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The Samsung M880 is a touch screen phone with a proprietary OS. Samsung released this phone as a flagship model for the new camera phone line. However it is unclear why the Samsung i850 INNOV8 is not included in this new line called "PIXON". A far-sealable aswer would be that the INNOV8 was just an experiment from which Samsung taught what the users what from an 8 MP camera phone and also how to market such a device. Even with the new "PIXON" line, Samsung did not offer to any 8 MP camera phone the PIXON name.
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To prove this point, consider that the phone who replaced the U900 Soul also boasts an 8 MP digital camera, but is far behind the quality offered by the INNOV8 and M8800. The Samsung M8800 PIXON is a solid combination of features like: touch screen, multimedia and camera. The interface is an inspired Touch Wiz. The Touch Wiz is good colored and very well behaved. The stand by screen of the M8800 offers typical Samsung layout and symbols. The main menu has up to 14 text and 3 service lines, but you can fit 24 lines when you are reading a message (depending on the font size).

The software on the Samsung M8800 doesn't offer customization features. Before the long list of great features let's review the main disadvantages: no Wi-Fi connectivity, no GPS navigation, and stylus (the phone lacks a stylus compartment), no smart dialing. In the design department there is not much to say. The M8800 phone looks like any other touch screen device (basically it looks like LG KC910 Renoir, furthermore both phones have similar spec features, with one exception, the LG KC910 sports a Wi-Fi connection). Of course, the Samsung model is far behind the Apple iPhone or HTC Touch HD great design. The device is offered in three colors: deep black, light silver and rose red.

However, M8800 has a lot of keys for a touch screen phone. Under the display we have the Call and End buttons; also there is the back button when navigating through the interface. On the left side there are shortcut menu keys and the hold key, while on the right side we have the dedicated camera key, gallery key and a volume control key. The dimensions of the Samsung M8800 are pretty much ordinary for a candy bar touch screen phone. It has a height of 107.9 mm, wide of 54.6 mm and deep of 13.8 (with the camera lens the deep value grows to 15 mm). The M8800 weights about 124 grams.

The display is placed in a glossy frame while the cover for the battery is made out of metal. Under the cover there is a 1000 mAh Li - Ion battery. The stand by time in the 2G network reaches up to 290 hours while in the 3G network reaches up to 280hours. The talk time in the 2G network is about 3 hours and 40 minutes, while in the 3G network reaches up to 4 hours. Although these values are not unsettling, you will need to charge your phone every day if you use its features a lot. The general build of the Samsung M8800 PIXON is fine and the materials used suggest adequate durability. The Samsung M8800 PIXON has a great TFT resistive touch screen (with only 262 K colors). The display size was increased compared to the Samsung F480 3" display. The M8800 has a 3.2" with a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels (with accelerometer sensor). All data input is done using the touch sensitive display. You will not need to use a stylus for the input of text. Unfortunately as the Apple iPhone touch screen, the M8800's will not allow you to type short messages with a pair of gloves on. The display is bright enough to use in broad daylight (unlike the display from the Samsung i900 Omnia). In actually terms of ergonomics the screen on the M8800 is an important improvement over the one found on the F480. The phone runs in 2G network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 and in 3G network: HSDPA 2100.



The connectivity is ensured by GPRS Class 10 (4+1 / 3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps, EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbp, HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP and v2.0 micro USB. However it lacks WLAN and infrared port. While using the USB connection you may select one of three models: Media, Mass Storage and Samsung PC Studio. When connected to a PC via USB, the Samsung M8800 PIXON automatically recharges the battery. The M8800 ships with a 110 MB internal memory. The value is small compared with the other camera phones on the market today. However you can expand the internal memory using a micro SD or Trans Flash memory card (the M8800 supports up to 16 GB compatible memory cards).

The Samsung M8800 PIXON phone uses a Qualcomm MSM 6281 with a 500 MHz frequency CPU. The best feature on this phone is for sure the 8 MP digital camera, with 3264 x 2448 pixels, autofocus and LED flash. You don't have to worry about the camera because it has automatic lens cover. The camera also has a number of nice built in features. The camera interface is comfortable are the camera speed is simply impressive. You can record video clips in one of the following resolutions: 720 x 480 pixels with 30 frames per second, VGA also with 30 frames per second and QVGA with 120 frames per second. The M8800 PIXON is delivered in rather modest retail package.

The device will be delivered with a stylus, a wired headset, DC charger, 1GB micro SD card, Samsung PC Studio CD and a user manual. Other features like the music player, video player, organizer, calendar and others are solid and provide an overall good feeling to the user.



The music player is greatly upgraded and offers new options for the user. You can now find tracks by artist, album or genre. The music player can naturally be minimized to play in the background. So the high lights of the M8800 are: the quad band GSM support, accelerometer, 8 MP camera, great touch screen , high resolution recording , DivX / XviD playback and TV out. The PIXON line is all about multimedia. If you are looking for an excellent device and you haven't made your mind yet what to choose between LG and Samsung, we recommend you take a look first at the 8 MP camera Samsung models, INNOV8 and PIXONM8800.

