Sprint will launch a new Samsung phone, the Exclaim M550, which is the successor of the Rant. You can expect both an QWERTY keyboard and a keypad ready to meet your texting needs. And both keypads are sliding out which is quite a neat trick. Other features include:

• A 2.6 QVGA display
• EV-DO Rev. 0 connectivity
• Social networking applications
• GPS
• 2MP camera
• Memory expansion slot, up to 32GB

The phone should be available starting with June 7 for an undetermined price. We’ll be back with those price tags as soon as Sprint announces them.

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Pantech has just released a new phone, the Matrix PRO. The phone features HSDPA connectivity, GPS with AT&T Navigator, Bluetooth, a 2 megapixel camera, Video Share support and Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard. Nothing you haven’t seen before right? But get ready for this, the Matrix PRO has two slider mechanisms, one for a full QWERTY keyboard and one for a keypad. Simply slide-out the one you need at any time. The phone will be available from AT&T at some point although there’s no official announcement regarding release dates and prices.

via AT&T

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