Samsung introduced the eco-friendly Blue Earth phone at the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona. It’s the first full touch-screen phone to be able to run on solar power and besides efficient energy usage and eco-friendly packaging it’s made of PCM, a recycled plastic material extracted from water bottles, helping to reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions in the manufacturing process.
A built-in pedometer allows the user to keep track of how much CO2 emissions earth has been spent by walking instead of motor transport.
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Here’s Omnia i900, Samsung’s answer to the 3G iPhone. This HSDPA-enabled device sports a 12.5mm waist, a 3.2" touch-screen and comes in two models; one with 16GB and one with 8GB of internal storage. Add up-to-16GB of SD storage to that and you can walk around with 32GB of media in your pocket.
It runs Windows Mobile 6.1 and among the other features we find GPS, a 5 megapixel camera with geo-tagging and image stabilizer, DivX and XviD movie support, USB 2.0, WiFi, FM-radio and both Internet Explorer and Opera for web browsing.
The i900 will be available as of July this year.
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Samsung F480 (a.k.a Touchwiz) is about to be launched in Europe. This slim iPhone alternative features a touch screen with a drag-and-drop interface that can be customised and personalised through widgets. Other than that it sports HSDPA, a 11.6mm thin body, 240MB internal memory with support for up to 8GB micro SD cards, FM-radio, USB 2.0 connectivity and a 5 megapixel camera with auto focus, image stabilizer as well as both face and smile detection.
The F480 will be available in European stores as of June.
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Here’s Samsung G800, the world’s first cell phone to sport a 5 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom and Xenon flash (the smaller G600 also sports 5 MP though).
That being the main feature it also feature 3G/HSDPA, a VGA-camera for video conversations, a 2.4" QVGA display, RDS-radio, USB 2.0 and Bluetooth connectivity, Ice Power digital amplifier from Bang & Olufssen and blog support. As for storage you get to pick between microSD and microSDHC memory cards.
The G800 will be available in November to an estimated price of 590 Euro (about US$850).
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If you’re looking for a classic, retro handset that even your grandma will feel comfortable using you better check out the Novophone Retro Handset. Complete with a coiled wire and everything.
It uses a “standard” 2.5 mm headset jack, meaning it’s compatible with all LG, Blackberry and Motorola phones but not Nokia, Sony Ericsson or Samsung.
Update: A word of warning: I just noticed that the reviews on UncommonGoods.com aren’t completely positive about the sound quality. Anyway, it still looks good.
UncommonGoods: Novophone Retro Handset ($35.00)
(…If you want to take the whole retro cell phone thing a step further you should check out the portable rotary cell phone.)
Remember Bang & Olufsen’s unorthodox cell phone Serene? Well, now they’ve teamed up with Samsung and their music player / cell phone Serenata is finally official as its successor.
“…featuring two high-quality speaker units which, controlled by advanced digital signal processing, deliver precise reproduction of what’s being said at the other end of the line – or played from your list of favourite tracks. That’s in addition to ICEpower amplifiers which enable a surprisingly powerful sound to emanate from such a small space.”
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LG teamed up with Prada, Motorola did their Dolce & Gabbana RAZR and according to newly leaked info the stylish Samsung SGH-P520 actually is designed in collaboration with Armani.
While this slick iPhone rival has the mere size of a credit card and a thickness of 8.9 10.5 mm it packs a 2.6 inch touch-screen with the CROIX interface, a 3 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, 50MB built-in memory with a MicroSD slot and Bluetooth connectivity.
The Armani SGH-P520 is expected to be available for purchase in Europe and Russia by the end of this year, to an estimated price of 400 Euros (about US$560) (and that includes a specially designed Georgio Armani leather front and wireless Bluetooth headset).
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Oh yeah, Samsung continues to prove that just about everything looks better with a glossy, piano black finish. The ML-1630 is now the world’s slimmest monochrome laser printer (only 11 cm thick) and the multifunctional SCX-4500 looks just as good, although larger. Both models feature a blue LED scan progress indicator and buttonless, soft-touch sensors.
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The Samsung Yepp YP-P2 isn’t official just yet, but both images and tech specs has leaked to the oh-so-useful intarnets and by the looks of it we might just have something really cool launched from Samsung soon.
According to reliable sources the YP-P2 has armed itself with MP3/VMV/WMA/H.264 and ASF playback, 8GB of Flash storage, a 3" touch-screen display, Bluetooth connectivity as well as a built-in speaker (and microphone).
Looking good Samsung, looking good!
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Samsung just announced three “new” phones as the official Beijing 2008 Olympic Games phones, the E848 (pictured above), P318 and U308. Why the quotes? Well, it seems like these phones aren’t really new and exclusive, they’re existing models rebranded and shipped with pre-installed software related to the Olympic Games.
Samsung’s press release
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