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• Samsung Wave S8500 Bada Phone Images from MWC 2010

Mobile World Congress 2010 is the biggest mobile tech event and is kick started at Barcelona Spain with Samsung conference, where Samsung has debuted first smartphone Samsung Wave S8500 of the year 2010. Samsung Wave S8500 is first phone from Samsung based on its Bada platform. Samsung Wave S8500 is feature rich fast smartphone and first phone to have Bluetooth 3.0, checkout below complete specifications of Samsung Wave Bada Phone. Samsung Wave S8500 Bada Phone Specifications Read the rest of this entry »

• Samsung Monte S5620 Mobile Phone

Samsung has added another mobile phone to their range with the launch of the Samsung Monte S5620.

The Samsung Monte features a 3 inch WQVGA TFT capacitive touchscreen, and it comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera with built in face detection software.

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• Sprint Announced Samsung Intrepid Windows Mobile 6.5 Phone

Sprint and Samsung today announced the upcoming launch of the Samsung Intrepid smartphone running Microsoft’s freshly released Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system.

The Intrepid features a 2.5-inch QVGA (320×240 pixels) resolution touchscreen, a 3.2 megapixel camera, microSD card slot with support for up to 32GB of memory, a Smart Reader, which scans business cards using the integrated camera and a full QWERTY keyboard below the display. Connectivity-wise, the Intrepid features EV-DO Rev A and Wi-Fi and stereo Bluetooth.

The OS comes built-in with Internet Explorer Mobile 6, which can access flash video streaming sites using the Adobe Flash Lite 3 plug-in. The device also supports Windows Marketplace for Mobile and Microsoft My Phone.

Sprint will begin shipping the Samsung Intrepid this Sunday, October 11, for the price of $150 with a two-year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate.
Sprint and Samsung today announced the upcoming launch of the Samsung Intrepid smartphone running Microsoft’s freshly released Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system.

The Intrepid features a 2.5-inch QVGA (320×240 pixels) resolution touchscreen, a 3.2 megapixel camera, microSD card slot with support for up to 32GB of memory, a Smart Reader, which scans business cards using the integrated camera and a full QWERTY keyboard below the display. Connectivity-wise, the Intrepid features EV-DO Rev A and Wi-Fi and stereo Bluetooth.

The OS comes built-in with Internet Explorer Mobile 6, which can access flash video streaming sites using the Adobe Flash Lite 3 plug-in. The device also supports Windows Marketplace for Mobile and Microsoft My Phone.

Sprint will begin shipping the Samsung Intrepid this Sunday, October 11, for the price of $150 with a two-year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate.
Sprint and Samsung today announced the upcoming launch of the Samsung Intrepid smartphone running Microsoft’s freshly released Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system.

The Intrepid features a 2.5-inch QVGA (320×240 pixels) resolution touchscreen, a 3.2 megapixel camera, microSD card slot with support for up to 32GB of memory, a Smart Reader, which scans business cards using the integrated camera and a full QWERTY keyboard below the display. Connectivity-wise, the Intrepid features EV-DO Rev A and Wi-Fi and stereo Bluetooth.

The OS comes built-in with Internet Explorer Mobile 6, which can access flash video streaming sites using the Adobe Flash Lite 3 plug-in. The device also supports Windows Marketplace for Mobile and Microsoft My Phone.

Sprint will begin shipping the Samsung Intrepid this Sunday, October 11, for the price of $150 with a two-year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate.

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• Samsung Moment Android Smartphone Coming to Sprint

Samsung and Sprint today announced the upcoming availability of Samsung Moment, Samsung’s first device to use the Google Android mobile operating system.

Powered by a super-fast 800 MHz processor, the Moment features a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen, 3.2 megapixel camera with flash, autofocus and video recording, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, stereo Bluetooth 2.0, up to 32GB of expandable microSD memory and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

The device also comes with built-in Google mobile services, such as Search, Maps, Gmail and YouTube, as well as other apps available on the Android Market.

Starting November 1st, customers can purchase the Samsung Moment in Sprint retail stores and online for the price of $179.99 with a 2-year contract after $100 mail-in rebate and $50 instant savings. Pre-registrations for the phone start today on sprint.com/moment.

