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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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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 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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