New Samsung Delve is almost identical to the previous version, Alltel, but there are some few differences which turn the new one in a better device than Alltel.
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Samsung Delve has a lot of built-in applications, but they are the basic ones, and you might need something more than that, depending on your needs. This phone stores up to 500 contacts in the address book, and each entry can get five numbers and an e-mail address, the contacts can be organized in groups anjd they can get a picture and a ringtone (from the default library, or from you own recordings). The other essentials which are contained in this basic package are the unit converter, the support for multimedia and text messaging, the calendar, memo card, alarm clock, stopwatch, calculator and other few apps.

This phone has stereo Bluetooth, a voice dialing and vocal commands, GPS support, e-mail, USB mass storage, PC syncing, but it doesn't have support for Wi-Fi, which I think that is a must on a phone with HTML browser. The music player is quite good, because it supports album art, and you can create playlists, it has shuffle and repeat modes, equalizer settings and the files can be added in the phone's memory using a USB cable or a memory card. The player can be sent to background and you can listen to music even on airplane mode.

Samsung Delve's camera is a 2 Mp camera and it can take pictures in 6 resolutions. You can edit the quality settings, the ISO value, it has a self-timer, auto-focus option and the brightness and white balanced can also be changed. It has also multishot, mosaic and night modes, but this phone's camera doesn't have a flash, which I would say it's a disadvantage. Overall, the pictures have quite good quality and the images noise is little.

All these applications are installed by the producer, but all of them are basic utilities, and you may need some other applications, depending on your activity and the level of depth you reach in a certain domain.

You can anytime install third party applications, and they have a wide range of utility and they belong to many domains. For example, Abiro offers you a color sampler, if you want to know exactly what is the color of your girlfriend's dress, so you can buy the shoes too, an unit converter, which has support for more measurement units than the default unit converter, a tool for chatting through SMS with your friends, Jiminy!SMS, and an application called Jitter, and which is the Java version of the well known Twitter.

Trippo brings a set of dictionaries for more than 30 languages, and more than 20 of them in audio mode. More than the usual English, French, Spanish, Italian and German dictionaries, it offers you a Hindi dictionary, a Urdu and a Japanese one, next to the Polish, Danish, Dutch and Norwegian ones. This translating utility can be purchased for the symbolic fee of $4/3 EUR.

If you want to learn how to play a guitar, you can download the Guitar Trainer software and have it on your mobile phone. It gives you the possibility to practice wherever you are, and you can learn playing the guitar in a funny way.This applications has support for pointer inputs too, and it is available in English, German and French.

Humor stories is an application which contains 132 fun stories which will make you laugh, and I think that it is nice to have something like this on your phone, because you can relax and have fun anytime and wherever you are. LoveMatch is also cool,and you can also try V-Clinic Mobile,which is an application to manage your weight, nutrition & fitness on your phone, and it is cool because you don't have to go to a doctor every day for a diet or for advice, but you can use it by yourself, which is more comfortable for a lot of people.

You can look up on the Internet, and I am sure that you will find the applications you need, because out there is a large variety of applications. Moreover, you should know that there is a continously development process in the software industry.

Samsung Omnia is the latest in the category of the Samsung phones for U.S. market, and it is the most advanced, because the TouchWIZ interface runs a Windows Mobile 6.1, which is much better than a standard OS. Trying to improve Windows Mobile was quite insuccessful, because instead of making all the things easier, we can observe that Samsung Omnia is rather complicated and confusing than user friendly.
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DivX movie player and the Web browsing features are pretty cool on Samsung Omnia, next to Wi-Fi and GPS, but the 5 Mp camera brings in front the robust multimedia features of Samsung Omnia.

The Windows Mobile smartphone also offers Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, and EV-DO Rev. A support, as well as a 5-megapixel camera and robust multimedia features. I think that the top interesting aspects in Samsung Omnia's design are the TouchWiz interface and the touch screen, but the 3.2 inch screen is pretty cool too: it has 240x400 pixels resolution and it has 262,000 color output. So, overall, the display is quite eye-catching. It is quite good for displaying images, texts and videos, though it's not as sharp as HTC Diamond's display is.

Samsung Omnia has a virtual keyboard and it has also an accelerometer, which switches the view from portrait to landscape, according to the way you hold your phone,and the access to all features is done through the panel on the left, which contains all the applications, like music player, notepad, clock, and media gallery. It can be customized, and after you set it up, you can make it visible and hide it by tapping on the arrow. It has the Home screen, but is also offers users the Main Menu page where all the basic applications are stored in an user friendly manner.So if you are not quite satisfied with TouchWiz, you can switch to the Windows screen from the Settings menu.

