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After Samsung took the official wraps off of the Soulb in May (or U800, as it were), we didn’t hear much else about it… until now. Reportedly, Phones4U — well known for its pinking of handsets — has decided to offer up the Soulful candybar in none other than metallic pink. Specs wise, everything remains the same, with the mobile packing HSDPA connectivity, a 3-megapixel camera and 1GB of internal memory, but £10 ($19.77) from every one purchased will be funneled to the very worthwhile fight against breast cancer.

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Filed under: Handsets, Software, Samsung, Sprint, EV-DO, CDMA

Quite a few Instinct owners were giving Samsung / Sprint one option: crank out a firmware update to show that they cared before the 30-day test period expired, or deal with all that messy RMA paperwork. Unfortunately for the aforesaid firms, the handset’s first update is coming ten days after that date (at least for the earliest of adopters), and initial reports suggest that glaring problems still exist. Some users are suggesting that Sprint TV is less pixelated than before and that overall snappiness is improved, but the patently awful browser still remains at 1.0 (and thus just as awful). Look, when the change that gets most people jazzed is the battery meter’s newfound ability to hit 100% (and not just 90% as in the past), something is seriously wrong. Anyone else find any nuggets of goodness in the new update?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Update: A bigger, more life-changing update looks to be planned — hang tight, Instinct owners!

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Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Linux, ALP

Back in February, we all had high hopes that the Linux-based Samsung i800 would be a real winner when it launched on Orange this fall. Unfortunately, the i900 is apt to be out and about before the i800 can even have a proper funeral. According to Edelman, Orange’s PR firm, the “i800 has been withdrawn in order to… prepare a more competitive Linux mobile.” In all honesty, we don’t suspect that many folks will miss it, but those holding out on picking up a new cellie can safely move on to courting other handsets.

[Image courtesy of SmartphonesOfToday]

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Filed under: Samsung, Sprint, EV-DO, CDMA, Misc

Just as July began, we heard that Sprint would finally begin shipping its Airave signal booster nationwide before the month ended. It cut things close, but we can’t deny that the rumor proved true. Starting right now, Sprint users with horrendous service in their own homes can begrudgingly cough up $99.99 to have the base station sent directly to you. From there, you’ll have to throw down $4.99 per month for extending your coverage but still using your plan minutes, $10 per month if you’re looking to make unlimited calls (through the Airave) with a single Sprint phone or $20 per month for unlimited calling for multiple lines. Critics have already harshed on the $50 increase in price from when it launched in Denver and Indy last year, not to mention the relatively high monthly fees, but we suppose you can take it or leave it depending on how regularly you drop calls from your couch.

[Via PhoneScoop]

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This video is a description how to put java games or applications to your mobile phone. In the video i will only show a short description, here is a more detailed one:Hi people, today im gonna show you how to put games on yoursamsung mobile phone, because it is kinda hard to get the games on your cellphones.The reason why putting (free) games on a samsung mobile phone is so hard is because of the safetysoftware that samsung has build in. Its completly legal to download free games and put them on yourphone but sumsung put that security as a anti-virus. The security includes that you have to type in a codewhen you want to install a java application. This code is diffrent to all samsung devices. you will have tolook them up on the internet, but i can give a few examples as well.Samsung j600: *#9998*4678255#Samsung d500: #*5737425#Other installation codes you will have to look up on the internet, search for:”java installation code (x)”.After you found the installation code, just type them in your phone like you would type in a phone number.You will get a message that the java mode is enabled.Now its time to download the game u want: go to www.mobile9.com and pick a game you want.As you will see, you only download the .jar file, but to install the game on a samsung phone you will alsoneed the .jad file. Thats why we will downlad a program that make the .jad file from a .jar file. Go to googleand type “jad maker”. U will find a few download locations to download JADMaker 1.15, pick one. After youhave downloaded the file, you must unzip the folder. Now, put in the .jar file you have just downloaded inthe unziped file and run JADMaker. You will get a program popping up, now you drag the same file into theprograms screen: in the unziped file you will see the .jad file! JADMaker made the .jad file from your .jar file.You can do this with more then one .jar file as well, and i reccomand you do this because otherwise it willcost you a lot of time if you have do to this over and over again.Now come the easiest part: put it on your phone, with a usb cable, or bluetooth, u must put the 2 files (.jadand .jar) on your phone in the “Other files” (on your phone, not the memory card). Now put in the installationcode that enables the java mode. Now go to the “Other files” and press on the .jad file. A new menu will popup and all you have to do is clicking on install. Now go to the games folder and play!WARNING: i am NOT responsable for any damage to your phone or to your computer.Tnx for watching peepz! I hope u guys have a lot of gaming fun now! greetz: 3sdmx!

Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE

The rumored i740 slider from Samsung has now been announced, and as expected, it’s a 3G-free beast. That’s actually pretty cool since it’ll do its part toward keeping the sticker shock to an absolute minimum — around €300 ($469) when it launches in October — though it’s a tougher pill to swallow when you consider that it also lacks WiFi. In other words, buyers should expect to use this Windows Mobile 6.1 bad boy as a slave to ActiveSync with the occasional jaunt over EDGE for email (text only, of course) or Internet Explorer Mobile if you’re trying to teach yourself some sort of sick lesson. On the flipside, it’ll do GPS and feature a decent 3.2 megapixel cam plus an FM radio. You know, the kind of radio people used before they had 3G to stream it over the ‘net.

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Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

Arne over at the::unwired has his hands all up on the production version of Samsung’s touchtastic Omnia i900, and yeah, it’s pretty much official: the Touch Diamond has a solid competitor on its hands. The skinning Sammy’s managed to perform here atop Windows Mobile’s ancient UI might not be quite on part with the magic that is TouchFLO 3D, but it looks pretty close — it’s still better by leaps and bounds by the default, the transitions are kinda cool, and you’re certainly going to want to use it if you’re using this phone. Like the GSM version of the Touch Diamond, the Omnia sadly lacks any whiff of North American 3G (for the moment, anyhow), so this video is the closest many otherwise-interested yanks and canucks are going to get.

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By blanketing every corner of virtually every carrier in the American market, Samsung’s mobile division has now laid claim to the rather lofty mark of 150 million handsets sold in the US market since it first set up shop this side of the pond eleven years ago. Though glitzy, marketing-heavy efforts like the Instinct, Glyde, and BlackJack series get the better part of the spotlight, Samsung likely owes almost all of its success to its stunning effectiveness in getting series after series of carrier-customized, low-cost flips into customers’ hands at a blistering pace — a pace that has left competitiors like Motorola just a little shellshocked. A company rep is boasting that they’ll push another 30 million in total this year, so no rush getting down to the store; if you want a Sammy, odds are they’ll have what you’re looking for.

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Filed under: Handsets, Samsung

We’ve already gotten word of most of the details of Samsung’s i8510 INNOV8 (get it?) smartphone, but things just got a whole lot more official for the device in Europe and, coincidentally, a number of sites recently got to spend some time with the phone in NYC (despite the lack of an official US release). Of course, there’s not a whole lot of surprises to be found, but it certainly seems like the phone will get the job done and then some, with its built in camera not only boasting an impressive 8 megapixels, but auto-focus, image stabilization, and a flash as well. The rest of the specs aren’t too shabby either. Head on past the break to check out one video of the device courtesy of MobileBurn, and be sure to hit up the Laptop Mag link below for a second, higher-quality look at it.

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