Hope you’re reading this from some country in the Southeast Asia, as you will be pleasantly surprised. Samsung just released a treo of beautiful devices, all sporting the Touch Sensitive Keypad that responds to “just a light sweep of the fingers.” As you can guess for yourself this sounds too good to be truth. I’ve…
Sprint announces Samsung UpStage in red
In the age-old tradition of changing up a handset’s color to keep things fresh – Sprint has announced their Samsung UpStage in a new Red color scheme. As expected, we’re looking for this Red Samsung UpStage around June 18th. As these things go, the only thing to change from the previously-black version of the UpStage…
Samsung E950 – 3 megapixel slider
Samsung’s newest offering is a 3 megapixel slider-phone. The Samsung E950 takes the baton from its uber-popular predecessor Samsung E900 slider, and boosts the built-in camera to 3 megapixels while slimming down to 15.5mm (1mm thinner). According to Unwired View, the new E950 slider gets a touch-sensitive d-pad (with a dedicated Yahoo search button), but…
Samsung and Mercedes partner to promote the Miniskirt phone
Samsung and Mercedes-Benz teamed up to launch a new campaign for the stylish, thin SCH-C220 slider, also known as Samsung Miniskirt. Under the deal, Mercedes will include the Miniskirt phone as a part of the standard equipment in select high-end vehicles sold in South Korea, including the S-Class, SL-Class, SLK-Class, E-Class, AMG and Roadster models.…
Qualcomm’s 3G chips banned from US import – Wireless carriers affected!
The latest Intellectual Patent battle, this time between Qualcomm (who else?) and Broadcom, has resulted in the International Trade Commission (ITC) decision to ban Qualcomm from importing chipsets designed for use in 3G handsets into the US. The ruling follows a complaint, filed by Broadcom, that Qualcomm’s chip design was infringing on Broadcom’s IP in…
Alltel to add Samsung R200, R500 to its offering
Alltel is about to boost its already solid low and mid range offering with two additional Samsung device, SCH-R200 and SCH-R500. The first one, R200 is an entry level candybar, sporting the similar slim body as the popular Samsung Wafer (already available on Alltel). However, unlike Wafer the R200 has less features, and is therefore…
Samsung Anycall SPH-W2400 swiveling phone
Just recently, Samsung released one of its more advanced feature phone to date. The Anycall SPH-W2400 is a mobile TV (DMB TV) ready handset that prides itself with the swiveling screen, so far seen only on high-end handsets in Japan and some other LG phones. The SPH-W2400 also packs a pair of speakers for stereo…
iPhone and its rivals
There’s an interesting article in The Wall Street Journal discussing the iPhone and its rivals — namely Nokia N95, Samsung UpStage, HTC Touch and LG Prada. The article begins (and ends for that matter) with the Nokia N95 — the Finish handset maker’s flagship “multimedia computer”. Authors, Li Yuan and Amol Sharma, remind us that…
T-Mobile USA to get Samsung T729, T419
T-Mobile USA is about to introduce two new Samsung handsets to its customers. While the first one, SGH-T419, is an entry level device, the SGH-T729 prides itself as a mid-range message-oriented phone. Let’s go briefly through both of them…
Sprint to introduce red UpStage on June 18?
Like a red color? Apparently many people do, as Sprint is about to introduce the red colored version of its UpStage phone on June 18. The former F300, part of the Samsung’s ultra family of handsets, sports two sides — one for taking phone calls and texting, and the other for music/video playback. I’ve had…