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Today Samsung announced a new addition to the Ultra Edition range called the Samsung Soul.

The Soul will be properly shown off at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week and we’re definitely looking forward to getting our sticky, cake-stained hands on it.

Packed with HSDPA that can reach speeds of up to 7.2mbps and a 5-megapixel camera, you might forgive the Soul for being a little chunky, but it only measures 13 millimeters thick and comes in a tough metal casing.

More impressively, Samsung has included a new navigation pad with a display that changes its icons depending on what feature you’re using. This looks very cool, and supposedly makes it easier to understand what’s going on–we’ll wait for a hands-on before we decide if that’s true.

View a video in the article.

Yesterday Sienna and I picked up a new coffee table from a FreeCycle person about half an hour’s drive south of home.

It’s in very good condition and only needed a wipe over with a cloth. We stopped at the local shops and picked up some bread and Sienna had a small ice cream sundae.

Today we are going to near Morningside to pick up a monitor for me. Mine is only 17″ and this looks like a 19″er.

Full specifications for Samsung Syncmaster 950P

Manufacturer: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Part number: 950P

 

General

• Display Type
• Display / CRT

• Built-in Devices
• None

• Width
• 18.4 in

• Depth
• 19 in

• Height
• 18.6 in

• Weight
• 49.6 lbs

• Enclosure Color
• White

• Localization
• French, German, Korean, English, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese

Image

• Image Color Temperature
• 5000K, 9300K, Adjustable

• Display (projector) image aspect ratio
• 4:3

Display

• Diagonal Size
• 19 in

• Viewable Size
• 18 in

• Dot Pitch / Pixel Pitch
• 0.26 mm

• Max Resolution
• 1920 x 1440 / 64 Hz

• Max Sync Rate (V x H)
• 160 Hz x 96 KHz

• Factory Preset Resolution Modes
• 1600 x 1200 / 87 Hz, 1600 x 1200 / 85 Hz, 1600 x 1200 / 75 Hz, 1600 x 1200 / 70 Hz, 1600 x 1200 / 65 Hz, 1280 x 1024 / 102 Hz, 1280 x 1024 / 85 Hz, 1280 x 1024 / 75 Hz, 1280 x 1024 / 60 Hz, 1024 x 768 / 136 Hz, 1024 x 768 / 85 Hz, 1024 x 768 / 75 Hz, 1024 x 768 / 70 Hz, 1024 x 768 / 60 Hz, 1024 x 768 / 87 Hz, 800 x 600 / 160 Hz, 800 x 600 / 85 Hz, 800 x 600 / 75 Hz, 800 x 600 / 72 Hz, 800 x 600 / 60 Hz, 800 x 600 / 56 Hz, 640 x 480 / 160 Hz, 640 x 480 / 85 Hz, 640 x 480 / 75 Hz, 640 x 480 / 72 Hz

• Front Panel Controls
• Select, Contrast, Adjust +/-, Brightness, Power on/off

• On-Screen Controls
• Tilt, Zoom, Focus, Degauss, H/V-size, H/V-moiré, Trapezoid, Pin-balance, H/V-position, Input select, Parallelogram, Language select, Recall settings, Color adjustment, Pincushion distortion

• Features
• Invar shadow mask

Video Input

• Analog video format
• None

• Analog video signal
• RGB

• Digital video input format
• None

Audio Output

• Type
• None

Input Device

• Input device type
• None

Expansion / Connectivity

• Interfaces
• None

• Connections
• 1 x Display / video - VGA - 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15) - 1, 1 x Display / video - VGA - BNC - 5

Power

• Power device form factor
• Integrated

• Voltage Required
• AC 110/220 V ± 10%

Miscellaneous

• Cables Included
• 1 x Display cable

• Mounting Kit
• Not available

• Rack Mounting Kit
• Not available

• Compliant Standards
• CE, UL, CSA, PTB, TUV, DHHS, VCCI-I, TCO ‘95, Plug and Play, EPA Energy Star, CISPR 22 Class B, FCC Class B certified

Software / System Requirements

• Software type
• Drivers & Utilities

Manufacturer Warranty

• Service & support type
• 3 years warranty

• Service & Support Details
• Limited warranty - Parts and labor - 3 years - Bring-in

 

 

