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Samsung Messenger B7330 Messaging Style Phone Announced For Canada
April 29th, 2010 by admin in samsung
Samsung has recently announced that the Messenger B7330 is going to be making its way into the Canadian market. And for those of you that recognize the handset in the image below, it is also available as the Omnia Pro B7330 in Europe. But back to the task at hand — the Samsung Messenger B7330 coming to Canada.
It looks like it will come to three carriers to include Bell, Telus and Rogers, though the release dates will vary across the board. As of now it is scheduled to come available with Bell as of today, which is April 28th. And then with Rogers on May 4th and Telus is left with a more general timeframe of later this year.
In terms of pricing, so far we only have the details for Bell. But that said, its likely to come with a similar price across the board. With Bell you can expect the handset for free on a three year agreement. Additionally, you can opt for a two year agreement for $149.95, a one year agreement for $249.95 and contract free for $299.95.
Moving on to the specs and we can start in terms of the operating system — Windows Mobile 6.5. Other details include a 2.62 inch display at 320 x 320, a full QWERTY keyboard, 3.2 megapixel camera with zoom and video recording, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1, speakerphone, FM Radio, 320MB of internal memory and microSD card slot.
As for software and apps, those will include the ability to view and edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, an HTML web browser, SmartSearch, SmartReader and Voice recorder as well as the standards such as calendar, contacts and email.
A few other goodies include that the Messenger B7330 can use microSD cards of up to 32GB in size and measures in at 4.53 x 2.32 x 0.43 inches. As for weight, that would be 3.8 ounces.
Samsung S8500 Wave Super - In the UK Now!
April 22nd, 2010 by admin in samsung
Samsung’s S8500 Wave phone is now for sale on T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) in the UK (here). It will punish your wallet for £369.99 unlocked, or between free and £59.99, dependent on contract.
As we know from previous reporting, the Wave has a Super-AMOLED screen, and the Bada OS. On top of that there’s Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-FI, a 1Ghz processor, a 5MP camera, A-GPS, 720p recording/encoding and DivX/XviD support.
Eco-phone Samsung SPH-m570 Restore announced
April 20th, 2010 by admin in samsung
Today Sprint and Samsung announced the Samsung SPH-m570 Restore, an eco-friendly feature phone that offers a slide-out landscape QWERTY keyboard. The device’s casing is made out of 27 percent post-consumer recycled plastics and the whole phone is 84 percent recyclable. Its packaging is 100 recyclable and is made out of 70 percent post consumer materials.
Available in “midnight” and “limeade” colors, the Restore uses Sprint’s One Click user interface and comes equipped with a 2 megapixel camera, support for 32GB microSD cards, stereo Bluetooth support, and a host of Sprints services including the Sprint Music Store.
Sprint expects to retail the device this summer for $49.99 with a two-year contract and a $50 mail-in-rebate.
Samsung introduced Corby TV and Metro TV CDMA phones in India
April 19th, 2010 by admin in samsung
Samsung India introduced two new CDMA based smart phones with integrated broadband mobile TV in Indian market. Both the phones are now available on TATA indicomm and Reliance CDMA mobile service. Corby TV and Metro TV are the first ever mobile phone in India which comes pre-loaded with MimobiTV Mobile TV application, push email for Gamil and supports 8 social networking sites.
Samsung Corby TV is a touch screen mobile phone while Metro TV is bar styled non touch screen mobile phone. Samsung Corby TV has 2.8 inches TFT capacitive touch screen with 256K colors and has Smart unlock and Cartoon UI. This 3G enabled phone compatible with HSDPA 3.6 Mbps data network.
With 50 MB internal memory, phone has expandable memory up to 8 GB. Corby TV has 2 MP camera with Smile detection feature and can record videos at the rate of 15fps.Other features includes, Stereo FM radio with RDS, Social networking integration with live updates, Bluetooth with A2DP and 1000 contacts, Photocall entries. The Corby TV is priced at Rs. 9699.
Samsung Metro TV is another phone which has MimobiTV Mobile TV application to watch broadband mobile TV on the move. This phone is non touch screen phone with 2.0 inches TFT display. This phone also comes with up to 8GB expandable memory, 2 MP camera with video recording, Social networking integration with live updates, Google Maps, Bluetooth with A2DP and 1000 contacts, Photocall entries.Samsung Metro TV costs Rs.6999.
Corby TV and Metro TV are CDMA phones and both phones are now avaliable with Indias leading CDMA service providers, TATA indicomm and Reliance CDMA mobile service. If you have an old Samsung Corby speed, then you can eligible for free Corby TV upgrade. To know more about this upgrade program, visit you nearest Tata indicomm or Reliance outlet.
