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What’s this, Samsung? Announcing a few new cameras each week until PMA hits us when we least expect it? Just days after the firm expanded its less than enthralling SL lineup comes two new 12 megapixelers. The TL320 is the same one we spotted earlier at Amazon, though some of those specs were — shall we say, preliminary. The official specs sheets lists a 12.2 megapixel sensor, 5x optical zoom, 3-inch HVGA AMOLED display, 720p movie recording, HDMI output, dual image stabilization and twin analog gauges for checking out memory capacity and battery life. As for the ZH15W, that one checks in with a dozen megapixels even, a 10x optical zoom, a 3-inch LCD monitor, 720p movie mode and most of the same features as the aforementioned cousin. Both shooters should be available this May for $379.99 and $329.99, respectively, and you can catch the full release after the break.

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Samsung intros 12 megapixel duo: TL320 and HZ15W originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Good news: The world’s thinnest and first commercially available OLED television — the Sony XEL-1 — is on sale in the UK today.

Bad news: It’ll cost Brits £3,489 (about $4,944) — that’s more than twice the price of the same set sold in the US.

Look, we knew the European price hikes were coming from Sony in 2009, but we weren’t expecting this. Then again, if you’re the type who thinks dropping a couple of thousand Quid on an 11-inch television makes sense, well, you probably won’t even notice.

[Via OLED-Display]

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Sony XEL-1 OLED TV lands in the UK, now twice the price originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It looks like if you want to get a hands-on with Sony’s latest Walkman, the touchscreen NWZ-X1000, you’ve got to do two things: travel to Japan, and seriously glad-hand the product. Despite our efforts in Vegas, the Sony crew wouldn’t let us snag the player from under its glass housing, but the Stuff team gets to toy with the OLED-faced PMP in this video. From the looks of things, Sony is at pains to recreate something akin to Cover Flow, but the rest of the UI looks sadly like a whole bunch of Windows CE-based devices we see coming out of Asia on a daily basis. Of course, this might be an early iteration of the interface, so we’ll hold our final judgments till we get a thorough hands-on with the PMP. The player is set to come in 16GB and 32GB iterations, and will launch sometime this Summer. For now, enjoy the video after the break.

Update: Sony’s people tell us that you’re looking at $299 for the 16GB and $399 for 32 — right in line with the iPod touch.

[Via anythingbutipod]

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Sony’s NWZ-X1000 Walkman PMP handled on video originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony hasn’t gotten very far along with these units — they’re really just plastic shells — but we like we’re they’re headed with it. They showed off a full-screen laptop (pictured), bendable e-reader, and Walkman bracelet concepts, all based around flexible OLED technology and built with “flexible bioplastics,” along with the flexible display that going to power them all when they hit the market… in the year 2000.

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Sony’s flexible OLED mockups originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Kodak’s 7.6-inch OLED WiFi digiframe, which we just saw in the flesh yesterday, has already been listed for a full $150 cheaper than expected. Of course, an immediate price drop was definitely in order given the $1,000 starting tag, but we can’t even say we’re tempted at a few bucks under $800. Ah well, at least we’re headed in the right direction.

[Thanks, Ron]

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Kodak’s 7.6-inch OLED WiFi digiframe now $200 cheaper originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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