Samsung teases with Anycall Haptic phone video; Cry if you’re not in Korea

Dusan Belic

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• Roy

  Is there a site where i can buy that thing

• tatjana

  i want to buy mobile samsung haptic phon anycall

• fadedpotts

  Get it from the anycall website..?
  If you’re living outside Korea/Japan you’re probably gonna have to get the phone unlocked first (if you’re using a SIM).

• dragos

  i want to buy this phone samsung haptic , i want to know if i must unlock him first , i am from romania and i use a sim card . how can i buy it .thank you

• dragos

  please send me an answer to my email dragos_teo24@yahoo.com

• Cara

  Well either way I think if you buy it unlocked the phone will have everything in hangul [basically korean]. However I think the phone came out in english for the Hong Kong market, though I’m not quite sure. The price ranges from 600-800 USD after the conversion though.

• dbsk4tricia

  omg! i wanna have this phone ever since i saw the Commercial of it like 3-4 months ago.its not on the one uve posted but aniother CF version of it where korean stars are on the CF.

  shoot when will it come to the US,i will save my money for it,im sure of that!

• Miaka

  Gaaah…
  estoy que busco este celular por todos lados!!
  soy de Perú, y quisiera saber cómo podría comprarlo… que alguien me ayude, por favooooor!

• Danny

  wow..
  i so wanna buy this phone.
  can we use it in New Zealand?
  we use sim card here. vodafone.

• UNEE

  IN AMERICA .HOW TO BUY IT??ANYCALL HAPTIC PHONE ,PLEASE

• david kim

  you can’t buy it in america. first the software is in korean which koreans prefer. second you won’t be able to take advantage of 80% of these features.. ie: internet connectivity, mobile tv/cable network, and HSDPA. you take out all those elements and your stripped down to the most bare functions, which isn’t worth paying upwards of $800 for a high end phone not made for the US market. something to think about.

• Ariana

  so, does anyone know if the haptic is coming to canada anytime soon with all the functions ?

• kristin

  yeah, i’m gonna cry!!!

• Jason

  If you buy the phone in Korea all the settings can be changed to English. you don’t have to worry about going though Korean menus.

• Joyce

  Boa tarde,

  Me ajudem, por favor, ganhei esse anycall, moro no brasil e não consigo colocar a tv p funcionar, alguém sabe como posso???

  Desde já, agradeço.

• Bryan

  OKay people look.

  South Korea does not use GSM networks like us USA. They use CDMA 2100Mhz. Even if you bought this phone in Korea with the intention of using it in another country it wont work. The only two countries in the world that use CDMA exclusively is Japan and Korea.
  They dont even have GSM networks. Same if you take your Nokia to Korea or Japan it wont work, if it does not have CDMA capability. I know this from experience.
  There are some phones in the USA that do have CMDA capability. you can go to the AT$T Mobile website and they list the phones they sell with CDMA so U can use them in Japan or Korea. The Blackberry Bold is one of them. I think also the T-Mobile G1 Google Android phone is capable of CDMA. But yes, sadly even most cell phone providers in Korea dont require the use of SIM cards so most of their model phones sold their dont even have SIM card slots, some do but most dont. In Korea you can go to a cell phone store and buy the most expensive phone they sell and have it pre-paid, unlike in the USA where only certain models can be prepaid. But they activate phones through the IMEI number not a SIM Chip. Like Sprint in the USA.

• Bryan

  Okay. I forgot to mention some other things. This is a very nice phone. But I think the closest thing we are going to get to it is the Samsung Omnia i900. Which is very similar to this. This is meant for use in USA and European countries and can be bought unlocked. What I said before about Korea and Japan using CDMA exclusively is true but obviously most phones sold their have GSM capability so when Koreans and Japanese travel to other countries they can use the GSM networks. But Korea and Japan use only CDMA 2100Mhz 3G. The mobile phone system in Korea is far superior to any other on Earth. Thats right, the whole system is 3G. Digital. There is no analog signal in Korea. Here is a fact for you about why this is: There are 48.5 million people living in Korea. 46.5 million have cell phones. That’s 98% of the population!! No other country comes close to 98% of the population having cell phones. Korea uses cell phones for everything. They even replace credit cards and library cards. In taxi’s and 7-11 Stores in Korea, when you need to pay, you just wave your cell phone over a sensor and it charges it to your bank or credit card account automatically. Also, ATM machines have this capability, so U dont need pull out your ATM card, U just pull out your cell phone wave it front of the ATM machine, input your PIN number and money comes out. We probably wont see this in the USA for 10 more years! Korea has been doing this since at least 2002. Some models can receive over the air TV channels in near Hi-Def quality while sitting on the subway underground! If you go to Seoul, Korea you will be AMAZED! I was and still am. Thats why I LOVE going there
  -Bryan

• Bryan

  I wish there was a way to edit your comments that were already posted so I dont have to keep replying to my own comments. ha ha. I think I meant to say HSDPA instead of CDMA when referring to the 3G networks.

• Joannetayy

  SUPER JUNIOR RULES!!! SO DOES KIM BUM AND KIM HYUNJOONG. I WANT THIS PHONE BAAD.

• johnny

  hi! when i was i tour in south korea i buy a samsung anycall touch screen but the problem is i conot use it in the phlippines because conot openline it to use another network in the phililppine, my question is how could i open it.

• Marlyn

  ow so we really can’t buy it if we’re outside korea? i live in indonesia, is it possible to like unlock the phone so i can use it here? cause i really want this phone so bad, thanks!

• Ye

  I’m Haptic user. I’m using Motorola at moment cause I’m stay in Uk but i’d like to use my Haptic!!! Does anyone know unlock him??? Please help me help me … thanks

• fellin

  Where can i buy this phone?
  Is it sell outside Korea?
  I’m in Indonesia right away…

• raysun

  please make another one but it could be use in part of asia ALSO ………..

  TANX

• hanis

  ermmm….
  if i bought the samsung omnia i900…
  can i change the housing….or the phone casing…or whatever you call it with the anycall haptic pop casing….or housing?????

• sujata

  if i buy this phone in hong kong….does the settings will all be in english..and all also all the software or network will be fine…i mean lyk i am in england but i really want this phone so if i brougt it frm h.k. can it be still the same and i can use the sim of any network lyk vidafone..please reply back in my email grgal@hotmail.co.uk thnks

• cecilia

  OMFG. I hoped it would make it to the US by now. I’m going to go into a depression. T-T

• todayy

  im getting my haptic mini today..
  ive heard that the haptic was made kinda to compete w/ the iphone
  since the iphone isnt available in korea, i guess haptic isnt available in any other country other than korea

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