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...long as you and your contacts are using ChatON, there’s no need to worry about accidentally going over your text messaging limit. If your plan includes unlimited messaging, ChatON loses some of its appeal. It does however have neat features such as group chat that lets you share pictures, videos, voice recordings, calender information and more... Read More

The legal battle between Samsung and Apple might be fierce, but it didn’t prevent the Korean electronics giant to submit ChatON, its own messaging application in the App Store. The main benefit of ChatON is that it is a cross platform app that will work on iOS, Android, Bada, Samsung Feature and will support Blackberry, Window mobile, and web soon. ChatON is a Global Mobile Communication Service that enables you to have better relationships with your buddies or groups. ChatON brings together all of these methods of communication, expression, and sharing in one place. Download ChatON in the App Store for free. Or don’t! Read More

Remember ChatON? The Samsung-built, cross-platform, mobile messaging app which arrived in Google’s Android Market this fall? The app, somewhat similar to BlackBerry’s BBM or Apple’s iMessage, provides users with an alternative to SMS or MMS. At the time, Samsung was promising support for iOS would be coming “soon.” Well, “soon” has arrived. ChatON is now available for download from iTunes. That brings ChatON support to three platforms: Android, Bada phones and now iOS (iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch). Samsung says that BlackBerry, Windows Phone and web support is still on the way. For a refresher on ChatON’s feature set, the app lets users message each other, sharing text, pictures, voice messages, location, contacts and calendar data. There’s also a crazy option that lets you draw pictures by hand. Group chat is included, too, and involves a social element that ranks how often you talk to your friends on the app. The interface seems OK. (Well, maybe a bit juvenile with that big ol’ smiley button. But then again, I’m old). The real draw is the app’s cross-platform nature – instead of using expensive SMS allotments, you can use an app instead. But ChatON competes with several others in this space, including GroupMe, which has the benefit of supporting SMS for those who don’t have the ability to run the app on their phones. ChatON, however, may get a boost thanks to its creator Samsung who has the ability to pre-install the app on the devices it ships. You can grab ChatON for iOS here on iTunes. Read More

Remember ChatON? The Samsung-built, cross-platform, mobile messaging app which arrived in Google’s Android Market this fall? The app, somewhat similar to BlackBerry’s BBM or Apple’s iMessage, provides users with an alternative to SMS or MMS. At the time, Samsung was promising support for iOS would be coming “soon.” Well, “soon” has arrived. ChatON is now available for download from iTunes. That brings ChatON support to three platforms: Android, Bada phones and now iOS (iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch). Samsung says that BlackBerry, Windows Phone and web support is still on the way. For a refresher on ChatON’s feature set, the app lets users message each other, sharing text, pictures, voice messages, location, contacts and calendar data. There’s also a crazy option that lets you draw pictures by hand. Group chat is included, too, and involves a social element that ranks how often you talk to your friends on the app. The interface seems OK. (Well, maybe a bit juvenile with that big ol’ smiley button. But then again, I’m old). The real draw is the app’s cross-platform nature – instead of using expensive SMS allotments, you can use an app instead. But ChatON competes with several others in this space, including GroupMe, which has the benefit of supporting SMS for those who don’t have the ability to run the app on their phones. ChatON, however, may get a boost thanks to its creator Samsung who has the ability to pre-install the app on the devices it ships. You can grab ChatON for iOS here on iTunes. Read More