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• Samsung Launches Socially Active Corby S3650

With Social networking and user generated media becoming a craze among users as well as companies, Samsung has joined band wagon of companies that develop products keeping the social aspect in mind. Samsung has announced, Samsung Corby, a youth oriented phone with features that make your social life on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube easy.Samsung Corby S3650 comes with a 2.8 inch QVGA full touch screen, social network access, Quad band GSM, accelerometer, Bluetooth 2.1 A2DP, 2 meg snapper, FM Radio. The phone comes in catchy Jamaican Yellow, Festival Orange, Minimal White and Cupid Pink colors. With this phone, Samsung has now joined the league of INQ phones.

Samsung has launched its affordable, social media focused Corby in India. Few days back Samsung also announced the Samsung Corby Txt and the Corby Pro but they are yet to come to India. The Corby range of phones have been positioned by Samsung as social media focused phones. By affordable, I mean its one of the cheapest touch screen handset in India from a mainstream mobile phone OEM. The Corby will retail in India at a price tag of INR 9,600. The kind of features that Corby offers looks impressive on paper with 2.8 inch QVGA screen powered by Samsung’s TouchWiz UI, gesture control and one finger zoom. The phone does not have Wi-Fi but has EDGE and GPRS connectivity, Bluetooth (A2DP), 2 meg snapper, microSD card support, FM radio with RDS and the most unique feature of the phone is that it supports live feeds from sites like Twitter, Facebook and mySpace. I guess this phone will do good in the Indian market, thanks to its cheap price tag and social media support. Social networking and micro blogging is on the rise in India and Samsung its seems is the first one in India to take advantage of this situation. Wonder what companies like Nokia and Sony Ericsson have as an answer to this cheap touch screen handset, which is socially active.

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• Samsung Pixon12 WORLD’S FIRST 12MP CAMERA PHONE LAUNCHES IN INDIA

In keeping with its brand positioning of ‘NEXT is What?’ Samsung launch of PIXON12 (M8910) in the Indian market world’s first GSM Mobile handset with a 12 MP camera and full touch screen functionality . The Pixon12 comes packed with a host of functions which enable consumers to easily capture, browse and share their images on the move- all on a brilliant full touch 7.9 cms AMOLED screen.

The handset with feature -

* 3.1? 16M-color resistive AMOLED touchscreen of 800 x 480 pixel resolution
* 12 megapixel auto focus camera with LED and xenon flash, 28mm (30mm effective) wide-angle variable aperture lens
* Object tracking auto focus, geotagging, image stabilization, Smart Auto mode, face detection, smile detection, smart contrast
* D1 video recording at 30 fps with auto focus and face detection
* Latest TouchWiz 2.0 UI
* Quad-band GSM support and 3G with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA support
* Wi-Fi
* GPS with A-GPS
* TV out
* Stereo FM Radio with RDS
* microUSB port and stereo Bluetooth v2.0
* Web browser has full Flash and Java support
* DivX/XviD video support

The handset’s camera will also allow for video recording at a 720 x 480 pixel resolution at 30fps.Other features will also include – a 28mm wide-angle lens, tracking Touch Auto Focus, Smart Auto mode for adjusting the light to ambiance, Face, Smile and Blink detection, WDR, beauty shot, quite a few scene modes and even image stabilization. That’s a long list.

“After users are done clicking, they can re-live and enjoy the pictures on the Pixon12’s brilliant 7.9cms AMOLED screen, which has a contrast ratio of 10,000:1 while providing power-saving features which increase battery life ”, states Mr. Dutt. The Samsung PIXON12 is priced at Rs.29,990/- Don’t that just beat all.

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• Samsung SGH-G800 Expected Soon

Another phone from Samsung is expected, unofficial seems to be under way with USB support, Bluetooth and stereo speakers. This slider has a 5 megapixel auto focus camera supporting 5.8 – 17.4 mm, xenon flash, 3x optical zoom and is the successor of Samsung G600, which was recently announced.

No information is available on the video recording capabilities or pricing and availability.