Korea/Japan Week: 10 cool things from Samsung's Anycall Studio store

By

Stuart Dredge

on October 9, 2007

So, I'm here in Seoul being shown a taster of South Korea's most cutting-edge mobile technology. This morning, that included a wander around Samsung's Anycall Studio store, which acts as a showcase for the company's handsets.

Besides the neat touchscreen phone-recommender, there was plenty of other fun stuff to see. I've picked out ten highlights from the store, so read on below. Starting with...

1. Picture-in-Picture dual-DMB TV Phone (above). The SCH-B710, to give the handset its full name, is the first Korean phone to come with a pair of digital TV tuners in - one S-DMB (satellite) and one T-DMB (terrestrial). What's more, you can watch both simultaneously using its picture-in-picture mode, allowing you to watch a film and a football match at the same time.

Korea/Japan Week: Kim Jong-Il boasts he's an 'internet expert'

By

Katherine Hannaford

on October 9, 2007

Well, well, well, it looks like Kim Jong-Il fancies himself as a bit of an 'internet expert'. Funny that, considering most of North Korea still doesn't have access to the internet, let alone electricity in the evenings.

Jong-Il recently met with the South Korean President, Roh Moo-Hyun (only the second time North and South Korean leaders have ever met), and one of their topics of conversation happened to be the internet. When Moo-Hyun broached the subject of allowing South Korean companies located within the North Korean city of Kaesong to have access to the net, Jong-Il took the chance to boast of his hax0r skillzorz.

“I'm an Internet expert too", he apparently claimed. Wonder how his country's 23 million citizens reacted to that one, when they're prohibited from using the internet and mobile phones outside of the government.

(via Daily Tech)

Korea/Japan Week: Samsung's touchscreen mobile phone recommender

By

Stuart Dredge

on October 9, 2007

How do you decide what new phone to buy? Well, it depends on whether you drink wine or beer. Whether you put your trousers or shirt on first in the morning. Whether you like handbags or console gaming.

A nifty touchscreen gadget in Samsung's Anycall Studio store in Seoul uses these questions to decide what phone you should buy. See how I fared in the video below (yes, I accidentally said I was a woman). It's hard to see this sort of tech appearing in Carphone Warehouse any time soon, but you never know...

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Korea/Japan Week: Faltima 010 - LP to CD with the press of a button

By

Dave Walker

on October 8, 2007 1 Comment

There's so many ways of converting LPs to a digital format these days, but nearly everyone requires a computer, some software and a good half hour with an instruction book. Not the Faltima 010.

New to the Japanese market, the Faltima 010 is a record deck with CD recorder/player, as well as a USB and SD slot. And it's idiot-proof. Just stick on your LP, choose your format of choice (straight to CD or one of the digital formats) and the Faltima 010 sorts it out. Apart from turning the record over obviously.

And of course, it's a midi hi-fi system. No news on price as yet, we'll keep you posted if it makes it to Europe.

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Via Akihabara News