T-Mobile USA is officially official with the we-knew-it’s-coming Samsung SGH-t349. Designed for savvy texters, Samsung’s candybar prides itself with SureType-like 20-key half-QWERTY keyboard, which is additionally powered by the auto-word completion and XT9 predictive text technologies. As a result, the lack of the other half of the full QWERTY keyboard shouldn’t come as a problem.…
Samsung Omnia Dissected
The Samsung Omnia went under the prybar recently, revealing its glorious, glorious guts to the world. The Omnia gets bonus points for having a small, well-packed circuit board and a sneakily-placed slab of 8 GB NAND memory. As for the chips (if you’re into that kind of thing), Qualcomm 6800A and Marvell PXA312 processors connected…
Twitter goes on to TVs with Samsung
TechDigest is all over this piece of news from Samsung that they are planning to add Twitter to the some of their TVs! In case you are wondering how this is all going to work, first of all the TVs are ‘connected devices’, which means there is something like an Ethernet cable plugged in.…
Ozzie Replaces Personal Assistants with Samsung Jack
Samsung’s Latest Phone Features SOS Button, Big Keys for the Elderly
Samsung Russia has juts announced the C3060R, a phone dedicated to giving those in their golden years a chance to get connected. Big keys, bright backlight, a magnified user interface and a dedicated SOS button which accesses up to 5 emergency numbers all make the C3060R a choice handset for the mature crowd. Pictures taken…
GCF reveals Samsung GT-I8000 Windows Mobile smartphone
Thanks to the Global Certification Forum (GCF), we know Samsung is working on a new Windows Mobile smartphone. It’s the model GT-I8000, on which we have very few details to share. We know it will come with a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) along with tri-band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (1800/1900/2100 MHz). In addition, there will be a…
Android-powered Samsung i7500 spotted on FCC; Heading to T-Mobile?
Good news folks, it seems T-Mobile will be bringing Samsung’s first Android-powered devices to the United States. The Korean company’s i7500 smartphone has been spotted on FCC, meaning that most of the paper work is ready and now it’s all about timing when will see the Deutsche Telekom-owned mobile operator going all official with the…
Samsung m230 ‘Phoenix’ Rises at Bell
As predicted, the basic yet very functional Samsung m230 ‘Phoenix’ has arrived and is now shipping from the folks at Bell. If you were hoping for some color choices, keep hoping… As Bell only has the m230 available in a Grey at this point. Key features of the Bell Samsung m230 Phoenix: Flip form factor…
Samsung a167 lands in AT&T’s GoPhone offering for $70
Following the Samsung a177, AT&T is launching another GoPhone device from Samsung. It’s the a167 model, which unlike the a177 doesn’t come with a QWERTY keyboard. Rather it’s a basic clamshell phone which the carrier is offering for $69.99. Specs wise, we see a dual-band (850/1900 MHz) radio on board, 128×160 pixels screen, web browser,…
Unboxing Verizon’s Samsung Alias2
The Samsung Alias2 is just about the highest-tech featurephone we’ve seen in the US – mostly because the Alias2 rocks E-Ink keypad buttons that can morph between numeric keypad and QWERTY keyboard. The Alias2’s dual-hinge form-factor is aimed at messaging fanatics that want the best of both worlds – a vertical flip-phone with numeric keypad…