Samsung has recently announced the launch of OMNIA cell phone model number SGH-i900. It sports a 5 MP Camera along with GPS, FEMTOMETER radio and Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi. The 16G internal memory can store 4000 MP3 files and 100 minutes of movie. You can access Word, Excel and PPT etc. with the latest phone. Latest version of Opera (9.5) offers enhanced browsing. SAMSUNG OMNIA Phone is expected to reach the market in the second half of 2008.
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The long awaited Samsung SPH-W5000 may not be too far off. Samsung’s website, indicated below, has shown a picture of the said phone, which is, based on the picture, looks absolutely gorgeous.

Well, what we do know about the phone is that it has dual LCD display screens, external 1” 96X96 pixels 65536 colours TFT LCD display screen and internal 2.2” 176X220 pixels 65536 colours TFT LCD display screens. Also, it has rotational 1.3M resolutions CMOS digital camera with video recorder/playback/streaming/call and digital zoom function.

Samsung SPH-W5000 Specs:
-Dimensions : 100.4X50.5X13.5mm.
-Weight : 96g.
-GSM Triband (900/1800/1900MHz).
-WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access).
-HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) 3.6Mbps 2100MHz.
-WAP browser.
-Support Bluetooth connectivity.
-Support MOD (Music On Demand) function.
-MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service).
-Dual LCD display screens, external 1” 96X96 pixels 65536 colours TFT LCD display screen and internal 2.2” 176X220 pixels 65536 colours TFT LCD display screens.
-Rotational 1.3M resolutions CMOS digital camera with video recorder/playback/streaming/call and digital zoom function.
-MP3/video player.

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I’d like to be as objective as possible when comparing any new smartphone with the iPhone. It’s really difficult since I’m a fan of the iPhone. When comparing ‘Insert Name’ with the iPhone I’d go “and the iPhone wins in a second”.

Samsung Instinct is coming via Sprint this June. When? June 20th. Talk about a false start. If I were in charge of Samsung I’d be doing some serious screaming at the marketing department. Why release the Instinct so late after the WWDC 2008? Giving Apple a head start?
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Classy is just another word that describes Samsung’s Ultra Series and the Soul B is definitely not an exception. Samsung drops the 5-megapixel camera and the slider form factor from the Samsung Soulto accommodate 3 megapixels and a candybar design, although I wish they had carried over the Magic Touch keypad technology seen on the Soul, which changes colors depending on where you navigate. With LED flash accompanying the camera, this cell phone also has 1GB of internal memory with a microSD slot for further storage needs. Connectivity seems to be top-notch with tri-band GSM support and HSDPA, but I see no mention of WiFi, assuming Bluetooth is already onboard.

The Samsung Soul B will be available in Germany around June in a choice of five colors. No mention is made of a price yet.
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L870 is the next S60 Samsung phone. It will hit the European stores this August while the US customers will be able to get one later this year.

From what we can see from the picture the L870 is a stainless steel slide phone. It will feature a 2.4 inch QVGA, MP3 player with stereo Bluetooth, FM radio with RDS and a 3 megapixel camera. Although it’s definitely a S60 phone, the spec sheet says a “Safari” browser will be inside. That would be at least weird, wouldn’t it? L870 will have the S60 Webkit-based browser to begin with. After you buy it you’ll be able to do with it what you want.

If you are in the market for a new CDMA phone, Samsung has an option open for you. The new SPH-W4950 packs a lot in its slider form factor with support for CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Rev.A. Although it can’t be called a media powerhouse, the W4950 has covered the bases with an mp3/video player and a 1.3-megapixel camera with a secondary VGA for video calling. In addition to the 40MB of internal memory, the W4950 has a microSD/TransFlash memory slot to store your favorite numbers or the pics of your loved ones. The phone can remain on standby for up to 165 hours and provide up to 4.5 hours of talktime.

