Samsung officially confirmed yesterday the style-driven Soul b, a stylist handset that broadens the Samsung Ultra lineup. The Soul b stands for Spirit Of Ultra in bar form factor. The Samsung U800 “Soul b”, or as Samsung insist on spelling it, the Soulb is the third phone to bear the “Soul” brand after the original […]
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We now have official word from Samsung regarding the browser on its new Samsung L870 slider. You may recall that the Samsung-issued press release listed “Safari browser (full browsing)” as a feature. Now the clarification:
“Actually, L870 is equipped with S60 OSS browser, also known as S60 safari browser because both are using same webcore platform. Sorry again for the unclear specification, and bothering you with this.”
Of course, the S60 browser has never been known, even informally, as the “S60 safari browser,” but we’ll let Samsung bang heads together internally over that one.
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The world’s top five manufacturers play an everlasting game of cat and mouse (and mouse, mouse, and mouse), jockeying for revenue dominance in a world where market share means everything. Nokia’s been eating everyone’s lunch lately — and everyone’s been eating Moto’s lunch — but LG’s pretty proud of itself for recently passing Sony Ericsson to become the world’s number four. Even as it kicks back and enjoys its magnum of bubbly, though, there’s little time to relax. The company’s veep for marketing strategy says that it’s “carefully watching” Espoo to see what tactical moves it makes in the coming months, and will counter with “product portfolio” and “marketing strength.” The paranoia originally stems from rumors that Nokia would be dropping its prices and making a grand re-entrance into the South Korean market later this year, and while that probably doesn’t pose a short-term threat to Samsung and LG’s local dominance, the decision of the top player in the world to suit up and check into the game is always a cause for concern.
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Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Symbian, GSM, HSDPA, UMTS
Yup, you read that right. We’re not talking about just any Webkit-based browser, Samsung’s long-rumored L870 slider features a full “Safari” browser (which we’ll take to mean Webkit). The 13.5-mm thin phone pumps Symbian v9.3 and S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 at its core with a 3 megapixel camera, 2.4-inch QVGA display, FM radio, Stereo Bluetooth, and microSD expansion. Unfortunately, this pup is tri-band GSM with single-band UMTS/HSDPA 3.6Mbps support so it’ll be heading to Europe around the August time frame.
Update: As per the full press release (posted after the break), Samsung claimed that they’d brought mobile Safari to this device. Technically feasible, we suppose, but far more unlikely than some clueless PR flack screwing up the release. We’ll let you know if Samsung HQ has anything differently to say about the matter, but until then we’re calling this Webkit, not Safari.
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Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
The Samsung Steel is a tricky phone. To casual observers, it’s a Soul, Samsung’s latest and greatest Ultra Edition device. In reality, though, it’s a lower-end phone wearing the Soul’s clothing. It doesn’t move too far downmarket; the trick OLED d-pad is gone, but buyers still get HSDPA, a microSD slot, integrated DAB radio, and steel surfaces (hence the name, we figure) pretty much everywhere you look. This one should hit Vodafone next month for an as-yet-to-be-determined price.
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Yup, you read that right. We’re not talking about just any Webkit-based browser, Samsung’s long-rumored L870 slider features Apple’s Webkit-based, Mobile Safari browser. A first outside of the iPhone. The 13.5-mm thin phone pumps Symbian v9.3 and S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 at its core with a 3 megapixel camera, 2.4-inch QVGA display, FM radio, Stereo Bluetooth, and microSD expansion. Unfortunately, this pup is tri-band GSM with single-band UMTS/HSDPA 3.6Mbps support so it’ll be heading to Europe around the August time frame.
Update: Full press release available after the break.
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Filed under: Handsets, LG, Samsung, Sanyo, EV-DO, CDMA
So that rumored June 15 launch date for QChat in retail channels was pretty much spot on, it seems, according to the latest Brightpoint launch sheet for the month. The shot, posted on the always-chatty HoFo, reveals that Sanyo’s PRO-200 and PRO-700 are expected for $249.99 and $279.99, respectively, while the Samsung Z400 comes in at $299.99 and the LG LX400 at $279.99. That’s not a very wide range of price points for the initial round of QChat devices, a sign that Sprint’s probably totally cool limiting interest in the service to business customers initially. Also due on the 15th is a fresh USB modem, the U680, which is being touted as “the only USB Modem that fits the design of the MacBook AIR [sic] without using USB connection cable.” It’s the Franklin CDU-680 in its generic form, and it’s indeed pretty small as external data sticks go — music to the ears of Air owners, we’d imagine.
[Via PhoneNews]
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Samsung’s Armani-like F480 won’t be known simply as the F480 when it floods the market; that’d be far too ordinary, apparently, so it’s been assigned “Tocco,” which it turns out is Italian for “Touch.” That’s an eminently appropriate name for a phone that relies this heavily on finger action thanks to the introduction of Samsung’s all-new TouchWiz UI concept, and with 7.2Mbps HSDPA on board, there’ll be plenty of touch-controlled browser use, we imagine. Pricing apparently has yet to be set, but we’re pretty sure Italian names command some sort of premium over garden-variety letters and numbers.
[Via IntoMobile]
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