Ende Mai konnte ich mich zu einem neuen TV-Kauf durchringen. Voraussetzung war (unter anderem) eine iPhone-App, die die Bedienung vereinfacht. Außerdem habe ich tatsächlich ein Problem mit der Optik dieser TV-Totschläger, welche durch die Bank weg von allen Herstellern beigelegt werden. Entschieden habe ich mich für einen Samsung LED D7090 mit 46-Zoll-Bildschirmdiagonale (Affiliate-Link). ‘Entschieden’ ist jedoch genau genommen die falsche Wortwahl: Ich habe irgendwann aufgegeben, mich durch Produktnummern und Feature-Vergleiche zu wühlen. Es bleibt eine Frechheit, wie käuferunfreundlich sich hier alle TV-Produzenten zeigen. Natürlich heißt der UE46D7090 in Finnland UE46D7000. Natürlich steht auf der Gehäuserückseite UE46D7005LU. Natürlich gibt’s dieses Modell unter der finnischen Bezeichnung auch auf Amazon.de aber natürlich nicht auf Samsung.de. Wie gesagt, ich habe aufgegeben und dieser YouTube-Vorstellung und einer aktuellen Audiovision-Testbewertung (kostenlos; App Store-Link) vertraut. Für die iPhone-App, die hier ohnehin im Mittelpunkt stehen soll, ist das unerheblich. Modelle aus dem Jahr 2010 (“with Internet@TV“) und 2011 (“AllShare“) sind kompatibel. Anfang Juni erhielt die App ein 2.0-Update, das wesentlich an der Benutzeroberfläche schraubte. Trotzdem verbleiben einige harte Stolpersteine. So lässt sich beispielsweise das ‘Smart-Hub’-Menü, indem sich von YouTube über Skype bis zum Wetter-Widget die Zusatz-Software befindet, nicht über die iPhone-App aufrufen. Dort lädt (bei mir) der Menüpunkt erst, wenn man auf dem Knochen großen Plastikschlegel die identische Taste initial einmal gedrückt wurde. Schwamm drüber. Aufgrund des extrem begrenzten Angebots darf man als Käufer sowieso froh sein, überhaupt unfertige Funktions-Stückchen vor die Füße geworfen zu bekommen. Als kleine Ergänzung: Wer gerade selbst vor der TV-Kaufentscheidung steht, sollte einen Blick auf den ‘Panasonic VIERA AR Setup Simulator‘ (kostenlos; App Store-Link) werfen. Über die App lässt sich ein ‘Augmented Reality’-Bild erstellen und die richtige Fernseher-Größe bestimmen. Dieses YouTube-Video zeigt wie’s geht. * Alle selbstproduzierten Videos gibt es neben der oben eingebundenen HD-Version auch ‘iPhone-kompatibel’ in unserem Podcast-Feed, den ihr beispielsweise über iTunes oder einem anderen Multimedia-Verwaltungsprogramm eurer Wahl abonnieren könnt. Read More

Google and Apple are talking, hinting and teasing about their take on upcoming advances in television. Samsung, on the other hand, has all-too-quietly actually been adding new features to its stellar line up of LED backlit HDTVs with hardly any technical notoriety. Perhaps if competition in this space cared about more than just pixel depth, refresh rates, upscaling and dare I say 3D, we’d be able to see more details behind what’s going on in the race to completely remove the set-top box from the home entertainment center. To wit, there are four aspects of what Samsung has to offer that any company interested in entering the consumer television market should take notice of: Internet@TV Yahoo! Widgets, AllShare DLNA Media Sharing, Skype Video Calling, and iDevice Remote integration. You may recall Konfabulator, originally released in 2003 as a Mac OS X-only application before Apple came out with a very similar feature called Dashboard in its Tiger release in 2005. Yahoo bought Konfabulator in 2005, and it’s now branded as Yahoo! Widgets. Samsung has adapted its line of HDTVs to take advantage of this technology right out of the box via a feature it calls Internet@TV. It needs no additional computer — no set-top box to wire up to the HDTV. Yahoo! TV Widgets come with the HDTV ready to run. All you need to do is connect the HDTV to the Internet. From Amazon Video on Demand to the latest movie rentals from Blockbuster, movie purchases for your in-the-cloud media library can be accessed directly from your HDTV without any intermediary set-top box or in-home device. You can even connect to your Pandora music stations. There are Facebook, Twitter, Weather, News and Stock widgets that can all be accessed directly from the HDTV. While not quite the App Store just yet, the list of apps that Samsung has created is impressive to say the least. Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) has the support of at least 200 companies and has been integrated into thousands of consumer devices. Neither Apple nor Google appear to be among the companies that support this specification. Prior to 2010, only devices — not software — were certified by the group. This would explain why certain software solutions work better than others with certain devices. What’s become quite popular with gaming consoles is to stream media from a PC or Mac directly to an XBOX 360 or PS3, as these two game consoles Read More

10 Apr 2010 alle 17:15 Produttore: Samsung | Download: AppStore USA | Prezzo: Gratis Samsung ha rilasciato, nell’AppStore USA, TV Remote for iPhone, un’applicazione molto interessante che permette di controllare tutte le funzioni dei nuovi televisotri Samsung Internet@TV 2010 grazie alla connessione WiFi. Ovviamente sarà possibile controllare tutte le funzioni standard ed inoltre potrete utilizzare l’accelerometro e le gestures per interpretare diversi comandi. Sarà possibile anche giocare ai giochi presenti nel televisore scegliendo “Game Remote” oppure trasformarlo in una tastiera per navigare facilmente in internet tappando su “Keyboard”. L’applicazione al momento è disponibile solo nello store USA, ancora non sappiamo se sarà disponibile anche nello store Italiano, però essendo un’applicazione molto utile per i possessori dei nuovi televisori Internet@TV abbiamo deciso di proporvela. TV Remote è compatibile con iPhone, iPod Touch o iPad, richiede la versione del firmware 2.2.1 o successive ed è localizzato in Inglese. Grazie a avellino22 per la segnalazione | DDay Read More