There is no word on availability or pricing yet, but I don’t think we will have to wait too long before we hear more.
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Samsung’s latest phone SPH-W4450 discovered in the wild. This titanium pink colored slider phone is awesome. Here are a few features of the cellphone:

• MP3 Player
• USB 2.0 support
• Bluetooth
• Supported formats: MP3/VOD/MOD
• Digital Camera 2.0 MP
• Memory 1GB
• TFT LCD 240×320 resolution

Somehow, we got these amazing images of the cell phone. Enjoy the pics:

Steel yourself for this mid-ranger from Samsung called…the Steel. With its brushed metal finish and the black plastic base, the Steel certainly lives up to its name, though at the cost of being similar to the Samsung Soul. The navpad certainly is alike, but lacks the interactivity that the Soul’s pad has. The slider has a 2.2-inch display, small but enough to watch videos or pictures shot on its 3-megapixel camera. Though the details are scarce, we do know that the Steel has a microSD slot, support for tri-band GSM with EDGE and HSDPA data transfer, and while can only guess that it will have some media capabilities, Samsung has let it slip that the phone will boast a DAB radio among other things.

The Samsung Steel is expected to land in the UK exclusively through Vodafone this June. So we don’t have to wait too long to know more…

Samsung Electronics premiered its F268 Beijing Olympic phone in the China market during CHITEC 2008. The F268 features GSM Triband (900/1800/1900MHz), GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) and 2.0 WAP browser. It is Bluetooth 2.0 compatible.

It bears a 2.1” 240X320 pixels 262144 colours QVGA TFT LCD display screen. The F268 is equipped with a 2M resolution CMOS digital camera with video recorder/playback and digital zoom function.

For entertainment buffs there is an in built MP3/MPEG4/3GP/AAC/WMA player and FM radio. You can turn on the speakerphone to make your friends listen to what you are listening. With the MicroSD/TransFlash card expansion slot, you get enhanced storage options. Price and availability is not known yet. Those who are in China can see the model put on demo at the CHITEC 2008.

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Well, that just about wraps up the Instinct in a nice little package now that we have the missing piece that was the release date. Now, if only we knew its price! Anyways, as we previously reported, the iPhone-cloning GPS-toting Samsung Instinct brings a big 3.1-inch touchscreen display, Sprint TV, and some EV-DO Rev. A magic. You won’t be missing out on Samsung’s famous haptic feedback either. Now if only we were privy to the pricing information before it hits the shelves on June 20th…
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Samsung has announced multiple phones during CHITEC 2008. From the handsets mentioned earlier on this site, Samsung has also announced its F488E phone. The F488E is set to be released in China and features a touch-screen interface. It measures at around 95.9 mm × 55mm × 11.5mm.

Its features include 240 × 432 pixel touch screen, 2.8-inch QVGA resolution 260,000 color TFT screen. It also has excellent multimedia capabilities with its MP3/AAC/WMA support, built-in FM radio, music management support classification, stereo Bluetooth transfer and micro-SD memory card expansion. F488E supports GSM / GPRS / EDGE technology.

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Samsung has announced its Samsung S259 handset during the CHITEC 2008. The phone measures 108 x 50 x 10mm and weighs 66 grams. It features  an integrated VGA camera, FM radio tuner, a 1.77-inch display with 128×16 resolution and 65K colors, a 5MB of internal storage with microSD card slot for memory expansion option, and a 800mAh battery.

Nicknamed as the “Explorer”, the handset runs on CDMA network.

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We first laid our eyes on the Samsung SGH-F480 and its new TouchWiz interface back in MWC 2008. We were promised a April/May release date and true to their word, Samsung has announced that the 5-megapixel shooter is now headed to Europe. No word on availability in US, but considering that it is triband GSM designed for Europe and Asia, the phone would pretty much be a dud here anyways. With the new TouchWiz UI comes support for widgets, which can be dragged on to the home screen, which wasn’t available on its predecessor, the Croix 2.0 interface. Also available are 22 different vibrations which provide haptic feedback to the touch of a finger. Otherwise, the cell phone is basically the Samsung Armani with a 2.8-inch touchscreen, video messaging, email, USB 2.0 and Bluetooth connectivity, mobile blogging, and a 5-megapixel camera equipped with auto-focus as well as image stabilization.

The SGH-F480 will be released in the European market with a graduated release in other countries, most probably Asian.

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Paragon Software Group has just announced the release of a Turkish and Arabic version of the recently unveiled SAMSUNG SGH-i780 mobile communicator. The leading developer of innovative software applications for mobile devices and PC desktops, has had talks with Samsung, a global leader in the mobile phone industry, to enable full native interface translation, text input and handwriting recognition in the Turkish and Arabic languages on SAMSUNG SGH-i780 GPS smartphones through a Paragon software application CD bundled with the device.