Samsung Reality - new at Verizon
April 19th, 2010 by admin in samsung
Samsung and Verizon Wireless have announced the Reality, a feature phone with a 3-inch, 240-by-400-pixel touch screen, and a horizontal slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
The Reality will feature Samsung’s TouchWiz interface, a 3.2-megapixel camera, on-device photo editing including Dynamic Canvas (which apparently supports Flash animations in pictures), and stereo Bluetooth.
The Reality will also feature support for social networking services, as well as VZ Navigator, Verizon’s mobile e-mail, mobile Web e-mail, and corporate e-mail (formerly RemoSync), which hooks into Microsoft Exchange.
Look for the Reality in either black or red on April 22 for $79.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and two-year customer agreement. As is increasingly becoming the case, Verizon will require a $9.99/month 25MB data package with the Reality.
Samsung Strive SGH-a687
April 16th, 2010 by admin in samsung
The Samsung Strive is a capable vertical slider phone aimed at frequent texters. It offers a hardware QWERTY keyboard, threaded chat-style messaging, and support for Online Locker, AT&T’s photo hosting service, all for just $19.99 with a two-year contract. It also automatically backs up contacts online and has plenty of media capabilities. But AT&T buried this phone in bloatware, and has come up with some truly dubious ways of jacking up the monthly fees. In short: buyer beware.
Phone specifications:
- Screen Size: 2.6 inches
- Screen Details: 240-by-320-pixel, 262K-color, TFT LCD
- Camera: 2 MP
- 802.11x: No
- Bluetooth: Yes
- Web Browser: Yes
- Network: GSM, UMTS
- Bands: 850, 900, 1800, 1900
- High-Speed Data: GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA
Fashionable DIVA Mobile Phone Collection from Samsung
March 25th, 2010 by admin in samsung
Samsung Electronics, a leading mobile phone and telecommunication provider unveils its latest line-up of fashionable mobile phones, the DIVA collection, and announced its sponsorship with Dubai Fashion Week 2010 as the official product partner for mobile phones and televisions.
Marco Vocale, Head of Corporate Marketing at Samsung Gulf Electronics said, “Fashion is a prefect fit for the Samsung brand; concepts such as innovation, style and design, which are fundamental to the fashion industry, also lie at the heart of Samsung’s vision. We are pleased to be present at this year’s Dubai Fashion show.
“With images of luxury and intellectual charm, Dubai Fashion Week is an ideal fit for ‘Samsung Diva Collection 2010,’ which offers mobile phones that are exquisitely designed for modern women,” added Vocale. “The Diva and the Divafolder are especially designed for modern women who seek high-fashion and a luxurious lifestyle. Gracefully crafted inside and out, the two alluring phones boast beautifully embossed quilted back covers that emanate an haute couture look and feel.”
As well as being eye-catching on the outside, the Samsung Diva Collection 2010 also delivers inner beauty. The Diva and the Diva folder offer a range of functions specially developed for women mobile users, such as a 3.2 megapixel camera featuring ’Beauty Effect,’ which provides perfect photo retouching so portraits will look flawlessly beautiful, and ’Lomo Effect,’ which turns ordinary snapshots into artistic photographs.
The DIVA collection of mobile phones from Samsung, and a selection of Samsung’s pioneering LED TVs, will be showcased throughout the event. Consisting of the LED 6000, 7000 and 8000 Series, Samsung’s LED TV line-up features three key differentiating elements: ultra-high picture quality, ultra-slimness and unmatched eco-friendliness, while also boasting Samsung’s acclaimed Motion Plus™ frame interpolation technology, ensuring crisp, easy viewing of sports, video games and movies. Both the DIVA collection and LED TVs exude the ultimate in design and style, destined to become timeless classics.
There is a growing target audience of fashion, lifestyle and smartphone conscious consumers. “Today, fashion has expanded to encompass our way of life, not just how we dress, but how we design our home, the hotels we stay in, the car we drive and the technology we buy. Samsung’s range of LED TVs is the ultimate expression of elegance, superior quality and design,” Vocale added.
“Samsung’s involvement in fashion started with its partnership with Armani, one of the world’s iconic fashion designers, to bring consumers world-over mobiles phones and television sets that express their unique lifestyle and fashion sense. The DIVA collection builds on Samsung fashion-centric collection, focusing on the design elements of the mobile phone range,” added Vocale.
Samsung will reprise the partnership with fashion website HellwaFashion.com for the second season running with the online fashion diary on behalf of Samsung for Dubai Fashion Week.
First LTE Phones coming From Samsung and MetroPCS
March 24th, 2010 by admin in samsung
And the first 4G LTE phone in the United States will come from … MetroPCS! MetroPCS and Samsung on Wednesday announced a partnership that includes the first CDMA/LTE phone in America, the SCH-r900, which will come in the second half of 2010.
