A few details on the still unannounced 9000 Series LCDs from Samsung have leaked, and according to FlatPanelsHD, they’ll come with a wireless media port box, in addition to having LED backlighting.

The 9000 series will come in 46 and 55-inch sizes, and will come equipped with MPEG4 compliant DVB-T and DVB-C tuners. The external media box is similar to the Sony ZX1, where it takes all your video inputs and wirelessly transmits them to your TV, reducing the size of the panel itself. As for the LED backlighting, local dimming is superior to edge lighting because you get better contrast, and therefore deeper blacks, from the picture. (LED backlit Samsung LCDs have had this for awhile.)

Other features the 9000 series is rumored to have DLNA compatibility, USB port and on-screen widgets via the Medi@2.0 platform. FlatPanelsHD expects the 9000 series to be available in summer/fall 2009.

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It would be amazing if LG could make an iPhone competitor, an Android device and a Prada III that’s one single device, but somehow I don’t think that’s what LG’s president means.

In an interview for a Korean news agency, Ahn Seung-kwon says (besides the details above) that LG will make another luxury phone (unrelated to the Prada) that will be similar to Nokia’s crazy overpriced Vertu. He also said that they aim to be the number two cellphone maker in the world by 2012. The current #2? Samsung. So it’s like Predator vs. Aliens, except instead of Predator and Aliens, you have a bunch of Koreans. [Unwired View via Boy Genius]

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We already knew pretty much everything about the Archos9 tablet netbook running Windows 7, but with nobody sure what kind of touchscreen the thing uses, we’re left to wonder if we’d want anything to do with a resistive-touchscreen tablet.

Crave got a little hands-on with the svelte Atom-powered Archos9, and without even thinking about it, published their post calling it a fairly accurate capacitive touchscreen. That makes us happy: Tablets, especially a little guy like this 9-incher, need as accurate tracking as they can muster. Archos’s previous “tablets,” the Archos 5 and 7, used mushy resistive touchscreens that worked okay but are firmly last-gen right now, and we’re excited to see a slick capacitive interface with the highly-touchable Windows 7 OS.

Yet in Archos’s press release for the Archos9, they list the screen as resistive. Now we trust Crave, and we believe that they (like the rest of us) can tell the difference with each finger press. So what’s the story here? Crave doesn’t seem to have any idea; all the documentation says resistive, but it certainly didn’t feel that way to them. This may seem like nitpicking, but it might be a dealbreaker for us. Handwriting recognition is far worse with resistive screens, they can only pick up one signal at a time (so multitouch is out), and the screens themselves are often much muddier or washed-out looking than capacitive.

So help us out, Archos. We want to like this thing, we really do, but we’d like to know what we’re dealing with first. Anyway, full presser below.

ARCHOS REDEFINES MOBILE COMPUTING WITH ITS TABLET PC

New Ultra-Thin and Ultra-Fast ARCHOS 9 PCtablet Delivers Full PC Computing, Video Conferencing and Access to Media on a Full Touch Screen Handheld Device.

DENVER, CO ?July 2, 200Your browser may not support display of this image. 9 ARCHOS is leading the innovation charge in the MiniPC market with the introduction of the ARCHOS 9 PCtablet. This new PCtablet combines the performance of a high-end PC with breathtaking design, excellent ergonomics and an astonishing touch interface. It gives PC users an entirely new way to work, stay connected and enjoy the Web and digital media on an ultra-thin and extremely fast full touch-screen tablet.

The ARCHOS 9 PCtablet is the ultra portable PC; extremely thin, just 0.63″, and ultra lightweight, less than 22.29 oz. The ARCHOS 9 pushes the boundaries of style and function.

With a full touch-sensitive 9″ screen, users can enjoy a comfortable computing experience. The resistive screen allows emails and documents to be composed easily via a built-in virtual keyboard. The innovative optical trackball and buttons allows easy navigation on screen, and provides an uncompromised PC experience.

The ARCHOS 9 features the new Z515 Intel?processor, Microsoft Windows 7?Operating system and an integrated multimedia platform that uses WiFi 802.11b/g connection and Bluetooth 2.1 for extremely fast computing anywhere, anytime.

Additional software includes Microsoft Office? Web TV & Radio, video conference, antivirus, parental control, photos and movies edition applications and more.

The ARCHOS 9 PCtablet will be available this fall, 2009.

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Despite being rumored to release as early as June back in April, we now have concrete evidence that Samsung?s i7500 Galaxy will in fact be dropped in the UK this month.

The carrier in question will be?/span>02 and for those who don?t know, the Galaxy is Samsung?s first Android powered handset. Futhermore, the handset will feature a full touch-screen, 5MP camera, 8GB of internal storage and a 3.5mm headset jack.

So Samsung, when will be seeing this thing drop Stateside?

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Mobil’s dug up these photos of the XPERIA Racheal, supposedly their first Android phone. Exciting, since I love Sony Ericsson hardware.

These things are kind of all starting to look the same, but it’s running the Snapdragon platform, meaning it could be 1GHz, and is rumored to have an 8MP imaging sensor. Let’s hope they’ve got the image processing sorted out, though.

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Mobil delivered this rendering of Kiki, a Sony Ericsson phone with a projected display and um, presumably, somewhere, a keypad. I like green. People need to make more green handsets. [Mobil via Engadget]

Mike Arrington’s CrunchPad web tablet, already several prototypes in, is quickly bubbling to reality reports Bits: There’s going to be an announcement in July or August, and it’ll be available “as soon as possible.”

Arrington’s incorporated a separate company, called CrunchPad, and has apparently spent two-thirds of the last six months working on it with his 15-man team from Fusion Garage.

It’s been iterated a bunch before, but worth saying again, that the Atom-powered touchscreen CrunchPad is strictly for internet consumption?it boots directly into the WebKit browser and there’s no hard drive or keyboard, though you can plug in a keyboard if you want. It does support for Flash, so Arrington’s claim that compared to netbooks, “most people will find it works as good as a netbook or better” for getting their internet on sounds pretty reasonable, given its 12-inch screen. Pointedly, it’s not meant to compete with Apple’s mythical tablet, whenever it graces the world.

I’d take the under $300 CrunchPad over a netbook any day, since it seems like it’ll surpass them at the one thing they were supposedly designed to do?eat the internet. And it still blows my mind it took a tech blogger to actually make it happen. [Bits]

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iRiver has some of the most stylish tech gear this side of Apple, but the upcoming E200 player looks boringly similar to its E100 predecessor, despite a new thinner, all-metal design, and a larger screen.

According to iRiver Fans (where we also found these apparent press images), the E200 has been slimmed down to 9.9mm, versus the E100’s 11.3mm.

The current model’s 2.4-inch (262-color) display has also been bumped up to 2.8-inches on the E200. According to Engadget, it may also be a brighter OLED screen. You can also add to the limited storage (4GB or 8GB) thanks to a MicroSD card slot.

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