Samsung Announces M150, the Newest Attractive Bar Type Phone

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a leading mobile phone provider, introduced M150, another highly attractive bar type phone with captivating design, features and price. With M150, Samsung once again firmly proves its prominent influence in bar type mobile phone market.

M150 first captivates its viewers with its luxuriously metal-resembling design. It features a softly brushed hairline pattern, which is exclusively found on many of Samsung’s famous full-metal phones. With the delicate finish and various futuristic colors available – Light Gray, Charcoal Gray, Pure White, Lavender Pink and Ice Blue – M150 turns into more than just a mobile phone. M150 is a great high-end fashion accessory that matches every age, gender and style.

Within only 12.7mm of thickness, M150 features all the essential technologies everyone seeks in a mobile phone. M150 proudly features high quality MP3 function, which is rarely embedded in phones at a similar price range. Also with an embedded VGA camera and MPEG4 Video Recording technology, capturing life’s important moments become easier than ever. 20MB internal memory provides just enough space to store all the favorite moments, so users can carry them around any where they go.

Various entertaining features such as FM radio with recording function, as well as its unique personalized ringtone and alarm tone features are also embedded. Using FM radio’s recording feature, users can record their favorite songs playing on the radio right onto their own phones. Moreover, these recorded tunes can be used for ringtones and alarm tones to customize each user’s phone.

The exact price of M150 is yet to be announced, but it will be available at a more reasonable and competitive price compare to the mobile phones with suchlike features.

M150 will first become available in Germany around mid-August. M150 will then become available in various regions, including Europe, Southwest Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East, Africa and Asia.

source : http://www.zdnet.co.kr/

AT&T grabs Samsung SGH-227

A new phone showed up on AT&T's business/professional site over the weekend. Though AT&T bills the Samsung SGH-A227 as being "built for productivity," there's not a lot to say about this simple flip phone. Features are limited to messaging, a voice memo recorder, a speakerphone, polyphonic and MP3 ringtones, and basic organizer applications. The SGH-A227 is $9.99 with service.

source : http://news.cnet.com/

Samsung Instinct touchscreen phone comes to Sprint

Sprint and Samsung unveiled a new all-touch cell phone today, boasting an impressive out-of-box configuration for a consumer phone.

At CTIA Wireless 2008, Sprint and Samsung today announced the upcoming availability of a new mobile phone, Samsung Instinct, which offers full touchscreen functionality with EV-DO Rev A data speeds. The Instinct is claimed to be one of Samsung's best phones to date, offering users the ability to access applications and contacts within a single finger tap.

Samsung Instinct, exclusively available from Sprint, has a touch screen featuring localized tactile feedback, called haptics, which allow the virtual QWERTY keypad and other operations to become a sensory experience. The device also offers a Voice to Action button providing many functions using voice activation including call, text, picture messaging, traffic, movie, sports, news and search.

As Sprint's first EV-DO Rev A consumer-centric device, Samsung Instinct provides the ability to quickly browse the Web, access business or personal e-mail, share pictures, listen to commercial-free radio and more at broadband speeds. Samsung Instinct also provides access to Sprint services and multimedia content, including Sprint Navigation, Sprint TV, Sprint Music Store and Pocket Express.

The sleek and stylish device offers three dedicated keys on the lower portion of the device to make operation of the device very straightforward and easy to navigate - phone, back and home. The phone key always takes the user back to essential voice calling features including speed dial, visual voicemail, contacts and the dial pad.

The home key on the Samsung Instinct provides quick access to the four menus of functionality included in this user interface, which consists of Favorites, Main, Fun and Web. The Samsung Instinct boasts many advanced features including Visual Voicemail, allowing users to listen to messages in their order of preference.

The device also provides support for corporate and consumer (POP3) e-mail, multitasking capabilities that allow the user to play music in the background mode while surfing the Internet, texting or playing games, a 2-megapixel camera and expandable microSD memory of up to 8GB. Additional features include Bluetooth 2.0, integrated world clock, SMS voice and text messaging with threaded text, Phone as a modem, picture caller ID and Sprint Mobile Sync.

Samsung Instinct comes with everything the user needs to enjoy the device's full capabilities right out of the box. Contents include a 2GB microSD card that holds approximately 2000 songs, two standard batteries offer up to 5.75 hours of talk time each, battery charging sleeve, travel charger, USB cable, 3.5mm headphones with built-in microphone and leather case with stylus.

Measuring 2.17 by 4.57 by 0.49 inches and weighing approximately 4.5 ounces, the Samsung Instinct will be available in June 2008. Pricing for the phone has not yet been determined.

source : http://www.infosyncworld.com/

Nokia 6650 Introduced for T-Mobile European Markets

Today T-Mobile announced the Nokia 6650, an easy-to-use device optimized for T-Mobile services. Available exclusively for T-Mobile International customers, the 6650 is equipped with an integrated GPS and multimedia player, allowing customers access to a services such as web'n'walk, MyFaves, Mobile Jukebox and NaviGate.

The stainless-steel clamshell design is equipped with high-speed HSDPA data connectivity for fast web browsing and downloading. The 2.2-inch TFT QVGA color display can display up to 16 million colors, for comfortable browsing and viewing photos, videos and menus. T-Mobile MyFaves service keeps users in touch. Mobile Jukebox gives consumers access to music through dedicated keys for the music player. The Nokia 6650 has built-in AGPS (assisted GPS) for quick positioning with NaviGate route management.

The 6650 comes with a 2.0-megapixel camera with flash, 30 MB of internal memory and a microSD card slot, FM radio and many other features. Images and videos can be uploaded to the web, sent from phone to phone via a wireless Bluetooth connection, or viewed in full color on the device's large display.

The Nokia 6650 will be available from T-Mobile during the third quarter at T-Mobile sales points across Europe.

source: http://www.mobiledia.com/

Disney begins mobile service in Japan

Disney launched a mobile phone service in Japan on Saturday in cooperation with Softbank Corp, entering the tough Japanese cellular phone market following its withdrawal from the the United States.

Walt Disney Japan, the local unit of Walt Disney Co., released three types of mobiles, made by Sharp, all covered with silhouette patterns of Mickey Mouse.

They also have a special online feature that allows subscribers to jump to Disney websites, while Disney's iconic characters can be used on standby screens and to decorate e-mails free of charge.

Walt Disney Japan has teamed up with Softbank, an Internet conglomerate and one of the nation's three mobile giants, leasing part of the networks and outlets owned by the Japanese firm.

Disney has become Japan's first so-called mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), or a company that buys capacity from another firm to provide cellphone services.

In the US Disney Mobile marketed itself as a family-friendly mobile phone service that would allow parents to talk easily to children. But the MVNO with Sprint shut down after only 18 months, with Disney finding it more profitable to sell its content through other service providers.

Japan, a nation of 127 million people, has more than 100 million mobile phones in operation -- which translates into a major challenge for service providers to achieve growth.

A Walt Disney Japan official said the firm was confident of success here as Disney already had a strong following in Japan, where Tokyo Disneyland receives tens of millions of visitors every year.

Disney had already been a major content provider for mobile phones in Japan, the official said, adding that its tie-up with Softbank would also help bolster profitability of the service, named "Disney Mobile"

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