Samsung Experience in New York.

“Complete with an integrated split-QWERTY keypad, mouse, and user-defined function keys, the Q1 Ultra UMPC is designed to enhance productivity, ease-of-use and portability in a range of personal and professional scenarios. With an increased battery life of 4.5 hours coupled with faster speeds, flexibility and mobile functionality, the Q1 Ultra product provides a compelling solution packed into a 1.5 pound package,” Samsung says.

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Samsung has announced today the R55, the first laptop featuring hybrid hard drive, which combines a standard hard drive with built-in flash memory.

Along with 80GB hybrid drive at 5400rpm with 256Mb of OneNAND Flash memory, the 15.4-inch widescreen Samsung R55 incorporates Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 CPU at 1.83GHz, nVidia GeForce 7400 graphics card, Super Multi DL optical drive and Windows Vista Premium operating system.

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Samsung has announced the Q1 Ultra ultra-mobile PC, the successor to its Q1 UPMC, at CeBIT show. The Q1 Ultra features 7-inch screen with higher 1024×600 screen resolution, a physical keyboard in form of a split thumb pad, the improved battery life of 3.5 hours and Windows Vista operating system.

According to the reports, Samsung Q1 Ultra uses a new Intel’s low-voltage platform codenamed McCaslin and single core Steeley processor with relatively slow clock speed of 800MHz.

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Samsung Q45 and Samsung R70, the company’s notebooks scheduled for release during the first half of the year, will feature the currently unknown external nVIDIA GeForce GO 8000M series graphics card.

According to Samsung’s CeBIT 2007 web pages, the ultra-portable 12.1-inch widescreen Q45 and 15.4-inch widescreen R70 incorporate HDMI output for playback of high definition multimedia content. There is no other information about nVIDIA’s forthcoming GeForce GO 8000M external video card. Earlier reports say the GeForce 8000 series graphics for notebooks will be DirectX 10 compatible, as same as its desktop counterpart. There is currently only one announced external video solution for laptops - the Asus XG Station, which connects to notebook via ExpressCard slot.

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Samsung Q1 Ultra, the company’s new ultra mobile PC scheduled for launch at CeBIT 2007 show in Hannover - Germany, is based on Intel’s forthcoming Santa Rosa notebook platform, Daily Tech reports.

“The Q1 Ultra will be riding on Intel’s Centrino Pro platform, codenamed Santa Rosa, and will be sporting a new Core 2 based processor running at a mere 800MHz. Intel’s 965 chipset will provide the core logic, and by association a GMA3000-derived graphics chipset will offer DirectX 9.0c features. Weight is slightly reduced to 1.5lbs from the 1.7lbs of the Q1, and just over a half-inch of height is shaved off,” the report says.

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Samsung will release the new Aura series of laptops next week. The first model will be the 14.1-inch widescreen (1280 x 800) Samsung Aura R20 featuring the new AMD/ATI RS600ME chipset for Intel processors and Radeon Xpress 1250 integrated graphics chip, TrustedReviews website reports.

The sleek and stylish Samsung Aura R20, with glossy black finish, supports a wide range of Intel’s CPUs, from Celeron M to Core 2 Duo T7400 at 2.16GHz. It has two memory slots for up to 4GB RAM and features hard drive with capacity from 60GB to 160GB. The Aura R20 has Super-Multi DVD burner.

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Laptop Magazine has reviewed Samsung’s Q1P SSD ultra-mobile PC (UMPC), which features flash memory based solid-state drive instead of a standard mechanical hard disc. Although the SSDs are claimed to use less power than HDDs, the Magazine found that one of the main Samsung Q1P SSD’s disadvantages is the battery life of “little more than two hours”. On the other side, the review says the Q1P SSD UMPC enables full Windows XP/Tablet functionality in a light and highly portable package and very fast application loading thanks to flash based drive.

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Samsung announced, Q1P SSD, the newest Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) model, at CES 2007 in Las Vegas. The Q1P SSD is the first UMPC of its kind to use an SSD solid state flash memory-based hard drive in place of a conventional rotational media-based hard drive.

Samsung Q1P SSD provides 32GB of storage capacity with the solid state drive.

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Samsung will show the SPH-P9000 UMPC device which features Mobile WiMAX technology, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2007 in Las Vegas.

Samsung SPH-P9000 also incorporates Windows XP operating system, and full QWERTY keyboard, 30GB hard disk, 256MB RAM, a 1GHz CPU and 1.3 megapixel camera, as same as CDMA EV-DO network capability.

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The Windows Vista ultra-mobile personal computers, code-named Vistagami, will be introduced by Microsoft next month at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, announcing the new wave of UMPC devices. The next generation UMPCs are supposed to have better battery life and cheaper price tags than its unsuccessful precursors, according to the reports.

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