Samsung SGH-F300 Ultra Music Teams Up with Beyonce

Samsung Electronics announced the collaboration of its Ultra Music (SGH-F300) with Beyonce Knowles. The Samsung Ultra Music F300 offers a dual-face handset design. On one side is a large, clear screen with a sweep touch key that makes music control intuitive. Flip over to the other side and it's a Samsung phone.
The F300 is a complete music player phone with superb sound quality. It is equipped with a digital power amp and offers a dedicated music user interface to navigate through the playlist. In addition, the Ultra Music F300 includes a stereo FM radio and a Quick PC Sync function, allowing users to easily create and organize their music library. Samsung's Ultra Music F300 offers extra features including a 2.0-megapixel camera, and microSD slot for memory expansion - in a extremely portable 9.4 mm slim profile.
Samsung's Ultra Music TV commercial, starring Beyonce, will kick off the campaign globally in April, starting from Europe and CIS and expanding to other countries where Samsung Ultra Music phones are available. In addition, Ultra Music mobile users will have exclusive access to Beyonce's latest hit "Irreplaceable," which comes embedded in their mobile phones.
Samsung Ultra Music (SGH-F300) Specifications
- Standard: GSM / GPRS / EDGE (900 / 1800 / 1900MHz) - Camera: 2.0-Megapixel Camera - Display: 262K-Color TFT Screen (2.1-inch, 176 x 220 px) - Features: Dual Face & Sweeping Touch UI - Music Library (ID3 Tag Support) - Multi-Format Music Support (MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA) - Music Download (WMDRM / MTP) - Multi-Format Video Support (MPEG4, H.263) - Bluetooth Stereo Music Profile (A2DP) - Stereo FM Radio - Bluetooth v2.0 / USB 2.0 - Memory: Internal 100 MB + microSD (up to 2GB) - Size: 103.5 x 44 x 9.4 mm

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T-Mobile Launches Samsung Clamshell

With Phreedom, users can seamlessly switch to VoIP-based calling when in roaming, avoiding excessive long-distance charges that are accumulated when making incoming, outgoing and voicemail calls. Phreedom puts the power of VoIP in the palm of the user's hand. Phreedom provides added capabilities such as browsing the Internet, downloading music and sending and receiving e-mail. It also features VoIP, Wi-Fi and GSM technologies.
"Phreedom offers dramatic cost savings through VoIP calls, an easy-to-use browser for fast, reliable Internet access, voice call continuity and long battery life--the holy grail for IP centric mobile devices," said Sanjay Varma, CEO of GUPP Technologies. "With the mobile device market exploding, GUPP is bringing to market the first IP centric dual-mode smartphone to deliver a satisfying user experience."
Phreedom will be available in Q2 of 2007.

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Helio Brings The Heat

Helio today announced their smallest phone to date. The Heat is a slider with touch-sensitive, electrostatic controls on the face. Like the original Chocolate or Sony Ericsson W950, the Heat has two sets of touch controls - one for navigation and a second for media playback. The Heat features a QVGA screen, stereo Bluetooth, a 1.3 MP camera and 136 MB of built-in memory. However it has no memory card slot. It also features access to Helio's GPS and music services like the Drift. Heat is available today in Black or Gold for $150.

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Samsung Ultra 100 Mobile Phone

A phone so thin you can't see it? That's the silly claim Samsung made this month: "The Ultra Edition 5.9 (U100) is thin enough to disappear if turned on its side." Of course that's not true, but it does give you an idea of how thin the U100 is. At just 0.2 inches, it's the thinnest cell phone yet developed. It has a 3-megapixel camera and is compatible with the GSM standard, but don't expect a 3G model. The candy-bar-style phone will be joined by three other new handsets in the Ultra series: the Ultra 9.6 tri-band GSM clamshell model, the Ultra 10.9 quad-band GSM slider, and the Ultra 12.9 tri-band GSM and WCDMA 3G slider with HSDPA. The phones are all due to go on sale in Europe during the current quarter. Pricing, as well as launch details for other markets, were not disclosed.

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Samsung F700 Mobile Phone

Packing both GSM and WCDMA (see the end of the article for a spelling-out of these and some other acronyms), Samsung's touch-screen F700 handset will have people talking all over the world. In addition to its good looks, the phone boasts a 5-megapixel camera and can play back video in a number of formats, including MPEG4, H.263, H.264, and Real Video, as well as the audio formats MP3, AACplus, eAACplus, and Real. There's also a surprise for people who can't get enough of mobile e-mail: a QWERTY keyboard that slides out from behind the display. With such a rich feature set, some are already talking about Samsung's F700 as an iPhone-killer, but perhaps we should leave the iPhone-killing until both are on the market. No launch or pricing details have yet been announced for the F700.