I’ve started programming applications in Java for the Google Android mobile phone platform and the Eclipse IDE really needs more screen space than I can get out of this monitor. I wrote my first application over the last couple of days and am just putting the finishing touches on it to upload it to my website. I’m also going to put in a lot of information on the AndroidChi.com website to help others learn how to do it. I actually wrote this application a couple of years ago for the J2ME mobile phone platform. It’s called Best Value. You type in two prices and quantities and it tells you which is the Best Value for your money. This helps when you go shopping and see, for example, biscuits at 300g for $5.65 and 440g at $6.95. Which one gives you the best value for your money? Just type them into the program and it tells you

xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"

  Identifier "XFree86 Configured"

  Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0

 #Screen 0 "ATIScreen" 0 0

 #Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"

 #Option "Xinerama" "true"

 #Option "Clone" "true"

  InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

  InputDevice "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"

 #InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"

 #InputDevice "Touchpad" "SendCoreEvents"

 #InputDevice "ALPS Touchpad" "SendCoreEvents"

 #InputDevice "Appletouch" "SendCoreEvents"

 #InputDevice "Stylus" "SendCoreEvents"

 #InputDevice "Eraser" "SendCoreEvents"

 #InputDevice "Cursor" "SendCoreEvents"

 #InputDevice "Serial Mouse" "CorePointer"

EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"

  Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"

EndSection

Section "Files"

# Xorg 7.0 font paths

    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi:unscaled"

    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc:unscaled"

# Other font paths

    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/arphic"

    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont"

    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/kochi"

    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"

# path to defoma fonts

    FontPath    "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"

EndSection

Section "Module"

  Load "dbe"

 #Load "dri"

  Load "extmod"

  Load "freetype"

  Load "glx"

  Load "type1"

  Load "v4l"

  Load "vbe"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

  Identifier "Keyboard0"

  Driver "keyboard"

  Option "CoreKeyboard"

  Option "XkbModel" "pc105"

  Option "XkbLayout" "us"

  Option "XKbOptions" ""

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

  Identifier "Serial Mouse"

  Driver "mouse"

  Option  "Protocol" "Microsoft"

  Option  "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"

  Option  "Emulate3Buttons" "false"

  Option  "Emulate3Timeout" "70"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

  Identifier "Touchpad"

  Driver "synaptics"

  Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"

  Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"

  Option "LeftEdge" "1700"

  Option "RightEdge" "5300"

  Option "TopEdge" "1700"

  Option "BottomEdge" "4200"

  Option "FingerLow" "25"

  Option "FingerHigh" "30"

  Option "MaxTapTime" "180"

  Option "MaxTapMove" "220"

  Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"

  Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"

  Option "MinSpeed" "0.09"

  Option "MaxSpeed" "0.18"

  Option "AccelFactor" "0.0015"

  Option "SHMConfig" "on"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

  Driver "synaptics"

  Identifier "ALPS Touchpad"

  Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"

  Option "Protocol" "event"

  Option "LeftEdge" "130"

  Option "RightEdge" "840"

  Option "TopEdge" "130"

  Option "BottomEdge" "640"

  Option "FingerLow" "7"

  Option "FingerHigh" "8"

  Option "MaxTapTime" "180"

  Option "MaxTapMove" "110"

  Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"

  Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"

  Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"

  Option "MinSpeed" "0.25"

  Option "MaxSpeed" "0.50"

  Option "AccelFactor" "0.030"

  Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"

  Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"

  Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"

  Option "CircularScrolling" "1"

  Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"

  Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"

  Option "SHMConfig" "on"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

  Identifier "Appletouch"

  Driver "synaptics"

  Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"

  Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"

  Option "LeftEdge" "100"

  Option "RightEdge" "1120"

  Option "TopEdge" "50"

  Option "BottomEdge" "310"

  Option "FingerLow" "25"

  Option "FingerHigh" "30"

  Option "MaxTapMove" "220"

  Option "TapButton1" "1"

  Option "TapButton2" "3"

  Option "TapButton3" "2"

  Option "MinSpeed" "0.79"

  Option "MaxSpeed" "0.88"

  Option "AccelFactor" "0.0015"

  Option "SHMConfig" "on"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

  Identifier "PS/2 Mouse"

  Driver "mouse"

  Option "Protocol" "auto"

  Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"

  Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"

  Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70"

  Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

  Option "Buttons" "5"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

  Identifier "USB Mouse"

  Driver "mouse"

  Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

  Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

  Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

  Option "Buttons" "5"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

  Identifier "Stylus"