Samsung Omnia has interesting features, and I would like to mention only a few, the most useful and attractive ones: visual voice mail, each contact in the address book can have multiple fields, and the CDMA includes conference calling, voice dialing, text and multimedia messaging and other features. Bluetooth, 3G and Wi-Fi are successfully integrated in the connectivity section, and you can use also GPS/A-GPS for navigation, but it will cost you $9.99 per month, or $2,99 per day (from Verizon).

I think that the camera is very good: the pictures' quality was excellent and the antishake feature is quite useful, the colors look good, and the video quality is better than many other Samsung phones, with slightly pixelation. There are TV capabilities too, and you can edit the videos too with a editing application.

The call service performance is good, sometimes appeared complaints from users that the volume needs to be turned up and maybe some of them reported a slight echo, or a small lag when launching applications, but Windows Mobile functioned very good in stress conditions. Samsung Omnia can has a life battery of 19 days on standby time, and 8 hours passed until the battery drained after continous talking. According to more tests, Samsung Omnia has a digital SAR rating of 1.31 W/KG.

Overall, I think that Samsung Omnia is a great smartphone, and that the Windows Mobile is good organized on this phone, and the functionality and the performances make Samsung Omnia a real competitor for the incumbent iPhone.

Mobile phones have rechargeable batteries to provide them the power they need for functioning.  A rechargeable battery is a group of one or more secondary cells, just like laptops have more batteries, but they are often called "battery", in singular form. This kind batteries can be restored to full or partial charge by the application of electrical energy, through a device, like a charger.Rechargeable batteries have a higher initial acquisition cost, but the main advantage is that they can be used more than once, like normal batteries.
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Rechargeable batteries come in many varieties, but the most well known types are Nickel Cadmium Battery (NiCd), Nickel-Metal Hydride Battery (NiMH),  Lithium-ion Battery. In 2007, professor Yi Cui and his colleagues from Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University's developed the classical system of the batteries and concluded that using silicon nanowires gave rechargeable Li-Ion batteries 10 times more charge than normal wiring.

Samsung's researchers developed a water based battery and the company hopes to bring it on the market in 2010. This is a very important step in mobile phone industry because it brings into attention and in normal usage, an innovative method for supplying power to mobile phones. This Samsung battery converts water into Hydrogen and Oxygen gas, and the Hydrogen reacts with the metal inside the battery when the phone is switched on, and this mix provides the power needed for the mobile phone to function properly. This Samsung battery can generate up to three watts of power electricity, and the battery can last up to 10 hours, twice as long as rechargeable batteries. If it is used four hours a day, the Hydrogen cartridge must be changed every five days,and this is an expensive solution for mobile phones, but Samsung hopes to improve the system and their goal is to improve the battery, and it might require only filling it with water.

Some researchers don't agree the new idea of water based battery because they say that in the chemical reaction produced inside the battery, there is a highly flammable gas emission and that might produce damages to users. But the main advantage of this samsung battery is that it comes on the market as a "green" solution, not affecting the environment as the normal rechargeable batteries do. Many companies in mobile phone industry, as in many other fields are looking for cheaper, and more environment-friendly solutions.

This innovation has been presented at Korea Electronics Show in 2007, and we are faster and faster getting closer to 2010. We will see in the next year first mobile phones which have water based batteries. The only way to evaluate their batteries' efficiency is to buy and try the phones with this kind of batteries, and then review the revolutionary system. It would be interesting to see if it is a successful solution and if Samsung battery can be extended to other industries too. Applying this innovation to mobile phones would be the first step in a revolution, because water based batteries would be a great alternative to the conventional fuels.

A day or two ago, I told you about a new Samsung cell phone, the latest to be added to AT&T’s range of products. It was the Samsung A887 Solstice, a mid-end device with touch sensitive capabilities that was said to start selling on August 2nd.

Now, AT&T and Samsung Mobile decided to officially announce the handset, which is presented as “a compact and fun touch screen phone”. In addition, the Solstice will give user the chance to have easy access and connection to their favorite social networking sites and to messaging features, on one hand, and multimedia features, on the other hand.

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The new Samsung Solstice is based on the popular WouchWiz user interface and comes with the following list of features: quad band GSM and dual band HSDPA connectivity, a 3 inch touch sensitive display, a 2 megapixel camera, accelerometer, brand new widgets for websites like Facebook, MySpace and Yahoo! OneSearch, Bluetooth connectivity, music player, video player and a microSDHC card slot for expandable memory of no more than 16GB.

It seems the guys over Boys Genius Report were right. The handset will be sold by A&T for a price of $99.99, after a $50 mail-in rebate. All the customer has to do is to sign a contract agreement for a period of 2 years.

So, keep in mind the fact that the Samsung A887 Solstice, a touch sensitive phone, will start selling in a couple of days and I think it’s worth the bother.

(Source: Samsung)