Samsung ‘Super music phone’ SCH-B570 - released in Korea

Korean electronics manufacturer, Samsung today announced the launch of it’s feature packed ‘Super Music Phone’ the SCH-B570. Complete with advanced audio, picture in picture video and multimedia support the B570 also sports *ahem* Golf Manager (?) a tool for managing golf scores and driving distances on Korean golf courses (using its built-in GPS).

With a whopping 8Gb of memory, this has to be the largest built-in storage facility on any cell phone to date. Samsung claims the massive drive can hold:

• 1,600 mp3 files (at 4Mb per song) or
• 16 Personal Media Player (at 400Mb per movie)
• or more than 20,000 x 300kb digital photos

Specifications:

• 1xEV-DO Mobile broadband
• 2 Megapixel Camera
• 1.98“ Display 240×320 resolution, 262K Color
• Size: 112 x 48 x 19.9 mm
• Weight: 130 g

The phone sports a myriad of other features including:

8GB Hard drive disk, Satellite DMB / Picture In Picture / Personal Media Player, Motion Recognition Technology, GPS, VOD/MOD, MP3, Document Viewer, Mobile printing and TV out.

And if Golf Manager wasn’t enough, Samsung’s also revealed another curious feature:

Samsung also presented the ‘motion recognition capability’ by introducing the new ‘morning call motion detector snooze alarm’. When the alarm clock rings, users can turn it off simply by shaking the phone, then alarm will automatically alert again a few minutes later.

Other features aside, it’s hard to believe that this device doesn’t have Apple’s rumored iPod/Phone in its sights, and maybe THIS will be just the device to rattle Apple’s cage and make them announce something. Just how much storage will the new iPhone have?

The SCH-B570 will be released in Korea for around USD800 in the next few days.

How does your provider and brand score?

Forrester Research released a recent survey asking how much they trust their provider, and their handset brand. Forrester Research asked 4,700 consumers across the USA and compiled all of the information and gave the major providers and brands grades.

Lets get right to the report cards, first the providers:

• Verizon: C
• Cingular: C-
• Sprint: D-

Now for the mobile brands:

• Palm: B+
• Motorola: B
• LG Electronics: C-
• Samsung: D-

[To read more, check out Yahoo!]

Picture-in-picture . . . on your phone?

Samsung has released another new phone today that is capable of picture-in-picture. Yes, two pictures of completely different screens, on a phone.

The SCH-B470 also comes with a somewhat standard 2-megapixel camera as well as a music player. So now you won’t miss your favorite TV show while your friend is embarrassing himself in front of hundreds of spectators.

There is no word on the release date or price, but it is speculated that it will be released in Korea only.

Sprint to announce building of a WiMax network

Sprint is scheduled to announce later today that it is choosing the WiMax technology to build a brand new wireless internet network. Although this will not be available until 2008, this is definitely something to look forward to. Sprint will be working with Motorola and Samsung using Intel chips to make headsets that are compatible. The service is said to be available nationwide (in the United States), and could even replace cable and DSL.

[To read more, check out dailywireless.org]

Samsung releases first ultra-thin slider to US

Samsung has been doing their homework lately, trying to push out some new stylish phones that phone lovers will enjoy.
Released under Cingular, the SGH-D807 is one of the first candy bar like sliders released in America. It is said to be released during the summer, but everyone knows release dates are alway a guess. The D807 isn’t just thin though, it has plenty of goodies packed into it.

• 97 x 52 x 14.9 mm
• Bluetooth
• 1.3 megapixel camera with video
• mp3 player
• microSD external memory slot
• WAP 2.0 compliant browser with EDGE technology

To read an extensive review, continue to Mobiledia.

T-Mobile gets some candy from Samsung

Recently the FCC has approved two candy bar phones made by Samsung. The T629 and T519 are candy bar sliders and are quad-band GSM EDGE enabled and will be released by T-Mobile. There is no set release price or date, but once the FCC approves it, it shouldn’t be too long.

Both phones are likely to have microSD card slots, bluetooth, and a 2-megapixel camera. There has been some speculation on some other details on these phones, but nothing has been released officially.

[FCC reports: T629 & T519]

Too many MB of files on your phone and not enough space?

Samsung has plans for a phone that will eliminate the tedious procedure of making space for all your files on your phone, at least for now. The Samsung SCH-V940 comes with 1GB (no, that is not a typo) of onboard memory. At this time Samsung has said nothing about an expansion slot, but is there really a need?

Samsung also did something else new and edgy with this phone, it comes in orange! So orange may be a little ‘out there’, but it will in black, white and silver for the more conservative folks.

Some other specs on this phone are:

• TFT LCD display
• 1.3 megapixel camera
• built-in media player

There is no word on when this phone will be release, where, or the price tag.

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Samsung releases a RAZR-like phone

The new Samsung SGH-Z560 comes in just 2 mm thicker than the RAZR at 16 mm. Samsung did put that 2 mm to good use however, including 2.3 inch QVGA color LCD, microSD external memory slot, 2.0-megapixel camera with auto focus, 30 MB of internal memory, and external music keys.

The Z560 is a HSDPA which supports speeds up to seven times faster than WCDMA for quick downloading. With this phone you will be able to enjoy better games, and higher quality movies. For the time being the Z560 is availble in France and Germany, but does have plans for European countries shortly.

[Check out more details]

Nokia takes out honors for most stolen phone brand

According to a recent study, of the 112,093 mobile phone thefts report in London last year, nearly 50% of all handsets stolen were manufactured by Nokia.

The Samsung D500 featured second and the Motorola RAZR took out the bronze. 7 of the top 10 were Nokia handsets.
Most stolen makes:

1. Nokia, 55,783 (49%)
2. Samsung, 15,524 (13.6%)
3. Sony Ericsson, 15,090 (13.3%)
4. Motorola, 12,947 (11.4%)
5. Others, 14,451 (12.7%)

Most of them have no doubt made an appearance here.

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