  Driver "wacom"

  Option "Mode" "Absolute"

  Option "Type" "stylus"

  Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"

Endsection

# Settings for wacom eraser

Section "InputDevice"

  Identifier "Eraser"

  Driver "wacom"

  Option "Mode" "Absolute"

  Option "Type" "eraser"

  Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"

Endsection

# Settings for wacom cursor (mouse)

Section "InputDevice"

  Identifier "Cursor"

  Driver "wacom"

  Option "Mode" "Relative"

  Option "Type" "cursor"

  Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"

Endsection

# Studioworks 700s

#Section "Monitor"

#  Identifier "Monitor0"

#  VendorName "LG"

#  ModelName "StudioWorks 700s"

#  Option "DPMS" "true"

#  HorizSync    30.0-70.0

#  VertRefresh  75.0-160.0

# Modeline "1152x864@75" 111.72 1152 1184 1608 1640 864 880 891 908

Section "Monitor"

    Identifier "monitor0"

    VendorName "Samsung"

    ModelName "1360x768"

    HorizSync 31.5 - 100.0

    VertRefresh 59.0 - 75.0

    # Samsung 26"

    ModeLine "1360x768_60.00"     84.72  1360  1424  1568  1776   768  769  772  795

EndSection

Section "Device"

  Identifier  "Card0"

  Driver "nvidia"

  BoardName "unknown"

  Screen 0

 #Option "UseDisplayDevice" "dfp"

 #Option "MonitorLayout" "crt,crt"

 #BusID  "PCI:1:0:0"

 #Option "sw_cursor" # needed for some ati cards

 #Option "hw_cursor"

 #Option "NoAccel"

 #Option "ShowCache"

 #Option "ShadowFB"

 #Option "UseFBDev"

 #Option "Rotate"

  Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"

# savage special options, use with care

 #Option "NoUseBios"

 #Option "BusType" "PCI"

  Option "DmaMode" "None"

# nvidia special options, use with care

  Option "CursorShadow" "1"

  Option "CursorShadowAlpha" "63"

  Option "CursorShadowYOffset" "2"

  Option "CursorShadowXOffset" "4"

  Option "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = native"

  Option "NoLogo" "true"

  Option "UseEDID" "true"

  Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"

  Option "RenderAccel" "true"

 #Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"

EndSection

#Section "Device"

#  Identifier  "Card1"

#  Driver "nvidia"

#  BoardName "unknown"

  #Screen 1

 #Option "MonitorLayout" "crt,crt"

 #BusID  "PCI:1:0:0"

#EndSection

# Samsung 26" TV

Section "Screen"

    Identifier "Screen0"

    Device "Card0"

    Monitor "Monitor0"

    DefaultColorDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"

        Depth 8

        Virtual 1360 768

    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"

        Depth 15

        Virtual 1360 768

    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"

        Depth 16

        Virtual 1360 768

    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"

        Depth 24

        Virtual 1360 768

    EndSubsection

# LG Studioworks 700s

#Section "Screen"

#  Identifier "Screen0"

#  Device "Card0"

#  Monitor "Monitor0"

#  DefaultColorDepth 24

#

#  SubSection "Display"

#  Depth 8

#  Modes "1152x864"

#  EndSubSection

#  SubSection "Display"

#  Depth 15

#  Modes "1152x864"

#  EndSubSection

#  SubSection "Display"

#  Depth 16

#  Modes "1152x864"

#  EndSubSection

#  SubSection "Display"

#  Depth 24

#  Modes "1152x864"

#  EndSubSection

#  SubSection "Display"

#  Depth 32

#  Modes "1152x864"

#  EndSubSection

  # Only the official NVIDIA driver supports twinview

  # these setting are an example

  Option "TwinView" "false"

  Option "SecondMonitorVendorName" "unknown"

  Option "SecondMonitorModelName" "unknown"

  Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-75"

  Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "55-70"

 #Option "MetaModes" "1152x864, 1152x864"

  Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"

  Option "ConnectedMonitor" "dfp,dfp"

EndSection

Section "DRI"

  Mode 0666

EndSection

Section "Extensions"

  Option "Composite" "Enable"

EndSection

This is a copy of my xorg.conf (also usable as a XF86Config file). You may find it handy to reference. I pasted it on the MepisLovers.org forum to help out another Mepis user who wanted to use his Samsung TV with his Mepis computer, as I also have done.