With this deal, users in the Turkish and Arabic markets can make full use of the SGH-i780 full features. Also included in the bundle is Paragon’s PenReader multilingual handwriting recognition software, enabling handwriting recognition text input in Turkish or Arabic. The SGH-i780 GPS smartphone runs Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional, and features 150MB of internal memory, a 2-megapixel camera, HSDPA support, Wi-Fi technology and stereo Bluetooth.

Virgin Mobile, which recently bagged the Samsung Slash phone, officially announced the addition to its line-up. A slider phone available in a compact form-factor, the phone features a basic VGA camera (I remember my Nokia 3650 which had a VGA camera in 2004) as well as Bluetooth.

Other goodies on the phone include IM, text messaging and email capability. There’s also speakerphone capability and voice-activated dialing. Preloaded games include Gameloft Jukebox and Superscape Demo. The phone measures 3.8″ x 1.8″ x 0.7″, and weighs 3 oz.

Priced at US $79.99, the Virgin Mobile Slash by Samsung is now available.

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If the “i” in its name isn’t a dead giveaway, its feature set and the form factor will definitely make it clear who the Samsung SGH-i900 is competing against. The 3G iPhone isn’t that far way and if Samsung hopes to really put in a good fight, this device better be ready within the next quarter or be labeled another iPhone clone.

The SGH-i900 packs a lot in its 112×56x13mm size, no bigger than Apple’s successful iPhone. The form factor is similar to the iPhone with a huge 3.5-inch touchscreen (multi-touch?) and were it not for the answer and disconnect keys on either side of the navigation key, the prototype would have screamed knockoff. The 3.5-inch LCD has a display resolution of 400×240 pixels. Samsung has thrown in 16GB of onboard storage and also a microSD slot, which might be overkill for some given the amount of storage space already on the device. The phone runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 and has GPS, a 5-megapixel camera with a secondary VGA cam for video calling, Bluetooth 2.2 with A2DP support, FM radio, TV-out, and WiFi.

Wow! Now that’s what I would truly call an iPhone killer!

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For those of you waiting to get their hands on Samsung’s SGH-F400, we have some pictures to tease you with.
In case you forgot what the F400 let me remind you some specs:

• 2.2-inch display,
• 3-megapixel camera,
• USB 2.0 connectivity
• multimedia player capabilities: video support, music player, multiformat audio, music recognition, stereo speakers
• amplifier with Bang & Olufsen technology
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Samsung U940 Glyde has finally arrived at Verizon wireless after a long wait. We told you what’s happening and now we are going to take a closer look. One of the most discussed events of the week was the release of the new HTC Touch Diamond in London, so Samsung’s Glyde might have missed all the attention. So I was telling you how this phone is a possible competitor to current smart phones. Let’s see some of its most important features and compare them to the iPhone. We won’t be going through all the specs we gave you yesterday; you don’t have all day to read right?

Do we like the design? It’s slick and slim, resembling the iPhone. Well, the U940 is based on the former F700 which came out before the iPhone. Did Apple get inspired by Samsung?

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We were waiting for this baby from Samsung to be sold already by Verizon for a couple of months now. The U940 Glyde can be a decent competitor to Apple’s iPhone or the newly launched HTC Touch Diamond. And it’s quite affordable (with a two-years plan) at $249 after $50 rebate.

Let’s look at some of the features you might inquire about:

• Touch Screen
• Full QWERTY Keyboard
• Full HTML Browser
• V CAST Music and Video*
• Bluetooth® Wireless Technology
• 2.0 Megapixel Digital Camera
• microSDâ„¢ Memory Card Slot (Up to 8 GB)
• networks: CDMA/EV-DO where available

What do you think? Is this Samsung U940 Glyde going to keep up with the others?

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Samsung Korea has announced the launch of SCH-W420/SPH-W4200 Anycall Phones. These touchscreen phones lets the users communicate through 22 types of vibrations. The cell phones equip DMB TV, 2MP camera and 3.2 inch screen. The Anycall Haptic Phones bear a great UI to let the users enjoy visual, acoustic, and touch sensations. They are expected to be available at an expected price of 700000 won in pink and white color.

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