Quick Post

... between homework assignments.

I walked over to the AT&T store today because I'd been itching to mess around with the Samsung Impression. It's one of Samsung's new OLED display touchscreen devices. It's on the lower end compared to others like the Omnia HD, but I digress.

The display is GORGEOUS. Colors really pop out at you. The contrast ratio must have been like 50000:1. It's relatively smooth to use too. Me being silly, I couldn't figure out whether it was capacitive or resistive, but they definitely attempted to incorporate some level of haptic feedback (the screen vibrates when you touch it). The interface was a typical Samsung OS (not S60, WinMo, or Android), and it seemed useful enough.

Unfortunately, after about 3 minutes of playing, it got switched off, and then needed a pin code to unlock after turning on again. Ah well, I enjoyed my 3 minutes. This phone is definitely on my list of phones now, and I must say that I really don't want to settle for LCDs anymore.

Ahhhhhhhhhh!

I have been off the radar WAY too long! Oh college, and its silly end of the semester crunch.

I am excited, though, because there's been some awesome news that Engadget Mobile has been so kind to show me.

There's been a ton of iPhone OS 3.0 sleuthing going on, and it seems people have unearthed the workings of what could be a new iPhone (or two). This version apparently has a 3.2 MP camera with video recording capability, plus a digital compass (someone's aping the N97, methinks), plus all the other OS 3.0 features. Exciting? Marginally so. I'm more excited that someone found one with a possible 5 MP camera. That's a bit more like it, even though it's still not nearly in the league as the Sony Idou and the Samsung Omnia HD (both pack 8 MP cameras)

Also, the Omnia HD passed FCC clearance this morning! Or at least, that's when Engadget found out about it! That means we're all one step closer to holding sweet, sweet OLED goodness.