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...name and later, if you said it exactly the way you did the first time, the phone might make the call. Now a new class of phones is speaker independent: anyone can say a name and, in theory, the phone will call. Sprint PCS sells three such phones--the Samsung A600 ($350), VGA1000 ($260) and new VI660 ($230). Verizon Wireless introduced similar voice recognition last fall in the Samsung i600 Smartphone ($500) and this week follows it up with the VX4500 from LG ($120). We programmed the four new models with identical phone books. The three Samsungs immediately displayed...
SIZE MATTERS Some of the new sets are bigger and thinner than before. A prototype Samsung plasma screen measures a record 80 in. diagonally. And for something really skinny, RCA has developed a rear-projection TV that's less than 7 in. thick...
...HDTV or digital TV, TV manufacturers have partnered with cable companies. By this fall, Comcast and Time Warner Cable (which, like this magazine, is owned by Time Warner) are scheduled to distribute industry-standardized "cable cards" to customers who buy new cable-card-ready TV sets from Panasonic, Pioneer, Samsung and others. With the right card, you don't need...
...cash-advance service. LG was bailed out last week with a $1.69 billion emergency loan package provided by its creditors, mainly banks. LG isn't the only issuer in trouble. Of South Korea's nine major card companies, eight lost money in the first half of 2003; losses at Samsung Card, the country's second-largest issuer, totaled $850 million in the first nine months of the year. Two banks, Korea Exchange Bank and Woori Financial, recently announced rescue plans for their stricken card units. A chain of collapses is unlikely. But to some observers, the situation is disturbingly like...
...Seoul cosmetics salesman (who requested anonymity) applied for most of his five cards on street corners, and he says the only check was a phone call to him at his office. He's now $42,000 in debt. "Koreans ate a poison pill," says Kim Kyeong Won of the Samsung Economic Research Institute. "It tasted sweet at the time but was still poison...