Samsung, give them credit, loves to push that old industrial design envelope by making strange new control designs for their products.  It’s only too bad that, most of the time, these industrial design features often wind up being little more than lipstick on a pig.  And today’s polished turd will be the Samsung Alias 2. [...]

Samsung’s Alias 2 phone is now available from Verizon Wireless. You have surely not forgotten this dual hinge clam shell phone which offers you either a regular keypad or a full QWERTY keyboard. The phone will cost you just $79 after a $50 mail-in rebate available online with a 2-year contract. In case you pick [...]

May 11 is the day when Verizon Wireless will launch a new Samsung phone, the SCH-U750 or the Alias 2. Or so do people say thus far. The phone is similar in design to its predecessor, the U740. The Alias also has a dual-hinged mechanism but the QWERTY keyboard is replaced with a dynamic keyboard. [...]