It’s not one of the high-end monsters that we like to talk about so much in our little corner of the interweb, but we’ve got to give a respectable hand to Samsung for their sleek and slim Samsung SGH-i200 smartphone. At 11.8mm thin and trotting along with Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard (that’s non-touchscreen, unfortunately), the…
Samsung i550w – the i550 with WiFi
Samsung keeps adding cool Symbian S60 devices to its portfolio. Following the Samsung G810 smartphone launch which left many speechless — because of the 5 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom — they are now updating the i550 model. Basically, the new i500w smartphone has everything the previous model had — including the built-in GPS,…
Verizon to start selling Samsung U940 as Glyde in late March?
In a move that seem designed to get more attention among both users and the media for the new device once it hits the store shelves, Verizon is reportedly renaming the Samsung U940 to simply “Glyde.” Coping with the numbers is getting harder every day, and my guess is the CDMA carrier wants to differentiate…
Sprint’s Samsung Ace gets reviewed
Sprint just announced their Samsung ACE as another world-traveling handset to add to their global-phone lineup. Engadget Mobile has had some time to play with the Sprint Samsung ACE and came away satisfied. The Samsung ACE isn’t a whole new take on the QWERTY-keyboard toting Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard idea, but is rather a Sprint-branded…
Samsung takes on Nokia’s Ovi
Nokia isn’t the only handset manufacturer that wants to keep making money of its customers after the initial hardware purchase. Samsung announced at Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona that they intend to pursue an Internet-based services model, much like Nokia’s Ovi. The new strategy would unite all of Samsung’s premium web-services under one roof…
Samsung SGH-i640v finally available on Vodafone
Even though we saw it announced back in September 2007 and posted the hands-on demo video a month later, the Samsung SGH-i640v has just recently been added to Vodafone’s offering. I won’t bug you too much, we’ve already covered the phone in the past. There’s a 2 megapixel camera, HSDPA, full QWERTY keyboard, Windows Mobile…
Samsung Soul hands-on video from MWC 2008 Barcelona
The Samsung Soul was pretty much the highlight of the Samsung booth. The multimedia feature phone (we wish it was a smartphone) packs in a 5 megapixel auto-focus camera with Xenon flash, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, and that context-dependent touch-sensitive navigation panel below the display. Unfortunately, the Samsung Soul is only a tri-band device, so don’t expect…
Samsung patent application reveals projection display for mobile phones – holographic displays to come?
We’ve got another mobile phone manufacturer jumping on the projector-bandwagon. But, it’s not what you think. Samsung has filed a patent application for using projection technology to light up the handset’s primary display. Unlike Sony Ericsson’s recent patent application to perfect a pico-projector embedded within a cellphone, Samsung wants to use a projector to project…
Canadian Fido adds Samsung JACK, Motorola Q9H
I guess it’s the “Canadian thing” to call Samsung’s BlackJack II simply “JACK”. Following Rogers Wireless, Fido (which is consequently owned by Rogers) is now launching the JACK along side Motorola Q9h. The two Windows Mobile smartphones are made for (mostly) business people who demand full QWERTY keyboard, 3G, as well as Microsoft Exchange support.…
Samsung gaming phone patent looks promising though complicated
What we have today is transformable Samsung phone patent. Apparently, the Korean giant thinks its the bad ergonomics that keep mobile gaming space from exploding. Hence they want to fix that with a phone like the one pictured above. As you can see for yourself, the device they’re talking about has a clamshell form factor…