The Samsung’s new M1 portable media player will be powered by the NVIDIA Tegra ultra low-power High Definition (HD) mobile processor, providing the device with a brilliant visual experience. The M1 player, which Samsung announced will be available late September 2009, offers 720p HD video playback on its Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting (AMOLED) display, wireless mobile games in amazing 2D/3D graphics and advanced audio functionality. The M1 also features an intuitive, Flash-based 3D user interface accelerated by NVIDIA’s graphics expertise.

“The Samsung M1 delivers hours of pure entertainment – anytime, anywhere,” said Michael Rayfield, general manager of NVIDIA’s mobile business. “We worked with Samsung to ensure consumers get incredible HD, a unique UI and excellent battery life.”

The Tegra processor, a computer-on-a-chip the size of a thumbnail, has eight individual processors designed to deliver astounding HD performance to mobile computing devices. This includes an HD video processor, an audio processor, a graphics processor, and two ARM cores, which work together or separately to minimise power consumption.

The Samsung M1 uses the following NVIDIA Tegra technology to deliver rich multimedia features:

• An HD video processor for smooth, vivid 720p HD video and movie playback
• A graphics processor for an intuitive, responsive user interface and excellent 2D/3D graphics for wireless mobile games, applications and photos
• An audio processor for advanced audio playback and recording
• NVIDIA nPower technology to optimise overall system performance and power

Based on NVIDIA’s decade and a half of graphics leadership, the Tegra processor has been engineered over the past five years to bring high performance and low-power capabilities to the next generation of mobile computing devices, such as portable media players, smartphones, smartbooks and tablets.

Tegra processor-based consumer devices are delivering the rich visual experiences that today’s consumers crave, with HD video, intuitive 3D user interfaces and great games. There are 50 active Tegra processor-based design projects in the works today.

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During the Samsung Mobile UNPACKED event in London, Dubai and Singapore, Samsung unveiled the latest in mobile handset innovation, Samsung Jet. Samsung Jet is not a simply another full touch mobile phone; it brings a brand new concept of mobile phone to today’s consumers. ‘Smarter than a smartphone,’ Samsung Jet supports the latest smartphone features which include multi-task manager and Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, bringing user-friendly menu navigations in a sleek and compact design. Samsung Jet boasts world firsts in both display technology and speed of performance. Its pioneering 3.1-inch 16M WVGA AMOLED display offers the most vivid and colorful full touch mobile experience available; the WVGA AMOLED screen provides a resolution that is four times higher than a WQVGA screen. Its 800MHz application processor delivers breathtaking speed and stunning performance, making Jet the fastest full touch handset on the market today.
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To capture the growing touch screen mobile phone market, Samsung announced the launch of its new Samsung Star (S5233) mobile phone, at an affordable price. Samsung Star comes with the latest multimedia features in a slim and compact body that measures a mere 11.9mm. Adopting a 3.0-inch TFT full-touch screen and Samsung’s TouchWiz User Interface with Mobile Widgets, the phone enables its users to enjoy their mobile easily and intuitively. The Samsung Star also boasts various multimedia features including a 3.2 mega-pixel camera and video recording supporting TFT @15fps. It supports multi-format and DNSe for ease of use and better sound quality. The phone also features music recognition using Shazam’s “Find Music” service.
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Sony Ericsson introduced its latest Walkman series mobile phone equipped with 8.1-megapixel camera, the Sony Ericsson W995 Walkman phone. It features unique Sony application, the Media Go™ which transfers, plays and organises your entertainment, in most file formats, to your mobile phone simply and effortlessly. The W995 comes with a 2.6-inch LCD display with desk stand in 240 x 320 pixel resolution, powerful speakers or 3.5mm audio jack, FM tuner, integrated Walkman player, Shake control, 118MB internal memory and a Memory Stick Micro (M2) card slot which support up to 8GB capacity which you can save an inexhaustible amount of photos, video clips and sounds, a 8.1 Megapixel camera with 16x digital zoom, auto focus, flash, video recording, and image/video stabilizer.
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