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Samsung SCH-U740 Released for Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless today announced the availability of the Samsung SCH-U740 from - a slim and sleek messaging device with a dual-hinge. The handset's unique design allows for communications options both vertically and horizontally with its full QWERTY keyboard.
Text enthusiasts can open the phone horizontally to find a full QWERTY keyboard at their fingertips for ease of use in text messaging and email using Wireless Sync, Verizon Wireless' proprietary email solution. With Wireless Sync, customers can synchronize the SCH-U740 with a home or office PC for easy access to their new email, calendar, contacts and task information.

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Sprint Launches the Super Thin Samsung SPH-M610

Samsung and Sprint Nextel have launched a new addition to the thin handset market, the Samsung SPH-M610. Sprint claim that the SPH-M610 is the thinnest clamshell handset to enter the US market, and at just 12mm (0.49") thick, they may just be right.

Looking vaguely similar to Samsung's European SGH-D830 , and with similar specifications, the SPH-M610 has quite a lot to boast about. One-upping the D830, the SPH-M610 features EV-DO for high-speed data connectivity, which is well utilized for services like Sprint TV, Sprint Music Store, and Sprint Movies. Imaging is well catered for, with a rotating 2.0 megapixel camera and a large QVGA resolution TFT LCD screen. The handset is also primed for music with a microSD memory card slot and A2DP stereo headset support over the on board Bluetooth.

While currently available from Sprint's website at http://www.sprint.com/thin, customers will have to wait until December 3 for the handset to launch in retail locations. The Samsung SPH-M610 is priced at US$329.99, or US$179.99 if purchased with a two-year service agreement.

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Samsung SGH-A707 Sync

Cingular's best music phone so far, the Samsung SGH-A707 Sync lives up to its name, bringing you easy compatibility with Napster, Yahoo! Music, and Windows Media Player along with high-speed Internet access, all at a very reasonable price.

I'm willing to overlook some minor issues because of what Cingular has packed in here for only $49 with contract. The A707 doesn't sound quite as good as the Sony Ericsson Walkman phone, but it syncs, and that's what really matters.

The A707 is a big, wide (3.8-by 2- by 0.7- inch, 3.5-ounce) flip phone that looks a lot like a somewhat more rounded LG CU500, its major competitor in Cingular's 3G lineup. There's a 2-megapixel camera, music control buttons, and a color screen on the handset's front side. Flip it open and you'll be treated with a heart-wrenchingly beautiful, bright, clear 320-by-240 color screen and big, well-separated, slightly raised buttons.
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Samsung BlackJack

Cingular appears to be grabbing the lion's share of smart phones. In the last few months, the carrier has stocked its lineup with the Nokia E62, the HP iPaq hw6925, and the 3G-enabled Cingular 8525. And today they've scored another win with the Samsung BlackJack (or Samsung SGH-i607).

The BlackJack is the second UMTS/HSPDA-capable smart phone for Cingular (the first being the 8525). It's geared for people seeking more productivity on the road, while the Cingular 8525 is better suited for the power user. While the BlackJack certainly rivals the Motorola Q and T-Mobile Dash with its sleek design, will it show a winning hand? (A black jack reference, yes. How could we not?) It's hard to say. Since our review unit was a pre-production model, we're holding off on a final call until we get the real thing. That said, our initial impressions are more positive than negative. There are design issues, but the BlackJack definitely delivers on its 3G capabilities. Available Nov. 16, the BlackJack should retail for a fair price of $199.99, with a two-year contract.

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Samsung SCH-U740 Phone

Released for Verizon Wireless, the Samsung SCH-U740 offers form and function. Replacing the multi-device syndrome by ingeniously blending the best of a mobile phone, personal data assistant (PDA) and email messenger in one easy-to-use compact device, users can use the SCH-U740 two ways as it opens in portrait mode to take and make calls and switches to landscape mode to type messages. The dual-band device is a truly essential entertainment business tool, with advanced features such as a built-in 1.3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and VCAST Video and Music. The SCH-U740 also takes advantage of a 262K-color display to provide an impressive 176 x 220 pixels.

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