“MetroPCS will be building a network in the Las Vegas metro area in the second half of this year and they will be partnering with Samsung for a complete solution,” said Tom Jasny, Samsung’s Telecommunications America vice president of wireless and broadband networks.
LTE is the global 4G technology which will replace 3G for Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile in the coming years. Verizon Wireless has started testing LTE in Boston and Seattle, and the company plans to roll out the LTE network to 20 to 30 cities by the end of this year. However, Verizon hasn’t announced any supporting phones.
Sprint, of course, actually made the first 4G phone announcement yesterday with the HTC Evo 4G “super phone.” But the Evo runs on WiMAX, a technology that only Sprint uses of all the major carriers.
MetroPCS, with 6.7 million customers, largely skipped 3G. The company is jumping straight to LTE, which can provide speeds up to 30 megabits/sec down on a 5-MHz channel - ten times the speed of 3G. The new 4G network will allow for “real time video, much faster internet browsing, and higher download speeds for multimedia, music and other information services,” Jasny said.
MetroPCS and Samsung didn’t release any other public information about the phone, including whether or not it’s a smartphone. MetroPCS chief operating officer Tom Keys did confirm that his company is focused on providing phones and handhelds, not USB modems or laptops.
There’s one big question about MetroPCS’ LTE rollout. Unlike Verizon Wireless, MetroPCS is stuck in relatively narrow bands of spectrum in most cities. The company can deploy 1.4-MHz, 5-MHz or 10-MHz LTE channels. If MetroPCS stick to 1.4 MHz, the company will maintain much of their existing 2G voice capacity, but their LTE network will run at basically 3G speeds of 3 megabits/sec or so. But if MetroPCS uses wider channels, the company risks crowding out existing 2G users.
MetroPCS has various ways to approach that problem, executives said. The company could potentially switch over to Qualcomm’s 1X Advanced 2G technology, which can pack more voice calls into less spectrum, thereby leaving room for LTE. Or it could aggressively move their customers onto voice-over-IP, LTE based services, reducing the congestion on the 2G side.
We’ll hear more about MetroPCS’ LTE plans in the coming months.
Samsung SCH-W960 - First 3D Phone Unveiled In South Korea
March 23rd, 2010 by admin in samsung
South Korean electronic company Samsung has unveiled the world’s first 3D Smartphone, tagged as the Samsung SCH-W960. Wasn’t it the era of 3D viewing as we recently saw the 3D war between top TV makers such as Sony, Samsung and Toshiba. Well, it seems like, things are going to be a little more Techie. Samsung has always been known for bringing up the latest and most innovative cellphones for the market.
The all-new Samsung SCH-W960 smartphone is the first ever 3D phone which for now would be available in the South Korean market and later expanded to worldwide markets. Just as we saw the ability to convert 2D content to 3D using the push of a button in Samsung Televisions which was showcased recently at the Consumer Electronics Show 2010 in Las Vegas, the same is the case with this smart gadget. With a single touch, all content in 2D form can be converted to 3D which will deliver unmatched content.
The 3D smartphone is equipped with features such as:
- 3.2 inch AMOLED Touch Screen
- 3 Megapixel Digital Camera with Xenon Flash
- 3 Million + pixels resolution
- 3D Technology
The smartphone is integrated with a special hardware technology which makes 3D viewing possible without the need of 3D glasses. One reason behind integrating the latest technology in the smartphone would be the users who are relying more of smartphones and gadgets in their hands in means of communication, social media, business and much more, that the technology had to be brought in this particular gadget.
Samsung Wave - world’s first HD DivX-certified phone
March 23rd, 2010 by admin in samsung
The upcoming Samsung Wave is making waves in the tech industry as the first mobile phone to beomce certified by DivX for HD video playback.
Users will be able to watch content in 720p HD on the Wave, offering a resolution that is unrivaled on most phones. DivX calls its certification a “rigorous testing program to ensure a high-quality DivX media experience, including reliable video creation and playback, interoperability with other DivX Certified devices and the visual quality users expect from DivX.”
The Wave, which was revealed last month, will run on Samsung’s new Bada operating system and employ an AMOLED display. The feature list includes a 5-megapixel camera, Bluetooth 3, and a 1 GHz processor.
Samsung and DivX announced they are also working on bringing the same certification to the Galaxy S phone, Samsung’s first 4G device to be built on the Android platform.
Samsung also was the first to create a mobile phone with regular DivX certification, with the release of the Ultra Video phone in 2007. Additionally, it was the first to bring the certification to the Windows Mobile platform in 2008.