Samsung, Sprint Introduce the Corniest Phone Ever

Samsung and Sprint have introduced the Reclaim. A phone made out of corn.

Then new slider phone is made of 80% recycled material. The bio-plastic enclosure is made from corn.

It packs a QWERTY keyboard, a 2MP camera, supports stereo bluetooth, micro SD cards and comes with Sprint Navigation.

The packaging will come from recycled material as well and soy based ink.

It'll come in "Earth Green" or "Ocean Blue" and is due out on August 16 for $50 after rebates and 2 year contract.

$2 of each purchase will be donated to the Nature Conservancy's Adopt an Acre program. [BusinessWire]

Samsung Shows off OLED Passport

It's basically an id that is flexible and has an OLED screen with a animated image of yourself that rotates. Pretty cool, but how useful is it compared to the cost of making it?

Samsung Omnia 2: 3.7 in. AMOLED Screen, Verizon Only

The Samsung Omnia 2 is a sick sick sick sick SICK phone. Its going to be available only on Verizon Wireless. The biggest thing about this phone is the screen. A 3.7 inch AMOLED screen. Flat out gorgeous. [Gizmodo]

Samsung Netbook Viral Video

Here are two Samsung N310 Netbooks competing for our affection.

Michael Bay's Cell Phone Needs a Disguise

So LG had an event for their sponsorship of the Transformers 2 movie and director Michael Bay came up to speak at the event. Bay owns a Samsung phone. All things point to FAIL.

Unfortunately for the gathered LG employees, this time Mike-Mike delivered a figurative explosion, telling the crowd "I don't know anything about mobile phones. In fact, look at my phone -- it's a thirty-nine dollar Samsung." Ouch -- that's roughly the equivalent of throwing a Ford in with the rest of the Autobots. Making matters worse, LG president of mobile products Juno Cho tried to salvage the moment by offering Bay his personal phone, but was rebuffed because "all my contacts are in the other one." Yeah, that's probably not the best way to play it -- although we're guessing Samsung's already angling for TouchWiz to feature prominently in Transformers 3.

[Engadget]

Samsung SSD Awesomeness

The folks at Samsung wanted to show just how fast the Samsung SSD really is. So they put together 24 of the 256 GB SSDs in a RAID. The result: the hard drive speed reaches 2 GBps. For the average person, this mean that Microsoft Office can be opened in half a second, 53 programs are opened in 18 seconds, and a complete system defrag can be done in 3 seconds.

Sorry SATA3...[Gizmodo]